Yeh, my parents are cool……Maybe they will remmeber this game for ther rest of their lives, I can only hope. Mark and Mia were at the World Series Game II today. Probably the last game that will be played at SF. What a game! Cain and Suffering, WE Caine We pitched We Conquered, Caine is…
Last summer, Mia was an intern at NBC Bay Area where she shadowed reporters and researched news stories. I knew she had a interest in photojournalism bit it seems she enjoys being in front of the camera as well. Here is her first piece as a broadcast journalist for Cal TV.
Sometimes its wise to sit in neutral territory. Although, we thought it would be a good idea to sit in the old Berkeley Memorial Stadium just one more time before they tear it down and rebuild it next year. I am looking forward to watching CAL football at AT&T park next year. The Davis students…
Mia has prepared for this humanitairian mission for an entire year. The Global Brigade of UC Berkeley headed off to Honduras on a medical and dental mission on June 8th. Fortunatly, I was able to find an AT&T mobile plan that kept us in contact with her even in the jungles of Honduras. Here are…
This will be the 4th year that Gina and I have judged speech and debate tournaments that Mia and Mark have entered. And till now this is the first time I have ever felt motivated to say something about the judging at these tournaments. As our fearless coach Gay Brasher told us long ago,”There are…
Last week Gina and I attended CALSO 2009 with our great friends Barry and Graciella Kliger. Dr Kliger and I attended UC Davis and Northwestern Dental School together and we have kids the same age. Consequently, our daughters graduated high school with nearly identical records and got accepted and rejected by exactly the same schools. After futile attempts to…
Fatalities are declining especially — the 15 percent decrease among underage drunk driving fatalities because of programs like this in High Schools across America. Recruited by Leland to help edit the Video portion of the two day program, I was amazed at the year of planning and secrecy that was maintained in order to put…
Congratulations to Mia in placing 7th in the State in Oratory Interpretation. The Tournament tookplace in Culver City April 26, 2009. Mia made it to the final round in 4th place but final round proved to be very competative and a “air conditioning” incident during her round put her at a disadvantage. In probably the…
A couple posts back I mentioned reviewing a MINI Projector. This Christmas morning to my surprise, my son Mark, surprised me by wrapping up on these gizmo’s for me under the tree. I must admit I was surprised that a 14 year old cold track one down and purchase it. One of the coolest presents…
As we do every year, we drove up to the Christmas Tree Farms above Los Gatos and picked out a big tree for the living room. Being that it is Mia’s last Christmas as a senior and that we have Holiday parties planned at the house this year, we decided to find a realy big…
First of all, yes this was my daughters Leland High School Physics Project that I enjoyed helping her with, however, if they didn’t expect parents and outsiders to help these kids, why did they set the dimensions of the device to one square meter and choose a projectile like a baseball? No way to build…
For parents and friends that would like to have some of the photos I took yesterday and for those looking for the Freshmen and Senior Homecoming Skits, The Videos can be found on Vimeo.com and the Photos can be found at FLickr. My Vimeo (for video) and Flickr (for Photos) memberships are under “Meng Syn DDS” .
The Freshman Make History! Winning second place in the skit competition beating out the Seniors and the Sophmores in the highest place finish ever for a freshman class. Mark Syn and Madie Perretta Writers, Producers and Directors…. Leland High School Homecoming Skit Freshmen 2008 from Meng Syn DDS on Vimeo.
The Class of 09 performed their final skit at Leland today which I had the opportunity to film. Using an HD1000 with fish eye and an HD800 for closer shots I edited the short film in Adobe CS4’s two camera mode in half an hour. Leland High School Senior Homecoming Skit 2008 from Meng Syn…
In what might be considered a major victory for the underdogs, my son Mark and his partner Kian, both freshmen novices, were victorious in there first National Forensics League tournament together in Duo Interpretative Speech. The tournament was held at Leland High School and the Duo event attracted 28 pairs of competitors from elite Northern California Schools like…
Snow in April! We packed for heat and fished in rain and snow. Mark and I took a trip to the Bidwell Ponds in Lasson County to excersize some trout over spring break. The high point of the trip was when I accidentally lit my self on fire priming the carburator of our motorhome…