Saturday, December 31, 2011

Alpental, Snoqualmie Pass, WA

Wow POWDER!!
It was so sad all ican do is just pulling the snowsled for kids...^^
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Friday, December 30, 2011

Bye T-Mobile...

Last moment from my desk before handing in everything
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Last day in Factoria office

It is a shining day as my first day in 4.5 years ago...
Cannot believe this is it but days are passing by...
Out of lots of mixed feelings
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Monday, December 26, 2011

Peaceful day in December

Lake Boren park in Newcastle ...has been a while!
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Friday, December 23, 2011

Mission Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol

Cannot even recall when I saw the movie at theater, but this one was hard to pass.. IMAX!

Tom Cruise was still great but at the same time, I felt pitty he cannot win over the times..
불쌍한 톰쿠르즈 아저씨 예전 부루스 윌리스가 란닝구 차림으로 뛰어다니던 식으로 죽도록 삽질하고 얻어터지며 뛰었다...


One more thing went away with 2011: AT&T and T-Mobile merger

Yes it is official...

This one taught me a lot on developing perspectives on business as well as understanding importance on leadership in crisis mode..

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Monday, December 19, 2011

520 Bridge Toll is about to start..

Now the signs on freeway removed the cover blocking the "TOLL" sign..
Oh no!!
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Friday, December 16, 2011

Hunter's Point at Freemont Older Open Space Reserve in. Saratoga, CA

Thanks to my old friend Woojin, who paddled with me in lake Washington back 1999, we hiked together to the hidden jewel of Silicon Valley!

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Ivars Fish and Chips @Seatac Airport

My best of the best food at Seatac...

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Japantown Peace Plaza, San Francisco


Small Japanese Tower @San Francisco...

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Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport

Wow Big Big surprise on landing at San Jose Airport for the first time in last 5 years.. the airport got nice face lift and looked awesome... Hope it got some nice food options though....

But no complaints.. convenient location and state of the art building with free WiFi..

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@SJC Airport



Ko Ko Noodle!!!!!

Another big sensation Ko Ko myun....:)

Great tasting chicken broth based noodle.. and less spicy and mild... :)
I am so glad that I could taste this before it officially imported into US... :)

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Nagasaki JamBong

Oh Ho!!!!

Finally, had a chance to face Nagasaki JamBong Noodle, which is a sensation in Seoul nowadays..

Nice noodle and strong spice with proper combination of seafood taste..
Remind me old days I enjoyed the noodle at Dong Chun Hong in Seoul... :)

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

$2 6 inches Sandwich from Subway

Nice... I know it is limited offer but hope it lasts forever......:)

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Saturday, December 3, 2011

2011 Holiday Coca Cola Design

As covered a lot in news media, new holiday design of classic Coke with polar bear themed with white background color is easily confused with Diet Coke...
Whatever!

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Rainy downtown Vancouver: Granville Bridge

Getting into the city!
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Japadog @Robson St.

So packed...
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Coffee and Donuts @ Tim Hortons

Don't know why but this one didn't taste like it used to be...
But to fulfill the duty of tourist tried this again...
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Canada Place

This was one of the few spot I was not able to check out during last visit due to Olympic games...
Beautiful waterfronts!
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Potato Soup @Jang Mo Jip in Vancouver

Wow...had a very very nice meal...but got shocked on the bill. Vancouver is so expansive! :)
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Vancouver Science World: TELUS World of Science

Fun place.. but I do prefer Pacific Science Center over this one... :)

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Monday, November 28, 2011

Thanksgiving Trip to Vancouver BC

Great lessons learned from short 1 night trip to Vancity ...

* Realization of my dependency on mobile data service: Not having data service (or fearful of crazy data roaming charges) on Canadian territory made me feel like a stone-age people...
* Always avoid I-5 Peach Arch borders: This time WA-539 from Bellingham worked perfect both in and out
* Richmond, BC is China... :)



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Canadian Dollars

Digged entire home to find out North currencies as a prep for trip to North...  Hello QE II  :)


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Sunday, November 27, 2011

5 Year Old MBA Resume

While cleaning up the room I end up finding my 5 year old resume...which took me to a short jouney of memories of business school years

Yes everything happened there was beautiful and I had a big dream...don't know exactly where I am sitting now vs. that dream. However, one sure things is the fact I became a little more grown up since then!

I still miss my life in Ann Arbor!

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park: Anti Aircraft Peak

Very easy going walking, even though it was raining, in the wild forrest...
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Friday, November 18, 2011

Blackberry Torch 9810

Sorry RIM but you had better bring back the stabilized BIS...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Sunny

얼마전 본 영화...한동안 센세이션이었는 듯싶은데..
뭐 잘만든 영화인듯 싶긴하다...내용도 복고에 여성층을 공략하고 지극히 한국적인 정서에 잘 타게팅한 소재인듯 싶은데...
가끔 보인 필요 이상의 과장과 약간의 억지 줄거리와 감동과 웃음을 다 주려고 하다 약간 오버한 것 같긴한데...그래도 영화가 사실과 같아야만 한다는 필요가 없다는 점과 판타지란 누구나 상상할 수 있다는 걸 생각한다면 나름 근래에 보기 드문 잘만든 영화인듯싶다...유행(조폭이야기, 복수 시리즈, 잔인 시리즈)안타고 나름 독자 창의적인 소재 개척에 배우들도 좋았고 아주 좋은 점수를 드리고 싶다...
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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Disney on Ice

Been to this one again...
This years theme was Toy Story3 but felt like Toy Story 2.5+Barbie/Ken Show ^^
@Comcast Arena Everett
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Halloween 2011 Pumpkin Carving

ㅅㅡㅅ
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Samsung Galaxy S II 4G

Wow...this is the state of art device...
Big super AMOLED screen with duel core processor..now I believe what it matter for Andriod devices are ecosystem of contents and integrity of OS...(I still remember the old days when Apple II had great games...maybe arround late 80s?)
I don't find any reason of buying iPhone other than willingness of paying extra margin to the fruit company..
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Facing East @Downtown Bellevue

Clean and nice modern Taiwanese Restaurant...
And nice ice shaving! (팥빙수)
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Alcatel OT 606A: Sparq

One of the worst of the worst device I have ever played...
Simple answer to this device.... if you want to make cheap devices, just build a simple one focused on making calls and don't try to load this and that on it...(I.e. email client, facebook etc) nothing worked smoothly...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Truely Fall in Seattle

Four colored skies....blue sky, white cloud, dark cloud, and Washington grey with water drops plus some winds...
Yes Fall has come to this town...
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@Office


Monday, October 10, 2011

Ashes of Times Redux

Another Hong Kong Movie during weekend via Netflix


東邪西毒 Redux... felt like a totally new movie with this "Redux" 
Still great movie...Director Wong is still magician of words... 



Tears for LG: LG Makes Latest myTouch Devices

Recently there was a news on LG from the front page of company's intranet site...

Saying, LG will deliver 2 myTouch devices -company franchise models- in this holiday.

Strangely enough my company, which is obvious no 4, runs a model of "franchise" devices - meaning service provider dictates every things on device design and "OEM" delivers..

don't know how much the service provider can dictate as much in smartphone era as it used to do in past, but this was the way htc grew its US business and smartphone business without its brand... And I heard there has been increasing tensions from htc that they will not do this type of business any more without their brand..

As a little shareholder of LGE...this is such a sad news.. maybe LG can get some volumes? But in this way? The more sad piece is all the comments from employees saying "This is a horrible move for franchise device!" Relating all the bad experiences with LG devices..-.-

It's tough days in Youido?
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

iPhone 4S?

Sorry Apple but looks like you are running out of gas for innovation..

* Dual-core A5 chip: Dual core is already a standard on high end smartphones...
* Camera and optics: Sorry again...standard
* iOS5 and iCloud: Android is there and cloud is already available thru various applications
* Siri: ......and "There is a app for that" as well...

So other than the fact what it does as "Baseband chip" work both on GSM and CDMA, I don't see anything hot in here.. (But if someone is already with GSM, what does having CDMA mean?)

Is this signaling Apple is running out of gas for innovation or something "quantum jump" is awaiting? (in junction with all the patent affairs....) or is this following the classic path of Apple II vs. IBM compatibles?.. These folks should have at least upgrade their look and feels (i.e. display size)

Sorry, I don't feel anything special with iPhone, and feel happy around Samsung and HTC smartphones I have been using...and sad news for people who were holding their decisions with expectation of something big from this version and Sprint who put its future of its business with this iPhone release...

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Saturday, October 1, 2011

View from Downtown Bellevue

Oh..Wow expensive apartments have a reason...
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@community house in Avalon Towers  Bellevue

Friday, September 30, 2011

Kindle Fire

Wow this has been the hottest news on this week. Interestingly enough, Amazon introduced its tablet as "Kindle Fire" 

and the most amazing thing is Amazon is starting its Tablet journey with their famous "Day 1 South" approach. Starting in red and collect back. First I thought this as a new Android based Tablet, and scratched my head to think what is the difference between this and 7 inch Galaxy Tab...

However, after some thoughts...I believe this is the most fearful approach ....not just because of its low price...bur rather because of these facts

* Amazon has almost full line up in cloud service and its related contents: eBooks, Videos, Music, Android applications, etc...
* Amazon's buying power or negotiation power with contents providers or publishers are incredible. 
and most of all....
* Amazon has extremely loyal customers who pay $79 per year as Prime members- who does everything with Amazon because you paid $79 to company.

I guess this will raise tons of contents sales as Amazon said, and even increase in Prime subscription (Already Video stream is free for Prime customers..)

So, Netflix and even Google gotta be fearful of this....and I believe if this is successful, this will change the game to "access to contents" business as Apple already did a bit..