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Hole in One cake, originally uploaded by jchin1.

After a long week of work, the work didn’t end on Friday at 5pm. My sister and I scrambled all day setting up the party with streamers, birthday signs, buying alcohol, buying balloons, cooking appetizers, and picking up catered food from China Gardens in Rosslyn. We had everyone gather about a half hour before my mom dad, and cousin Nora from Canada were going to arrive, and had appetizers and drinks waiting for them.

I’d have to say that my dad was pretty surprised. If not surprised by the party, definitely surprised by the fifty or so co-workers, friends and family that were there to celebrate his 60th birthday with him. Two of the guests were in charge of making the cake, which had an awesome hole in one golf theme. That ball going into the hole…was a cake ball. Awesome.

One of my favorite things about what I did for the party was the slideshow. We borrowed a projector, and I put together a slideshow of pictures from his teenage years and on, which were mostly from the scanned pictures set that I’ve been adding to the last couple weeks. The party was a success, and I put the pictures up, so check them out!

Dad’s 60th Surprise Birthday Party

update – just got more pictures John Soho’s pictures

I haven’t updated in a while, but I thought I’d share pictures from my company holiday party. This year I got a couple of my friends in to share the fun. Check out the set on Flickr.

Don’t worry ladies and gentlemen, nothing scandelous happened here. Just a lot of of drinking, eating and freestyle walking. Enjoy my 360 footgrab. Thankfully I did not smash my camera this time around (a la freshman year @ JMU).

2 bars and a blackbird
Originally uploaded by jchin1.

For the second year in a row, AOL had its holiday party at the Udvar-Hazy Space Center in Chantilly, VA. They pulled off an amazing party once again, with a lot of the same things as last year, but I came with veteran knowledge this time around. Last year I filled up on the first table of food I came across, missing out on a lot of the other food. This year I hit up the mash potato bar, sushi, chinese, and my personal favorite the chocolate fountains. There were four different fountains: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate and caramel. All amazing. Music was supplied by Gonzo’s Nose while everyone ate and drank while milling around old airplanes and space shuttles. Check out the (very few) pics here.