Jason - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I was born at Kaiser in Hollywood and have been living in the Los Angeles area my entire life. But once in a while, I like to pretend I am a tourist to explore the city.
I am known as the Apple Guy. I fell in love with the Mac platform back in 1992 when I took my first typing class. I loved how intuitive and the ease of use the graphical interface was. It has only gotten better. Back in the 90's, I felt like an outcast for being an avid Mac user and for loving Apple products, but not anymore :) I should want an iPhone, but I don't really want it (more like I don't really need it).
I went to the Scandinavia area July '06 and totally loved it:

Amsterdam, Netherlands Copenhagen, Denmark Stockholm, Sweden Helsinki, Finland St. Petersburg, Russia Tallinn, Estonia Oslo, Norway I am planning on going to Europe in June '08 to the Mediterranean area this time.

Venice, Italy Athens, Greece Kusadasi, Turkey Istanbul, Turkey Mykonos, Greece Naples/Capri, Italy Rome, Italy Florence/Pisa, Italy Marseille, France Barcelona, Spain I have never been to Asia, but I will in the future. My first time on a plane was back in '04 for a business trip to the east coast - Charlotte, North Carolina. That was also my first time going further east than Las Vegas. The furthest west I have been from Los Angeles is Avalon on Catalina Island (Sept '04). The furthest south is probably Ensenada, Mexico (Sept '04) or maybe The Bahamas (Jul '05). The furthest east ever from Los Angeles is St. Petersburg, Russia (Jul '06).
I recently started diving deeper into my Photography hobby and bought a Flickr account to share my photos with all of you:
* * * My flickr account * * *
This is my Betta at work. I've had him since March '04. I never named him, so my colleagues from San Jose call him "Captcha".
I love my job! I get to surf the Internet, chat with the outside world, and work with Macs. Although I still have to test on Windows the majority of the time. Oh and best of all - I can walk into the office in a t-shirt, shorts, and flip-flops.
"It is quality rather than quantity that counts." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca (8 BC - AD 65) Epistles

My Interests

Hanging out with my cousins and friends, Apple products, the Internet, technology, automobiles, photography, digital imaging, tennis, basketball, cruising - the ocean blue, road trips, traveling, aquariums, , going to festivals/events, the great outdoors - camping, visiting new towns, and trying out new restaurants.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone nice :) I am always up for meeting people to go out to shoot photos or to play tennis.

Mac Beautiful by Happy Slip

I love her voice! Check out her videos on You Tube. They crack me up.

Music:

I love my iPod and Apple Hifi!

Movies:

A Moment With You, The Goonies, 5th Element, Back to the Future Trilogy, Top Gun, Breakfast Club, Lord of the Rings, S.W.A.T, Matrix, Office Space, Last Samurai, Beijing Bicycle, and Chinatown.

Television:

I have not been watching a whole lot of TV lately, but I love these shows: Lost, Smallville, KTLA News at Ten, and The KTLA Morning News.

Books:

Books? I rarely read novels or stories. What I read are technical books, self improvement books, product requirement ..s, product architecture ..s, and status reports. Although sometimes I think I am writing a book. I write like 300 page test plans like twice a year. It's not full of text, but it is definitely a book when I print it out!

Heroes:

Gary Fong [Wedding photographer - invented the lightsphere] and Stev

My Blog

"I give up!"

It's not what you are thinking but the battery in my car gave up in this heat wave. I did a lot of quick errands today. I went to Monterey Park for a couple hours. Then went to the Target in Eagle Roc...
Posted by Jason on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:32:00 PST

Jason's jury service experience on a Federal case

Wow! I'm finally a juror on for a trial at the United States District Court - Western Division (Federal Courthouse). I've been getting jury service summons almost every year since I turned 18. One yea...
Posted by Jason on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:38:00 PST

2007 Lotus Festival and my first Flickr Meet

I went to my first Flickr meet yesterday. It was so much fun talking to new strangers about photography and cameras. I usually go to festivals alone just so I can use my big SLR. It's pretty hard to f...
Posted by Jason on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:37:00 PST

My First Post ...

This is my first blog entry here @ MySpace. I've been "blogging" since the year 2000 at Livejournal. If you want to read my journal there, you'll have to ask me for the URL because I do not just let j...
Posted by Jason on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:06:00 PST