Singing while in labor

A heart-wrecking clip of sexual trafficking in Cambodia. (Via Viet Vista)

I have been wearing my wedding ring on my middle finger instead of the appropriate finger. A guy at work once asked me why did I wear it on my middle finger as if it was my culture or something. I told him the stories that I almost lost it two times.

The first time was in Jamaica during our honeymoon. The other time was when I washed lettuces at home. The ring slipped off my finger and into the vegetable spinner. I didn’t notice it until I took a shower. Luckily I found the ring and to be safe, I put it on my middle finger temporarily until I get fatter. I have been eating much more these days to gain some weight on my finger, but it has yet to happen. Only my gut gets bigger.

I am going to need to go back to the shop and get it tightened up. It feels weird wearing it on my middle finger anyway. Until then, don’t be surprised to see my wedding ring on my middle finger.

Update: Dana reminded me to tightened up the ring yesterday while we were in Eden. It’s all good now.

Sleep more: Unlike my wife who could sleep until one o’clock in the afternoon on the weekend, I would be lucky if I could get eight hours of sleep a day. This might be hard to accomplish with the baby on the way.

Keep on running: I’ve been running a mile a day for about a year now and I hope to continue to do so. Running allows me to eat more without feeling guilty.

Start MBA: Hopefully I will get enough motivation to enroll my ass into an MBA program at GW. I might as well take advantage of it since the school will pay for 96% of my tuition. Like my boss always says, if you add the school benefit to your salary, you’re really making big bucks. She always encourages me to do so anyway.

Take on more freelance designs: Being overwhelm and just purely lazy made me turned down quite a couple gigs in 2008. if I could get more projects like TLeDC.com, I wouldn’t mind taking on work. The total creative freedom was all there.

Spend more time with family: Actually we didn’t do so bad last year juggling between my family and my in-law. Somehow I still don’t feel I spend enough time with my mom. It’s shameful to say that our relationship is in fact better that we don’t live together, but I do miss seeing her too often. She is now even committed to look after Samantha and Eric so there is no chance she will be moving in with us. However, my mother in-law has promised to look after our boy once he is born. I am looking forward to that. My mother in-law is pretty cool and we get along pretty well.

Blogging these days feel more an assignment than just free flowing. I am getting bored of trying to craft my view or trying to make my point. I try the don’t-write-anything-if-you-have-nothing-to-say method and it just doesn’t work. True that I don’t have much to write about, but it is better to write something than not to write anything at all.

The beauty of blogging is the informality and the ability to publish without constraint. I want to be able to start up a blank post and just spill out my thoughts. Obviously there are things that I can’t say on this blog now that I could say before, but I don’t want that to take away my ability to just write.

Does it matter if I write about mundane topics? Does it matter if I make no sense? Could I write with no audience in mind? I did in the past. But that when I didn’t have an audience. Do I have one now? According to Google Analytics, I have 11,298 visitors. Not a whole lot, but big enough. So what am I trying to say here? I am not sure exactly. See I really don’t have to make a point is the point I am trying to make.

A new theme for Lady Lan. Happy birthday!

It’s hard to believe this year is almost over. 2008 has been a major change for us. It seems like last month that Dana and I started our new job in a new town. It seems like last week that we were married. It seems like yesterday that Dana has been pregnant. (I am not exaggerating. You can’t tell by looking at her.) Needless to say, we are very excited about our first boy. Seeing him through ultrasound and hearing his heartbeat through monitor make us even more eager. We can’t wait to hear his first cry.

Even though the boy has yet born, all the attentions are on him. Dana and Donny had put together our Christmas wish list for this year. Her wonderful sister and brother-in-law have already ordered the crib and the bedding set for us. We have been holding off our baby shopping because we’re scrambling to get ourselves a place. Buying a home is quite an experience, especially a foreclosure one. Joy of a home also comes with work—lots of work.

Next year will definitely come with new challenges, but we are grateful at this joyous time of year. Thanks for stopping by to read my muses and dramas. We wish you happiness and hope your holidays are filled with peace, love and prosperity. Merry Christmas!

A collection of striking photographs in 2008. Check out the bows and arrows in the battle field shot.

Updates have been sporadic lately. I know I still owe you guys a review of the latest Paris by Night, but it won’t happen this time. I can’t concentrate on anything else right now, but closing out the house. It turns out to be the good time to buy. The house is still in decent condition and is located in a quiet neighborhood close to George Mason University.

I can’t wait to get the key to the place. I have already come up with all the colors I wanted to paint the house. Being a visual guy, I am trying to come up with one color for each room to spice up the place. Colors bring me vibes and emotions. So depending on my moods, I could stay at different room. When my boy grows up, I can just walk him around the rooms and teach him colors. So far my wife is the only one who supports my decision. My mom thinks that I will make the house lose its value even though I am not planning on reselling it anytime soon.

I am actually taking my mind of the damn house tonight to digitize my music collection. I just brought a 750G hard drive at Costco over the weekend. Between the new one and the old 500G hard drive, I am going to keep two copies of my music. If one decided to fuck up, I still have the other one. I’ll keep one at work and one at home. Why didn’t I think of this before? I am also going to make my boy listen to jazz when he comes out. Hope he’ll like it.

While going through my collection, I came across Operatica: Christmas Classics, an album Joseph had sent me a few years ago. The fusion between Opera and Electronica

The new design for Accountancy goes live.