popnea Got the flooring done for the showroom at work. Cork floor very eco-friendly! Trees are not cut down to make cork flooring. The bark is simply peeled from the cork tree. The tree heals and can provide cork for up to 150 years!
The cork flooring was delivered to us as tiles which we put together like a puzzle.
Donated from Lumber Liquidators.
We have got plenty of time to get this room together for the Grand Opening in May!
I have made it into a habit to stop by the Baldwin Hill Stairs on my way home from work. It is nice to get some heart rate going and clear my thoughts from work so I can re-focus on homework. After changing the time to daylight saving the sun is setting quickly, I stopped and snapped this photo on my last run down to the bottom of the hill.
I have never been a big fan of Halloween, and didnt wanna do anything but stay at home for the night. My friends wanted me to tag along to LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, I’m glad I did, I had a great time! As you can imagine there were a lot of creative costumes. My costume didnt allow for me to use my left hand, and my right hand was constantly occupied, so I couldnt take a lot of photos. I did manage to snap a few shots of my friends though.
It was a lot of people, but not crowded. It was perfect!
They had a free photo booth set up, we love the free photo booths!
For today’s hike, we decided to do the hike we were supposed to do last weekend -but got sidetracked cos off all the treasures we found along the way.
I still have flashbacks from last weeks hike and the meeting with mr Rattle Snake, and so has my friend. She decided to pick up a stick -just in case we were to meet another snake. What she was gonna do with the stick, I dont know.
The start of the hike was the same path as last week, but there were no morning gloom today.
What to look out for: Friendly Bees! We didn’t see any though.
It was a pretty steep hike, with 1100 feet elevation gain.
In the middle of nowhere was a burnt down house, all that was left was the chimney.
It seemed very lonely, but at least it looked out over a nice view.
A little further up we passed the shell of a sturdy rock house.
It was a warm day and we were all a little cranky on the way up, everyone just wanted to make to the top or find some shade to rest!
We finally made it to where the loop began!
Taking a rest on what we thought were the top.
It turned out it was not the top at all and we had still some way to go before we reached the peak.
It was so worth it though when we got to the top! Beautiful views over Santa Monica Bay
and Point Dume.
View over the hike we did last week.
We finally started to descending again, we hiked through this wet part and it felt like we were back on sea level but we had a long way to go!
There were a tiny bit where we had to gain elevation again on the way back and I could really feel it in my legs, I was tired! Everyone was tired!
Once we were back to where the loop began, we knew we were gonna have to hike up a little again to follow the path, but since we all were tired, we decided to get back following the water creek. It was a lot more fun and we didnt have to do any climbing up!
The hike was 3.5hours long, and we didn’t meet any snakes.
We went to see a live show at the Ruskin Group Theatre Co., a tiny theater by Santa Monica Airport.
The show was called Italian American Reconciliation, it was great!
Wednesday night is school night. I was slacking off a little in the beginning off the quarter but have gotten into the groove again lately. I really enjoy doing my homework at the moment, having a lot of fun and it is easy to concentrate and not bum around and surf internet during my study sessions. My teacher hated what I had done for my Advanced Typography though, I have to scratch out 3 weeks worth of work and start from the beginning, it kind of sucks.
Our assignment was to pick a neighborhood, create a title treatment and then a magazine spread, my friend picked Castaic. The teacher loved it!
I like the teacher, he is a funny guy, but the crits can be so booring sometimes!
I have never been good at taking notes, I looked over my friends shoulder, thought she was taking notes, but it turned out she was working on an assignment for a different class!
We have had a break from hiking since I got back from New Zealand, but decided to pick it up again. We were set to do the Rising Sun hike in Solstice Canyon Park. In the car there, we changed our minds and decided to do a longer hike – the Deer Valley Loop, which started from the same spot as the Rising Sun Hike.
It has gotten so nice and green from the rain we had last week!
Yeah, this is kind of green for being Los Angeles…
The hike had barely started the hike and already found lots of interesting things to explore!
This tub is still a mystery, whats it doing there in the middle of nowhere?
Kellers house was built in 1865, and was burnt down in the big Malibu fires 2007.
We were not allowed to go up there, but we could see the ruins through the gate.
This hike was full of obstacles, obstacle #1: do not get hit by a falling rock!
Obstacle #2: cross the creek.
Obstacle #3: decide whether we should continue on our path, or take a side track. We took the side track and found another burnt down house.
This house was huge, we saw the ruins of 4 chimneys!
The kitchen, fancy a meal?
Obstacle #4: crossing another creek.
The Shrine that was attached to the burnt down house.
Ostacle #5: climb up to the path again.
The view of the burnt down house from a higher altitude.
Obstacle #6: pass the RATTLE SNAKE!
It was my first meeting with a rattle snake in the wild, my friend almost stepped on it, but it was nice enough to just cruise away.
We decided to take the paved path the last bit of the hike, I wasn’t really feeling the dirt path so much anymore…
At 5:30pm pacific time on October 24th 2009, a new world record was set; world record for “Largest Simultaneous Thriller Dance” (multiple locations). I heard that about 50 000 people across the world did the dance at the very same time, yeah, people were up in the middle of the night in Europe and Asia to do the dance. In LA, they did the dance at Staples Center.
I have watched my friends practicing the dance steps for weeks, not dressed up as zombies though.
Michel Jackson himself did a guest appearance.
Here is a video of the dance.
The night started at the Royal T in Culver City, they had a Hello Kitty exhibition. I’m not a huge fan of Hello Kitty, but the awesome Martin Hsu had a painting up, so we wanted to check it out.
There were a lot of weird Hello Kitty stuff…
Martin’s painting, the iPhone photo is not really doing it’s justice, but it was cool, and he got it sold!
More Hello Kitty stuff in a different take… this is Sid Vicious, the bass player from Sex Pistols.
Hello Kitty guitars, snow- and surfboards.
After the exhibition, we made our way up to Hollywood to see my friend play at Cranes Tavern.
After the show, we went for dinner down the road from Crane’s. It turned out to the restaurant we picked had a live jazz band, awesome!
The night continued in West Hollywood…
Our friend finally found her way home from Taiwan and we are done with unpacking boxes (kind of), we decided to throw a party. We got inspired from the Sushi we made the other night so Sushi was on the menu again tonight.
