If I ever going to marry a Vietnamese girl (highly unlikely), I will insist on Vietnamese food just to be a rebel and go against the norm. First, we would have lots of spring rolls. I mean lots! Even ones you make yourself. Of course, you must have peanut sauce to go with it as well, so at each table, we’ll give a pack of peanuts and let the eaters manually crush the peanuts themselves with those ghetto wooden grinders. For vegetables, each eater have a free pass to pick vegetable from Vietnamese homes. Chances are, if you know a Vietnamese person living on a land with at least an inch by inch square of soil, there is going to be home grown vegetables there. Guaranteed. So for my wedding, everyone gets a pass to go pick vegetables in Dorchester. We must have fish because our ancestors were mostly fisherman. Fish in tomato sauce. Fish in Hoisin sauce. Fish in ketchup with rice. Whatever. Since we’re in the US and not Vietnam, every eater gets to catch their own fish but it must be BELOW legal limits allowed. Seriously. In Boston, you can’t catch a fish and take it home if it’s below 17 inch long but since this is a VIETNAMESE wedding, you’re not going to follow the rules and bring home the 9 inch and half fish anyways and bake it and bring it to the wedding. If the State Troopers catch you doing it, you just bust out your fobby accent and pretend you can’t read because chances are State Troopers in Mass. all assume Vietnamese people can’t speak proper English anyways. It’s wrong, but fight the system! We totally have to have fish sauce. At every table, instead of a small pint of fish sauce, bring out a gallon of fish sauce. In fact, since Vietnamese people reuse and recycle everything, put the fish sauce in the milk gallon jugs and serve it to every table! Forget Chinese green tea, we need fish sauce green tea latte grande with extra shot and whipcream! By the end of the night, I get more patients because everybody will be having hypertension due to the fish sauce and they will come to me for atenolol and other beta blockers. Of course, we must have pho at the wedding. Pho everything. We can serve first chicken pho, then beef pho, then pork pho, then Spam pho, lamb pho, and end it with pho with ketchup and rice and hot dogs. Yes, we eat hot dogs with rice, get over it. Instead of Chinese wedding cakes from Chinese bakery in Chinatown, we’ll have Vietnamese sandwich (banh mi) as the dessert. Yes it’s not filling, and not sweet and if you order them from Dorchester, there might be questionable meats there that you don’t want to ask about, but Banh Mi and Pho is about the only thing non-Viets know about Viet food. We GOT to have egg rolls. Now there is an ongoing debate for million of years whether egg rolls come from China or Vietnam, but ours are made with love! And MSG. And high cholesteral giving, heart attack inducing, artery clogging, obesity causing ‘vegetable’ oil.

So there! Actual Vietnamese food at a Vietnamese wedding! It’s almost revolutionary! WHO’S with me?!! ARE YOU WITH ME?!?

It’s awhile since I post but what the heck. I think blogs have their usefulness and Facebook have its limitations. So here we go… top reasons why I can’t study for my boards in Boston and wished I am in, I don’t know, Antarctica, to study (I’m sure penguins won’t mind me there but do they have wireless?):

(1) I can’t say no to my family. They always want me to do things for them, and I want to say no but I can’t so I end up doing it anyways… like cleaning the family’s spyware infected computer and reinstalling Windows XP for TWO DAYS!

(2) I know too many places I rather go to rather than study at BU’s Mugar library.

(3) Lots of friendships and relationships I want to heal or improve or catch up… but those takes time and thought.

(4) I want to solve all my church’s problems. Including inter-personal relationships.

(5) My house has no AC. Boston temperature has been hitting high 90′s. Enough said.

(6) I never get long weeks of uninterrupted time. There are always weddings (4!) to go to or church events to participate in.

(7) BU’s FitRec is like sick nasty! They have like 8 basketball courts, pools, walls, and tons of things to do in one building including doing nothing at all and lounge at the Smoothie bar getting fat from the carbs and calories after a workout.

(8) It’s SUMMER! Summer is not meant for study!

(9) I wish there is someone to help me study or support me to study instead of people asking for my time, energy, and money all the time.

(10) Currently rekindling my passion for God but can’t do it because I need to study!!!

Anyways, I need to study!!!

Ok, I don’t care who you are voting for, but obviously CNN thinks Asian Americans are ignorant, dumb, and vote out of fear.

CNN has aired a piece on their channel interviewing Asian Americans on who they would vote for. The conclusion? They would rather vote for Hillary than Obama because Asian Americans are afraid of black people. GIVE ME A BREAK!!! Do you know how much Asian Americans and every other minority groups in American BENEFIT from African Americans’ leadership in the civil rights movement???

Asian Americans are not single-minded or ignorant like CNN would want us to be. If CNN could just check the recent US Census sheet, Asian Americans have the most highest degrees and make the most money on average than anybody. Truly, we are well educated and socially aware to make informed decisions.

Asian Americans have reasons to vote for Clinton. They also have reasons to vote for Obama. They do not vote out of fear!

What’s worse, the CNN video segments only interview Asians with BROKEN ENGLISH!!! Why don’t you come here and interview me and numerous other Asian Americans who would tell you a piece of our minds in better English than you can imagine. Why cherry pick only Asians with broken English? So that the media can further establish that they think Asians don’t belong here and are not true Americans.

Telling us to go back to China or whatever is like telling white people to go back to Mesopotamia!

We are Americans because we believe in the ideals of democracy and freedom and we live, work, and protect this country like any other people.

ARGH! This is disgusting. I need to take a shower now. The link below is the CNN video segment and the story. The link after that is a petition that you should sign to tell CNN that they’re wrong and they need to rectify the problem.

(By the way, all Asian Americans should vote, no matter who you vote for. It just so happens that according to the Census, Asian Americans are least likely to vote, thus the candidates ignore us. Vote and be counted! After you sign the petition….)

The video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFARVcHl3lk

The story:
http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=44cb40c466e5c8e91f4d0e557ef911bc

In
Christianity, we believe that God gives us the freedom to choose
whatever we believe in. However, there are personal consequences to
what we choose. In acting towards others, we must always respond with
love and compassion.

Although Michael Moore hates President (see
Fahrenheit 9/11, his other film), he doesn’t hate religion or
Christianity. He’s calling us to live up to the Christian traditions
this country is found upon (see the faith of our founding fathers) of
charity, love, and care for the human condition.

I personally don’t like Bush invading Iraq and Bush dragging the word
Christianity into it (Crusade part IV, anyone?). I feel I am
scrutinized by what Bush is doing because of my faith, much like how
the Muslim world has to answer questions for what Osama is doing. Yet,
I know my faith is personal and reflected by my own actions, and people
will see the difference between me and Bush by the love and care and
manifestation of my faith to others.

But back to healthcare, if
you read the article from my source link, Moore criticized the
commercial, capitalistic, and money hungry nature of our healthcare
system that even people WITH insurance have trouble paying for their
bills! I am with Moore in the sense that we need a revolution in
healthcare, by throwing away the private industry and having a
universal healthcare like Canada, Japan, most of Europe, and yes even
Cayman. Universal healthcare run by the government will insure everyone
and no one will ever have to suffer because of money.

Socialism or whatever, but countries with this health system like
Canada are the healthiest people in the world. Of course this is not
going to change much in the U.S. because businessmen are getting richer
and doctors enjoy their $100 to $300K salaries, so privatization will
always exist. But that is where charity and altruism comes in.

In
the end, Moore was criticizing Bush, the government, and our healthcare
system more than or even at all religion or Christian.

I have been doing this all of my medical school years! No wonder I didn’t get a heart attack yet with all the caffeine I intake per day!