PHOTO GALLERY

On my way driving out to Albany, NY to start my first year of grad school, I was accompanied by my friend Jim and one of the stops we made along the way was at Wrigley Field in Chicago. It was the day after the players' strike began in August of 1994 and we somehow managed to sneak into the stadium. We were roaming around the place and taking pictures of everything when we finally decided to go for it and walk onto the field. Immediately after we took this picture of us sitting in the visiting team dugout, stadium security finally came and kicked us out. I guess we were fortunate that they didn't arrest us for trespassing, those fascist bastards :-). Nonetheless, we were really glad to do it anyway, since it was a once in a lifetime opportunity and this obviously is a once in a lifetime photograph.

Although I really didn't a chance to talk legal strategy or what not with him, how often does someone get a chance to hang out with Johnnie Cochran? Fortunately, I got that opportunity on November 13, 1998 working for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. He spoke at one of the evening receptions (with acting U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Bill Lann Lee also in attendance) and I got to meet him along with many other smitten colleagues as you see here.

I went back to visit Viet Nam in December 1997 -- the first time I had been back since my family and I left immediately after the communist takeover in April 1975. To make a long story short, I had an absolute blast while I was there and one of the highlights was visiting the town of Sa Pa near the Chinese border, where many ethnic Hmong tribes live. They have an open air marketplace and I took this picture while standing on the second floor of a bridge that overlooked the marketplace. You can see many more pictures of my trip in my Viet Nam, Then and Now articles.

My wife Miliann and I were married on January 16, 2000 at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Our wedding was a very interesting ceremony that combined traditional Vietnamese and Korean practices, Christian and Buddhist rituals, lots of audience participation, and other assorted "non-traditional" elements. Here's a wonderful group shot of everyone taken at the end of the ceremony (click on the picture for a larger <102 KB> image). "Smiles everyone, smiles!"

Me, my wife Miliann, and our daughter Sangha (who was 1 year and 3 months old back then), taken in Westminster, CA when we were visiting my parents.

A more recent picture of Sangha hunting for Easter eggs during a party at our friends' house.