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Laziness Drives Me Crazy
Friday, Sep 5, 2008 12:42PM / Standard Entry / Members only
Lately, I haven't been blogging much. I just don't have much to share or write about. I no longer read over each blog entry that pops up on feeds, I just skim right through. I've been lazy. Yes I do realize that not reading blogs does not translate into laziness, but I haven't been doing much of anything lately. I feel like I'm stuck in this black hole. I go to work and I go out with my friends. I don't do much of anything else. I'm suppose to be studying for the GMATs but I haven't even opened the books that has been sitting on my desk for the past two months. I've stopped taking walks in the afternoons and I only go to the gym once a week. My room is a mess and I don't want to clean it and that freaks me out. I'm usually very OCD about the cleanliness of my living/sleeping space, but these days I find myself always thinking...
I'll do it tomorrow. When tomorrow comes, nothing gets done. Eck...my room collects dust like a vacuum. Luckily I still manage to do my laundry once a week.
I just realize that I've been really bad with keeping in touch with people now too. I used to love sending out cards to all my friends during the holidays (V-Day, Easter, St. Patrick's, etc). I did none of that this year. Well maybe that's just has do with the postage and materials being so expensive these days.
I used to respond to my personal emails everyday. Now I put it off. It seems like it's been ages since I've send an email to any of my friends that are abroad. What's wrong with me? I used to love doing these things. Two of my friends have birthdays coming up in just a couple of days and have I gone shopping for their gifts or cards yet? The answer is "NO."
A couple of weeks ago I sent a mass email out to organize a small reunion with some of the people that were on the same exchange program as me at the Chinese University of Hong Kong a couple of years ago, but guess what? I set the date for this Saturday, but it was only this past weekend that I figured out what we should do. If I had just taken a little more time to plan, we probably could've all gone to Vegas or camping or something. Instead, it's just dinner. Now I have to figure out what we should do after dinner.
I'm highly stressed out at work these days but I still manage to get things done. I go out on the weekends and have fun with my friends. There just seems to be so much going on around me that I don't have time for the little things in my personal life. I'm just so lazy and I keep telling myself that it's okay or that I'll get it done tomorrow. Nothing gets done. It's not like these little things that I don't do are effecting anybody else, but it bugs the crap out of me.
I think I'm going crazy!
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My Labor Day Weekend
Wednesday, Sep 3, 2008 12:08PM / Standard Entry / Members only
Why can't we have long weekends every week? I wouldn't mind working an extra hour each day if I could just get one more day off. Do we really need to have a 5 day work week?
Anyways...I had a pretty eventful Labor Day weekend. Unfortunately, I didn't get to take advantage of any of the sales that were going on. It's okay...I should be saving money anyways. Hmm...where should I start boring you all with what I did this weekend? Well Friday was JL's last day at work. I was actually a little sad to see her go. She left me with so much work when lunch time rolled around today I finally remembered that I didn't have my breakfast yet.
I only had time to eat a peach. Luckily, it was a monstrous size peach. Anyways, Friday I landed in SFO at around 5:00 but I didn't get picked up until 6:30pm. Can you believe that? Because I had to wait at the airport for so long, I bought a book to entertain myself. I started to read "Skinny Bitch" and lost all appetite for sweets and meat. It's basically a book about how to lose weight by changing your lifestyle. The authors of this book likes to gross you out by talking about how much chemicals are put into soda how slaughterhouses kill cows, porks, and chicken. Luckily, the sight of this salmon sashimi made me forget all that I had read earlier. After reading the first half of that book, I thought I wasn't going to eat anything every again but water and apples. 
On Saturday morning I was able to sleep in until about 11 I think. After checking some emails and breakfast, my two cousins, my sister and I walked to Pier 39. Our first stop was the San Francisco Bay Aquarium. It really sucked, but my cousin really wanted to go and we had some discount coupons so I thought...sure why not. It won't kill me to look at some fish. Little did I know, I got a little dizzy from looking at the first few tanks of fish too closely. Is this the effect of old age? Probably not. I like to blame the fish tank. I did take two very cool pics of sting rays. Well at least I think they are cool.
It's like they're smiling at you.
Have any of you ever been to Chowders? I like the crab sandwich but I think their clam chowder was a little bit too thick and creamy for my taste.
After our late lunch, we decided to try the 4D Turbo rides. We went on three because that was the best deal. Let me tell you, I really really didn't want to go. I have to say, the first ride was pretty cool. It's some log ride that takes you through the process of cutting logs in some amazon. What I thought was a real rip off was the Spongebob ride. It was boring and it sucked. Do not let your kids or younger siblings talk you into getting onto this ride. 
After wasting some cash on this ride, we walked back to the apartment to pick up my aunt for dinner. We had dungeness crab at PPQ. I love the roasted crab and the garlic noodles. Ooh...the papaya salad was pretty good too.
Later on in the evening, my cousin, sister, and I watched Tropic Thunder. It was really funny. I loved it. I have the "I'm the dude playin' the dude disguised as another dude" line stuck in my head. Did you know that Tom Cruise is in the movie too? He dances.
Sunday I went to a bbq at a friend's house. This dude that I didn't like was there. I really didn't want him to go but luckily he did, because he marinated some good meat for the bbq. That still doesn't mean I have to like him as a person. After it started to get a little windy outside, we moved the food fest indoors. I was a little bored. Maybe it's a generation/cultural gap thing. My friends were all in their early to mid 30s and was raised in HK for the first 10+ years of lives. Is it because I'm an ABC that I don't find watching a DVD concert of Joey Yung entertaining? Whatevers. I left for a bit to have dinner with my aunt and then joined them later in the evening for KTV. I really hate the sound of people playing the dices around me. Every 15 seconds I would hear that little cup slam onto the table. I wanted to smack someone. There were a lot of people there but fortunately I was still able to insert most of the songs that I wanted to sing. I felt kinda bad cutting some people off, but I don't really think they noticed. Most of them were drunk. The crazy thing is that I bumped into this guy that looked exactly like my friend's ex-boyfriend. I almost said hi until I realized he was the same height as me. My friend's ex was a good couple of inches taller than me. Anyways I finally made it home at about 2:30 and crawled into bed a little after 3.
So that pretty much covers my weekend. Now that I wrote a blog about, it didn't seem that eventful.
Argh! I have to work again tomorrow.
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Mochis =)
Friday, Aug 29, 2008 1:28PM / Standard Entry / Members only
Tonight I want to blog about mochis. I bought a party platter with a couple different flavors of mochis, thought they were pretty, and snapped a pic. That's all. Tomorrow I am going to bring the mochis along with some vietnamese spring rolls to work for our Labor Day pot luck. Would it be selfish of me to pick out all the mango mochis before any of my coworkers get their hands on them? Probably. Okay maybe I won't. I shouldn't. My party platter won't look as pretty if I take all the mango mochis. If you haven't noticed yet, I'm a little bit competitive when it comes to anything that's not work related inside the work environment. Nice to know I got my priorities straight right? Just kidding. Well not really. I also like to have the cutest decorations on my desk too. Anyways, hope everyone has a nice Labor Day weekend. I'm going to San Francisco tomorrow! Yay!
Yay! I get to eat this tomorrow! I love mochis!
Ah..up close and personal.
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My Swedish Friend
Monday, Aug 25, 2008 12:31PM / Standard Entry / Members only
A friend from Sweden that I met while studying abroad in HK was in town this week. She tag along with husband who was in LA on a business trip. He was working on Britney Spear's new album. I hope it's a good one. She called early in the week and we discussed what she wanted to do. She said she misses good Chinese food, so I decided to take her to my neck of the woods. However, the first stop was Old Town Pasadena for a little bit of shopping and frozen yogurt. She is from Europe, so with the weak dollar and all, she had to getting the shopping bug out of her system. I don't think the whole frozen yogurt thing is that popular in Sweden, so I had to have her try 21 Choices. Has anyone been to Old Town lately? There is a wishing tree there. I was a little bit greedy and wrote down three wishes to tie up on the tree. 
After Old Town, I took her to Din Tai Fung in Arcadia for some soup dumplings. She loved it. Who wouldn't? It's soup dumplings.
This weekend was just amazing. I did absolutely nothing but sleep, eat, and watch tv. Why is that amazing? Because my parents are out of town. They are up north, helping my sister move into her dorms at Berkeley. I was able to watch some of the DVDs that I had bought on the big screen in my living room. I haven't been able to watch anything in the living room for a long time because my mom is always taping some TVB program. I feel so well rested. My parents should leave town more often.
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Stressed. Disappointed. Overwhelmed. Pissed.
Tuesday, Aug 19, 2008 12:27PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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