Thanksgiving lunch at Yuan's family house, Pasadena. Superb cooking by his mum, Indonesian style.
Potluck dinner at Sylvia's & Dongmin's house in Downtown LA.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Church V-ball hangout [23nov]
Recently, I have been going out to play volleyball with the Alhambra Christian Fellowship youths after church on Sunday. We played soccer the first few times before switching to volleyball. It is indeed a nice, relaxing and fun way to spend the Sunday afternoon. Here're some pics.
Los Angeles Soccer League Friendlies
After my recent trip back from Singapore, my housemate, Calvin, suggested organizing soccer matches between architecture offices. I thought it was brilliant. Not only can it get us to exercise, get us off the computer, it can also build up bonds among the co-workers and know more about the design community. And for once, we can talk and do things other than architecture. haha...
We have an upcoming match with St. Annes Soccer Academy this Wednesday. This is a special match as the opposing team is not an architecture office. Rather, the coach approached us during a game and wanted us to play his team. We found out that the St. Annes soccer academy is part of the Santa Monica City program to help teens off the streets and to channel their energy to more positive avenues, and soccer is one of them. We are really glad we can help in this wonderful social cause.
Hence, I volunteered to be the team manager for the firm I am working in, 5+Design. And right away, we started off with a few practices and had 3 friendly matches (versus Graft, Gensler & Gehry) since beginning of October till now. My office's players are also practicing together almost every Wednesday. And we are hoping to kick off an official league consisting of a 5-7 offices by Feb 2009.
Soccer Friendly> 5+design 1-2 Graft 16th Sept -match report by me
Soccer Friendly> 5+design 1-1 Gensler 9th Oct
Soccer Friendly> 5+design 3-1 Gehry 15th Nov
We have an upcoming match with St. Annes Soccer Academy this Wednesday. This is a special match as the opposing team is not an architecture office. Rather, the coach approached us during a game and wanted us to play his team. We found out that the St. Annes soccer academy is part of the Santa Monica City program to help teens off the streets and to channel their energy to more positive avenues, and soccer is one of them. We are really glad we can help in this wonderful social cause.
And our last friendly match for this year is a re-match friendly with Graft, possibly in mid-dec before the Christmas holidays.
Some of my friends in Netherlands have told me there is a architecture soccer league there as well. So maybe at some point, we can organize a trans-national league!!!
More photos and updates on the Los Angeles Architecture Soccer League can be found here:
Car Repair [22nd Nov 2008]
For about one month since end Oct, I have been driving around with a faulty window. The back left door window of my car somehow could not be wind up. Since my car uses automatic controls for almost everything, including all the windows, trunk and even the adjustments of the car seats, I was worried that the repairs for just that one window will be costly. Hence, I persevered and used folded pieces of paper to jam the window, whilst taking the risk that passer-bys will not notice it and break into my car when I park my car on the streets every night. Fortunately, my car alarm system is pretty sensitive and sounds everytime the window slides down on it own. Every few days, I have to re-jam the window with a fresh set of folded papers.
And to my rescue, is a colleague, Robert Chang, who's also an avid car racer. Sacrificing his Saturday afternoon, we met up at the office parking lot where he brought his tools to attempt fixing the window.
We found out in the end that a plastic part, that is linked to the motor belt and hooks onto the window, has been chipped off. I would have to get a new part and replace it. Which means $$$$. Argh! Anyways, we decided for the meantime, we taped layers of corrugated boards and jammed it into the bottom of the window to hold it up, till I find time to replace the broken part.
In any case, it was an experience to see how easy parts of the car can be taken apart.
And to my rescue, is a colleague, Robert Chang, who's also an avid car racer. Sacrificing his Saturday afternoon, we met up at the office parking lot where he brought his tools to attempt fixing the window.
We found out in the end that a plastic part, that is linked to the motor belt and hooks onto the window, has been chipped off. I would have to get a new part and replace it. Which means $$$$. Argh! Anyways, we decided for the meantime, we taped layers of corrugated boards and jammed it into the bottom of the window to hold it up, till I find time to replace the broken part.
In any case, it was an experience to see how easy parts of the car can be taken apart.
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