It's my nephew Donald 4-year-old's birthday today! And he was so excited for this day to come. He talked about it for at least a week before it, and thus he has been listening to us more, as we "threatened" him not to host his birthday party if he's not behaving. It's magic - it worked for most of the time :)
Yesterday, my family and I went to 5 different supermarkets (yeah, you read it right - it's FIVE) to buy food and stuff for the party. We need certain things at certain place, and those places don't overlap. And so we run from places to places for 5 hours. It's crazy - but it seems we had fun.
In this big chaotic cooking, I also stepped up and contributed a bit. I tried to cook Italian seafood soup (Zuppa di Pesce) for the very first time. My previous roommate (mommy Pink) cooked it before, and I loved it - so i gave it a try. This is the recipe I followed:
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/zuppa-di-pesce.html
I also cooked the Grilled Salmon (Sue Harman’s Salmon Marinade) that I got the recipe from my gsb classmate Kevin. Absolutely loved it, and my family/guests liked it too.
I bought my nephew a Cars 2 luggage from Disney store - now he can travel to new places with his favorite suitcase. I personally loved it too, and wouldn't mind carrying it for my business travel later on, except i might look like an idiot. So I dropped that idea :)
http://www.amazon.com/Rolling-Backpack-Lightining-Mcqueen-School/dp/B0040549EY/ref=pd_sbs_a_16
Now time to sleep, and a new week starts tomorrow.
Happy birthday to you, Donald!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
The summer post-GSB
This blog is the start of my summer journey.
Like many of us who just graduated from the 2-year long MBA program, I struggled with the decision what to do for the whole summer. Either sign up for another summer internship and get another great (or so I hope) experience before I start my full time job. Or just ask to start my full time job earlier (and yes, the big PLUS is so I can start seeing more inflow to my bank account after years of only deficit). Or I can make a big traveling plan to all corners of the world (like so many of my gsb friends did). Or just simply do nothing...
I sorta picked the last one. As I talked to so many friends and people who were in the same boat with me many years ago, the consistent advice I got was that "when is the next time you have such a long break for yourself?" "forget about work - you will have your whole life ahead to do work", or many other advices along the same line. Surely there are advices on the opposite side as well, but I only remember what I wanted to hear, and these advices definitely stick more with me (or with my lazy nature).
And here I am, in Houston, deciding to spend all my summer months here with my family. I know I know - there are no good reasons to be in this crazily hot weather (average is about 95 F degree, or equivalent of about 35-37 C degree), plus the very humid weather. Yet, my family is here, so are my amazing nephew and my niece.
I also decided to spend this entire summer to work on a non-profit start-up that I have been very determined to make it happen. Another blog I will explain more what I am trying to work on, but in short it's a non-profit that focuses at providing sponsorship for underserved Vietnamese students to go to college in Vietnam. There is probably not better time for me to work on this than now - and so I decided to work on it full time for the next 3 months before I embark on a very busy work schedule again in October.
Summer has been great - I hardly go out during the day given how hot it can get here. But I have great time enjoying myself - and you wont believe, but time does fly by much faster than I thought. I have anticipated a much more painful time of not knowing how to fill my 24 hours a day, but it has proven me wrong. Before I realize, the whole day has gone.
Like many of us who just graduated from the 2-year long MBA program, I struggled with the decision what to do for the whole summer. Either sign up for another summer internship and get another great (or so I hope) experience before I start my full time job. Or just ask to start my full time job earlier (and yes, the big PLUS is so I can start seeing more inflow to my bank account after years of only deficit). Or I can make a big traveling plan to all corners of the world (like so many of my gsb friends did). Or just simply do nothing...
I sorta picked the last one. As I talked to so many friends and people who were in the same boat with me many years ago, the consistent advice I got was that "when is the next time you have such a long break for yourself?" "forget about work - you will have your whole life ahead to do work", or many other advices along the same line. Surely there are advices on the opposite side as well, but I only remember what I wanted to hear, and these advices definitely stick more with me (or with my lazy nature).
And here I am, in Houston, deciding to spend all my summer months here with my family. I know I know - there are no good reasons to be in this crazily hot weather (average is about 95 F degree, or equivalent of about 35-37 C degree), plus the very humid weather. Yet, my family is here, so are my amazing nephew and my niece.
I also decided to spend this entire summer to work on a non-profit start-up that I have been very determined to make it happen. Another blog I will explain more what I am trying to work on, but in short it's a non-profit that focuses at providing sponsorship for underserved Vietnamese students to go to college in Vietnam. There is probably not better time for me to work on this than now - and so I decided to work on it full time for the next 3 months before I embark on a very busy work schedule again in October.
Summer has been great - I hardly go out during the day given how hot it can get here. But I have great time enjoying myself - and you wont believe, but time does fly by much faster than I thought. I have anticipated a much more painful time of not knowing how to fill my 24 hours a day, but it has proven me wrong. Before I realize, the whole day has gone.
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