Congratulations to my cousin Jessica Chiu and James Ip on their engagement! Jessica is less than a year older than me (my closest-in-age cousin on Dad's side) and is studying in a grad program for architecture. (James is studying to be a medical doctor - I have yet to meet him since they are both at Harvard!)

My earliest memories of Jessica consisted of her and her cool brother Ivan (too cool to hang out with me, of course) wearing cool GUESS brand-name clothes. I think Jessica had some (what the Chinese call) "onion shoot" hairstyle - you know, the high ponytail scrunchy on the top of your head look. Joy and I thought she was SO cool and SO pretty.

She's the FIRST of my cousins (both Mom & Dad's sides) to get engaged! It's about time we had a wedding among us! :)