終於捐出去了

拖了將近一年，今天，終於把我那 1991 的 Toyota Corolla 捐掉了。

這車也真是可憐的，在給我接手後，遇到許多不祥的事，今天捐出去的時候，真的是有點殘破不堪。
這車是我在畢業後，回 wisconsin 買的，帶著我跟艷琳去了不少地方。開了半年後還被運到 Seattle ，到了 seattle 竟然還讓我開了半年，真很難相信那部破車竟然讓我開了這麼久，雖然說老實話，我還常在路上看到同款車。

掰掰破車，可以擁有一部自己買了新車，瞋好～

mama and papa gone again

Sat. 1 am, mama and papa flew back again. Friday. 8 pm we actually went to a concert that was my present for my mom's b day. A pianist who I do not know played beethoven Concerto 4, and 5. It was pretty nice, though the french horn made a huge boo boo on his major solo. Apparently this guy is insane, and in 1 week, he plays beethoven's piano concerto 1, 2, 3, 4,5 TWICE.

Saturday we took Ivy our teammate locastes in Taiwan around. at night we went to Frank's place for dinner.
Sunday, I went to Target and get shampoo and all that stuff, meant to work and go to pro club later in the after noon, but yim called for a MS Tour so yi lun and I had to do a MS tour. at 6 we HAD to watch 3 episodes of Grey's anatomy. We have to, if we don't diana would literally kill me into pieces. then I went to pro club, be a good boy, lifted some weight, then went to work for a little.

this 3 parter grey's anatomy didn't top Code Black. But it was still kinda hard. Imaging any of your being Grey for 2 seconds, tears would fall. I can't' imaging that. I love you. And some of you I think of everyday, which is really great, but it sucks...

yes yes yes.... this is a very boring entry. it has gone back to my orignal intend of recording my life in 流水帳 before I lose all my entries previously. damn... i wish I have 1/10 of 酪梨壽司的文筆。

becoming professional seattle tour guide

Saturday, we took one of our team mate who actually locates in taiwan around seattle. visit all the places that I have visited about 1230272332399837 times over the past year, and pretty much every time I went was because someone was visiting, like mom, yen lin, nick fung, and a.y. and sunday, when I was about to go to pro club, yim called and asked if I could show her friend around MS campus, and it turned out it was jhonny from Cornell ! I start to have some 心得 regarding the best route for tour. hopefully my tour quality will get better and better.

提醒自己，也提醒大家

人生真的是很難預測，平時過的好好的，很容易就忘記這一點，take everything for granted。

前一陣子 Nick Fung 來，跟 Hanna 聊天的時候知道以前的一個同學 Ian 血癌過世了，他第一次剛近醫院還在昏迷的時候我還去看過他。

住在我隔壁樓上的人，剛來 Microsoft 四個月，就因為天外飛來的橫禍，死了。

我的一個表哥，也在去年發現癌症，算蠻晚期的，目前應該還在治療中吧。

我相信大家身邊應該多多少少都有這樣類似的故事，最近許瑋倫也車禍走了，人生真的很難預測，不只是自己的生命，身旁親朋好友的生命也是一樣。

Nothing, especially life, should be taken for granted.

新年快樂，2006 回顧

我個人國小畢業不需要在寫“新年新希望"以後就再也沒有什麼實際的 New Year Resolution。不過2006 還是個蠻值得回顧的一年，所以就回顧一下。

找到一份不錯的穩定的工作
開始有 reasonable 的薪水，讓我可以過著我想要過的生活品質
搬到一個新的地方，而且終於是個城市，不在鄉下，終於可以跟朋友說還營有空來玩
買了人生第一部新車
買了第一個（液晶）電視（終於回家有電視看）
終於買了 key board
終於寫了錄了第一首歌
有了ｓｕｒｒｏｕｎｄ ｓｏｕｎｄ ｓｙｓｔｅｍ
第一次做了選傢具，買傢具，組傢具的經驗
第一次睡在自己的雙人床上
終於不住在爛爛的宿舍或ａｐｔ
去了第一個朋友的ｗｅｄｄｉｎｇ
開始過著開車上班的生活（新車＋需要走過高速公路十五分鐘的）
開始有了隱形眼鏡
終於又有了朋友
Experience people having new born baby around me.
開始看連續劇～
開始有比較有形的牛仔褲
十年來胖了五公斤！！！！！

目前就記得這樣，很多第一次，值得記錄回顧。

小低落的一天

Part I

今天在公司的時候看到這篇

Sex Work in Thailand

雖然剛剛看到這些 comment 有一些其他的想法，但是 in general 還是蠻令人難過的。這個世界上，還是有很多女生必須非自願（debatable)的做這些事情。Just quickly try to imaging that picture, try to feel how they feel, it's very depressing. People feel uncomfortable being mentally or psychologically naked in front of people, it'd just be so much worse to be physically naked.

Part II
Yuan Fen is very interesting, well... i mean, 緣份是很有趣的東西。今天跟爸媽去一家日本料理店吃晚餐，遇到 Yim 跟他男朋友。巧的是上次我爸媽來的時候我們在 IKEA 遇到他們，這次又是在爸媽來的時候遇到他們，而且這家電視 Yim 帶我來的。
The depressing part was how she seemed to be very happy with her boy friend. of course I am not hoping she'd be unhappy, I am just saying it's said to see how they are together, and I have already broken up with yen lin. :(

Much to write.. can never catch up...

I always have stuff piled up in my brain that I want to write.. but time time time time time.... it appears that ever since after New year, I have been fighting with time almost 24/7. Every minute I have in the office is fight against time. SOOOO BUSY!! it's not even funny... boss keeps knocking at your door for this and that... u just can't keep up. the volume of work that come to you, way.... out rate the amount of work you get done... MS is really trying to squeeze every bit out of us...much impossible goad.... @_@... i don't even know if this is good or bad.. good? it's a... challenge??? bad??? cuz it's just unrealistic??

well... anyhow..... no matter what.. like I wrote on my MSN.. "Friends are... great... :) "

SERIOUSLY.. friends are awesome. last frieday, diana yi lun and i went for 火鍋 after work.. then we dropped off diana for a party she had to go to.. yi lun and i just go to a bubble tea place and chat.. then we pick up diana .. then we went to sing...

this part .. though doesn't sound that exciting.. trust me... i appreciate a lot.. it's really a great thing for me to have friends that I can do such things.. Even better... while we were driving back yi lun dropped a note "hey thanks guys.. I feel much better from my stressed now.." apprently... both he and I were seriously under much stress last week from work.. and without knoinwg... this little evening we spend together really was a great thing not only for me but also for him... friends... really are great......

HERE IS MORE... last week wang wei lin all of a sudden called me a woke me up! she just called cuz she hasn't seen me on line for a while and wanted to check how I am... then after a few days... even 曹智雄 also invited me to chat for the sake of saying hi.. then jenny also contacted me, sunday or saturday en tzu also called.... and just yesterday Jasmine said hi online too.... !!! this is so awesome.... ( althoug i don't really quite get why they always come in batch ) friends are great....

THANK EVERYONE OF YOU!!

especially thanks to en tzu.. not only you are one of the few who actually reads my blog... at the end I realized that you called just to check on me after you read my blog.. thanks! so nice of you...

hum... now.... not sure how to end this..... well...... lov you all~ :)

Mumbling

So.. apprently, I find it really hard to keep up blogging. once a while you'd have plenty of time then you'll write a lot, then all of a sudden you are busy. you go straight to work right after you wake up. you come home it can be 10 pm, and after 2 hour, you'd wanna be asleep. or it could be 8, then you are tired from the day, you'd just wanna lie on the couch do some little TVing, and rest. it's really quite difficult to keep up, even if you have tons of topics in mind that you meant to write....

又見名人

來了 Seattle 見到好多名人
Bill Gates
Steve Balmer
Beckham
王建明

今天又見到了一位
李開復
http://taiwan.cnet.com/news/software/0,2000064574,20100654,00.htm
This guy worked for motorola, apple, and microsoft, and now is the VP for google in Greater China.
Crazy!

apprently, he appears to be a very humble man. very sincere, and 很有親和力。a very very nice guy, with just a short encounter.

the funny thing is that, his talk was, of course.. at google, so a few of us just went to the google office after our work.. then we gradually met up a few other folks. well, it's not a surprise that majority people who were at the talk were from Microsoft, but the funny thing was that 6 of us were from the exactly the same product team. so at the end we were all joking how we didn't see each other.

who't the next?

Interesting Week! Nick Fung IS HERE!!

This weekend is an interesting one. 1) Diana is starting her snow board lessons ( not very interesting ) 2) YI Lun officially moves to his new BOUGHT apartment right next block to my RENT apartment.

Finlly... 3! One of my best friends, is visiting me, oops.. i mean.. is Laying Over in Seattle! Apprently, for some reason, they needed to come into the US though the Canadian border, so they flew to Canada and their friend drove them down to seattle, and they stay here for one night, then fly to LA on Sunday.

This was really cool. We havn't seen each other for 6 years. Hanna(another high school friend who is also in seattle) and I took him around and stuff, and he stayed at my place for a night, and we Wiied until 4 am. It is really nice to see him. He is the 4th person that I have met in the past half year who I had not met for years.

really great.... hope to see you soon nick...



he has not changed a bitl...

New Gadget In - GPS

A couple weeks back, I saw a deal for a GPS system that was orinally 300 and on sale for 200. It was on sale for the next morning. Next morning I woke up and saw that the deal was still there, so I was very happy, and started to do a little bit of research. ( Actually I already did some, but just wanted to make sure that it is not crapy so it's so cheap, *most GPS are more than 300 bucks. which I think is BS ). So about 5 minutes later, after I was sure that this isn't a bad choice, I went back to Staple.com, and... yes... you're right... it's gone..

so I was very very mad! 不死心， Drove to two other physical Stables store, and surely they were all sold out. This particular event bothered me so much. Cause you rarealy see a 200 bucks GPS. There aren't even crappy ones that cose that little, and this one actually gets pretty good review.

I was so pissed. that for whole week whenever soemthing relates to GPS flips me out. and apprently, this behaviour of mine bothered Dinana.

So, just that week, she saw the deal again, and this time it's $198 dollars. So HURRIED to e mailed me to get it, and even treid to call me. I, on the other side, as as I got the e mail, I finished the trasaction in about 5 minutes. She was hoping that this little hope she offered can shut me up from complanning about not able to get that good deal GPS no more. :)

So.. finally.... I GOT my GPS!! one more on list gadget in my bag. one more step closer to gadget complete.



Apprently this cheap GPS is actually pretty good. It's so awesome that it found Frank's new hom the night b/f, and Wal-Mart for me last night. GPS = Awesome!

Grey's Anatomy

Have you seen Grey's Anatomy? I have not until this weekend. Diana is the big fan of it, so she sorta makes me watch it. I saw one current episode at her place once, I liked it, so she gave the whole season two DVD set. This weekend is black out, so.. me and yi lun watched.. hum... over two days... 7 episodes....

THIS IS SUCH A GREAT DRAMA. it's like OH MY GOD. like I said to yi lun.. I can probably blog for like 5 pages tonight. There is just way way way too much going on, and there is way way too much that you can talk about and think about. It's way way too thought provoking. I don't know if Diana watches it the same way as I do, I actually hope she doesn't. Because it actually really makes watching it very tiring. There is way too much to think about.

Well, after all, I am not going to blog for 5 pages, I'll just blog about this one of so many.

It actually kinda sad that, at the end of the day, it's a drama. and we don't live in any drama. Though I do think that this Doctor job sucks, and people are under just way too much pressure, so do we people who don't live in Grey's Anatomy. All of us are. Whether you are in school or at work. We all are under high pressure. But, unfortunately, we aren't in a drama, and we won't have an episode not being able to stop crying. Christina is under so much pressure, she holds in so much that it finally burst out, in the script, and the episode. And the fact is that we all do wish to have such an episode, an episode in life, and episode to be weak, to break down, to be like a baby, to be responsible free. Don't we? There is so much to suck up in life, and yet our script does not seem to include a natural break down on any page.

Yes this is not something to learn from the show, little dpressing it is, but definitely something to realize, or say.. reminded...

雪就算了，連個風雨也擋不住。

這西雅圖真是搞笑，上次下個小雪，天下大亂，今天來個暴風雨，風其實真是蠻大的，然後搞得公司停電，我不能工作。現在 Redmond 跟 Bellevue 的路燈都沒電了。家裡的電燈，閃呀閃的。這個西亞提真是個貴夫人耶。如果是台灣的颱風，我看又一個月不用上班了，真是的。

我叫金三順

我知道這個韓劇已經很舊了，不過現在美國這邊的中天在演。

其實剛開始我完全沒有在看，後來是因為比較閒一點，斷斷續續的看了幾集。後來去了 oklahoma ，回來又開始忙了，就沒有在努力看了，不過前幾天，又趕回來看了十五分鐘，看了以後，真的就很想知道發生了些什麼事情。

昨天，很早上班，然後就突然想說，去 YouTube 上面找找，看有沒有人有 POST這樣我就可以把 missed 掉的捕回來了。

結果！！不但有，還是全集，韓語發音配英文字幕。

這下可糟了，停不下來了，邊上班邊看，一連看了好多集，今天！竟然就把他給看完了。

晚上回家的時候發現，竟然中天還沒有演完，哈哈哈。

有這麼好看媽？其實也沒有，只是我又像個女人一樣的感觸很多。與其說感觸，其實是感覺，跟著男女主角一起的情緒起伏，我好能體會他們兩個人的心情跟感覺。他們經歷的每個痛，我都知道是什麼樣的感覺。

愛，真的好難好難。

雪的笑話，之二

星期五跟幾個人吃午飯，其中一個較長老的，跟我們說，這裡的小朋友，包括高中生，有 "2nd winter break"，聽到的時候，我們幾個剛畢業的小朋友，驚聲尖叫，什麼？？？？怎麼會有這種事？？

繼續聽下去


hun?? 為什麼？為什麼有第二個 winter break?

因為這裡的冬天太 "miserable" .......................


這 ... 這..... 太可笑了吧。

台灣的草莓族，沒有抗壓性，這裡的大人小孩都沒有抗雪性........

阿～這是晚上還是早上

上星期跟這星期我都需要很早到公司，上星期第一次早到公司真是嚇死我了。

我大概六點鬧鐘響，爭開眼，窗外是一片黑，然後就回籠覺，多睡了半個小時，想說，眼睛打開應該會稍微有點藍藍的微亮了，結果還是沒有，我就去洗澡，洗出來，找不到路回房間，登沒開，完全是黑的，七點十分，車子開出門，天還是黑的！！！而且是像晚上十點那樣的黑。

我真的是太久沒有這麼早出門了，真的不知道現在這麼早，天是這樣黑的。

我七點上班天是黑的，六點下班，天還是黑的。 -_-"

Portland 之旅

Saturday, yi lun, me dinana, frank and tina went for our first portland trip.

portland isn't such a great tourist, but then why do we drive 3 hours there?

THEY HAVE NO SALES TAX.

Frank just moved to his newly bought house. and he's in need of stuff. he bought a set of bose speakers and also needed AV system. so he bought one in portland, with a rare discount and no sale tax, it's a pretty awesome deal.

but, if he just goes alone, he'd not really make it up for gas, so we all tagged alone. went to the outlet, 每個人都殺紅了演。

it's really petty nice, for only $100 bucks, got bunch of stuff home.

sweet :)

first foot ball game in bar and first Office Holiday Party

今天是 Office （這裡所謂的 Office 指的是個產品，而不是辦公室的意思）的 party。

去以前，跟 Diana 去看了我人生的第一個 foot ball game in a bar. 這算是我人生的小小遺憾，在ｕｗ沒有去看過一次ｆｏｏｔｂａｌｌ。

i finally learnt how to watch one. it was a pretty good game.

then we came back to dress up and go to the party. diana came to my place to change, and myself, spent freaking half hour to find the sweater I want. so sorry...

it wasn't that good, though it was pretty big. got food and casino.

wasn't all that fun, but still a good event to attend and pretend to relax.. oh.. and drink for free....

pic to come..

Just Some Snow

So apprently Seattle does not know how to handle snow at all.

We came back on Monday, and it was actually snowing on Monday. By the time I arrive, snow was already gone. But the high way was crazy. Tuesday, I went to work, OMG, no body was there. I checked my e mail, and some of my collegues actually took 10 hours to get home by 3 am. OMG.

around 2 pm or so, our big big boss actually wrote an e mail, basically telling everyone to go home. he also wrote one in the morning to tell people not to come to work. Wednesday, my lead still took off. Thursday, two of my collegues still took off. basically it was too slippery to drive. And the forecast said that it was going to snow again on Wednesday, so everyone again took off around 2, I left around 4 too.

it's so awesome. just like 0.5 inch of snow, we get like a snow day... oh.. no i mean.. snow WEEEK. it's like an extended break. everyone says they are going to work from home. I SERIOUSLY wonder if people really work when they are at home. maybe a little, i'd bet most likely not as much as if they were in the offfice.

See the real problem is that, no one really tries to get rid of snow, while it's snowing. You are supposed to spread Salt and Sand all over the place, but no body does that. So snow quickly become ice, and it becomes too ice to drive, so everyone drive like 1 mile per hour on high way.

If this bit of snow makes the 天下大亂 for 3 days... I think winsconsin should simply close down for winter. no schoo and no work during winter.. :)

so...........boring.....................

Friday night... after work.. diana went to a sonic game, me and yi lun were so........... bored....

the only good thing was that we tired out a new Taiwanese restaraunt that's really actdually pertty nicely good. it's the best 台灣小吃 i have had in the US. thought the carge everything as if they are full course meal. you know how small 小吃 are.. and they chart as much as a real dish, so.. it ended up pretty expensive. awesome place to go, but can't go often.

but then we were so bored... no where to go in bellevue, ended up using poker cards to play 五子棋跟圈圈叉叉。we don't do bars, and don't feel like driving so far away to go to bubble tea place. didn't feel like watching movie... and ended up no where to go... sigh.........

this place is pretty boring !!