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| June 16th, 2007 - July 27th, 2007
i will be taking my 3rd trip back to the motherland.... VIETNAM.. :)
Lord, keep my parents, two Bac Tiets, and I safe while we are traveling and relaxing!
Quite excited to learn how to ride the bikes, eat kho muc, kho bo, wake up early to go to the market, watch my elders cook, run up the big hill to get to the beach, tower over everybody, be stared at, get some new threads, see all the family again, my mom's family, my dad's siblings, but most of all, to see Nick's grave.... that will be good.. :)
catch ya'll in AUGUST!
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| it's been one year.....
Rest In Peace brother:
Nicholas Hung Nguyen
November 6, 1980 - April 4, 2006
we miss you.... daddy made you a big pot of thit co and put a flower on the flag pole for you today :)
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| passed? so basically, from that last blog.... i thought i pretty much failed two courses : Intellectual heritage and Women and Men in American Society since i bombed 2 exams, and got Fs on the one paper.. so ha, yeah.. i look at my grades for the semester.... muahahhaa... MUAHAHAH!! Chemistry - 80% = weighted total = A (!!!!!)
Intellectual Heritage ( class where i got an F on one of the TWO papers (the midterm) that we had to do all semester.. went to every class, participated.. then talked to him after the final about... stuff.. hahahah = B+ (!!!)
Men & Women ( class where i got no more than 59% on the first two out of three EXAMS, go to every class, somewhat participate = weighted total = B+ (!!!!)
_Tourism & Hospitality Classes_
Special Events = B (uhh whatever)
Diversity in Travel, Leisure & Sport = B (yeah whatever again) awesome - GPA was 3.37.. whattttt okay weina.. :) well cumulative is only 3.19. but shiet.. i'm cooooOool
anywho, so i'm at work right now... haven't worked at the hampton inn for about 2 months.. hehehe. but there is only 3 check ins :) already checked in 2... oh.. saw mrs.. madden.. anybody have her as a 5th grade teacher? haha she checked in her parents.. it's mr. chestnut's last year!?! anywho.. i'm here til 11.. it's all good then.. afterwards we gonna hit up the Le residence for their little holiday party and do our secret santa swapping. yayy.. MERRY CHRISTMAS :) 
but yeah.. on a serious note: the year is coming to an end.. and i'm excited for that.. christmas was delightful at church.. as i hope new year's eve will be too at the kissoon house where we get crunk together with the other carlisle peoples.. :) Khoa and Wayne have blessed me with their visions and dreams.. about Nick.. about GOD, best of all.. i have received confirmation *sigh*... and have a fire burning inside of me that hopefully will explode! Lan is doing well.. going to church.. whooping EVERYBODY's butt in Scrabble.. haha.. don't know how long he'll be in there for though.. to 2006... a tough year.. that will soon be over and done with and the only thing left will be its memories.. thank the Lord! so.. i have a really long time at work with NOTHING to do.. since i can't get onto MYSPACE or FACEBOOK.. bah!? let's wait until my co-worker leaves (7pm). steal some more styrofoam cups with lids to put my coffee in and drive to schoool.. take some hot cocoa packets.. haha and NO - i ain't stealing no comforter covers (cloud 9) for nobody! hahahahah.. okay bye.. | | |
| The Prayer:Father, I ask you to bless my friends, relatives, and those that i care deeply for, and for those who are reading this now. Show them a new revelation of your love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask you to minister to their spirit at this very moment. Where there is pain, give them your peace and mercy. Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through your grace. Where there is need, i ask you to fulfill their needs. bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. In Jesus' precious name. Amen.
2006.... Where do i begin? I don't even know.. i always said i'd write about Nick's death someday and everything that happened, but i don't think i'll do that anymore.. It's passed and so have most of the rollercoasters that came along with it...
my 3rd semester at Temple began in early January.. Track was getting good too, finally the sun's rays and the heat was gonna come and it would be time for the big D1 Atlantic 10 competitions... what we've been training for all year..
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My momma's birfday was Monday April 3rd, 2006.. i remember asking Nick if he got mommie anything.. he said "no, i'm such a bad son.."
On that crisp morning of April 4th, 2006.... at 10:08 am, Nick texts both Jizz and I, "I love you guys" (i still have that text message saved onto my phone)
i woke up extra early that morning to go eat breakfast and i was walking into my dorm and i decided to call him...it took him awhile to pick up my call.. so i got really worried..
he finally called me back.. and we talked..
"helllloo, i love you too, are you okay?"
his voice trembling, yeah...
i ask him why he's up so early..
he's getting ready for work.. oh okay..
so good luck on your tests. wait what? i dont have any tests.. oh wait that's liz.. yeah..
do good in school okay.. i'll try i'll try..
well okay so, i'll see you this weekend when we come home!
okay..
byeee
(and i think he says i love you, but i hang up..)
\\well this is not cool.. definitely at my school's tech center, crying!\\ gay niggg :) haha
so yeah.. the day went as it did.. nothing seemed out of place..
i was in study hall, in the basement of a building.. no reception but i was talking to jizz on AIM.. found out that morning she was talking to nick.. that's why he didn't pick up the first couple times i called him..
"weina, we gotta go home!"
what the crap why? WHY! jizz!! why!!!!
what the crap!?! jizz!?!!! (Dude that was not coool, i was sittin there waiting for like 50 seconds..)
and then i read: "Nick shot himself!!"
i grabbed my bags, signed out of study hall and ran outside.. first person i called was my dad..
"crying hysterically.. ba, tell me it's not true..TELL ME IT'S NOT TRUE!"
what!? gai? come on.. nick died..
i don't even remember everything he said.. but it was just bad.. i was crossing broad street.. screaming.. yelling..
got to my dorm room, my one roommate was there and i asked her to deliver a paper to my class that night.. she did :) i packed some of my stuff.. my laptop. proactiv, and i couldn't sit still, so i just walked outside and waited for jizz to pick me up.. couldn't sit still.. so i decided to just walk.. try to walk home as fast as i could.. made it like 10 blocks down broad street by the time jizz got to me.. i called wang and vu.. freakin vu was like weina.. i can't hear you what are you talkin about.. what.. and i just got really annoyed. like VU.. shut up! (no offense vuuuuu) so then they finally realized what i said.. and yeah.. :(
i decided to drive home, i felt like i should, i felt like i was stronger than jizz, even though we both were a wreck..
those were the longest two hours of my life - traffic here and there.. i actually was speeding too :)
so yeah.. that night.. oi.. moms was.. silent.. dad was strong..
sick or not.. i really wish they would've left his body there so i could see it.. and how it was..
it was gone.. but there was the room still there how it was.. bloody and all on and under the bed.. the whole family went down there before the night was over to check it out..
jizz and i said we could clean up the mess so we didn't have to pay anybody.. but it ended up we did have insurance come and take care of it alll.. so that's coool..
the only thing i regret.. is not going home the day that he called me and said that.. we had a little inkling that he might do something like that, butt.. then again.. he was the one who convinced his best friend not to commit suicide, yet he did it himself.. we never thought he would be that stupid to do that either.. yet, he did.. he was a different person.. he wasn't the Nick that all of us knew..
i regret not being more aggressive to the funeral home dude.. i wanted to see his body.. i wanted to see his face.. no matter how bad it may have looked.. even if i would have nightmares forever.. "oh, we wouldn't recommend it because it's not like the movies." and then my dad agreed too, because he was in the war he saw all kinds of things.. BUT I DON'T CARE!! he's my brother!
so.. yeah.. ended up not getting to see him.. we did get to touch his right hand..
THEN! at the actually memorial service.. he said there were like two big bags of his clothes.. asked me if i wanted it.. uhh yeah i do! but then everyone was like, nooo.. it's not a good idea..
soo got PISSED! i wanted to see what these "two bags" contained.. what he wore last.. what.. you know, EVERYTHING!! bastards.. bASTARDS!
anywho.. time has passed.. sooner or later, i'm gonna go to the District Attorney's office who handled Nick's case.. and look at the pictures they have.. :-\
Vietnamese superstition (which seemed to have been true)
once something bad happens, the rest of the year.. you will have bad luck..
-after i got back to school, it was time for finals.. my partner in a class, his best friend's grandma had died..
Gary, Gumper Stackfield, his mom had died
jizz's friend Avni, her mom had died..
one of my dad's friends.. had died
Anh Son's wife, had died..
by the end of the month.. i remember counting.. 6 people around me somehow, someway.. had died..
Then came the family's personal problems..
first it was Lan's parents..
then it was mine..
the whole summer.. we were trying to help Lan cure his addiction.. sending him to rehab.. at his every beckon..
car accident where he flipped his car 3 times
now, he's back in jail.. doing better.. and he has been going to church :)
i got a part-time job at the Omni hotel.. but i had to choose between going home for christmas break.. or the job.. i chose home.. i told her that i could work until next sunday.. but she said we usually just stop it immediately.. so last night was my last day.. haha, whatever.. but to call her back once i get back (i think she like me) she also told me her father had died April 11th. greattt..
2006..... ben ritter.. motorcycle accident.. still in a coma (after how many months!?)..
Kimberly Malloy's best friend's husband.. died..
Truong and Tri - bad car accident
David, nick's best friend - Car accident.. - THANK GOD they are okay..
School this semester..for both Jizz and I.. stressful..
Intellectual heritage - got my first F on a paper (it's definitely the teacher)
Sociology - failed the first two exams.. (it's the teacher's wording)
never have i ever done this bad in school.. and i'm not even trying! i definitely.. do everything that i can..
Dad went to emergency room, massive pains in his stomach, THANK THE LORD he is fine now..
welll.. there are many more things that have happened this year.. but i'll continue later..
 Nick
 Truong
 :)  Jizz  Tri and Sasha 
Wang * Weina
 My momma and Lan christmas last year :)  Ly gettin toasted before she got pregnant this year!!   :) | | |
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