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Well, for those who were wondering where I went for the past two months - I've been around, but wasn't quite inspired to write anything in this Blog. Finally, I am posting this up for my fellow friends to read. February was nice, I was still procrastinating along with a majority of the MC students...

Let me explain what the pictures are. The first one is of a poster for an upcoming concert, it will be strictly non-vocal... The AY trying to milk as much money from MC people. The second, third, and last pictures were taken last weekend on my trip to Pattaya with the MC Faculty and Staff. It was actually an outing for those working here. Since my Dad works here, I tagged along. The sign on the tree, we saw on Saturday right before church... we were strolling down the streets of Pattaya and there it was... perched high up on the tree, it's hard to notice, because there's just so many close to naked tourists flaunting and strutting around. The picture with the elephants is taken from Nong Nooch Tropical Garden, they had a cultural show and presumably all the faculty and staff wanted to watch it... (I don't remember them asking for a general consent) but anyways, the show was great... A couple of hours after the show, Deanna and I were having lunch at the food court and guess who we saw, the dancers with heavy make-up coming to grab some food... and apparently a couple of them were boys... dressed up as girls...

Probably the last time going there...

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