Alvin Cho: The Blog

Edit:  Screw it...looks like I've missed a couple of months and didn't get this post out soon enough so it will be a mega post for the last couple of months then.  Enjoy the long read.

Well, looks like I missed my min quota for blog entries.  Didn't blog anything for September even though I did quite a bit mostly on labor day weekend...at least from what I can remember.  Guess I'll just do a double post for October a lot will be happening too.  Oh, and of course the gallery is down...bullocks...so this post will be edited later to add in the pictures...that's so annoying.

Got incredibly restless today...was suppose to work...but it seemed like such a nice day.  My youth must not be squandered!  Ironically I squander quite a bit of it through sleep...

Anyways, so I finally decided to try out that Dragon Kite & RC airplane I bought YEARS ago.  There is a rocket too that goes 1500FT into the air.  I wanted to find a place to try out all 3 at once, but never did.

So while I waited from some files to download I decided to put the kite together & charge the RC plane.

The flight wasn't so successful but at least it was fun. 

Spent quite some time getting the plane out of a tree.

Youth well spent!!

http://dementiawarez.com/gallery/v/alvin_1/Flights/8172008-Takeoff_/

Might as well do a post for July to full fill my "at least 1 post a month" quota.

Canada Day in Ottawa was a great event.  Insanely packed!  So many people everywhere.  It got worse as night fall came.  Everyone was gathering to see to the fireworks.

I simply wandered around endlessly taking pictures here & there.  I returned back to the center @ night for the show.  I met some nice ladies while watching the fireworks.  Teachers from Ottawa & Montreal.  The 3 of us got stuck behind a building so didn't get very many great shots.  They should have set the fireworks much higher & over the clock tower rather than over the side.

A lot more stuff happened but too lazy to write all of that down.  If you want to know then ask or look @ the pics...

Canada Day pics: http://dementiawarez.com/gallery/v/alvin_1/Ottawa_WorkingsessionSummer2008/71/

All pics: http://dementiawarez.com/gallery/v/alvin_1/Ottawa_WorkingsessionSummer2008/

Just watch it...

http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/

Had a gathering with people Saturday morning to watch a movie & go out for lunch.

Here's T-Bone @ lunch saying: "I pity the fool."

Well, I was out tonight for a friend's birthday and we went to a Mongolian BBQ place for dinner.  In the end we got our obligatory fortune cookie.  But before I say what the cookie says.  During the last couple of weeks people have been mentioning my singlness at length.  Now even the cookie is against me.

"You shall enjoy the companion of another."  Or something like that.  Stupid cookie.  I should have taken a picture of it, oh well.

I suppose in the end most people follow this human equation:

Human + Human = Happiness

Why can't it just be:

Human x 1 = Happiness

Hell, at the party everybody there was basically attached @ the hip with someone else except a few.  But no matter I shall continue on my path.

http://dementiawarez.com/gallery/v/alvin_1/Outings/52308-DoogiesAlive_/?g2_page=1

This post took forever to occur, basically due to lazyiness.  I've got another post in the works as well...which I hope will soon wrap up.

Anyways, spent Sunday @ Sun's Startup Camp.  It was an interesting event.  They had this unconference thing which is quirky.  Makes it hard to determine if it's worth going to the conference since there is no agenda, it's all created on the fly based on the audience.  But we went anyways.

I just thought of a new career profession.  The most important people in the company will no longer be the IT staff, developers, testers, security advisors, CIO, CTO, CEO, CFO, consultants, or other executives...it shall be...

Here's a fun video I got from a friend.

I just recently had a situation where I discovered I've gone stale.  It's hard to find personal development time nowadays.  If I'm not bleeding my eyes out working then I'm shopping , getting a haircut, binge sleeping (lots of binge sleeping in my case), reading gobs of personal email, reading daily tech news sites, going to lunch and/or dinner with friends, work outings and of course trying to save to the world.  I could stop trying to save the world, but if I don't save the world who will?

After waiting in line for probably an 1 1/2hrs at the post office I was imensely bored & damn hungry.  Spending another hour @ DJ wasn't useful either.  Couldn't find anything to buy! Oh well...

Decided to finally go eat & the power of the coin compelled us to go in search for Korean food.  In which during our search we got lost in Korea...Town.  Did find a Korean supermarket which was loaded with Kimchee.

Had a near death experience today.  Don't ask me the details about how or why there is a goat involved there just is, so follow along. 

Anyways, we meet with this goat & then securely tied it down so as to not let it escape. As we turn around to leave the goat dashes through the side & lands in front of me, barring my passage.  I was like WTF?!?!  Then as I step foward hoping it will backup, but instead it started to come foward.  Mind you I don't need anything else broken, one broken finger is enough.  In the end I escaped unscathed.

Hello Mr. Goat.

https://dementiawarez.com/gallery/v/alvin_1/Lunches/31708-GoatCapades/

Went out to dinner with an old friend & her boyfriend.  Since she dislikes rice I made it a point to bring a bag.

Well kind of...I was taking pictures in the rain.  But I did sing a bit in the car.  Which reminds me of this great commerical I saw on Firebrand.com.

Well the final shipment came in this weekend, making it a total of 30lbs worth of Gundam models!

Picture is missing the MG v2.0 ZakuII

Unfortunately, I've now run out of storage space and have no where to put these new models.  Should have thought about the space constraints...but that wouldn't have stopped me from buying