1st Baby Shower 4 Landon

Annie, Landon and I would like to thank everyone who was able to attend Landon's baby shower last weekend! Though I didn't see a fishing pole in the abundance of gifts, I'm sure the 3 of us will enjoy the goodies, Korn already has her eyes on the toys.

** Special thanks to everyone who helped prepare for the baby shower**

You Can't Beat Ikea's $0.99 Breakfast!

V-day In Vegas

We have a new due date!

So the doc said our new due date would be May 4th, but Lam feels we'll be having our new addition earlier than that. Here are some recent pics of the little fella.
So far we have 2 names that we're considering, "Degan Doi" or "Landon Doi". We are having some difficulties with coming up with a middle name. Being that our child will have a Japanese last name, we're going with a Vietnamese middle name. My pics are "Vinh" or "Dat".

"Degan Vinh Doi" D.V.D.
"Degan Dat Doi" triple D

Best Christmas Ever!

So there are several things that is making this one of the best Christmas's ever...

#1
So after a round of golf with my dad and brothers, we were on the way home and my dad asked if I wanted an iMac... I was thinking, "What kind of set up is this?" So I took a stab at it and said, "umm... yeah sure". Thirty minutes later we're all at home and ended up ordering me the the best iMac available! Take a look at my set up, I'll get tan just by sitting at my desk! Thanks dad!


Specs:

24-inch Display
2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme
4GB memory (like I really need that)
750GB hard drive
8x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory

#2
One of my good friends ended up getting me the best Mac Mini available! I've been wanting to set up a HTPC (Home Theater PC) for a while now, but have been putting if off since I haven't purchased a new TV. Well now that I have the Mini, I'll have to start looking!
Specs:

SuperDrive

2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
1GB memory
120GB hard drive

#3
We're having a boy! Though I would still love my baby if it were a girl, but teaching a boy how to fish seems a bit easier!

#4
Last and not least, but far more important than all material items. I have been lucky enough to have family, friends and partners that are healthly, loving and caring. Merry Christmas, and Happy New Years!

Free Odyssey White Hot XG / 2-Ball SRT

I was finally able to decide on what to use my 25,000 Amex points towards. After months of debating, I decided on getting myself a new putter.

Odyssey White Hot XG / 2-Ball SRT
Retail: $189
Amex Biz Gold Card Bonus Points: FREE!

You have 20 days left to apply and use the card to be eligible for the bonus points. You can redeem the points for just about anything, electronics, toys, sporting goods, airline tickets, etc.

Thanks to Gary L. and his blog www.PinkDeals.net

Yes they have annual fee's, but the first year is free! So make the charge, get your points, buy your goods, and then cancel... Well I just tried to cancel my card today, and instead of canceling right away, they offered me another free $25 spending credit. So I'll use that up and then cancel. Thanks for lunch AMEX, you're the best!

American Express Business Gold Card is a must for every small business owner. To make things easier for the upcoming year, they are now offering 40,000 free points in your first year of membership. This Amex Gold Card helps with small business expenses such as shipping, hotel fees, discount flights and hotel costs. With savings ranging from 3%-25% and special partnerships with Hyatt Regency Hotels, Delta and FedEx, this card will soon pay for itself.

For those of you wondering, 40,000 Rewards Points can already purchase:

* 2 $100 Amex Gift Cards - 40k Points
* 2 $200 Crate & Barrel Gift Cards - 40,000 Points
* 2 $200 Saks Fifth Avenue - 40,000 Points
* Canon 7.1 Megapixel Digital Camera Kit with Free 1GB SD Memory Card - 40,000 Points
* Nintendo DS Lite Bundler - 29,300 Points
* Sony PSP Core Handheld Bundle - 37,000 Points

Is it a boy or a girl?

You know damn well we ain't naming our first child after any of you!

California Real Estate News Update!

For those of you who is not familiar, ICW (investCLUB for Women) is our real estate club we started earlier this year. Octobers event we had the "Mr California Real Estate Guru", Bruce Norris! He brought in our record high attendance of 100+ clubbers. He had wealth of information to share with the club, if you missed it you can listen to our audio via our website.
Just visit our site, www.investCLUBforWomen.com and on the right hand side click on the tab that says "The Store". You will see Bruce Norris on the top of the page, with his audio link. TAKE NOTES IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT CALIFORNIA REAL ESTATE!

4 Dolla Make U Holla!

In support of Leyna's one of a kind cupcake, I would highly recommend to satisfy your temptation for one of her awesome DELICIOUS cupcakes! If you're interested in spending a little somethin' somethin', visit her site and place your order!

www.leynaskitchen.com

Tennis Challenge!

That's right, Chung Mr. "I pick on girls" decided to hit up Maria "High school Tennis Pro" and challenge her to a tennis match. Yeah I know, it's not a MMA match with Bao Quach, but Chung and Maria were talking shit to each other and decided to face off in the near future. Let's all face it, both played in high school and tennis isn't the coolest sport (sorry, chung, maria, & parker). But it would be cool to see Chung lose to a girl!

Being thankful for technology

A friend of my Dylan, had a recipe on his blog (Eat Drink & Be Merry) a while back. It's one of those noodle dishes you can order at AJ's in Irvine, it's called Beef Noodle Soup. His photography and plating made me want to learn how to make this dish. So I bugged Chung a couple of days after reading Dylan's blog and asked if he knew how to make this dish, and if he had more specific directions. (No offense Dylan, but your recipe directions were too vague for me.) To my disappointment Chung wasn't too familiar with this dish so he emailed Dylan to get the detailed version of the recipe. So I've had the recipe for the past couple of weeks and been real busy, but Lam and I found some time to run to Bolsa (I hate going there) to pick up the goods. While looking for the items needed, we found that some of the items had different packaging, names, brands, etc. So now this is where technology helped us out. I guess I could have got on the all mighty cell and called Dylan, but I decided to IM him with my BB, to ask the questions. Not only that, but the built in camera on my BB Pearl, came in use. I took some quick snaps and emailed them to Dylan while still in the store to be sure we were getting the right items. So once again, this is my thanks to the technological nerds making life easier for all of us! We'll let ya know how it turns out...



























Who knew there were 30 kinds of soy sauce!

Sorry, no ipod touch...

Lam and I wanted to thank everyone for their participation on the free ipod touch contest. Though there was no free ipod, I assumed hearing the good news was just as good! (Ok, not really) But I couldn't think of another way to get our friends & family to my site without using the word "FREE". There were some of you who thought they were going to be smart and get a head start by having my blog open and ready right when they got to work.... I wont drop names, but you all know who you are! Someone even decided to take off work or leave school... I guess the moral of the story is, you'll do just about anything to get a free ipod! As of last night, Lam informed me that we are now at 11 weeks and our tentative expecting date is April 28th.

Free ipod Press Play at 10:55 am

Free Repair!

If you are one of those unlucky souls, or if you're just plain careless and ended up with a broken LCD screen on your digital camera, you might want to read this. (If you still own an old school 35mm camera, how in the hell do you even know about blogs & the internet?!) I was able to get mine (not really mine, it was my brothers) fixed for free! So my younger brother Dalton, had his Canon SD500 for almost a year before he broke the LCD screen. As you already know, just because the screen is busted it doesn't mean the camera wont work. So my parents ended up buying him a new one for Christmas (My how things have changed since Derek and I were younger, if we broke it... we have to buy another one with our own money) and the old camera has been sitting on his desk unused for the past 6 months collecting dust. Now that the warranty period is over, he would have to pay to get it fixed. So I remember an old co-worker telling me a story about how his younger niece broke her screen on her digital camera, and mailed it to Canon for repair with a little letter telling them how she broke it. To make a long story short, she got it fixed for free! So I decided to pull a cheese ball move, and write a cheesy ass letter (wrote left handed to make it look like a kid wrote it) as if I were Dalton. Five days after mailing it out to Canon, they called me back and wanted $121 to fix my LCD screen, I told them I'll call them back after I spoke to my little brother Dalton. The very next day, Canon called and said never mind they will fix it for free and mail it back with no expense to my younger brother.

Look Ma, Chinese Eyes!