Pretty self explanatory.  The real deal folks.

Just put the finishing touches on my model of the China Pavillion for the 2010 Expo in Shanghai.  I really enjoyed making this one.  Pretty simple and very rewarding.  I think it turned out great.  Peep!

Check this out.  Official website of North Korea.  Is it just me or does it look like a geocities special?

This is my favorite part:

The DPR of Korea (North Korea) will become in the next years the most important hub for trading in North-East Asia.  Lowest labour cost in Asia.

For some reason this country interests me.  Did you know that all the citizens are required to wear a pin with a picture of Kim Il-sung on it (who is still the president even though he’s been dead for 15 years).  Also, every morning speakers throughout the city play music to mark the beginning of a new day.  Just check out this video documentary on vbs.tv

As I was reading my daily Google Reader subscriptions I came accross an embedded YouTube video that I really wanted to see. I clicked the play button expecting nothing but endless loading, but to my surprise it started playing! And the speed was actually kinda impressive! Ok, I’m going to sit down now.

6/25/09:  Nevermind…I knew it was too good to be true.

Don’t ask me why, but when I received my Paul delivery from Sherpas today delivery guy gives me a Steinlager and says (in Chinese) “my company is giving this to you”.  I said “ok!”

Yea that’s how it goes around here, be a big shot and make a couple of models in Google Sketchup and find that they get accepted into Google Earth.  I mean, not boasting or anything, but that’s just how I’ve been rolling lately.  Keeping up the image, it’s a tough job :p Seriously though, I’m pretty happy about it.  Making models in Sketchup is fun, even if I do end up obsessing over it a little bit.  It’s a great time filler (it makes time go by very fast ).  Now I gotta do some San Clemente ones to put it on the map!  Anyway, check out my modelzzz

Saw this truck pull up at work today.  Dude WTF.  I have never seen such a long truck, check out the double front steering.

My co-worker picked this up when we were in Ninghai. Secret meaning?

Well it looks like No Name is finally back on the radio again to the delight of many, taking over the old Live 105 Woody Show time slot which was recently made available.  What has No Name been doing since the Alice days?

“I’ve basically been on a 9 month vision-quest. I’ve toured the country. Met its people. Slept on its barroom floors. I can say with full confidence nothing beats the bay!”

It’s a little ironic that the Woody Show would talk cactus cooler about the old Sarah and No Name, only to be replaced by the No Nizzle himself.  Anyway, too bad I’m in China right now or I would be a listener for sure.

[quote via Live 105]

Me and Elena decided to hit this up last minute.  The venue was super small which was cool because we were so close (16th row), but the sound system sucked something horrid.  Basically you could hear bass, and John Legend’s voice.  I felt bad for the guitarist because you could see him playing…but you could not hear him.  The dude (Vaughn Anthony) who opened for JL was pretty good, your standard fare male R&B vocalist, but I learned later that he’s JL’s little brother and backup singer.  Talk about the hooks.