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Nothing too exciting worth mentioning.

Job's good, life's good....

Going to HK end of the month...old news..

Re: Corporate Slave

Credit: Found this on google image, thanks!

Nicole has got an interesting post up on being a corporate slave. For those who are on the same boat, I guess we can pretty much relay to this. However, every company is different,so,there bound to be some differences.

So back to the question, how exactly do I "kill" my time at work? Geeez, I'm actually jeopardizing my career to describe it here, you never know, maybe my manager is reading this. haha Anyway, for the sake of good faith, I'm going to reveal my secrets.

Some of the regular things that I do during non-rush hour at work:

Walk really slowly to the restroom and then spend maybe 10 minutes there, take slow steps back to cubicle, whole trip is approximately 15 minutes :P, do this at least 5 times a day haha

To make myself look better at work, pretend to be busy, the keyword is "RESEARCH"..when being questioned, I'M DOING MY RESEARCH! But seriously, I'm just on social networking sites

Lunch, this one is tricky,usually we only get 1 hour for lunch, so I prefer to go for lunch around 2pm, when I return to the office, it's 3pm+, yippeee, go online, surf for another 1 hour+ and you're gone! Usually people do not suspect anything after 3pm because they themselves are surfing online

Get water! My favorite of all. Spend at least 5 minutes getting water and bonding time! Chat with colleagues and spend another extra 5 minutes! Whoooooohooo

Since I have never had a printer really close to my work area, getting printouts are usually a short distance trip, so, start printing!!!!! Oh, what about helping others to get their printouts too haha

Of course I don't do these stuff frequently, ONLY, ok, only during times when there's not much to do in the office. Pretending to be busy is like the hardest thing on earth! But I try to kill my time by doing the things I mentioned. Getting a cup of coffee is a good reason to "pretend" to be busy. Your manager or office will understand that you need the caffeine. ;)

I don't feel it's too difficult spending 9-5 at work. I think it's kind of good to get out of your house, just pretend you are working on your homework each time and get paid. Hey, you get to mingle with your colleagues too, so those are like your friends, only that they are from a working place not school.

I like the getting paid part the most though. =P

Ciao!

Life Up till this Second

It's been a while since my last post. Been polishing my hiking skills for the past few weeks and went for fun camping trips with a couple of friends. The last camping trip I had was about two years ago with Odie. It's painful to reminiscence the past with my beautiful golden retriever especially the memories of keeping him in the tent because he was constantly wagging his tail close to the fire, frolicking on the beach and him always eating seaweeds, Odie pooping all over the place and attempted to savor a bit of horse dung. The memories are still pretty fresh and will stay intact in my heart.

Work wise, after three months of being an early bird, I've decided to quit my current job and move on to something else or perhaps another job that can shape me to a different direction. I'm sending my resume out and been getting some responses, even made a new friend with one of the interviewers of a company. Too bad they are too far away from the city, if not, I would have put in a little bit more of my positive energy. One hour drive is just too crazy!! Anyhow, a new Irish friend added to my list. ;) Definitely going out for a beer or two hehe

Been thinking of my old friends lately especially YOU, YOU and YOU. You know who you are. =) Oh, congratulations to Kim on her engagement to Kelvin! The most perfect couple on earth! I did shed some tears when I heard of her announcement of such joyous occasion. Happy happy tears though.

So that's it...until next time, (maybe I'll post some pictures of camping or smthg)

Adios!

Being 25.....................

I woke up late this morning.

It's been a month now since I started working. The feeling still has not changed. My energy at work has multiplied and don't think it's going to stop any soon. Every morning, I'm eager to get to work, to mingle with co-workers and to perform my very best. Maybe to exceed expectations. I guess that's why sometimes I'm feeling a little overwhelmed. Feeling as if needed to break free! Well, just an outpour of emotion. Or perhaps, another vacation soon?

With work and school going on at the same time, my life is incredibly peachy. Sometimes I try looking back. What have I done in the past? I think I pretty much wasted my school years. hahaha All I did was travel. Did not really try to even be better. I focused more on my traveling stuff than my school dissertation!

I digress. I'm not even sure what I'm talking about now.

Back to school work now. At least, standing at this busy intersection, I try not to hurt myself.

Ciao!

What if

Was thinking of him again.....dear God, stop it please! After so many years, I always have this mental picture of him in my head....it's funny that I still can't find the reasons why I'm so infatuated with this guy....it's also strange how I have this person in my head but he's been gone for a good number of years now...

Sometimes it makes me feel that I'm being unfaithful to G-man but what the hell, I don't even remember his birthday...just the feeling lingers on....that makes me realize something, describing such an abstract phenomenon can really be frustrating...feeling is feeling..it's something "automatic" and there's no button to turn it off...

This is freaky...God is setting me up for something...

So back to reality, life has been treating me well...I've got a great job, great colleagues (at least those in my department), I've got a great guy, even tho I'm not filthy rich, I'm contented with what I got...so maybe that's why I got this imaginary thing going on right now...

Sometimes I would question myself...what if what if...what if I did not travel across the globe..what if I'm still in KL...what if i'm still single...what if i didnt do this what if i didnt do that....too many what ifs...How nice if there's this machine to help me go back in time or even foresee my future...then there won't be what if..

Ohh Betty..

Been working for the past two weeks...oh dear, it's actually not that bad!

My Company

Been trying to get myself acquainted with all the procedures and workload and so far it's really rewarding! It's funny that people always say usually you get some sort of weekly blues especially on Monday...Actually I don't really dread going to work on Monday as it's most probably the busiest day for me. It's official! I'm going to declare my love for MONDAY!!!! I LOVE MONDAY Ya'll!

Been learning some HTML on my own...this book comes in pretty handy.

StarFuc*s...

I'm sitting inside starbucks right now, listening to a conversation between two women, for a job interview. The interviewer is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO loud! I think the interviewee is really embarassed. The interviewer is not only loud but she speaks faster than the bullet train. She has this high pitch voice that can wake a giant up from sleep! I think she's a head hunter now....by listening to what she's saying to the other girl. God, no privacy at all! Go and hide somewhere to do this kinda stuff....don't raise your voice in a starbucks! I think I'm leaving this noise polluted starbucks.

Been working for a week now and I'm really enjoying myself. So far, I think I have wonderful colleagues and my manager is so so funny!

I'm so dead tired now. Guess I have to get used to this....I think this is going to be a lifetime thing unless I'm the winner of mega million hefty 280 mil prize!

ciao..

I LOVE WORKING

How was your CNY? I've been feeling unwell for the past few days. However, today I'm feeling at my best! I'm sure it has to do with the training I received from my company today. =)

This is the peak flu season and everyone around me is complaining of feeling ill. Gary's dad had to be admitted to the ER because he was coughing non-stop and fever did not subside. Well, that's really bad considering that his dad has high blood pressure and not so young anymore. Glad to see him today feeling much better. Even drove me to the caltrain station! Another good news to add to the books.

So my new job is starting next Tuesday and I'm mainly in charge of the clicks to the website and videos. It's a routine job where I need to do a lot of updates and basically just managing myself. The fun thing is they also have shootings where I get to participate on Saturday and best of all, getting paid for it. :p This is so going to be a fun experience while at the same time, gaining tremendous experience.

Besides work, I'm also applying to schools for MBA and hopefully land on one that will fit my schedule perfectly. Man, it's definitely not easy trying to juggle between school and work. Well, I do hope my hard work will eventually pay.

Nothing much going on as far as relationship or whatsoever. Who wants to listen to that anyways? hehe

I have some imaginary plans right now but won't be disclosing it. Not until something concrete comes up. So keep you guys updated!

Ciao!

What are my avenues

I'm not sure for how long I'm going to bore all of you with the stories of my interviews...

So last week on Friday I went for yet another interview....1,2,3,4....I'm not too sure how many interviews I been to now...ok anyhow, the interview lasted for about 35minutes..short considering that I been to longer ones...2 hours max! The regional VP was the one sitting with me in the room...surprisingly this time I'm so fed up with interviews that the butterflies in my stomach had flown away...They didnt ask me much questions, just a lot of talking on the role and what I can be expected to be doing..a little on the company, this company does online advertising, instead of the mundane static banner ads/flash ads, this company specializes in video ads..the idea is definitely refreshing and they been around for 7 yrs now developing rather rapidly..they have offices all over the world and the san francisco office has just been operating for ard 1 yr...so don't really see too many ppl or fixtures....i know this is going to be a challenging job as I am required to handle the marketing side of it + all of the administrative duties...pay is not really that grand to be discussed here...so conclusion, i have to call the VP on Thursday as requested by him...I'm not sure if I'm getting this job, HOPE I do cuz this is going to be a great start for me to polish on different skill set..

BTW, VP is donald trump lookalike...hehe...esp the hair part...:P

wondering when is the market is going to pick up again...

till then, take care everyone!

Wazzup for 2008

How's your new year celebration?

Mine wasn't all that great to talk about, just fireworks and plenty of sleep for the first day of a new year. G-man and I been immersing ourselves in computer games lately. This is SO going to be temporary cuz it's always like this. By the way, on the first day of new year, we went to get champagne from safeway and I bought a winning lotto scratch card! Damn, 25 bucks cha-ching! Felt so great for winning money on the first day of new year. This year is going to be another best year of my life!

Due to my lack of sleep, my neck feels so freaking stiff. Adding to that, the storm is pretty bad over this side of the bay. Gosh, even that freaking bbq cover was blown away! Never found. WTF. The pots were damaged with cracks and the yard is so severely ruined. We were out of power for one day and only got it back last night around 9pm. We had no choice but to eat all the ice cream in the freezer and had to cook dinner in the dark. To add to our misery, someone random decided to knock on our door to give us a "power outage" scare! Fu&* jebus.

Another interview update, went to the 2nd interview two days ago. Did the presentation and the exercise given. I think I did ok. So they going to get back to me next week with a decision. Honestly, it's not the job or company that I'm interested with, it's the money. I'm so broke. Shit. Holiday shopping did some damage to my account. This dress, that shoe...i'm so in trouble now.

Ok will post the video of the fireworks next.

Take care and have a wonderful 365 days...opppss...minus 5 days since today is the 5th.

Ciao!

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.

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...

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!

Currently reading THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN.

What a boring day once again! Went downtown to search for some excitement but end up just eating at Cheesecake factory. Nothing special at all. I carried my laptop all over downtown today. Felt like a dumb ass bitch. Geeeezzz....Still trying to add things on my resume.

I'm starting to wake up real late. Really really late. I was waking up around 8am but nowadays, it's 10/11....around noon time, my eye starts tearing and i feel like just knocking myself out. Oh my, maybe it's because I have nothing to do????

I've been dragging myself to cafes to stay awake which means COFFFFEEEEEE!! I'm drinking so much coffee that my system is starting to reject the caffeine. I'm drinking coffee as if drinking water! Caffeine does not even work on me now. Omigod.

I'm hoping G-man can give me some of his work to me so I can help him out a little bit. He's working on this deal but it's just another mundane deal so there won't be too much stuff to do. Damn! It's not even the end of the year but people are already having pre-celebrations.

I hope I land on something soon so that I won't have to complain but I'm sure, I'll complain of something else then. =P

Ok have a great weekend.

Shake me baby

Finally done with Shopaholic and Baby. Another fine read. Haven't been doing much lately, just slacking pretty much. But again, since when I've had a lot of things to do?hehe

I'm currently hunting for a marketing job and just got my resume updated this afternoon. Man, it sucks. Terribly. I just had a mock interview with G-Man at dinner. God, dinner time is for eating NOT some sort of mock interview session! G-man has been motivating enough though. He wants me to have a career, so do I. I want the money! I'm so broke after all the weddings.

I'm feeling the obesity bug hitting me again. Endless supply of bread which means carbohydrate intake is really high these days. I really need to cut down on that and stop saying there's always tomorrow to start my diet regime. I don't feel healthy when slabs of meat start showing up left and right. Grrrrrrr...time to start exercising again. Well, tomorrow of course.

San Francisco was struck by a 5.6 magnitude earthquake few days ago. Big one is coming. It's closer. I just need to dream it. hahaha I'm serious. My sixth sense is pretty strong. I'm no psychic but I can feel things. Scary isn't it? Back to the earthquake the other day, I was sipping tea inside a cafe when all of sudden I could feel like a Harley Davidson passing by with super loud engine causing the earth to shake a little bit. Little attention was paid to that but when the shaking went from some vehicle engine magnitude to super construction drilling magnitude, I started to look around just to confirm my suspicion. Everyone was looking quite jolted but no one made any action. I was already picturing my next action which was of course to hide under the table I'm sitting at. We were lucky because it was just a 30 seconds scare. The shaking stopped and I could see people were so mighty glad. Almost had to say goodbye to my pot of China green tea. Hella good, recommended. Not during earthquake though.

Oh the day became so long yesterday since we had to go back an hour. We don't need any time machine here, it's officially an hour behind starting yesterday. Ok guys, need to do some facebook-ing now. See you there.

Random Crap

Oh man, I'm so "frugged"

I have 5 textbooks that I'm trying to sell, a printer and beddings (duvet, pillows etc) to give away and possibly some kitchen stuff too.

Exam was quite smooth flow despite the fact that I had to bear with a bursting bladder for 3 hours. Lesson learned. No liquid before exam, especially exam that takes 3 hours to complete.
Weeee, just another exam on Friday and it's going to be over! We have some activities planned out and dinner gatherings with friends whom I haven't seen for quite a long time. Oh, the exam on Friday is just an hour kinda deal, extra "weee" factor to that! ;)

I'm so freaking tired today. Came home and took a short nap before indulging myself with unhealthy activity of watching tvb series on crunchyroll. =P Life is good when there's no stress, just some pampering moments before dwelling back into the reality.

This Friday is going to come fast. I can smell and feel it. It's the beginning of another phase of life and all I can imagine is happiness. At least this is a good indication. I'm thinking of going to Vegas to Celine Dion's concert. Ahhh my idol. Her voice, my God.....God, you are so unfair but you been truly nice to her and indirectly, nice to us cuz she can keep on entertaining us.

Well, really been through a lot for the past 9 months. Ok, I've traveled a lot. =D It's been great being able to go to all the places that I've always wanted to go. Bought a lot of expensive stuff from Europe (*bleeding*). Living by myself for so many months (I've lived with G for 6 years before this). Quite an achievement you know! I used to be a spoilt demanding human being. Even though I knew I could do something, I just let G handled it. It's really that bad. Got my reality check now and from now on, I'm going to be independent and enjoying every moment of it. No remorse. A step I took to reminiscence and mark my step of adulthood. Bravo!

We bought a new SUV today!!! =) It's bigger, gas guzzling SUV. I know in times like these, it's not really too wise to be buying something like that but it's a Lexie so it's going to worth the investment. After all, toyota engine runs for a long long time and we don't plan to discard this piece of machine that soon. It's going to be for at least 6-7 years. Can't wait to plan our winter activities with this new cool machine! It looks something like this: (also same color, white with beige interior)


Yeah, another SUV for us. Actually I really hate small cars to be honest. I love cars that exert masculinity (macho macho) and this fact applies to my choice in men too. hehehe I don't discriminate but given options, that's my preferred choice.

So, that does another hole in the pocket. Dun really know how many more holes can we withstand with all the big budget stuff coming up such as wedding. Any "ah loong" (loan shark) wanna lend me some moolah?

Ok, just crapping won't promise any monetary returns, so I better go and start looking for a job! Anyone interested to hire me?

Ciao!