woke up early on fri, anticipating a phone interview but found myself with an email postponing it cos she was ill. Which was all well and good as i packed my stuff and headed for LA. Had some kickass beef crispy noodles thing after arrving and headed back to the pepperdine campus in a porsche cayenne (all the better to park illegaly on sidewalks ( Read more... )

I was sitting in my room in my PJs at 4 in the afternoon, drinking coffee and wolfind down Famous Amos, when the babysitter (elderly cantonese neighbour) walks in ( Read more... )

So the other day, i was reasoning it out to myself and God, that if the Bigger Plan is for me to go home, someone shold just reject my work visa ( Read more... )

I've just about had it with San Francisco and its perkiness ( Read more... )

my couz is finally back from singapore, wife and kids in tow. which just kinda marks the end of the hiatus i'd also taken from the job search. I currently feel like the wierd relative who sits before the T.V all day snacking on chips and occasionally toying with the baby. If i stay here long enough.. my older niece would soon come to think of me as ( Read more... )

I've just been suckered into online gambling. It not bad enough that im just hemorraghing money living out here without a job, mkaing impromptu trips across the country to play mahjong and insisting on trying every mexican joint around here, i now choose to unsrcupulously donate money to these leeches. i really need help. or therapy. or win the

It's strange. I've spent the past 3.5 years bitching about ann arbor, but in a fit of mahjong madness, i bought an air tic 4 hours before the flight and came over to Mich for the weekend. Just like that. it can't get any more impromptu. Arriving, it was just as though i never left... which is just a tad bit scary. i guess this place is the closest ( Read more... )

Well, its crawling to week 4 and I'm still unemployed and doing just about nothing about it. Met up with some old friends in SF and spent qt a delightful day shopping and eating. planning on going down to Berkeley again this weekend to well.. erm no good excuse really but to chill ( Read more... )

it's all very clear to me now that I'm living with several conflicts of interests. while there's this part of me that has been putting up a facade of job hunting (emailed a whopping 7 resumes in the past 3 weeks), there's this other part of me that is just fighting not to get employed ( Read more... )

Went into SF over MLK weekend with the family (i.e., cousin and HIS family) for a bout of friendly tourism and not so friendly dim sum. Which was just splendid by me. I've come to realize its the hallmark of every good authentic chinese restaurant overseas.. Bad service ( Read more... )