China 2007

hey chicas! i first want to start off by saying, i love you both and miss you both tremendously!

 Oregon was great! elissa is amazingly smart, cute and talkative. She follows me around calling me ee mo. She doesnt not let the vietnamese cousins near her. Elissa is a total gangster and is kinda possessive. She hasnt learned sharing yet with her cousins. maybe she doesnt want to hang out with them because they are so ghetto! haha anyhow, i slept over my grandmas house monday night (last week) because our flight was at 640am. My grandma made me pack her stuff and do housework so we didnt sleep til midnight. We knew my mom was going to pick us up on her way to the airport at 4 so we were supposed to wake up at 330amish. At 2:30, my grandma thought i would be cold, so she makes her way into her bedroom (where i am sleeping) and proceeds to close a window and shuts her blinds. I think she assumed she was being quiet but it was freaken loud. So i didnt sleep at all that night..

flying with my grandma is interesting because she has knee replacements so she always buzzes the security checkpoint and has to do the whole back room search. Its kinda funny because when i was waiting for her, all these old grandmas and grandpas were in the back room. They probably all have some type of steel in their body from knee or hip replacements. haha our flight was delayed so we got to oregon at 10am.

 we pretty much spent the next couple days cooking, eating, playing with elissa and preparing for the party. The party was great! nam is so much more helpful now. i remember last year, esgel and i cleaned til 1am and he didnt lift a finger. This year, he told his family to leave at 10pm and helped us clean. I was shocked at how helpful he was..

I got back on sunday and was totally exhausted but had to prepare for an audition today. I have a call back for it on wednesday at 230 so pray for me.

 As for tomkat vs tods, you both know i took the tods job and told tomkat to keep in touch.

 Oh yeah, john and i pitched a reality show with johns friend david shaye at TLC last monday. we are waiting to hear back on if they want to buy it from us and if so, how many episodes. We wouldnt be working on it daily. We just kinda get a fee for every episode.

john seems depressed these days..he just doesnt seem happy at work or anything..i am trying to figure it out...

Unni, What a great idea!! Now we can we can talk in secret muhaa muhaah...

I'm in the process of getting a webcam for my lap top. esther, please do the same so we can all see each other. It's not the same when we're just emailing and on the phone.  I want to see unni's new perm.. and esther, I want to see you face to face to see your weight loss progress.. and get MOTIVATED!!

I survived my 1st week at work and I'm overwhelmed.. People work longer hours and don't take lunch breaks.  Stresses me out, cuz yano I need my snack break, coffee break, lunch break and a late lunch break.  Me and Grace have been eating out everyday this week.. I know we're bad..but the food is just too good here. Best SUSHI place up here is Kirala.. unni, grace said you went on a date there loong time ago back in college?  Amazing sushi, rivals IKE and maybe ABE!  yum yum.. 

I can't wait for Arnold to get up here.. less than two weeks!!  I'm going to be going to Stanford lot cuz they have so many events for students and their SO's [ Signifcant Others- that would be me =) ]   They have like an 80's dance coming up and you have to be full on decked out. I knew I shoulda kept all those scrunchies and wrist snaps!  

 Esther I can't wait to come down next week with grace and party it up for your b-day. Anything in particular you want to do after dinner??

 Here are some pic's from Europe..enjoy..  and from over the weekend w/ Sunnie. There are some kool bars up here.. We checked out SLIDE where you literally slide down the entrance. Sunnie and I did it, but we didn't think it was a good idea for Grace to do it.. in case she hurt her TOE again!