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November 11, 2007

Let's do this

    [Connie]: So it took us from 11pm to 1am to clean up Agganis Arena. A friend of mine told me that it took them only 1 and a half hours with 6 people to clean the place
    [Vinh]: Yeah, someone must have not been doing their part
    [Connie]: Yeah, those slackers.
    [Vinh:] Must've been that tall asian girl named Connie. Takes her forever just to stoop down and pick up some trash.

Haha. That was just part of our conversation as we drove to Stoneham to pick up the surprise snowboard present for Zon. I had set up a meeting with the guy to meet at 5:30. Now, I know that meeting someone from Craigslist is shady business so I wanted to be safe. So I asked the tall girl who does Tae Kwon Do to watch my back. Thanks Connie! So after half an hour of driving from Boston into Stoneham, fighting off traffic, we arrived at a very nice part of Stoneham. After all the jokes that I cracked on Connie, I probably wouldn't have been surprised if she drove off in the car after I left. The guy we met up was a really nice guy. As it turns out, he lives a very active outdoor life. He alluded to jumping off crevices so I'm guessing he does base jumping. He snowboards and the reason why the snowboard was so cheap was that he was moving to Costa Rica. He had bought "3 acres of jungle" and planned to surf there for the rest of his life. He was sick of America. That's a pretty badass way to live the rest of your life.

Now let's move onto another story. My dad... the badass cook. This is how crazy a good cook is. I chose his cooking over a tennis tournament. He called me up to tell me he was cooking and I agreed without thinking twice. I look back and I don't regret it at all. He watches a lot of cooking shows. When he first moved to America he was a cook for Red Lobster. When I was young, he would watch Julia Child and Jacques Pepin. Nowadays he watches Iron Cook and reads America's Test Kitchen. He creates new dishes all the time. I love it.

Sometimes it surprises me how competent my parents are in Business. I never paid attention before but as I become more and more interested, I see more and more of how my parents are using their money to start new businesses. For 14 years, we've simply owned a little asian grocery store until we got kicked out by new building owners. Instead of folding up shop, they decided to buy a piece of land and build a new store complemented by a laundromat. 4 years later, they sold it and instead of just using that money to retire, they've invested it and are attending foreclosure auctions to buy a new house.

I am starting to lose focus at work. If I were working for myself, I'd definitely give myself a good talking. It isn't that I'm not doing my job. It's that I'm only doing MY job. I can expand, I can grow but I've just grown lethargic. Perhaps I need a change of scenes.