April 25

The highlight of my day today was going to the Reds-Giants game. It was one of the best sports experiences of my life. First of all, it was my first time at Pac-Bell Park. I've always been bitter at those people who have gotten to go, not everyone, but those who aren't really baseball fans, and especially if you're not a fan and never went to Candlestick Park. Dunno if you know what it was like, but a game at Candlestick, you'd freeze to death during the game and then come home with a sunburn. It was just a windy mess of a park. I used to go to one Reds game at the Stick a year growing up so I at least felt like I did my time.

But anyway, my first game at Pac-Bell, and I got to sit in the luxury box! It was ridiculous. It was the box belonging to the President of Giants Enterprises (who has a child at Menlo School, where Jieun works, my connection). Anyway, it was decked out. Hot dogs, sausages, beer, cheese, wine, popcorn, peanuts, and Cracker Jack. Seriously ridiculous. I was freaking sitting in box seats at Pac Bell sipping on white wine. I know you corporate types are used to that, but it was strange to me.

I don't know, in a way I didn't like it. You know, I'm into being with the "people", you know? Like, growing up we'd frequently get bleacher seats. It just felt strange to be in the box. I'm lying - I loved it, but I don't know if I should experience it again - it doesn't seem like a "true" sports experience, you know? I guess all I'm saying is that it felt undeserved. Not that I wouldn't love to do it again.

Anyway, that itself was great. It's about 10 times more enjoyable to watch a game at Pac Bell than at the Coliseum. And 12 times more enjoyable than watching a game at the Astrodome.

But here's the kicker. For the bottom of the 9th, I got to sit in the broadcaster's booth. I sat between Ted Robinson and Jon Miller as they did the game for KNBR. Long story how it happened, but it was absolutely incredible. My heart was thumping the entire time. I can't say exactly what it was. But it was just being there, the whole field laid out in front of me, listening to the call live. It was incredible. They're pretty amazing - they have all these visual cues for each other when they talk, and just seeing and hearing Miller's baseball voice, I don't know, it was amazing.

It's really cool. Both have their scorecards in front of them, along with all these different printouts and stats. Plus two monitors for each showing different views of the game. Also interesting is that each of them has a web browser also, open to ESPN.com, at least while I was there. Anyway, they're incredible, they leaf through printouts, people bring them more, they browse the web and do all this stuff while they're talking.

I'm not doing justice to the experience or why it was so incredible, but yeah, it was. It was a quick inning, 3 up 3 down, but that was enough.

Ted Robinson, by the way, is an extremely nice guy. Very very cool. These people get paid a lot of money to watch baseball. Nice work, if you can get it.

At any rate, it was amazing. Plus, the Reds won! It was the highlight of my day.

February 26

The highlight of my day today was finding out that Sang and Kimilyn Kong are the parents of a beautiful girl. Madison Kong, born February 26, 2001. Whoa. Highlight of my day.

February 13

The highlight of my day today was finding out that Joonho and Susan Hyun are the parents of a beautiful girl. Emily Nari Hyun, born February 12, 2001. Whoa. Highlight of my day.

February 7

The highlight of my day today was getting plane tickets to St. Louis for Leo's wedding. A few weeks ago, me and Ohms had found direct flights to St. Louis at pretty good times for like $250. We were just about to buy them, but then decided to wait a day so we could ask people if they wanted to come with us. So we did, and the next day, it went up $200. So we decided to wait and see if it would go back down. It did slightly, to like $375 or something, still steep. The thing is, we found out last week that every weekend to St. Louis was in the low $300 up until the weekend we wanted to go. So we decided to keep waiting, to see if this week, prices would go down for that weekend.

Oops. Instead of going down, it went up, to like $700. And everywhere else was expensive also.

Anyway, somehow, we managed to find a direct flight to/from St. Louis from/to San Jose for $250, including taxes and fees. It's not the best times, but after the heartache we went through with ticket prices the past month, it's a miracle. So, it's the highlight of my day.

January 27

The highlight of my day was my day. Lots of good things happened. Stanford men's basketball set a win streak record, the Sharks won in St. Louis, and best of all, one of my favorite prophets got into Med School. It's awesome. The highlight of my day.

January 8

The highlight of my day today was playing the new edition of Taboo. Dunno if you've played it, but it's a lot harder than the old version. Like, one of the words I got was "bloke". Bloke? I don't think I could get that even if I was allowed to use all the words on the card.

One time I was guessing and George got us to say "fiddler" and then he said, "shorter!" and I yelled, "fid!" I don't know, that amused me.

Anyway, the highlight was, I got 8 cards in a round. If you understand how hard this version is, it's impressive. It was the highlight of my day.