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Telephone Pictionary

Sam led a really fun game at the bridal shower called Telephone Pictionary (or Fax Machine, as I've also heard it called). We all sat in a large circle with a pen and a small stack of little pieces of paper. Sam instructed us to write on the top sheet a sentence to describe a scene from Ceci and Wayne's marriage. After 40 seconds, she yelled "time", and we were to pass our stack of papers to the right. With our new stack, we were to read the sentence on top, flip that sheet to the back, and then interpret that sentence in a drawing on the next sheet. After 40 seconds, we were to pass our drawing to the right, and then write a sentence from the picture, and so on. The original sentence then morphs from picture to sentence to picture.

We got some hilarious strings of sentences and drawings! Here are a couple of excerpts (click on the image to enlarge):

a "shower" of blessings!

I apologize for being delinquent in keeping up with Wedding Wednesdays! I have been busy with school and teaching, but just like I tell my students, "No excuses!" School is winding down, though! Just 10 actual school days left! YAY!!!

My shower was this past weekend on May 17! For the last couple of weeks, my bridesmaids have been busy as bees, preparing for the shower and trying to keep everything a secret and a surprise for me, because they know I love surprises! Jenny, especially, worked late into the night, and on more than one occasion, banished me to my room as soon as I came home. I felt like a teenager with an overprotective parent!

Emily flew in from New York and Sam drove down from Irvine (sooo much closer than the Middle East!). The morning of the shower, all four were up bright and early and left me on my own as they bustled off to care of last minute details and other shower-y errands that they wouldn't let me in on.

The shower itself was WONDERFUL! The theme was "the letter 'C'", and I loved all the details the bridesmaids put into everything—from the ADORABLE favors of cupcake lollipops, chapstick and chocolate, to finding all my favorite foods of Costco samples, cheese and crusty bread, cherries, chips (the pita kind) with dip, carrots and celery, etc., to country line dancing in the evening! Thank you, Jenny, Stef, Emily, Sam for such a beautiful and fun shower! And thank you to all the ladies who were able to attend!

A glimpse from this weekend:

No, Cuppy—chocolate is bad for dogs!

signed, sealed, delivered...

I dropped off the bulk of the invitations to our trusty postal service yesterday! I was a little sad to see them go, as I've grown quite attached to them over the last few days, but I'm excited for you all to receive them! So check your mailboxes--your invitation should arrive within the next day or so, if it hasn't already!

Special thanks to Jenny, trusty roommate and bridesmaid, who assembled all the invitations while I addressed the envelopes, and also peeled off and reapplied all the postcard stamps when I realized we had affixed the wrong ones! What a workhorse! :)

Hola! Me llamo...

Since Cecilia has been in San Diego these past few years while I have been making my living up in Sacramento, she has made many new friends whose view of me is probably skewed toward the ultra-positive end. ("Oh my goodness, who is this incredibly handsome, buff, intelligent, athletic, and humble guy who would patiently wait eight years for you?!") Okay...I made up the buff part. Umm...okay, the handsome part is a bit of an exaggeration. Alright, I fake my actual intelligence by my smooth talking. Alright, I probably can't run 100 meters without gagging for air. Well, at least I'm, hm...never mind. Here's the real me:

My name is Wang Yip but in America, I gave myself the name "Wayne"!
I was born in Hong Kong. Surprised? I'm a FOB. But because I have the Chinese skills of a kindergarten student, I'm sort of a fake-FOB. Other than my 5 years in Hong Kong and 4 years in San Diego, I've lived the rest of my life in Sacramento, home of the Kings, Rivercats, delicious drinking water and 85% of the world's allergens. I am the level-mind middle child between the wacky, nutty ET's.

I graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a Political Science and History double-major and received my teaching credential from CSU Sacramento. I currently teach AP U.S. Government, AP Comparative Politics, and AP World History at Franklin High School in Elk Grove. I am also the Key Club and National Honor Society advisor and the unofficial I.T. guy for the Social Science department. There is a good chance I'm a teaching workaholic, but I love the kids and I probably love the subject matter more. Unless I end up being a professor, I'm probably a teaching-LIFER.

I love...late nights, baseball, fantasy sports, playing ball sports, turn-based computer games, tripe, back-scratches, hot showers, relaxing at a coffee shop, history books, giving a strong history/gov't lecture, taking a long drive with an audio book, and staring mindlessly into space after a productive day of work.

I dislike...having to wake up, mushrooms, mushrooms, and mushrooms.

I'm known to be...hard-working, knowledgeable, gentle, and predictable in my fantasy drafts (McNabb! Dye! Halladay! Sheets!)

I can be...loud, strong, decisive, and passionate when I need to be.

My dream...is to be either (a.) a .350-20HR-50SB IF/OF who becomes a 2.00ERA-250K-1.000WHIP starter every fifth day for the SF Giants, (b.) F-15E fighter pilot with 5 notches on the side of my plane, (c.) an innovative computer engineer with a six-digit salary and a big house that I designed myself, or (d.) a top-flight high school teacher teaching AP classes, having great relationships with my kids, and marrying the love of my life.

Sometimes Plan D is a pretty dang good plan...

Why I love Cecilia...she had me at "hello". Wait, that's from, actually, I don't know because I haven't seen the movie. But the upcoming, blockbuster Korean drama called, "Chasing Cecilia" is going to be quite the hit. Though I'm sure most people watching the movie will wonder why the protagonist just would not quit chasing after the fair yet resistant maiden for the better part of a decade, I think I understand him and I'll tell you why. She brings him to life. With her, he gets out of his little introverted shell and learns to express himself. He learns to speak his mind, to see things in other ways, to appreciate the world in a different light. She gives him a sense of encouragement and energy that he has not found elsewhere. He is drawn to her boundless energy and heart of service to God and to those around her. He finds the silly antics adorable, the indecision endearing, and the baby hairs framing her face, which she hates so much, cute. And really, it does help that she's a hottie and quite easy on the eyes...quite a catch for geeky computer/history/orchestra nerd! She was, has, and is his best friend, most trusted advisor, and love of his life.

And while the future probably isn't going to be the big screen hit that "Chasing Cecilia" was... I'm sure it will light up the small screens with shows such as "Ceci Stewart Living", "Iron Chef: Sacramento", and "Wayne To is Smelling".