Chinese New Year

My company is owned by a Chinese man, so every year it is tradition to hold a Chinese New Year firecracker display on the first day of the Lunar New Year, in front of our business for goodluck.  This year we celebrated the year of the bull siginified by an image at the top of the firecracker string (hard to see, but it's there). To the left you can see the string of firecrackers going off. We are hoping that the Bull is a double good luck symbol to be significant of the market! haha! Below you will see a video of the fire cracker display and a couple other images I captured that afternoon.  It was loud, it was fun, and it was a free lunch!  

Tennis Anyone...

A week ago tuesday, Katie (sister) and I went to the SAP open in San Jose to watch some of the first rounds of men's singles.  The hotties Rodick and Hewitt were playing (seperate matches) so it was really nice eye candy.  I told Katie I was so excited to see Hewitt playing becuase I had the biggest crush on him in high School! Kris G. and I were big fans of his, and Jan Michael and Saffin.  Didn't know too much about Roddick at the time.  I think he was a new  comer when I was in HS. Anyway Rodick smoked some qualifier in the first set, and then the qualifier rallied in the second, but was beat in the tie breaker...Rodick pushed through, but turns out he didn't win the SAP like he did last year. He was eliminated in the semi-final. We didn't get to stay for all of Hewitt's match against MartyFish, but that's ok because I would have been depressed to stay and watch him get beat. MartyFish made it all the way to the final round and was eliminated by Stykov, or somehting like that *(I am way off on that name).  Never the less it was fun to be there and watch the match, get mad at bad calls, and just have a good time!

The Blog Frenzie

So Sister Katie has a blog now! www.cateringtofaults.blogspot.com. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but i am sure it is good. Check it out, it is on my blog list to the left.

Tonight we had a wonderful dinner with Christine, Antonio, Baby Katherine, Joslyn and Justice, Erin S.* (to protect the not so innocent) and Lisa! Aaron came after class, and I DIDN'T BURN THE MEAL AND IT DID TASTE GREAT! Comments from the peanut gallary gladly accepted!

Erin S. did great with her try's at speaking spanish to Antonio. The best was " 'chi chi' that's milk right?" and Christine responding with "NO! That's Boobie!" hahahah! Classic Erin S. moment right there; it was almost as good as "Para Ti- like a Par-ty, you know 'Fiesta' !?" and " I remembered my 'biblioteca'" (which was for "bible")! So great! I love watching and listening to her try to speak spanish, though I will say mine is not much better...I lack confindence more than anything. Other than that, it was a calm enjoyable night.

Here are some pictures from tonight. (p.s. this is another lame blog night, but something funny is bound to happen soon.


Thought for the night: Video games can cross internation borders and language barriers, and make two people with nothing in common, connected.