MITVSA 1997 Album


Photo credits: Lan Dang, Thuy-Ai Nguyen, Alex Kim, Huy Le, Thanh-Nga Tran, Dinh-Yen Tran
Scans & comments: dinhyen@mit.edu

Slide show

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 didn’t make the playoffs, our arms are aching, our legs are falling off, we’re out of breath and we’re 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 you’re 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 you’ll 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. Can’t 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 won’t hurt.
Tan: Um, uh, me Tan, you Christine...
vsa068 Emily striking a pose
vsa069 "Ladies with an attitude... Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it... Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it"
vsa071 "What you’re looking at?"
vsa073 Audience in for a major double take.
Emily: Wait a minute! That’s my move.
vsa074 Did you think this would be a normal show, by normal people, for normal people, too?
vsa075 Chris (bespectacled guy): Actually we’d make a great couple if you weren’t such an ugly girl!
vsa076 Chris (bespectacled guy): Tell me this ain’t 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, what’s your cosine?
vsa094 Eeewww, you’re 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 - I’m Moe, I mean Hans...
- Ya, und I’m Franz, und vee’re 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 don’t 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, don’t dance!
vsa107 Surprised!
vsa109 Oh boy, easy pick for Diem.
vsa110 I’m from Houston, majoring in guy psychology.
vsa112 Judge Ho: Jury, have you reached a verdict?
Defendant: I can’t take this any more!
vsa113 Tri & Maria: It’s kind of hard to open the box when you’re 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 Let’s see, taking the hyperbolic cosine of the magnitude of the first harmonic, divide by Planck’s constant and add to the determinant of this Toeplitz matrix... Is the first letter "L"?"
vsa119 nerd#801@mit.edu: Check out what’s 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 they’re 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: He’s my uncle?
Emperor: No, no, he knows your mother really well...
Yoda: He... he’s the mailman?
Emperor: No! He was there when you were born...
Yoda: He’s 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 master’s eyes, the Energizer bunny is dead meat.
vsa137 Typical scene at VSA dinners.
vsa140 This formation won’t be looked at in the same way again.
vsa142 You see this all the time, but something just doesn’t 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 you’re not a woman!
- (Guys in audience) Not a woman?!? Aaahhh...
vsa164 Performers extraordinaire, and ordinary they’re 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 that’s 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 we’re not in Michigan any more!
vsa176 Boy, the whole 15 minutes of rowing. Don’t we look dead or what.
vsa177 Van sitting underneath the apple tree. Newton couldn’t 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 can’t watch this.
vsa182 Don’t get any wrong idea... I’m 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 year’s Senior Dinner. *shudder*
vsa195 She’s 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 We’d 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 shouldn’t have fed him too much sugar.
vsa206 Taken a bite of the candle by mistake?
vsa207 VSA’s lovely co-pres.
vsa208 VSA’s triumvirate.

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