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Beach to Bulgogi House | Daily

Life has a way of draining you, even on days when you’re suppose to relax. Sometimes I worry too much about work and my future that it just stresses me out and kills my day. So, I decided after work that I would go straight to the beach and try to catch a sunset. Just letting go my frustrations and let it end with a sunset. I also like vaping here using my Geek Bar—it’s become a small comfort I really enjoy. Shop the Geek Bar Pulse X here to bring a little calm into your own moments. You may explore unique vape juice flavors like geek bar meta moon flavor to further enhance your vaping experience.

The view from Inspiration Point in Corona Del Mar.

Turquoise seas.

Sometimes holding on is a sign of weakness. Sometimes letting go is a sign of strength.

Some car content, so you don’t get bored of the sunset photos.

On the way back from the beach i decided I wanted to go light paint my car since the moon was going to be full that night.

Still a bit new to this light painting technique, so I haven’t figured out how to properly light up a car.

I also need to learn how to get rid of those light reflections.

I probably had more trouble since there was a golf range with bright ass lights giving me shadows.

For dinner, my room mate and her boyfriend invited me to try out this Korean BBQ spot that was giving 30% off with a facebook coupon.

Insanely huge for a Korean BBQ joint.

Where you get your own sides like a buffet.

No more asking for refills on your sides.

Egg soup that actually tastes like it has eggs in it.

Spicy pork.

Brisket.

Meat galore.

And end it with some smores.

May 18, 2015

Days into Night | Mostly Food

A little bit of my day to day duties including having dinner meetings to testing race cars

The elegant Kevin Sanchez aka @kevinhasnoinstathing. I think I eat more dinners with him than his girlfriend. Today we decided to eat at Maru Sushi in Costa Mesa.

Spicy garlic edamame.

The maru special roll.

Bora bora roll, I love sushi that has little to no rice.

Poke bowl on a plate.

Popcorn lobster roll.

Went with Shavi and Derek to go visit Jimmy at Elevated Dreams Collective for some refills on our dab pens.

Ashley striking a pose with a swifter. Nothing hotter than a girl who cleans.

Jimmy who use to be the Colonel of Stance is now the Dealer of Fitment.

Ashley and Jimmy showing us some huge nugs.

Apparently, he’s seen some that were as big as his fore arm.

Right outside the clinic was Erik’s recently super charged EP3.

Still ridiculously slammed and boosted.

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Check out this fly by.

The next morning I had lunch with Derek at my favorite burger joint, Mick’s Karma Bar.

For once, I decided to get something besides the habanero burger and got the baja burger because it sounded healthier with the fresh guacamole.

So juicy.

There’s always room for dessert afterwards with me. Mint cookies and cream at Han’s.

Somehow we ended up in Riverside to catch the late night feels train with the I.E. people.

Bokeh is life.

Riverside.

#ROEXPLORE

Siejay Miles, Nimo’s 13 year old dog who took this small hike like a champ.

Live in the moment, Ryo.

The true king.. cue the Lion King song.

Days like these, I remember why I didn’t give up on life 2 years ago. We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are. Just live in the moment and you’ll find happiness.

May 13, 2015

LV TO GG | Night Hangs

I live for these nights when we would all congregate in the Tastea parking lot, talking shit, sippin on boba and updating each other on our lives. Now that I typed that out, seems like a really girly thing to do. Anyways, I actually really enjoy these nights especially when the cars are brought out from the their dusty garages.

Ryo’s Q45. Going to miss this thing when he moves back to Japan.

Big daddy Jeff finally tucked the kids at home and spent some time with us.

Nimo with the new hair cut.

Kevin’s S2000.

Chan or Nimo?

RO Crew.

Mostly all laughs or talking about how far something can be put up someone’s butt.

Vinh or Jeff usually wins in that competition.

Loving the new Sony A7II when shooting at night.

Simpliciteas.

Already bagged..

We had a meeting at Kevin’s house for the manji shoot which can be seen here..

Manji Series | HOODRATstuff

Kevin the mastermind behind all of this, showing the spotters where to park.

Vu the head video guy for this project.

Jeff the leader of the max gains for this project.

The next day… me, Abbitt and Derek took a 12 hour suicide trip to Drais Las Vegas just to go see the Weeknd. I am a huge fan of the Weeknd and Abbit and Derek are huge fans of turning up.

We took Abbitt’s newly acquired LS400 to Vegas.

We also took Vinh with us.

After a 4 hour scary fucking drive because Abbitt was on his phone and driving, we stopped at Raising Canes for dinner.

Look at those happy faces.

The three finger combo.

Finally on our way to see the bae.

Abbitt still on his phone..

Hotel colors.

Bokeh killers.

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After the show we were really messed up and decided to go get some steak and eggs, we were so messed up we didn’t even go to South Pointe..

Derek’s innocent look?

Derek’s “I’m going to eat that ass hole like it was a donut”.

Basic and expensive. Do not go to the canary.

Cool banana foster tho .

That limp middle finger.

I was pleasantly woken up by Gerald in the morning with a hand job. Thanks for being a bro Gerald.

This dog is really hyper.

Thanks Chris for letting us crash at your place!

My favorite thing to eat on a long road trip, after a good poop or even during sex. Hot cheetos is life. Thanks for reading! I’ll come back with some more random posts like these in the future.

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John is the real MVP. Called him randomly and did the “Hey Bro, I’m stuck somewhere. Can you pick me up?” phone call and he came right away.

April 23, 2015

Formula Drift | Long Beach 2015

Formula Drift Long Beach has always been the show season opener for us and we’re usually on the show side of the Fire Stone bridge, but this year we decided to be in the vendor village and try to really stand out. What we didn’t expect was how much work it is to be a vendor. We use to think dropping off our cars the night before for the show was a hassle already, but now we had to set things up on Thursday and work the booth from Friday to Saturday, 9AM – 6PM. Even with all of this adversity, we still managed to pull it off with the help of everyone in the team and friends who came by to support us and some even worked our booth when we got tired. Well now that I got all of that information out of the way, let’s begin the coverage with our setup on Thursday.

Gabe’s S13 which was flossing at the In4mation booth.

Hard wired face.

Ridiculously low and ready for some drifting.

Chrome wrapped Liberty Walk M4.

Drift ready 45 on Varrstoens.

Nice livery on this E36 with some sick Rotiforms.

Hardcore Tokyo brought our some hardcore Japanese inspired drift cars.

Car Modify Wonder S13 looks incredibly clean on some Advan GT wheels.

Z-Project is killing it with the fender to meaty tire fitment. Definitely a style that we’re not use to seeing over here in the states.

Another S13, but this time in coupe form with a Car Modify Wonder body kit.

And then there was our booth with Kevin’s bagged S2000 on Avant Garde wheels. These wheels are for sale by the way, just email us at royalorigin@royal-origin.com for more info!

After setting up our booth, we decided to head out to Smoqued BBQ in Orange for some lunch. We got some fried guacamole sticks for appetizers and the BBQ pulled pork mac and cheese.

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Later, I hit up the AW Stickers crew to set up our selling board for tomorrow. Excellent sticker placement by Abbitt and Henry! Made Abbitt work on his birthday haha!

The next morning we woke up early to drop off more things for our booth and spotted this clean NSX.

I only see this GS once a year and it’s always at Formula Drift.

I actually see this car twice a year and that’s at both Formula Drift events in California.

It was recently Vinh’s birthday, so we got him two of his favorite things in the world combined into one. Dick shaped sweets.

Friday, our booth was looking a bit fuller with both of our booth cars out.

The GTR wasn’t exactly ready to be displayed yet, so it was under wraps for Friday. It was extremely annoying when people were lifting up the cover. People have no fucking respect.

After the show, Ryan and Jason came to work a little bit on the GTR and we finally got to see the unveiling.

First time seeing a black Liberty Walk GTR without all of the glitz and glam. Usually we see Liberty Walk GTRs with crazy liveries or crazy wheels, but seeing one that looks so simple had us feeling some type of way.

Now time to enjoy some good old drifting.

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Shavi using my Sony A7II and took some photos of the roll in.

April 22, 2015

Formula Drift Tech Day and XS Car Nights | Coverage

Living in southern California where there is always something going on in the car scene and sometimes there are multiple events going on the same day such as Formula Drift Tech Day and XS Car Nights. Good thing the timing didn’t interfere that much and with good planning we would be able to hit both events.

The classic HOONIGAN RWB made an appearance sporting a wide set of Fifteen52 Tarmac wheels.

Bulletproof Automototive’s Varis FRS.

Wide and wild styling 1 Series.

Looks like those drift carts are starting to catch on.

Inside the building, they had people completing Daigo’s GTR livery.

9th Gen Civic on MB Battles.

The Rocket Bunny RCF has to be my favorite Rocket Bunny kit for a car. This kit would be one of the reasons I would buy a RCF.

The car looks great from all angles, each side showing an aggressive side of the Lexus.

As you can see, I came to the event really late and most of the crowd had already dispersed.

John Fob’s GTR on his favorite wheels the Volk TE-37.

After Formula D Tech Day, I met up with Nimo, Hayle, Chivas, Derek and Chan at Thuan Kieu for some Vietnamese food.

Steam rice cakes, definitely recommended for appetizers.

Nimo loves it when he gets a little Vietnamese in him.

Bun rieu, a Vietnamese meat rice vermicelli soup.

Nimo satisfied after getting the V.

Chivas and Chan enjoying each other’s company.

When a couple catches you creepin’ on them.

After a good meal, we ventured down to Long Beach for the XS Car Show. It took us three hours to get there because of some ridiculous traffic and some shenanigans that we went through with Hayle. This area had a great view of the Queen Mary and other city lights and made the background for photos excellent.

Cars and lights, an automotive photographer’s dream.

Two guys enjoying the view.

Low N Slow booty.

Robert’s FRS from Low n Slow looking good as always.

Killagram’s FRS aka the “financial mistake”.

A bunch of nice European cars out at this show.

That background tho..

Another album cover photo for DEM BEATS.

I really wanted to get some good shots from this event and lucky for me Keith’s Accord was here for me to shoot it with the Queen Mary as the background.

Feels.

Good night from us and Hayle, see ya at the next show!

April 8, 2015

Ice Cream Dates with Sara Choi | HOODRATstuff

It’s great that I’m friends with a lot of creative people like my friends Celso Nimo and Vu Pham. They’re both cinematographers and designers with a good eye for visuals. Tonight, we planned a shoot with Sara Choi and even though we came into this with no plans we ended up with a pretty cool shoot and video.

Can’t shoot with an empty stomach! I decided to take them to my new Thai spot to try some raw shrimp.

Testing out some IPhone camera hacks like putting a drop of water on your lens to get some cool macro shots.

Check out those details.

Raw shrimp, not for the faint of heart.

Crispy fried rice!

Best pad see ew, I’ve ever tasted.

Can’t forget about the pad thai!

As you can see we devoured everything. Check this place out if you’re ever in Westminster!

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Picked up Sara and took her to The Camp in Costa Mesa. She wanted like a hipster sexy photo shoot. So, she brought the sexy and we took her to a hipster location.

The background is actually a store that sells plants.

Checking out the visuals.

We needed a model for our new BTB snap back and Nimo was ready with his “Blue Steel” look.

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This is probably my favorite photo of this entire set.

It was hard to edit these photos without craving ice cream and a napkin.

Some “sitting alone at the bench waiting for bae” photos.

Balcony views with Sara.

The face you make when the server is bringing your food.

“Das bae”

Time for some HOODRATstuff.

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Sara changing on the go with our OO Long Sleeve.

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Kat Wiliams made a special guest appearance.

SLAYY EM.

Get the look here..

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Fairy tale ish.

After every successful shoot, getting boba and reflecting on the shoot is a must.

Hope you enjoyed the photos cousins! K den shoots.

March 23, 2015

Washington Part Two | RO Explore

Waking up to the cold brisk air of Washington was something unfamiliar. The air was so crisp and I woke up freezing my ass of because I didn’t know there were extra blankets under my bed. Besides the near hypothermia incident, today was going to be a day filled with exploring the city and stopping by some local shops.

Felt good to walk outside to a natural setting with trees giving us that fresh air.

Thank you to Rick Wilkerson for cooking us some bomb french toast croissants! A look inside the Wilkerson’s residence.

Yoshi met us up early to go get some coffee at Garage Autohero.

Posted outside of the Wilkerson’s home was pretty surreal. We always saw photos of Abbitt’s Subarus posted up in front of this wooden home, but never really thought we would ever be here. Life’s a trip.

Having trees that surround your house is pretty awesome.

On the way to Garage Autohero.

Garage Auto Hero had so many projects going on, it must be difficult to keep track of it all.

So many cool things going on in this shop.

Ray makes the best coffee in the area.

Baeton enjoying his coffee. Thanks Ray!

What the Milpitas boys have been wanting to do the whole trip was to visit a recreational clinic, so we stopped by the local Kush Mart. I didn’t bring my camera in because I wasn’t sure what the rules were, but it was like going into buy some alcohol or candy.

Met up with the locals at Skillet for some breakfast. They’re known for their grilled cheese with bacon jam and chicken. The poutine fries here are bomb as well.

Artery clogger for sure, but worth it!

Abbitt trying to live in Vinh’s moment.

Jonny brought out his sick TC! I want his wheels for my brother’s Legacy.

Next door to Skillet was an ice cream shop called Parfait.

Decent ice cream, super slow service because there was only one worker and the people in front of me wanted to try each flavor twice.

Vickie handing us some goodies. Thanks Justin and Vickie!

Some rollers on the way to our next stop, Molly Moons!

Love the city vibes in Seattle.

It’s awesome that the streets in the city are safe for slammed cars.

We had a big crowd joining us today.

Mike and Clinton really enjoying paying for parking.

Not what I expected from the best ice cream Seattle had to offer. Tried to give it to a homeless person and they didn’t even want it.

Everyone enjoying their basic ice cream. Just kidding… haha or am I?

Potatoes with glasses.

Jonny with dem portrait shots.

The next stop was the Starbucks Reserve. Super hipster Starbucks.

Coffee shop game on point.

Coffee art.

Live in the moment Abbitt.

Tea game on point too.

Borrowed this sweet tray from the Starbucks Reserve for rolling up blunts.

Deciding on the next destination.

It’s a cup from the Starbucks Reserve hanging on a tree while barely holding on to it’s own identity.

Couldn’t get enough of Henderson’s M3.

Taylor’s Mazda is fun to look at it as well. Got a lot of cool photos of this car because of the paint.

Welp, the Space Needle was cool. Time for the next spot..

The locals took us to this spot for a spectacular view of the city, see for yourself.

The feels.

Obligatory visit to Dick’s before we ended the night. Part three coming soon…

March 20, 2015

The Big Day | Enjoy Sin

The big day was here, all the planning we’ve been doing for the past three months has led to this day. Even if the event wasn’t going to be successful, we were just happy to reunite with our friends in Vegas. It’s been a long time since those days we use to take turns on who visited who each weekend and that was the honeymoon stage of our friendship. Even though the honeymoon phase is over, we still have mad love for each other.

We spent most of the morning getting over our hangovers and trying to get a quick power nap before the meet. That is why we like our car meets late in the afternoon. Check out the crew in all black everything, Jeff didn’t get the memo.

The Lowballers posted up in front of HNRS store.

Miguel brought out the eye sore of a car his minty wide body M35.

Vinh and his new bae Sara laughing about their Starbucks drinks.

Lance brought out his newly acquired NSX on TE37s.

Sparkle caught me trying out the Lowballer’s drift cart.

Sara and Hayle excited to meet and interview everybody.

Aron, the newest member of Royal Origin. He’s always been a nice guy and let’s us get it in whenever we want, so it was a no brainer when adding him.

Sara living in the moment.

This guy went cruised through our meet on hydraulics, it looked pretty cool jumping up and down.

Fuku Burger sliding through with some sliders for everyone at the meet.

Hayle trying to pose majestically with the wind blowing in her hair.

Paolo looking for parking with his slammed GS.

Thank you to everyone who came through HNRS and copped some HOODRATstuff.

DJTRADEMARQ spinning on the 1s and 2s.

Barely any parking for anyone, so we started to fill up the lanes with cars. #HOODRATstuff

Gerald worked tirelessly to get the rootbeerdc2 ready for the meet. He even made a vow that he won’t drink any Hennessy if it didn’t have the HOODRATstuff label on it. Gerald is the mother fucking man.

Slopps is always in Vegas like he has a DJ residency at a club, so we weren’t surprised to see he took the trip from SOCAL to the meet.

Throughout the meet, we were on the prowl to interview people about the meet and other random things.

Hayle interviewing Patrick from Autolifers. Thank you Patrick for covering our meet! You can check out his coverage here..

http://www.autolifers.com/event-royal-origin-enjoysin/

The Lowballers posted in the back of HNRS, love that they always come through to our meets and showing us love! Thanks guys!

Nimo working the camera and getting us some good coverage.

Peep game homie, check out that Sony Ericsson. I think Sean was trying to get connected to an operator for a phone call.

DJ Koshi providing the music for the people outdoors.

It was time for the big raffle, where we were raffling away prizes from our sponsors and everyone got a photo with their two favorite WCWs, Baeyle and Baera.

The crowd anxiously waiting for their numbers to be called.

Lucky kid! Jon isn’t impressed.

Getting rowdy for prizes.

Christian got a box!

Friends, family and Sean making a phone call.

A lot of thought in this photo.

The lesbians of the weekend.

This time of the year is always the time where I stress the most and have the craziest anxiety attacks. This year however has been the least stressed for me with so much help this year, this meet went smoothly without me having to stress too much. Thank you to Kevin and HNRS for planning this collab, Shavi for working everything, VU with the coverage and giving us amazing IG videos, Nimo for taking care of us and giving us fun moments, Aron for all of the help, I notice all the small things you do for us and I’m truly grateful for it. Hayle and Sara for being our spokes models for the event, Jay and LV Racing for help with promotion and getting us a food truck, the Lowballers for always supporting our meets, JDM CHEMICALS, AVANT GARDE WHEELS, ILOVERACING, AWSTICKERS, LEXON, AIR RUNNER SYSTEMS, KYOEI, 714 TIRES for sponsoring the event, Becky for reassuring me when I did have a small anxiety attack, everyone in Royal Origin and their girlfriends who made this trip the best time of my life and most importantly everyone who supported us and came to the meet. You guys are the reason why HNRS LV will be carrying our line in their store now. Thank you, I can’t wait to show you what’s next.

March 12, 2015

#ROINSEATTLE | Meats

We are making a trip out to the Seattle area, and would love to see our Pacific North West friends and lovers. See you guys there!

March 5, 2015

More Preparations | Enjoy Sin

A very important thing to check before a long road trip is your alignment and tire wear. Thankfully, we have the good guys over at 714 Tires to help us prepare our cars for the long trip to Las Vegas. They are one of the few shops in Southern California that work on slammed cars.

Kevin’s S2000 getting his tires flipped.

Derek getting his GS an alignment.

Kevin’s Avant Garde A1 wheels are for sale by the way. Email us at royalorigin@royal-origin.com for a price. One of a kind wheels.

DPE wheels getting some tires dismounted. 714 Tires handles a lot of expensive wheels, so they know how to work on your wheels without damaging it.

Lee one of the owners of 714 Tires putting in work.

Rotiform CSW.

Vinh helping out David, the other owner of 714 Tires with dismounting tires.

Beautiful.

Tires for days.

It was a Royal Origin type of morning for 714 Tires.

How Derek’s face is after an alignment. Stunned, happy, mad, sad not really sure.

I changed my ride height, so the toe was a bit off. Thanks to 714 Tires everything was in spec and ready for Vegas.

Afterwards, we took Kevin’s S2000 and his new hardtop back to Robros Customs to get it wrapped.

Liberty Walk GTR coming soon..

Out of no where a wild Kato appears.

Kato from Liberty Walk came by to check on the Robros Customs GTR.

This guy is really fun to talk to and thank you to Anna for translating.

Checking out Kevin’s wrap job.

Robros sandwich.

After that meeting, me and Vinh had to go to City of Industry to pick up a hood from Seibon and while we were in the area, we decided to see if VR wheels had anything cool going on.