breakfast @jane's

i still remember this one day i was having brunch with a few of my friends at some point last year.  one of my friends who was visiting from out of town asked me about my job situation.  i remember telling him i was unhappy (i was at my previous job at the time).

he asked me what i wanted to do then.

i said i wanted to work at somewhere tech-y.

oh you mean like google?

no that's too big - something that's more of a start-up. but a blossoming start-up.

oh i see... are you good at programming? or any of that stuff?

nope.

then what do you expect to do there?

not sure. but to somehow use my skills i have now. and then some.

hmm you haven't really thought this through, have you?

... i guess not.

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God is good.
& so are my friends!

さようなら

It's kind of bittersweet (definitely more sweet than bitter) leaving my first NY job.

I've accomplished a lot during my extremely brief duration there:

1. the expertise of hoarding all kinds of free bagels, cereal, and juice (really good juice that cost $4 a bottle at overpriced NY convenience stores).

2. the mastery of amNY crossword puzzles. I can finish those things like nobody's business. I still fail at Metro ones though.

Yeah... and that's about it.

Sayonara, japanese businessmen (esp. you... the kawaii one). On to bigger & brighter things...

rite of passage

I think I have officially crossed over that line to adulthood... by becoming addicted to coffee.

I've become one of those people who just can't get through the day without it. I think it's a mental thing... because I'm sure I could physically survive without it. And the funny thing is it takes me a ridiculously long time to finish a cup. In fact, if I were to get a regular-sized iced hazelnut coffee @ mcdonalds (with only 2 pumps of hazelnut por favor!), it literally takes me all day (or even two) to finish it. grace-face can testify to that.

But one thing I hate how about coffee is how it makes your breath stink.
(and by "your," I mean "my.")

In fact, I think my post-coffee breath makes people think that I'm socially awkward/inept, because I try to keep my distance from people when I talk to them. For example, when my boss/co-workers come upclose to me to ask me something, I find myself taking a few steps back and looking away as I respond to them.

oh well...

Oh! I realized it's already May and summer is fast approaching... and my legs are insanely pale, and I can no longer hide under layers of bulky, shapeless clothing.

The sunlight has become my enemy... I think I'm getting influenced by my pale, sun-repellent friends (e.g. jane) as I slowly find myself growing such vampirish tendencies.

No... not the sunnnnnnnnnnnn.




well, better soak it up real good before we face an ugly, muggy NY summer.

my most exciting day at work

One (seemingly) average day, back at my old job at the publishing company, I was going about my business in my cubicle when I heard a group of people behind me (it sounded like my boss was giving them a tour of the office). I figured it was some folks from our east coast branch. Well, I was about to get up to go to the kitchen(I wanted to avoid the uncomfortable, yet obligatory niceties of having to be introduced and yadda yadda), but just as I was about to get off my seat, I made eye contact with one of the girls in the group. This girl looked scarily similar to Lindsay-freaking-Lohan.

Stunned and a bit star struck, I plopped back in my seat and I emailed my coworkers: "Is that Lindsay Lohan in the office????!!!!!" as I tried to keep my composure.

I was in disbelief. What the heck would a Hollywood superstar like Lindsay Lohan be doing in our unglamorous, humdrum office? It just made no sense.

My friend even made a cartoon of the incident:


But later on that day, I found out that it was indeed Miss Lohan, and she came to our office to research for a role in her next film, in which she plays an employee at a publishing company. Didn't know she was so serious about her craft!

Anyway, so this weekend, my old coworkers and I decided to have a little mini-reunion and finally watch this infamous film (which went straight to DVD btw):


Brief synopsis:
A young woman pretends to be pregnant in order to avoid being fired from her job. When that gets her special treatment by everyone involved in her life, she tries to keep up the lie for nine months.

It's more horrible than it sounds.

But it was fun trying to make any connection possible (as outlandish as they were) to our old office.
Hey~ their office has a secretary like ours!
Oh! They have a copy machine!
They have morning meetings like we do!

But it just goes to show that even when you think your mindless job is meaningless not only to you but to the world, it does make a difference to someone somewhere out there. In our case, it helped give birth to this little treasure of a movie. Bravo~

you know you're getting old when...

So there's this teenager who comes into my tutoring place ... and everytime he comes in, he in-sah's * to me.

At first, I found it pretty hilarious. You see, I never had anyone in-sah to me before. But then as he kept doing it day by day, I started to take slight offense.

So today, he does it again.

Me: (laughing good-naturedly) You know Tony... you really don't have to in-sah to me like that...
T: But I have to... you're, like, way older than me.
Me: I'm not that much older... How old do you think I am?
T: I don't know maybe 20, 21?
Me: Err... actually I'm 24.
T: (mouths "dayyammm!") You're a whole decade older than me. See? I have to in-sah to you! (bows again before he leaves)
Me: -_-
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*def (trans. from Korean): greet and bow formally/politely as how you would with elders/authority figures