Too Much "Awww", Not Enough "WOW"

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Friday, July 2, 2010 10:44 AM Posted by Thanh Nguyen

In watching The Men in Oranje strip the Brazilians hopes of hoist a sixth World Cup Title, I think I figured out why USA didn't beat Ghana...they can't produce a "WOW" goal. If you think back at the four games that the USA played, there was never a goal that made you say "Daaaaaaamn" or a goal that will be on ESPN Top 10 for its quality. Let's face it, the USA National Soccer team are a bunch of scrappy over-achievers with a kiss of luck from the glove of Thomas Green. But for those four games, I dare you to turn to a different station. Everyone likes the underdog story, especially when the chips are stacked against them. You tell me your blood wasn't boiling when those d-bags they called refs striped away our goals. YOU CAN'T!!!

Man I love the World Cup. Tell me a sporting event when once you lose, you legitimately want to invade a country!!! You can't say that when you're watching the Olympics. You CAN'T be mad at a good looking Russian gymnast doing her thang on the floor, or a Jamaican running faster then Mini Cooper. But you CAN be mad when Ghanian soccer player, his team up 2-1, dives and rolls around, calling for a stretcher to waste time and once off the field HE HOPS UP AND RUNS BACK ON TO THE FIELD!!!!! YES I WANT TO INVADE A COUNTRY AFTER I LOSE IN THE WORLD CUP!!!!

Twlight...Totally Under-Rated!!!

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010 4:48 PM Posted by Thanh Nguyen

Don't be fooled by the title of this post, the movie is mediocre at best and if anything the movie is OVER-rated. But I want to veer away from the C-List acting and terrible relationship between a self-absorbed teenage girl and her current obsession...vampires. I want to focus more on...THE HOOK-UP POTENTIAL!!!

So Elaina left her phone at her work, so she was unable to go to the theatre and save seats. So the task of fending off modern folklore obsessed tweens was delegate to yours truly. But "The Prothanh" (pronounced PROTON) stayed true to his name and remained positive...the things you do for your significant other huh, am i right??!! Needless to say I did not know what I was up against. IT IS SO HARD TO MAKE SMALL TALK WITH TWEENS!!!! And you can't just stand there and not meet people because lets be honest, you're an AWESOME magnet. Awesome things/people just are attracted to you.

But anyways, having a significant other on hand, I just sat back and observed the potential. I must say it was vast. Well granted it was dark, so true judgement of physicality and legality was skewed. This is like the perfect place to meet chicks!! I mean lets looks at the angles for introduction:

1. They are already there.
2. 90% of the theatre population are girls.
3. They are obsessed with weird things like Vampires and Werewolves (so you know they're ready to get down).

However, you need a wingman/wingwoman. Preferably a wingwoman, so you can play the sensitive card. Unlike a wingman, where all you can play is a "I LIKE DUDES" card.

But I really don't know if you wanna take the risk because this tween series is pretty terrible. I HATE BELLA and I don't say HATE a lot, especially not with CAPITAL letters. BUT I HATE BELLA. She's so self absorbed and thinks that her life is so terrible, and wants to be the Undead. And plus she wants to be with this vampire guy that she meet her first day in a new school...FOREVER!! I mean all this drama and romance will be a tad bit justified if she was 25+ but she's not even legal yet. I blame these series for contributing to the increased divorce rates. Girls and Guys fresh out of adolescent are convinced that they need to have a story book ending and skip all the in between. They don't realize that the "in between" is what creates their story book ending.

Granted I'm no expert of relationships. It seems like a lot of kids are in such a rush to grow up and they don't have time to be kids.

Song Addiction

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Monday, June 28, 2010 6:52 AM Posted by Thanh Nguyen


"The Man Who Can't Be Moved"-The Script

WHAT A GOOD SONG!!! So I was just driving home the other night after watching Toy Story 3, great movie, and this delightful tune came on the radio. It had all the components that a great song would have. Of course "great song" being subjective on my end, but lets not dabble in this philosophical conundrum and focus on the topic at hand. It had a great melody, something you can hum while you're in the line at Wal-Mart and people don't awkwardly veer passed you. But most of all it had meaningful lyrics, this is a great change from some chick, lets call her Ke(dollar sign, wtf)sha, with disheveled blonde hair singing about some stupid clock and talking through the entirety of her songs. I feel like her songs are DJ-ed versions of audiobooks, and not good ones like "Green Eggs and Ham" but terrible ones like "Jane Eyre".

I think my favorite part of the song is the chorus:

'cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be
Thinkin' maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet
And you'll see me waiting for you on our corner of the street
So I'm not moving, I'm not moving

What a great sentiment, I feel like this should be in the "Wicker Park" soundtrack. If anyone hasn't seen that movie...YOU SHOULD!! I have it, I'll let you borrow it. This song really is about one of the biggest gifts you can give to your significant other...patience. Sometimes things happen in life that don't necessarily go according to plan, and when those "sometimes" show up, you just have to have patience.

Gulf Coast Hot Air Balloon Festival

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Saturday, June 19, 2010 8:50 PM Posted by Thanh Nguyen


So as the sun rises over the oil soaked Gulf of Mexico, I too arise to the screeching sounds of my sister's voice, who doubles as my alarm clock. Another day of adventure lays ahead of me, but first I must mow the lawn. Fast forwarding through the blistering hot sun, clouds of dirt, and wet grass...today will be full of hot air balloons, dogs catching frisbees, and all around down south traditions. All day I was checking the radar, hoping that the gods will look favorably on today's agenda...so far so good.

Once Elaina got off of work at 3, poor girl had to go to work at 8, we hopped in the car and ventured over to Bob Riley's pride and joy, ALABAMA. Driving through the small towns separated by corn fields and strawberry patches, you can't help but wonder...what do they do here?? I felt like I was going to see horse drown carriages and people sitting on porches drinking a brown jug with three X's on it (XXX, moonshine probably not pornographic in nature at all). But I must say people are pretty nice down south. The real south, not like south Florida where it's basically...I don't know, I'm just not a fan. EXCEPT, this one girl who kept getting in all of my shots of dogs catching frisbees!!! HOMEGIRL WAS STAGE FIVE CLINGING ON MY SHOTS!!! But rest assured blogosphere, I come baring gifts (no thanks to homegirl)...




After a while of being amazed at my future dogs, we decided to set up base camp so we can have a good viewing of the hot air balloons. Little did we know that hot air balloon pilots were a pansies!! Apparently it's not safe for the balloons to be inflated when the winds are more than 10mph. PISH POSH!! I say, if seven year old James Henry Trotter can fly a GIANT PEACH across the ATLANTIC...these guys can inflate some balloons for my amusement!! Not to worry again blogosphere, I won't let you down...



All in all, it's always a good day when I get to hangout with this girl...how can you not love that face??




On the drive home I was reminiscing about the passed few years, where I was and how I'm glad that I am the person I am today (I took the scenic route for that explanation, just go with it). And it's fun to think about the future...for instance, a year from now I'll be finished with my first year of Optometry School, Cadillac Bonerville will have a Mrs. Cadillac Bonerville, and hopefully I'll be where I want to be...at the Gulf Coast Hot Air Balloon Festival with this girl

...Another Good Day.
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