Just a Memo

So today, I had the opportunity again to hitch a ride with a complete stranger via “casual carpool”. I got picked up (HA!) from a bus-stop instead of the stated pickup places on this site. I was somewhat late for my regular bus-line that takes me straight to the Transbay Terminal in the city, so I just took my alternate route.

Anyways, its my third time doing casual carpool since getting here in the bay. Its pretty cool, just gotta make sure you get lucky with a sane person who can drive well. Today, I got a ride from this lady who was driving a convertible. I think it might be a Miata, or some other compact convertible. All I know was that it can only site two.

At first I though, why was this lady picking up carpools if the carpool here requires 3 or more. But she told me that its okay, as she can only site two in her car, including the driver. So we took off from the bus-stop, and into the city.

It was cool ride. The top down, and me just trying to listen to what she is saying. I think I was yelling at some parts of the ride just to get my words across the car. Meanwhile, its just weird how many people do this “casual carpool” thing. I wonder if it’ll work in LA county–or maybe not.

I don’t know… It might be hard to apply such a thing down south. Everyone pretty much drives. Even people who only work a block away from their homes drive their cars. That’s probably a reason why freakin’ LA has so much smog. But its just weird to see such a comparison. I guess being in LA itself warrants the reason to have a car. You pretty much need it to go to most places before/to/during/after work.

Another thing that I noticed is that the public transportation here in the Bay is better than LA’s… I’ll give them that. It is easy to get around if you don’t have a car. Only thing I don’t like is that you have to pay for a grip if you have to take your car and park in the city during a weekday. I mean, $15-30 in some places… come on!

Blah… what am I complaining about, maybe its the fact that I’m riding the bus again. I rode it from 5th grade, all the way to senior year in high-school. I made that early morning, hour and a half commute from 3rd and Western (in LA) all the way to the Valley. And man, can I tell you–it sucks ass being on any LA freeway during rush hour. Anyways, on the lighter side of things, we can’t always get the best part of the cake. All we can do is be greateful that we are invited to the party so-called Life.

From my mind to yours, save the air… carpool.

You think that you have seen them all. But not quite, here’s a Republic of Singapore Navy Ad that is simply out of the ordinary. From what we are used to at least. Can you say, “What the…?”

View here.

Busy week last week. More than usual at least for me. It seemed that 24/7 became 8/5 and that lunch is �to-go� and at my desk. Even the free Wednesday lunch my company have every week, I took back to my desk because I needed to brainstorm some concept for a new creative I have been put on.

Oh man, the challenges we face everyday seem to be so huge that we just don�t look for a crack of sunlight amongst the foggy city of SF (lately). Yah, the weather has been gloomy in �the city� for the past week or so. Other than that, people are cool with it, and keeping things right than keeping it real.

The roomies (Bigs, Jay and Lance) are all good as well. Had the opportunity to roll with to the DeLeon Ranch in Vacaville this past Saturday. One of their family friends had their engagement party over there. It was freakin� hot. The temperature soared way above the hundreds but it was worth the trouble.

The food was just great. I always keep saying it, the best food is FREE-good food. Uncle (Biggy’s dad) was playing matchmaker the whole day. He cracks me up�he�s a good man. I just can�t believe that they found themselves a patch of heaven in a place far away. But on the real, their ranch is nice and huge.

Meanwhile, the day after, we all went to the Aloha Festival. It was held at the Presidio of SF. It was my first time there. One of the first times I heard of the word �presidio� as well (at least I thought I haven�t heard of it). But yah, here�s its definition:

A garrison, especially a fortress of the kind established in the southwest United States by the Spanish to protect their holdings and missions.

It�s all nice over there. Too bad it was somewhat foggy and chilly. However, it turned out to be just right when we entered the festival grounds. Great food, music, performances and people. Good times.

In other news, I finally found a new bowling throw. My ball finally does a little hook to hit �the pocket�. I have been consistent the past couple of games. I think I�m hovering on the high 150s for my average lately. Not bad for completely changing the mechanics that I have had for the past 10 or so years of my bowling-life. I guess my goal is to get back my straight-ball average of 180s of long ago. That�ll be nice and gravy.

Speaking of nice, I finally got the surge of being productive in terms of creating new projects of my own. Even though I still have to start and finish the Rhythm Natives site. I set a goal for myself to get it done before I roll to Chicago on Labor Day. But we�ll see, class and work just seems to take most of my time lately. It�s just a blessing that when I get free time, it�s either playing sports or just relaxing with the peeps.

From my mind to yours, just do it.

You guys and gals ever wonder who created that cool Blink 182 album cover for Enema of the State? The creator apparently is a Flickr user, who goes by obie27. Check out his Music set to see other great pics of rock bands/artist(s).

I had the opportunity to chat with James to plan our shindig to see the Flickr staff at the Apple Store in the city (SF). Here’s the highlight of it:

james: alright..i’m gonna get ready to go
me: aite… what you have to do? put clothes on? haha
me: bastard
james: yeah

Just goes to show, sometimes “working” is plain “freedom”.