July 23, 2008
The Shopaholic returns
Its my fourth week in USA and I have bought so much stuff that its unbelievable! Well, I came one big bag and will be going home with 2 big bags. Samsonite was having sale, I just could not resist the lovely blue bag. Haha.
One of my colleague had her friend from Singapore visiting her. Over dinner she was listing the places she wanted to visit in Boston. That was when I realised that all I had visited in Boston were Chinatown, Newbury Street and Washington Street. For those of you who have never been to Boston, well, Newbury Street and Washington Street are where most of the shopping in Boston is. Every weekend, I have been going to Boston but its always to shop and eat. Other than that, I have not seen much of Boston.
Of course I have been doing other stuff besides shopping. I went whale watching at Cape Cod, got lost driving to Salem and ate lots of seafood! Eating is something I have been doing alot of too. Asian food is quite easily available so I am not really missing that. The portions here are HUGE and everything comes in SUPER size in the supermarkets. I have been sharing food with my colleagues to avoid eating too much.
I am proud to annouce that I have been driving myself to work each morning for the past one and half week. Roads are much wider here and parking spaces are wider so in a way, it is easier to drive here. There have been incidents of course. I got very lost in Boston and on the freeway the last week and I had no GPS. That was damn scary man. But, Thank God, I managed to drive myself back to the hotel safely.
I have taken quite abit of photos but I have been too lazy to transfer them from my camera to laptop so the photos have to wait. I have another one and a half weeks more here, then its Tokyo and finally home. I do not think I am really homesick yet but I am glad that I will be going home soon.
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June 23, 2008
My new frustration
Buying a new handphone requires alot from me. I am very resistant to change, especially towards something that I have to use everyday. Buying a new handphone means I have learn how to use the new functions and I just find it such a hassle to re-learn things like typing smart messages, making phone calls and saving contacts into the new phone. Argh, its such a PAIN!!! Which is why I have been carrying the same phone for the past four years although everyone else I know have gone on to other phones.
I have a good relationship with my handphone. It serves me well, although recently, I have had to charge it more and more often. The functions are not fancy but they serve the purposes I need a handphone for. But, its an old old phone and I will not be able to use it in USA, Japan and Korea and those countries are likely places I have to be in the near future so I have to buy a new phone. I think being uncontactable for long periods of time will no doubt result in severe home sickness for me and my parents being totally freaked out that they cannot contact me.
Anyway, one of the mobile providers was offering a really good mobile plan offer so I decided to get the stylish new handphone that I have been thinking of getting. Its a slider phone with a 5 megapixel camera and 1GB microSD storage.
So begins the frustration of learning the functions of the new handphone. Man, I took five minutes just trying to figure out how to send a smart message on my new handphone. And trying to take a photo took an amount of time too embarrassing to write down here. Its a damn stylish handphone alright, however, its smart messaging function leaves much to be desired and I just cant turn off the damn bloody annoying keypad sound no matter how I try. I am sure many of you know which brand of handphone I am blogging about. So if any of you know how to solve those annoying problems, please drop me a mail! Argh, I can just see myself being constantly frustrated by my new toy in the next few days!
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June 21, 2008
Drunk!!
Nope, it was not moi who was drunk but I was close enough. I have just gotten back from a fren's hens' night and the bunch of us got her SO wasted she had to by helped by two people into the car! It would have been funny if I was not also feeling bad for being one of the culprits for getting her so drunk. How drunk she was, well, so drunk that when we repeatedly knocked on the door of the washroom cubicle at the club, she was too drunk to open the door. In the end, one of us had to climb over from the neighboring cubicle into her cubicle to help her get out!
The plan had been in the works for weeks. Making dinner reservations at the restaurant, reservations at the club, with Dragon Girl being the Chairman of the Hens' Night Committee and me being her sidekick. Ha ha. Bridal veil- checked, sash-checked, plastic flowers- checked, camera-checked. We were all ready for the big night. I split the work with Dragon Girl, she will arrive early at the dinner place to "chope" our table and I would go to the bride-to-be's office to stress her so we will not be too late for dinner. As I was in charge of the sash and plastic flowers, I had brought them along with me and made the bride to be wear the sash which said "Bride To Be" on it and carry the plastic flowers as a few of us took public transport to the dinner venue.
Dinner was a safe enough affair. The only surprise was the lovely bridal shower gifts supplied by Dragon Girl. Dragon Girl made the bridal veil and all of us insisted for the bride-to be to wear veil and sash throughout dinner. Haha. After dinner, we hopped over to the club where we had made reservations. That's when the fun started!! The four of us took turns drinking mixed Scotch with the bride-to-be and in the course of trying to get her drunk, the rest of us became quite high too. Some fellow clubbers at the next table decided to join in the fun and started toasting the bride-to-be too. The bride-to-be was obviously high but none of us knew how far gone she was until she did not come of the washroom cubicle despite us repeatedly banging on the door!
How much did we drink? Well, the six of us finished a bottle Chivas within 2 hours! That was how much we drank! The icing on the cake, while a few of us went to the Ladies with the bride-to-be, one of the members of the entourage ordered another bottle of Chivas. So after, sending the bride-to-be off with her Prince Charming, we continued drinking. Man, I feel so sick now, so excuse me if this entry does not make too much sense.
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June 09, 2008
Up, up and away
Ok, I have received questions about how's my new job. So instead of repeating myself over and over again, I am writing this blog entry. Seriously, it is too early to tell coz I have only been working for a week. The people seem quite nice and helpful. I am having difficulty getting use to that there is no file kept for each project and how everything is in soft copy and in an online depository. Also the work flow is different so I am trying to get accustomed to the new work flow. So far its the adminstrative problems that are keeping me awake and stressed, hopefully I will become better at that with time.
The other thing is having to book my own air tickets and accommodation for my overseas trips. Man, its soooo complicated. You have to get the cheapest flights and hotels. And somehow, its just damn difficult to book hotels and flights for the periods I want to travel. On the traveling bit, I will be out of the country and in a different timezone for most of the next few months. Think I will super crave Asian food and I am still trying to figure a way to bring all my skincare products with me since I am going to be away for such long periods. I also dunno how I am going to fit 5 pairs of shoes into my luggage. Faint. Think I better start to pack my luggage at least one week before I am due for my trip. So does anyone have any travel tips to share?
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