I never really had an eye for this type of stuff. Every since I moved in my house however, I have been meaning to get some artwork, but never found anything a really liked, and if I did, it was overpriced.

I went to Pictures and Mirrors this past weekend and finally got around to getting a few pieces to dress up my naked walls. There was a very large selection on traditional, modern and contemporary artwork pieces for unbelieveable prices.

Everything in the store was on sale due to their new stock arrivals. All pictures and mirrors were 50% off. Everything else was between 25 and 40 percent off. Click hereto check out the gallery and see some of the items I picked up.

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Dexter's Restaurant is a nice hangout spot well known for its great tasting foods and wines, a nice urban feel, and a cool atmosphere. They have been in business in the Orlando area for 20 years, and are well known around town as they have been crowned for being the Best Brunch in Orlando for 2007. They also have one location in Winter Park, and another one in Lake Mary.

I met with a friend of mine there earlier today for brunch. I thought it was pretty neat hangout spot. The people were friendly, the staff was very attentive and responsive, and the food was delicious. I was not sure what to order so our waiter recommended the Malted Waffles from the brunch menu; and as you can see, I was not disappointed! My friend ordered the Peach French Toasts...which I will try the next time I go there. Enjoy.

I have a gym membership at LA Fitness and normally make it there right around 7pm 3 to 5 times a week. They recently opened a new location in Altamonte Springs, FL, which is 2.5 miles away from my office. I decided switch it up and put my lunch break to better use. I am now 3 weeks into it, and I am loving it.

I get to work 30 minutes earlier and leave 30 minutes later in order to make up for my longer lunch break and get a good workout...and it works. The workout is quick, intense, and effective since the gym is nearly empty.

Getting home from work has been great lately (7pm instead of 9pm or later) mainly because I save so much time from not being at the gym after work during peak hours. This gives me more time at home to do my perosnal management, cook dinner, relax, and make it to bed at a decent hour...Try it!

Bento Cafe is an urban style restaurant Downtown Orlando, near Church street. Its trendy atmosphere and pan-asian style cuisine will leave you wanting for more.

It is a great place to meet up, hang out, and catch up with friends while enjoying some sushi or Japanese inspired "Bento Box" meals. The service is fast and the food is tasty.

My favorite dish so far is the teriaky chicken rice bowl, served with brocoli and dark meat chicken. My bill was $7.51, and the serving size was very generous. The music is nice and upbeat, and set at a decent volume making the overall atmosphere enjoyable.

Google has just released a new browser called Google Chrome. Take a few moments to read up on it on the google site.

I am excited about it, mainly because it's from google, and because google stuff just works. Google Chrome is basic, lightweight, and really does make it seem like the internet just got faster. The menus and options are short, simple, and straight forward. I was up and running in less than one minute after installation.

As of today, there is no release of Chrome for Mac OS X. Being that I am a Mac user, I am currently using it on a Vmware instance of Windows XP on my MacBook Pro until google releases a working version for Mac.

A few minutes ago, I encountered a bug, which caused the flash plugin in Chrome to crash...and here is what showed up on my screen!!!

Well, it has been long overdue. I have finally made the some of the required changes to the site, and udpated some content. I added the friends' galleries subsections, so send me your galleries if you want me to link them from here. I also added new content in the "My Car" section, and created a subjection for the history of my old car. This is really just clean up and maintenance.

Anyway,  next I plan on working on videos for the site, maybe some simple flash or something...who knows! We will see when I get for more time. I also added some RSS, so you can now get updates when I blog

Oh and I added a subdomain URL for my blog, so now,  you can reach my blog by directly typing - http://blog.thegzone.net/  -  That's it. Going to sleep now!

I made quick and simple dinner this evening. I had a productive day off today (labor day). By the time I finished with all I had to do, it was about 7pm, so after a quick shower, I threw a little something together for dinner...just in time to watch the season premieres of Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill on the WB network.

I made a chicken friend rice, with garlic, green peppers, white onions, mixed vegetables and dressed the whole thing up with some parsley, sesame oil, and some dried crispy noodles for a little crunchy kick.

I mean...how hard can this be! It has been just about a year since my last post!. This is very sad. I know I said I would do a better job at keeping my site up to date than I have in the past. Obviously that has not worked out too well. I can't believe it. I easily spend 15 hours a day on a computer, and I can't even keep my blog/site up to date...I have time to do everything else and help everyone else, but I have no time for my own stuff sometimes. I really need to do a better job at it...and believe me...this time I am for real. I count of you guys (whoever reads this) to call me out on it if I keep slacking.

Anyways, a lot of things have been going on this past year (better yet, since the last time I blogged)...Work, Travels, immigration, family, friends, girlfriend, good times, new house, new car, new projects, new ideas, new businesses, new goals...I mean the list just goes on...and as of today, I will start being a blogger again!!!!

Yeah...I can't even make a phone call...Yeah...this is lame! I' ve had to use my cell phone quite a lot last month for work and random stuff so I am completely out! I have never got my monthly usage this high but this is a keeper...and since I dont want to pay overage fees, please do not call my cell phone for another few days! If you have my digits at work, use that, or email me. It is kinda funny when you think about it, I did not know I could hit it on the spot like that lol...let's hope my new minute cycle for this month kicks in soon