Just jotting down some plans for this month:

this doesn’t look good at all for my diet/work out plan.

2008 Glacier Frost Mica IS250

Arizona dealer doesn’t have that many models as loaner cars so I’ve tried all of them already: 1) ‘07 RX350 2) ‘08 ES350 and now ‘08 IS250. This car was surprisingly slow, but it is quiet fun with the paddle shifters. Cost: $165.31 for 10k miles oil change and loaner, I need to start looking for coupons.

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Testing the embedded video for the new theme and flickr’s video.

View from the Cruise while leaving Ketchikan, Alaska

Jamie Barone, Dominic Szabo, Kevin Clements, Michael Phelps

I am sure Michael Phelps requires no further introduction now that he is considered one of the greatest Olympian ever lived, but what really got my attention is the name: Kevin Clements, one of Phelps’ teammate & friend in the North Baltimore Aquatic Club. He is the older brother of Joey Clements (He even went to ASU!) both were my teammates in High School for water polo and swimming! I hope I get a chance to meet Michael Phelps, it’ll be an honor.

[Image via StrokeConsultant]

I finally have some time to upload and process 350 photos (about 50% of total from this trip) from my recent Alaska cruise trip. The below links will take you to the Flickr page where everything is uploaded or you can utilize the below gallery viewer (Cruise only - Adobe Flash Plugin Required)

• Carnival Cruise
• Cities of Alaska
• Vancouver, BC Canada
• Flickr Collections

After coming back from Alaska/Vancouver, I guess I can update my countries/States visited. I will definitely try to travel the world and so far, it looks pretty weak. If everything goes right, I’ll hopefully get to visit Taiwan/Japan next year!

Countries

visited 10 states (4.44%)

United States

visited 9 states (18%)

sad… this is just sad…

It’s really hard to be constantly and consistently updating a journal, that’s why I do a lot of side blogging which I can do via my phone like Twitter under “What I am doing” to the right of the screen and Blackberry Photos which I can send directly from my phone.

At Blythe, California

This is the most expensive gas station I’ve seen so far, what’s yours?

Taemi, God Sisters & Yensen

My good friend Taemi came back down from UC Davis during her break. It’s been ages since I last saw her so I flew back to CA to see her. It was also great to hang out with my god sisters, it’s been too long, sorry more pictures below.

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Relaxing at Corona Del Mar Beach during the day

For those that told me I don’t post enough pictures of my life or the people I hang out with, here it is I went back to CA with my AZ friends Jennifer & Melissa for our friend Sandy’s birthday.

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Free Gift Cards

Although I had to personally sign up to receive these gift cards with no obligations, it is still nice of RIM (Research in Motion) to do things like this for their blackberry owners. Gift cards in pictures, $5 from Starbucks (Coffee-on-us) and $10 American Express (Dessert-on-us), with 4 new handsets coming out, RIM is going to have a record breaking earning year. I can’t wait to get my BOLD!

Don’t want to come off as bragging but I had to show off my new 80GB MGS4 PS3 received one day before the official release date of 6/12/08 Have I ever mentioned I really loved Amazon.com? The difference between this and the regular one is the 80gb HD, MGS4 game and dual shock 3 controller. This deal can’t be beat.

I’ve been wanting to go on a cruise for a long time, we finally have time this year to arrange it with family and friends in July, we’ll be on the Carnival 7 Nights Southbound Alaska Cruise from Anchorage, AK to Vancouver, BC.

I’ll be going from PHX -> SEA -> ANC -> Cruise -> YVR -> LAS -> PHX, busy busy! Can’t wait

Steve Jobs of Apple just released the second generation iPhone at WWDC. Now GPS & 3G capable. It looks like they have a winner here and the best part is the new price, $199 for 8GB and $299 for 16GB. I won’t bore you with the updated specs, head over to Apple.com for more details. It’s an very attractive phone, this would be my phone of choice if I could stand the lack of a physical keyboards and wasn’t in love with my Blackberry.