Great Deal at McDonlad: Medium Iced Coffee $1

Last few days, I have taking my caffeine from McDonald. Currently, McDonlad is offering its medium size iced coffee for $1 till end of April. They offer various flavors, such as vanilla, sugar-free vanilla, caramel and hazelnuts. However, I like my iced coffee without any liquid sugar and extra cream. For me, any flavor or regular has too much liquid sugar and too sweet. 

McDonald iced coffee is ok. If you need something stronger, then definitely go for Starbucks. If you want something stronger, then go to Peet's coffee. I have yet to try Philz Coffee(http://www.philzcoffee.com/). I heard that it is great, especially their Mint Mojito Iced Coffee. For now, I will stick with McDonald till this $1 deal is over, then I will give Philz a try.

Serge Devant - Addicted (feat. Hadley) (MV + Lyric)

This song is very addicted and appropriately the song title is "Addicted" by Serge Davant. The music video is relaxing and the beat is great. Just imagine that you are scuba diving at Hawaii or taking a nice walk at the sandy beach  and enjoying the ocean breeze.

Lyric:
......one day I will run away from you......and this love!!!!!

You came to me
Was like a dream
But maybe it's time
I let you go
It's all on me
Can I find it inside
And feel that fire burn in my eye
Can I give you up
Can I come back down
Gotta get you out of my head (repeat)
And I wonder why
I'm addicted to love
One day I will run away from you and this love(repeat)
I'm addicted to love

Switch to AT&T GoPhone $25 monthly plan

Well, I missed the fine print that says that I MUST have a data plan if I use a smartphone. So with my contract plan (which expired many years ago), it originally did not have any data plan. And once I started to use AT&T GoPhone Fusion Smartphone in my contract plan, AT&T added $30 data plan. When I inquire about a lower plan, I was told I only had a choice of $30 data plan or $20 data plan.

So I decided to cancel my contract plan (again, no cancellation fee since my contract expired already) and ported my telephone numbers to GoPhone $25 monthly plan for 250 minutes talk, unlimited texts and $5 for 50M data plan. I will use my Fusion Smartphone with Wi-Fi so even $5 data plan was not needed. But I rather pay $5 for something I don't need than pay $20.

Good news is that I found 10% discount for my GoPhone refill minutes from PhoneZIP.com(http://shop.phonezip.com/prepaid/refill/ATTGoPhone.htm). So I prepaid $90 for $100 refill and got 10% discount.


Overall, I love the quality of Fusion. I have been just playing Jewels Star (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.game.JewelsStar&hl=en) on my phone whole day.

Lunch @ Sonoma Chicken Coop Skyport

Today was very nice day. The San Jose weather was warm and sunny outside. It was great to have a nice lunch at Sonoma Chicken Coop at San Jose. It was quite today since today was the weekend. However, this place is packed during weekdays with engineers.


If you have not been to Sonoma Chicken Coop, then you should definitely try it out and wash it down it Stella Artois. It is a great pairing of savory chicken with a delicious beer. We order the Lime Grilled Chicken and Skillet Chicken Carbonara. I will definitely come back and try different items off the menu (http://www.sonomachicken.com/menu).




As usual, I checked out their franchise opportunity and requirement. I think they are expanding and have a great potential. The financial fee and cost are following:

• Franchise Fee: $50,000
• Start-Up Costs: $709,000 to $1,919,000 per UFDD

Here are the basic real estate requirements for a Sonoma Chicken Coup franchise restaurant:

• Square Footage: 4,500 to 8,000
• Urban storefronts, Freestanding Buildings, Shopping Center End-Caps, In-Lines and Pads
• Strong residential and Daytime Population: live, work, shop, entertainment, foot traffic
• Preferred Co-Tenants: Strong daily needs shopping, entertainment draws, multiplex and other high volume retailers

Google is more than just a pretty face. What you see is only the tip of the iceberg.

I use Google everyday to search and get directions. However, that's the tip of the Google iceberg. Google is so much bigger beneath its tip showing at its home page.  Check out some of their product logos and see if you can recognize them all. I recognized about 6 of them even though I used many of Google's products.

So far I tried following Google's products:

Web Search iGoogle Bookmarks Chrome Toolbar Youtube Books News Google Play Picnik Google Offers

Maps Earth Docs Gmail Talk Translate Blogger Patent Search Finance Scholar Trends

Check out Google's impressive and complete product lists at http://www.google.com/about/products/. Few years ago, I remember seeing a "Hardware or Platform" product line at Google but I guess it is either gone or renamed into something else. One thing for sure, these Google products sure make good use of existing technology for the benefits of people.

Rihanna - We found love (Lyric + MV)

I love Rihanna and this song by her. It is easy listening and just repetitive. I can work light heartedly with this song on the background.

Lyric: We found love
Yellow diamonds in the light
And we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine
What it takes to come alive
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
But I've gotta let it go
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
Shine a light through an open door
Love and life I will divide
Turn away cause I need you more
Feel the heartbeat in my mind
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
But I've gotta let it go
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
Yellow diamonds in the light
And we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place