TO DO: So many lil things i need to do and so many times i put it off. Starting tomorrow, i need to take care of them before they pile up and burry me alive.

LIFE: I'm at a stand still in my life. A point where i'm stuck with the same routines and no definite plans of what i need to do. Graduation is coming soon, only a semester away! That ultimate day that i've been working toward in the last 8 or so years is finally coming and what happen afterward? uncertainty, doubts and emptiness awaits...

what's new with life? i got a mentor for from the political science department, he's the owner of an immigrantion law firm downtown. i was kinda excited at first, imagine the things i can learn from him, the connection, the friendship... quiet what i expected. he seems unaproachable, he's one of those big and powerful men who know they're in charge :0, haha, maybe it's time i show him :-D. so i guess the friendship part won't work out but i know i'll learn a lot from him

international fashion show and tatse of asia coming up, only a month of preparation! i'm going crazy!!

time to get ready for bed and a long day tomorrow with lots of meetings..

i got back from new york 3 days ago. it's big, noisy, crowded and expensive. the buildings are tall, the street filled w/ crazy cab drivers who seem to have no regard for life. A big mac meal there cost $6! of all the places i've visited, new york is my least favorite. maybe i was just travel out for this summer or it just doesn't have that special something that drew me. want to write more, but gotta be back at work. until then..

Everyone is at camp now, i can't go b/c of the folks, sprint has no signal, no more books to read! life sure is wonderful. NOT! and what's worst? no good food in the fridge!! School is about to start,it's raining in new york next week, i'm way too dark, bank is in the negative, the computer is way too slow, and all because everyone is at camp. :-D

I really wish i'm there w/ frank and the rest of the peep, enjoy the cool night air, star gazing and all that camp stuff. Maybe next time, maybe...too many maybe's and next time lately..Frank said i owe him a lot of next time last night. it's so much truer than i want it to be, but it's hard with parents not knowing and i start to wonder...it's not fair.

I've bêen back to the States now for a little more over a week. it's good be back to the familiar but then there's the mundane, the routine, the constraints and the boredom. all i've been doing is sleep, eat and work. i really miss traveling, the adventures, seeing new things and the freedom to do what i want w/o asking for permission. i guess that won't happen for a while longer :(

since i've been back: heard camping was fun ;), miniature volleyball at nhi's house was awesome so was batminton, really exciting to light fireworks at uyen's house and it was good to see tuyen again. tim's bday last night was nice with the whole family together, that hasn't happen in a while. haven't seen F in a week, hopefully our movie date this friday still work out

now, a late breakfast and then head out to work. i should really update my site!

iºve been in miranda, portugal now for 2 weeks. the first week as well as the weekends are exciting with lots of trips around the country and exploration of the food. weekdays such as today are becoming routine with long portuguese classes and inaudible anthropology class. things are different, wonderful and exiting here, but then again itºs not home. the scenery at home cannot compare to castle and ancient cathedral with olive orchards, peache trees and old cobble stone (?) streets, sidewalk cafes of portugal, but i miss home neverthelesss, maybe iºm just missing the familiarity of my life. food sux mainly because thereºs a lack of vegetable and of course i miss pho! :). gotta go to class once again...maybe iºll write more about the people and the town of miranda later if i have a little more time

i feel lonely, a self-impose lonlineness, if such a thing is possible. maybe it's selfish of me, but i don't seem to care about anything in the world, or anyone. i'm happy lying in bed and look at the blue sky, the birds, and whatever happen to be at my window. i'm happy to watch the world pass by. i tend to be ambitious, but at the moment, i care very little of what the future hold and what happen now. no, i'm not depress. it's just a phase i tend to go through once in a while, an emptinesss that ocasionally come and just as quickly past.

a cute thing happened earlier at the store this week...this bosinian guy came in the store, he picked up a can of condensed milk....u know the one that has a cow in the cover. trying to be friendly, i commented, "so, u're gonna drink that with coffee? it's really good". he was surprised pointed at the can and said, "oooh, this is not cow? i thought it has beef in there". haha...yeah i'm corny. but he made my day.

i'm back here typing to myself once again and only in a week's time. that means summer just started and my life is abnormally normal...and probably i like writing more than i though *gasp* what horror! and i'm probably more bored than i thought as well...

i'm tempted to drag something out of my closet and work on it...my abandoned scrapbook, my origami (it's way better than paper models :), my journals, paper flowers...but my lil sister is sleeping so the complaining will never stop...so i find myself here once more confining my solitude to a blank webpage...

funny thing happened earlier...i was walking around my room getting my clothes for a shower but i couldn't find my pajama pants...i panicked for a bit, thinking i'm losing my mind for i swear i just put it on my bedroom's floor a second ago..i gave up and went to the closet for another pair...i looked down at the floor at my cell phone, the one that refused to charge, and realized i have the pants on the whole time...i'm seriously loosing my mind!

I guess the very best time to do any kind of update on your webpage is at 3 in the morning while you still have 5 more pages of final paper to do, which constitue 50% percent of your grade. *sigh*, such is the habit of a typical college student. I'd do anything just to take a break from the mundane and dry writings that had recently taken over my life. Did i ever tell anyone I HATE WRITING? writing in all its form, letters, cards, poems, stories. Writing is a subject i love to hate :)

K! enuf of nonsense, i should be back to writing my paper, but it's so fun to talk, or rather type, to myself at 3 in the morning. it's kinda addicting.

maybe a little update on my life, for those still lurking on my website looking for those long and forgotten promised updates.

schoolwise: 2 more semesters and i'm graduating. i'm on track as planned. But only the spring semester will not be filled with adventures in the seas as i've anticipated, for someone would make such extended trip unbearable :)

summer plans: i'm going to portugal....i think i must have told the whole world that. i'm just excited to get away from home again. it would be more difficult than previous trips *sigh* if only they make bags that size :-P

as for us: we're still having fun right? though lately i feel kinda unloved, damn school and work. but summer is only 12 hours away...parks, beach, bikes is so close!

ah..entry is longer than my paper, should get back to work..."Cat's Eye" = Lame, I HATE WRITING!

Hi everyone (Dr. Laemle?)

I havent visit this page for a while, mainly because i'm busy w/ school, and somebody :). i'm attempting to do a last minute edit on the front page b/c i'm linking this to a homepage assignment i'm doing for POLS 390.

what's new w/ me?

this summer: Japan trip and Vietnam trip. It's amazing of course. Japan has beautiful temples, great landscape. I actually tried raw jelly fish! Vietnam is as fun as always, got to see everyone in the family again, so it's nice.

right now: finally my junior year in college, where has the time go? everything seems to go so quick. one more year and i'm graduating. i don't know if i'm ready to get out in the real world and leaving the safety of the university.

k. that's about all the update for now.
smile everyone! ;)

---thao----

it's been such a long time since i've visit the website, sometimes i even forgot it exist!! but summer's here, so i have a lil more time to sit back and do absolutely nuttin...

my first year of college just ended, so many cute college boys :), that's wat school is all about right? i cant' wait to return in the fall ( no i'm not crazy)...also got a major now, poliical science...y? i don't even know, i just need a direction, i feel so lost w/o a major...political science sounds pretty cool 4 now

I also just return from paris and london!! my dream cities...it's so beautiful and romantic, i just wanna stay 4ever...i'll post pix and my travel journal on later...

phuonghong and i are going to washington next week, i can't wait!! :)

that's all the update for now

I'll put some new stuff in here everyweek, so visit often..n sign my guestbook or u can't leave!!:P