It’s about time the US wins a game. On the other hand, France didn’t even make to the second round. What’s up with that?

Duke got kicked out of daycare yesterday after vomited twice and could not return in 24 hours. Dana had spent a whole week with him yesterday so I could do my work. She also picked up him yesterday at noon and spent the rest of the day with him. I got caught up with my work so I took the day off to watch him. I also need to catch up some sleep and recover from coughing and soar throat.

My day had been just feeding him, watching a bit of World Cup and relaxing with Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection. I am currently listening to Davis’s live and unreleased materials. The more I listen the more I am hooked on the way he plays. He doesn’t play a whole lot, but what he plays worth waiting for. I told my wife I’ll open a “Relaxin’ With Miles” Coffee Shop so I could drink coffee and listen to Miles all day. Even Duke digs Miles. He is sleeping with Miles on and daddy is typing this while enjoying Miles Davis at Newport 1958 with his all-star band: John Coltrane, Cannonall Adderley, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb.

If you’re going to listen to Miles Davis, might as well invest in Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection. It comes out to about $6/pop and most of Miles’s albums are classic even his unreleased records. I am really digging his fusion direction. The more I listen to Bitches Brew the more I love electric Miles. His executions on these tracks are beyond beauty.

Duke was sent home from daycare today. The CMS at work is down and I am tired of looking at the wheels spinning on my browsers but get no where so I popped up another window to check on the World Cup. Somehow I landed on World Cup Girls. Check out this Korean babe from the previous World Cup.

I caught a bit of Portugal vs North Korean this morning, but had to get to work. Just checked the score and Portugal won 7 goals? Holy smoke. Portugal is one of my favorite teams, but damn 7 goals? They really trying to murdered the North Korean.

What a week it was. Work took up most of my time. For the past four days, I worked from nine to five and then from 10 to two in the morning. Friday night I was so burned out that I went to bed at ten and then got up at 3 in the morning and worked until noon. Lacking of sleep made life a living hell. I felt drowsy and sick the whole time. What is taking so much time is the migration into Vignette, a CMS. The University uses a very complex system to solve such a simple task. For instance, making a list of links in a module takes ten times longer than just writing the simple HTML list. It’s just ridiculous. Still I have to give credits to the web team at the university for its incredible support. I spent a few days with them and had a chance to get to know them better. Alright enough about work.

Duke had been sick a whole week as well so Dana stayed home with him for four days. My sister-in-law was able to look after him for one. I felt horrible because I couldn’t take any day off due to the deadline of the launch day. Stay home one week and go to daycare the next had been his routine. I hope we can get over that soon.

I haven’t been catching up with the World Cup much so I’ll try to spend today watch the next two games Slovakia vs. Paraguay and Italy vs. New Zealand. Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection had arrived at my front door yesterday. 52 albums altogether and I haven’t listened to a handful of them. I can’t wait. Have a great Father’s Day and enjoy watching the World Cup all the dads.

Telegraph:

South Korea’s 2-0 win in their opening World Cup game against Greece saw the sale of condoms jump five-fold back home as fans celebrated the victory.

What will happen if South Korean bring home the World Cup? The whole country will be banging?

Unrelated: Didn’t watch the game, but Switzerland beat Spain? How did that happen?

This film documents The Prince of Darkness performing one of his breakthrough albums, Bitches Brew (currently on heavy rotation in my iPod), at the 1970 Isle of Weight Music Festival. The video also featured interviews from Davis’s sidemen (Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarret), his admirers (Carlos Santana, Joni Mitchell) as well as his hater (Stanley Crouch). Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue could be viewed on YouTube (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). What are you waiting for?

Being dubbed as the star of the stars, Dam Vinh Hung continues to make commercial success out of mediocrity. How does he do it? Mr. Dam simply mastered the art of promotion. With every album release comes a whole backstory with it.

As usual, the music on his latest release, Khoang Cach, sucks, but the concept behind it sells. Weaving together a bunch of sugary, campy ballads, Mr. Dam heightens the drama of his eight-year relationship. He told the press, “I started to have feeling for the opposite sex when I was in third grade, began to fall in love in eighth grade, but I respect the most the relationship I had in the past eight years. Unfortunately, I fell for another girl while in the relationship. She was a very nice girl who gave me the green light and led me into the trap.” Mr. Dam is not ashamed to admit that he is as faithful as his options.

Except for “Bien Noi Nho Va Em,” in which he has done a decent job of covering Phu Quang’s tune with his slightly over-sentimental style, Khoang Cach comes together like a theatrical soundtrack. In the slow opening “Chuyen Phim Toi,” Dr. Dam connects his love story to a chick flick. In the title track, he wears his heart on his sleeve over the Chinese-inflected melody. While “Doi Em Trong Mo” is for the club heads, “Dung Hoi Vi Sao” is for the twisting feet. Love him or loathe him, Mr. Dam will be around as long as his fans still enjoy his music acting.

My vacation time is already up. Two weeks went by way too quick. Work is going to be crazy until the end of this month as we’re moving our web pages into the content management system; therefore, I won’t have time to watch the World Cup.

Last night, Cu Dao threw up all over me after he drank some milk. He woke up this morning coughing. I hope that he’ll recover quickly so he could go to daycare tomorrow or else one of us will have to stay home with him. The poor guy is resting now. Be strong, my son.

Have to root for the home team. I’ll be in Eden cheering for the US team with the Vietnamese fellows. Go USA and make us proud!

The US scored a lucky goal and tied up with England. The US team definitely has quite some work to do, especially the defend line. Mad props to goalie Tim Howard who did a phenomenon job of keeping the ball away from the net.