argh. my email is down. as a company, we're migrating to the microsoft exchange server...and i was one of the first that had to migrate over. everything was fine until today. i basically haven't been able to check any email over the past 3 hours...amazing how much of my work involves needing my email up now..especially since becoming a manager. in the past, i could just sit and finish my coding for the rest of the day...but i don't do that as much anymore--just a lot of coordination and answering lots of questions for business owners. wow...i guess i could *gasp* go home early. i haven't left work early in so long...i've been on such a hectic work schedule for so long.



change is good..right? i've been debating about major changes at work for awhile now...and this year might be it.



for the last two nights, i've been obsessed with watching a TV miniseries, Rose Red, a stephen king thriller about a haunted house that sits on Spring St. in Seattle. It's hilarious seeing where they placed it because it's this HUGE house that has a view of I-5 and downtown..yet it looks like it's where Virginia Mason is. Stephen King made a cameo appearance last night as a dorky pizza guy---I love seeing when directors or authors make their cameo appearances in the works that they create (like M. Night Shyamalan as a doctor in Sixth Sense).

this is a small world that we live in. it scares me sometimes by the random connections between all the people I know in my life. friday night, i took thomas to a party at walker's place...and i remembered how they both grew up in indianapolis and are around the same age...so i joked about how funny it would be if they knew the same people. Turns out that they went to the same high school, only a year apart...and they also partied in the same crowd of friends.



saturday night was the big sex and the city party at thomas's place with his friends...it turned out really well. lots of people came dressed in their swanky outfits and we had martinis and cosmopolitans all ready to serve. check out the pictures. there were more coworkers that i knew there than i expected...especially since i only invited a few friends. tells you how small this town can be sometimes.



yesterday evening, olke and eileen threw a lil potluck/bar-b-q dinner. i hadn't been to their place since eileen moved in and you can definitely see the [improved] changes from eileen. i love that there's a nice blend of their two styles within the house.

what a long crazy week at work. we went through a reorg recently and i'm liking it....but i get so frustrated by all the "in-between" time when we try to nail down new processes and things like that.



hung out with jocelyn for the first time in a long time...i successfully made a yummy linguini with clams and we just caught up with each other. i can't believe julia went to thailand. well, i do believe it...i'm just jealous that she has the freedom to go off and volunteer with teaching monks about environmental consciousness in thailand.



good news--->amazon finally announces profitability. sweet. the whole company was celebrating on tuesday. we all gathered in our conference rooms and Jeff phoned in and gave a brief congratulatory speech as we toasted with champagne. will be interesting to see how the rest of the year continues.



the other day, while stopped on a hill at a red light, the car didn't catch their gas fast enough and ran into me. what was incredible is that she then took off! I ended up chasing her for several blocks, honking my horn and flashing my lights...until I was finally able to drive up next to her to say "excuse me! you ran into me! i think you should stop your car." Fortunately, there was no damage and all was cool...and when I told her that I was trying to flag her down forever, her excuse was that she was deaf in one ear and couldn't hear me. It seriously disturbed me that she was driving if she can't hear, say, police sirens or someone honking at her. And I don't know how she couldn't tell that she backed up into me. argh.



went to my first bellydancing class...it was a pretty full class. met my instructor, mish mish. we went over the history of the dance and went over some basic moves. i'm so interested in the classes that they offer...after our class was this cool dance class called Caphoeira that looks pretty hard. it's a combination of dance and fighting moves...curious to try that sometime.



tomorrow is the big house party that thomas,josh,bart and chris are throwing. i'm trying to imagine 100+ people at their house. must find swanky outfit as it's a "sex and the city" party and i have to be all new york swanky.



i want to go snowboarding tomorrow with eugene etc. but i'm on call. bummer.

bummer. debbie decided not to come to seattle...it was "too last minute", which is true...



i'm going wedding dress shopping with phoebe today. i've never even thought about wedding dresses or what kind of dress i would want. i'm really excited--this'll be a first for me...that is, wedding dress shopping.



i had another first last night--going to a comedy club. alex invited me along to see one of his favorite comedians, emo philips, last night at the giggles comedy club. it was everything that i expected it to be in terms of the set up of the place. emo's an interesting guy...i don't know if i found his humor as funny as others...but he was still good.

it's so crazy when out of town friends decide last minute to "drop by" Seattle. I just got a phone call from my friend Debbie who lives in New York City...and she's decided to come to Seattle this weekend with Rick. I'm completely psyched and can't wait to see her...but now I've got to juggle around some plans. Good thing she's willing to head up to Stevens Pass with all of us on Sunday.

I'm switching: moohaha.blogspot.com There's an annoying advertisement but blogger's more reliable and has a better editing tool.

the pitas server is ridiculously slow lately. i'm switching to blogger but now i've got this damn advertisement at the top. [sigh] i wish the undef server were a FTP server so i wouldn't have to deal....

Here's something random: YATTA

Happy New Year everyone. It's been awhile...mostly because I tried THREE times to update my weblog and each time, the pitas server kept crashing. I hate it when that happens. I lose all will and motivation at that point. It really sucks to take the time to write an extensive entry in your weblog..only to have it disappear into the ether.




Anyhow, here's a quick recap of new year's:


* hung out in Sunriver, OR to go snowboarding at Mt. Bachelor

* gorgeous gorgeous drive down...oregon is beautiful

* chris and nissa are...interesting

* party party at club 97 in bend, oregon. wahoo!

* super thanks to ben, rachel, phoebe, ray, jed, chrystya, steve and kevin for fantastic company and new friendships

* yummy food from steve

* kudos to ben and kevin for taking me through trees and a black diamond for my first time




after coming back, went to a sonics v. 76ers game at key arena...thomas's brother, wayne, was in town and treated us to courtside seats which were sooo sweet. saw payton, iverson, mutombo..all within a few feet away from me. the reporters from the philadelphia newspapers sat in front of us...interesting to see what kind notes they were jotting. the woman from the inquirer was (correctly) predicting a 76ers win in the 2nd quarter..ouch.




i've decided to take 2 dance classes: Salsa again (but with Thomas) and a Middle Eastern Belly Dance class offered at the u-dub experimental college. so psyched.




went to whistler this last weekend with jon, chris, eliza, matt, tim and justin...had a blast. i definitely feel like i'm starting to improve on my snowboarding...i just need to let go and not get all freaky everytime i go too fast. i had a bad time coming back, getting back to the U.S. somehow, i lost my passport...don't know what happened to it. i may've lost it somewhere during my apartment move. anyhow, so i risked it knowing that some friends of mine had no problems with just a drivers license over the past few months; however, we got pulled over and had to talk to this prick who had nothing better to do but to harrass me. he said the phrase "shoot you down" at least 3-4 times, which was completely unnecessary. But this was the worst thing he said:


Him: "What is your place of birth?"


Me: "New Jersey...Princeton."


Him: "See, without your passport, I don't know who you are still. You say you were born in New Jersey but you look Chinese to me."




AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! I really had to restrain myself from yelling at him for being an ignorant a**hole. I don't know if it helped that I happened to be driving with 2 very American looking guys....probably so. Oh, my blood was boiling.




came home and found my car broken into again. ugh. fortunately, nothing was taken as i've learned not to keep anything valuable in there anymore.