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2nd Annual Los Angeles BBQ Festival


For those of you living in LA and into BBQ cookin, you’ll want to check out the second annual Los Angeles BBQ Festival to be held on May 9th and 10th of this year (2009). The festival will run from noon till 6pm on both days and will cost $10 dollars to enter (or [...]

It’s November already? I thought it was just January!!


I can’t believe it’s November already! Wow.. time flies doesn’t it? Seems like it was only yesterday that it was.. well.. January! It’s been an eventful year by far.. but first things first - Happy Belated Halloween!! Hope everyone had fun this Halloween and more importantly - stayed safe. I went out with John, Janet, [...]

Forest Hills Gardens voted number one cottage community of 2007 by Cottage Living


Go Forest Hills! Cottage Living has voted the Forest Hills Gardens as their number one Cottage Community for 2007. Here’s a quote from the headline:
This is the model cottage community, designed almost a century ago and emulated ever since.

Having lived in Forest Hills for a number of years, I can certainly vouch for how [...]

Pinkberry in some legal woes


Uh oh.. it looks like Pinkberry’s running into a little trouble with the law? According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Pinkberry’s does not count as “frozen yogurt” because it’s made in the store using a combination of plain yogurt and some sort of secret powder concoction. Frozen yogurt has to be [...]

What I’ve been up to


Man it’s been a busy few weeks hasn’t it? This month of November must have been every gadget lovers dream come true! Think about it for a second..
The Xbox 360 got a ton of new announcements including:

New games like Call of Duty 3 and Gears of War
A new HD DVD player add on which I [...]

Wedding Bells


Sorry for the lack of news on my blog site. Things have been rather busy over the last few months but I’m getting a bit more organized now. First off, as many of you know now, I’m married! Yvonne and I got married on Saturday April 29th, 2006 here in sunny Los Angeles. You can [...]

On the road..


It’s been some time since I last blogged on here so I thought I would provide a quick update on things. Yvonne and I have been pushing ahead with our wedding planning and things are quickly coming together. The biggest thing to tackle right now is the invites and probably the photographer.
I’m actually currently on [...]

Alaska B4UDIE


Here’s an interesting way to attract tourists to your state - put up large billboards around the west coast depicting a license plate that says “Alaska B4UDIE”. Of course this isn’t meant to be a morbid thought but rather a way to encourage people to visit Alaska as soon as possible. The Alaska Travel Industry [...]

Engagement Party


Yvonne and I had our Engagement Party yesterday over in Westchester Park. Although the weather was less than perfect, we had a great attendance and we’d like to thank everyone who came out to spend the day with us. It wasn’t your traditional engagement party by any means as we spent the day playing softball [...]

Today was just one of those days..


Today was just one of those days where one wished they had stayed in bed. A water main line broke down the block from our apartment building. This caused the water to back up underground and resulted in water flooding into the basement garage of our building. Unfortunately, Yvonne and I both park our cars [...]