A few days before my b-day, I find this in my room... (the card and jewelry are sentimental, considering our previous conversations) ;)


Surprised again, tonight, with cupcakes from this famous "Sprinkles" place in Beverly Hills.  This girl!


Dim lighting hides wrinkles... ;}


Umm... the "Oscar party" P and I went to... --btw, I touched a real Oscar...!  The pics of us are in P's camera...


Helen's "not for my birthday" birthday dinner.  I snuck and got the guy to bring her something.  She wanted to eat at Outback.  That's Annaloes, Helen's roommate, who is a PhD visiting student from Holland.


Central Library - Los Angeles Public Library


It may be bigger than Seattle's Central library?...not sure.


Loved this room... (well, that's the ceiling...)

Vietnamese Tet (New Year) Festival in Garden Grove. 


One of the many food booths.  The Vietnamese cuisine has a really good soup consisting of crab and bamboo. -- I felt really bad for the booth...but we all figured (or hoped) that no one would notice, so it wouldn't be too bad...?  (Oh, and that's Pauline's half-brother, Phil.)


So i was trying to take one of those candid, secret camera pics...NOT wanting mySELF in it...And look what I end up with... The three laughed at me after seeing this. That person without a face is Helen.


So Pauline dragged me out of our apartment to take some pictures of us posed in our new "THINK" shirts.  We tried so many frikken poses.  She ended up submitting this to John for the web site and booth at the Tet festival.  I'm so bad at this.  Helen said I look like i'm meditating.  The truth is, I sat there, and Pauline said, "look slightly down at the grass", so I did, and here's the pic. (btw, that shirt's designed by Pauline.)  You think this looks unnatural?  Good lord, there are others far worse...


Okay...how do I-- Just LOOK. I just...I...but...how...--NO we did NOT eat here. *sigh*.

That's it.