Category: My Life

I lost my full time position back in April 2011, after returning from Vietnam trip, 1 month trip, whether or not the trip was the root cause, doesn’t matter much, I had fun :), but a month in the hot heat was enough :). Wife and children heading back there for a visit with many family members here in US in August this year 2012. Anyhow back to the main topic, I’m a consultant or so call contractor, month to month contract, it’s pretty hard not to wonder when I’m gonna have to find another position or contract with another company for work, I’m a type of person that would rather stick around where I’m comfortable working with people I’ve work with for years than working in an enviroment totally new and have to do that new learning experience thing, although it might be good which I don’t mind, but I prefer where I’m currently comfortable with. Well, will see if my contract will get renew this month or next month I mean March 2012, if not, new company job search here I come, although I had many back up plan, but it’s the same effort as looking for an external contract or consultant job. However, if worst case, I’ll be internet entrepreneur soon, I will work hard at it. Many of my friends, some are doctors, business owners, but some also trying to find jobs, so I wont’ feel bad if among others 🙂

Not too often we’re lucky enough to get a nice bag of apples that taste delicious like the tropical fruit in Vietnam below, the taste of this apple reminded me of that fruit in Vietnam, I’m not sure what it call something like “Trai Mang”, yummy crunchy. I bought that bag of apples at bottom dollar walking distance from my house. Bottom dollars pretty cool, they had cool marketing strategy, and most of their products are very cheap, not not all, it’s everywhere in the USA now.

Well happy Ash Wednesday people, well if you’re a catholic and I believe Christian celebrate also, mass is required today and also eat vegetarian also required today. Well this morning I check my site, which is this one here, lopanchoi.com, yeah I know you like the domain hehehhe, and there are 4 bots on my site, what the hec is it doing? well I’m sure there are four different bots from different web crawling company such as – google, msn, yahoo, bing, and so on – I believe what they’re doing is crawling the website contents and puts it on its search engine, such as google. So that when someone search for something and it tied to my website, the search result will appear and user click on it. DO I have private information on my site? yes and no, yes but very mininal such as when I mention an events where a person’s name I don’t mention their exact name, there are also area where it’s private where you cannot read, it is secured or hidden cannot be read in public, only can be view by me and my ip, it’s extra security, so even if you know my admin password here, you still cannot read it unless it’s the ip# I’m capped at the server end 🙂

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday for all catholic, if you’re religious like me 🙂 Basically eat vegetarian food tomorrow, no sex, no cussing, hahahahah!!!! ok maybe that’s a bit too much, two things important: vegetarian and must go to church mass. I know for sure I can eat vegetarian tomorrow, going to church will be difficult due to the two kids, they’re big trouble maker, they will destroy the church ahahhaah! ok maybe not, but they are trouble maker, Dahlia and Nyla, wife Huyen will try to attend the church mass, at least one person from the family can attend. Huyen has been working and studying pretty hard lately trying to finish up her education degree. I believe in god although not being in church every Sunday consistently but I do pray and speak to god nightly, and every trouble I come across I believe god is there looking after me, and even if the trouble will cause me to probably loose my life, I’m ok with god’s decision, well it’s kind of award of talking about death 🙂 I have wife and kids to support, cannot died 🙂 I still want to have my own warehouse to experiment and test out all my toys and inventions, just like that kid in the kid’s movie Meet the Robinson. I still want to see my daughters grow up and see we explored planet Mars at least, and hope life does exist up there and still there, I want to know if human kind will ever be able to leave earth and gear toward space exploration 🙂

I have a long time friend and we chat online all the time daily. He’s a cool person, this is the same guy will be heading to Vietnam in April to get married if everything go well. Over a month ago he got into an accident by himself lifting a haul connection to a car accidentally slipped and smashed his palm, some shattered bones and I saw the xray, look pretty bad, a few weeks later he received the medical bill, and thinking his medical insurance would cover. However yesterday he told me his medical not paying for the ER bill $1500 which doesn’t make much sense. Turns out that the doctor at the ER code his root cause was a car accident so his medical insurance company said since it involve a car they’re not paying for it. I was surprise, and he had a good point, a car accident involve a car hitting something or hitting another car, in this case since the doctor code it as car accident so this might trigger his medical insurance to not pay for it and ask him to contact his car insurance company, wow!!!! probably his mistake was having the doctor code it as car accident, should code something else like working in gagrage smashed  hand :). Oh well, I hope that he can negociate and either have is medical insurance pay for it or his car insurance will. Because $1500 is quite a bit of money, can get an LED TV with it. I’m wondering if I’m driving and eating something with a fork and the fork stabbed me somewhere while driving and eating, then I go to ER and would they code this as car accident? weird!!! 🙂 oh well, gotta read the fine prints or higher a lawyers if it’s  alot of money to pay 🙂

Well yesterday was president day, Dahlia had no school, and my company observed that day was a holiday, I didn’t know 🙂 so I workded 1/2 day. Today back to normal working day and schooling day and so on. Yesterday my wife got minor eye surgery to remove small dot or something from her eye, sounds painful but actually painless she got right to work and school afterward, it’s amazing what technology can do today compare with years ago medical technology! ouch!!!.