scooped by another lab at UCSF. His paper got published in Stem Cell. Ahh. FUCK.

Big Fish and, of course, I am reminded of my dad. He never once told me a bedtime story in my life. I brought him a journal this year for Father's Day with the hope that he'll fill those blank pages with his beautiful penmanship about his beautiful life. I don't want those stories to remain in silence. I want the words to lift their black legs and ( Read more... )

since they're paying for my quarter abroad at Oxford. Gates Millennium Scholarship is paying for my flight and Stanford is giving me a huge stipend to spend while I'm there. And I actually thought I had to pay for my airplane ticket out of my own pocket. In London, I'd love to see a Shakespearean play at the Globe, stroll across the Thames on the ( Read more... )

better when Sisi and Tet comes to visit. Sisi will be here within in less than 15 days. I am thrilled to see her. I haven't seen this girl since December when I flew over to NYC for my medical school interview. Richard and I have a huge surprise for her. She'll love it. Tet is visiting a few days after Sisi leaves ( Read more... )

know how to speak Vietnamese. Any man that I'll marry will be intelligent enough to learn the damn language because God knows how much I want him to get along with my family. He will understand my brother-in-law's dirty jokes. He will respect my mother's customs. He will read vietnamese folklores to my nieces and nephews in the intended language.

Doug is helping me on this secret project. He is so well connected. I emailed a postdoc from UCSF who was at Berkeley to ask him about Microsoft sponsorship. It all sounds too simple when he says that CAL just wrote a letter asking for financial support ( Read more... )

Join us for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Summer Afternoon Cruise. Embark on a 3-hour tour with members and guests of HHMI EW labs for a tour of Elliott Bay and Puget Sound. We will board the Royal Argosy from Pier 55 on Seattle's waterfront. There will be entertainment for adults and a delicious Captain's buffet lunch will be served as we ( Read more... )

is going to be awesome. I have already recruited two Professors: Stephen Quake and Doug Brutlag. They both have agree to co-sponsor and co-advise. Dr. Quake is an amazing bioengineer who uses microfluidic devices to solve biochemical problems such as protein crystallization. Doug is renowned in bioinformatics. The guy co-authored a paper on DNA ( Read more... )

for Mr. Nghi ( Read more... )

but I'll post it anyway. I wrote this 7 months ago.

The sophomore Nghi salutes 2006 with satisfaction. I am doing my New Year review on New Year Eve because, well, I don’t really celebrate solar New Year. It’s all about TET-lunar New Year.

( Another year, and of course, another Nghi )