Posters of Lloyd of All Trades seem to have been plastered on numerous bulletin boards around UP. And I’ve been getting quite some attention from some people. I wish my BC 130 friends chose a more flattering picture, hehe. Oh well, I don’t think there is much I can expect on how humiliating I look when I’m wearing tight jeans and holding a feather duster and a make-up brush. I’ve also seen the pre-final cut when they asked me for a final dubbing session. As always, I cringe when I see myself on screen, it borders disgust sometimes. It’s like I don’t recognize myself. For what it’s worth, at least the butt exposure part was just less than a second. Whew!

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June 1, 2007. The next day, from Campbell, we drove down and entered California’s Highway 1 to Southern California, renowned to be one of the most scenic drives in the United States.

Boy, it was a long, long drive down south to the Los Angeles area. The scenery are indeed scenic but it can get quite boring after a while, since you drive through the same picturesque scenes for hours on end.

First, we drove through zigzagging roads on seaside redwood-covered mountains. After more than five hours on the road, we stopped by this seaside area in the middle of nowhere where there were giant elephant seals lying on the beach. As with areas near the coast it was really windy and cold.

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