Chester's blog

Laguna mountain On the top of the Laguna mountain , I could see desert view over couple of hills. Since here's highest land (6.3k ft) around San Diego, strong wind and low temperature made me quite chilly The lonely observatory stands with the clear blue sky as background. Usually, no people stays and keeps this facility. I always wonder if someone operates it. Anza Borrego desert After mountains, Julian, valley, there starts Anza Borrego desert. The cactus flowers' season starts at March or April. It's a miracle we can see this beautiful little flower in desert. Surely, lots of cactus live there. Snake's lair also scares people since you can find it everywhere around. Red colored little flowers were shaked too much by the wind. It was hard to take those guys. I like this cute little flower. This color lets me recall the scene of forsythia in Korea. I've passed roads with blossom of forsythia at every day of Spring to get school. The other side of desert i...

Traditionally, Korean people celebrate the end of a class by party with rice cake. Due to the end of the Design Pattern study group, we've had a 'kinda' checkeri. There's two guests - Sarah & Jay-hyuk and we missed Danny, this night. Great job, guys! See you next meeting!!!

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...