When Subie crew meet...

When car crew meet, what do they normally do? Nothing much, "blow water" about the cars is the best activity :)

Papaya Walker vs. Chin Diesel.

Into the wilderness

Spent a long weekend in Southern California. Went to Sequoia National Park with good friends to enjoy the beauty of the natural.

Thousands years old trees... It is not something that can happen in 1, 2 days. How amazing the world is about.

Deer - Where is my shoes??

Bear - up, close, and personal.

Moro Rock, somewhere we went.

Conquering the top of Moro Rock - walk with guts.

Job is...

Tokie, "Job is part of life, but it is not our life...."

Layoff

I started to learn about this term "layoff" in 2000 when dot com bubble burst. I began to know what the real meaning it is about. To say in better term, "reduction in force". To say in the direct way, "you are fired and I am not going to pay you anymore!"

USA is a land of dreams. When one dream dies, another dream comes up. People easily tend to forget what happened and got lured by another dream. Just like the end of dot com era, we had the crazy housing overprie rat race. All kinds of positive information about house value appreciation, benefits of refinancing, people buy more and loan more. Now, we all died with the chain effect of stupid house loans with no market values. Too many houses bought by too many unqualified people. House value dropped. People got scared. All tried to sell out. House value dropped sharp. People lost the jobs, no incomes, can not pay for the houses, file bankruptcy, turning all houses back to banks, banks hold bunch of the houses with lowered values and try to sell out cheap.

When will this end? We don't know. Will we have another dream? Yes, we will but don't know when. A land of dreams. I think all we can do now is hope for another dream to come.

5/12/2009 - 13 years

Can you believe it? When the clock ticks at 12 midnight today, it is 5/12/2009. 5/12 is the day I landed here in this country with 2 pieces of luggages and with a piece of mind today (still).

13 years went by just like that.

Tomorrow will be better. Just like the conclusion P-Daddy gave to me today: treat small hill like Himalaya, flat land like rollie hill, move on... be happy.

Thought of this song:
"...Shine on, just shine on. Close your eyes and they'll all be gone. They can scream and shout that they've been sold out. But it paid for the cloud that we're dancing on.

So shine on, just shine on. With your smile just as bright as the sun. 'Cause they're all just slaves to the gods they made. But you and I just shone, just shone..."