Housewarming - Friends Edition

Tung and I held a housewarming for our friends, separated from the housewarming for our family because, let's face it, only so many people could fit in a house at once, and throwing two Asian families together must hit some sort of legal room capacity in the event of a fire escape. We had such a good time with everyone!

Tung's coworkers from Actel (now MicroSemi) kicked it in the back yard around the BBQ grill used to serve Top Dogs hot dogs to everybody. Special thanks to Gene (in red) and his wife Veronica for coming early to help us grill those bad boys.


We thought distracting their two kids with our Wii was a fair trade-off. Heck, while we were at it, we'll distract everyone else's kids with the Wii!


My coworker Alba also graced the house with her family's presence:


Along with the Sudres--bonjour, mon amis! I love the striped-shirt family theme.


And Elia's hogging the blogging spotlight a bit here, but who could resist this adorable picture of her? Wheee! Sitting on a platform wall, wheee!


We got to see some old college buddies from our San Jose State days. Here is Randy (freakishly tall Asian dude--some sort of mutant gene there) and his lovely girlfriend, Kat.


A gang of us used to kick it at the former Clark Library at the center of campus with Bryan (pictured below). Well, more correctly, I was studying like a good student and Tung and his guy buddies would oggle at girls in their bachelorhood days and play prank jokes on each other in the Men's restroom, but who's counting.


And who can mention SJSU without some of my lovely ladies from the English Major program? Liane (in pink) and I are still pen pals to this day. Yes, we write each other longhand and send it through traditional snail-mail post, because we're geeks that way. And Stephanie (in white)--haha, we had such hardcore Asian-American lit pride. Good ol' days.


My friend Julie and I go way back, all the way to the 3rd grade when we first met! She is just one day older than me, but clearly the overachiever already with husband and baby daughter...


...Ms. Bella pictured below, blissfully zonked out on our guest bed. "Bah, parties are for adults. They don't know what good sleep they're missing out on."


And here is part of my Aikido of Silicon Valley crew. I'm surprised we all resisted the urge to put each other in wrist locks and start throwing each other in hip throws on the lawn. What a happy, sweet group picture--you'd never guess we go beating each other up on an almost-daily basis.


Thanks, everyone, for all your gifts...


...and for encouraging the alcoholism in us. You all are the greatest buddies, really, and much too kind. The house would have been "lukewarm" without you (and all this booze).