Want to Know the Secret to My Youthful Skin? ;)

The combination of exercise and caffeine increased destruction of precancerous cells that had been damaged by the sun's ultraviolet-B radiation, Read more here.

On another news, I can't date vegans since I love beef.

And my love for beef is contributing to the global warming.

Gotta love odd news! :D

Wedding Weekend

Congratulation to Dennis & Jean!

I've a wonderful weekend attending D&J's wedding and hanging out with all my bay area friends. Here are some pictures from this weekend.

Whole Lot of Nakedness

This is a weekend of new experience.

First, there's the breakthrough in swimming that I am ecstatic about. Then there's the concert where I'd fear for my life. And today, for the first time ever, I'd see some of my closest girl friends in their total naked glory during our first visit to a Korean Spa (I mean, why else would we walk around naked?)

After filling our tummy with food at Galleria in K-town, us five girls drive to Century Spa on Crenshaw and Olympic. In Korean spa, everyone walk around butt naked and all the massage tables are in one room; this is the first time for four of us. I always thought it'd be really weird to see my girl friends naked or being naked and be seen by my girl friends, especially since I know some of these girls before we reached puberty. After locker room and shower, only wearing our birthday suits, we go into the jacuzzi while waiting for our turns to be massage. Strangely, it is not weird at all. When I see my girl friends without clothes, there's no weirdness or anything about it. It's as if I am seeing them with their regular t-shirt and jeans, except it's "there's __inser_name__ and she's naked. Ok, whatever." Maybe I've matured and less bashful now or maybe I am just desensitized by all the nakedness in the gym locker room.

We've requested the Marine Layer Treatment, which is a complete-from head to toe-treatment. It includes milk scrub, exfoliate, facial, hair wash, oil massage, and a few others. I thought milk scrub will be luxurious. Instead, the Korean lady use some sort of grainy glove and RUB EVERY INCHES of my body with it. I thought my skin is going to fall off and I am going to bleed all over the massage table. All the treatments after that are more soothing and gentler.

If you want to get the most bang for your money (in term of treatments), Korean Spa is definitely the way to go. However, I prefer typical American/European Spa. The amenities in American spa (such as Four Seasons, Glen Ivy, Burke Williams, etc) are usually very luxurious and massage are perform in rooms with soothing music and dim light. Usually after a visit to those American Spa, I feel like a million bucks. They charge twice or more than Korean spa, but I think it's totally worth it.

OzzFest is CRAZY!

The rumor is true, rock concerts are crazy!

I went to OzzFest today and it's the craziest concert I ever attended. I actually had no idea what kind of music Ozzy made but since I never been to a rock concert, I thought it would be interesting; and it was!

Majority of the attendees are white, some Hispanics, very few Blacks and Asians. 95% of the attendees have tattoos and piercings. Cindy and I totally don't fit in, despite my black rocker chick make-up. This is the first time I feel scared for being in a concert.

I saw a few people got escorted out, three people were on those ambulance/emergency rescue cart, and one event staff with bloody eye; there were tons of event staff/sheriffs/EST walking around; people smoking weeds and snorting cokes all around us; people walked around topless (including girls), it's almost as if this was a tattoo exhibits; fist fights were happening all over the place; there were 5-8 mosh pits going on simultaneously, each circling a BONFIRE that were lit with trash, which led to black smokes everywhere from burned plastic cups; foams and water were sprayed into audience; there's even a human stampede that could rival the Africa wildebeest's. (Click here for a few pictures taken with the camera phone)

As for the music, I actually really like the first band that played in the first stage (started around 6pm). I forgot their name though. The second band was "Lamb of God" and their music was OK. People were going crazy with mosh pits when "Lamb of God" was on. Ozzy showed up last. The music was great but the vocal (Ozzy) SUCKS! He sounded like an old grandpa. Did he always sounded like that or it's just now? If it's the former, how the heck did he became so famous? His craziness? However, the audience still went crazy for him. We left after the 4th song.

I had a lot of fun. OzzFest is my first rock concert and it probably will be my last as well.

Swim Like a Fish...

...Maybe not quite but as close as I ever gotten.

I was having a bad day, so I went swimming after work. At last, things started to go right.

I swam effortlessly, going back and forth, doing laps. It's as if there was something different about the water. I was floating easier than usual and moving smoothly across the pool like a fish in the water. I couldn't remember the last time I felt this good for just doing laps. I could go on forever!

Afterward, I met up with a few (new) friends for delicious Cajun food at "The Boiling Crab," followed up with ice cream at Fosselman's. The company was awesome and the food was delicious.

My day started out not so great but it ended very well (I am full & happy now).

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The Boiling Crab
742 W. Valley Blvd.,
Alhambra, CA 91803

Review: We ordered fried catfish with fries, shrimp, crawfish, sausage, and corns. Since my visit to New Orleans, I had pretty low expectation for all Cajun restaurants in LA. The Boiling Crab totally surprised me. The food was delicious, with the right amount of spiciness and as good as what I had in New Orleans(with the exception of crawfish. The crawfish was good, but of course, not as good as in New Orleans and I should not expect fresh crawfish in LA.).

Thus far, this is the best Cajun restaurant I visited outside of New Orleans.

How to Stay Interested?

There are many things that catch my fancy. However, I usually only able to focus on that particular interest (for example: tennis) for certain duration then I will lost my enthusiasm. Then after a period of not thinking about that interest, something will pop up and remind me of that interest and I'll be all into it again. And the cycle repeat itself; thus, I am still 'Jack of all trades and expert of none.' :(

I realize that if I want to become an expert in something, anything, I will need to shorten the 'resting period' or just force myself to do it regardless of how I am feeling at that moment.

Do you have this problem? If so, what do you do to keep yourself engage in that interest?

Work Out Routine

I went to the gym today to do some weight training. After the usual warm up on the elliptical machine, I was lost. I would be more effective if I planned out my work out routine prior to arriving at the gym.

I just want to tone my body and get stronger. Anyone got a good work out routine they would like to share?

Natural Genius

In the August issue of Seed Magazine, "Natural Genius" article includes a few portraits by Peter Badge, whom was selected to be the official portrait photographers of all the 295 living Nobel Prize winners.

The portraits are amazing. I am definitely going to check out the book when it come out.

How I Spent The Independence Day: Beer, Firework, Music, Cowboys...

It's becoming a tradition of my to visit Hollywood Bowl every summer. This year, I'd be visiting Hollywood Bowl many times as I purchased several concert tickets during March pre-sale. My first Bowl concert for this summer was yesterday, for the July 4th fireworks Spectacular: Riders in the Sky. Here are more pictures from last night.

Not Using My Brain

I should go out more often, like what typical single young people should be doing; instead I been doing a lot of vegging.

Spent the entire past weekend finished up season 2 & 3 of Battlestar Galactica.

Spent tonight watched all three of the Infernal Affairs Trilogy .

Oy...