Internet Brands Holiday

So these are a bit overdue. The company holiday party was on Thursday, December 17. But anyway...

Meet Santa and Elf of the Web Development Team, a.k.a. Rachel and me.

And check out what I won for Best Elf.

So our CEO said at our "Town Hall" meeting that there was a chance to win a Kindle, but he was mistaken. Instead, they had a Sony Reader. I wanted it, but, alas, I did not get it. They had a bunch of prizes for first place in certain categories, including a digital camera, Sony Reader, IPod, beach cruiser bicycles, etc. They raffled off the prizes to the first place winners, and, well, I ended up with the bicycle. Womp womp. The bicycle happens to be too big for me and too impractical, since I will most likely never ride it. I did, however, enjoy riding it around my section on the 11th floor. ;) Hehe. Good thing is, I believe HR will be giving me the gift receipt so I can get credit for it at Target (where they bought it).

Thanks to Kenan for the bicycle photo and Stas for the santa/elf photo.

Welcome to 909 N. Sepulveda Ave.

Welcome to 909 N. Sepulveda Ave. in El Segundo, California. Home of CarsDirect.com.

I've always thought these giant address numbers outside the building were awesome, and I had always wanted to take a photo with it. So here it is, and here I am, in all our glory. Me + the 909, thanks to Jeremy. Except I don't think I'm happy with how I look in this picture. I believe I will be taking another one some time. :)

On another note, my team is telling me to enter the "best elf" contest at our company holiday party, which will be taking place this Thursday. You win an Amazon Kindle! I think I'll do it!

Fun with Josephine, Work, and Random Jargon

Monday, after work, I headed over to Irvine to hang out with my cousin, Josephine. She attends UC Irvine (she's a senior!), but she's originally from San Jose. We ate dinner at Guppy's at Diamond Jamboree, where I had a delicious bowl of kimchi noodles with pork.

After dinner, we took some pictures at Stickipicki.

Here they are for your viewing pleasure.

(FYI, all pics enlarge when you click on them.)

On the way to work yesterday, I spotted this awesome car with an "All you need is love." sticker on the back. I just had to take a picture of it, so I attempted to do so with my phone. You will definitely have to enlarge this photo to see the sticker.

My co-worker, Jeremy, and I have the same fat asian cat! His is white and mine is purple. While waiting for something or other to load (or perhaps I was just getting restless from work), I let our cats have a little play time and decided to take a few pictures.

Work, work, work.

This week will be my fourth week working at Internet Brands/CarsDirect.com. Crazy how time flies. The actual work hasn't been too exciting lately, but I've really enjoyed meeting the people on my team and hanging out with them. What can I say, I love meeting new people, period. :)

An upside of working in El Segundo (right by LAX, by the way) is the fact that my friend, Pam, works extremely closeby at Time Warner. This past Thursday, she joined me and some of my co-workers for lunch at Veggie Grill.


This portabello mushroom burger was delicious, by the way.

Hello, Pamela!

Allan and Ji. Ji was totally not digging the lack of real meat.

Ji and Jeremy


I take Mondays off from Internet Brands to do some web/graphic design work for an art gallery in Laguna Beach. I enjoy driving out there because I absolutely love the area. On my lunch break, I enjoy walking down a block from the gallery and admiring the ocean with a nice cup of coffee. (Yes, the gallery is THAT CLOSE to the beach) I'm so jealous of the houses that are located right along the coastline - their frontyard is the ocean! Maybe if my hard work perseveres, I'll be able to own one of those houses some day. ;)







Yesterday was Halloween, and of course I didn't want the day to go to waste! Pamela and I went to Michelle's Halloween party at her apartment in Costa Mesa followed by Josephine's friend's party in Tustin. Pamela was the cutest mime ever. ;)