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A lunch at Little Tokyo

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I always wanted to try public transportation of Los Angeles to see how feasible they are. Today, my curiosity led me to try them to go Little Tokyo from Glendale for lunch. I quickly searched up all possible routes.  The first option was to take subway from North Hollywood where park & ride is available but estimated travel time is too long: ~ 40min to 1hr. The next option was taking metrolink from downtown Burbank station which only takes 2 stops to Union station which takes ~ 20min.  They have free parking lot at station which is not that far from my work.  Even better, a day pass for metrolink is only $5 which is cheaper thank downtown parking. Pictures from left: In metrolink train, walking to Little Tokyo from Union station (~15min).  Ramen restaurant at Little Tokyo.            Little Tokyo subway station and subway train. I took subway from Little Tokyo to Union since it's inclusive with Metrolink pass.  It's about same t...
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Hangout to Alki beach

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Selfie Stick

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During my recent visit to Korea, a selfie stick sold in subway station caught my eyes and became in my hand, right away.  It costs $12 with wired remote button while $5 w/o remote.  I, surely, go with remote.   This is little fun toy for my travel and my friends also enjoyed a lot. Graduate Students of Physics dept, Hongik Univ., Seoul, Korea  (I'm alumni of that) With my dad in my sister's home With old friend (from middle school), Juyoung at Inchon international airport My coworkers, Tara & Scott, at Seattle office of Disney Guys, I've been working with but first time to see during my visit to Disney's Glendale office in California
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My first kindle!

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Finally, I bought a kindle (touch) first time in my life. It's awesome device to read a book Here're some pix. Touch response is a little bit slow but I can still stand on it. Screen is bright white background without any backlight. Korean font is supported as default which is nice. We don't have any Korean book for now but web clipping and new feeding are possible through 3rd party applications (Calibre). Weight feels like heavier than I thought but not that bad when I tried it on the bus during commuting. I also purchased a case from Marware and it fits exactly right on Kindle touch model. The device is secured by the case, now. Web surfing is possible but not that great since it's just a e-book reader. Collection management is nice and overall speed is slow.
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Magic Mountain

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Finally, my family and I went to the magic mountain six flags which is 5 minutes away from my home. My company, Boston Scientific, held a private party by borrowing whole park on a friday evening till midnight. The best thing about this park it that it provides kid's rides which I've never imagined before! Stella really enjoyed them!
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Lake Elsinore, Kearny Mesa, Coronado & Alpine - the greater San Diego area

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I planned to spend this labor day weekend in a different way from before. Usually, I visited either famous areas or friends whenever had San Diego vacation but it was always repeated schedule which makes my wife and myself tired of traveling all the places. First of all, I made reservation on a resort hotel located isolated area of Coronado island. Nowadays, Coronado is not an island anymore since it's connected to mainland by its long and narrow beaches. I've found a nice family hotel named Loews in the middle of this long peninsula which seems like a perfect cast-away from the land which is still close to the downtown. Loews coronado bay resort But this vacation wasn't even easy from the beginning. Stella started being sick on Friday night and her temperature rapidly went up to 103 degree. I brought her to hospital on Saturday morning and relieved to hear the doctor's saying there's nothing wrong but she might be infected by flu virus from day care since she...
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