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 !!

沒有 Title

現在一點五十分，我很精神，不過實在是非常的應該要睡了，最近都很晚才去上班，雖然說這個星期，幾乎不算是工作天，因為星期四星期五放假，不過總是還是要去上班。每天鬧鐘都轉八點半，每天都拖到九點多才起來，到公司都十點多了，真是不應該，應該星期一三根ｄｉａｎａ去上體育課，逼自己起床才是。

最近看到胡太太的新聞，真的是很難過，我沒有辦法想像同樣的事情發生在我身上，這真的是太難承受了。

不過

同時，我也不斷的在想，今天，如果他不是胡太太，他還能有相同的待遇嗎？如果沒有，被就活的機率又多少呢？

無論如何，這事情，跟前幾天發生在我家的事情，真的是，提醒大家，命，真的是很難說的。我知道，這些都是些廢話，說了也是白說，不過，人活久了，很容易 take for granted。忘了，能夠活著，是個 previlige。

Update on the Crane

Here is a pic I took after I got home. This is the building across the street from my apartment.

大家，生日快樂 (STOLEN)

十月十一月是生日潮，春天的時候大家努力做人，這時候就驗收成果，所以祝所有在這時候生日的朋友生日快樂。

不過今天要特別在祝我跟一倫一次生日快樂，因為我們今天同時很巧的收到我們期待已久的生日禮物的正身。

謝謝 Dinana & Yi Lun~
我的


一倫的

Hello Everyone, I am alive.

Hello everyone. I am glad that I can sit here in the office now Friday afternoon to write this post. Life is unexpected, and you will never know when you'll die. But regardless, I haven't, which is good.

Thursday, yesterday was a very interesting day... Today is EnTzu's Birthday, today is the day I go to the homeland security office to do my biometric collection for green card. Today is also the day my team, the test team, will sign off our product for CTP1 ( this means we will have the final say that our product is good to release to the public, finally, CTP means a preview version, traditionally called 'beta' )

So after I went to the biometric thingy, I still came back to the office because I knew that I have a few tests that failed and I need to get them working so my team can have the final say 'it's good, we can release.' so I got to the office around 4:30.

After a bit of work, everything was all good and happy by 6 pm. Then Diana, out of usual, actually has to stay later for her work. I decided to give yi lun who has been on training for the past 3 days a call and see if he's back home.

Apparently, timing was perfect, he just reached, unfortunately, again, out of usual, his car is out of battery. His car is like his second life. So I drove my car, dropped a few friends of his that he made in the trainning, and we WENT BACK TO MY APPARTMENT to get my jump start kit. ( as i am writing , I just realized that it's only a few minutes after that it happened. )

Then we came back to office, jump starts his car, went out to run for a while to cahrge the batter then came back to the office to wait for dinana. It is very very unusual for diana to stay that late especially for Thursday, because of her Grey's Anatomy show. So after she was done, we decided to get pizza and go to her place to eat and watch Grey's Anatomy.

After Grey's Anatomy, we watched something else, and around 11:30 pm, Yi lun said he's gonna go home. So we left.

Just right before we left, her TiVO recorded a piece of news, it was talking about how the cranes in bellevue have been having problems ( i think I heard killing people, but I am not sure ) and I even responded 'oh... man.. there are so many of those now in bellevue because of all the constructions)

then after I went home, I was rerouted when I arrived Bellevue, which is not very unusal, they rerout people all the time because of constructions everywhere. Then I made a few small turn, go into the stree of my building, "holy shit.... polices all over the place and the fireman..."

While I saw that crane right in front of my building, I really couldn't see if it hits MY appartment. After looking around a bit, I called yi lun and asked if I could stay at his place, because the whole building closed donw.

After I got to his place, we saw the news, then I realized that one person was killing for this incident.

Then after a few more shots, we couldn't really see where I actually live, and we kinnda assumed that it didn't hit my apartment, otherwise it would have shown it.

Now here you see the picture, thank I was not there, and thank got I live next to it. Acoording to the news, it happen around 7:45 pm.

Man... I seriously have been thinking about writing my will. You really don't know when you might die.....

I dunno why it's not show, so click on it, it'll show in a new window.



More photos here.

我的電鋼琴。

我不記得我是否 blog 過我心買的電鋼琴了， but here it is.

厚！冬天完全就是來了～～

冬天，完全就是來了。

西雅圖的冬季應該比ｍａｄｉｓｏｎ還要明顯，為什麼？因為只要一開始下雨下不停，就知道冬天來了。天天下，天天下，一直下，一直下，不停的下，不停的下，下的變豬頭。偏偏我在開始狂下的前幾天，買了一張洗車卷，接下來完全就是搞笑阿，根本就沒有一天可以洗車。我真不知道我這整個冬天是須不需要洗車。

不過不太冷倒是真的，搞了半天，連ｏｋｌａｈｏｍａ那種南部地區都似乎比我們這裡冷一些。不過我這個從ｗｉｓｃｏｎｓｉｎ來的，總是遇到一些有趣的現象，就像在台灣看到有人穿貂皮大衣，我在這裡十多度看到有人穿雪一，真實覺得他們有點神經病，那是我在ｗｉｓｃｏｎｓｉｎ低於零下時度的時候穿的東西。

這個與，實在是太 depressing 了。每天都昏暗昏暗的ｇｌｏｏｍｙ。做天突然看到一私陽光，沒有雨，跟一倫兩個人興奮的在車上狂叫，像個神經病一樣，整個對好天氣的標準完全降低到零點以下。

夏天的超好天氣，換來的就是這樣的冬天。上帝是公平的。