I decided to finally update. I was waiting to update once I became permanent employee at Intel, but as of now I am still a temporary contractor. I was told by my supervisor that I have been approved for blue badge (permanent position) but I am still waiting for the offer. I heard that I will get some pay cut but I am not too worried as I will get ( Read more... )

It's is official - Emmy and I are now engaged and on the way to tie the knot! I am so happy!

I will elaborate more later as I am really busy preparing for a job interview sometime this week.

So, here we are again - a full lap around the Sun, another one underway. And as the last one gets further and further away we get older and older. What remains of that last lap are the things that we did and did not do. Doing things does not mean we did something good, moral or achieved our goal, just as not doing somethings does not mean we are ( Read more... )

Here in Willits, where I am spending my weekend away from the busy Bay Area, it is very cold and wet. It is also cool. I saw some big properties decorated aplenty and the thick fog on the drive to here was a challenge but at the same time so nice. I have always liked moss and so I decided to scoop up some and put it in a pot to take home, although ( Read more... )

I paid off a little over half of my student loans I had acquired from UC Davis and paying about $100 a month should pay off the rest in 5 years. Thanks to my parents, though, who contributed half of the half I paid (confused there anyone?). Also, things are going great at work. I played basketball with one of the shift managers who actually hired ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope everyone had a good day and I wish everyday was like today ( Read more... )

So a night shift engineering position opened up at work and my supervisor urged me to apply, and so I did. I should learn when the interview will be on Sunday and hopefully I can get the job. It will mean I will be automatically made a pernament employee (blue badge), have good benefits, and earn more money! I wasn't very excited earlier on, but ( Read more... )

My few days off were spent in a good manner. Emmy and I visited the pumpkin festival in Half Moon Bay. It was nice to see the little kids happy and playing, riding the little train and the ponies. It took us about half an hour to find a good, non-seafood place to eat in that town, though. This was on friday. On Saturday, my parents and I went to ( Read more... )

I am hit by yet another world disaster - the powerful earthquake in Pakistan/India. I think the toll is officially over 20,000 but I believe it will end up in the range of 40-50,000 deaths. It is too bad, and the old Soviet-type concrete buildings made things even worse as hundreds of people in a single building get pressed by falling floors above ( Read more... )

Day off today and I am happy and energetic. I got up with Emmy around 7:30 before she left for school and have been up since. I already washed the dishes, did stretching exercises and I am about to go wash the car. Once the chores are done, I want to go practice alone with the soccer ball. Then at the end of the day I will go play soccer and I am ( Read more... )