Happy New Year

Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! 2008 is here!!

Happy New Year to all my friends and those who read my blog.

A little bit update for the coming New Year (it's still eve here in SF), just had lunch at our favorite HK cafe on Noriega and talked to this interview guy on the phone. It was alright but we had to reschedule to chat more. Gawd, I dun understand the interview system over here. Ok, yeah I know that it is useful to filter out those "incompatible" candidates for the job but isn't difficult to tell how a person is unless you see that person face to face? Sigh..

Ok on merrier news, tonight we are going out to ferry building to usher in the new 2008 ya'll!

Recap on location for those who live in San Francisco and planning to go out to see fireworks tonight, the information:

Place: Ferry Terminal
Time:11.59 and 59seconds (^P^)
Bart information: Free from 8pm onwards to 5am

To avoid any congestions, it is advised that everyone should take advantage of the muni system because it is FREE from 8pm onwards. You guys can go out and have dinner ala france for few hours and then walk to the terminal. Restaurants recommended nearby (non-french) are Gordon Biersch, Palomino, Chaya, Waterfront and a lot more...........

I'm not endorsed by opentable but try it, it's good to have reservations!

Good Luck and Happy New Year folks!!!!

Michael "deformed" Jackson

Oh ya did you guys read about Michael Jackson's lips falling apart? EWWWWWWWWWWWW

Post-Christmas

Received a letter in the mail today. Ho ho ho! Paris is sending me and Gary free accommodation for 3 days!!! Yipppeeeee!!! It's for next month and on certain dates.

I'm not going to talk about jobs or interviews. Trying to steer my mind away from this for a while. What's better to do now than to go shop for stuff. Woke up at 6am on Boxing Day to prepare myself for shopping. Was a bit late when we got to downtown cuz most of the additional 50% off stuff were already gone. :( What a bummer! Managed to stop by Benetton and bought whole bunch of stuff! I got 5 pieces within 30 minutes! Whooootttt! I got all the stuff for additional 50%! We had so little time to shop that morning cuz we had to go to Thunder Valley (Casino) with Grandpa. But I got what I wanted, so, it's fine. We continued our shopping spree today and I got a pair of Lucky jeans and Gary got his New Year's eve attire, a sweater, jeans and shoes. I'm starting to like Lucky a lot especially when everything is 50% off. ^-^ Nordstrom is really weird cuz there's not much sale for women but they got whole bunch of things on sale for men! How unfair! I was really looking forward to shopping at Nordstrom.

Anyway, damage has been done to my bank account. Well, I can always return some of the stuff which I don't need later on. So it's all good.

I ate so much for the past few days. We went for buffet on Xmas day, pretty much spent 3 hours being a glutton. Before that, we had no where to go so we went to fisherman's wharf to join the crowd. It was quite a relaxing Christmas this year. Last year I think I did spend a really boring Xmas without doing anything.

Let's pray that next year is going to be better and of course me with a job.

Happy Christmas from the Elves

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New Me

Friends, families, sisters, brothers, aunties and uncles...

I got a new layout for my blog...hope it's easier to navigate and better for the eyes

xoxoxoxox

muaccckkksss

After shopping....

Me and my favorite fish, blackie!

Blackie has a tank mate and her name is Reddie. After one tragic incident, they both lost one of their eyes. Don't ask me why because I'm not sure what happened. I think it was gas leak and they got really sick. Fungus ate it. I was trying to save them for almost 3 weeks, giving them antibiotics and caring for them like my own babies. I lost two fishy during that period and I have had those two for a long time. Now I got these two, reddie and blackie, and another pleco named Fat Long. I almost lost hope when they did not seem to recover. Very lifeless, always hiding at the bottom and I was really sad. But I told myself not to give up that easily. So I nurtured them. Gave them the medicines they needed and did water change. Read about their illness. Finally, now they are eating again and swimming so happily! =)

The moral of the story, we must not give up too easily because as long as you have hope, there's always chance for things to turnaround.

How's your xmas shopping?

Sweeney Todd

Skunk looking Depp

Just came back from another Tim Burton brainchild movie! Sweeney Todd rocks! It's a combination of everything. Revenge, love, violence, comedy! Tim Burton did it again. He convinced me once again that his movie is worth that 10 bucks I spent.

A recap of the movie:

A sailor, Sweeney Todd came back to London to seek revenge from a judge whom took away his wife and basically his happiness. Then he went back to the place he used to live and met this owner of the pie shop operating downstairs from his old place, by the name of Mrs.Lovett. Mrs.Lovett took him in and she allowed him to use his old place to operate a barber shop, Todd's occupation before he became a sailor. He killed his first customer who was trying to blackmail him as he knew his real identity. That's when provoked the killings of others and how they came up with the idea of using those dead people as meat for the pies.

I'm not going to elaborate on the killings nor how did she make the pies. It was gross but in a way, comedic. You guys gotta watch this!

A brilliant movie for the adults. Kids gotta stay away because it's just too bloody.

Ok Im going to zzzzz now..

Out.

The Time of the Day

Hey Santa, I've been really good this year

Splenda splendid! Just got the confirmation for second round of interview! =) Yippeee....

Was up whole day since 7 and fortunately it wasn't just another effort going down the drain..

They are giving me a week to come up with my presentation and also to brush up on my excel skills. As usual, it's just the first day of everything, so Im pretty calm and excited to adjourn to my next level...I'm sure when the date gets closer, I'll get butterflies in my stomach..

Anyway, the interview went really well...i was interviewed by three guys, one a bit older and the other two quite young...so the older guy was the first one to see me because he was the earliest of the brady bunch while the others were late that morning...i think nobody goes to work at 9 anymore...so i spoke to him for about 30 mins and we got someone knocking on the door...it was the product analyst intern, one of the young guys who was supposed to interview me at 9am...then 10 mins went by and the director of marketing came in to catch up with the interview...damn, i had to repeat myself three times! I started losing my voice because I was talking too much...so yadda yadda yip, the interview ended around 10.20am...the director told me to expect for another two rounds of interview and second should be technical where I need to show them my presentation (analysis) + excel skills...

I'm really grateful for this chance and if there's one really concrete reason why I would like to work for this company it should be that everybody's friendly there...I was even greeted by the co-founder of the company! Really impressed that he wasn't late...haha

So in this one week, I need to do what I got to do...+ WE ARE GOING TO TAHOE! My much needed vacation! =) I'll try to be really nice this xmas..so santa please bring me some presents hehe and also some good news...G-man is sick today so Ive been making fresh orange juice for him..the tally comes up to 15 oranges today! We really need the vitamin C and immunity during this time of year...so please take care of yourself and don't fall sick...drink more water and stay warm =)

Have a safe journey if there's a plan to go somewhere for xmas and if not, just relax and have a very merry holidays and xmas!

ho ho ho, sorry for lack of pictures....been busy...

Xmas

So how's it going? I'm in the process of sending out xmas cards. Hope the cards get to the intended recipients on time. :P

Let's not talk about other things except xmas. I'm sure downtown is packed with holiday shoppers now. I really like the atmosphere but there are some issues which are the shortcomings during season like this. First of all, parking. Do you know that it takes at least 30-45 minutes just to park our car in downtown? And add another 10-15 minutes to walk to your favorite store to browse. So that's like an hour just to get out of the car and do your shopping. Second, food, the food court, the restaurants are so jam packed with people that you won't have any other alternatives but to eat fast food. Even though fast food is seriously great and I don't mind the so called calories, it is still boring when you have to eat it all the time whenever you are out in town. Third is the line. It is the most horrible thing ever! When you are happily bringing your item to the cashier, you see a line longer than the Great Wall, you just have to tell yourself, "fook it"...seriously, that really deters me from purchasing. It's not helping when the person attending to the cashier is slow and always so chitty chatty with whoever that comes up to her.


I enjoy xmas. It's a really nice occasion for friends and family to get together. We have a small party with a friend on eve. So it's going to be one merry day. One thing nice about christmas is the special drinks from coffee places. *bucks is serving peppermint mocha/hot chocolate, gingerbread latte, eggnog latte and whole bunch of xmas cookies. You know that MAN looking cookie ;). Sometimes they have their *bucks entourage to serve free drinks to shoppers. It's really good! Don't really mind walking past them 10 times! =) They have some cheer pass now. It's buy one get one free. Good deal knowing that they charge premium price for their drinks.

Really missing Odie this year. Another year has gone by. How are you doing baby? Hope all is well up there.

Le sigh

Another day another dime...

The interview this morning was brief but informational. Got to know more of this "anti-virus" company. If I did get this job, I would have to put in 1000x of effort. In fact, I've been snooping at borders on web based advertising related information and found it to be exceptionally interesting. Did you know that google has a pet which is called "spider" to track what we click? That's where google AdWords from. Ok, I do not want to bore you guys with all those marketing jargons.

It has not been easy looking for a job. It made me a different person. At least now I know I'm still lacking in so many areas in terms of knowledge. Damn, it sucks just thinking about it. I know there's nothing called THE PERFECT JOB and THE PERFECT CANDIDATE but it's so depressing that there isn't any good outfit to match one another. You want it, they may not give it to you. Duh!

Oh yes, did you know blogging can be considered as a "skill" nowadays? It's strange but true! So if you guys are putting your resume together, why not include blogging. Blogging teaches us a lot of things which we don't realize such as those who love to play with adobe creative suite and help us remember all those english words we seldom use.

Finding a job is definitely frustrating. When you see a good opportunity for you to advance, all of a sudden, you don't hear anything back from the company. Le sigh... =( When you don't really want the job, that person from the other end keeps on calling you...what on earth?!

So what's going on with all of you? Working? Xmas-ing? Or like me, still looking?

Whatever that comes my way, I'm going to accept it...I'm not letting this one hiccup taking my optimism away...so stay positive ya'll!

im out, peace!

Interviews

Jebus, I have two interviews coming up next week....

G-Man and I were talking yesterday about stupid interview questions and how we should answer them, for eg:

1) What are your weaknesses?

That's for you to tell me

2)What are your strengths?

That's for you to find out

3) If you were an animal, what kind of animal would you want to be and why? (WTH)

I want to be a crocodile, so I can just swallow you alive right now

4) What do you see yourself in 5 years?

Sitting right where you are and with you no where in sight

5) Why do you want to work for us?

Because I need a job


It's actually quite true that ppl usually ask some imbecile questions. I am terribly annoyed by ppl who love to ask what is your plan in X amount of years...hello??? how would I know! If I'm that good with knowing the future, I should just become a fortune teller!

I had a good experience and a bad one for phone screening. Of course that bad one was from a F.E.M.A.L.E. biatch...

story coming up...