It’s the end of my 6-day San Diego trip, it was sooo cool. Got to see, eat, chat a lot, had lots of fun, took LOTS of pictures with my new camera, and got really really tired/stressed out…lol. Had a lot of fun hanging with couple of my bosses, and co-workers. It was awesome to be able to see everyone’s face in real after working with them for almost a year. Really people didn’t look like how they sound…lol. I totally didn’t expect how a couple of them look, but that was fun. I’ll be organizing the pictures a bit and post them up here.

I’m sooo tired I barely did anything today, just had crap microwave lunch, checked email, catched up with some side business stuff, unpacked some stuff, washed dishes, did garbage…etc…and browse a lot on the web…. I FOUND SOMETHING I REALLY WANTED FOR SO LONG. It’s called the “SpaceWarp 5000” metal ball roller coaster toy where a track is built from two plastic tubings and a metal ball is dropped from the very top of the track (that you build) and rolls down like a roller coaster cart. I owned one of those when I was small, I totally want to rebuild another one. I get amazed by things like this.

On the same site I found another interesting toy that I guess I’ll pretty much end up getting. It’s the Gakken Bow-shooting Boy.

This is REALLY cool, everything done in a mechanical way, no circuit boards/complex logics or anything. It really makes me wonder at how smart ancient people really were.

Went to the show today. First timer here, saw lots of great cars, cool paint jobs, funny looking antique cars, insane engines, ultra deep thunderstorm sounding subwoofer systems, scary looking hot-rod type of people, nice chicks, INSANE hydraulic suspension systems near the end of the show when people did crazy demos going up-n-down and trying to drive on 3 wheels, guy dressed up as a funny looking/cute bee mascot handing helium balloons to kids, antique firetrucks, cars that have 2 sets of spare tires, cars that have normal sized bodies but wheels twice as big as normal, and a couple Harley Davidsons with cockpits that were twice as big as a normal sedan.

It was a fun and HOT day. First time taking photos of cars too, with my new camera.

I’m getting ready to goto bed, going to have to get up at 5:15 tomorrow for the 7:40am flight to San Diego. Can’t wait to get there!

Was reading some reviews on my camera today and realized I haven’t really done a formal introduction of it like how I did it for my last couple cams like Canon SD1000, Canon G9, Fujifilm F50fd. Bought this camera about a little more than a month ago off Futureshop, with a staff discount from Peter who works at Best Buy, ended up paying just $355+tax for it, including one lens. Super amazing deal. It’s named “World’s Smallest DSLR”, which is one of the reasons getting it as it’s no fun hauling bulky cameras around. And as usual I fell in love with the camera since day one not just because it’s new but it is also my first ever DSLR camera. I’ve been wanting one forever, have been wanting to get the Canon Rebel XTi about a year and half ago, but wasn’t able to afford it back then. This Olympus turned out to be so affordable so I decided to get it without second thought. The pic is the camera itself, with a flash attached that I got free from Peter.

Also there is the $119 tripod (on sale from $149, lol) that I got 2 weeks ago, the Manfrotto 728B made in Italy. I decided to pay a bit more to get a brand name just to make sure I get an OK quality and sturdy one, so I can keep it for a long time. I love this camera, have already taken thousands of pictures with it in the past month, and liking every single one of them. I’m looking forward to bring it with me to the San Diego one-week trip next week, and take tons of pictures at Legoland and the San Diego Zoo