my company is entering the rose parade this year for the second time.   we the employees get the chance to decorate it.  our theme is mother goose, in case you see it on tv ( Read more... )

on saturday I went to west LA to see my friend.  we had lunch at a taiwanese cafe in San Gabriel.  i heard that there are 2000 chinese restaurants within 5 mile radius in San Gabriel.  don't know if that's true or not, but there sure are a lot of chinese food places.  then we went to a friend's place to play cards.  that was a lot of fun.  my ( Read more... )

three of us from work decided to take a walk to caltech the other day since it's pretty close by.  the school is small but cute.  we saw lots of turtles in the pond with some koi fish swimming in the dirty water.  in the bookstore i saw an old man with full gray hear wearing a white lab coat who would fit the description of a mad scientist ( Read more... )

i went to see my friend in rowland heights today, 50 miles took me about an hour, luckily no major congestion.   i don't know if this is true, but normally no traffic on 405 means driving about 40 miles per hour without stopping ( Read more... )

I have been taking care of plants for a co-worker for the past few weeks, while she is on vacation. she is from taiwan but she has been to more places in china than i have, not that I have been to many places in china, and I feel ashamed to admit it too. she always does extensive research before going, like showing me a tour guide about nanjing and ( Read more... )

i went to church with mom today, because she wanted me to help her out with power point slides to display lyrics during the sermon. i've been there a couple of times already, trying to be a good daughter. my mother said you can help with the projector next time. I was like, crap i am being trapped ( Read more... )

the hypothesis of six degrees of separation is that everyone is connected in the world through a chain of no more than five acquaintaces. I feel this has happened to me today. it turns out the new co-worker who worked in minnesota knows one of my classmates from graduate school when they both worked at the same place. how very interesting. two ( Read more... )

Milton Friedman, the man who coined the phrase "there's no such thing as a free lunch" has just passed away. I never realized that these words came out the mouth of an economist. i don't have any feeling towards his death, only wished I had known who said the famous phrase earlier ( Read more... )

It is such a nice day, just like any other day in socal, sunny and breezy.  I figured i need some exercise, so i have picked up walking these days.  my co-workers and I have formed a walking team during lunch break to walk around for half an hour everyday.  in addition, I am going hiking on weekends.  In fact I went hiking a couple weeks ago.  my ( Read more... )

nothing scary happened.  not like i was expecting all hells break out ( Read more... )