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This year, Lunar New Year (“Sollal” in Korean, Chinese New Year) fell on a Sunday, which meant that Koreans had Saturday and Monday off. I spent the long weekend by going to Seoul and hanging out with Allison for a couple days. It was a much needed break because I was getting cabin fever hanging [...]

Last night, I went with my mom to her company’s Christmas Party. It wasn’t too bad – free food and drink. You can’t complain about that. How come, at any company party, there’s always one really drunk, obnoxious person? At least at a Lucas Film company party, you have a good chance that the drunk [...]

After my first class today, Ras met me near campus for lunch. I wanted to try out a nearby “pho” place on Broadway and College Street – Pho Thanh-Long. I wondered how it would compare to Pho Van, which is a favorite for my family. We used to drive all the way out to 82nd [...]

I visited the Portland Japanese Garden three days ago, but haven’t been able to upload the pictures on Flickr yet.  I’ve got two midterms tomorrow that I’m cramming for, so the pictures will have to wait until later.  Here’s a sneak peak at one of the photos I took.  It’s now my desktop wallpaper.   [...]

I’m a major procrastinator, and should really be focusing on studying for my two midterms on Tuesday.  Instead, I’ll post these pictures of the asian pears I was picking from our backyard.  At my brother’s house, there are five asian pear trees, and two persimmons.  Not all the trees bear fruit as big as the [...]