Vacation Ending...

It looks like my days of leisure are quickly coming to an end :-( My Office 2007 training trip to Vietnam is eminent, and that's only the beginning. I will leave for Vietnam on February 8th and return either on the 18th or 19th. Then it's off to Ban Kruit with Mike and the kids for one final frolick at the beach before I start a month long run for the DS Training Center, teaching their IA courses here in Bangkok.

There has been an Embassy position that I've had my eye on for about 3 months now and it looks like they're finally going to advertise it next week.

And finally... I will start a masters program for information assurance (computer security) on Monday! It's seems like I've been waiting for this program to start ever since I arrived in Bangkok but, it's a new program that they are offering and I will be in the very first class along with about 8 other students. I am so ready, I already know what my capstone project (thesis) will be!

Actually, I've already started working again. I put in about 60 hours in the past few weeks updating one of the DS courses. The next week will be pretty busy also. I need to put together some kind of curriculum for the Office 2007 training.

I will miss my free time and the extra time with the kids, however, I have some money now and the perfect excuse to buy some new shoes!

Micah's New Hobby

Micah is big into movies and movie making now.  I think Stefan may have had something to do with that.  He made himself a stunt dummy and is trying to get his hands on all kinds of special effects products, like liquid latex and plaster of paris.  He wants to make an arm!

He watched a special on Bollywood films the other night.  Since then he's watch several of these Hindi films and has expressed an interest in a film school there.  I think Bollywood Horror would be a nice little niche for him :-)

Here is a video of him working on his "Man Barbie" as Mike calls it.  There are also some shots of our neighboorhood towards the end.  You can see how close the sky train is.

Christmas Video for Nellie

Nellie wanted to hear the kids' voices so I stripped the music from the Christmas video and here it is... Enjoy Mamma!

Micah Muay Thai Video

I'm so proud of my little boy.  I can't believe he is growing up so fast.  He said he didn't like the city anymore and he wanted to live in NY with his grandparents next year.  I got down on the ground and started crying and begging..."Please, please, PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME!"  Even though he is at that age where I just want to throw him off the balcony more often than usual, I could not bear the thought of him leaving me for any great length of time.

He's really into the Muay Thai boxing again so I went over a got a few clips of him working out.  (I'm sorry Nellie... they didn't really talk in this video so I put a Rocky sounding tune with it.)  I'll tell you about his new hobby in the next post!