Back from LA

Well I got back from LA Sunday night at 3am. It was a long weekend, with very little sleep.

I drove down thursday night, and almost fell asleep in the middle of I-5. but i got to Ted’s place okay. He’s living with 3 other guys now, and one of them is a psychologist/trash talker. so on Friday, we were both working from home, and he sorta psychoanalyized me. it was fun. 😛

Anh came in that night, and we all went out, and ate japanese…

Sat we woke up early to play some tennis and then sort just hung out until dinner time. Went to the last hour of the jazz festival in Brea. The band on the stage was interestingly not playing any jazz at all. But things like “My Girl” and “kiss” from Prince.

Sunday was mostly just brunch, watching the Redskins narrowly miss defeat to improve to 3-0 on the year. Anh’s cousin has NFL Sunday Ticket in HD. nice.

And that was it. I’m super tired, and today I pretty much feel asleep at my desk at 11, and fell asleep in a 2 hours meeting at 2.

oh yeah I had lunch with Stella again today. She’s a funny lady. but I enjoy talking to her.

okay bedtime… ramadan starts tomorrow. it’s going to be a hard day…

Thank you secret pal!

Thank you, thank you secret pal! I know you emailed me last week telling me that you sent the package and I kind of put it in the back of my mind and had been busy with other stuff, but when the doorbell rang today, I instantly remembered that you sent a package! A package from New York, our old home. I have to say when I opened it I almost cried, I miss home so much, and everything in the package is perfect and wonderful. Here’s Vince posing with the goodies. He, of course, zoomed in onto the candy. I can’t wait to learn how to knit socks. Thank you for thinking of me and taking the time to put the package together!

The Mathilda-fest.

On Sunday night, AMD Singapore had it’s yearly celebration and so we babysat Mathida so the Tristans could have a night out. The celebration was a many-course banquet which was suppose to last until 2 in the morning at Suntec City.

We had a ball at The Warren with the three kids. We all went swimming and then had pizza for dinner (Pizza Hut, pepperoni for the kids and BBQ chicken for us). No one fell asleep before 10 pm. Edda struggled for about an hour to stay awake in her darkened room. Vince actually asked to go to sleep around 10:30 and Mathilda headed to bed shortly thereafter.

John and Julia picked her up at about 11:30. Of course, I couldn’t fall asleep afterward. Stayed up roaming the house for carbohydrates to eat.

Vince is becoming a local.

Despite his insistence that he doesn’t like Singapore and misses New York, Vince has adopted a local habit which I guess was inevitable, but still kind of sobering to me and Jeremy. He has stopped saying “Hi!” to the other kids. None of the other kids answer back, so I guess it’s OK, but I miss it already. If he sees another kid, he’ll run over, but now he won’t say hi.

We took the kids to the local Science musuem which was a little bit loud and scary according to Vince. Everything is a bit over his head, but he was nervous in the new place and everything was a bit loud. Maybe the aquarium will be better, we haven’t gone there yet.