New Yorker has a great piece from Jill Lepore on breast-feeding. The history of breast-pumping is also very informative. Read it if you’re about to become a parent like me. Here is an excerpt:

In 1997, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a policy statement on “Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk,” declaring human milk to be “species-specific” and recommending it as the exclusive food for the first six months of a baby’s life, to be followed by a mixed diet of solid foods and human milk until at least the end of the first year. In that statement, and in a subsequent revision, the A.A.P. cited research linking breast-feeding to the reduced incidence and severity of, among other things, bacterial meningitis, diarrhea, respiratory-tract infection, ear infection, urinary-tract infection, sudden-infant-death syndrome, diabetes mellitus, lymphoma, leukemia, Hodgkin’s disease, obesity, and asthma. The benefits of breast-feeding are unrivalled; breast-feeding rates in the United States are low; the combination makes for a public-health dilemma.

A technique of overtones “invented by Bernard Dubreuil in 1987 and developed by Tran Quang Hai in the field of music therapy to solve married couples’ psychological problems.” Watch the demonstration of Harmonic Kiss performed by Bach Yen and Tran Quang Hai. I want to try the technique with Dana, but she thinks I have a psychological problem for even proposing it.

“Being poor means there’s potential for becoming rich.” From True to Love, a Korean TV series I am addicting to.

A gorgeous jazz tune from Jazzy Da Lam gets dressed in string orchestration. Ngoc Anh’s slightly raucous timbre sounds intoxicating on the low register. On the climax, however, her voice gets too operatic.

“Yes,” Weezy’s flow is mad wicked.

After reading “Chuot Con’s Birth Story,” I have a much deeper appreciation for women who have to endure all the pain. In 15 weeks, Dana will give birth to our first joy. But before the joy comes, she has to get through all the pain. Just thinking of the experience makes me love and respect her even more. I can’t say that I can share the pain (I wish I could), but I can definitely feel it. I’ll be there with you in every step of the way, baby. Then again, I am pretty sure all the pain will go away after you hold this little angel in your hands. Now that’s a real joy!

The Hood Internet’s “Mixtape Vol.3” is groovy and, better yet, it’s free. Download it and enjoy. I am feeling it.

Never use the passive voice:

Your balls are to be slurped the most by cum-starved nymphos!!!!!

Use the active voice:

Cum-starved nymphos will slurp your balls the most!!!!!

Somehow I have been craving for Chinese buffet all week. It must be the rain and the darkness after work. We’ll definitely go to a Chinese buffet tomorrow, but don’t want to go to our usual places. Any good recommendation around Virginia and DC?

New Year day, we went to a friend house for a little get together. The place was packed with about five or six couples and about half a dozen of kids. There was one single lady in the house. Guess what happened? That’s right, she left early. She probably got bored of all the kids’ stories and wanted to do her single thangs.

The next morning, we went to Thanh Truc for some rice dishes. Sat next to us was a little chubby kid about seven or eight years old. He ate the pork chops first then literally cleaned up the dish full of rice. His mom ordered him another dish and only allowed him to eat half. In the meantime, I was struggling to clean up my first plate. For a whole day, I couldn’t eat anything else. Damn, I am getting old.