As a yearly tradition, every time it’s Freddie’s birthday, on or just about, we head to Vegas to celebrate his bday in style. I’ll be honest, it never gets old. Especially when you do something we normally don’t do when we head out there… relax. Yes, that’s right. We didn’t go and cruise the strip all that much. Run around town trying to figure out what to do. We woke up early and just, relaxed. Something you’re supposed to do on vacation.

So what we did, was go to the pool at the Palazzo, where we stayed for the weekend. We woke up early, with the sun shining, bringing us that 108+ degree weather and enjoyed a nice and relaxed morning/afternoon poolside. Tried to tan a little bit, farmers/sock tans are a bitch and just enjoyed ourselves. A couple drinks on the side helped just a little bit as well. It really was the first time doing that and it was a nice change of pace from the normal grind.

This section is a little bit for myself. The big fighting game tournament was being held @ Ceasers Palace that weekend, Evo 2010. I kind of wanted to go, but being there for Freddie and enjoying his bday was more important. I just wanted to give a big congrats to the SSF4 Beast himself, Daigo Umehara, one of, if not the BEST SF player that just beast modes on everyone. That is all.

Our last stop on the way home was of course, the infamous Alien Jerky stop off of Baker. Besides it being kind of quirky with the whole “Alien” theme, they do have some damn good jerky. We even paid a dollar to see a spaceship talk… it was supposed to blow steam and a door would open, but not for us *sad face* It was a nice stop to just check it out and see what it was all about. We bought jerky and some drinks and continued on our way.

Friends and family partook in our relaxing weekend and we thank you all. Without any of you guys, it just wouldn’t have made this possible or as good as it was. It was a blast to just relax and enjoy each others company and not have to worry about the craziness that vegas can bring. Now with that relaxing weekend, Spocom is right around the corner. More Roscoes and more patron shots are in our future… and of course the show. Long Beach, see you again soon!

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What a day!  I dont even know how to start off.  As some of you know we have a meet every other wednesday just to hang out with everyone and enjoy the times.  This time around we decided to go to the fair.  It only comes around once a year and we usually go at least once.  This time was EPIC!  I thought I laughed alot at the IMS event but after this night my face hurt like hell.  Its always a good time with the AF fam!  Even Big Steve came down to enjoy the fair!  Ill let the pictures again tell the story!  All i have to say is THANKS EVERYONE for a great time!  Also have to give big props to Brian for being the entertainment of the night and being a great sport about it!   We told him that we weren’t going to post up the pics but we have to because we would like the whole world to share the fun!!!

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We rode our bikes, fyi, bmx bikes probably aren’t the best for this, along the entire Venice Beach boardwalk and even up to Santa Monica Pier. The weather was perfect. Bright sunny skies with zero clouds in the sky, a nice ocean breeze cooling us down made it the absolute perfect day for us to enjoy a relaxing cruise. Being able to clear your mind and enjoy what life has to offer and enjoying the time with our friends and family was too good to be true. We couldn’t ask for anything more.

I’ve personally never been to SMP before and it was new experience for me. It was pretty interesting all the stuff that you could do on that damn pier… like get a clay sculpture of your face/upper body. Yes, we ended up getting a clay sculpture of me to end the day. I’ll be honest… it looks nothing like me. He did a decent job, but I do NOT have a crooked head. It’s all good, it was something different and now I have something new to display at the shop/home for people to ask questions about and embaress myself with.

This cruise through Venice was something we deserved as we all have gone through a lot lately and just needed a time to relax and enjoy each others company. Truly, thank you to all of the AF family that went. We will do this again!

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Day 2 of our trip to Norcal for the annual WEKFEST MEET.  After knocking out after 16 bottles of Soju from the Korean food place we all decided to make saturday the day we do the tourist crap.  We all decided to wake up early and meet up at the lobby of the Kabuki hotel to get some breakfast.  Little did we know, we dont know where to get breakfast hahaha.  So as I wake up I get a text from a good friend Dennis Chen(aka VIPUCF).  He was nice to invite us to lunch around 12 to 12:30 at pier 29.  As you can see we actually came up deep even though we didnt show all the cars.  The AF Fam always down to support each other.  Pier 29 was a nice place to get away from the city with a nice view of the bay.  The food was great!!!! The drinks at 1pm were the shit!!!!!!!  Shots of Patron all afternoon!!!! We had shots at the table and at the bar.  Thanks to Dennis for knowing people we got bottle service of Patron and man that was early to get drunk but oh well we on vacations hahaha.  The whole lunch consisted of Autofashion, Falken Tire, and Airruner.  Also Present was Dennis and James from VSC. Sorry im bad with names but also 2 guys Dennis was with.  After eating some of  the fam went near the water to take pictures and well some of them were pretty funny as you will see in the album.

After all the picture taking.  We all decided to go to the bay park with Dennis.  When we got there OMG what a view from the park.  It was a nice place to be.  It look like a nice place to have a meet(hint hint).  Also a great place to BBQ it up!!!  After losing part of our crew we waited to try to meet up with them at the Fisherman’s Wharf.

We got calls and started our way to the Wharf.  As we get to the wharf and walking the boardwalk the girls wanted to go to no other then the Ghirardelli square.  Everyone got there sweets and ice cream.  It was a great time just going around.   As we sat there I totally forgot the time and missed a homie BIGMIKEs Bday dinner which was from 3:30 to 5pm.  Early ass dinner!!! Sorry Mike Happy Bday sorry we didnt make it!

So after the Wharf we wanted to check out more places.  Thanks to Never Lost(BS by the way).  We ended up going to Lombard street(twisty ass street).  After that small ass tourist attraction we saw this white lighted up tower.  not knowing what it was we said fuck it lets go there.

As we go to the light hahaha.  It was called Coit Tower.  One of the best views of the city at night.   This is a nice place to be to see the city or any of the bridges.  The only bad thing is that someone forget to cut the tress so we can actually see shit hahaha.  So after a couple of hours we got hungry.  Mike D and Prashant met up with up with us at the tower and suggested to go to a Thai place to eat called OSHA THAI on 2nd and Market.

Once we get to Osha we met up with John of VIP style to have a interesting dinner.   The place was really nice looking and fancy.  With the looks the food was fancy plated and had very good presentation.  This place was good and would go back to this place again.  I think all the places we ate was the shit.   But meeting up with John, Mike D, and Prashant was a great part of the night.  These guys know how to show Autofashion some sick spots.  THANK YOU GUYS!!!!!!

After getting drunk again hahaha.  we decided to go back to the hotel and sleep because we have to get up at 6am to roll in the rides for the show. so stay tuned for Day 3 of the Show and the trip back to LA and SD!!!!!!

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How do I begin hmmmm. Ok lets make a quick run down. We were suppose to have 8 cars there but that didnt happen because these stoopid weather people said rain rain rain. So we ended up going in 2 vans and 3 cars. no matter what we all ended up going anyways to support the shop and the show. Plus it was a little get away from Socal is always nice. It was a fun trip we ended up getting to our hotel Kabuki which was nice. After deciding to where we wanted to eat we found this korean BBQ place. Forgot what it was called but it was good. Met up with Steve,Henry,Robert, and Yuri at the resturant. Oh man never take me to a korean place where they have soju hahaha. Overall it was fun on friday when we got there not to much sight seeing just pretty much ate and went to bed. Saturday gets even better. Till then enjoy the pictures!!!!

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Lets start off with the Food.   We had everything that you can think of such as Turkey, Stuffing, Deviled eggs, Deserts, Roast, Noodles, and Ham.   With all the food came everyone that helped and pitched in and made food for this occasion.  Lets thank everyone Joe, Vanessa, Robert, Yuri, Joyce, Steve, Linda, Kevin, Bobby, Kenny, Oscar, Augg, Dennis, Lisa, Gene, Nate,  and everyone else I forgot sorry.

After the food this is one of those times that we can blame it on the Alcohol!!!!  Lets thank Patrone (Costco size), Kirkland, Grey Goose, Sake, and the mother effer Henny.  For some of us it was a ruff night to get over.  Some of us we just couldn’t remember too much after finishing 3 bottles of Goose, 1 big ass bottle of Patron,  2 bottles of Sake, 1 tall bottle of Kirkland Vodka,  and that fool Henny hahaha.  This was one night to remember for sure.   We had throw up everywhere, Frosty the Snow man had melted HAHAHA, and a few other things happen just so much!!!!   Sorry for the mess Joe and Vanessa.  Hope the Cleaners didn’t hate you too much hahaha!!!

All in all it was a great night.  All of the Autofashion Family showed up!!!!  As you can see this was an UGLY Christmas sweater party.   We had a competition on who had the ugliest sweater and everyone paid $10 bucks to give to the winner.  It was a hard decision but Joe came out as the winner.  There was some really ugly sweaters that came out that night and oh my god it looked like Christmas threw up.  After the contest we did the white elephant gift exchange with everyone.  This wasn’t your ordinary white elephant.  Everyone had to take a shot to get a gift and if you stole from someone you would have to take 2 shots.  So you can imagine how many people got messed up just by this alone hahaha.  There was great gifts out there and a lot of stealing happened and a lot of drinking.

The next day we always get back together to grab breakfast.  This year was a little hard for people to get up but managed to make it out.   Last year we went to olive garden.  This year we ended up at IHOP.  It was one of the best times of 2009 for us and will never forget it.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!!!!  Im sure the pictures will tell you most of the story.  Thanks everyone who came out and thanks to the Autofashion Family for another mark in history!!!!

Thanks– Freddie

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So after being in the sun and buring like BBQ we decided to hit up a spot in ontario called FAMOUS DAVES BBQ.   The food was good the sauces were good and overall it was good.    After a long hot day networking at the meet  BBQ sounds good.  We recommend this place just like on food network!  Great food and great service.  You cant beat that with this economy and the prices arnt too bad either especially when someone else is paying hahaha.

Damn this was a big steak!  Didnt get to try it but next time for sure this is what im getting!

Here is Kevin giving high 5 to the bear(so close)

Here is Lisa trying to give the bear a high 5 (not so close hahaha)

Over all it was a great day with the fam!!!!

Till next time!!!

August 8th wasnt just an ordinary day…  Well that day came for my lil bro. Special Ks Bday is actually on Aug 10th but we decided to hit up something new before time.  We usually do something like Midevil Times because since he is the youngstah out of the bunch we kinda make him the one to do most of the kid stuff.  So we decided to do something that we havent done before and go to the Pirate Adventure Dinner/Show for special Ks Bday.   How many times can you you say you were on stage at a show and participated as a pirate hahaha.  We got him the whole deal where he basically was part of the show for most of the night and also got his name in lights!!!!   We had a great time and the food was good.   I think this topped all the other Bdays he had and i dont know what we going to do next year.   Everyone came out to greet Special K for his Bday and thanks everyone for coming out!  Till next year!!!  Happy 23rd Bday Special K!!!!!!

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While it’s a bit small for HUGE groups, it was able to accommodate all 14 of us so we can sit together . We began to order our food and everything started coming out quickly. Tons of sushi was ordered and each piece just as good as the next. At the end, Freddie was presented with gifts. He ended up with some money and alcohol, which he was happy with as he’s the hardest person to find gifts for, trust me. Overall it was a fun dinner with friends and family.

The next day however, we had birthday dinner again, only because Freddie is too cool and can’t have just 1 birthday dinner. We ate dinner at Bennigans with some friends and family that weren’t there at the sushi dinner the night before. Bennigans food was good as usual and we had fun just hanging out and enjoying each others company. But the night didn’t end at Bennigans.

We ended up at one of our friends house for the remainder of the night. We drank… a lot, or at least Freddie did haha. We played card games, some other more embarrassing games, and pretty much just drank til 3am. It was an interesting night to say the least. But to make it even more perfect, was the fact that we ended the night/morning with Tosilog! For those that don’t know, it’s Tosino, eggs and rice. Ask any Filipino about it, it’s the BEST thing to eat at any time of the day.

Once again, from all of us, we wish you, Freddie, a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY you proud 38yr old! (he’s not really 38… people just didn’t know hahaha)

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