Louis (Tikko Studios) upgrades to Apple… finally!

Congrats.

Hodori

Meeting

4am traffic

Upper Echelon.

Less than two weeks and counting. Probably one of the riskiest things I have ever done in my life.

Are you ready?

Are they ready??

Are WE ready???

The first step.

YouTube – David Sides

“FRESHEST MOMENTS” is a little section I added to the blog. You can find it on the right sidebar underneath my contact info. This area will feature anything I consider worthy of checking out. All those “Damn, this is dope!” moments now have a home on my blog.

This week: ANTENNA MAGAZINE

In the past few weeks, I have frequented lots of bookstores to read magazines and look up stuff for the business and ANTENNA always ends up on the table. ANTENNA isn’t your typical magazine. Currently on its fourth issue (quarterly), ANTENNA is more of a catalog of everyday items grouped in categories beginning with A and ending in Z. I found myself looking through every single page to see what items were featured throughout the whole alphabet… once you start its hard to stop. There are also a few written articles from the staff which I found pretty funny. Definitely a good addition to any coffee table.

antennamag.com

Can’t go wrong with $1.50 combo… OK, $2.96 including yogurt

Gotta round up the guys for a Costco Challenge someday. It’s been talked about and hyped up at parties amongst the homies. Basically you order 1 of everything off the Costco menu: Choice of hot dog or polish with soda, group decision on pizza slice, a chicken bake, a salad, a churro, and group decision on one dessert (bar or yogurt)… ok ok not EVERYTHING on the menu because that would be too wild (possibly dangerous). But yea, your typical “who can finish first” showdown.

Less than $10 buys you a shot at becoming COSTCO CHALLENGE CHAMP!

BIG LOTS MADNESS

IZ S’NICE!

No comment

$60 down to $5? Can’t beat that!

Familiar faces

My roommate Steph hates mayo. Crack Meal!

Reminds me of my Rambo one

Tish hates Peeps

Best Buy had this ON SALE… *scratches head*

I love Saturdays.

Drove up to LA to take care of my passport for the trip. I read up on some of the procedures and how to obtain a passport but I still had some questions about the expediting process since I needed one ASAP. Found out the best route would be to wait until I’m within 14 days of travel to apply for a special expediting process or something. Ah, government says so… but definitely cutting it close. Too close for comfort.

Starting to like LA the more I visit

Dropped by Khai/Jo’s to see my favorite furry friends…

The view

Awesome neighbors… FIDM

I was hoping to get the whole passport deal out of the way but I came out empty handed. Didn’t want to waste a drive and didn’t feel like sitting in traffic so I called up Tish (SheKnows/Gorilla Nation) and she was down to have dinner after work. Sweet. Meanwhile, I hit up The Grove to do some “business research” at Barnes. As we all know, parking in LA can be a total bitch. Paying for parking sucks… losing your validation ticket is even worse. Luckily the attendant was kind enough to let me through without paying the max $22 penalty… it went something like this…

Attendant: Hi, ticket please.

Me: Hi… um… I kind of lost my ticket…

Attendant: Oh man… thats $22 dollars man.

Me: No, I have proof of the time I was here (pulled out my BlackBerry)… I was talking to my girlfriend when I parked… see? 3:40… I was here at 3:40…

Attendant: Oh, only 30 minutes!? (NOTE: first 30 minutes are free)

Me: (knowing he totally misunderstood my explanation) Ummm… yeaaaa…

Attendant: OK, no problem. Have a nice day.

Me: Thank very much, sir.

I knew all those times of opening doors for people in public and being a nice driver paid off. Good karma came my way. Just gotta be more nice to people and you shall be rewarded.

Too much GARLIC is bad for yo health!

Seriously, not only did dinner equip my breath with the ability to survive a vampire attack Will Smith status… it made me feel almost sick and left an uneasy sensation in the back of my mouth. Oh well, my fault for putting even more garlic on everything.

Proceed with caution.

Sent to press this morning… Attic’s latest sale.

www.attic2zoo.com

Met up tonight since Khai and Jo can’t do Wednesday. Went over travel arrangements/accommodations and touched upon some business logistics… seems like theres a forever long list of things to do and watch out for. It never ends. Constant looking over your shoulders and making sure all bases are covered. Its a good thing we have four pairs of eyes and ears to keep things in check.

Meeting place: Cha for Tea, Irvine

Partner/Co-founder

Partner/Co-founder

Partner/Co-founder

Slideshow time. iPhone = cleanest photo presentation hands down

You’ll know where we’re headed if you can make out that picture

We dropped by BZ Community Class next door where Wobz (Sheroes) was teaching so Louis could promote the Tikko x BZ campaign. I talked to Elm (brainchild of Boogiezone) about taking the campaign online. Oh yea, Khai and Jo both dance for Boogiezone’s Community Dance Team – Breed. Khai is artistic director/co-founder.

Perfection!

Khai was in the area early Monday morning so he swung by and we all went to have lunch with Louis (Tikko Studios)… who unfortunately had work on President’s Day. Headed to Spectrum which was a nice trip down memory lane since I frequently lunched there when our office was minutes away… now we’re next to Angel Stadium aka Orange aka lunch hell.

BlackBerryin…

Ru-bio’s… RU-bio’s… RU-BI-O’S!!!

Afterwards, we dropped Louis off at his work and went down to The Lab and South Costa Plaza in Costa Mesa just to see wassup.

BLENDS OC

ARRREE Apple owners snobs???

Haters.