Month: May 2026

USC and end of year AYCE Sushi

1ํ•™๋…„ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๊ธฐ๋ง ์‹œํ—˜์ด ๋๋‚œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํฐ์• ๊ธฐ…์‹œ๊ฐ„๋งž์ถฐ ํ•™๊ต์— ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ€๋‹ˆ AYCE ์Šค์‹œ๋จน๊ณ  ํ† ๋ Œ์Šค์˜ ์• ๋‹ˆ์ƒต์— ๊ฐ€๊ณ ์‹ถ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์…”์„œ ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ๋ชจ์‹œ๊ณ  ์ ‘๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•™๊ต๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™€์„œ ๊ด‘ํ’์˜ ์ฒญ์†Œ+์ง์‹ธ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘…

Quick celebration of end of semester at AYCE Sushi at Torrance and start of crazy room cleanup and packing

2026.5

BMO Stadium

์‚ฌ์‹ค ์–ด์ฉŒ๋‹ค BMO(Bank of Montreal์ด ๋ชจํšŒ์‚ฌ์ž„..)๊ฐ€ LA ํ•œ๋ณตํŒ์˜ ์Šคํƒ€๋””์›€์˜ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ์ƒ€๋Š”์ง€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์œผ๋‚˜…์•„์ด ํ•™๊ต ๊ธธ๊ฑด๋„ˆ ๋ธ”๋Ÿญ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌํฅ ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜์ด ๋›ฐ์‹œ๋Š” LA FC์˜ ํ™ˆ๊ตฌ์žฅ

๋‹ค์Œ์— ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋˜๋ฉด ํฅ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜ ์ €์ง€๋‚˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์‚ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์•ผ๊ฒ ๋‹ค…

BMO Stadium, home of LA FC where our sir Sonny plays, one block south of USC.

2026.5

Los Angeles, California

Freeways, traffic congestions, Downtown high rises, sunny, smog or dusty sky, and palm trees…

This is exactly LA ๐Ÿ™‚ with sneezing ๐Ÿ™‚

Freeway, ์ƒ์‹œ๊ตํ†ต์ฒด์ฆ, ๋‹ค์šดํƒ€์šด ๊ณ ์ธต ๋นŒ๋”ฉ๋“ค, ์ข‹์€ ๋‚ ์”จ์™€ ์ด์™€ ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๋˜๋Š” ๋ฟŒ์—ฐ ํ•˜๋Š˜… ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•ผ์ž์ˆ˜ ๋‚˜๋ฌด.. + ์ดŒ๋†ˆ ์ œ์ฒด๊ธฐ์งˆ …LA์— ์™”๋‹ค…

2026.5

Hawthorne, California

๋ญ ์•„์ฃผ ์ด์ƒ์ ์ธ ๋™๋„ค๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ….ใ…Žใ…Ž์ŒํŒ”๋…„๋„์— LA Lakers๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ์น˜์•ˆ์€ ์•”์šธํ•œ๊ฑธ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ž‰๊ธ€์šฐ๋“œ์˜ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ฐ‘๋™๋„ค…ใ…Žใ…Ž

๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ž‰๊ธ€์šฐ๋“œ๋Š” Sofi์Šคํƒ€๋””์›€๋„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋งŽ์•„ ์ข‹์•„์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋“ฏํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ธธ๋“ค์„ ๋‹ค๋…€๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์‹ฌ์ด ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋™๋„ค์ธ๊ฑด ์•„์ง๋„ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค…

LAX ๊ณตํ•ญ๊ณผ ํฐ๋ถ„ ํ•™๊ต์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹œ์„ค์ด ๋งŽ์€ ๋™๋„ค๋ฅผ ์™”๋‹ค๊ฐ”๋‹ค ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ข‹์€๋ฐ ์ฃผ์ฐจ๋น„ ๋ฐ ํ˜ธํ…”๋น„๋„ ๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ์ €๋ ดํ•ด์„œ ์ง€๋‚œ๋ฒˆ์—๋„ ๋ฌถ์—ˆ๋˜ ํ˜ธ์†๋งˆ์„… ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋„ 1๋ฐ•…ใ…Žใ…Ž(LA๋Š” ๊ฐ„ํ˜น ์ฃผ์ฐจ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์‚ด์ธ์ ์ธ ํ˜ธํ…”๋“ค์ด ์ข…์ข… ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๊ผญ ํ˜ธํ…”๋น„์— ์ฃผ์ฐจ๋น„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ™์ด ํ™•์ธํ•ด์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค…)

Finding good and reasonable hotel for both lodging and parking is always tough in LA… so decided to have a hotel at Hawthorne, California

2026.5

Dad Dash to University Park

LA๋„์ฐฉ…ํ—ˆ๋‚˜ ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‚ ๊นŒ์ง€ ํฐ๋ถ„์€ ์‹œํ—˜…๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํ˜ธํ…” ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ์ „์— ์‹œํ—˜์ „๋‚  ๋ฐค ์•ผ์‹์ด๋ผ๋„ ๊ฐ™์ดํ• ๊นŒํ–ˆ๋”๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌํ•ด๋‹ฌ๋ž€๋‹ค….

์ „์ง ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ์•„๋“ค์ด์–ด์„œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹จ ์—…๋ณด๋ฅผ ์…€ํ”„ ๋ฆฌ๋งˆ์ธ๋“œํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ† ๋ Œ์Šค์—์„œ ํ•™๊ต๋กœ ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ ๋†€์ด๋ฅผ ์™„๋ฃŒํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ณค๋‹ค.

Playing Dad Dash to University Park…:)

2026.5

Driving to Los Angeles

์ฃผ์ฐจ์žฅ carpot์ด ํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘ ์ „์ง€์ธ Chico์—์„œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ž˜ ์ž๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ๋‚  ์•„์นจ ์ตœ์ข… ๋ชฉ์ ์ง€์ธ ๋‚˜์„ฑ์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋„์› ๋‹ค….ใ…Žใ…Ž

California state capital Sacramento๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‚˜ ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ ๋‚ด๋ฅ™์˜ ๋์—†๋Š” ๊ณ ์˜จ๊ฑด์กฐ ์ง€์—ญ์„ ๋์—†์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‚ฐ๋งŒ๋„˜์–ด (๋‚ด๋ฅ™ ๊ณ ์˜จ๊ฑด์กฐ๋ผ ๋ฌผ์€ ๊ด€๊ฐœ์ˆ˜๋กœ ์ด์™ธ์˜ ์ž์—ฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฐœ์ฒœ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฐ•์€ ์—†๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Ž) LA๋„์ฐฉ..์š”์ผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„์—†์ด ๋ง‰ํžˆ๋Š” ๊ด‘ํ™œํ•œ freeway์— ๊ฐ–ํ˜€์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ ์ง„์งœ LA์ธ๋“ฏ…

Next day, drove another 8 hours in dry and hot interior of California to reach final destination: LA

2026.5

Drive to Northern California

์–ด์ฐŒ๋˜์—ˆ๊ฑด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋‚จ๊ฐ€์ฃผ ๋‚˜์„ฑ์˜ ๋‚จ๊ฐ€์ฃผ๋Œ€ํ•™์— ์œ ํ•™๊ฐ€์…จ๋˜ ํฐ ๋ถ„… ์ง‘์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ชจ์…”์™€์•ผ ํ•  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜์–ด์„œ ๊ณค์ด๋ฅผ ๋ชฐ๊ณ  ์‚ฐ๋„˜๊ณ  ๋ฌผ๊ฑด๋„ˆ ๋‚ด๋ ค๊ฐ”๋‹ค. ์ตœ์ข…๋ชฉ์ ์ง€๋Š” LA…

์—ญ์‹œ ํฐ ์ฐจ์˜ ์žฅ์ ์€ ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ํ•  ๋•Œ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ์ด ๋•…๋ฉ์–ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ด‘๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ง์ด ์—†๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Ž ๋Œ€์ถฉ 680 mile์„ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ๋‹ฌ๋ ธ์œผ๋‹ˆ ๊ฒฝ๋ถ€๊ณ ์†๋„๋กœ๋ฅผ ์„œ์šธ๋ถ€์‚ฐ ์™•๋ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฐ์…ˆ…

I-5๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‚จ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋‹ˆ ์ข‹์€์ ์€ ์ด์ œ Southern Washington๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋Š” In-N-Out ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ๊ถŒ์ด๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Ž ์‚ฐ๋„˜๊ณ  ๋ฌผ๊ฑด๋„ˆ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ๋ณต๋ฆฌ์•„(ๅŠ ๅˆฉ็ฆๅฐผไบž)์— ๋“ค์–ด์™€ Sacramento์œ—๋™๋„ค์ธ Chico์—์„œ ํ•˜๋ฃป๋ฐค์„ ์ฒญํ–ˆ๋‹ค…

Day 1 of driving to Southern California to pick up our college kid. All the way from Bellevue to Chico, California via I-405, I-5, and CA-99 for 1st leg of this trip

2026.5

๋ฌด์Šจ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ํŒ๋‹จ์ด ๋” ํ•„์š”ํ• ๊นŒ?

์ด๊ฒŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋Œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ ? ๐Ÿ™‚

๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์›”๋“œ์ปต์€ ์ „์ˆ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ต์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ฐ๋…๊ณผ KFA์˜ ํ–‰ํƒœ๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ ‘์—ˆ๊ธฐ์— ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๋ณ„๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ ์‹ถ์€ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋„ ์—†์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ… ์ด๋Ÿฐ Response๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ -ํ—ˆ์ •๋ฌด ๊ฐ๋…์ด๋‚˜ ์‹ ๋ฌธ์„  ์œ„์›์ด ํšŒ์žฅ์ถœ๋งˆ์—๋„ ๋‹น์„ ๋˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ๋งž๋ฌผ๋ ค- ์ด๊ฑด KFA์˜ ๊ณ ๋Œ€ ์ •๋ชฝ๊ทœ Mafia๋งŒ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ๋“ฏํ•ด์„œ ์•„์ฃผ ์”์“ธํ•˜๋‹ค…

๊ผฌ๋ฆฌ ์ณ๋‚ด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ค˜๋„ KFA๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๋‹ต์ด ์—†๊ณ  ์ด๊ฑด ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํ›ˆ๋ จํ•˜์‹  ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์„ ์ˆ˜๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฐฐ์‹ ์ด๋‹ค… ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด์˜ ๋ฌด์Šจ ๋‚˜๋ผ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ FA๋ฅผ ์“ธ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฒ•์›์ด ์ดํ–‰ ์š”๊ตฌํ•œ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ดํ–‰ํ•  ๋•Œ ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฌธ์ฒด๋ถ€/๋Œ€ํ•œ์ฒด์œกํšŒ/์ •๋ถ€์˜ ์ง€์›์„ ๋Š๋Š”๊ฒŒ ๋‹ต์ธ ๋“ฏ ์‹ถ๋‹ค..

์•ผ๊ตฌ๋„ ์‚ฝ์งˆ์„ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ ์–ด๋„ ์œ—์„ ๋“ค์€ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ •์‹ ์ด ๋ฐ•ํ˜€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋“ฏ ํ•œ๋ฐ ์ถ•๊ตฌ๋Š” ์ •๋ง๋กœ ๋‹ต์ด ์—†๋„ค…

What in the world… Korean Football Association’s ridiculous saga continues.. I hate to think this way but this news is telling me to give up last hope and expectation on Korea team on this year’s worldcup…

2026.5

Shower Booth Renewal: Part 2

Applied 2nd coat on booth with Bath and Tub Spray and colored the shower frame to black to block weird odor and hide old aluminum

Finally after multiple order and return, found the right shower knob so now I am out of worn down knob

์ƒค์›Œ๋ถ€์Šค ๋ฆฌ๋…ธ๋ฒ ์ด์…˜ 2์ฐจ….์‚ฝ์งˆ๋์— ๋ถ€์Šค ํ‘œ๋ฉด์„ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์Šคํ”„๋ ˆ์ด๋กœ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋„์ƒ‰ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์Šฌํผ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด์„œ ๊ผฌ์งˆํ•œ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๋„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์€์ƒ‰ ์•Œ๋ฃจ๋ฏธ๋Š„ ๋ฌธ์ง ๊ฒ€์ •์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๋ผ๋ฒ„๋ ธ๋‹ค…

Plus ๋ช‡๋ฒˆ์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ๊ณผ ๋ฐ˜์†ก ๋์— ๋”ฑ๋งž๋Š” ์ƒค์›Œ ํ•ธ๋“ค์„ ์ฐพ์•„ ์ด๊ฒƒ๋„ ๊ต์ฒด… ๊นจ์ง„ํ‹ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“  ๋•Œ๋ฌป์€ ์†์žก์ด ๋“œ๋””์–ด ๊ต์ฒด…

์—ํœด ๋Œ€์ถฉ ์ตœ์†Œ 5๋…„ ์ •๋„๋Š” ๋” ์จ๋„ ๋ ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹ค

2026.5

L’Or Espresso

์ง€๋‚œ๋ฒˆ ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ ์ถœ์žฅ ๋•Œ ํ˜„์ง€๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€์•ผํ•  ์ปคํ”ผ์žˆ๋Š๋ƒ๋ฅผ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋…”๊ฑด๋งŒ ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ์ž์‹ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ด๊ฑฐ์‚ฌ๋ผ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค…

๋ญ ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์•„์‰ฌ์šด ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๊นŒ๋ฅดํ”„์—์„œ ์ œ์ผ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฅผ ์ง‘์–ด์™€์„œ ๋“œ๋””์–ด ๊ฐœ๋ด‰…

๋ง๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋จน๋˜ dryํ•œ ์ปคํ”ผ๋ง›์ธ๋ฐ ์ด ์ปคํ”ผ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋„ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์—์„œ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•ด๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์ €๊ธฐ ์ธ์ˆ˜๋˜์–ด ํฐ CPGํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์˜ํ˜ผ์—†๋Š” ์ปคํ”ผ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ์Šฌํ”ˆ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์ธ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹ค…

Finally opened up the coffee bag I picked up in Paris…Simply and exactly tastes like dry Espresso I had in Paris…

2026.5