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What’s going on y’all. As the title of this post says, your boy is getting mighty old. Today is my 28th birthday and, after having fiished my first week of Fall quarter classes, I feel like it is my 280th bday. This week’s classes had a ton of reading, work, and readjustment to the GSB environment, but it really didn’t seem that bad because I actually like these classes this quarter. one of the great things about being a second yedar student is that you get to take electives that you WANT to take instead of core classes that you… Read the rest

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Today is the first day of Fall quarter classes and it is pretty weird being back in the “real deal” GSB courses. It’s great to see all of my classmates again and hear about how everyone’s summers went, but, as my professors go over the work that we’ll have to do in their classes, i can’t help but get freaked out. This is going to be a long and tiring quarter with my classes and the interview process kicking off soon. This actually isn’t the reason I’m writing this message though…

I’m actually writing this entry to put the word … Read the rest

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I know it’s been a while since I’ve written an entry, so I’ve got a lot to update y’all on. It’s been so busy lately that I just haven’t had time to write.

I probably should have made an entry right after I got back to the US to let folks know that I made it safely, but I have been constantly running since getting back. Between unpacking, finishing the set up of my room/house, and doing classwork, I’ve been swamped. It took 21 hours of traveling to get from Bangkok to SFO, but I was actually able to be… Read the rest

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I’m in the lobby of my hotel in Bangkok readying myself to head back to SFO and I remembered a story that I didn’t write an entry about…how I was daggone close to getting myself arrested in Hanoi. Here it goes…

A couple of nights ago, I was in Hanoi with my peoples Travis and Jon and we decided to meet up with a friend of Jon’s and some of her peoples. We started off with dinner at a nice restaurant and decided to hit a local bar for some drinks. Everyone in the gruop was anxious to jump on … Read the rest

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One more thing for today, I want to put a plug in for one of my classmates, Seth S., who has just launched a start-up with some friends of his called Meebo.com. In a nutshell, their site hosts a custom-developed application that allowed you to access AIM, Yahoo mesenger, MSN Messenger, and ICQ through a single web-based interface. I won’t go into the details of how they make it work in the back-end, but I can attest that they’ve got a great system. I’ve been using it extensively while I’ve been out here in Asia and it has allowed me… Read the rest

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I am officially a fan of Vietnam after the past day or so. I’m just getting back to Hanoi after taking a 2-day/1-night cruise in Halong Bay. That place is absolutely gorgeous. It was literally something out of a movie. Just nothing but clear blue skies, calm waters and green islands with caves underneath…literally thousands of those islands. I don’t know if I’ll ever have a chance to go there again, but I sure do hope to do so in the future. My man Jon took a bunch of pictures and I hope to post some of them up here… Read the rest

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I just spent the last 30 minutes writing a really long entry and this daggone public computer lost it when I tried to submit it, so I’ve got to write a shorter replacement.

We arrived in Hanoi last night and are in the middle of sightseeing now. We’ve seen a bunch of nice buildings and gardens so far and even visited the resting place of Ho Chi Minh, which lies in a glass encasement and has tours run to see him every day. The one thing that is unsettling to me so far is the level of poverty here. I… Read the rest

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What’s up, y’all. I’m writing this entry from an internet cafe in Chiang Mai, which is in the northern part of Thailand. We got here yesterday and got the hookup to be staying in yet another really nice hotel…Travis is doing it up so big on the lodging coordination front for this vacation. We haven’t done much around here except walk around the downtown area to check out some of the old temples and the local markets, but this is a really cool place to kick it. prior to this leg of the trip, e’d been ripping and running to … Read the rest

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