The Thought Lab

Name: Scott Nguyen

Age: 20 years young

Location: Orange County, CA

Purpose of blog: To publish my personal experiences and self actuations to the world… or to get attention?

Current goals:

1) Get my wedding planning, audio/video event production, real estate businesses up and running before the end of my time at the University of California, Irvine.

2) Have fun, enjoy life, appreciate family and friends as much as possible.

Life goals:

1) Understand and appreciate the Chinese culture through my study abroad program in Shanghai, China.

2) Have an open mind and embrace the world for what it is and make a positive change for the human race.

3) Be a sucessful role model for other Asian American students.

Current Blog Song: Justin Nozuka - After Tonight

I don’t know who is going to read this blog but I will try to be as clear as I can with the context of what I am speaking about. I’ve thrown the URL for this site everywhere because I planned on making the homepage of my real estate company which is nonexistent at this point (I have a CA real estate salesperson license).

Hello world. How are you doing today? Good? Cool… today has been a hectic day at work… starting to already miss home even though I havn’t left for China yet. I’ll try to make this blog like a timeline of my day.

1) Woke up this morning worked on my Midterm for my Branding and Advertising course here at the University of California, Irvine. The course is a very interesting one as it provokes you to think about our society and where we are going. It’s taught by Erind Pajo, who is an anthropological researcher by training. Anyhow, after I finished my 2 page midterm about the media. It was titled Advertising: Mediums for the Modern Consumer.

2) I drove off to work where I work as a commercial real estate agent for a business brokerage firm. It’s a great place to work and I really enjoy it because its such a small office, and since I’m a tech guru, I get to do almost everything there. Great place for me to try out my business/marketing skills. Of course I’ve had my fair share of mistakes at the company. Just yesterday I forgot to type up a $250,000 offer for a business for a doctor and he got really pissed off. Doesn’t matter to me that he was pissed off but I really sucks to disappoint my boss. Sometimes I wonder if I work for money or for just gratitude.

3) Back to my day… I went to Liburdi’s Scuba Center to drop off the gear I used in my Catalina dive yesterday. It was a lot longer that I had expected. 6am till 6pm full of fun. Probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever done. To make a long story short, my dive buddy and I helped save another diver in our group because his tank came loose. I saw his tank floating higher then his head and thought to myself what the? I swam over to him and grabbed his tank so that it would get away and then I grabbed his neck and pushed his entire body so that the tank would get strapped on again. We were in 40′ deep water and he would drown if he lost his tank. He was an older gentlemen probably around his 50-60’s. Made me feel really good about myself. I didn’t feel good about scuba diving in the first place because it was my first time diving off of a boat and because my parents are mad at me. Actually they weren’t mad. I guess they were more disappointed than anything. That for sure doesn’t feel good, especially for me a guy who works for gratitude right?

4) I still didn’t feel that good about leaving for China after going to confession and church last night. Kinda of a depressing day… I kinda almost got too emotional. Haven’t been to confession for over 5 months. I’m typing this as the thoughts come into my head and there are so many things that i do want to write or share but I just don’t have enough time to express it all. If you guys do want any more details or anything just go ahead and ask. I probably won’t pour my heart out (because I’m not that type of guy). but I will think about the question and try to blog about it.