(Coldplay - Yellow)
On August 29th, 2011 at 7:01 am a little ninja named Arya Paige Le was born.
It's amazing how something so small can change the entire meaning of your life.
Look at the stars. Look how they shine for you.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Unexpectations
(New Heights - Peaches)
Great video to raise the awareness for the deaf. Also a great video to remind us that there is still a lot of humanity in this crazy world. Finding humanity sometimes comes as a great surprise to me. It's an even greater surprise when I find it in myself ;)
When was the last time you found a little unexpected humanity?
(New Heights - Peaches)
Great video to raise the awareness for the deaf. Also a great video to remind us that there is still a lot of humanity in this crazy world. Finding humanity sometimes comes as a great surprise to me. It's an even greater surprise when I find it in myself ;)
When was the last time you found a little unexpected humanity?
Monday, March 14, 2011
This Will Be Legen...wait for it...dary.
(Keane - Everybody's Changing)
When you're younger, you always have these grand ideas of how your life would turn out. Things like your career; when you'd get married; how big your house would be; how many kids you'd have; and what age you'd have them.
And it's a recurring theme in my blog, whether explicit or implicit -- the path you take is never the straight and shortest path. The path is a winding one. One that curves around the everyday obstacles in your life. And occasionally along that path you may stub your toe on some poorly paved intentions but knowing that your journey holds some exciting stories to tell your children one day, makes it all worth while.
And in the latest part of my journey, I have found out that I will have someone to tell my exciting stories to come late July/early August. Yes, I will be a father. It's something I always knew I wanted to do. When I was younger, it was something I thought would happen sooner rather than later but you can't always time these things.
So the preparation has started for the arrival of said unnamed baby. I bought a new car a couple of weeks ago which is a larger vehicle than my last car. I managed to convince Sonia to let me purchase a vehicle that's both sporty and fun to drive and still has the features that a family would look for. It's my last bit of splurging before I have to compete with the child to see who gets their toys first. As most fathers will testify, that's not a winning battle.
The baby's room will start taking shape in the next couple of months as I do some spring cleaning on our 2nd bedroom, repaint it and furnish it with the typical things a baby room should have.
There are so many things that need to happen between now and then. It's a bit overwhelming. And though I may joke to my friends with the occasional "It's too late for me, save yourselves!", it's all very surreal if not mind-blowing amazing.
For me mind-blowing excitement is something I've never really been able to grasp. My moods and excitement levels have always been on a more conservative scale than the average person. Here's where my friends would say, "That's because you're a robot." I know Sonia and a few friends are hoping that when this baby is born, that the robot in me will leak some oil in the tear duct area. I can't guarantee that but I can guarantee that I will cherish every day that this baby is in my life.
(Keane - Everybody's Changing)
When you're younger, you always have these grand ideas of how your life would turn out. Things like your career; when you'd get married; how big your house would be; how many kids you'd have; and what age you'd have them.
And it's a recurring theme in my blog, whether explicit or implicit -- the path you take is never the straight and shortest path. The path is a winding one. One that curves around the everyday obstacles in your life. And occasionally along that path you may stub your toe on some poorly paved intentions but knowing that your journey holds some exciting stories to tell your children one day, makes it all worth while.
And in the latest part of my journey, I have found out that I will have someone to tell my exciting stories to come late July/early August. Yes, I will be a father. It's something I always knew I wanted to do. When I was younger, it was something I thought would happen sooner rather than later but you can't always time these things.
So the preparation has started for the arrival of said unnamed baby. I bought a new car a couple of weeks ago which is a larger vehicle than my last car. I managed to convince Sonia to let me purchase a vehicle that's both sporty and fun to drive and still has the features that a family would look for. It's my last bit of splurging before I have to compete with the child to see who gets their toys first. As most fathers will testify, that's not a winning battle.
The baby's room will start taking shape in the next couple of months as I do some spring cleaning on our 2nd bedroom, repaint it and furnish it with the typical things a baby room should have.
There are so many things that need to happen between now and then. It's a bit overwhelming. And though I may joke to my friends with the occasional "It's too late for me, save yourselves!", it's all very surreal if not mind-blowing amazing.
For me mind-blowing excitement is something I've never really been able to grasp. My moods and excitement levels have always been on a more conservative scale than the average person. Here's where my friends would say, "That's because you're a robot." I know Sonia and a few friends are hoping that when this baby is born, that the robot in me will leak some oil in the tear duct area. I can't guarantee that but I can guarantee that I will cherish every day that this baby is in my life.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Just Let Yourself Fall Into Landslide
(Crystal Castles - Not In Love fet. Robert Smith)
One incredible remake of a classic Platinum Blonde song from the 80's. This is arguably better than the original when you factor in the great vocals by legendary Robert Smith.
It's been a very busy two months. As my life starts picking up some steam, I'm finding myself less and less able to find the time to update this blog. And it's not without desire because I find blogging as one of the greatest cathartic mediums. Especially for someone like myself who never grew up with much of an emotional outlet. Even robots need to flush their engines every now and then.
As proof of my desire to keep my writing alive, I submit the following evidence to the court. I recently bought an Amazon Kindle to kick-start an old hobby of mine. Yes I do read! I find there's no bigger inspiration to writing than reading. I'm currently reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. If anyone's read this, I'd love to hear your opinion.
I'm currently in Tampa Bay for a couple of days for work but I promise, I'll have an update for you guys within the next week.
To be continued...
(Crystal Castles - Not In Love fet. Robert Smith)
One incredible remake of a classic Platinum Blonde song from the 80's. This is arguably better than the original when you factor in the great vocals by legendary Robert Smith.
It's been a very busy two months. As my life starts picking up some steam, I'm finding myself less and less able to find the time to update this blog. And it's not without desire because I find blogging as one of the greatest cathartic mediums. Especially for someone like myself who never grew up with much of an emotional outlet. Even robots need to flush their engines every now and then.
As proof of my desire to keep my writing alive, I submit the following evidence to the court. I recently bought an Amazon Kindle to kick-start an old hobby of mine. Yes I do read! I find there's no bigger inspiration to writing than reading. I'm currently reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. If anyone's read this, I'd love to hear your opinion.
I'm currently in Tampa Bay for a couple of days for work but I promise, I'll have an update for you guys within the next week.
To be continued...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Happy New Year
(Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home)
First post of 2011. Happy New Year!
Let's start off with some good news. I'm getting promoted to project manager at my company. It's not exactly VP of Add More Awesome but it's something. If I did however get promoted to VP of AMA, I'd definitely add this video to our company website.
You'll often hear me say in reference to being around kids, "This is my nightmare." This kid is one of the few exceptions. Phenomenal.
Starting this year off right by going to visit my grandma who I haven't seen in over a year. Just bought a ticket to DC on points to go visit in February and saw this on my bill.
Fuel Surcharge $54.00
Canada Goods And Service Tax $4.06
NAV Canada - Air Navigation Services $15.00
U.S Agriculture Fee $5.00
U.S Immigration User Fee $7.00
Canada Domestic/International Airport Improvement Fee $25.00
Canada Harmonized Sales Tax $3.25
U.S. International Transportation Tax $32.40
Canada Domestic/International Air Travel Security Charge $12.10
U.S. Passenger Safety Fee $2.50
U.S Passenger Facility Charge $4.50
Total airport taxes, fees and surcharges per passenger $164.81
So if any of you were wondering why the airline industry was suffering so bad, here's proof in the pudding that they need to fire their VP of Add More Suck and hire a VP of AMA. I mean I realize that you have to pay taxes and fees to keep the airlines running but this is a bit ridiculous.
In other news, lately I've noticed from my blog traffic summaries, that my readership has tripled. It's gone from around 3-4 page views per day to around 11. It's not much but I'll take whatever I can get. It could also be simply spam bots but judging from the average length of time that is spent per visit, which is around 2 minutes, it's not just the tip but a bona fide quicky these readers are having on my page! And I thank you anonymous readers because without you, this would be the blog equivalent of masturbation. I hope one day we can upgrade from these quickies to a real relationship.
Lastly an update on my fashion-stealing coworker. Apparently stealing my cardigan outfit wasn't enough. He showed up to work this week wearing the cardigan outfit and rocking a pair of converses. I was so tempted to tell him that his outfit was so "Khiem 2010". Before any of you start calling me a hipster, I will note that my jeans have never been tight (excluding the day after thanksgiving) nor have I wore ironic glasses and downloaded an app on an iphone.
(Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home)
First post of 2011. Happy New Year!
Let's start off with some good news. I'm getting promoted to project manager at my company. It's not exactly VP of Add More Awesome but it's something. If I did however get promoted to VP of AMA, I'd definitely add this video to our company website.
You'll often hear me say in reference to being around kids, "This is my nightmare." This kid is one of the few exceptions. Phenomenal.
Starting this year off right by going to visit my grandma who I haven't seen in over a year. Just bought a ticket to DC on points to go visit in February and saw this on my bill.
Fuel Surcharge $54.00
Canada Goods And Service Tax $4.06
NAV Canada - Air Navigation Services $15.00
U.S Agriculture Fee $5.00
U.S Immigration User Fee $7.00
Canada Domestic/International Airport Improvement Fee $25.00
Canada Harmonized Sales Tax $3.25
U.S. International Transportation Tax $32.40
Canada Domestic/International Air Travel Security Charge $12.10
U.S. Passenger Safety Fee $2.50
U.S Passenger Facility Charge $4.50
Total airport taxes, fees and surcharges per passenger $164.81
So if any of you were wondering why the airline industry was suffering so bad, here's proof in the pudding that they need to fire their VP of Add More Suck and hire a VP of AMA. I mean I realize that you have to pay taxes and fees to keep the airlines running but this is a bit ridiculous.
In other news, lately I've noticed from my blog traffic summaries, that my readership has tripled. It's gone from around 3-4 page views per day to around 11. It's not much but I'll take whatever I can get. It could also be simply spam bots but judging from the average length of time that is spent per visit, which is around 2 minutes, it's not just the tip but a bona fide quicky these readers are having on my page! And I thank you anonymous readers because without you, this would be the blog equivalent of masturbation. I hope one day we can upgrade from these quickies to a real relationship.
Lastly an update on my fashion-stealing coworker. Apparently stealing my cardigan outfit wasn't enough. He showed up to work this week wearing the cardigan outfit and rocking a pair of converses. I was so tempted to tell him that his outfit was so "Khiem 2010". Before any of you start calling me a hipster, I will note that my jeans have never been tight (excluding the day after thanksgiving) nor have I wore ironic glasses and downloaded an app on an iphone.
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