Nick's Mini Cooper S!


Life!


"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."

- Dalai Lama

Yesterday, I attended a funeral with my mom. It was one of my dad's good friends from a catholic magazine they had worked together on. He fought lung cancer for almost 2 years, but sadly, it was his time. He left behind a beautiful family with several grand kids. It makes me think about myself and how I'm already at a quarter of my life and so little I've accomplished compared to others.

Attending funerals is not my thing. I've been to 3 now and it just brings back pain and sadness from the time my old man passed away. I need to get used to it and become stronger because I watch my mom attend wakes and funerals at least once a month. Maybe I need to understand attending a funeral is not to be sad, but to be happy for the life they lived.


R.I.P. Ong Luca Nguyen Tri Su (Bac Su)

Tradicao Brazilian Steakhouse!


http://www.tradicaobraziliansteak.com/

A friend of mine has been wanting to go back to this place for awhile now so he planned to eat there today. The outside of the restaurant isn't too pleasing on the eyes, but once you step inside, the atmosphere is a bit more warm and maybe romantic. But I don't think steakhouse buffets and romantic can be used in the same context. We came with a party of 6 and were seated immediately. I've never been to a brazilian steakhouse, not even Fogo de Chao, so this was all pretty new to me. We started off with hot muffin looking bread with some kind of cheese inside. Then we served ourselves with some salad at the salad bar. And finally, servers would come around our table offering different slices of meat. By the 15th type of meat, I was pretty full. It ranged from lamb chops to the house special. For $15, it was probably the best meal I've had in awhile.

Here are a few snaps we took before and after eating:

















Tokyo One!


My family and I went out to Tokyo One buffet yesterday for family dinner. I haven't had it in a couple of months now and I was definitely feeling it so I grabbed what I could and ate like a starving man. I also brought out my 50mm 1.8 to play with...























Graduation/Summer!



I've finally graduated from college and it feels great but... I have no job offers or anything lined up at the moment. I guess this is where the real journey begins for me.

Lets recap my 7 yrs of college life:
- Freshman year, decided I wanted to be an optometrist so I became a pre-optometry major, but I was too much into a girl to concentrate on anything which included friends, family, and school which was a pretty bad start for me. I made B's and C's that year and broke up with the girl.

- 2nd year, probably my worst college year ever. I failed 2 classes and made mostly C's. I became depressed and emo for awhile. At the end of 2nd year, I found out I had Graves' disease.

-3rd year, ended up being kicked out of the school for a low GPA and then put on probation. So after the first semester ended, I transferred over to TSU to pursue a different career path. I chose clinical laboratory science. My old man had also passed away that same year from pancreatic cancer.

- 4th year, I did a lot better in my school work and earned A's and B's. My cumulative GPA was now a 2.5 or so. A lot of my friends were getting into pharmacy school and it looked pretty easy getting into so I tried it out too.

- 5th year, I finished all my prereqs for pharmacy and my CLS major and also did some volunteer work at the VA hospital. I applied for pharm school and got an interview, but was rejected. My plan was to attend with my brother and friends, but since I couldn't get in, I went through a different path.

- 6th year, I started the program I eventually graduated with, Clinical Laboratory Sciences. I thought science would keep me interested in learning forever but it slowly ate me away. For this reason, I knew I couldn't have made it in pharmacy school.

- 7th year, last and final year of the program in which I was put on clinical rotations. I got to experience the real life of a medical technologist and it is a repetitive one. Maybe it was because it was only a reference laboratory that everything seemed repetitive but I don't think I could do the same thing over and over again. It was kind of a disappointment for me. Hopefully there are more openings to this field with different options.
 
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