Start Training for the 10K Mud Run

Will be using this as my training guide for the 10K Mud Run

Week	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
1	Stretch & strength	2.5 m run	30 min cross	2 m run + strength	Rest	40 min cross	3 m run
2	Stretch & strength	2.5 m run	30 min cross	2 m run + strength	Rest	40 min cross	3.5 m run
3	Stretch & strength	2.5 m run	35 min cross	2 m run + strength	Rest	50 min cross	4 m run
4	Stretch & strength	3 m run	35 min cross	2 m run + strength	Rest	50 min cross	4 m run
5	Stretch & strength	3 m run	40 min cross	2 m run + strength	Rest	60 min cross	4.5 m run
6	Stretch & strength	3 m run	40 min cross	2 m run + strength	Rest	60 min cross	5 m run
7	Stretch & strength	3 m run	45 min cross	2 m run + strength	Rest	60 min cross	5.5 m run
8	Stretch & strength	3 m run	30 min cross	2 m run + strength	Rest	Rest	10-K Race

What if there's no tomorrow

If today is the last day, how will you use it? Just a thought. Dang, I have a conference call at 8 am tomorrow. Have to postpone that thought for another day...

The day after December 25th

Today is December 26th. Had to work today. I went to the Thai place in Quail Hill (in Irvine). I think the name of that place is Bamboo Bistro. The food is alright, but they forgot to serve me the rice soup before the meal. The only reason I went into that place is because there are some interesting people in there (well I saw from the front). But the host (or the waiter) put me all the way in the back. So this might not be an ideal place for a single person to enjoy a meal. I ordered the "Fire Chicken" from their lunch menu. Not too spicy, again this restaurant is in Irvine. During the meal, I hear the host/hostess speaking in broken Cantonese and some Vietnamese.

After work, I had dinner with FY and his girlfriend at the Little Fat Lamb in Monterey Park. It's okay but not as exciting as the first time I went there with Phil Gor and David. The service is so so today and cooker/heater took awhile get heated to the point where the water was boiling.

Yi and his gf wanted to check out the Downtown area, but I advised them to go there earlier in the day time.

Afterward I drove home, checking various blog about the Houston Rockets. Nothing too exciting.

Mr. Mao works for O-corp

FY im-ed me and told me my best friend from UT now works for O-corp. Whenever he says "your" good friend I have some reservation in his interpretation of "friendship". Yeah I still remember Mr. Mao. I often pronounced his named Mo Wei in Cantonese which means "not meaningful". I often walked over to his office and made some not so meaningful conversation. When I think back, I was the one who's "not so meaningful" (mo-liu). Mr. Mao is quite awesome in Ping Pong. Even though he was awful in the distributed computing class, he was a Phd student and might have gotten his Doctorate. Every time, I walked by his office, he seemed very busy and always had a purpose. Unlike me who is always mo-liu, Mr. Mao seemed knows what happening. Last time I heard, he was married in China. Dang, what have I done lately?

Drove Up to Long Beach

The past weekend, I drove up to Long Beach from the OC. I was just checking out some Condos in Long Beach, hoping that I can find a decent one in a decent neighborhood. I have not heard positive things about the neighborhoods in LB, but I was willing to give it a try given that the real estate price in the OC is over my head. The first one I place I checked out is on 10th Street near Anaheim. Hmm.. The pictures look very good online, but the neighborhood was so so. On one end of 10th street is a Rehab center. On the other end was a high school/stadium. The other place I visited was on Hermosa Blvd just 2 block north of 4th street. Very difficult to find a parking spot around that area. Also, some neighboring properties looked run-down. I think both area are not necessarily bad and maybe had a feel of those "artist" neighborhood, but since I want a place with some tranquility, I opted for some place in the OC.

A night in LA Chinatown

It had been almost two weeks since Phil, David, and I drove to Chinatown, LA to take some pictures for the WEBSITE. I just got a chance to look a hand full of photos I took. Right now, there're just a few venues happening IN Chinatown, but there were some interesting spots if one should ever go there on a Saturday evening. First of all, there's a dive bar in the Chungking Road area. Second, the Mountain Club(name?) were pretty interesting. The bartender/manager (Mr. Lee) was great. He let us took some pictures in the Club. BTW, there's no cover charges. The crowd is 20s to 30s. The Dive Bar features an older dude named Sidney. He has an attitude so we did not talk to him that much, but I like his ATTITUDE. When we walked out of Sidney's place we bumped into a lovely couple. Then we ended the night with a visit to the Wong Kok restaurant. One noticeable thing about this place is that it opened very late. We went there around 2 AM.

Top Chef

I've watching this show called "Top Chef" on Bravo. One of my favorite chef is Hung Nguyen. Not too many knows how to called black chicken. This dude is one of the few who can make an "Asian Fusion" dish out of an ingredient in a Chinese Herb soup. I was really impressed. He said he's the crazy type. Now, Crazy Asian is GREAT. The first guest-judge is Anthony Bourdain. I have enjoyed his series on the Discovery Channel. Another wise-talking chef is Howie Kleinberg. So far I have not seen what he has cooked, but I really like the way he replied to judges. Basically he said that he would rather to present the NOTHING than to present something crappy to the customers.

Google Streetview and Gear are awesome

I was playing with the Google Streetview. It was awesome. Too bad it's only implemented for a few selected cities. I thought it would be awesome if Los Angeles would be on the map. There are many interesting places in LA that other people should check out. It took me awhile to realized that the photos of SF on Google Streetview was taken sometimes in 2006. Google Gear is awesome too it allows you to work with Web Application offline. I have yet to test it out.

One more comment about YUI (Yahoo UI Library). I was reading an article on Dr. Dobb's Journal
http://www.ddj.com/dept/lightlang/199203087 The article does a decent survey on the web toolkits out there. I don't the there's one choice fits for every project. But for a project described in the article, YUI might be a perfect fit. I think code size is still one of the main issue in WebApp development.

WebApp that is basically a front end to the database can utilized something that is more automated like Dataface.