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What to Get Chen for His Birthday?

Chen admittedly does only 6 things in life:


  1. Eat
  2. Sleep
  3. Engineering
  4. Talks with his wife
  5. Ping Pong
  6. Occasionally, badminton


You'd think that would make it easy to buy him a birthday present, but it's not.

Fortunately, Stef and I were at the mall the other day and we came across a backyard badminton set for only $26. All the roommates chipped in and bought it for him and we are going to set it up for him around the apartment complex here and then make him a traditional Chinese dinner.

P.S. Chen and I finally played ping pong yesterday after more than a week of him "needing to concentrate on his engineering equations." (I didn't take him seriously for the first little while, but then I saw that he truly didn't take ANY breaks; not even for a 1/2 hour game of ping pong. We were both a little rusty yesterday, but after a little warmup we looked a lot like the players below. (I'm the German in the back, Chen is the one with the crazy saves in the front.)



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  1. HeatherMon Aug 04, 08:11:00 PM MDT

    I'm touched that all the roommates chipped in. So nice. Hopefully you'll get a couple games in before you head up north.

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  2. NoelleTue Aug 05, 06:25:00 AM MDT

    Oh my gosh, Chen is amazing. I can't believe how far to the ground the let it get before they hit it! And it gets back to the table every time!

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