i'm sitting in one of the computer labs on USC campus. the topics of conversations around me just seems so foreign. friends came over and got toasted. missing football game. got a C- on the test. stayed up until 5am for this project. blah, blah blah..... (hm.. i would not hire that dude who got the C-. focus young grasshopper ( Read more... )

anger mgmt issues?

wavered between "yeah, i 'm gonna go to the gym" and "gosh, i'm feeling a wee bit tired". i am glad to report the former triumphed over the latter. ran for 40 minutes and felt warm, sweaty, (probably a little smelly too) and great. it's so true when people say the hardest part of a maintaining a regular exercise is just getting to the gym ( Read more... )

... i run because i can't fly....or in my case, if i could fly, i would fly really really slowly ( Read more... )

i love shutdown. catching up on soap operas this week. i think the perpetual muscial love-interest chairs have different people paired up from the last time i watched. i wonder if they ever get tired of kissing and making out with so many different people ( Read more... )

when i run outside, house numbers remind me of sales orders which makes me think about tool configurations.

i am going to do the half-marathon.

what is the longest distance I have run: 4 mi
how is the distance of the half-marathon: 13.1 mi
when is the half-marathon: October 21 @ 7am

i have 6 months to increase my running distance by more than 200%. *dubious*

well, i've finally gone and done it. i finally worked up the courage to sign up for the Nike 26.2 except divide that by 2. but gosh darn it, it was full so i had to enter the lottery to see if i can get a spot. after all that self-motivational speeches muttered under my breathe during work today (which incidentally must have looked pretty weird ( Read more... )

Feeling down-trodden and tired.  Some days are good while others are bad.  Today is definitely one of those bad ones.

I feel to survive in the sales & marketing position required an entirely different set of mentality and skills from engineering.  From the look of things, these skills and the mentality I have yet to master.  What do you do to ( Read more... )

Saturday is typically a BAD day to go to Costco unless you are masochistically inclined. The only exception is if it's the first Saturday after Thanksgiving and Christmas just because people have been Costco-ed out right before the holidays. Today is the first Saturday after Thanksgiving and I went to Costco ( Read more... )