We took the day off to head up to Berkeley to watch Mia present her Senior Research Project to Faculty and Alumni. Only 4 more weeks of UC Berkeley for her and then off to Columbia in New York. The last 4 years have flown by.
Yesterday, a landmark day in my daughters career – acceptance to Columbia University’s Masters Program. One of the premier masters programs in Nutrition in the country. Its off to New York before the end of the year. Congratulations to our Ivy League bound daughter. My sister and brother in law live not 15 minutes from Campus…
This years we had much to give thanks for. Our family was together as the kids came back from their colleges for a couple days–like the old days. Mia celebrated her 22nd Birthday, Mark came home and surfed a day before preparing for his first set of College Finals, we had our traditional Thanksgiving meal…
What a great Stadium. Our first game in the new stadium did not disapoint. Mias apartement 50 yards from the enterence guaranteed us close parking and I felt like a VIP. The Ducks killed the Bears 59 to 17. It was cold but there was almost more Oregon Green in the stadium than Cal fans.…
The Grapes are ready!
There comes moments in ones life when you feel like something epic has happened but you cant put your finger on exactly what it is. I felt that way this weekend as we made the ten hour drive to Eugene Oregon to set up our son at the University of Oregon. This picture sais it all–its hard…
Ten Days ago, Mark underwent ACL surgery at Kaiser Hospital. Here are the Arthroscopic Photos of his successful surgery. The circled area is where his ACL should be. It has atrophied since the tear a couple months ago. The surgery involves an autograft using Mark’s own Patella Tendon. A strip of it is removed with…
Today is a landmark day in our lives as our youngest graduates from Leland High School–my alma mater. Mark leaves Leland with 4 years of elected ASB service–voted by his peers in the yearbook as “The Most Involved Student” at Leland. As ASB VP his senior year he MC’ed the School Rallies and made the…
Gina and I can’t help but feel nostalgic and sad that this will be the last of our kids proms that we get to photograph and enjoy watching. The preparation and excitement will be missed. This years prom is at the Fairmount in San Jose. Only a week of school left and goodbye Leland High School.…
Last years half a dozen flies that Bob V. took to Christmas Island are somewhere in the South Pacific hanging off a Giant Trevaley mouth. This years dozen recruits look nervous and they should be. The blue and white rattled “Synheads” will be committing suicide in mid May in the waters of Kiribati.
I just love shooting proms. I think this one will be my 7th event if you include Homecmoming dances. Shot with a Nikon D700 and a 24-70mm FX lens. These are my Favorites. Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer
Behind the scenes, two individuals who proclaimed that they work for Abecrombie and Fitch asked Mia after the filming of that piece if she would come to SF and be evaluated for an in store modeling position. Sounded kind of fishy to me so I researched it. Seems this may be a way that…
There are no direct flights to Eugene Oregon from SF or SJ. Today, it took us 10 hours to fly from SF to Portland and then to Eugene. We probably could have driven it faster. Mainly because of the rainy weather, but its been a long time since I had such an uncomfortable trip…
Leland Varsity Lacrosse from Meng Syn DDS on Vimeo. Can we win? Yes. Much improved since the beginning of the year. Mark scores 4 goals in Leland’s only win of the season. We are the Underdogs my friend…
< The Hook is great especial with a decent south. The waves are fast and short which is tough on beginners and its a popular place for newbies because of its easy access and parking lot. Definitely not a newbie beach though. There is a lot of talk about violence and shit talk out on…
Mia at Berkeley in her third year declared her major as Metabolism and Physiology. I always knew that she was into nutrition and health but I didn’t know how much passion she had for the field until we sat down and watched “Biggest Loser”. Honestly, I have never watched the show and the idea of…
On February 8th 2012, Dr Regina Gray (wife\boss) and Mia Syn (daughter) participated as screeners in the ‘Give Kids a Smile” program sponsored by the Santa Clara Dental Society. The day entailed screening children for dental pathology at Anderson Elementary School in San Jose. Approximately 200 kids were examined and children with treatement needs were…
You know there’s a problem with you get 5 voicemails at once; you know there’s a problem when your twitter feed get a flood of @morehadwares at once, You know there’s a problem when your kids friends are posting pictures of your house nearly burning up on there Facebooks in real time. Such was the…