Friday, June 05, 2009

Today was a fairly good day. I woke up early and got ready to go to work at CPK. I only worked one and a half hours today because they could not afford to have some hosts working today so I had to go home. I then ate my BBQ Chicken Salad and got on the bus and headed home. However, before I went home, I stopped by Chase to deposit some money and get some quarters.

After I got home I played some more Conquer Online and Josh ended up getting on and playing some with me. I then later got power leveled by Voldemort and met her friend Dennis who was a cool guy from the Philippines. While playing Conquer Online I watched all three Spiderman movies and then after those I then watched Tropic Thunder. Overall my day was good except for the fact that I can't work at CPK much anymore because they can't afford to give me but two shifts a week :/.

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Today was a good day. I didn't do much but I got to relax. I woke up and finished watching True Blood and played some Conquer Online. I entered a class PK tournament and won first place and was awarded a lot of experience and I got this cool ring that surrounds me that says Top Fire Taoist. I got the skill Tornado, which is a very cool skill and I was happy get learn it.

After watching True Blood I watched the entire Harry Potter series. I really enjoy watching this series and I also played some more Conquer Online and I met a few more people while playing. Kim came home and made curry for dinner which was very good and Chris paid me the money he owed me which was really helpful since I was nearly out of money. Overall I had a good day and enjoyed relaxing.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Video Games | Star Wars: The Old Republic | E3 09: Jedi vs Sith Cinematic HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Today was a great day. I went to work at my internship and we continued to work on the anchor room. However, before we started, Myong showed my the Old Republic game cinematic which was the best cinematic I have ever seen. It was funny because the same time we were watching it, Eric was also watching it in his office.

After we watched the video, I started modeling more for the anchor room. Myong worked on more lighting and I built the hologram station and more trussing. Then after working on it for a while we went to lunch. We drove far away from work and turned down many streets looking for a place to eat. After driving around for about a half hour we finally stopped at some random Subway. While I was waiting for my food to be made, I was standing in line with my chips in my hand. All of the sudden someone came up behind me and took my chips out of my hand and I turned around and saw it was Chris. It was so crazy seeing him there because we were so far away from work and he was really far from his work but we just happened to stop at the same place at the same time. After we ate, we went back to work and continued working until about 5:30pm. On the way home, there was a lot of traffic and we were listening to some talk radio show. This show was really funny and they had a lot of hillarious facts about the world.

When I got home I turned on True Blood and began to play Conquer Online which was a lot of fun. I did many quests today I got some really good equips. I played Conquer Online and watched True Blood until about 1:30am and finally went to bed. Overall today was a great day and crazy day :D.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Today was a great day. When we arrived at work, Mark assigned us a new task to work on. Mark told us that we are dropping the house project and we are going to work on Mark's personal project. Unfortunately I am not allowed to give any specifics but the project is going to be a game and television show. Myong and I are designing a news anchor room. I modeled the desk and trussing while Myong worked on the lighting. After we left, we talked about natural disasters on the way home. This was an interesting talk, and I told Myong about all the things that happen in Texas and we started talking about tornados for a while.

When I got home, I started playing some Conquer Online and put on True Blood. I have not watched True Blood in a long time and I watched six episodes today. While playing Conquer Online, I was talking to some guy. He suggested that I watch Twilight, which Myong had suggested to me ealier today as well. I then ordered some pizza from Pizza Hut because I needed to eat and we don't have any food at home. Overall today was a great day and I am glad we get to work on the new project for Mark.

Monday, June 01, 2009

Today was a great day. I woke up early and got ready to go to my internship. Myong picked my up and we drove to work. When we got there we started working on the house again. Today Mark wanted us to focus on an interior room and to make the exterior look really nice. Myong mainly focused on lighting and I modeled a few assets for the room. Around 1pm, Myong and I went to lunch. We went to a sit in Mexican restaurant which was very good. When we got back we gave Eric our receipt and he reimbursed us for our lunch. We then continued to work for a bit and then went downstairs and helped Eric figure out how to use Motion Builder. The setup they have downstairs to display the motion capture stuff is really awesome. We finally figured out how to use it to an extent and get what we wanted. After that Mark arrived and showed us a bit more on Motion Builder but he had a meeting with someone so he could not hang out for long. Mark didn't even have time to check out our daily work but we emailed him with some renders.

After I got home from work, I played Conquer Online for a bit. I did many quests today and I got to talk with Voldemort again today. While playing, I started to watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I love this movie, its really funny. Myong also sent me an IM about a SIGGRAPH meeting next Tuesday. It is behind the scenes for Night at the Museum 2 and there is a screening of the movie afterwards. Overall I had a really good day and I am looking forward to going back to work tomorrow.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Today was a pretty good day. I got to sleep in because I did not have to work today. I woke up and then took a shower and I started watching Harry Potter for a while. I watch the last three movies and played some Conquer Online most of the day. I did a few quests to get better armor for my characters while I was watching Harry Potter.

After I watched Harry Potter, I started watching Just Friends and then Kim came home. We watched the movie and then we went over to Home Depot to buy some jumper cables. While we were there I called my dad to ask him where they would be and he told me Home Depot does not sell jumper cables :/. We then left Home Depot and went over to CVS and they happened to have some jumper cables for sale. I bought it and then we went over to CPK to jump my car. It took us a while but we finally got it started and we drove home. When we got back we watched Bourne Identity which is a really great movie. I played some more Conquer Online while we watched the movie. Overall today was pretty relaxed and I felt better that I got my car back home and the battery charged. Tomorrow is another day at our internship, so I am looking forward to that.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Today was not the best day. I worked again at CPK today but the time went by a bit faster than yesterday because we were a lot busier. When I got off work I walked to my car and I tried to start it. However, when I tried to start my car, it didn't start. I figured it was out of battery because I saw I had left on the interior lights in my car while I was at CPK. I called Chris and Kim and neither one of them could come help me jump my car so I had to leave my car there until tomorrow when Kim comes back home. After I had called Chris and Kim, I locked up my car and walked over to the bus stop. Luckily when I got there, the bus was already at the stop and I got right on.

When I got home I watched Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. This was funny and helped me forget about my car problems for today. While I was watching the movie, I played some Conquer Online and I got to play with Voldemort again. He helped me level on my Archer which is named Ron.Weasley. After playing on my Archer for a while, I hopped back on my Tao, Harry.Potter, and played for a bit. I met another person and his name was Sirious~Black which was really funny because it seems like my server is full of Harry Potter fans :D. After watching Harold and Kumar, I began to watch Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and continued to play Conquer Online. Overall my day was alright except for the bad part of my car not starting but hopefully we can get it up and running tomorrow.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Today was not the most exciting day. I woke up and got ready for work at California Pizza Kitchen. I don't really like working there because its very boring and time goes by super slow. It was nice seeing everyone again today but I had to work 5 miserable hours today which sucked but whatever. It was quite slow today at CPK which is the reason why time does by so slow and the managers never seem to want to phase hosts because they really need three hosts on when there are no customers...

After work, I came home and watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I then downloaded Conquer Online and began to play it. I have not played CO in a very long time and it was a lot of fun playing it. I named my character Harry.Potter because he is a Tao, which is similar to a Mage in other games. I met another person in the game today that was named Voldemort, which I thought was really funny and he helped me level up for a while. Overall, after being at CPK, my day was better and more fun but tomorrow I have to work again at CPK for 5 hours which I am not looking forward to...

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Today was a day of relaxation. I was off of work today and I was very glad because I was tired from working at my internship the last couple days. I woke up this morning and took a shower and then got a call from Mark. He said that the client really liked what we had done so far on the building and was really happy with Myong and I. After that I watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and played some Texas HoldEm Poker. However today did not go so well in poker. I started off well and got up to 4.8 million chips but I then lost all my chips to a flush :/ so now I am down to zero chips. I then played some Phantasy Star Universe for a while and then went off to the school to print my grades to send to Geico.

I went over to the school and filled out all the paperwork I needed for Geico and talked with Myong for a bit. We then found Art and asked him to resend out the internship forms. After that I came back home and watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. This is my favorite Harry Potter movie. While watching the movie, I played some Restaurant City and I heard from Jess on Facebook which made me happy. Kim came home from work and said she had a good day and that made me happy as well. Overall, it was a nice day to rest and tomorrow I go back to work at California Pizza Kitchen.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Today was another great day. I woke up and got ready for work and packed up my laptop and hard drive. Myong picked me up and we headed off to work at Mobile Motion. We arrive about 9:20am and went in and got started early. We continued to work on texturing the house and adding to the landscape. We took a break around 1pm and went to lunch with Eric at some Mexican restaurant. It was really good and I really appreciate Eric buying lunch for us, it was really nice of him. We then went back to work and continued to texture the scene. Mark wanted us to stop about 4:30pm so we did and we started rendering in order to send him some renders for tomorrow when he shows the client. We didn't finish rendering until about 5:30pm and we emailed them to Mark. He was very impressed with the work we had done and said he was going into the presentation tomorrow with full confidence.

After we emailed Mark, we left Mobile Motion and Myong took me home. When I came home I finished listening to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on audio book. While I was listening to it I played some Texas HoldEm Poker and made it up to $2,000,000 chips. After playing some poker and played some Phantasy Star Universe on my Xbox 360 which was a lot of fun, however I was getting sleepy and almost fell asleep. I then download the expansion for Phantasy Star Universe and I still had not finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when I just passed put.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Today was a great day. I woke up and got ready to go to my internship at Mobile Motion. Myong came and picked me up about 8:30am or so and then we were off to Mobile Motion. We followed the directions that Google provided us but yet we still ended up getting lost. We arrived in Glendale around 9am but we drove around for over an hour trying to find the place. We ended up arriving at 10:15am when we were supposed to be there at 10am :/ however we did call Mark a few times to ask for directions ;) and of course he was not mad that we were late. Mark showed us around and took us to our workstations which were not properly set up yet but we managed ;).

Mark wanted us to take a Google SketchUp model and export as an .obj file in order to bring it into Maya. This file was a large mansion house that need to be textured in order for the client to sell the home before it is build, a $25,000,000 home. After we imported the .obj file, we had to clean up the scene because it was in very bad shape after the transfer of the file. Myong cleaned up the building and added some textures and did a few renders, while I redid some of the landscape. We spend most of our day working on this, however we did take a 45 minute break and hung out with Eric and Kris. The are both really cool guys and are really nice and showed us around a little and told us about some stuff. We went back to work for the last hour of the day and did what we could and met with Mark so he could see what we had done. Mark really liked what we had to so far and called the client so she could meet with us tomorrow about it.

After that we left Mobile Motion, which was about 6pm and headed to the movie theater. We stopped to eat at Rubios first and then bought tickets to see Terminator Salvation. This movie was really awesome. The effects were really good and a lot of good visual effects companies worked on it. PLF was one of the companies and little did we know that Luke and Chris, seniors that just graduated in Digital Media, worked there. Both Luke ad Chris worked on Terminator Salvation as compositors. Myong and I were really excited about this and wish we could congratulate them on their accomplishment. We then left the movie theater and Myong droped me off at home. I then talked with Kim about her first day interning and it sounded like she really enjoyed it :).

Monday, May 25, 2009

Today I woke up and then watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I really like this one because of the awesome effects. I then watched family guy for a while, while I played Restaurant City. That was pretty much the first half of my day because I just wanted to rest again from our long drive and tomorrow I start at my new internship :).

After that I started playing Texas HoldEm Poker on Facebook and watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I did well in poker today. I took me a while but I have over 1.7 million chips now and most of those are from a large hand I won in a high stakes room. I had pocket A's and I bet 150,000 chips before the flop and 3 or 4 people called me. After the flop came out someone bet 380,000 chips and so I went all in which was my remaining 350,000. So I either would have ended the day with no chips or a whole lot of chips and I ended up having the top pair and I won the whole lot of chips :).

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Today was not much of a day. I mostly played games today and rested. I woke up and again played Restaurant City. Today I got many more ingredients I needed and got my main dish and desert both to level 10. I have reached level 15 today and I am nearly 16. My rating reached 50 today which is the most it can be. After playing Restaurant City I unpacked my desktop computer and set it up. I then put all of my movies on my portable hard drive which took a very long time to complete. While they were copying, I unpacked my Xbox 360 and played Phantasy Star Universe for a while. When the movies were finished transferring over to my hard drive, I plugged it into my Xbox and started watching Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone.


While watching Harry Potter, I began playing Texas HoldEm Poker on Facebook. I entered the weekly tournament which sadly enough ends at 12am May 25th or Mondays. However I eneded up doing quite well. The tounament starts you off with 1000 chip and in about 4 hours I had won over 100,000 chips and that put me in rank 512 out of 890,000 total players. I then continued watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Today I didn't get much sleep. I was driving until about 2am because I could not stay awake any longer and I almost fell asleep 2 times at the wheel :/. I pulled into a rest stop and slept for a couple hours. After that I drove for a few more hours and then Kim took over because I needed some more sleep. She drove to the California border and then I took over and drove the rest of the way.

We finally made it home and unpacked the car. Of course the first thing Kim and I did was play some Restaurant City. It was great to see that Cindy joined and has started to play with us :). I have got to level 12 today and my restaurant is doing quite well. After we played for a bit we had to finished unpacking and then unpack all of our boxes from when we moved right before we left to Texas. This took a while but we finally got the room to look halfway decent for not ;). We then ordered some pizza and watched a movie and continued to play Restaurant City.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Today was a long and sad day. We woke up and told my family and friends goodbye. Of course Cindy would not let us leave Texas without half of the house :D. We ended up taking a lot of things with us and filled the car up. Before we set out on our long drive back to Los Angeles, we went over to Sonic for the last time. I got my usual BLT and a strawberry fruit slush. I will miss Sonic but I heard there is one somewhere around LA.

After we ate at Sonic, we started on our long drive. It was boring but I listened to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I didnt realize that the Harry Potter audio books were so long. Throguht most of the drive through Texas, it rained hard. Right before we got to El Paso, the sun was setting and it was the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen. We stopped to take picture of it and then continued to drive through the night.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Today was a great day, we woke up early and headed off to Sea World. We were afraid something would prevent us from going because this was the third time in a week we tried going. However, today was a success. We made it to Sea World and got free parking thanks to my dad's season pass.


We basically just went from one show to another the whole day and we started off with the sea lion show which was really awesome. It was some sort of detective show. We then went and saw the Believe show which was really great as well. I took a lot of photos and video during this show. The next one was the Viva show which included dolphins. This show was really great and they had really cool looking dolphins which were much different from normal dolphins. The last show we went to was the skiing show. This show was a musical but they did cool tricks in the water. Overall we had a fun time at Sea World and I was really glad we got to go :).


After we left Sea World, we came home. Kim and I played Restaurant City for a few hours. This Facebook game is a lot of fun and very addicting. I was awarded level 8 today and I am very close to level 9. After playing for a few hours Kim and I ate and then watched Quantum Solace with my parents. I really liked the movie and it was way more action packed than Casino Royal.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Today was a great day. I finally got to sleep in until 10am :D. I woke up and got ready to go to the river. Kim and I waited until 2pm for my mother to get back from Austin. In the meantime we started playing Restaurant City on Facebook which is a very fun and addicting game. We finally met with my mom and went over to a tube rental place. My mom told us tubes would only be 3$ and they ended up being 11$ :/. We finally got in the water and tubed down the river. It was a lot of fun and I did not get sunburned that bad except for my legs :/.


After we got done tubing we went back home and showered and got ready to meet up with Jess and Eddie at Carino's Italian Grill. We ended up arriving 5 minutes late because Kim could not decide what to wear :D. When we got there it was only Jess because Eddie was running later than we were but we got a table and sat down. I ordered the 16 layered lasagna and it was really good. We all the talked for about an hour outside of Carinos about random thing and it was a lot of fun and we also took some pictures as well. It was great to be able to hang out with Jess and Eddie because I miss seeing them a lot. I can't wait until Jess comes to visit us in California.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Today started out with bad news. Kim and I planned on going to SeaWorld but I found out that they were closed today so our plan was ruined :/. So we then looked up some things to do on Google and could not find anything to do for a reasonable price. Kim and I ended up playing our PSPs for a bit to kill some time since we woke up early in order to go to SeaWorld. Kim wanted to check out a bridge in New Braunfels so we went over there for a bit and she ended up ripping a hole in the back of her favorite jeans :D.

We then went to the Rolling Oaks Mall to look for a new pair of jeans for her and she found one but it comes with holes in it :D. I also found a pair of swim trunks I liked and I bought those, but that was all I could find that I liked at the mall :/. Then we came home and I took a nap and Kim drew both of the dogs. We then ate dinner with my parents and played with the dogs in the yard.


When it started to get dark we decided to go to the River Walk in San Antonio. We drove there and walked around for about an hour. It was very cool and I have not been there in a long time. Kim really enjoyed it. She took a lot of pictures, mainly blurry one cause of the bad lighting :D, but overall I had a great day and I was glad to be able to spend it with Kim.