Chester's blog

Most of time, the sky of San Diego has nothing but clear blue and bright sun. These days are more like my home country's sky line. These cloudy sky was just before the rain started. Isn't it strange? Rain clouds make the whole scene different from usual days. Rare view in San Diego.

Recently, I started playing tennis with my friend Xin who recently moved to Qualcomm located next to my work. One good side is we have nice tennis court in our complex. Our offices are part of San Diego Tech Center complex and it provides fitniss center, pool, raquet ball courts and tennis courts. San Diego's nice weather also helps us to play tennis perfectly even in this winter season.

San Diego is an interesting place with every climate at the same time. Last afternoon I experienced two quite different things; Strong sunshine on the beach and snowfall on the mountain. Those places are located at just less than an hour distance to each other! The first place is Mt Soledad memorial park closed to La Jolla beach. The strong sunshine made me closing my eyes and I couldn't take any picture of myself. ;) Meanwhile, the freeway I-8 was closing at the east area of San Diego county by heavy snow and icy road which I've checked out at the same afternoon. Far east of San Diego area is desert where people are still struggling with rainy day driving.. It's wierd but funny San Diego...

Last weekend, I've watched the Match Point which is directed by Woody Allen but filmed on London, not on Manhattan. This movie is not so experimental one nor hard to catch up unlikely the other Woody's but you can say the conclusion of story differs quitely from traditions. (It's definitely not the type of Hollywood Ending) It seems like to show the dark side of a human being as contrasted with the other side in the beginning. By the way, I found the story doesn't go the way I'd predict based on traditional stories like that. Instead, it concludes something which could happen in our real world. "The devil is not always punished" In spite of the tragic episode in the middle of it, the movie finishes kinda happy ending for our hero and it satisfied me as Woody Allen's way. On the other side, the actors and actresses are doing good performance. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers did a hard job to show two different side of a human. His performance lets me reca...

Flying Chester & Yonghee We've started jumping since last season but it's still not easy. The problem is "not to be scared". How to do that? Just practice & practice. But it's still funny doing this with same leveled buddy. Yonghee He's my snowboarding partner since last year. He's majoring Chemistry in SDSU and a looking good guy with cute cheeks. Hey girl looking at here! Why don't you try your luck to have date with him! He's still a single. If you know me, I'll just help you. ^^ Chester & Yonghee in front of Big Bear Lake (top of mountain) On the top of the mountain, we've breathed big and started rushing downhill. We need this to survive a hard life~ Jayhyuk (Joey) in front of the lake (middle of slope) A always happy guy. Don't look at him! look at the beautiful lake behind him. ^^ Gray squirrel on big bear ski resort ^^ Such a resident of big bear resort. There are gray quirrels everywhere. Irene, Xin, Yon...

Papageno ; He is actual main actor of Die Zauberfloete . A bird-human sells bird. (That's kinda paradox but funny!) Papageno & Pamina ; Princess Pamina is found by Papageno, first. Not by Prince Tamino. Anyway, she will fall in love with Tamino. The queen of night ; She doesn't show up lots of times in this opera, but the most famous aria is sung by her. It's known as The aria of the queen of night . Since it's very high tone, not so many soprano can sing this song. Only few dramatic soprano can perform it. Papageno & Papagena; They are the cutest couple of this drama. Personaly, I like the duet when they see each other as the first time. "Pa pa pa pa-ge-no", "Pa pa pa pa-ge-na"~

My best friend Seungchul who's living in Japan sent me a picture of him and me. Since I got couple of pictures of scene he's taken before, It seems to be good if frames come for them. With couple of these pictures, my apt changed into quite different mood. Thanks Seung Chul! This is Seung Chul's young brother Seung Jin. He lives in San Diego and works for Samsung SDI. We can see lots of Samsung men in San Diego. San Diego Design Center is the most impressive building around my work. It's beautiful big pyramid and one of symbols of San Diego. This guys are playing again at work!!! I pictured them behind their back.