Goodbye friend

Thuan,

You were always quite impulsive. I'm generally a planner and like to invite people out to trips so I can get to know them better. I like creating an itinerary for a day trip and planning all the details. I needed to know who wanted to come on these trips so I would ask a week before the trip. Whenever I asked you a week before the trip, you would say you were interested but then wouldn't be able to make it. However, I found a small trick when it came to asking you. I would wait until the last minute and then ask you, and you being the impulsive person that you are, would say yes and come on the trip.

I enjoyed your company and we had some good times together. I remember when we went on a camping trip to Yosemite with Joe Lin and Joe Chen. I've been to Yosemite previously, but when I asked you about some of the trails, you knew about them like the back of your hand. You knew all the secrets, where to go, which trails to take and the best times to take them. I was impressed with your knowledge of Yosemite. It felt like you lived there. You also had a lot of gear and were prepared for all scenarios. I asked you once about why you bought so much gear and you said it was for others, so they could have a good time and other people could use the equipment as well.

You were also quite generous. We have a bunch of the board games that you bought at Bernardo. You bought so many and some of them you never even played before. I remember you came over once and I showed you a board game that I found in our closet. It was called Memoir '44. I was really into this game for a couple weeks and would play it with anyone who I could convince to play. I invited you to play once and said you said that this was your game but you never played it. I was confused about why you never played it, but you said you bought it so others could play.

We went mountain biking a couple times. You were going really fast on those dirt trails, I was just a beginner and had trouble keeping up. However, you encouraged me and were supportive. We went running a couple times before and I remember you said that while I could run better than you, mountain biking was your domain of expertise.

During the last couple months, you came over a bunch of times just to hang out and talk about what was happening in your life. I would talk about how I was looking for another job and you always seemed enthusiastic about finding out how that was going. We would talk about technology, hiking, snowboarding, and many other hobbies that we both enjoyed.

The last conversation I had with you, I shared about how I got a new job and you seemed really glad for me. The last thing you shared with me was a vision you had. Here are your own words:

Thuan: I used to have this dream/thought that i had discovered cold fusion like in Iron Man... how would i go share it with the world? I would want to benefit the USA first and i have to be careful about the oil company trying to kill me etc.
I thought about sharing it to the military first and power companies and Tesla's Elon to help form the company. ahha

Me: that's quite a vision

Thuan: silly me. but i mean. it would be so disruptive

Those were the last words we shared together. I wish we would've had more talks like that, but that's impossible now. I'll cherish the times we had together. Goodbye friend.