Medusa in midair in front of giant armadillo with horns:

Got to finally meet Charmian! :) Messing around at the waterwall:

Nothing like coming home and everyone pitching in for a nice home-cooked dinner (including my infamous hot 'n sour soup):

This sucks. As does this.

The bro (who sent me the first story about baseball player Choo) and I were discussing how in smaller cities, the backlash against Asians would be worse than in bigger, more diverse cities. Let's take a look here, using Los Angeles and Houston for comparison since they are relatively chock-full of Asians.

Population numbers as of 2000 census:
Blacksburg, Virginia: 39,573
Cary, Illinois: 15,531
Los Angeles, California: 3,694,820
Houston, Texas: 1,953,631

Oh, and for those who read my site anywhere other than the mothersite, I was out of town for a few days and only posted to ihatepink.com while I was away. So to get your mini-pic-fix, visit the mothersite! :)

It's good to see extended family (we didn't get to see all of them, but I am grateful for the ones we could see). Four generations present here:

Proud grandparents:

First ever in-car diaper change (and fastest too!):

Wii sillyness!

*yawn* Off to the bride's house to get my makeup and hair done:

Video of me giving the groom a hard time (a Chinese custom):

My fave catch of the day:

Wedding paparazzi. The ringbearer (above) and the flower girl were excessively cute:

The newlyweds and me (like the color of my dress? hehe):

Beware the fake eyelashes that almost touch my eyebrows:

More little peoples!

This is after John and Jenna's little Dereck drooled all over my jeans trying to ... uh, fit my leg in his mouth, I guess? HAhaha.

Spontaneous detour to check out Manhattan Beach right off the plane:

Video of me being silly at the beach:

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Seeing my former landlords, who are like a second set of parents to me:

Meeting my nephew (son of my cousin, what do you call them?), who is affixing himself to dad's arm here:

Exhausted, but in a good way. Lights out for me!

My webhost, EnVaDoR, has once again made the limelight for his l337 "modding" skillz. I say "modding" because well, it's more like carpentry and/or engineering and/or design. He has truly succeeded in not only thinking outside the box, but also outside your humdrum regular computer case. :)

The initial photo of a computer that comes up is also EnVaDoR's, the Dashboard PC. Scroll down to "Mods from Envador" and watch the cool little slideshow of his "work" plus his telephone interview with Intel, which provides insight into Dean's personality. At 4:30 into the slideshow, he says some things that truly inspire me. Thanks, Dean!

So without further ado: [ Intel® Core™ Processor Challenge PC Design >> Share Your PC Story ]

I was celebrating the finishing of my taxes, you know with TaxAct.com and all ... oops, did I just say that out loud ...

And then, I was sent this link to the blog of a Virginia Tech professor, which got me catching up on the day's big news, and now ... I feel crummy. I don't dare watch any of the videos, because I know I would start crying.

@#$% ...

Been reading about it, and I figured I should just try it. The name "Twitter" reminds me of twitching ... which is pretty accurate for me, since I start twitching unattractively if I'm unable to blog. [ my twitcher, i mean, twitter ] Add me if you have it!

Update: added a twitter badge to the left side. Code thanks to Jonathan Aquino. And in my search for this badge code, came upon an even more obsessive site: Jaiku.