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.:: Tuesday, May 27, 2003
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on my drive home today, i saw this old
man walking with what appeared to be heavy groceries, and i was reminded
how much i take my car for granted.
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joyCleeP 8:00 PM [+] ::
... .:: Friday, May 23, 2003 ::.
one slow day at work (while at BAL), e
and i started talking about our past jobs, because e has had a lot of
jobs and he always had stories about each one. so i asked him how many
jobs he had exactly, and he started writing them down. he had like 30
jobs. here's my list (note: these are ALL the jobs i've EVER held in my
ENTIRE life, legal and not so legal):
1. Cashier at my mom's cafe
(i was 9, and the register was really old and i had to do the
math in my head for change!)
2. Signed up kids for summer swim
lessons (during high school)
3. Algebra tutor (senior year in high
school...made some extra cash)
4. Sales Cashier at Huston's Shoes at
Newpark Mall (senior year, my first "real" job; i only had it for 3
months before i decided i didn't want to work there anymore)
5.
Delivery Driver/Customer Service Rep for Pizza Hut in Milpitas (i think
this one was the summer after high school grad, my dad made me quit
after a month cuz he thought it wasn't a good idea for a "little girl"
to be delivering pizzas. but boy did i make mad tips)
6. Assembler
for some computer company i can't remember the name of (summer after
freshman year in college; family friends owned the company and i helped
them out assembling and testing cd rom drives for samsung laptops.
manual labor sucks)
7. Cashier at Pacific Home Do-It Center in SLO
(it was the summer before my junior year at poly, and i realized my
credit card debt was not going to go away by itself. but had a lot of
fun, and lots of free plants and an axe. PHDIC is like home depot,
lowes, etc.)
8. Receptionist at ATG in Fremont (summer before my
senior year, came home and worked, still paying off debt)
9. Coder
for APS in SLO (data entry basically...was valued for my extremely fast
typing and thinking skills...ha!)
10. Clerical Temp at Celebrezze and
Wesley (my first taste of working in a law firm)
11. Legal Assistant
[to the stars!] at BAL in SF (my first REAL job out of school...where i
learned the meaning of "blog")
12. Catering Coordinator at RCHMB (me,
now)
i never thought i had a lot of jobs, but when you write them
all down, you find some surprises! you should try it, it's pretty
interesting. i'm sure i've missed one or two...bad memory. i'm at my
parent's house this weekend, house-sitting sort of, and there's an email
on the desk that my dad printed out. the last line says: "Happiness is
nothing more than good health and a bad memory." guess this means i
should be really happy, cuz i think i have just about the worst
memory in the world!
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joyCleeP 11:02 PM [+] ::
... .:: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 ::.
i'm on a cd burning kick. just making mix
after mix, and thinking of people who will actually appreciate the mixes
i make. :) it seems very few people have similar musical interests as
me. still, i love my 80's mix.
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joyCleeP 8:47 PM [+] ::
... .:: Sunday, May 18, 2003 ::.
not the best pic, but here's the lunar
eclipse, as seen from my balcony...
and
just for kicks, here's a pic w took of mosquitos
mating...hahaa
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joyCleeP 11:13 PM [+] ::
...
so...the matrix reloaded. well, i didn't
really understand the first one, and i didn't really understand the
second one. so basically, i was falling asleep thru half of it, but
loved the action/fighting/chasing going on. that one scene with trinity
on the freeway, it made me want to ride w's CBR900. i miss riding on the
back of his bike. when we were both working in SF, sometimes we would
ride in together, and it was really scary cuz he split lanes all the
time on the freeway, but it was really exhilarating at the same time.
now, CBR just sits in my garage, with a dead battery. *sigh* i still
hope to get my motorcycle license some day, as soon as i can find $200
to spare. it's like one of those things i have to do before i
die, but not really sure what will come of it. cuz i don't really plan
to buy a bike.
anyways, so we bought matrix on dvd to watch
again before watching reloaded on imax, and w also bought enter the
matrix for gamecube. basically, i'm gonna be matrix overloaded by
the end of this week.
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joyCleeP 12:11 PM [+] ::
... .:: Friday, May 16, 2003 ::.
it was pure accident/coincidence that we
saw the lunar eclipse. we saw it just as the moon went black. then saw
the light peak thru. i took pics, will post them if they're worth
looking at. it was odd that the sky was clear for once...we're usually
drowning in fog.
about to go see matrix2. roommate's boyfriend
got us all tix. i'm not looking forward to the mobs of people at the
theater, but i know w is really looking forward to seeing this. so much
for waiting til the hype has blown over!
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joyCleeP 7:29 PM [+] ::
... .:: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 ::.
oh, btw, w and i finally saw X2 last
night. he had free passes to loews at metreon. for it being a tuesday
night, there sure were a lot of people watching the movie. it was very
good...but i wish i watched the first one again, just to refresh my
memory. oh well, too late now! i'm debating whether or not watching
matrix2 on imax will be a good idea. the second time i saw crouching
tiger hidden dragon was on imax, and it kinda made me dizzy...
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joyCleeP 7:45 PM [+] ::
... .:: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 ::.
at work, i printed out a may calendar
from sanrio.com. this month, it has chococat. today, i was looking at
it, and noticed that may 10th was chococat's birthday. then i got to
remembering last year, when e_mc and i celebrated chococat's b-day at
work. LOL...fun times at BAL. i wonder if she still has the picture of
chococat and his b-day cookie?
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joyCleeP 11:48 PM [+] ::
... .:: Monday, May 12, 2003 ::.
yea, pictures are back, and they have a
new "get bigger" feature. :) thanks to w.
geez, i hate getting
my pupils dilated. i'm sitting in the dark, and just looking at the
computer screen in giving me a headache! grr...
p.s. thanks liz!
i got it! i'll tell you how it goes.
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joyCleeP 8:28 PM [+] ::
... .:: Saturday, May 10, 2003 ::.
we went to the opening night festivities
of charlotte
sometimes last night. we being me, w, roommate and her boyfriend. i
didn't know anything about it, other then roommate's friend knowing the
director from high school. i like that tho, no expectations. but the
movie was really good, and the Q&A afterwards with the director and
cast was very interesting. i just think some people are always looking
for some kind of political agenda, and it was great to hear the
director, eric byler, totally deconstruct that notion, that just because
you're an asian-am director that made a movie with asian-am actors,
doesn't mean there's an asian-am message behind it. it was a good story,
that just happened to be about a group of asian-ams. i'll leave it at
that. but it's playing at the UA Galaxy, so check it out while you
can.
i had a really wacked out day at work on friday. it started
out great, afterall it was friday! but my afternoon was a crazy one, and
i was getting really frustrated at my director. she's just way too
moody. how sad is it that our entire dept knows when it's that
time for her??? she's great at what she does, but she needs to take
lessons on how to work with people, cuz she sucks at it. and she has no
people managing skills what so ever. she's the type that pretends to try
to do something about it, but actually just pushes it aside like she
doesn't have time to deal with it. it really bugs me. i know i could say
something to HR, but i've noticed that not much is done about things
when you go to HR. cuz many people have gone to HR to "report" on
someone in my dept and it hasn't changed a thing. but i've come to
realize something. when you hate someone/something about your job,
there's a level of tolerance for it/him/her. and my director, well, i
can handle her. it's not so bad where i want to leave the company. but
it's just frustrating that we're all avoiding her so as not to get
caught in her wrath. it just shouldn't be like that. that's it, i don't
ever want to have a female boss ever again. ha. anyways, my frustration
became anger when i had to stay late and miss my eye doctor appt that
took me forever to make. i called my doc and he was totally
understanding about it and rescheduled for monday. grr... but the silver
lining in all this? i had a GREAT wedding site tour with the sweetest
couple, and i really hope they decide to have their wedding there.
sorry for rambling, i just needed to vent.
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joyCleeP 11:34 AM [+] ::
... .:: Thursday, May 08, 2003 ::.
my coworker and i were talking about
better luck tomorrow...and she told me that the movie was based on a
true story that happened at her high school! it happened in southern
cali, i think in LA (tho the movie was set in orange county) and as she
was watching it, she realized it was about the kid who got killed at her
school. (sorry, i hope i didn't ruin anything for anyone). but she said
the boys are now spending the rest of their lives in jail with no
parole. i imagined they all lived happily ever after...
i was
telling roommate and w about that, and roommate started talking about
the twins in irvine, one bad twin and one good twin. the bad twin got
jealous of the good twin and she tried to kill good twin. didn't work,
and good twin called the cops. then w told us that they lived in the
apartment complex he lived in at that time! woa. i don't think i've been
that closely connected to anything like that.
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joyCleeP 8:22 PM [+] ::
... .:: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 ::.
w and i have matching bruises on our
inner arms, near the "bend," his on his left arm, mine on my right. is
there a name for that part? the bend? is that what it's called? i
thought that was funny, how we both have bruises and we both have no
idea how we got them.
another thing that i don't understand: ppl
who talk on the phone while they're working out. what is so important
that it can't wait til you get home??? cuz maybe I want to
be in on it too! i did 3 miles in 35 minutes and burned 338.8 calories
on the precor today (resistance 5). i can run more in less amount of
time on a treadmill. i don't think i like the elliptical much anymore,
now that i've gotten my body used to running a bit. just a few years
ago, you couldn't pay me to run. i actually used to think i physically
couldn't run, but alas, i was wrong. now, i almost look forward
to it. altho, i really miss swimming and wish i could find a good [free]
pool to use. in my dream house, i will have a lap pool, 3 lanes, 25
meters. with diving blocks. yeah...
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joyCleeP 11:09 PM [+] ::
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i saw someone today that gave me a scary
flashback of someone from cal poly. actually, he didn't even GO to cp,
he just hung out on campus all the time. sometimes with a backpack. but
we all knew he didn't take classes there. he was this really creepy
white guy that wanted to be asian. i remember he wore hawaiian jewelry
and he had the grossest fake-and-bake tanned skin. blech. maybe we was
trying to be hawaiian?? but his tan was so dark and fake, his eyes and
teeth looked really white, making him look really freaky. i can't
remember his name, but he worked at this liquor store we all went to,
and he would act like we were all friends and quite frankly he just
really grossed me out. one time, my friend convinced me to go to the
tanning salon with her, which i really really didn't want to do but
eventually gave in on, and he was there! my friend, who was in the same
major as me, knew who he was, and later we talked about how weird/gross
he was. ew...i'm getting grossed out just thinking about it. there's
more to the story, but trust me, he was super creepy. *shutter*
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joyCleeP 7:54 PM [+] ::
... .:: Sunday, May 04, 2003 ::.
found this while cleaning
out my inbox...hehehe
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joyCleeP 7:57 PM [+] ::
... .:: Saturday, May 03, 2003 ::.
i love ebay. this
is my latest "must have" item. too bad it's so expensive! sheesh.
roommate said she would look for it when she goes to tokyo in a few
weeks. but that's not why i love ebay so much. a little over a year ago,
w and i bought stock in ebay, just for fun. it was a little over
$50/share when we bought it. now? it's $95.24/share!!! too bad this
isn't our sole investment. unfortunately, everything else we have our
money in is tanking. *sigh* i know i know...be patient. in the meantime,
i will continue loving ebay. :) whee!
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joyCleeP 1:41 PM [+] ::
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