Cardin Nguyen 
August 21, 2005Tick tock – dang Saturday was the longest day of my life. I guess standing there in one spot is hell! Wearing the full formal tux for 14 hrs straight is a living hell for me. At work I only wear a tie and shirt + jeans and its already hard. The morning ceremony waiting for the groom side to come over and pick up the bride was hella long. The time seem to freeze. God this is when I want my little sister to be out of the house. Don’t know why though! As the girls who accepts gifts from the groom arrives one by one. There this one girl who has a kid tag along with her kept me attracted. Even though she has a kid with her I kept looking at the nice neon green dress she has on. It looks very nice giving her three perfect dimension lines. I kept on staring at the way she smiles and the way she walk. Maybe I’m stupid? Maybe I’m blind but for definitely this replaces my best moments. These moments became the center of my beating heart. As the groom side came lining up with the girls I sort-a blanked out. Couldn’t hear anything at all but see that girl in green ao dai. Through out the day it went very slow. After the ceremony over at the girls house we went over to the groom parents house. It was hell! I hate the streets in Portland. Who ever print out the map is an idiot. God the streets has three 32 st. So crazy to find the streets. I nearly got lost a couple of times without my Navi Acura. Now this is the point where I’m happy that I got a Navigation system in my car but its being used for the Grooms car. This is so sad! Well anyways to continue on with the story. After today I have something to live for. This dan-ty feeling is good. I feel like all the work I’ve done is meant for something finally. I don’t feel like a dead person anymore working day per day with nothing planed out. At the groom side as we enter the do for ceremony on the groom side (which was short YAY!) I stood next to my little brother with the girl in greeny next to me. Every bits of my body shaking like a mofo! So hard to stand still! Gaaa! Finally after the ceremony is done I saw my sister throwing up in the bathroom. I tried to go up there and give her a hand but she refuse my help! I forced my self in to check up on here and hope the wedding goes on. She was throwing up all the food she been eating because of the wraist strap around her hip and her two days no sleep. I ran out to my computer bag in the car and mixed Advil jells with vitamin C’s pill together and gave it to her. After that she seem ok so I went to the back yard and saw everyone eating at every bench. Aodai-lien wasn’t there so I went in and sat down with best man and maid of honor. Last night we stayed up all night discuss about wedding plans and running around like freaks on leashes. They all sat down snoring and complaining about the long ceremony day with 90+ degree shining on their heads. A few minutes of that the Aodai-lien tapped my shower and ask me to head out. I was scared at first because of her little kid (niece) at first so I sat in side but then Minh-em ask me to come out and eat with him so I made my way across the crowd and ate at the bench under the pear tree. As I look up there she was! The Green-lien sitting there! I started to ask what am I thinking off here! So Minh-em poked me and ask what I was thinking. I turn over and ask about her. He told me that’s her niece and shes two years older then Ngoc. Hahah I felt so relieved. Never been happier! Throughout the remainder of the day I kept thinking about her. She invited me to tag along with her at mall so Minh-em and I tagged along. Honestly hell for god shake I don’t even know what I’m going to be doing at the mall. It was quite fun talking with her and her older sister. They were kind of dulll and cant take jokes so I slowed down my jokes and slow down my talking! My talking probably kill them. But my throats were so itch and felt really disabled. But over all at the wedding was hella boring. Don’t know why I felt it wasn’t as good! My little brother felt the same thing also. He was a little mad at the way the wedding was. Even mom was mad too! The wedding was the best time toward the end. I ask Green-lien to take a walk outside and talk for the hell of it. It was very fun! I learned a lot in that 20 minute talk. =) Well anyways Journal I’m sorry for leaving you so early today. I’m a little busy with today. I’m trying to rush through the patients today so I can sum up all the free time to sleep.
Cardin Nguyen