White Wedding...

Group Shot 1


Liz and Me


Me, Vu, Chester and Joce


Group Shot 2

Check out the rest of the photos on A Glimpse Inside Gallery, under "Other Events."

Google Bombing the Midterms...

In a democratic netroots effort, MyDD.com is attempting to Google bomb the names of all republicans who are currently in competitive races. I'm just doing my small part to help my democratic netizens. If you don't know what google bombing is, check out this link. Basically this will direct people googling names to negative articles written by non-partisan media sources. An interesting idea whose effectiveness I'm curious to see.

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl

--AZ-01: Rick Renzi

--AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth

--CA-04: John Doolittle

--CA-11: Richard Pombo

--CA-50: Brian Bilbray

--CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave

--CO-05: Doug Lamborn

--CO-07: Rick O'Donnell

--CT-04: Christopher Shays

--FL-13: Vernon Buchanan

--FL-16: Joe Negron

--FL-22: Clay Shaw

--ID-01: Bill Sali

--IL-06: Peter Roskam

--IL-10: Mark Kirk

--IL-14: Dennis Hastert

--IN-02: Chris Chocola

--IN-08: John Hostettler

--IA-01: Mike Whalen

--KS-02: Jim Ryun

--KY-03: Anne Northup

--KY-04: Geoff Davis

--MD-Sen: Michael Steele

--MN-01: Gil Gutknecht

--MN-06: Michele Bachmann

--MO-Sen: Jim Talent

--MT-Sen: Conrad Burns

--NV-03: Jon Porter

--NH-02: Charlie Bass

--NJ-07: Mike Ferguson

--NM-01: Heather Wilson

--NY-03: Peter King

--NY-20: John Sweeney

--NY-26: Tom Reynolds

--NY-29: Randy Kuhl

--NC-08: Robin Hayes

--NC-11: Charles Taylor

--OH-01: Steve Chabot

--OH-02: Jean Schmidt

--OH-15: Deborah Pryce

--OH-18: Joy Padgett

--PA-04: Melissa Hart

--PA-07: Curt Weldon

--PA-08: Mike Fitzpatrick

--PA-10: Don Sherwood

--RI-Sen: Lincoln Chafee

--TN-Sen: Bob Corker

--VA-Sen: George Allen

--VA-10: Frank Wolf

--WA-Sen: Mike McGavick

--WA-08: Dave Reichert

A Good Day for Nuptials...

I meant to post this yesterday, but after an exhausting nine hours of work (to which I returned to after a year hiatus yesterday) I was left utterly destroyed. I suppose it didn't help that I spent all weekend drinking and partying with Gordon. First it was a night out in downtown SD with Gus and three strange girls. Then it was up to LA for Liz's big day. Now I don't consider myself the most sentimental of people but neither do I think my heart is made of stone. And while I didn't cry (like Jocelyn - who was the Maid of Honor) I did feel extremely happy for my friend Liz. Out of everyone I knew in college, I don't think anyone equated marriage with happiness and success more than her. I've discovered that this outlook isn't uncommon among koreans, but nevertheless I'm glad she finally she got what she wished for.

It was a huge ceremony. The groom, it turns out in addition to being a cop, is also the son of a pastor. By tradition, he invited the entire congregation. It was one of the longer ceremonies I've seen, but I think the fact that many things were repeated twice, once in english and then in korean, really slowed things down. But it was beautiful and I'm sure Liz will remember that day for the rest of her life. So congrats to my buddy Liz who is probably at this very moment on some beautiful beach on Bora Bora with her new hubby.

After the ceremony was the afterparty (of course). Two words: OPEN BAR. It was like a UCSD reunion. Vu spun. Even Ted dropped by. We had such a blast that we never even made it to the hotel Vu got in Hollywood. Instead we crashed at the bridal party hotel with Jasime and Jenny. The only down notes to the whole affair were that most girls were taken and Steamin who was critically ill earlier this month was not in attendance. But not to fret, we'll get a second chance at it at Joce's wedding next year.

Pictures will be up later this week so stay tuned for those.

Much To Write About Casey...

I've been working on Casey's personal statement for dental school for over a month now, and for most of that month I've been plagued with the worse case of writer's block. It's a vile beast and one that's difficult to slay. But as I sat down after my afternoon workout, it struck me all of a sudden and I was able to hammer out the remaining couple of paragraphs. This wasn't the first personal statement I've written for a friend, but I think it will probably be the last. It has often been said that you can only write what you know. So writing a personal statement for someone else is not exactly the easiest thing. In the past, I've written statements for close friends and generally, my knowledge of them is sufficient. But in this case, it turns out that despite our long lived friendship, I actually didn't know that much about Casey. I had to actually sit down and do a mini-interview with her in order to gather the crucial information I needed. But now that that's all over, it's smooth sailing until my frist day of work.

Yesterday Was a Good Day...

So I had an interview with Northrop Grummon MIssion Systems yesterday morning and three hours after that, they offered me a job. Just like that! Can you believe it? So starting October 23rd (tentantively) I shall no longer be amoung the ranks of the destitute or unemployed. Ok, I was never destitute but you get the picture. Finally I'll be positive in the monthly cash flow once again. Good thing too, cause I was running a little low in the savings department. My nice little post-trip cushion was almost gone. So anyway, I should get an official offer letter tomorrow. But yup, still super stoked about getting a job. Once again a wage slave and proud!

The other thing that happened was I finally found a roomie, Vu's acquaintance Jurgen. Even though things won't be finalized until next Tuesday when he moves in, pays his money, and fills out the necessary paper work, I'm remaining cautiously optimisitic. Well with the whole job and roomie situation resolved at last, its like two huge weights removed from my shoulders. Now if I could only overcome my massive writer's block and finish Casey's statement. *sigh* Work... it's never quite done.