Lots of things happening, still busy with many upcoming community projects such as the DH4 North America campaign, the slideshows for the VietACT/VPS Gala in SoCal and Denver, the slideshow for the Vietnamese Heritage Society Garden Projects's “An Evening in Saigon” in San Jose, but all in all life's swell.
Life's swell because at last weekend's DH4 luncheon and nationwide DH4 radiothon hosted in San Jose, we fundraised a pretty significant amount of money for the Fourth International Vietnamese Youth Conference. A bunch of UVSA friends came up and stayed at my place as well, giving me an excuse to treat them with an extravaganza of sushi and playing poker until early in the morning. We went up to Sacramento for the DH4 event up there where I got a chance to meet more attendees. Over the past days I have received a bunch of more emails from more attendees buying their flight ticket so that we all can meet up in Honolulu to head to Sydney together for the conference... well, and today I got a hold on the DH4 tattoos - how freaking funny is that? Aahh..... the DH4 momentum is rolling!!
Life's swell because unlike last month, I've finished my monthly scrum tasks one day ahead of schedule, even though I was so certain a week ago that I am going to have to work really late again, but ah well. This allows me to go happily into labor day weekend as I look forward to go down south, meet up with my lovely friends in SoCal, attend the much-anticipated Tran Trung Dao poetry reading in Little Saigon and the annual John Williams concert at the Hollywood Bowl this Saturday (yippee... I got tickets and I am going with my parents and some friends of mine).
Life's swell because I am excited about going to a Microsoft-internal 2-day ASP.NET 2.0 class this week, attending two film music concerts within the next two weeks (Video Game Live coming up the following weekend), buying my electric piano next week (I am eyeing the Yamaha P120), currently learning my all-time-favorite-classical-piece "Canon in D" by Pachelbel on the piano with my piano teacher.
Ah... life's swell, and to make my cats happy, I even bought Charlie a remote-controlled mouse that drives him nuts. Hihi... how fun is that. ;) Ah... life's swell..... if I now only find the discipline to start studying for the GRE and applying for graduate school....