Sunny Side Up

More Puppies

2010-06-23T22:25:00.003-05:00

This one is the runt. She's my fav out of the litter.

If I get to name this little girl...I would name her Jason. She looks grumpy.

This one is Lori's.

Cynthia's Puppies

2010-06-21T18:01:00.002-05:00

Karen and Charlie are ready for a new addition.

Taiwan Wedding Photos

2009-06-23T23:11:00.003-05:00

Overall a pleasant experience...but will have to think really really HARD before doing this AGAIN! IT was TIRING!

HIPO - NOO!!!

2009-06-15T21:19:00.002-05:00

Niko and Helen trying to escape from the Hipo.

Taipei Zoo

Firefox

2009-04-29T00:55:00.001-05:00

My firefox is not so bland looking anymore.

Taiwan photoshoot

2009-04-23T04:55:00.001-05:00

Double Double

2009-03-27T08:40:00.003-05:00

Today, Double will be neutered. I dropped him off at the vet 6:30AM in the morning and walked away sadly with his desperate wails sailing through my ear canals.

Double was fed...shrimp and eggs, pork chop, lamb and vegetables and his usual vitamin diet.....for dinner. Last night, all the family members in Houston expressed blessings in their own ways before going to bed.

Mom: Double, God be with you ok?
Anna: Double, everything will be all right.
Mike: Want my left over biscuits?

Helen: Do not worry Double. I talked to the vet yesterday. I made sure that she will give you lots of pain meds. I'm buying a lot more after your surgery. "wink"

Something to be proud of...

2009-02-11T08:42:00.002-06:00

Lately, there haven't been a lot of things to be proud of in the worldwide Asian community, especially in China. I'm really disappointed in the melamine incident. Even the Olympics was a disappointment because of the government forcing people from their homes to build a new stadium...high rise buildings for the rich...to show off to the world that they can build high rises too? (It's been done.)

However, I did read something today that made me proud of the "old" days in China.

--In the 1930s, Shanghai was the only place in the world to offer visa-free sanctuary to Jews fleeing Nazism — 20,000 ended up in Shanghai.

We need to learn from history.

Eco-Arsonist??? Oxymoron or just a Omoron?

2009-02-06T07:34:00.004-06:00

Marie Mason, a 47-yr old environmental activist, was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison on Thursday for a 1999 arson attack at Michigan State University's Agriculture Hall that caused more than $1 million in damage. She was acting on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental group. She sets fire to stuff, lots of stuff... We are not talking about burning trash here. Combustion produced CO2... I'm pretty sure CO2 is a greenhouse gas... Did she not just harm the environment by releasing CO2??

Things like this really pisses me off... It's like people don't think! It's like the frenetic PETA person that started killing hunters... Are humans not animals?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Introducing Double Chen

2009-01-05T21:38:00.003-06:00

His uncle Ken took pictures of him while he was exercising with his dad.

Sad Beginning: Double Chen was found under Matt Brittain's truck in Victoria Texas. Matt and his family took him in for two weeks and did all they could to locate his previous owner. They were not able to locate them.

Thumbs Up from Sunny: Sunny loves all animals...even evil cat Kiki Chen.

Thumbs Up from Helen: I wasn't sure that I wanted a dog at first since ... they are like kids... you have to feed him and stuff. I was "persuaded" into a try-out for a weekend. After getting to know the little fellow better, Sunny and I decided to adopt him. He's already been house-trained and doesn't make much noise...a great lap dog.

About Double: He loves falling asleep in our laps watching TV. His favorite food is Pirate's Booty (aged white cheddar corn puffs) and HEB rotisserie (the original) chicken. His favorite shirt is his Burberry polo a Christmas present from his parents. His BFF is Brady, doggy son of Vanhdy and Jenny. His pet peeves are...unmanned children at Christmas parties that scream bloody murder all throughout dinner while their parents listen..(oh wait that's MINE).

Tricks: sit, fetch, stand, shake, lay down
Tricks we are working on: nipping unmanned naughty little children's heels and roll over

Expectations from his Parents:
Sunny: just be happy, pee and poo at the right times
Helen: be the smartest dog alive

Bruce and Debbie Wedding

2008-12-11T23:11:00.004-06:00

Congrats Bruce and Debbie!!!

First wedding where the groom cried more than the bride! :)

Yo

2008-12-04T22:34:00.000-06:00

What's up?

Lan and Matt's Wedding

2008-11-08T22:55:00.003-06:00

Formosa Family Fun Day 2008

2008-10-12T22:05:00.005-05:00

Sunny's Grounder

Sitting on Paul's truck, waiting for the next game

We had a great time at the Formosa Family Fun Day this past Sat! Sunny was in the softball tournament. His team was called the Technical Bombers. It was great seeing old coworkers!

Christian and Howard's New BABY - LADY

2008-10-03T18:24:00.002-05:00

Hurricane Ike Cat

2008-09-19T21:05:00.002-05:00

KIKI, you are an EVIL CAT, but you sure are photogenic.

Young People in the Church Life

2008-09-18T07:55:00.002-05:00

It was awesome hanging with you guys!!

Almost Spared

2008-09-16T21:05:00.002-05:00

So Ike missed PL but the mosquitoes did not! They are out in swarms. Help me!!!

Also my car battery exploded last week on my way to watch the UT game at Adams. I drove it for about a week before it finally died. I wondered for about a week what that loud bang was. For sure i thought one of my tires blew out, but alas my tires were fine.

Vanhdy Claps, Helen Snaps

2008-08-07T10:04:00.003-05:00

My sister came by my cubicle today and asked me why I snap. I was like..."I snap?" She was like yea..."I can hear you snap everyday from my cubicle (two cubicles diag from mine)". Today I learned that I snap when I'm concentrating...AND when I'm jamming to HANNAH MONTANA/Miley Cyrus. Am I self conscious??? OF COURSE NOT...SHE ROCKS! Yea and I do the using my pencils as drum sticks thing too at work...

I really think that Sunny is to blame for my bad habits because ... he's the one that downloaded all her songs for me!

Last Day at Formosa!

2008-07-18T08:04:00.001-05:00

Burgler Babies!

2008-06-30T21:17:00.002-05:00

Baby raccoons are cool. They make the strangest noises. Hey watch where your grabbing little guy!

Old School Dodgeball

2008-06-16T23:27:00.002-05:00

Finally i get to play this game again....sweeeet
Download it now

Wrong Place Wrong Time

2008-06-11T23:06:00.004-05:00

After a late night round of poker at Andrew, we all had the munchies and wanted some Waffle House. In the end we decided it was too late to be eating so I went home. 30 minutes after I parked the car on the side of the road in front of Helen's house, BAMMMMM!!!!

Wrong place wrong time: If only had we decided to go eat at Waffle House....probably wouldn't have happened.
Wrong car wrong time: Been wanting to replace the driver side headlight cover for the TL cause it's all yellow from grazing the deer a long time ago but wasn't willing to shell out $200 for it....would have been perfect...sigh.

LANDSCAPING

2008-05-22T22:10:00.006-05:00

Side views

I love plants. Recently, everyone started raising pets. I'm not allowed to have pets because I ... lose interest in them or... unintentionally kill them ... etc etc

Story: One day (sophomore yr at UT) I decided that I wanted to buy some fish. Jenny and I went to Walmart and bought 5 fish. When I dumped them into the tank...there was only 4.

Jenny: I thought you bought 5 fish.
Helen: Maybe they counted wrong...oh well.
Jenny: OMG You left one in the bag and threw it away in the trash after you dumped in the other four.
Helen: OH...

So...Sunny says that for the good of living, breathing things...I cannot and should not have pets. So, I started naming my plants. The topiary on the left is "Big Head" because it tends to grow big on the top. The topiary on the right is "Bottom Heavy" because it's bottom heavy. Check out the new additions to our family!

Christian's Wedding

2008-05-22T22:02:00.003-05:00

Christian had a beautiful wedding on the 10th of May. I had the honor of being a bridesmaid. We all had a great time! I really enjoyed seeing all my old friends!

EMILY!! Aka Whitey

Go Karts

2008-05-06T22:36:00.004-05:00

I was browsing through my pics and I found this one. I like how Richard and I are in focus while everything else is blurry. Looks like we were going really fast! In fact we probably were! Track 21...fun place.

Computer

2008-04-20T18:59:00.002-05:00

Finally built it.

Cpu - E8400 $159.99 couldn't pass it up
HS/Fan - Tuniq 120 $54.99
MB - EVGA 750i $189.99
Ram - Corsair 2GB DDR2 $54.99
HD - WD 640GB $119.99 kinda expensive, but it's the new one
Case - InWin Metal Suit GD $135.69
Total = $715.64
Not too bad. Missing LCD but that can come later.

Free Stuff ~$600 worth =P
PSU - Corsair 620HX Free Frys GCs
DVDR - Sony 20x Free Best Buy GCs
VID - 9800 GTX Free Amazon GCs
Keyboard - Free
Mouse - Free

Hurt

2008-03-05T10:08:00.001-06:00

No I didn't get hurt. Nor did Helen. It's Andrew!!! Now both his feet are injured.

Wedding Pictures

2008-01-11T10:57:00.001-06:00

The links below take you to our professional wedding pics.

Ceremony Pictures

Wedding Party Pictures

Cory and Sunny

2008-01-10T13:26:00.001-06:00

Cory touched Sunny's butt in Denver!

What the?

2008-01-01T15:11:00.001-06:00

No we are not at the Coach store... we can almost be a Coach store though?!@?

MONDAY INVASION by LITTLE PEOPLE!!!

2007-12-17T19:30:00.000-06:00

Welcome KK and Joshua to our home on Mondays!!

I'm married now!

2007-12-11T14:18:00.001-06:00

So after being engaged for so long, we finally tied the knot on Dec 8, 2007. Here's one of the 4000+ pictures taken by Andrew and Henry

My Books

2007-11-26T00:05:00.000-06:00

This is what happens when there's a black friday sale.

There is no use being nice.

2007-11-17T19:04:00.001-06:00

There is no use being nice. You will get screwed.

Me and my 38 inch red

2007-11-10T10:39:00.000-06:00

Simon and his 39 inch red

2007-11-10T09:49:00.000-06:00

Helen with a bunch of Kaliseks

2007-11-05T13:56:00.000-06:00

Steroids

2007-10-26T10:44:00.000-05:00

Sunny's on steroids. HAHA

Big White Flower Pots.

2007-10-25T11:48:00.001-05:00

These were vetoed by Helen. Too white she says.

I killed A TOAD

2007-10-12T11:32:00.000-05:00

I killed a toad mowing the lawn. As you guys know, we have 9000 sq of lawn to mow. And...there are weed patches here and there...well it was hiding in one of the weed patches. I ran it over with the lawn mower. It was really big so when it came out...all bloody and stuff...I thought it was a BIRD. I stopped mowing. I ran up to Cary and Sunny and they were like "...WHAT??" I WAS LIKE..."WAHHH, I killed something." The three of us went to examine the carcass...it was a big TOAD. Poor nasty Toad.

MONOPOLY

2007-10-10T13:32:00.001-05:00

If you grew up with me, you'd know that my fav game is MONOPOLY, AND I always have to be the banker. I always have my calculator out for calculating interest....and I ALWAYS HAVE TO WIN!

So...there we were having lunch at McDonald's today AND we WON $50.00 arch card (gift certificate) from the McDonald's Monopoly Game!

YE YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One Fine Saturday Afternoon...

2007-09-25T09:23:00.001-05:00

Jason and Ken came down to visit this weekend. We always eat at El Patio. This Sunday was not unlike the others..... Until we started talking about mixed people. Then I had to share some insight..."Zac Morris from Save by the Bell is mixed with Dutch and Indonesian!"

Jason: You are so stupid. He has blonde hair and blue eyes. He got all recessive traits...I don't think so.
Helen: He could have dyed his hair and put on blue contacts. DUH
Ken: WHATEVER, even if the website says Indonesian, we have to look up whether it's "Indonesian Dutch...like u know when the Dutch ppl took over Indonesia.."
Helen: Hey guys, why all the hating? (calm and collected) I saw it on www.mixedfolks.com
Ken: Let's look it up when we get back to ur place.
Helen: Fine, but lets call Katherine. She's mixed, surely she can tell who is mixed and who isn't. Plus she found the website.

Katherine: OF COURSE He's MIXED!

Of course, we look up www.mixedfolks.com to find that ZAC Morris, IS MIXED! Boo YAH.

Productive Afternoon.

splel cehck??

2007-09-19T15:00:00.000-05:00

Guess Who this BIG BUTT belongs to...hha

2007-08-30T22:30:00.000-05:00

Whoever guesses right gets a BIG prize!

HEE HEE

2007-08-30T22:24:00.000-05:00

Andrew's no. 1 for standing up for MAC users!!! YAY Andrew!

Caught FISH

2007-08-23T11:57:00.003-05:00

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19" Drum

God is punishing me for not liking KIDS.

2007-08-22T20:29:00.000-05:00

The kid that I had to tutor...started to run into my wall in the dinning room after class... The first thing I thought of was "there better not be a scratch on my wall..." all the whinning..."I want to go home. What time is it?" oh I had a lot of answers for those questions...none of them nice.

Pat on the back to all you teachers out there. I wanted to slam my face into my dinning table after 1 hr with a kid.

summer training msg 2

2007-08-20T09:09:00.000-05:00

When the Triune God becomes our experience and enjoyment, He is not only the One on the throne who is universally vast, but He is also the One in our heart --

summer training msg 2

Female Hormones in Beer

2007-07-30T10:26:00.000-05:00

Last month, National University of Lesotho scientists released the results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer.

Men should take a concerned look at their beer consumption. The theory is that beer contains female hormones (hops contain phytoestrogens) and that by drinking enough beer, men turn into women . To test the theory, 100 men drank 8 pints of beer each within a one hour period.

It was then observed that 100% of the test subjects :

1) Argued over nothing.
2) Refused to apologize when obviously wrong
3) Gained weight.
4) Talked excessively without making sense.
5) Became overly emotional.
6) Couldn't drive.
7) Failed to think rationally
8) Had to sit down while urinating.

No further testing was considered necessary.

Response to Cary

2007-07-26T09:25:00.001-05:00

This would be Larry's response to Carry's complaint!

"All them floods have messed up my fishing!"

Our Belief Constitutes our Living

2007-07-26T09:22:00.000-05:00

A wise brother once told me "Our belief constitutes our living."

1 Thes. 5:16-18
Always rejoice, unceasingly pray, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Catch and Release

2007-07-25T08:24:00.000-05:00

I have been watching "Catch and Release" EVERYDAY, once a DAY. Reminds of me the time Cary brought over "Nacho Libre" and I watched that everday (sometimes twice a day) for a week.

Good thing there is a "Love Feast" tonight at the Liaou's! Welcome visiting brothers and sisters from Houston!

Dreaming of MANGO ICE um.........

2007-07-23T14:03:00.000-05:00

I've been craving mango ice from Juice Box...for a long time. We don't have that sort of luxury in PL.

So, after dinner on Saturday we decided to go get some MANGO ICE. Of course, I forget my LACTATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MANGO ICE CREAM :(

Boo

CHARLES

2007-07-19T15:58:00.000-05:00

I re-read my email to charles today and decided that I'm really mean to him. BUT YOU DESERVE IT CHARLES!

EMAIL:
CHARLES,

u nasty. u left the shoes u had on when we went offshore fishing in the back of our car with your nasty socks. last night we went Grocery shopping and sunny accidentally touched ur wet, smelly socks and i had to carry the food cause his hands stunk so much.

u r no.1 nasty is what you are.
u stink more than a ran over coon on the side of the road ?? Where did I come up with this??
next time i see you i'm going to slap you upside ur head

oh and go read my blog...and look at vanhdy's pic HAHA he's a clapper.

VD CLAPS

2007-07-19T13:41:00.004-05:00

(Taken down per request...)

VD, I told you so! Told you..you clap when you laugh.

Offshore Fishing

2007-07-19T08:47:00.000-05:00

So, last weekend we plunged into the unknown by enlisting on Cary's Offshore Fishing trip. The trip going out was 1 hr offshore into no man's water. The ride there was SUPER Fun almost like a roller coaster ride. Then we stopped moving forward and just started swaying side to side. 5 min after we started swaying and drifting Charles started hanging off the side of the boat. His butt up in the air. I started feeling queezy...and Jenny didn't look too good either. Jenny sat near Charles...and I am pretty sure Charles made her puke first. Then I found myself hanging off the side gagging. The next few sentences are only for those with strong stomach. If you have a weak stomach, please skip the next few sentences. One of my friends at work told me that if you get seasick, "swallow what comes up and you'll be fine. It's an old navy trick" That is what I did. Did I puke for the entire trip. ABSOLUTELY NOT. Still I felt bad after all the gagging and seeing Jenny throw up repeatedly and ... fish guts flung off the boat... So, I did what I usually do when I feel bad...I went to sleep. As I was concentration on sleeping, I hear Vanhdy laughing AT ME. HOW CRUEL IS THAT?? He was laughing at me and Jenny because we were SEASICK along with half of the boat by this time. YOU KNOW WHAT! An hour later, he started throwing up like crazy. I mean puke out the nose and stuff. IT WAS GREAT. THAT's WHAT YOU GET VANHDY. MWHAHAHAHAHA.

As I was gagging and ... leaning off the side...I was thinking 1. "I want to jump." 2. "I want to kill Vanhdy." 3. "I really need to appreciate fishermen ... more." 4. "Damn Vanhdy stank up the bathroom with his puking for the rest of the boat" -- I had to hold off going to the bathroom for like 5 hrs. Vanhdy = Nasty

Congrats to Ben and Sunny for catching big FISH. :)

Transformers

2007-07-05T16:08:00.000-05:00

I want this air freshener.
http://www.stickergiant.com/page/sg/PROD/bitch/aaf153

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2007-06-30T22:51:00.001-05:00

DSC00058

2007-06-30T09:46:00.000-05:00

Fishing

2007-06-29T11:25:00.000-05:00

Since we been fishing so much lately...

Check this out.

Ants

2007-06-26T21:38:00.003-05:00

I Hate ANTS!!!

Terabyte

2007-06-12T08:57:00.000-05:00

I wonder how long it'll take to defrag one of these?

How young do you look?

2007-06-06T10:40:00.000-05:00

Last night a random fisherman rang our doorbell to try and sell us some fresh live shrimp. Helen went and opened the door and he asked, "Is your mom home?".

NDS

2007-06-06T10:35:00.000-05:00

A site for all you nds people.
http://www.simplynds.com/

Lost and Found

2007-06-05T09:58:00.000-05:00

I found Helen's keys! I was getting worried there for a bit.

Memorial Weekend

2007-06-01T10:26:00.001-05:00

It all started Friday night, as soon as everyone got here at 11pm we hit the gym and played vball, bball, and football til 2am. After a few games of assassin, we got the only night of real sleep only cause it was raining really hard and crabbing was cancelled in the morning. Around noon on Sat. it stopped raining and we took off to go fishing at the pier. Nothing but catfish and small croakers. After a light lunch we took off to Port O'Conner to try our luck fishing there. Different place, same results. At least there was more variety in our catches. Of course, CK manages to catch the ugliest and nastiest looking fish ever (toadfish). I'll have to post the picture later, but it looks like a pile of poo. Back at the house, the girls have already started preparing for the BBQ.

BBQ was crazy, we had Ken, our grill master outside grilling, and the girls in the kitchen preparing all sorts of food. All in all we had enough food to feed all 15 of us plus around 10 of Helen's co-workers +wives + their kiddos. In fact, there was so much leftovers that we didnt have to eat out the whole weekend. The co-workers little kids are another story, I think their shrieks gave me a semi headache. Cory and Gina brought over their Alaskan huskie, Mylie. She looks just the dogs in the movie, 8 Below. I think Helen wants one now. After a short rest Jason went and picked up a bunch of dodgeballs at Walmart. I have to admit after watching the movie a few years ago, I've been itching to play. I lasted only a few rounds before my shin splints got the worst of me. I sat out and watched them finish a best of 7 game series. It came down the the wire, very exciting. Lots of OOOOOs and AHHHHHHs and yelling and screaming. By the way, how in the world is Kin so good? Why is he so good? He must have been secretly practicing at IBM in Austin with his coworkers. After dodgeball some of us went back out to fish while others stayed at home.

Sunday we woke up bright and early and headed out crabbing. Crabs were plentiful and Jing finally caught some quality fishes. Two redfishes!! too bad they were too small to keep. Duffy didnt get hurt this time and CK didnt lose any chicken necks. He did catch a large green moldly crab which no one dared to eat. Lunch consists of last night's bbq and sausages and crabs. Douglass and Kelly did the dishes afterwards and I went to sleep. By the time I woke up Helen and Kelly already finished watching a movie and everyone was almost done playing poker. Dinner we managed to finished off the bbq from yesterday, then headed out to the gym again for some vball. When we got there it started pouring again, good thing the gym is indoors. CK took a nasty fall, which didnt help out his messed up toe nail. I did give him some tylenol for it, but it turns out it was 3 years expired, heh. It's still effective though! After vball, everyone left for Htown except Vanhdy and Jenny.
Ken, Kin, Jason, Annie, Helen, Jenny, Vanhdy, Cary and I finish the night fishing at Port O'conner till 6 in the morn. Nothing but freaking catfish, pigfish and small croakers. Next up, DEEP SEA FISHING!!!! Anyone up for it?

PS> Anyone happen to find a set of Honda Keys? It has a big pink heart attached to it. It seems to be missing. Also Duffy's black Astro's hat is missing as well. It wasn't in the gym.

Save the Date

2007-05-31T10:17:00.000-05:00

Here's the tentative save the date post card. A big thanks to Andrew for taking the picture, finding the location, and also editing it.

OUR FRIDGE HAS WHEELS!!!

2007-04-04T13:35:00.000-05:00

So, thanks to Homedepot's inferior customer and delivery service, we had to move our refridgerator into our house...manually. So, a few good men enlisted to do the job. They were: JASON, KEN, HARBERT, SUNNY, and CARY. The ones that showed up on time to move the fridge were...Sunny, Harbert, and Cary.

It was hard work. We had to take off the fridge doors in order to fit it through the front door. We didn't have a dolly that could support the weight of the fridge. So, we left it on a piece of cardboard and slid it to the front door from the garage. Then ramped it up to the door. THEN slid it into the kitchen. Cary got stuck in the mud on the side of the sidewalk a few times. His slippers were sacrificed. ALL IN ALL IT WAS JUST PLAIN HARD.

AFTER DOING ALL THAT... we realized that...the fridge had wheels. ALSO. That was when Jason and Ken walked in and asked "Do u guys need help?"

CORY'S DOG

2007-03-15T23:48:00.000-05:00

Cory's dog is so CUTE.

Russia

2007-02-17T23:00:00.000-06:00

Anna and I in Red Square, Moscow

My cubby hole on the train back from Novgorod to Moscow

Helen waiting for the train to Novgorod from Moscow

Training Center in Ramenskoye

I'm really thankful that the Lord gave me the honor of participating in the gospel trip in Russia this January. GMR 2007 went out to 50 Russian cities to preach the gospel. My assigned city was Novgorod (only 9 hrs by train), and my sister rode a 37 hr train ride to Krugan, Siberria. Our day started at 6:00 in the morning and ended at 20:00. Sometimes we walked 6 hour days passing out tracts to the seminars, and some nights we knocked on 50-100 doors to preach the gospel. The militia came and kept tight watch over us "foreigners." I really wished that our food portion was larger... BUT praise the Lord, He taught me how to coordinate with other members in the Body, and I just felt like I've gained more of Him.

The Russian brothers and sisters were really awesome. They really took care of us. At one point, when our passports were taken up by the local militia, I remember praying about it and going to sleep thinking "The brothers will take care of it. God is with us!"

Out of the 2.5 weeks in Russia, I saw the sun twice. The second time was really significant to me because that day I woke up and I really didn't want to go out to preach the gospel in the cold. The night before...my local team were cursed at for being foreigners and for being Christians while we were door knocking. It got really bad because Katya, a dear Russian sister, stopped translating what was shouted. We met with alcoholics...drunks. That morning I woke up, and I felt really defeated. But during our truth study, the Lord reminded me to have faith in Him. Preaching the gospel is not easy. A lot of people won't like you. They won't accept you. But we must go on with Him. Then the sun came out. He is light that shines in darkness. My team went out to a nearby market area to preach the gospel. I was able to preach the gospel to two Russians, who prayed and accepted Christ. The Lord is faithful!

If I given the opportunity to go again...I would in a heart beat.

Picture site

2007-02-02T06:48:00.001-06:00

www.sunnyd.smugmug.com

Picture site

2007-02-02T06:48:00.000-06:00

www.sunnyd.smugmug.com

Helen

2007-01-24T00:01:00.000-06:00

Helen is back!!! I wonder if she thinks it's cold in Houston right now? Did she learn some Russian? or French? I'll find out more tomorrow.

Bunnies Don't Know How to Blog

2007-01-22T00:23:00.000-06:00

I can beat Andrew at herding animals and hammering the rabbit's head.

How Not to get PROMOTED in ONE NIGHT

2006-12-19T14:42:00.000-06:00

Last Thursday, December 14th, was our departmental holiday party at the Tropics, a local seafood restaurant. Jason was Sunny's +1, and Cary was mine. Now, my boss bought a shot for me before dinner. He was looking red so WE offered him a ride home. I was like YES...+1 pt for me.

The next day... I was told that I forgot about him...and he didn't have a ride home. I mean...I didn't even remember the next day. I walked in the lab. Jeff looked at me and started laughing. I said, "why are you so happy? still drunk?" He said, "no but you are probably in trouble. mwhahahhaha" Jeff=evil I mean my boss had to call his wife to come pick him up.

I'm so sorry HongLan. Sunny, Jason, and Cary...man WHAT Happened? Why didn ya'll say something yo?

THE EVIL WII

2006-12-08T08:37:00.000-06:00

The evil WII sports is very addicting. BEWARE gamers. I am hurting everywhere from playing tennis, boxing, and bowling. It is not a good idea to play 5 hours straight. BEWARES....arg.

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2006-11-01T07:14:00.000-06:00

Golfing at Riverside

2006-10-30T22:43:00.000-06:00

Jason, Carey, Sunny, and I went golfing at Riverside. I've been to the driving range a couple of times but not to a real golf course. Played for 5 hours...8 holes. We all learned what we need to work on.

The funnest part was the golf carts. On the third hole, we saw some asians behind us. We joked that they were the dads. AND THEY WAS. They were walking. Isn't Sunny's dad cute? He has an umbrella and everything. He's my golf coach. HAHA

Yao is my BEST FRIEND

2006-09-28T13:39:00.000-05:00

The picture says a thousand words. Yao and I are best friends. We can work through my broken chinese and his poor english...his tallness...my shortness.

Thank you Jason for the invitation!

MORE!

2006-09-21T21:11:00.000-05:00

Fun Times

2006-09-21T08:40:00.000-05:00

House UPDATE

2006-09-18T22:01:00.000-05:00

THE FRAMES ARE UP!

UofH

2006-09-18T21:55:00.000-05:00

Mike's Dorm Room

Sunny and I in the Dorm Quarters

We got to visit my brother at UofH. I bought matching sweatshirts for my proud parents. I cannot bear to wear UofH gear. HAHA

Vanhdy and Jenny also came! We played ping pong. Weird place to play ping pong, eh?

WEEKEND FUN

2006-09-11T09:55:00.000-05:00

We had a lot of fun this weekend.

Saturday - Saturday morning, I had Russian lesson with Liu's wife Bing Bing. I bought Russian for Dummies and ... it was Russian for Dummies. They spell how things would sound in english instead of spelling it correctly in Russian. Bing Bing says that I need a new book. :)

Saturday afternoon, we had lunch with Howard and Lindsey HUANG!! It was super fun. Their house is very cute and classy. Lindsey is a vegetarian, so she made sauteed vegetables and pasta. I complimented with rosemary chicken. OH and we had zucchini bread for dessert with apple butter. AWESOME!

We then had plans to have dinner with Cary, Arthur, and Michael at El Patio, the best Mexcian restaurant in town. They were closed, so we ate at La Conchita. After that, the guys went to the Lin's house to watch the UT football game. I went home and watched the US OPEN Women's final. AND YES it was more important than the UT game! IT'S PRIORITY TO ME ARTHUR!!!!! Hee Hee

SUNDAY - A new Hispanic speaking family came to church. ...I realize that my Spanish is now very poor. It's time to brush up. It's hard juggling two languages man.

Finished up Sunday with golf at the driving range!

Tired Body

2006-09-08T00:22:00.000-05:00

Saturday = Volleyball in H-town
Sunday = Basketball in H-town
Monday = Tennis in H-town
Tuesday = Tennis after work
Wednesday = Tennis after work
Thursday = Tennis after work

It all started out Saturday playing super spike Vball. Played till 12:00pm. Shoulder kinda sore from swinging my arm so much trying to spike.
The next morning we ended up playing bball, half court / full court and then crash from the 3 point line. My legs and back were so sore from trying to box out Vanhdy.
Then four days of tennis in a row. I think my right forearm's worn out. My tennis game steadily declined each day to the point where I couldn't hit a ground stroke anymore. Not to mention my legs felt like bricks.
Maybe i'll relax this weekend and watch UT beat OSU and hit a few golf balls. =P

House Update

2006-08-24T23:06:00.000-05:00

I drove by the new house the other day and took a few snapshots.

2006-08-22T21:21:00.000-05:00

Sometimes we forget the very person we most wanted to become when we were children...when the soul was simple and simply for God.

Mosquito

2006-08-19T22:55:00.000-05:00

There was a mosquito in mom's room. It was so bad that I had to move out of her room. It was a little mosquito and anyone who's dealth with mosquito infestations know that the little ones are the most cunning ones. I was bitten twiice on the bottom of my foot, once on my ankle, once on my eyelid, and once on the palm of my right hand. Needless to say, one of my eyes looked as if someone's punched it. Finally, I gave up and moved out of my mom's room to mine. But periodically, there were bursts of "HELENA!! I hear it. I'm going to lay still...You come in and swat at it!" Of course after each of the outbursts, I ran back in her room, turned on the lights ,and swatted at small black moving dots abover her head. At 2 AM, the battle ended. Mom and I sat on her bed looking at each other. I was scratching the bottonm of my foot looking at her with one good eye, the other had been rendered usless by now. Her hair's all crinkled and messy. Mom bent over laughing. I made a face, stumbled back into my room, fell forward in a mound of disarrayed sheets, and passed out.

Katherine's Classroom

2006-08-19T21:11:00.000-05:00

Ms. Steel at her desk

I'm reading in the cubby area.

I helped Katherine decorate and organize her new classroom this past Saturday. It was really nice. There's 18 desks for her 18 kids. In the top right corner, there's a reading cubbing area decorated in Hawaiian style. She left her mark with giraffe decors here and there. I haven't stepped in an elementary school in years. It was all very strange. There were posters with positive comments like "Do Your Best Today!", "Be Honest!", "Be Nice", "Be Helpful!". I couldnt help wonder if we all paid more attention to these little reminders when we were children, remembered them, and acted upon them grwoing up....we would all be better selves.

Mike's Relocation 8/17/06

2006-08-18T11:52:00.000-05:00

Mike moved into the dorms today. My informant was a crying mom at around lunch time. I remember when I was dropped off ...August 1999 at the Madison House...I was literally dropped off. I didn't know my parents could drive off so fast. Then I found out that the cafeteria was not serving any meals for another three days. I lived off of the Christians On Campus welcome dinners (thank you sisters), Jason Avairah's candy bars, and the military food packs that my dad bought for me.

Gina's bar 8/16/06

2006-08-18T11:37:00.002-05:00

I AM SO SORE FROM TENNIS. SO SORE!

It's official. Sunny's parents' house is now a neighborhood bar. Every aunties and uncles have come for drinks. And yes, there were underage drinking. Johnny Wu had to be driven home to Jason...intoxicated.

Sunny, Ken, Cary, and I missed most of the excitement. We were on the TENNIS COURT fighting for glory. Ken and I lost to Sunny and Cary 4-6, 6-7 (4-7). It was pretty close!

We are now more than half way done with the Grey Goose vodka bottle. I'm eagerly awaiting for it to be emptied so that I can use it for a vase...or to hold my stars!!

UP CHUCK Charles 8/11/06

2006-08-18T11:17:00.000-05:00

Today was a rather odd day. A former coworker was arrested on the charges of strangulation of a woman in Victoria. He made the front page.

After work, Sunny and I drove to Austin. We stayed with Ken. The Houston crew wanted to go bowling after dinner. So we went to Highland Lanes. I did terrible as usual. THEN CHARELS threw up a little on Tammi.

There may be many different interpretations...Here's mine called...Through the eyes from yet another VICTIM:

Charles and I were talking about this pair of shorts Sunny accidently took back with him to PL. I thought it might have been his. When all of a sudden Charles turned towards Tammi and burped real loud. He turned back to me and started talking to me like nothing happened, but I smelled something that reaked on his breath. I asked him what he brought back with him. I held my breath and pinched my nose. It was THAT bad. I was just about to offer him some gum when Tammi discovered that there was a little bit of vomit on the sleeve of her tshirt. Apparently, Charles had up chucked throw up along with his burp. How was I a victim along w/ Tammi? I had to smell his reaking vomit BREATH!!!

Austin, TX

2006-08-16T23:07:00.000-05:00

Last weekend we deviated from our norm of playing in H-town and traveled to Austin. We did so much in so little time it was exausting, yet so fun.

We left Friday right after work and on the way I lost my voice from coughing and singing, haha. First stop was Rudy's BBQ, can't resist the extra moist brisket and the tasty cream of corn. Then it was to Highland Lanes for some bowling action and a few laughs. Burp! The rest of the night was spent at Einsteins playing video games.

Saturday started out with a quick brunch and then kayaking. Note to self, never go alone again! I almost didnt make it back. A big thanks to the people who towed me half way back, haha. Putt putt golf afterwards was just way too hot, we should have went home after kayaking and played putt putt at Austin Park and Pizza later on. Dinner was at Mikado's and it was freezing in there. Food was good though. Austin Park and Pizza needs to fix their arcade games, everything was broken, unplayable, sucky. Laser tag was fun, i shot alot of people, but apparently alot of people shot me as well. While others got in line for go karts we took off back to PL. I spent most of Sunday sleeping and relaxing. I don't know how the rest of pack survived Schlitterbahn on Sunday and then more activities on Monday. I was pooped!

Got my Bags all packed and I'm ready to go...

2006-08-10T09:54:00.000-05:00

Got my bags all packed and I'm ready to go... love that Song.

I am ready to move into our new house. I already have boxes!

Living in a predominately Taiwanese neighborhood.

2006-08-09T13:32:00.000-05:00

Living in a predominately Taiwanese neighborhood sucks. I will make sure we have good locks on our doors to keep out the busy bees. And there are A LOT of them.

We played tennis yesterday. I was playing with Grace and was very impressed on how much she progressed with just a little bit of instruction when an odious woman approached us. Within minutes, she has insulted Grace and changed my tennis partner. She first asked me if I was payed to play with Grace. NO. I play with Grace, not because she is a good player, but because she is good company. By then, I couldn't help making faces...I think my face turned red. She said proudly that she is so and so's mom. I shrugged and told her that I don't know her or her daughters. Impatiently, she goes on to tell me that she had been on vacation in California for the past 4 weeks. She repeats 4 weeks several times and sticks up four fingers like I didn't really get that she is telling me her husband has been in Formosa for a long and probably is an important man. Who gives a crap! We are not at work. SHE DOESN'T EVEN WORK. Don't you hate it when women have to use the status of their husbands to appease their insecurities for being idle? So, her daughter comes on the court. I assume that it's ok that Grace hit with us. OH NO. She comes up to me and tells me...not in a lowered voice and with no shame. "Grace is not your level nor my daughter's level." She needs to just watch you hit with my daughter. That is when I deemed her as an odious woman. There are a lot here, but she tops the list.

NEW HOUSE!!!!

2006-08-08T22:55:00.000-05:00

Check it out!! How do you like the color of the bricks?

Another busy weekend

2006-08-07T23:45:00.000-05:00

First off Happy Birthday to Helen and a belated one to Sam.

So this weekend Vanhdy apparently brainwashed Helen into thinking she was 26. Someone at work made a comment in regards to her being 25 now and she blurted out "I'M NOT 25!!! I'M 26!!!" hahaha. Then there was silence and then "STUPID VANHDY!!!" LOL.

Sam's dinner party took awhile to get started, but once it did everything went smoothly. I've never been to such a large party, practically took 1/3 of Cheesecake Factory. It was pretty entertaining watching him pull out "Navy" related gift one after another, haha. Later at After 5, Sam and Charles messed up their N'Sync routine. Charles didn't have enough alchy and Sam claimed he didnt know when to start dancing. Also I surprised myself with my alcohol tolerance. First time in many many many years since I took so many shots. Usually I turn really red and feel sick but this time I only turned red, no sick feeling at all!! Dunno what happened, but i'm not going to complain. =P What really messed me up was the lack of sleep that night.

For Helen's B-day we ate in and Andrews. Preparation for lunch started late because everyone was tired from dog piling Sam the night before. haha Good thing Helen showed up late due to traffic on 610. She was happy with all her gifts, even that duplicate Banana necklace which she went and bought herself that morning, heh sorry Jenny. Then came the big one. I must brag about it since it totally messed up my own plans on how I was going to spend the $$$
http://www.tagheuer.com/the-collection/aquaracer/woman/quartz-watch/index.lbl?w=WAF1412.BA0812
I kinda want one for myself now =P. The guys version of course.

Then remainder of the day was spent playing vball and driving home.

San Anton Zoo

2006-07-28T19:01:00.000-05:00

The Zoo crew!

After I was thoroughly humiliated for passing my citizenship test (please refer to Andrew's webpage), we went to the San Antonio Zoo. IT WAS SUPER FUN...except I got real sweaty. Here are some pictures from our trip.

Sunny rode the Lion.

My lepard pic is better than Andrew's cause his tongue's out!

We love Marsupials!

They made me take a picture...with the "blald eagle".

Love the HAIR KEN!!

Working Man

2006-07-27T22:28:00.000-05:00

So sad what work does to you. I checked my body fat and it was a whopping 15%. I think i better start working out again and get into better shape.

On a brighter note, I don't have to work tomorrow, Seaworld on saturday, San Marcos outlet shopping on Sunday, and I don't have to hide Helen from the INS anymore hahaha. Just playing.

Welcome to America !!!