Exactly sixteen years ago this day, at 8:07 in the morning, an airplane took off from Tan Son Nhat airport in Saigon and that's how my journey to the United States of America began. I landed at DFW International airport at 20:30 on the same day, after a long stop in Taipei, Taiwan.

Wonder how much is a standard iPhone 3GS upgrade compare to this offer?

Eight-hour flight from Dallas to Honolulu wasn't too bad. Got my reading done for Civil Procedure next week. Went out for dinner at Pho Mai, check out my review.

I have already worked through all 180 MPRE questions in the Barbri software. Attended both the Barbri and professor McGrath's review. Will have read McGrath's outline at least twice and will have finished all 240 practice questions in the Barbri book by the time I take the test this Friday morning. Done all I can. The rest is in God's hand!

Rambutan is one of my favorite fruits growing up in Vietnam.

The company I work for, Shared Technologies, is ranked #18 on the list of 100 best company to work for in America by Fortune, moving up from #25 last year, not bad huh!

President's Approval Rate.

There's a reason why the liberals are called progressive. Because they can just go with the flow, whatever is prevalent at the time. The liberals are not grounded with any basic principles or beliefs. No strong convictions for which they would be willing to stake their lives on. So if owning slaves was the thing of the days, then they will support it at all cost. It was the Republicans, such as Abraham Lincoln, who are grounded in the Biblical principle that all men are created equal by the Creator Himself and everybody will one day have to stand before the Almighty and account for everything that one does, who went against the grain and stood for what is right, not what is popular. It was the Democrats in the US Congress who were hanging on to slavery. It was the Democrats who had a stronghold in state government who were against the universal equality of every man, woman and children. To this date, unborn children, over 2 millions murdered each year, still are being denied the very basic right life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness guaranteed by the US Constitution. And who is adamantly against protecting the unborn's equal right, you got it right, the Democrats.

Defendant sold plaintiff, a widow of 51 years and without family, 2302 hours of dancing lessons through 14 different contracts for a total cash outlay of $31,090.45 over a 16 months period. This is a case in Florida in 1968, isn't it outrageous?

Thanks to my friend and colleague Gitartha Pathak, whose daughter is a student at Plano East Senior High, I had the opportunity to be a judge at the annual Panther Classic Forensic Tournament that is taking place there this weekend.

I want to congratulate the 8 students I had the privilege of listening to tonight: Allie Parker (speaker 1) and Chelsea Yamashita (speaker 3) team up against Devonte Hardy (speaker 2) and John Putnam (speaker 4), Kara Jo Peed (1) and Tonya Rajan (3) against Chris Byrd (4) and Andrew Overby (2). Each team took on affirmative and negative positions arguing for and against a resolution calling for federal government mandate on all passenger cars and light trucks to use alternative fuel by 2040.

Here was the format:

Speaker 1 spoke for 4 minutes

Speaker 2 spoke for 4 minutes

Crossfire (speakers 1 & 2) for 3 minutes

Speaker 3 spoke for 4 minutes

Speaker 4 spoke for 4 minutes

Crossfire (speakers 3 & 4) for 3 minutes

Speaker 1 Summary for 2 minutes

Speaker 2 Summary for 2 minutes

Grand Crossfire (all) for 3 minutes

Speaker 3 Final Focus for 1 minute

Speaker 4 Final Focus for 1 minute

Overall I was most impressed with team Allie and Chelsey. They had thorough research of the issue and excellent delivery/presentation. Tonya, Allie and Chelsey had commanding knowledge of the issues and so were naturally great at crossfire. Chris particularly had great body language and a good debater. Both Allie and Chelsey had a great presence and presented the issue in an excellent way, made it coming across clearly and succinctly. Andrew was also excellent at crossfire as well as Devonte. Kara Jo and John were equally great.

I thorough enjoyed the one and a half hour spent listening to them, particularly because I myself is very much interested in public policies, and have kept up with the issues, among them alternative energy.

Sometimes I wish people would be a little more courteous and polite to one another. Life is already tough, why giving each other more grief?

I left the office and was in line at McDonald's quickly getting myself a burger to help me hold over until I can get home for dinner after classes. The lady in front of me was so rude to both the guy at the window taking her money and the guy at the window to give her her food. I kept hearing her telling the first guy "I don't want any mayo." Don't know what the deal was but she had to repeat herself a couple of times and her voice was rising by the minutes. Maybe the guy wasn't a native English speaker. Why can't she say the entire word mayonnaise? If I hadn't lived here long enough, I wouldn't have known what mayo is in the context of food, or any context for that matter. If you say something and the other person does not get it, after the second time, I would try to say it in a different way. If I used an abbreviation, I would say the whole word the second. Then when she got to the window to get her food, she also yelled at the person at this window. Her words: "I didn't want any mayo, I said no mayo, ...." The person then directed her to move forward and wait while he served the next customer. It was my turn, the guy gave me a shake instead of my burger. I calmly told him what I had order and he had no trouble giving me the correct order. Then I told him I don't understand why the lady in front of me was so rude and that I was sorry that she was rude to him. Maybe she overheard me because she had her window rolled down, or maybe I pulled up right next to her bumper, but she pulled forward out of the line to let me go on my merry way.

In class, seating was already done on the first day of class. Today, there was not enough seats in a particular row because someone had purposely ignored the seating chart and sat as they chose and wouldn't moved. Then time was up but the professor was still talking, people were closing their books and laptops, making all the noise. I don't like long winded people either but I was always willing to let people finish up with what they have to say. Grace period is 15 minutes, right? The professor was only like 2 or 3 minutes past.

Insurance by the miles is here MileMeter.com so theoratically you can finally have two cars: one for commuting and one for fun driving, or one truck for the macho man in you and one convertible for the sport car enthusiast in you.