life's more fun together
It’s been over two years Ashley and I moved out of Boston. I still remember the morning that Ashley and I left in July of 2005. We had a great breakfast at my parent’s house and then set out on the long drive to California. Since then, I’ve seen my parents only a handful of times in person and have been keeping in touch with them mostly on Web Cam. Here’s a screenshot of them on the web cam with me today.
Ashley and I celebrated our first Thanksgiving here in Atlanta with a feast my mom would be proud of. The spread was a 19 lb turkey with Mrs. Peng’s classic stuffing and gravy, onion and garlic mashed potatoes, green beans, candied yams, biscuits, corn and a dessert of apple and strawberry rhubarb pie.
We invited a few of Ashley’s master’s program classmates over, Marienella, Abby and Abhi. We had a great time and everyone enjoyed the food. Here’s some pictures of our feast.
By the way, Thanksgiving also happens to be Cappy’s birthday, he turns 4 this year and this is his third thanksgiving with us. He got some turkey too!
Ashley and I have been going out for 8 years and we are still going out now.
Here’s a picture of us with our friend Valeria over 8 years ago at Rockefeller Center in NYC! Look how young and innocent we were. At that point, Ashley and I had just started hanging out together.
Ray and I had a great time in NYC skating. It was our first trip together. I can’t believe this picture was taken over 8 years ago. It is somewhat surreal that we’re celebrating our 8th year anniversary today. Time has flown by so quickly and next thing we know, we have 8 years of wonderful memories ingrained in our minds.
Ash and I carved our first pumpkin ever, not as hard as we thought! Next year we’re going for something even more challenging. This is for all the movies and music we downloaded. Arrrrgh!
I dedicate this blog entry to a very very special person in my life. His name is “Bean” and most people know him as Eugene. He is my little bother and we are 12 years and 10 days apart. We were both born in October and both monkeys according to the Chinese Zodiac. When he was just a little boy maybe around 5 or 6 years old, “Mr. Bean” the british comedy played and written by Rowen Atkinson was always on PBS and we both loved to watch him. Eugene loved this show so much he would always whine about wanting to see it and his face got all lit up when the show came on. Eugene’s little face at that time was also cute and bean shaped so one day, I proclaimed to him that from then forward, I would call him “Bean”, the rest is history.
I always wanted a little brother growing up, someone to take my side and hang out with me because life as a single child was quite boring and lonely. I finally got my wish and although we are so many years apart we are best friends. It’s Bean’s birthday today and unfortunately this is the third year in a row we could not celebrate together. So, Bean, Happy 15th Birthday from both Ashley and I!! We love you very much!
Bean – 2002 (Christmas)
Bean – 2003 (with dad)
Bean – 2005 (in San Francisco)
Bean 2007 (At my wedding)
Bean and I (acting silly)
Bean @ Albertsons (I don’t know why he wanted to pose there)
May all your Albertson’s wishes come true! 🙂