GRADUATION!!

Before I get to graduation, I have to post some pictures of the testing center line on Wednesday April 22nd at 4:00 pm. the last day to take finals at the testing center. I was taking some exams to the testing center to be graded and I found this line. I have passed through five years of BYU without standing in a long line at the testing center. Luckily I had my camera handy--this is better than taking pictures of campus.

Here is the line along side of the JSB
The line extends passed the BNSN and ESC

Here are the pictures from graduation. I had a fun time listening to Dr. Albrecht as I sat on the front room. The whole ceremony took three hours--way too long to graduate from school. I think that it has mostly to do with the MBA's networking right up until the time of the ceremony began.

Here I am with my good friends Roy S. and Kevin B. after the 3 hours of ceremony

Roy's wife Brenna. I'll miss watching Law and Order and the Biggest Loser!

My good friend Andrew under the "graduation tree"

My dad and I on the fourth floor atrium in the Tanner Building

My dad, sister, niece, and mom

The proud parents! They contributed a lot to my academic success. Thanks!!

Update...

2009!!

I am one year older this new year. I am 2 5. Quarter of a century. I decided to buy myself a watch so I can at least feel like I look my age. I bought the watch up in San Francisco with my brother, his wife, and his sister-in-law. I did get some "grown-up" clothing for Christmas, i.e., anything with a collar since I tend to only wear t-shirts and hoodies.

While at home, I visited the Heimuli/Wolfgramm family--one of my all-time favorite families. I was sad to hear that they will be moving from Sunnyvale. I think they planned to leave town as soon as I came back!! Although I don't have any pictures from Christmas, I found some photos I took with them a couple of years ago.

Kaivai and me (the oldest brother of the family)

Ana and me (the mom of the family and my old sunday school teacher)

My good friend since nursery, David, moved to Vietnam on December 28. He came over with his parent's to my brother's open house. I am happy that he moved out of Utah (!!) but it's too bad that he is so far away.


Per mom's request, I have posted pictures from the competition.

The only picture we have of the group in Disneyland. We probably should have taken more pictures. Wouldn't mind being in Florida right about now since the temperature is 10 degrees.

Here is the picture of our group holding our "check." Kelsie, Dr. Worsham, Jon, Michael and me.

Deloitte Competition

On the 20th of November, my team (Kelsie, Micheal, Jon, and I) went to Nationals for the Deloitte Case Study Competition down in Orlando, FL. We placed first in the graduate division --> Deloitte Site & WSJ

While down in Orlando, we went to Disney's World Hollywood Studios (pretty fun place, especially the Rock N' Roller Coaster). The lines were pretty short (some of us rode the Rock N' Roller Coaster 3 times) so we ran out of things to do pretty quickly. On Friday night, we had a casino night. Our team focused our attention on the Blackjack table since it is pretty easy to count to 21. Instead of cash, they had raffle tickets. At the end of the night Jon had own an iPod, a iTunes gift card, an umbrella, a laptop case, and a travel kit. We practiced redistribution of wealth--I took home the umbrella, laptop case, and travel kit.

Saturday was the day of the competition (and the BYU football game). Our team was slightly nervous to do the competition. We had five hours to complete a long tax case (a person's scenario with various tax related questions). After we finished the case, everyone felt a little nauseous. We spent the afternoon soaking in the Florida sunshine as we played a round of pitch and putt and used the extensive pool facilities. We watched the game at the hotel in a restaurant (our Deloitte host had found a place that had DirectTV). I'm not much of a football fan, but that was a terrible game!

Sunday we went to church at a ward in Orlando. We spent more time in the taxi than actually at church (whoops!). We arrived back at the hotel just in time for pictures and the award ceremony. At that time, no body knew where we stood--we could have bombed it or we could have done really well. They announced the second place winners first from each divsion--BYU name wasn't called. All of us seemed to be pretty nervous at that point. They announced the first place winners--BYU and W&M. We were very excited that we had won the competition!! It would have been really nice if the BYU undergraduate team had placed.