Monthly Archives: June 2010

It’s weird how Asians tend to stick to together, at least here at work. A new recruiter joined the company and she sits a wall away from me and she’s Asian. (I didn’t know the recruiting department is replacing the other recruiter who has to go for Mesothelioma treatment.) Since this new recruiter came on board, us 3 (another Asian in the same HR area) have been hanging together for coffee and chats. I noticed other Asians in the company are doing the same thing. Chinese from China are in one group and so are the Indians from India. Although the 3 of us Asians are from different countries (Malaysia, Vietnam and Korea), we still share one common thing: filial piety.  We do have very interesting conversations once we get it going!

Both DB and I are looking forward to the coming 3-day weekend. It’s Fourth of July, America’s independence day. It falls on a Sunday, so both DB and I have Monday, July 5 off. We already have plans to work around the house. First of is to move his office furniture from the garage and boxes of stuff out of my den to his office. Then he has to help me work on my little den where he has to move the book cases so I can clear up my area of boxes! There are still boxes all over the house and garage. Next will be the pantry. Land lady is going to get us the shelving for the pantry, DB will put them up. It will be a busy 3-day weekend for us.

Our cellphones 2-year plan is already up. We both are entitled to change new phones with the same provider and the same 2-year plan. If we want to put the phone plan on a diet we can do that too. DB is up to changing his phone to another Blackberry. At least getting new phones they do not check our credit report or even for his so call business, no business credit reports needed for checking. I looked at my choices of phones and the BB Curve is one of it. However, after reading the reviews from other users about how the battery suck, and also from DB’s current BB battery, I opting to stick with my current phone. There are other phones like the Droid and don’t know what others but I will just hang on to my good old LG for now.

THere is a convenience store at my workplace. There’s a reason why it’s call convenience, right? Employees are able to mail letters/parcels via USPS or UPS, renew car tabs (similar to road tax), boat licences, buy greeting cards, junk food, etc. Recently the store has different kinds of vendors setting up table selling designer handbags at outlet prices. Darn cheap, if I have the extra cash I would buy them too. Today they have a table selling men and women’s shirts, a lot of them focused on men’s tuxedo shirts. It’s nice to have these little vendors coming in but boy, at times the bargains are dirt cheap, you can keep buying them if you don’t have the will power, like a co-worker of mine!

It’s nice to know it’s Friday, finally. I have been waiting for Friday since Monday! It’s terrible, I know but I can’t help feeling that way. The work week goes by super slow for me whereas it goes by damn fast for DB. He said since he does not have a cube or desk of his own at work, he does not check his emails or blogs like extenze or just plain reading the news on MSN.   The weekends for him that is just Saturday off is to catch up with his emails and read besides the other stuff needed to be done in the house and then he is back to work Sunday through Friday.  For me, weekend starts Friday, especially Fridays where I’m damn free at the grind stone.  Yes, I always look forward to Fridays.

Now that we have a much newer oven in our new place, I have been baking a little….cakes and cookies. The baking has to stop. DB was saying he lost over 10+ pounds but gained them back since I have been baking almost every week. He said he cannot boast about his weight loss success story anymore which he did by just cutting down on his portions, ice-cream and junk food. Now, he has to start all over again.  The problem with baking cakes or cookies lowfat is kinda crappy tasting….i like the taste of butter in them, it does taste much better with butter unlike baking them with margarine.  I can still bake but take the goodies to church!  There’s always someone there to eat them.

We have been in the new hut for over a month. We still have a lot of boxes and furniture in the garage. DB went through some on Saturday and already started a pile for Goodwill. I told him Goodwill is going to be one happy camper when they see us. I can’t remember the number of times I drove to their drop off center and dropped off junk we didn’t want. I know for sure one medium size box of PC softwares which include a scanning software that was a waste of money when they initially got it from Mark for their idea of a PC business. This Saturday we will be going to Goodwill for sure to make more room in our garage!

We received an invite to our next door neighbor’s house warming which is tomorrow afternoon. DB and I have already been to their house to kinda help them move some furniture. They are newly married couple and super friendly. I told DB their taste in furniture compare to ours is totally the opposite. They are the very modern type of folks where contemporary sofas and furniture sits in their little adobe. It will be interesting to see what are the new colors they have on the walls.

DB’s work requires him to crawl under work benches, machines and he said sometimes lie on the floor to fix those machines. He washes his jeans daily which he is tired of doing but more so of wearing them out sooner than he want. Last night he said he is ordering up work uniforms next week. The employee will be given a new set of uniform everyday, just bring the worn ones back end of the week. They will be laundered for them too. Not bad for $7/week. I was at the thrift store last weekend looking at men’s polo shirts hoping to get some for him for work. So good thing I didn’t coz I have to return them.

I am now calling DB the Handyman. He has been fixing up stuff around the house that needs fixing, putting up furniture, desk, pictures…just about everything. Lately he is working on his and my PC to run its optimum. He said what we need is some sort of online backupfor all the pictures he and I have taken on our overseas trips. When he was in Malaysia and Thailand, he took gazillion of them during the span of 4 years.   Thought we are hoarders but didn’t know we hoard the hard drives space too!   Now he is partitioning the hard drives to store the pics.