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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
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Hello LJ! (YES! I'm still alive.)
Summer has come to an end and it's past the mid year mark of '07 (Man! This year is flying!). This has been one of the best years of my life and it's only going to get better! I just want to take this time to recount the memories with you all.
Warning!!! Broadband only!
( Picture overload! )
Until next time....
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At the strike of midnight, my twenties will no longer be.....
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It's OFFICIAL!
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) madmonkay and I are graduating from our GED's!
We're having a party tonight, our graduation tomorrow, and I'm off to sunny California on Sunday. J and I will be in San Diego and LA for the week. Sea World, the SD Zoo, and other fun filled adventures together. Visiting my sister and my nephew. Can't wait!
madmonkay is the better because he's getting his Masters. I on the other hand will be graduating with honors. Finally! No more pencils, no more books!
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January:
- Work and school. No time for play.
- Andy's Birthday.
- Sarah's Birthday.
February:
- I finished my last class.
- Kids birthday's galore!
    
- J and I took up a new hobby of snowboarding. I contacted one of my clients and they hooked it up with season passes for J and I at three of the local resorts. Exciting! I bought J a Burton Lux board, Burton Emerald boots, Burton Stiletto bindings and Oakley Pink Iridium Stockholm goggles. For myself a Burton Custom X board, Burton CO2 bindings, Burton Hail boots, Oakley Wisdom goggle, and other equipment.
   
March:
- I had surgery done. Septoplasty with outfracture and reduction of inferior turbineutes.
- Snowboarding...snowboarding...and more snowboarding.
   
- Jung's birthday
April:
- Biking in DC.
 
- Taking Xander to the Zoo.
  
- Lucy's birthday 1 & 2.
     
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Hello Friends,
I just wanted to let you all know that I'm raising money for this very important cause, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training. I'm running in The Marine Corps Marathon in memory of my cousin, who passed at the young age of 19. I'm not asking for much, just what your heart can give. If it's a penny, I'll take it, because every little contribution helps.
Above: My cousin, Andrew Yuen
Please take the time to visit the link in this email to view my page and to donate online. You will receive email confirmation of your donation and I will be notified as soon as you make your donation. I thank you in advance for your support, and really appreciate your generosity!!
http://www.active.com/donate/tntnca04/AlfredWang
Please forward this email to as many people as you can to encourage them to donate as well!
Signed,
Alfred Wang
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Asian marrow donor makes her mark on community
By: Winyan Soo Hoo
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A volunteer fills out a registration form for bone marrow donation at the Chinese Bible Church of Maryland. Registration is a simple process, where individual cheek swabs are sent to NIH labs.
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Ida Wang stands with a friend at the Chinese Bible Church of Maryland. Wang has worked with the Asian community for more than 15 years to promote bone marrow donation.
It’s been almost 15 years since Ida Wang began her tireless effort to bring more Asian Americans bone marrow donors. At 58, Wang hasn’t stopped traveling around the DC-area to dispel myths associated with donating marrow. She recently held one of her several bone marrow drives in conjunction with NIH at the Chinese Bible Church of Maryland (CBCM). Wang comes across as a helpful, but driven friend: she easily speaks one-on-one to potential donors and often wakes up early before drives to put up signs and banners that promote the cause.
At CBCM, she put up a poster board crammed with photos of the various drives she’s completed and the friends she has met over the years. Eyes reddening and faintly tearing, Wang quietly also pointed out pictures of leukemia patients who they could or could not save from the disease.
“Their stories still make me cry,” Wang said.
Wang is no stranger to the pain and intense emotion that comes with the prospect of a life-threatening disease. Her nephew Andrew died in 1992 at the age of 17 from leukemia. A year later, Wang coped with the loss by founding the non-profit D.C.- Metropolitan Asian Pacific American Marrow Network. She also helped start the Andrew Lee/Yuen Memorial Fund after meeting another young boy named “Andrew” that suffered the disease.
When Wang first started her work, Asian registry was at a low 3.2 percent. Some of her family members were repulsed by the idea of Wang championing a drive, and said the thought of the disease made the grieving worse.
One family member even asked her to remain silent, but Wang pressed on: in her first year of volunteering she helped organize 11 drives. By retirement from her day job, Wang could complete 64 drives in one year.
“The biggest challenge is to get others as committed to the cause as you are, unless they are personally affected or are paid volunteers,” Wang said. “I, personally, do not receive any compensation for my work.”
CBCM member Stephen Chan helped Wang coordinate the drive at the church in April. Although he has never known anyone who suffered from the disease, Chan said he was influenced by personal and religious beliefs to donate.
“Supporting a bone marrow drive is a good thing for us to do,” Chan said. “I want to help give life to others. I believe that if someone matches my bone marrow, they can benefit from me. It’s not going to hurt me, and possibly it can make me stronger by doing it.”
Allen Meadows of the NIH Marrow Program said he appreciates volunteers like Chan, but recognizes that willing Asian donors are uncommon.
“We need minorities, minorities, minorities,” Meadows said. “Asians we need desperately. I can’t stress that enough. Caucasians are overrepresented in our system.”
Wang emphasized that Asians are generally fearful of blood and come up with many excuses to avoid becoming a donor. She explains that marrow is the substance found in larger bones in the body that help produce blood cells. Potential donors join the registry by a simple cheek swab that will be sent to NIH labs. More information is available at: http://www.marrow.org.
“If you have Internet access, you must look at this Web site,” Meadows said. “It dispels a lot of the myths people have about this process: it’s not painful; you can’t get bone cancer from it. If someone is really nervous about it, you can always get accurate information by calling one of us at NIH personally.”
The coordinator of the NIH bone marrow donation program is a registered nurse, and will walk a donor through the entire donation process. Most of the local donations are completed in the Washington metropolitan area, with two main locations at the NIH campus and at the Georgetown Hospital in D.C. If contacted, donors may not necessarily become a potential match.
“It’s not as scary as it sounds,” said David Morgan also of NIH Marrow Program. “We often hear that our volunteers – regardless of race and ethnicity – describe the process as anti-climatic.
Only when a match is found does a donor give blood. The donor must undergo a stay at the hospital, where doctors use a needle to extract a pint of marrow from the pelvic bone.
“Blood marrow donation is not as well-known as blood donation,” Meadows said. “I have a desire to try to publicize it. Try to think about how you would feel if it happened to one of your family members.”
Meadows speaks enthusiastically about the program as part of NIH’s recruitment and donor management team. Although he has spent 4 years with the program, Meadows said the first he understood the gravity of the situation was when his cousin was diagnosed with Leukemia last July.
Wang said she identifies with the pain that many family members feel about the battle against diseases, such as leukemia, aplastic anemia and other life-threatening blood diseases that only bone marrow transplants can cure. For more than 8 years, Wang organizes an annual fundraising dinner, Banquet for Life the first week of October at China Garden. This year, volunteers may help Wincheng Lin in the battle against Leukemia. Wincheng is a young Chinese American MIT undergrad in remission waiting for a match.
“I hope we can get more people in the Asian community to be involved,” Wang said. “Everyone should do something wonderful while their alive.”
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Go Mom!... Go Mom!...
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
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Sunday
$73.48 Dicks Sporting Goods - Nike Pro winter mock and tights
$57.38 eBay - 2 Sandisk 1GB microSD
$44.39 Buy.com - Rainbow Six Vegas for Xbox 360
$94.48 Target - Kingdom Hearts for PS2 and Gears of War for Xbox 360
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$269.73 Total
Monday
$43.21 Mobile - Gas
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$43.21 Total
Tuesday
$22.03 Nike Store - Sweat pants
$20.04 Lunch @ Arthur Treacher's - 2 orders fish & chips and a Nathan's hotdog
$29.67 English Trading Company - (Secret Santa gift) Tin of Earl Grey and a ceramic tea set
$11.50 Original SoupMan - bowl of crab bisque
$7.65 Dinner @ Fuddruckers - 1/3 lbs bacon cheddar burger combo
$57.65 Nordstrom - Lacoste long sleeve
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$148.54
Wednesday
$34.68 Dinner @ Hakuba Japanese restaurant - Nabayaki udon, cucumber roll, samurai roll, and Baltimore roll
$23.07 Dicks Sporting Goods - Nike pants
$177.50 eBay - 2004 Range Rover HSE factory rubber mats
$10.99 Bowl America - Bowling from 9pm - 1am
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$246.24 Total
Thursday
$9.00 Lunch @ Ambrosia Grill - Spaghetti with meat sauce
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$9.00 Total
Friday
$4.05 USPS.com - postage for package
$5.77 Lunch @ Roy Rogers - Bacon cheese burger meal
$58.05 Dinner @ Flaming Pit - crab soup, 16 oz prime rib, and sea scallops
$185.99 Hotel.com - Room for New Year's Eve
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$253.86 Total
Saturday
$12.00 Orange Ball - Billards
$10.77 Giant Foods - 2 bottles of Sobe vitamin water, box of Ferreo Rocher, 2 boxes or Klondike ice cream cookies
$57.72 - Montgomery County Liquor - 1.75 L Grey Goose
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$80.49 Total
$1051.07 Total for Week 6
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
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Sunday
$125.96 Toys R Us - 2 Wii classic controllers and 2 Wii remotes
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$125.96 Total
Monday
$31.19 Mobile - Gas
$14.60 Lunch at Pho Nam - Large #18 for Andy and #1 for me
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$45.79 Total
Tuesday
$16.70 Dinner @ Broadway Diner - Filet of sole sandwich and a bowl of chicken pasta
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$16.70 Total
Wednesday
Nada
Thursday
$5.45 Lunch at KFC - 2 piece meal with mash potatos
$113.45 Realhotstuff.com - 1 Supercard Lite rumble pack in white, 1 Supercard Lite rumble pack in pink, and 2 Superkeys (For the DS)
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$118.90 Total
Friday
$12.88 Grand Mart - 3 Pocky chocolate, 1.18 lbs green pepper, 0.77 lbs spanish onion, 1.17 lbs beef tomato, 8 bags of Hario gummys (cherry's, bears, and alphabets)
$14.96 Vince & Dominic's - 3 slices of cheese pizza
$1.05 McDonald's - Sweet tea
$50.00 Apple Store - Gift certificate for Adam
$46.20 Baby Gap - Bear footie and hoodie outfit for Joshua (Christmas present)
$167.98 Revolution Cycles - Trek Jet 12 bike and Trek Scout 3 helmet for Xander (Chirstmas present)
$32.00 Dinner @ Bob's Noodle House - Spicey beef noodle soup, fried filet in spicey sweet & sour, and papaya milk shake
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$325.07 Total
Saturday
$110.00 - HP Towing - enough said..ARG!
$200.00 - Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa - Two $100 gift certificates for as Christmas present for J's sister and mom
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$310.00 Total
$942.42 Total for Week 5
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
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Since I'm taking off tomorrow, I just want to wish everyone a safe and happy holidays! Peace.
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
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Sunday
$26.70 Lunch @ Gui Lin - Seafood pan fried noodles, BBQ pork, chicken and roast pork over rice, and beef brisket noodle soup
$62.98 Best Buy - PS3 wireless controller and Wiggles Big Red Boat dvd
$17.84 Target - Norelco trimmer
$4.00 Bubbles & Ice - Large honey green tea with lychee jelly
$28.20 eBay - Dell Inspiron 700m replacement keyboard
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$139.72 Total
Monday
$879.00 Amazon.com - Bugaboo Cameleon Stroller: dark grey base & orange fabric. X-mas present for Jody, Monty, and my new nephew, London.
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$879.00 Total
Tuesday
Nada...Nothing...Nil.
Wednesday
$7.61 Lunch: Wings meal and soup from Safeway
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$7.61 Total
Thursday
$5.56 Lunch: Bacon cheeseburger at Five Guys
$9.00 Drycleaners - 3 shirts and a slack
$269.00 Health Insurance
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$283.56 Total
Friday
$22.00 Haircut
$4.73 Lunch: two slices of pizza at Mamma Lucia
$121.00 eBay - 2 Wii remotes and 2 Wii nunchucks
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$147.73 Total
Saturday
$31.49 Circuit City - Wii messenger storage bag
$9.53 McDonald's - 2 filet of fish, 2 4piece nuggets, medium fries and sweet tea
$440.00 South sea pearl earrings for J - X-mas present at wholesale cost
$7.33 Sbarro - 1 mushroom and 1 cheese pizza
$6.56 Chick-fil-A - Chicken sandwhich combo with vanilla shake
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$494.91
$1952.53 Total for Week 4
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
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Monday, December 11th, 2006
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
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Monday
$88.78 Buy.com - Resistance: Fall of Man for PS3 and Madden NFL 07 Hall of Fame Edition for XBox 360
$10.48 Giant Foods - Ritz crackers, and 2 boxes of clementines
$40.99 eBay - Sandisk Ultra 2GB SD card
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$140.25 Total
Tuesday
Nada...
Wednesday
$44.39 Buy.com - Marvel's Ultimate Alliance for PS3
$6.78 Lunch @ Pho Nam - #1 regular with extra chin
$34.62 Dinner @ CPK - Original bbq chicken chop salad, tricoloré salad pizza, and original barbeque chicken pizza
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$85.79 Total
Thursday
$311.05 Color Ware - Custom color 4GB iPod Nano for J: cotton candy body, lilac wheel, and cotton candy earbuds
$15.74 KB toys - Mi Flower
$20.95 Apple Store - Agent 18 VideoShield for Nano 2G
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$347.74 Total
Friday
$8.45 Lunch: Wings meal and soup from Safeway
$36.40 Mobile - Gas
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$44.85 Total
Saturday
$44.35 Buy.com - Fight Night Round 3 for PS3
$9.43 Moby Dick Kabob
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$53.78 Total
$730.60 Total for Week 3
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
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Sunday
$1.05 McDonald's - Sweet tea
$4.14 Nordstrom Rack - 2 bars of Neutrogena cleansing bar
$13.65 Aveda Spa - Aveda flax seed aloe gel
$39.36 Giant Foods - 2 boxes of clementines, 8 bottles of Vitamin Water, 6 cans of StarKist Solid White tuna, deli meat, Hellmans mayo, 3 cans of Campbells Chicken Noodle, Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, Count Chocula cereal, 4 Banquet pot pies, and Sara Lee Cheesecake
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$58.19 Total
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Friday
$5.56 Lunch @ Five Guys - Bacon cheeseburger
$3.98 Everything Salad - Large strawberry frosty
$48.16 Macy's - Shirt and sweater
$1.05 McDonald's - Sweet tea
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$58.75 Total
Saturday
$3.15 McDonald's - Sweet tea, caramel sundae, and hot fudge sundae
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$3.15 Total
$423.40 Total for Week 2
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
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Wednesday
Nada, nothing, nil.
Thursday
$40.12 Mobile - Gas
$7.98 Steak Escape - Phily cheese steak
$3.65 McDonald's - Vanilla soft cone and a Oreo McFlurry
$130.16 Macy's - 2 Polo shirts, 2 sweaters
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$181.91 Total
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My car's thermometer reads 72 degrees. It's the end of November and we have Spring like weather. What gives? Global warming people!
Do your part to help the world. Take action!
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
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Tuesday
$26.73 Barnes & Noble - Simpsons Season 8 DVD
$15.75 Giant Foods - 15 bottles of Vitamin Water
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$42.48 Total
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
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Monday
$100 Buca di Beppo - Dinner for 5
$10.74 Giant Foods - 5 bottles of Vitamin Water and deli meat
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$110.74 Total
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Sunday
$26.37 Target - 6 bottles of Vitamin Water and Zelda Four Swords GameCube game
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$26.37 Total
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