JUNE 2008

Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there!Summer Flowers in my home
One of my greatest shots taken.. This pink one just popped!

Can you guess what this 'bulb' is? It's a dragonfruit!


Jasmine

The Trouble with Love is......

Honda CR-V

Oh yea, baby!

Bradley's 2nd Bday!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Bradley! Here's Brad wanting to see the pictures I took of him
The 'secret surprise" was that my Auntie Liz was expecting her 4th baby!
We got Brad a Shrek stuffed animal. He wasn't too into it.
My mother gave him one of her toy dogs. He loves it so much!
That is...until it broke a minute later... Here he is freaking out! Poor baby!
Here's a toy my sister and I got..A 1 1/2 year age appropriate toy.. Hehe...he loved it!!! Aunt Liz said he was too big for it..I agree but he was too darn cute on it!



I had a good time at Brad's 2nd Bday Party...although I don't think he himself realized it was his bday. His two older brothers took the liberty to open his presents for him. He loved the car toy we got for him...even thought Aunt Liz thinks he's too big for it. But boy, did that boy love it...he prolly flipped over 3 times!

So work lately has been good. I get lots of good praises from my Supervisor..which I see as my mentor. We get along well so I'm happy.

Cau 6's SECRET ANNOUNCEMENT

So Cau 6 called my mother this past weekend & invited us to Brad's 2nd Bday party for Sunday. He also mentioned he had some sort of announcement to make but wouldn't tell her over the phone. He won't tell anyone yet so we're all made to wait till next Sunday! Bummer!

Here are a few of my guesses:
1- Auntie Liz is pregnant (twins?!?)
2- Cau 6 gets a vasectomy
3- Aunt Liz ties her tube
4- They're moving...(to Texas...a rumor I hear from Chi Nghia)

April Fool's Day 2008

I stayed up very late last nite...couldn't sleep. So I surfed the net and came across some news articles regarding April Fool's Day. Reading those got me worked up and I really wanted pull something off that wouldn't get me in much trouble. However, when I got up this morning I just felt like it isn't gonna happen. My day started with having only male checkers with me this morning. You know what happens when it's boys only...chaotic! So much testerone but they're way more laid back then some females I would say. So I arrive at work and Jason tells me that Charla Giles (SD VP Area of Albertsons) was "coming." Then from behind me, Marc tells me "Charla's coming." I responded with confidence "I know" and he was like okay...Liz is really not tense. So I go back to the office to do some paperwork and set myself up for the day and just kept thinking...okay...Charla's coming...all Dept Heads are in the meeting....nobody seems worked up like they're supposed to be and Robin's been gone for lunch for a very long hour plus. What the hell's going on?!? Normally everybody would be running around trying to straigthen things up, etc. So I'm in the office thinking to myself what needs to be done or what Robin would want if Charla was coming over & over in my head. After about half hour later, I go up front and say to Jason very casually "Hey Jason, nice Joke hua?" I figured I'd try to get some response from him to see if he was fooling me. He swooped around and was like "dammit, liz didn't fall for it." Ha, that was a good one though guys!

Famous Celebrities

Have you ever met a celebrity face to face and not know that they're quite well known ? Well I have....many times. And most of the time, I don't know who they are until my coworkers start to act like those typical superfans you see wanting autographs. I've helped checked so many Chargers football players, Padres Pitcher (fill in his name later), TV new anchor, Multimillionaire Black Amex Card Holders thru my lane before without really knowing who they really are. But again, I'm not much of a sports fan so you can't blame a girl for not knowing. Once in awhile I see some of my male associates get celebrity awestruck and I just can't help but to be force to "undo" their starstruck awe-face! Honestly, celebs are really humans and at the end of the day whether they're off the red carpet or not, I'm sure they want their anonimity and live a normal life like us. So really, I feel like it's my responsibility to let the celebs shop in my store without having to be hounded by crazy fans or have an uncomfortable experience. After you peel away the layers, who are they...what do they have left...how different are htey from us? There's not much difference....they're just like everybody else...normal people!

Quentin Jammer shopped twice at my workplace two days in a row. This is what prompted this blog entry.

The New Lizzie

Gimme some feedback. Which hairstyle is best? ** Click on Picture for Enlargements

Books Opener Vs. Store Closer

Just got home from having to close the store in a very very very long time. I think I did pretty well having not done this in months. People keep asking me what i liked better and i really can't answer that. There's always the good & bad. Going to bed now...

Emotional Quotient

What exactlyis EQ? I've been watching TVB series and I hear lots about this person's EQ and that person's EQ....seems like they talk about EQ alot and personally, there's one person in my family whose EQ isn't much up there...

Song of the Moment

The song at the moment in my head is Britney Spear's "Break the Ice."

I've learned that......"What Doesn't Kill You, Only Makes You Stronger"

I need more patience and calamity at work

Tet 2008 Year of the RAT

It's 2008, Year of the Rat. That makes my 3rd uncle 48 this year and my 7th uncle 36 years old I was really looking forward to Tet this year...not because of the li xi I'd be getting this year but that I was really welcoming the get togethers that was going to happen that very weekend. It was going to be very celebratory and excitng....plus also I was going to have a 3 day weekend off from work!!! I so needed a break after having worked so much OT the previous weeks. So Giao Thua (The Eve of Tet) was actually Wednesday. I had to get up for work at 3am for my new promo training at work the 1st day of Tet. I tried to get it off but it didn't fall through because I needed to be trained that week.

Destin's Bday

We went for Dim Sum at Pearl restaurant for Destin's Bday. Lovely place to dine!

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Christmas 2007

Christmas this year was very mellow. It took place at Uncle Eric's new home in Eastlake. I was the last person to arrive at the place since I had to work late Christmas eve. When i got there everyone was just starting to open presents. Just in time! Gma got lots of cold gear (sweaters & the likes) this year. Gpa did not attend, he insisted on staying home to cung gio. Hung did not attend either. Tiff was the super lucky gal this year, she got an ipod from my sis & bf and me. Here are a few pics from this year. It seems the party gets smaller and smaller every year. We have got to get it back on track in 2009 to making it a big festive fun get together. Family photo

We played a "tvb" version game of eagle vs. baby chicks game after opening presents.

We played with a gift Uncle Eric got Brenden [the firefly that can fly]

cousins