Thursday, March 29, 2007

what a clumsy/sucky day...
-broke my one and only compack foundation case
-forgot to bring the things that i needed to mail
-drenched my uniform sleeve with the restroom faucet. again.
(and this was all before 9am!)
-no progress on my industry information gathering
-informal business lunch got cancelled (and i gave up my sis' porkchop bento for it today!)
-manager changed her mind on parts of the project, leaving me to handle the bargaining process with the publishers
-not much progress on research paper
-spilled coffee in my bag, because the mug was not fully closed, with my pink uniform shirt in it. the spilt coffee was on the shirt, the vanity pouch, and in my USB...

hm... i am taking the last one as a sign. maybe it's saying that i shouldn't wear it anymore...

**deep breath**life is good**

1 more week and i'll be in a far better, happier place where i can leave all this behind for a while. come next thursday, COME~~~~~

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Friday, February 09, 2007

leaving the office yesterday night, i was appalled.
not by the fact that i stayed up late in the office trying to bs my research in chinese and still am no where near finishing it (man, i cannot write in chinese!), but because it was Feb 8th, 9pm, and the weather felt and smelled like those of a late-summer eve! the skies were blue and clear, and the clouds were helluva lovely. checked the temperature, it said 22C. omg... wtf?!
where's the cold front that was supposed to hit tw that afternoon?!!!
why is it that hard to give a more accurate weather forecast for a tiny island?
and why, oh why, am i NOT wearing my puffy jacket because the weather's too hot?!

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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

so, this is what we received in our company email yesterday:

各位同仁大家好:
奉處長指示,請同仁勿於上班時間使用Skype或MSN做非公務聯繫,如發現前述情形,將嚴處並列入年度考評紀錄,謝謝配合!


my immediate reaction to this: damn it damn it damn it!!!
i'm so gonna die of boredom or depression at work. if any of you sense that i'm developing any strange behavior or violent attitude, it's ok. it's normal. just... shoot me an email or simply, shoot me. i'll be welcoming either option with open arms.

funny thing is... if we have any of those programs open, pple WILL contact us, unless we set ourselves offline. and if we do set the status offline, how will our clients or overseas offices know that we're even online? and how would they contact us under those occations?

but then... it's not that taking away msn or skype from work bothers me, since yeah, it can get distracting at times (hehehe. in my case, anytime! LOL). i guess it's the idea of taking something away that you used to have/do that bothers me. it can happen with anything, not just chat programs. afterall, the "used to have it" easily turns into "used to having it". and now the fact of NOT having it disturbs me quite badly.

maybe i should start a petition to the web/tech center, and tell them to block any download of chat programs in our computers. then we can all stop doing this shitty trade once and for all. LOL.
(someone teach me how to start a petition, plz~)

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Friday, October 27, 2006

note to myself:
next time, when managers ask me if i want to go abroad for expos, say YES.
it is ALWAYS YES!
don't think of other consequences, just plain old yes.
is that hard to say it out loud?

even if i know there's no way they'll send me outside now, still... Yes is always the right answer

yes
now i wanna go to barcelona too...
damn it, great way to screw it... 2 weeks overseas!! apffttttt...
YES i DO!!!!!!

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Friday, September 08, 2006

i'm tired!!!
been staring at the computer whole day, yet not focused enough to finish my work. damn it!
ever since my team moved to a different area, it has been more and more difficult for me to stay focused on what i'm doing.
because i've become the freaking info desk lady!! >___<

"excuse me miss, can you tell me who's XXX?"
"who?? i don't know either"

"i'm sorry, where's the meeting room? i have an appointment"
"it's, erh... " (taking out the floor plan, then realized that meeting rooms are not mapped on it)

"delivery!"
"if u push that package one inch closer to my face, i'll smack that thing on your head, u rude!"

yup, having a low-partitioned cubicle that faces the elevator is not fun. i don't like when people come in and interrupt me obnoxiously (i dun mind helping out the polite ones, but some can be quite rude), specially when i'm in the middle of something very important (and no, not msn =P). another co-worker and i have even printed out an A3 size floor map with all the different names and extension #s, yet still, people come and pop out random questions.

where can i find a 3D floor map?

also, janet and i are wondering if the place we moved really has a bad fung-shuei. ever since we moved there, we've been having pimples on our faces, sometimes really baaad ones. or maybe it's the cigarettes' smoke coming outta boss' office? or just bad air overall? or me eating too much crap?

BUT BUT BUT!!!
YUI'S COMING TO TAIWAN~~~
YAY!!! LA LA LAH~~~~~~~~~~~
i'm so happy!!! miss her so much! it's such a wonderful thing that she can come over for a weekend, because once you start working, it's so hard to find the right time to take a few days off from "the routine". got some ideas of where to take her, hehe
but no matter where we go, her presence and company will make it even more fun! ^__^

the only person left to visit is aya =( i should start thinking of ways to meet up with her, keke

countdown of days til yui arrives starts NOW!

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

braindead

haven't been suffering from braindead for a while, so it's a bit hard to describe my feelings bout it right now.
so this is life after college, this is life after one start working
perhaps, this is life from now on until the day i die
wow... that'll be a lot of brain damage, wonder if there's enough brain cells in my head to be damaged til then
but it's cool. glad to be distracted.

finally met up with dama & shiaoma the other day! ^___^
well, actually hanged out w/shiaoma before he left for the land of shemales. walked around w/him and his friend joy-lin (unsure bout the spelling) along Tamsui river-side.
Special Special thanx to him coz he did a sweet thing of bringing me back some Starbucks Pike Place Blend (and some other samples as well)!!!
aw~~~ Thank you Shiaoma! You're the sweetest!

also, wanna wish Mark, Chian, and Griselda a great bright start with their new life as grad students! i'm so proud of them, so smart and knowing what they want to pursue. i'm sure that this upper level education will help them excel in the future.
YAY for you guys~
hm~ NC, IL, CT, east coast~~~ fun fun fun!~~~ =)

gonna get some sleep, hope this can restore some neurons

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Thursday, May 18, 2006

i think i'm paranoid

been feeling that pple look at me when i walk by. in the office, in the elevator, in the streets, and that kinda puts me in a very weird/awared situation where i'm afraid that something might be wrong with me. do i have a giant spot on my face? did the bird pooped on me and i didn't clean it well? is my shirt unbottomed? am i walking with a hole on my pants? am i walking crossed-eyed?
questions and worries as such.
but no, everything's ok, xcept for my messy hair that i'm too lazy to take care of, xcept for my makeup that's wearing out, xcept for the excessive oil that's bursting out of my face no matter how much i try to keep it dry.

yeah... i'm nuts
maybe i should stop looking at people and stare at the floor when i walk, this way i don't see them seeing me

been working out for almost 2 months. i decided to join the gym to boost my stamina and increase my defense system, but i think sitting in the A/C room for all this time has done something to my bones... feel a bit sore, and some slight migrane
hm, if work-out does not work out, i'm gonna stop the membership and save myself some money for 2010.

yay that junjun and wan are coming to taiwan!! YAY for 2 gorgeous ladies!
though they won't be staying long, but i've been looking forward to visitors ever since i came back. have to start getting some sleep for this weekend and also emptying my stomach for buncha night market food~ muuuahahahaha
can't wait. ^_^
i miss girls day out so badly!

kinda liking Rain's "Pantech"

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

ew eeeewwww~~~~

had a really good workout yesterday! YAY
went to the gym for a different class this time, a Funky class. haha~ turned out quite funky indeed! the room was packed, coz it turned out that the instructor is this really famous guy in the work-out/gym industry in taiwan. he goes to tv shows and apparently teaches dance moves to some artists here, hm... interesting
but he's quite cool and funny~! he kinda feels like a gym version robin williams (of course, not the appearance part)
gosh... the class made me sweat like a pig! all those jumping and moving around... left knee feels funny now but i dun care, coz i'm seldom this happy bout sweating that much. =D
you must give credit to a person if he/she can be so 台 and still make all those cheesy 芭樂歌 fun and enjoyable. hehe~
big round of applause!!!!

now... on the way back, saw this on a side wall of NY NY.


eeewwwwww....

no comments... but i think i can definitely use this as a strong argument for my thesis

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Thursday, April 13, 2006

dr. shaun, i miss u~

need chiro. NOW~~~
my whole body is in pain, and i think i'm making even more bone cracking sounds (from my vertebrae) than i used to. and oh~! the crackings round my neck~!!!
i think my head will roll off from my body any time from now...

this is all from the Body Pump class... went there a couple days ago, and now all my muscles are complaining, specially those from my upper body. stupid unclear class schedules, not explaining the classes in details, thus misleading me in getting into something i'm unsure of.
anyway, it was a full hour weight class!! pure muscle toning!
weights = resistance = unsuitable for nongi
alright... it was decent, a good class for those who'd like to refine their curves and test their body limits. but BAD BAD for someone who can't do even ONE pushup.
hence, the pain that i'm going thru now T_T

one other reason why i decided to go to the class, totally irrelevant to the pain topic, is that i wanted to prove myself wrong and reverse my stereotyping misconception.
prove what wrong?
so here's the deal. don't take it personal, y'alrite?
anyway, yui and i came to a conclusion that asian guys are pretty... gay
maybe it's coz we're not seeing enough, maybe we're looking in the wrong places, or maybe it's just as simple as having a bad luck. but in any case, seems that all the guys that we're encountering/observing in our countries are quite sissy.
damn, i think i'm raising male hatred against me...

ok, let's slightly modify mybiased prejudice/thesis: asian guys that i'm seeing in asia (eg. tw), are not as "macho" as i would expect them to be. (that means, those of u who are outside tw can ignore this blog entry, and we can all be friends again~! yay!)
there~ tada~~

uh! i've left my original topic way too far.
so, summary: i went to the gym expecting to see more "decent" guys in order to reverse my misconception bout "asian guys in asia are quite gay".
facts: saw relatively more guys. in the streets, office buildings, and inside the gym. checked out working guys, working-out guys, random walking guys but still... all average and below...
(maybe need to observe from more sample groups next time)
conclusion: my proposal still stands. nevertheless, i'll continue this experiment until i prove myself wrong (sorry mark... i tried...)

there MUST be something missing here that i'm not getting... coz, how can it be?! how can both jp and tw not providing sufficient eye candy for the ladies?!!!
... i don't get it... i really don't...

AAAAnyway, dun care that much bout eye candy now, eye candy cannot relief me from backpain. gimme dr. shaun first~~ a masseuse will also do ^_^

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Monday, April 10, 2006

..........

i'm bored!
i'm bored i'm bored i'm bored!!!!

bored to a point it's not funny anymore
no new cases, no new documents, so all that i get to do these days is just sit in my chair, face the computer screen, and read some busines/company related articles that they pass around.
hmmmmmmmm...

read some briefings bout previous expos aborad, man, how i wish i can go abroad and help out w/the expos too! saudi arabia, uruguay, slovakia, anywhere is fine w/me. i don't mind the flight, and i won't complain bout their local food either...
just plz take me~~~~

last week, during one of the big boss' daily walk inspections, he stopped by and was commenting bout his search for an english speaking person to go to the singapore food expo...

uh uh uh~!!! ME ME!!- i thought
"i need someone who can really speak english" he said

arghh~~ MEMEME!! i'm here~! RIGHT in FRONT OF U!- why can't you hear my silent yearnings!?!
"...really. any suggestion? do you recommend anyone?"

and before i realized, i raised and waved my hands at him very exitedly...
T__T
kinda embarrasing moment... coz a lot of pple laughed... wth

"no lah~ you cannot go yet, i need someone more experienced, but u'll get your chance", and that was his subtle decline
apffttttt.... #$^%^#*- .... no comments

bleh... gosh i'm hella bored...

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Thursday, March 30, 2006

a stupid question but...
can water give u static?

was at the toilet, and when i reached my hands out to the automatic faucet, i felt some slight pinches on my palms when the water came out.
~__~
water shouldn't give u statix, rite??? must be the quick impact of the running water...
but but... this is not the first time i feel that the office toilet water is pinching me!
weird...
if it IS the water impact, hm... tonces aflojala un poco, loco~

big boss' coming back tmr from the car expo, not that his presence matters to me that much but... i still feel kinda guilty when he wonders around the office and sees me doing tasks that are irrelevant to the job (aka., moments like this). kekeke

i've just satisfied my starsux craving w/a tall caramel macchiato. new problem: now i feel like jamba juice~! uuuh~ caribbean passion, strawberry tsunami, peach pleasure~ (drool..)
wtf...

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Thursday, November 24, 2005

an almost dieded day...

....
another day of unproductiveness
actually, it was planned to be semi-productive, but in the end, stuffs showed up. i was forced to clean the room, but i still don't know how to manage and store all the little things that i have. 5 of the boxes that i sent out before are already here (yay~ quite fast!!! now i can have my stereo again!), therefore, there are quire a few things to be placed in a nice area
but i have no shelfs
and i have no drawers
the dresser that's in the room is pretty much full already, sad
so now there are a lot of clothes on my bed, which later will be randomly thrown into the closet
apffftttt, i dun care

later in the afternoon, my mom took me to the dentist, since i haven't checked my teeth for a long while. my mom never told me where the place is, so i just blindly followed her. we walked into an normal apartment, where my aunt lives, and i thought that we were visiting my aunt first before the dentist.
however, we stopped on the 2nd floor and walked into an apartment. it was a place that i've never been before. when i looked in, i almost shouted when i saw 2 dentist chairs in a tiny room.
this is not right... absolutely not right...
very skeptically, i stepped into the place, and yes, i saw this dentist-like guy talking to a couple bout some teeth stuff, and i started getting really scared
i looked at my mom, yet she seemed very relaxed, just standing there, and looking around the place, as if nothing. la la lah~~~
so then, the dentist-like guy made me sit on that dentist chair. i looked around the room, trying to make myself feel better by seeing any proof that shows he's a decent dentist but --nope. zero. nada. there was none of those certificates that any dentist would gladly frame and put it on a wall to show that he's spent a few years working his ass off.
the machines that were used were not in their best condition ever. i wonder if they were purchased 2nd handed or something, coz seriously, i could see some rust on many of the equipments, and there weren't enough sterilizing devices, and the water that was provided smelled rusty too...
this is just NOT happenning...
but it did
the initial reason for dentist was that i wanted to check on my wisdom tooth, and maybe taking it out. but after seeing all this, or better say, after seeing no proof of proficiency, i decided to change my mind. so when the dentist asked why i was there, i just said that i needed some regular check-up. there's no way i would let this guy touch me with needles!
still, i was not able to escape the cruelty of cavities... ~___~
so i was forced to sit there and let the guy drill my tooth with some not very sanitary tools, i was very very nervous at the time.
the overall procedure was ok. i'm relieved that so far, the tooth that got drilled feels ok. i dun want to criticize anything, but, when it comes to treating a patient, any type of patient, shouldn't the person have some type of proof to show that they are legal to exercise medicine??
... scary...

then after fixing my tooth, i went out for a walk, to the comic store. and i almost got killed by a cab. i remember i was looking around, checking out stores that are around the area, and suddenly, i felt this cab drove by, VERY close to me. i could feel the wind
shuuuu~~~~~
again, scary...

then then, my mom and i went to check on some hot water dispenser. we took the scooter out and when we were riding pass through a bus, 2 kids suddenly ran across in front of us. the situation was really close. my mom slipped from her seat coz of the sudden break and we were on a downhill, the bus stopped as well because the situation was dangerous, and the 2 kids were sandwiched between my mom's bike on their front, and by the giant bus right next to their sides.
SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i can't imagine if the situation goes out of control... it would be disastrous >__<
maybe even grosesome...
go! another unproductive and scary day in tw!!

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Tuesday, March 01, 2005

vivo en una empanada ~_~

los que me conocen deberian saber que puedo llegar a ser una nena muy caprichosa de vez en cuando. hay ciertas cosas que quiero, y los quiero ya, y no puede haber escusas que me paren.
especialmente cuando es sobre comida... oh yeah... cuando quiero comer algo, trato de conseguirlo para sacarme las antojas. es muy feo cuando tenes ganas de comer algo y no podes, you know?! eso es una tortura!!!
bueno, me estuve torturando el otro dia porque queria comer empanadas. empanadas de carne, de choclo, de lo que sea. QUERIA EMPANADAS. ay bien... de donde voy a conseguir empanadas en seattle? como mis amigas me dijeron una vez, estoy en el medio de la loma del kinoto, de donde puedo sacar empanadas? es facil de conseguir el relleno, pero, lo mas importante es la tapa! la tapa!!!! no estoy nada cerca de un supermercado argentino o mexicano, o sudamericano. alrededor de aca, no hay nada! bah... supers tenemos unos cuantos, pero ninguno tiene tapas para empanadas. tienen tapas para ravioles chinos~~ pero esos no me sirven...
pero nada me iba a parar. queria comer empanadas y los queria comer. tonces empeze a buscar en el internet recetas para tapas de empanadas, pero todos me dicen que tengo que agregar -- GRASA.
>_____< EEEeeEEEwwwWWWWW~~~ GRASA??
eso suena re desagradable! ademas, ya es bastante dificil para mi conseguir tapas de empanadas, ahora de donde quieren que consiga grasa? (ay... lastima que no lo puedo sacar de mis rollitos.. =P EEEEWWWW, eso sono peor...)
en fin, fui al supermercado de todas maneras, y vi que venden tapas para tartas/pies. me parecio bien tonces lo lleve a la casa de mi novio, toda re contenta, chocha de que le iba a demostrar una comida super deliciosa de argentina.
pero una vez que abri el paquete, ahi las cosas ya no van tan bien... primero que las tapas estaban bastante secos, y ademas estaban doblados en 4 dobles, que, cuando lo abris, se rompe. ay bien... ademas, el tamanio de las tapas no era suficiente para cortar muchas tapitas de empanada, asi que tuve que hacer todo un lio para poder moldear mas tapitas de empanada desde esa tapa de tarta.
pero mi relleno estuvo bueno. ^^ me gusto, porque le agregue muchas cosas que me gusta.
despues con mi novio lo pasamos bien doblando las empanadas, los pusimos en el horno, y despues...
.... TADA~~~~
parecian bien, pero no estuvo tan delicioso... para nada... ~_____~lll
me senti tan mal por mi pobre novio que tuvo que sufrir eso conmigo
asi que experimento #1 --- fracaso total

hoy, como compre ingrediende para empanadas de mas, decidi intentar a hacer empanadas otra vez. esta vez compre distinta tapa con la esperanza de poder hacer un milagro de algun tipo.
otra vez mi relleno estaba super super sabroso, pero esta vez, las tapas estaba doblada en 3 partes, que, cuando los abri, se me rompian... como los anteriores.
asi que decidi, que mierda, vamos a hacer empanada estilo canapes. doble las tapitas como pequenios platitos con relleno en el medio. parecia re lindo!!
bien, todo estaba llendo bien hasta el momento. puse mis empanapes en el horno, y despues de 5 minutos, cheque el horno y...
mis platitos de tapa se achato toda!!! cuando se deberia ver unos mini bowls que contienen mi super relleno, ahora eran cosas CHATAS con relleno arriba...
no entiendo porque no puedo cocinar bien unas simples empanadas de mierda!!! >__<

el otro dia llame a mi hermana para consultar un poco sobre el 'misterio de las tapas de empanada', yo queria usar tapas de ravioles, pero mi hermana me paro a tiempo antes de que cometiera un gran error... despues me dijo que porque nunca me puse a cocinar realmente, siempre me estuve rascando cuando deberia ayudar en la cocina, y de paso aprender un poco, es por eso que ahora soy un desastre que prende el alarma para fuegos cuando cocina
en fin, siempre estuve viviendo en mi antojada empanada, lleno de relleno, que, ahora, no se como deberia ser mi tapa...

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Monday, September 27, 2004

this is F..... wrong

i've never felt like this before. i think out of all the things that i've done wrong, this makes it to the ranking #1 of "i nong's damn stupid actions (kick her ass!)" list. makes me want to cry but i'm out of tears. where should i begin?

today is sun sept 26, my summer break is close to its end. alan and i have both booked for today's flight to go back to seattle since our fall quarter will start on sept 29, just a few days away. so early this morning, i've prepared everythin, got all my documents, eticket checked, everythin packed to be ready for my flight.

before i left the house, i called my fav pple to say goodbye, and said goodbye to my family in tears, cried like crazy (as usual), then sat my whiny ass in the car, ready to depart to the airport. we got to our destination in very short time, and durin the ride, i was thinkin of how quick time has passed, i've already been back in tw for 1 month! wow! haven't been back in tw for 1 1/2 years and now i'm headin back to seattle again, back to the books again.
i was happy and sad at the same time. on one hand, i kinda want to go back to seattle coz i really miss it somehow, but when i think of the comin up quarter, my head starts to hurt a little. still, i was anxious to go back to seattle, i miss my bed a lot (miss you miss you miss you~~~)
so yeah, i did enjoy my trip to tw this time, got plenty of time to rest, and ate a lot of stuff. even though the heat and the humidity are huge pains in my butt, and the mosquitoes bites are like hell to me, i still like my vacation overall

... until just now.
it's now sun sept 26, 20:41pm, and how come i got internet? i'm supposed to be on the plane, watchin watever movie they are playin, rite? RITE?!!!
but no~~~~~ i'm at home. why is that?!
well, i went to the airport alrite, got all my passport and I-20 alrite, plane ticket and confirmation # also checked, yet i froze when the counter lady told me...
"your visa to the states has expired, we're sorry, we cannot let you get on the plane"
so i rechecked the expiration date of my visa-- JUNE 2004
oh yeah... F###. that's what i thought
this is the worst thing that i've done, EVER! i cannot believe it... i can't go back to the states until i get a new visa to the states. i soooooo wanted to cry, but i was out of tears.

completely shocked, me and my parents walked back to the car, so i called some pple to tell 'em that i cannot go back, and of coz, their reactions to my incident was "... you PIG HEAD! WAAHAHAHAHA, now you're doomed! get ready to be flunked!"
yup, now i completely admit 110% that i'm a pig head, i'm a F###kin pig head X N!!!
seriously, i want to be on that flight BR 032 from TPE to SEA, but now i'm facin the pc, preparin my documents again, so i can go to the US embassy tmr morning

i guess it's my destiny to eat the mooncakes that i bought back as souvenirs here in tw. sorry guys, no more mooncakes for you, they are gonna be eaten by me coz i'm a stupid selfish person who forgot to renew the visa
please, dun let any more wrong things happen.... PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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