C won first place at her Halloween party this weekend. She wore the ao dai Thao sent her and the non la hat I gave her last Christmas. Thao and I are just doing our part to spread Vietnamese culture. To Alabama (!).

I guess the above ad is political – and so has no place on this blog – but it’s the best ad I’ve seen by/for either party in the last two years of this seemingly interminable election season (except for maybe the Monty Python video about Hillary Clinton and “It’s just a flesh wound”). It’s [...]

Thao and I went to the Metro store yesterday, which is basically Vietnam’s version of Sam’s Club. Thao wanted to go there because she heard they had a cheap price on ocean crab. We got near the seafood section, and she said she was going to go get the crab. I said I would meet [...]

I’m going to a Diwali party later tonight and it reminded me of the episode of The Office where they go to Diwali with Kelly. More later. [Ole Miss: 4 and 4. Woo-hoo!]

Yes, it’s baby/kid day on Orangwutang, but my nephew H recently had his 1st haircut ever. He is such a pretty baby! Can you call boy babies pretty? Handsome? Dep trai? Anyway, he’s good-looking: After:

C had her 4th birthday party on the 18th – unfortunately the very day I left to come back to Vietnam. Beforehand, Mom made princess cookies. I only pretended to eat them and somehow still became fat(ter): The birthday girl: O and H get in on the action: H struts his stuff: Happy 4th Birthday [...]

Now that this blog is completely, 100% apolitical – pretty much – I’ve decided to turn comments back on. I think. Part of the reason I turned them off before was because some people knew that I was coming home early – on September 25th instead of October 5th – and since I was continuing [...]

I know this blog is very exciting when it consists primarily of updates on my sleeping schedule – but that’s about all I’ve been doing lately, so that’s what you get. I had my first class yesterday morning at 7:30am. Ouch. It was my business plan class, not commercial law which starts up today. My [...]

Wow, jetlag is for realz. I was pretty much completely worthless yesterday (Monday). Thao got up and left for work about 8:00am. I got up with her and had exactly two things I needed to do yesterday: (1) go to school to get everything prepared and set up for my first class that was this [...]

No problem.  Thao picked me up at the airport and we’re home now.  Her first comment:  “You’re more fat.”  And that was confirmed by the scale when I got home:  82kgs.  I am going to the gym tomorrow.  My work is cut out for me.  More later – just wanted to let everyone know I’m [...]