Photo credits: Lan Dang, Thuy-Ai Nguyen, Alex Kim, Huy Le, Thanh-Nga Tran, Dinh-Yen Tran
Scans & comments: dinhyen@mit.edu
vsa002 | Emily and the MCP gals at the 1996 Tet party |
vsa003 | Innocent frosh |
vsa009 | Off we go to the North Pole, which happens to be near Wachusetts, MA |
vsa011 | Well we didnt make the playoffs, our arms are aching, our legs are falling off, were out of breath and were cramped all over. So why are we smiling? They just brought out lunch! |
vsa012 | VSA during feeding time. Alex would later regret that he took time out to take this picture. Tan: I believe the vicissitude of life motivates people to engage in mirthful convivial relationship and that the partaking of victuals provides an effective means to remove the barrier of idiosyncrasy. Also, I believe youre taking my eggroll, Diem. Everyone: Whatever, Tan! |
vsa031 | VSA posse raiding Pho Pasteur. Note the classic VSA goofy look. |
vsa039 | VSA posse during one of our nocturnal outings in Chinatown |
vsa048 | Piece of cake. Oh wait, what does this means?!? |
vsa049 | Christine seems amused. |
vsa051 | On the way to Yale by Night. This is the inside of our rental Volkswagen Beetle. |
vsa052 | Hanging out at Yale by Night. Believe it or not, afterwards we all piled into a single car. |
vsa054 | Like our costumes? |
vsa056 | Tan: I hope youll like it. I made it out of popsicle sticks from a Martha Stewart instructional video. Christine: Not another one! |
vsa057 | Representatives from the 3 regions of Vietnam -- the cute region, the sultry region, and the knockout region |
vsa058 | Cindy: Omigosh, the wedding is so much fun. Cant wait till the honeymoon. Long: But, but... |
vsa059 | Dazzling VSA representatives at the 1997 International Fair |
vsa061 | Nhu+~ng ma nu+~ -da ti`nh |
vsa063 | Cindy putting Long through his paces |
vsa065 | Aw, how romantic. |
vsa066 | Nho+ khi xu+a la`m tho+, nay ti`nh co+` ga(.p xin cu+ la`m ngo+ |
vsa067 | Christine: Oh I suppose just this once wont hurt. Tan: Um, uh, me Tan, you Christine... |
vsa068 | Emily striking a pose |
vsa069 | "Ladies with an attitude... Dont just stand there, lets get to it... Strike a pose, theres nothing to it" |
vsa071 | "What youre looking at?" |
vsa073 | Audience in for a major double take. Emily: Wait a minute! Thats my move. |
vsa074 | Did you think this would be a normal show, by normal people, for normal people, too? |
vsa075 | Chris (bespectacled guy): Actually wed make a great couple if you werent such an ugly girl! |
vsa076 | Chris (bespectacled guy): Tell me this aint happening. |
vsa078 | Emily: Eeewww, gross! Audience: Eeewww, gross! Photographer: Eeewww, gross! Comment writer: Eeewww, gross! |
vsa080 | Diem about to faint, from what you can probably guess. Luckily "Tanya" is more than strong enough to support her. |
vsa081 | What in the world are they doing... Audience obviously puzzled by the look on their faces. |
vsa083 | The macarena gets an entirely new and unexpected interpretation. |
vsa084 | Well, enough macarena for now. |
vsa086 | Now listen up folks, "I have one thing to say..." RuPaul would be proud. |
vsa087 | "Legs"s business outfit... and boy does "Legs" mean business. |
vsa088 | "Legs" strutting the stuff, whatever that is. |
vsa089 | "Turn to the left..." "Justine" is poised to give the designer of that frilly dress massive cardiac failure. |
vsa090 | Emily: Hao, I mean Justine, that fellow in the audience is trying to hit on you. |
vsa091 | The real models and the supermodels vying for the Miss Congeniality title. |
vsa092 | This is turning into a real beauty contest. |
vsa093 | Christine & Cindy: Oooh, Hao is coming this way. Hao: Sup ladies. Say, whats your cosine? |
vsa094 | Eeewww, youre not Hao. |
vsa095 | Cindy: Hao looks handsome this way. Christine: He must have gone for the special at Technicuts. |
vsa096 | Am I supposed to wear it under the dress? |
vsa098 | - Im Moe, I mean Hans... - Ya, und Im Franz, und veere hier to pump youup! |
vsa101 | Alex-Hans: Betty, wow! Can I borrow that sometimes? Tan-Franz: I tried it out myself before I picked it. |
vsa102 | Hans & Franz demonstrating their technique to generate hernias. Betty (to audience): I dont know these two clowns, guys. |
vsa105 | Let me know do the ho` in English. But first, a really scaaarrry story. |
vsa106 | MiTVsa Singled Out Hostess: Okay gentlemen, we have a very special lady waiting backstage to meet you. Try to be act civil and, whatever you do, dont dance! |
vsa107 | Surprised! |
vsa109 | Oh boy, easy pick for Diem. |
vsa110 | Im from Houston, majoring in guy psychology. |
vsa112 | Judge Ho: Jury, have you reached a verdict? Defendant: I cant take this any more! |
vsa113 | Tri & Maria: Its kind of hard to open the box when youre handcuffed like this. |
vsa114 | MIT nerds hanging out in their natural habitat, the Athena cluster. nerd#801@mit.edu: logged on for the last 12 hours. |
vsa116 | emc2@mit.edu: Wow, look at that GIF picture. |
vsa118 | Lets see, taking the hyperbolic cosine of the magnitude of the first harmonic, divide by Plancks constant and add to the determinant of this Toeplitz matrix... Is the first letter "L"?" |
vsa119 | nerd#801@mit.edu: Check out whats over there! emc2@mit.edu: Huhhuh... |
vsa120 | You wanted to check out what? My toolbox?!? |
vsa122 | Emily-Luscious: Oh I knew you were playing hard-to-get. |
vsa125 | Hao, at a party, ringing up Anne to tell her how much money theyre making. |
vsa126 | Anne: Hao, get your hinnie over here and show me the money! |
vsa127 | Star Wars opening sequence. |
vsa128 | TIE fighter circling the dreaded Death Star. |
vsa129 | Darth Vader & Yoda face off under the watchful eyes of the emperor. |
vsa130 | Rebel X-wing knocking out a TIE fighter |
vsa131 | X-wing literally tackling the Death Star |
vsa132 | Yoda: Hes my uncle? Emperor: No, no, he knows your mother really well... Yoda: He... hes the mailman? Emperor: No! He was there when you were born... Yoda: Hes the taxi driver? Emperor: Arghh |
vsa134 | Yoda: Father! Darth Vader: Son! |
vsa135 | Vader & Yoda ganging up on the emperor. In the end, 2 Forces were too much for 1 Dark Side. |
vsa136 | He keeps going and going, but not much longer. In the Jedi masters eyes, the Energizer bunny is dead meat. |
vsa137 | Typical scene at VSA dinners. |
vsa140 | This formation wont be looked at in the same way again. |
vsa142 | You see this all the time, but something just doesnt look right. |
vsa144 | Best blossom in the business. |
vsa148 | Fooled ya! Audience gets doused with confetti. |
vsa149 | The Fab Four |
vsa150 | Speechless |
vsa151 | Emily killing Viet Anh softly with her song. |
vsa154 | Audience about to undergo seizure. |
vsa156 | Audience suffers massive heart attack. |
vsa157 | "Legs" bribing the judge. |
vsa159 | Choking up. |
vsa161 | There she is, Miss, um, whatever... |
vsa163 | - Quick, Hao, put that back on before someone realizes youre not a woman! - (Guys in audience) Not a woman?!? Aaahhh... |
vsa164 | Performers extraordinaire, and ordinary theyre not. |
vsa166 | Next stop: Broadway (or professional counseling for some). |
vsa170 | Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. |
vsa171 | Guys, the boats are supposed to be in the water and thats not how you row. |
vsa172 | Van: The captain sits in the middle, right? |
vsa175 | VSA gals in Maine camping trip. Ha`: I have a feeling were not in Michigan any more! |
vsa176 | Boy, the whole 15 minutes of rowing. Dont we look dead or what. |
vsa177 | Van sitting underneath the apple tree. Newton couldnt have done it better. |
vsa179 | Tan: Look what the nice policeman just gave me. Alex does an impersonation of his favorite The Far Side cartoon |
vsa180 | Anne: I cant watch this. |
vsa182 | Dont get any wrong idea... Im just holding him up. |
vsa183 | What do you think of that triple toe loop-triple axel combination? Whoa, my head is still spinning. |
vsa186 | Jenny demonstrating a new skating technique |
vsa187 | Anh La^n: Duh |
vsa188 | Anh VA: I have no idea what she just said. |
vsa192 | Future VSA president. |
vsa193 | "Eastern (actually Southeastern) boy, Western girl". |
vsa194 | Tan had flashback about his alter ego, "Tanya", at last years Senior Dinner. *shudder* |
vsa195 | Shes got the look. |
vsa198 | Hard to comment on this one because every looked nice, at Thanksgiving dinner-karaoke (11/97). Picture taken by Lee. |
vsa199 | Anne is lost in thoughts. |
vsa200 | Oh mighty kitchen god, please accept this humble sacrifice and bless our VSA! |
vsa201 | Wed venture a wild guess here, but one must be Christine and the other Deborah. |
vsa204 | VSA members caught in the middle of their favorite activity. |
vsa205 | - Look Va^n, Ta^n is acting up again. - We shouldnt have fed him too much sugar. |
vsa206 | Taken a bite of the candle by mistake? |
vsa207 | VSAs lovely co-pres. |
vsa208 | VSAs triumvirate. |