What did I say?

This posting is quite a few months overdue, but I just wanted to praise my good judge of character in the world of baseball.

Did I not sing praises to Joe Torre back in the fall of 2007, and bid a "so long! we won't miss you" to A-Rod?

Of course I did!!
http://yellowamericangrasshopper.blogspot.com/2007/10/something-is-rotten-in-state-of-yellow.html

And now look, Joe's had his 13th playoff and the Dodgers just swept past the Rockies for the second time this season, and A-Rod's under fire for being a cheater (in more ways than one)!

I'm just that intuitive!!

And I also wanted to quickly mention that for Halloween 2008,Grasshopper dressed as Doug Funnie (as promised!!)-- and I even brought along Porkchop!


I think I'm finally accepting my inner dorkiness and looking to dress only in costumes that match my personality!

Ideas for next Halloween:
- Sherlock Holmes
- Spock (I LOVED the recent "Star Trek" movie-- but I might not be enough of a trekkie to pull this off...)
- The Doppler Effect (as Sheldon from "The Big Bang Theory" did-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J43lAESftPs&feature=related)

An American Grasshopper in Paris

One of the pre-MBA trips I took was to Paris with my family and I got to spend two pretty fun weeks there.

Rather than boring you guys with photos of myself and family near the big tourist sites (e.g. Versailles, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, etc.), I'll share with you a few random interesting things.

A cool highlight during the trip was when I started scoping out these Orangina Naturellement Pulpeuse ads and taking photos with all of the ones I saw!

Here's a doe (a deer, a female deer) with Grasshopper:


A tanned and muscle-y Grasshopper (hahahah!), holding a water bottle and baguettes, with a sexy dolphin:


That same sexy dolphin with me, a kinky panther, and a ravishing palm tree:


Me and a sultry giraffe:

Me with an athletic surfer jellyfish:

A hibiscus version of Marilyn Monroe with your's truly!


And a revealing zebra on top of me!


Another funny ad I saw was this one for a conference about talking to kids about puberty and sex:


While at Napoleon's Palace, I stood at attention next to the cannons:


But nearly got my head blown off by one!!


We took a day trip to Rouen to visit Joan of Arc's place of death. This is the spot where she was burned at the stake:


And Grasshopper paid his respect to the fallen, cross-dressing saint by lighting a candle in her helmet-shaped church:


In addition to posing in front of the Eiffel Tower and the Seine...


I tried climbing a portion of it!! (although my fear of heights seriously caused me to have some vertigo...)


Here is Grasshopper trying to imitate the Borghese Gladiator in the Louvre:


And here I am, with a look of "triomphe" on my face as I do my best arrogant American impression:

Back into the blogosphere...

Hello to any readers who are left on this blog!!

I have been unfortunately lazy and somewhat preoccupied with school, so I again fell into blogger negligence.

But now that summer is upon us, I shall be back with a vengeance and I promise that I will update back topics that I've been meaning to write about for a while!

Just to give a few quick recaps on my life:

• Orientation happened in August of '08 and it was a giant blur to me.
  
• Some of the core classes I took at b-school (e.g. Corporate Finance, Accounting) sucked the life out of me, but I did have an awesome learning team and I got to go to India for Spring Break with my Global Social Marketing Class (I will definitely post separately on that).
• I tried not to be a total lemming during the on-campus recruiting process, but did interview with one very socially responsible, large financial services company-- and got dinged!
• However, that was likely a blessing in disguise as I am now going to work in the Philippines for two months this summer with a community development organization.
• I've spent the past month being a total bum, doing absolutely nothing (besides some swimming/running-- I'm qualified and signed up for the NYC Marathon this fall!) and am leaving for Manila in less than a week.

One pictoral illustration of my time at school is as follows (and in case anyone doesn't remember how I look/can't tell the difference between Asian guys-- I'm the one on the right; and yes, that is beer spilled over our shirts):


As I am halfway through my graduate school experience, I have to admit that I haven't quite felt like myself in a while. In some ways, I feel like this last year was a lot about fitting in and I'm really hoping to snap out of the whole elitist, judgmental mentality that has been so strongly ingrained in my life up until this point.

I guess being in business school doesn't really help that... but I'm pretty confident that I'll reclaim my individualism soon.

In any case, you can all rest assured that Grasshopper is alive and well!!