i'm really tired. i've been working a lot. this weekend was probably THE sunniest, warmest weekend seattle has seen all year and i spent most of it in my window-less office. i just can't wait til my launch actually gets out the door....it's so close....i can feel it. it's going to be a rockin' store. i can't wait.
the one time i did get out was on saturday to attend olke & eileen's wedding out on bainbridge. oh...it was so beautiful and simple and serene and perfect. they had the wedding in their very very large backyard and the setting was just perfect. the weather was great, everyone was relaxed, happy, and laidback. the food was great, the ceremony was gorgeous---it was difficult to hold back tears as eileen broke down while reading out her vows to olke. those two are completely in love and i am so happy for them. i remember hanging out with olke all the time when i first moved here---one of the first friends i had in seattle. we would all watch him go from one short relationship to another...but eileen was totally different. he definitely fell in love with her right off the bat..and we could all see it. they compliment each other so well. best wishes to them both. i'll post pictures when i get the chance.
i'm planning on taking some big-time vacation in august since i've been working non-stop. already, i have a trip to thailand planned at the end of the month with anna & julia. it's going to be so much fun! our first trip together since college. i cannot wait to be sitting on some beach, getting a foot massage and soaking in the sun. pierre and i are also trying to plan a little something to celebrate our birthdays together (yeah--trippy isn't it? we have the same birthday. my dad also. ) i'm really really leaning towards belize right now....
Monday, July 28, 2003
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Monday, June 30, 2003
I'm so excited---the National Do Not Call Registry finally opened up---telemarketers will be subject to a fine of up to $11,000 if they call any number on this list after October 1, 2003.
I watched an awful movie last night--28 Days Later. The premise of the story is that some virus spreads across the earth quickly, causing human beings to turn into these crazed plagued blood-sucking zombies. The main guy wakes up from a coma to find Earth in this state and seeks to find the answer to infection among other survivors. Going into it, I thought it had potential...but god, it was bad. The story went nowhere & changed mid-stream. It didn't make sense. The end was horrible--suddenly everyone is happy and free. It wasn't even that scary (and I get scared pretty easily).
I watched an awful movie last night--28 Days Later. The premise of the story is that some virus spreads across the earth quickly, causing human beings to turn into these crazed plagued blood-sucking zombies. The main guy wakes up from a coma to find Earth in this state and seeks to find the answer to infection among other survivors. Going into it, I thought it had potential...but god, it was bad. The story went nowhere & changed mid-stream. It didn't make sense. The end was horrible--suddenly everyone is happy and free. It wasn't even that scary (and I get scared pretty easily).
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
blogger recently changed their entire UI...much cleaner-looking and overall pretty spiffy. but damn it, my archive page is still messed up. it doesn't link to anything beyond last year...even though I have postings up til now. if you want to see any archive postings in the last 7 months, you have to just hardcode the url.
i'm so happy with misha. each day he gets more and more comfortable. i took him to the vet last week and got him checked him...he has a bit of drippage in one eye so i have to feed him some medicine via mouth every day for 3 weeks. boy, this is tough. have any of you ever tried shooting a bunch of fluid up a cat's throat? it's tough. at first, i tried to pick him up and keep him on his back and hold his mouth open from behind..but that really required the aid of pierre. yesterday; however, we discovered a better technique...holding him down on the floor and then grabbing the mouth to shoot the liquid in. man, i feel so bad. but really, it's no big deal. as much as he hates it, right afterwards, he acts as if nothing happens.
went down to portland this last weekend to watch pierre race in the regional regatta in vancouver, wa. it was actually quite exciting seeing everyone so pumped up. sadly, his 8-person boat fell in last place due to an equipment problem. 200 meters into the race, the rigger broke for the guy in the bow of the boat--so he pretty much couldn't row because there was nothing keeping his oar in place. that in turn threw their entire boat off balance, losing control and losing speed. so many weeks of practice to have something like that happen at race time. ah well.
portland was really a big little city. population-wise and land-mass-wise, it's much larger than seattle...but it felt so much more quaint. i loved walking along NE 23rd street where there are little boutique shops next to each other. there's nothing like that at all in seattle, really. there's no one single place where you can find lots of cute, little unique boutique shops for several blocks down the street. and the fact that there's no sales tax wasn't too bad either....
but back to work for another hellish week. it's been tough lately as i've started working on my next 2 projects concurrently with the one i'm working on now. the 3 combined is a bit much to handle...but i'm just hanging in. i'm not sure what keeps me going anymore aside from the fact that it's super challenging and i get a thrill off of things like that...but my overall love of what I do is slowly dwindling. at the end of the day, i just feel like there are much more meaningful things i could do with my life. i just don't know what. i love the team i'm on--they're all rockin' people. they definitely keep me going. it's just hard to do what i'm doing now...i'm constantly the middleman, the messenger. while one person may be happy, the other person is bitching...in the end, someone's always not happy with me. ugh. but that's the way the job goes, really.
anyhow, it's late. i need to sleep.
i'm so happy with misha. each day he gets more and more comfortable. i took him to the vet last week and got him checked him...he has a bit of drippage in one eye so i have to feed him some medicine via mouth every day for 3 weeks. boy, this is tough. have any of you ever tried shooting a bunch of fluid up a cat's throat? it's tough. at first, i tried to pick him up and keep him on his back and hold his mouth open from behind..but that really required the aid of pierre. yesterday; however, we discovered a better technique...holding him down on the floor and then grabbing the mouth to shoot the liquid in. man, i feel so bad. but really, it's no big deal. as much as he hates it, right afterwards, he acts as if nothing happens.
went down to portland this last weekend to watch pierre race in the regional regatta in vancouver, wa. it was actually quite exciting seeing everyone so pumped up. sadly, his 8-person boat fell in last place due to an equipment problem. 200 meters into the race, the rigger broke for the guy in the bow of the boat--so he pretty much couldn't row because there was nothing keeping his oar in place. that in turn threw their entire boat off balance, losing control and losing speed. so many weeks of practice to have something like that happen at race time. ah well.
portland was really a big little city. population-wise and land-mass-wise, it's much larger than seattle...but it felt so much more quaint. i loved walking along NE 23rd street where there are little boutique shops next to each other. there's nothing like that at all in seattle, really. there's no one single place where you can find lots of cute, little unique boutique shops for several blocks down the street. and the fact that there's no sales tax wasn't too bad either....
but back to work for another hellish week. it's been tough lately as i've started working on my next 2 projects concurrently with the one i'm working on now. the 3 combined is a bit much to handle...but i'm just hanging in. i'm not sure what keeps me going anymore aside from the fact that it's super challenging and i get a thrill off of things like that...but my overall love of what I do is slowly dwindling. at the end of the day, i just feel like there are much more meaningful things i could do with my life. i just don't know what. i love the team i'm on--they're all rockin' people. they definitely keep me going. it's just hard to do what i'm doing now...i'm constantly the middleman, the messenger. while one person may be happy, the other person is bitching...in the end, someone's always not happy with me. ugh. but that's the way the job goes, really.
anyhow, it's late. i need to sleep.
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Oh man, I've been working a lot...and killing my health too. My officemate, after a couple months off, came back earlier this week only to pick up her stuff and leave the company. The stress of the job was getting to the point where it was taking a negative toll on her health....something I worry about doing to myself often. Too many times in this past month I ate lunch after 3pm or dinner after 10pm. I don't know why...but I really need to watch out for myself.
For a couple of weeks now, I've been looking for a cat. I thought it was about time that I took responsibility of another small life. Plus, selfishly, I wanted to really have a good reason to want to leave work and be home early. I looked in several shelters...and last weekend, I found a cat! He's probably about 1.5-2 years old, grey with white paws and a white belly. Came with the name Smokey but I've renamed him Misha....and he's so beautiful. He has the most gorgeously silky coat of fur and is so fun to pet. He's been using the litterbox like a champ and been so well behaved. Yay! so so cute....
The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) just passed. All in all, I saw 5 movies: Valentin, Musa the Warrior, Infernal Affairs (which I just found out was picked up for American adaptation with Brad Pitt to star), Ping Pong, and Traces of the Dragon: Jackie Chan and His Lost Family. I really want to somehow get a copy of the last documentary (on Jackie Chan) and send it to my grandparents to watch. It was truly fascinating to get a better sense of what they perhaps went through, having lived in China and fleeing to Hong Kong after the Sino-Japanese war. They sometimes talk about some "lost" brothers and sisters in China..and this documentary makes me want to learn more.
I need a vacation. Hmm.
Pierre's racing at Regionals this weekend---can't wait as this'll be my first time seeing him row!
I have the condo bug again. Should I?
For a couple of weeks now, I've been looking for a cat. I thought it was about time that I took responsibility of another small life. Plus, selfishly, I wanted to really have a good reason to want to leave work and be home early. I looked in several shelters...and last weekend, I found a cat! He's probably about 1.5-2 years old, grey with white paws and a white belly. Came with the name Smokey but I've renamed him Misha....and he's so beautiful. He has the most gorgeously silky coat of fur and is so fun to pet. He's been using the litterbox like a champ and been so well behaved. Yay! so so cute....
The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) just passed. All in all, I saw 5 movies: Valentin, Musa the Warrior, Infernal Affairs (which I just found out was picked up for American adaptation with Brad Pitt to star), Ping Pong, and Traces of the Dragon: Jackie Chan and His Lost Family. I really want to somehow get a copy of the last documentary (on Jackie Chan) and send it to my grandparents to watch. It was truly fascinating to get a better sense of what they perhaps went through, having lived in China and fleeing to Hong Kong after the Sino-Japanese war. They sometimes talk about some "lost" brothers and sisters in China..and this documentary makes me want to learn more.
I need a vacation. Hmm.
Pierre's racing at Regionals this weekend---can't wait as this'll be my first time seeing him row!
I have the condo bug again. Should I?
Saturday, May 17, 2003
A friend of mine sent this over to me yesterday--- the new Honda Accord commercial, which is so fascinating to watch. It's even more fascinating once you understand the engineering feat it took by reading this article.
After almost 4 years of living in Seattle, I've never traveled up to the San Juan Islands--for shame. Today, I will finally do so---Pierre and I are just heading up to Orcas Island for a day to get away from the city and check out island life...really looking forward to it.
Went to a party last night at Stephane's Spanish teacher's place, whose roommate is the belly dancer in the group, Children of the Revolution--most of the group was there. It was such a fun party to be at--with such creative, musical people---there was live music, belly dancing, flamenco dancing, shisha going--Pierre was in heaven!
After almost 4 years of living in Seattle, I've never traveled up to the San Juan Islands--for shame. Today, I will finally do so---Pierre and I are just heading up to Orcas Island for a day to get away from the city and check out island life...really looking forward to it.
Went to a party last night at Stephane's Spanish teacher's place, whose roommate is the belly dancer in the group, Children of the Revolution--most of the group was there. It was such a fun party to be at--with such creative, musical people---there was live music, belly dancing, flamenco dancing, shisha going--Pierre was in heaven!
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