desertDJ’s Halo Halo

In light of today’s valley wide rainstorm in the Phoenix area, and the 1 year anniversary of going back to the Philippines, I thought this self pic would be great for today.

This was up in the mountains in the Philippines. We went up to escape the heat and check out a waterfall. This pool was fed by fresh waters flowing from the rain forests in the jungle. After coming back from the hike to see this magnificent waterfall, the skies opened up and out came the rain. It would be one that would receive national news attention in Phoenix, but probably just an extra strong storm for the island of Negros Oriental.

Rain brings dread to the Filipinos, but to this guy from the desert, it brings excitement (as you can see from everybody’s facebook and twitter posts from people in Phoenix!) So I made the best of it and had my wife take this fun shot of me in the pool.

(As always click on image to see full size)

Here is all the details:

Snowboarding in Sunrise, AZ.

Saturday, Jan 16th – Monday, Jan 18th.

Quick Details: Staying in spacious 3 bedroom/3 bathroom cabin in the Pinetop, approx. 3 hour drive from the East Valley. Will leave Saturday (if you want to go boarding Saturday, leave early) and be back around 4:00 – 5:00 pm Monday. We will spend all day Sunday snowboarding! The rest of the time we hang out and enjoy the mountains and party it up.

Cost: Approx $100/per person . Covers 2 night stay in cabins, 1 all day lift ticket, dinner for Saturday and Sunday night. First 4 couples to pay reserves their bed. Anybody after that needs to bring sleeping bag/air mattress. $40 deposit required to secure your spot due ASAP. Final $60 due weekend before Sunday, Jan. 10th. (Special arrangements can be made if necessary)

Transportation: Carpool with everyone! (Leave in comments if you need a ride) I recommend carpooling and splitting gas cost.
Sign up: Comment on the blog (or text me!) with your name and anybody you might bring. Please try to pay or promise to pay ASAP. Rent your snowboarding gear in Phoenix! I recommend Sports Chalet. Cost to rent is about $45 for the weekend. You will need to buy your own snow goggles, I recommend Big 5 Sporting Goods.

This date is coming up fast so act quickly. Plus we can be the first ones up and by pass hour long lines if we have our lift tickets and snowboard gear since a lot of people will go up unprepared. Sunday we will be getting up early and leaving right away to go to the snow, please take showers and get all ready Saturday night.

If you have never been snowboarding, you will fall many times but you’ll get it down by the end of the day. A lot of people who are going know how to board so they can help you out if your rookies!

Other notes:

Other notes: Saturday the mountain is open for night snowboarding only $22!!. Feel free to go to that.

Here is the location we are staying at and photos:

Pinetop Country Club

Directions:

EXACT DIRECTIONS WILL BE GIVEN AFTER YOU PAY $40 DEPOSIT

Manny Pacquiao won this weekend over Miguel Cotto. As if you needed to be told that. My entire friends feed on Facebook and Twitter was covered in an outpouring of support for the famed Filipino fighter. Here are some of my friends reactions.

Facebook & Twitter fans

http://desertdjproductions.com/photos/index.php?album=weeklyphoto&image=pacquiao+full.jpg&z&p=full-image

Copy and paste this link or click here to download full size image.

April Fools Day is almost like a holiday for me. I love pranking people all year round, so when a day is nationally dedicated to it, I can’t resist.

I didn’t really have anything planned out this year. I do have this elaborate plan set for a coworker someday but that takes a whole team of people and some sneaky coordination. I settled for this in 2009.

I sent out a simple email to everyone in my department at my job at Chase in the morning, and in the afternoon I sent an email to the whole office at my internship at the ad agency. Here is basically what I sent out.

“You all know how I love cookies but I brought some extra in for you guys, they are on a plate in the empty desk in front of Chuck. Thanks, Eric.”

Here is what they found when they got to the desk.

I printed out a bunch of them and stuck it in a cookie box. Well at Chase, about 8 of the 14 people in my department fell for it. The first one…. my supervisor LOL. Anyway my prank topped all the weak ones by coworkers attempted such as taping the mouse to the desk, or moving my chair.

It played over well in the afternoon at the internship. A few people told me they got tricked and I got 2 email responses.

HILLLLiarous.

Damnit, I fell for it!

You should know better than to tease about sweets in this place J

So thanks to everyone for being good sports. Time to start planning for 2010.

Eric.