Sunday, October 28, 2007

Cousin Reunion

This weekend, most of my immediate families came back into town from Hawaii, Dallas, HK, & Austin for Grandma's 87th birthday party. Tonight, we went to dinner at the So's house for Steak, and then some of us went to play "M.J." with grandma. Afterward, we went back to my house to hang out and have Taco Bell for late night snacks. It was a good time to hang out. Tomorrow night, we'll have our dinner. More pictures to be posted later.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Travel Agent Rate....


As some of you know that I'm going to NYC in about 3 weeks, and been frustrated with the price of the hotels in NYC and NJ. Friday Morning, after discussing with Phyllis over skype, we finally find a pretty decent hotel about 1/2 the price of in NYC with Free Wi Fi, Free Breakfast & just 15 mins from NYC. With that kind of price, we could use it to rent a car. I was very happy already. Just when I didn't think anything can get better than that.....it did. This morning, Phyllis told me that using her Travel Agent Rate, we were able to book a room at the Hyatt Place, http://www.hyatt.com/hyatt/place/ at an awesome low rate of just $ 59.00 . I'm so shock of the kind of deals that a travel agent can get. So, I think that I'll ask Phyllis to add me under her to paid for minimum fee and still get the same kind of discounts. Check out the link above to find out about the hotel in more details.

I'll definitely take plenty of pictures from my trip especially on the hotel room to post here later.

Board Games...I remember when i was a kid in HK, i would love to play board games, such as Monopoly, Clues, UNO, "Fa Hung Kei" (Flying Plane). Recently, we started playing Monopoly again. Last time during Church Retreat, we play, and I won, and put all of the other 4 players completely in close to bankruptcy. Tonight, it was revenge night, we weren't able to complete, so soon, we'll try to play again. Monopoly has a new one that came out recently that has calculators and debit cards.



Countdown to NYC : 19 days

Sunday, October 14, 2007

old friends , familiar hang out place...memories....

I just got off the phone with IE, that's calling to see if I'm free tomorrow night to go out for drinks with other friends. C Wa is back from HK to Houston for visit for 2 weeks. C Wa & I used to be friends as I would describe it couple of years ago. I think that there might be some mis understanding between us over the years where we have grew apart. In the back of my mind, I would want to mend this friendship, but i couldn't figure out what i did wrong. Anyway, IE, C Wa , Heidi & me are going out for drinks tomorrow. We're going to Chachos. This is another place that brings back a lot of memories. When I was living by myself, this is a place where Roni, Martin, and some of our other friends would go there all the time.

It was very disappointed to find out earlier tonight when we try to book our hotel room for our NYC Trip, that the price that we knew of $359 / per night was gone. Actually, the price is now $ 100 bucks higher. I've been scare that this would happen, but I just hope that tomorrow, i can look again and the price would go back to the original price, or close to it. So, we don't have to spend that much for hotel in NYC. I pray that the price will go down..

Countown to NYC : 26 days....

Friday, October 12, 2007

Day 1 - Welcome to Blog....

I felt like that i need to start jogging down my accomplishments or activities for each day. I used to write in a journal, (i still have those many journals store away somewhere..) and then came Xanga, and now I'm going to try to use this site to write down those important / mindless things that i go thru each day.

In about 2 weeks, it's my grandma (Mommy's mom)'s 87th Birthday. This year, all of the daughters, and their families are coming to Houston for a semi-family reunion to celebrate her birthday. In celebration of that, I've been working hard to create a photo book for her. Click here, http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=1QcNXLVw4YuSA to see the finish product. I'm going to order it and make sure that it get here by 28th as that's the day that we're going to give it to her. I'll post some pictures after it's done.

Almost a month ago, i started a new job at Scotia Capital, www.scotiacapital.com . I was hire as an Operational Officer, but this past week, my manager just told me that i'll be moving on to some more responsibilities, so that's definitely exciting.

TGIF - Eventhought this is a short week, but definitely excited.

Countdown to NYC : 28 days