This year’s Memorial weekend, we went to the beach and I took Samantha and Eric along. They love water so as soon as we arrived, they wanted to go the beach right away. Since they only got to stay for two days, I wanted to make the most out of the trip even though I was so tired from the five-hour drive.

The water was cold so I let them played for about half an hour. When I told them to wrap it up, Eric didn’t want to. I had to repeat several timed before he would obey. As we were walking back, I called my sister to give her status on the kids. I told her that they were being very good except that Eric didn’t do what I instructed him to a minute ago.

After we hung up the phone, Eric got mad and cried. I asked him what’s wrong and he told me that I said the “F” word to his mom. I was like, what are you talking about? I didn’t say any “F” word. He asked me to come closer and whispered something in my ear. He didn’t wanted to say out loud because he didn’t want Samantha to hear. He whispered several times and I couldn’t make out what he was trying to tell me.

I tried to guess the word, but nothing was right. Of course, I didn’t guess that “F” word. So finally he said that I said “pha” (misbehaved in Vietnamese) to his mom. He demanded me to call his mom back and say that Eric was not “pha.” So I called up my sister and told her that, “Eric is a very good boy and I didn’t use the ‘F'” word.

I asked one of the salesmen if Sears carries Discman. The guy didn’t even know what I was talking about. I had to explain to him I was looking for a portable CD player. Sears doesn’t carry discman anymore and the salesman probably thought I came from the stone age or something.

As much as I love my iPod Touch, I do not have the time to rip 72 CDs from Miles Davis’s The Complete Columbia Album Collection . In addition to time, it would take up too much a space on my hard drive. I want to be able to jog while jamming to Miles Davis and the easiest way is to get a Discman, but it seems like it is obsoleted. I gave my mom a really cool one from Sony a few years ago. I might have to ask her to get it back since she is no longer using it.

I just can’t believe the Discman is already dead. Man that was fast. RIP the discman.

After hanging out at the mall and had lunch at Cheesecake Factory with Cu Dao, Dana and my sister-in-law, I couldn’t stay awake for the match between Germany and Uruguay. Both Dana and I got knocked out on the couches while my sister-in-law looked after Duke. Besides, I was not too excited about this game. I am looking forward to the final game tomorrow. I pick Holland simply because I had been so wrong in this World Cup. One more wrong doesn’t make much difference. In any rate, I wish both countries best of luck.

It’s amazing how a month of World Cup already over. After tomorrow, things will be back to normal again. The World Cup category will be disappeared on this site as well.

After the disappointment of Argentina’s performance, let’s hope the Spain will give Germany a heck of a game.

After getting back from my vacation last month, I haven’t jogged again. Work is still overwhelming and the rising heat (above 100 degrees) is blocking my motivation. I just stay inside and eat more. When I look at life, she depresses me. Fortunately whenever I look at Duke, he keeps me going even though I can hardly keep up with his energy.

I’ll be surprise if Uruguay could send the Netherlands home. Then again, I was so dead wrong about Argentina.

The World Cup this year has been quite unpredictable. Even Brazil lost to the Netherlands. The next match, Argentina vs. Germany, should be one of the best games in this World Cup. In fact, it could have been a final match. My prediction is that Argentina will advance. Then Spain will advanced over Paraguay. The Argentina will beat Spain to go the the final. On the other hand, Netherlands will have an easier win over Uruguay to get to the final. So next Sunday, the final match will be between Netherlands vs Argentina and my prediction for the 2010 World Cup will belong to Argentina.

I am still in the process of transitioning to a new Mac laptop. I migrated everything except for CS5, in which I am still waiting for the eligibility variation. I sent in both my GW’s ID and pay stub, but I was rejected. Now I have to wait for HR to write Adobe a letter to state that I work for GW in order for me to get the serial number. If I knew that I had to go through all these troubles, I would have stayed with CS4. If this is how Adobe continues to do business in the next release, I will not upgrade to CS6.

Sure I watch “So You Think You Can Dance.” I get to check out Cat Deeley’s outfit, some fine ladies with gorgeous physique and occasionally some great performances. Last night, Alex Wong gave a kick-ass hip-hop routine for a ballet dancer.

Japan has packed up. It’s time for Spain vs. Portugal. It should be a great match.

Damn Portugal!