waking up
08.28.08 – 08.30.08
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Thursday
1) Lunch with Elton. New Taiwanese place, not so great, but it’s always good to hang with Elton.
2) Barefoot Iced Coffee… so good.
3) Hanging with Elton some more!
4) Learning some new ins and outs about web stuff. I entered in some code for a guestbook on phonofield.com.
5) Some of the best lessons with A*** and K**** in a long while.
6) A good relationship with my students’ families. The mom gave me some fresh pizza to go! It had caramelized onions and prosciutto!!!
7) Downtown Mountain view for Dave Shin’s birthday.
8) Laser Quest for Dave Shin… it was actually REALLY fun. Too bad I wore white… it was completely glowing under the black lights.
9) Watermelon Snow Bubble. Soooooo good.
10) A chill night.
Friday
1) Elton and Sergio… good times, even if they are hella early.
2) Short nap.
3) Gym w/Justin!
4) Alotta’s!
5) First lesson in a long time w/C******* and D****! Fun…
6) Getting off work earlier than usual.
7) Barefoot Iced Coffee again..
8) Avery’s knowledge about venues in SF. What a helpful guy.
9) A really good practice. Erica watched.
10) 7-Eleven.
Today
1) Sleeping in a bit.
2) Some nice comments on The Flames. I actually posted my own stuff on YouTube for the first time last night.
3) Later start than I thought… it was nice to just absorb the day.
4) Another good lesson w/B****.
5) Nice comments about my band from my neighbors!!
6) Nice comment from Maria Poggio… OLD school Lowell/Hoover classmate.
7) A new tutorial in the works…
8) The Coop.
9) Savages, the movie.
10) The house.
08.25.08 – 08.27.08 Behind on Things
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Monday
1) Starbucks is open at 5AM
2) Melanie is my friend
3) Pictures from the festival.
4) Facebook
5) No work on Monday… got to go back to sleep.
6) Leftovers from Naan ‘n’ Curry plus Dad’s cooking = awesome.
7) Comments on the photos. Hilarious.
8) Finding that Mom folded my laundry. She spoils me.
9) Birthday Dinner with Wayne @ HOPR.
10) MGS4 with Wayne. What a ridiculously hard game.
Tuesday
1) Mom waking me.
2) Dad preparing food the night before for me to take home. Again, I’m spoiled.
3) A safe drive back to SJ.
4) Justin and our Cupertino Village adventures. I think we have tried every restaurant there once, except for maybe the Korean Tofu place and the Guan Dong House, and this mysterious Pho place Justin reports seeing, but we never find.
5) Justin’s honesty.
6) Justin’s taste in music… and that he has deep reasons for everything he likes and hates.
7) A good day of teaching.
8) Off early…
9) Dad’s cooking.
10) Just resting in San Jose for the first time in almost a week.
Wednesday
1) A productive morning, even though I got up hella late. Purchased/designed/launched our phonofield website.
2) Released some of our songs.
3) That we are really doing this.
4) P***, my newest student, has the greatest attitude and is super eager. A joy to teach.
5) E*** has amazing potential coupled with hard work.
6) My ears.
7) Elton making pre-prayer meeting dinner again.
8) No one getting mad at me for spilling my pork chop and chinese veggies all over a white rug.
9) That Elton and Sarah are my friends.
10) That it is okay, and good things come to those who wait.
08.22.08 – 08.24.08 SF Outside Lands 30 things
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1) A day off work
2) Meeting with Elton and Sergio.
3) A safe drive to SF. I was freaking tired.
4) Picking up Esther’s ticket. It all worked out, barely.
5) A short nap.
6) Mom waking me up gently.
7) Santung!
8) Radiohead. Even if it was a sub-par night in terms of concert experience, the honor was still mine to have seen the greatest band in the world. We even found Nick and Matt.
9) Middle Place
10) Melanie coming all the way from LA, straight after a final, and flying right back on Monday morning. Girl loves music.
11) Cha and Erica. They love music.
12) Seri, Mary, Bradley. They all love music.
13) Garlic Parmesan Fries
14) Mel’s bomb turkey sandwich
15) M. Ward
16) Regina Spektor
17) Ben EFFING Harper (F stands for Funk, as in Revolution Funk)
18) Seeing one of my students’ moms!
19) An unexpected dance during Tom Petty
20) Won Ton House
21) The Beanery, cool people work there
22) Ariz EFFING mendi’s!!! Nectarine Coffee Cake! Pizza with Tomato Sauce and Fresh Mushrooms topped with Garlic Oil and Parsley!!
23) Laughing at ALO. Oh yes, laughing at, not with.
24) Stars. Wow. Too bad we couldn’t stay for the whole set.
25) Seeing Bon Iver. Magic. We saw it with Nick and Tim and Shannon (Sean’s sister!) as well.
26) Broken Social Scene. Easily one of the highlights of my month or year, even.
27) Wilco, oh my. Forget words.
28) Naan ‘n’ Curry
29) That my Zoom H4 recorded a WHOLE lot of the festival.
30) That I had great friends to experience the whole thing with…
I would do it again in a heartbeat.
08.21.08
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1) Selling my extra ticket to SF Outside Lands… Thank GOD someone wanted them at a decent price. Still lost $45, but that’s better than losing $60.
2) Getting freakin’ excited for tomorrow…
3) Recording a decent performance of mine for my next cover/tutorial…
4) Resuming lessons again… should get way more consistent now that school is starting.
5) PALACE BBQ w/SFCAC guys and girls…
6) Long ribs are amazing
7) Ten Jang and garlic and long ribs are even more amazing
8) TNG at Mission City!
9) Good discussion…
10) STILL AMPED UP FOR TOMORROW!
08.20.08
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1) The morning
2) New comments on the latest YouTube effort
3) Flexibility being self-employed
4) Three good lessons!
5) New recipe ideas… garlic-basil butter, salt-crust marination, and beer to de-glaze! The result?
6) Meeting some new friends/family of Elton’s.
7) Mrs. Field’s
8) Good talk on leadership w/Elton and Dave Shin
9) Knowing that failing is okay. It’s very freeing.
10) That it’s not about what I can do.
08.18.08 – 08.19.08
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Monday
1) Day off
2) Catching up on sleep
3) A comfortable sofa
4) Anticipating the festival… it’s going to be the bomb
5) Being wrong about things. It is humbling
6) Really enthusiastic student e-mailing me to confirm a lesson. These students make it so easy…
7) Minus the Bear show announced for November!
8) Soondobu w/Sergio and Lisa
9) Seeing Ted @ Paris Baguette!
10) Strewed Bread, awesome
Tuesday
1) Not being terrible late to meeting w/Justin
2) Old Wife Cake, awesome
3) Porridge Place!
4) Good sharing w/Justin
5) Hard words from Jesus in Matthew 7-8
6) That life is really about faith, not just action and reflection
7) Seeing Bryan Klingman at Barefoot!
8) Some good lessons…
9) Trying out Dosai Place. Indian vegetarian food… not bad
10) Olympics!
08.17.08 Birthdays
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1) My brother Wayne being born 30 years ago today.
2) My pastor Elton being born 35 years ago today.
3) Nate helping me load up equipment super fast.
4) Not being late by more than 3 minutes even though I stopped to fill up gas.
5) Iced Caramel Macchiato from Dave Shin when I wasn’t completely awake yet
6) Learning about how to do the sound stuff for Haven
7) Dave Shin’s sharing
8) Sergio’s message… about the Third Way, I guess, not passivity nor retribution, but power/love action. It was good.
9) A fun fantasy draft.
10) Snappy joining in the Happy Birthday song madness.
11) Another feast night! We did tri-tip, grilled veggies, and chicken wings + mojitos. We’re going to call it “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Night” from now on. Everyone liked my spice rub/marinade.
12) Leo and Tina… gotta love ‘em.
13) Seeing Deny back from China/Olympics.
14) Nate moving the equipment back with me super fast.
08.14.08 – 08.16.08
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Thursday
1) Time in the morning to get lots of random things done.
2) Trip to the gym
3) Seeing Avery at the gym, cool guy
4) Costco trip w/Usman
5) Costco’s return policy
6) Costco’s cheap food
7) Justin being flexible
8) Thursday Night Group discusssion
9) People actually sharing their lives is an amazing thing
10) Junshien helping me with his printer
Friday
1) Waking up even though it was an ungodly hour
2) Elton and Sergio
3) The Gospel. It really is relevant, and the basis of my life.
4) Sausage Biscuit w/Egg and Iced Coffee w/Hazelnut
5) Google’s micro-kitchen
6) On the Bridge
7) Curry House w/Brian Lum
8) First rehearsal w/the band since the show… we are sounding good
9) People’s comments (they were listening to us practice since everyone was over for Nate Jeung’s going-away party)
10) Nate Jeung
Saturday
1) Waking up even though I had an ungodly long day the day before
2) Singing and praying with the worship team
3) Nap
4) TLP w/Brian Lum
5) Good first lesson with a new student
6) Early break
7) Chill time
8) Nate Chan coming over
9) Seeing Ted
10) 99 Chicken! It’s lightly fried!!
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