Jan. 2-Woke up early to go to Pasadena. Man, I am not a morning person especially since I didn’t get much sleep the night before. At the last minute my Uncle Bob decided to close our Pasadena store this December. So we were goin there to clean up and move the remaining products to our Cerritos store. My dad had already left to go to the store early that morning to continue with the moving. My mom, brother, cousin Johnny and I were going to meet up with him later that morning. By the time we got there we found out that my Uncle Bob had got the dates wrong on the lease and we weren’t going to close til next year. So all that packing my family had done the day before was a waste. >8( And we didn’t even have to wake up early. So we ended up putting back the stuff we had packed.

My mom decided to call it a day. So she suggested that we check out the floats from the Rose Parade. It was packed. There were ppl from all over. This was the first time I had seen the floats up close. I wished I had my camera with me. It’s pretty amazing how detail the floats are in person. They even turned on a couple of the floats. The float from China Airlines called “Enjoying Taiwan” was in honor of the indigenous Taiwanese. (Click here for a sketch version of the float). It earned the international trophy. I wonder which indigenous groups they had represented in particular. I hope it was an accurate and sensitive portrayal. Maybe I’ll ask Niwa if she knows what groups. I noticed Pacific Times had a photo of that float on this week’s front page.