Stereotypes

dearkiwi — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:14:56 +0000

I love lazy Sundays. They make me ridiculously fat because all I do is sit on the couch, watch TV/movies, surf the internet and eat snacks. But it’s so GLORIOUS that I don’t want to ever stop. Nonononono… It’s ok. My justification is that I will go to the gym tomorrow.

So I’m reading about bizarre interview questions and I came across this one asked by Deloitte:

Would Mahatma Ghandi have made a good software engineer?

And one of the answers posted by a reader was:

Well, of course. He was Indian, after all.

I know it’s horrible but I have to admit that I laughed a little. I’m such a bad person!

Time to get some R&R

dearkiwi — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:03:35 +0000

Warning- this post is going to be mostly me whining. Heeehee

Guess what? I’m on vacay! Well, I took like 2 days off work and I’m going to spend it getting my shit together for this new year aka errands, doctor’s appointments, paying bills, cleaning email… etc. Of course, I will incorporate some relaxing, movies and time with family; I can never get enough. >_<

I’m pretty happy right now. I think I am. But I’m tired. The holidays felt so hectic in addition to going back to work after new years… I feel like I’ve just been going and going and going and I feel so stressed out most of the time. It’s probably because there was more pressure at work this week, but the thing is… I don’t really do much when I get back to the apartment after work. I just watch tv, eat, and sit on the couch indulging in a parasitic existence and by the time I’m done with my parasite ways, it’s time to go to bed. Where has all the time gone?! Why am I stressed?!

I think the leading factor is I haven’t worked out in like 4 weeks. Bad bad person that I am. Endorphins, I need you!

Anyhow, I came home tonight with the intent that I would get something done for work tonight before I took my day off tomorrow, and then I belatedly realized that since the entire hard drive on my laptop had to be replaced, I didn’t really test my laptop access out at work today. Lo and behold, I find out that I can’t access any of my files on my laptop. Hence, no report for my boss. Oops. So… since my plans for remote access did not work out, I am going to type up my notes and go to bed. Tomorrow is going to be a glorious day! I want to watch Kungfu Panda 2!

Halloopy

dearkiwi — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:35:59 +0000

Guess who’s back? Chikachikachika UPDATE TIME!

Tonight is probably the first night that I’ve had time to just sit at my desk, look through my email and attempt to work. I have to finish up something to hand in for work tomorrow and I haven’t started yet. Instead, I’ve been youtubing music videos. Drat.

Anyhow, I’ve just been consumed fully by the new job… I have no social life to speak of so I’m working on that. But the new job has been very interesting albeit stressful. It’s very exciting to be in a new environment.

Living in the apartment with the Jchau is wonderful. We had our Thanksgiving potluck/housewarming yesterday and it was marvelous. Lots of good food and people… and Apples to Apples! I love board games. I want to buy some. I made the ultimate pairing: Awesome + Corn on the Cob BECAUSE HOW AWESOME IS CORN ON THE COB?! That tickled me silly for like 5 minutes. Nobody else thought it was funny. I don’t know why. Well, the silliness admittedly could have been wine induced.

To prepare for the potluck yesterday, we woke up Saturday morning, went to Whole Foods to buy ingredients, and then started cooking and preparing the apartment from then on, rather Jchau cooked and I cleaned mostly. Jchau is indirectly teaching me how to cook since she cooks all the time so I just hover and watch, trying to learn but usually mainly hoping just to eat what she cooks LOL. But in light of all this cooking exposure, I might actually make a manageable wife in the future! HAR HAR. We made really garlicky and buttery mashed potatoes with these beautiful organic Yukon golds from Whole Foods, but the consistency was weird after mashing them so we put the mashed potatoes in the food processor… and it broke. Ho hum. Jchau made some killer turkey that she brined the day before. It was a big-ass turkey!!! We had to rinse it in the sink after the brining and I was holding it up by its wings as Jchau rubbed it down, but it was so freaking heavy that I used that to justify not going to the gym for the day. I had obviously just lifted weights aka the turkey.

I took something out of the oven yesterday too and all of the sudden I felt/heard a sizzle and realized that it was… MY THUMB. NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo…. Yes, the skin on my thumb was sizzling. It’s so gross now that I think about it. I cooked the back of my thumb. I’m stupid. My thumb is not a happy camper right now… The skin around the burn is a gray-ish color.

CAN I SEE TWILIGHT PLEASE? I sacrificed my Breaking Dawn viewing for the potluck…. I better watch it over Thanksgiving weekend. Wendy?? Jess?? Maybe I can drag my sister to see it with me bwahaha

Salad Power

dearkiwi — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:40:36 +0000

I am officially on a parent-sanctioned diet!

Contrary to the negative sentiment in the comic, I admit I have actually gone into this diet quite willingly and happily as the southern food (SHRIMP N’ GRITS! MAC N’ CHEESE! SWEET TEA! MASHED POTATERS! BEANS! SHE-CRAB SOUP! CORNBREAD! FRIED CHICKEN! FRIED CATFISH! FRIED EVERYTHING! FRIED BABIES!) that we devoured in Hilton Head + Charleston + Savannah for nearly a week on our family vacation finally pushed me into weight gain overdrive. I think that was probably the last straw for my parents too. They actually just wanted me to eat our usual Chinese fare since we eat really healthy anyways but now they are supporting my daily lunch salads heehee. I just can’t seem to control myself when I’m eating my mother’s cooking. -_- Blatant disregard for portion control on my end. The food is too darn good. Hide the food! Hide ya kids, hide ya wife!

As of graduating college, I have gained about 10 pounds with little to no exercise? (It also doesn’t help that desk jobs are sedentary) As a former athlete, my body has been suffering from this gluttonous abuse so I’m just trying to get back in shape because I start a new chapter of my life on Monday and from then on, I fear I will be very very very busy…. turning into a blobby worker bee. Wait, no! I must be consistent in keeping myself healthy or else I will have saggy(-er) boobs!

Anddd this is the mental struggle I deal with every day. What gives? Phbtttttt.

Jchau and I have decided that when I move into the apartment (!!!!!!!!!!!!! in 2 or so weeks!), we will have salad lunches and be really healthy… well, at least for lunch AND we are going to go to the gym. Well, I will probably go to the gym to watch her suffer through one of Inha’s workouts LOL marvelous. I might actually look for some fitness classes though. I can’t seem to motivate myself if I’m not dripping sweat and gasping for air alongside 20 other people.

All-nighter capability: Nil

dearkiwi — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:13:32 +0000

It turns out that I fell asleep around 1 am this morning hhahaha. I just don’t have the all-nighter juice in me anymore! I’m as dry as the desert. I’m also hesitant in drinking tea and coffee now (my dentist should be very proud. Remember how I told you he was disappointed in me?) so the only course of action is to sleep. Zzzzzzz

I told my dad about my inability to pull all-nighters now and he was very pleased.

“Good. Now you’re learning how to introduce good habits into your life.”

Yes, Yoda. Good habits.

But the main issue at hand is that I haven’t even made a dent in this project. Argh! So guess what I’ll be doing all day…. Yes, plonking away at the keyboard on my computer. If you want to shoot me an email, I guarantee I’ll reply to you in 30 minutes or less.

THUNDA RAIN THUNDA THUNDA RAIN

dearkiwi — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:20:56 +0000

I’ve been in a stalker-ish mood lately. I want to do something stalky like see if I can dig out my elementary school yearbook from the multitude of boxes in the basement and stalk all those kids in my class on facebook to see what they look like now and where they are in life. LOL maybe when I have time….

Anyhow, in the midst of this hurricane weather that is pummeling our house right now, I am trying to finish up a project that I have for work and… I might have to pull my first all-nighter since I graduated college. Whaaaaaaaat, I thought I was over this! Bah! We have yet to determine if I still have the physical stamina for an all-nighter anyways… I’ll probably fall asleep by the time midnight rolls around. LOL This is what working and growing older does to you. Zzzzzzz

My body is being weird again. My allergy shots have been increasing in dosage and I’ve been going to get the shots twice a week before work, but I’m getting really itchy allergic reactions on my arms where they administer the shots. It’s driving me up the wall. Plus I haven’t been a good girl and I’ve been scratching them = major irritation and the skin on my arms are getting super bumpy-lumpy. Noooooooo, I hope it goes away! I should stop scratching. Argh.

Also, as per the request of my gyno, I went to do some blood work about a month ago to see what might be causing my irregular periods and my blood results came back with the recommendation that I go to an endrocrinologist. I saw the endocrinologist (great man! I like him) and we talked about various implications of the blood test results. He recommended that I get a sonogram of my thyroid and another blood test to verify the results. Eek! I never thought I would have to get a sonogram for anything other than to look at what is in my womb when I’m married and pregnant.

Love DC

dearkiwi — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:52:49 +0000

I think I am a day away from the most volcanic breakout in the world. There are already two colossal pimples near my nose and now my forehead is threatening to erupt. Serves me right for trekking to DC and eating random shit 3 days in a row. However, it was a fabulous 3 days. FABULOUS.

For RW we went to Prime Rib on K Street and it was glorious. It was super swanky and the food esp the prime rib was drool-worthy. I ate so much that I had difficulty keeping it down…. I won’t go into the nitty gritty details.

It also rained cats and dogs aka a huge torrential downpour conveniently right after we finished eating so Jchau was nice enough to give me shelter in her apartment. I love that apartment. I love that bed. I love the plush carpet. LOL

Tired Tuesday

dearkiwi — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:54:00 +0000

Hi! So really hectic week so far but I wanted to get a chance to blog really quickly before I hit the sheets and snoozle…. My cousin is here from Taiwan! She’s going to graduate school at Towson soon so she just got here on Sunday. We actually didn’t have much prior notice to her arrival (her parents just kinda dumped everything on us at the last minute) so we really had to scramble getting the house in order and getting her living situation set up at school on top of the fact that my entire family was planning a vacation during the time she would arrive. Therefore, my family took a mini-vacation without me from Sunday to Tuesday because (1) I couldn’t take off work and (2) I had to pick up my cousin from the airport.

Then a whole bunch of other things happened and my boss also took a 2 week vacation. Right now, things are crazy at work and I am just exhausted from waking up earlier, stressing out, coming home, getting dinner ready, and teaching my cousin “American customs” and just doing everything. Plus my Chinese is shit and my vocab is shit. I’m going crazy. Now I know how my mother feels.

I actually overslept on Monday because I picked up my cousin the night before and I was on my bluetooth for a really important phone call while I was driving; hence, I took a wrong turn and somehow ended up in north MD and it took a stop at a 7-11 and another hour to get back home. Then I was stressing out about other stuff so…. I was just really exhausted. Once we got home, it was already pretty late and I had to explain to my cousin how to use all the appliances in the house, emergency numbers, what our expectations are blabhalbhalbhalbhlabha so that took another hour or so. I had to make sure that she was settled because I don’t want her to be unhappy here. Coming to the US is a scary thing, especially if you’ve spent your whole life in another country speaking another language. She’s a nice girl and I think her understanding of the English language is at a pretty good level, but she’s never really had the opportunity to speak it.

Ironically, while I was commanding my cousin to learn all these things about our house and “American life”, I also told my cousin that I would have to leave the next day (Monday) at 8:20 am so I would be gone by the time she awoke; therefore, she would have to manage everything by herself for the day and make herself food until I came home.

I woke up at 9:30 am on Monday and took one look at the clock.

“SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Then my cousin comes into my room and asks in a very puzzled way, “I thought you were supposed to leave at 8:20?”

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha agh.

Then I phoned into work to tell them I would be late, frantically brushed my teeth, threw on clothing, grabbed a bowl of ramen out of the cabinet on my way out, and raced to work. Hahaha the first day without my parents home and I turn into this useless mess.

However, I more than made up for it this morning. Woke up extra early. Picked out what to wear. Cousin helped me make breakfast and pack lunch. Washed dishes. I was super prepared today. Woohoo!

Hmm… what else have I been up to? Well, I’ve also been going around to look at various Toastmaster clubs and I went to my second club today to see if it would be a good fit. I dragged along my cousin too because I thought it would be a good opportunity for her to practice her English. It was wonderful! They were really my cup of tea- passionate, energetic and they really set the bar high with their speeches. I really want to be part of it but I’m a bit hesitant about the commitment. I don’t really know if I can work it out with my work schedule. We’ll have to see.

My family just got home. YAY!!!!!!!! And I am super tired. Love you all. Blog later!

My friends are amusing

dearkiwi — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:23:59 +0000

Another day in the life.

I have been very amused by the people I surround myself with these past few weeks. My day becomes a lot more entertaining when I have chats like these:

(slightly paraphrased and shortened to save you reading time)

Me: I’m excited for Zumba. I get to leave in 15 minutes wahahahaha

L: Zumba. What is that? I-Phone game?

Me: Lol it’s aerobics, like a latin exercise fusion. I love it hahaha it’s my outlet.

L: Ohh haha does it burn a lot of calories?

Me: Ehh probably not, but it gets me going. I just jump around a lot. It’s fun. Hip shaking.

L: Do you do this often? It’s like dancing but without the alcohol and club?

Me: Yeah it’s like dancing but with like cheesier moves. It’s so much fun. They put us in a roller skating rink with like 50 other old people.

L: Oh dang, that’s huge… Old people?

Me: Yeah hahaha

L: Like >50?

Me: Hmm like 40-60 hahaha. I have a blast although the old people always glare at me.

L: Oh man, why?

Me: Probably because I’m going too hard. LOL.

L: Cuz you’re so filet mignon?

Me: Hahah what?! What does that mean?

L: Young? And tender?

Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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And this one:

(while talking about plants that look like humans)

Me: Actually… you know it’s like in Harry Potter with the mandrakes hahaha

E: I don’t…. remember…

Me: What?!

E: I never saw the movies.

Me: OMG DID YOU NOT READ HARRY POTTER?

E: OH I read like 3 of them.

Me: You’re killing me.

E: Or 4…

Me: You’re

E: Maybe 5

Me: KILLING ME.

E: I read the blue one!

Me: You did not read it.

E: Or green.

Me: Now you’re just making shit up. Omg you suck.

E: lololololol

Me: SUCK!!!!!!!

E: GOBLET OF DOOM

Me: OMG IT’S GOBLET OF FIRE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

I love Saturdays

dearkiwi — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:11:57 +0000

I’m finally getting stuff done this weekend and it feels good! I finished going through my healthcare benefits letters and now I’m going through the rest of my mail. Next will be more administrative stuff but I’m looking forward to diminishing the pile of paper on my desk! I’ve been doing stupid stuff lately and not acting like a grown up so I’m trying to remedy that.

Example of stupid stuff includes depositing my paycheck in the wrong account. Wtf am I doing with my life

I think I may have squished a gnat with my computer. There’s mysterious black gunk on the screen. Yuck!

Next on my list is re-reading my birthday cards and organizing them… more than a month later. Hehe oh well, I’m very fond of birthday cards and I keep em all. DIDYA KNOW THAT?

Anyhow, reading them all again makes me feel so grateful for such wonderful friends I have. I love you all. I will try to show my gratitude more.

I have a giftcard to B&N. What should I buy? I’m thinking about a cookbook but literature would be great. Recommendations?

Also, let’s see what Wacky Wendy wrote in my 23rd birthday card that has a tweety bird on top of glittery building blocks and a wagon…

“Happy 25th Birthday!”

And:

“PS. Don’t throw up in my car tonight please! LOL”

Sigh…..