4 days to go until the Chinese New Year or as we call it in Vietnamese...Tet. According to the Chinese Lunar Zodiac, the incoming new year will be the year of the Rooster. The Chinese Lunar Zodiac consisted of cycle of 12 years each representing 12 different animals. Since I was born approximately 24 years ago, I'm a Rooster. Moreover, the year of the Rooster has come around in full circle again for the second time in my life. I'm not sure if it means much or not, but I do hope for some better and greater things to come along soon.

(Hehe...I can now justify why I still have my cool looking Happy Holidays banner on top! You see, technically, I'm still celebrating the holidays right at this moment! Ummm, it's either that or maybe I'm just plain busy/lazy to revert back the change)

Anyhow, Happy Belated Birthday to Hong and Dexter, I attended their little party last week. It was fun guys, even though some of the girls were a bit too crazy! You know who you are! Let's not try to use monetary incentive to make Son dance plz...Here is one of the many pictures taken at the partay.

Left to Right: Hong, Derek, Darren (back), me, and Dexter

School: I still hate school as always. It's nothing too exciting to write or even discuss about. I'm currently trying to figure out some alternatives so I can maybe postpone schooling until a later time or totally go to school for something else different from Computer Science.

Recently, in between of my dreadful ICS classes, I have been sitting in a Political Science class with Derek, a good friend of mine at UCI. I am actually enjoying the lectures in this class more than any of my ICS classes. The professor is quite good and preachy at time. But nonetheless. his storytelling style lectures are very interesting and thought-provoking. What's funny is that, since this class is held in a large auditorium, the professor has to use a wireless microphone to do his lectures. So most of the time, I can only hear him through the speakers in the auditorium. I've told Derek this too, this guy, the way he speaks sounds very similar, if not exactly, to Tom Leykis! I thought that was pretty cool!

Dance rehearsals have been pretty interesting lately (3 hours at a time), it's much harder than dance classes. I actually have to learn and memorize a whole choreographed routine. We are actually doing a Westcoast Swing medley. I must say that I like doing Westcoast swinging better than Eastcoast. It has more body movements and these movements, in my opinion, are more relaxed and smoother than Eastcoast. Conversely, Eastcoast seems a bit more structured and formal. Anyways, each style has its own uniqueness and ideas.

Fun: Onto the World of Warcraft world! I've finally made it to level 58 already. Only 2 more levels until I hit the max level that anyone can achieve at the moment. Here are some cool screenshots that were taken by me in the last few days of WoW'ing.

Self screenshot at level 58! Best looking sword ever!



My brother and I chillin in the Western Plagueland



Group shot of our party right after we killed the giant boss in Uldaman. Jeremy was there too but he had to take off right before I took this screenshot. Left to Right: Darren, Francis, me, Brina (hahah), and my pet.

Longest day ever: This past Thursday/Friday has to be the longest couple of days ever for me. Thursday morning, I woke up around 9 AM, headed to school. Attended my first class until 11:30 AM. Went into the computer lab, checked my email and made a few phone calls. 2PM comes around, I headed to audit a Political Science class. At 2:30PM I had to leave the class early to attend a group meeting for a project for a class in which I might eventually drop pretty soon. At 3PM, I politely excused myself from the meeting early to head off to my Latin dance class. That lasted until 4:30PM. After that, I ran to my 5PM ICS class. Fortunately, the professor let us out earlier than usual. I was able to then make it to the dance rehearsal at 6PM and this was one gruesome tiring 2-hour period until 8 o'clock. I then sped home in the not-so-bad traffic. Got home, played WoW for a couple of hours, leveled my character. Then I started designing and implementing a website project until 7 in the morning! Felt asleep and woke up 5 hours later...got back on WoW for an hour or so and then I left for work. It was my very last day officially working at the ITC department where I have been working at for the past 4 years. After work, I hung around with Brian, Francis and Laureen for most of the night as they are now officially my ex-coworkers. Got back on WoW when I got home and I'm barely writing this blog right now at 5 in the morning the next day.

I apologize if my post seems so random and jumbled, , that's what I get for not posting more often.

Well...Off to sleep I go...I've only had about 10 hours of sleep or so in the past 2 days. So exhausted.