All Good Things
... must come to pass.
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man, it has been a while since i last had an entry. i'm really sorry guys, i know you guys all hold yoru breath for my next entry... haha. anyways, it been about two weeks since my last blog i think and basically i just have to report what happened on my last week before starting my great new job... and then my first week on my great new job. haha... so shall we?
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the last week wasn't full of too much drama i believe. although i'm of course trying to remember in retrospect so some of the subconscious burying is already in process...so hmmm. well, i do remember that much time was devoted tow rapping up on reading through and organizing all the financial data of my parents' various entrepreneurial entities, and trying to make sense of it all. all lots of big fun there. haha, but what's kind of cool though, is that now in my "office", i have these neat little rows of blue colored legal size folders with the cute littel metal prongs at top...sort of like those silly legal briefs that lawyers... ahem... wear. haha, wink wink. anyways...so yeah, i spent a lot of boring, very distracted hours on that silly task.
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in general, there were a lot of "little" things i wanted to take care of before i started work, i think eventually i got to most of them. i can't wait until my little date book will become usable. i thought it would become usable by work since i assumed it would start at the begginning of july or only as late as the middle... but low and behold, it doesn't kick in till Aug 1. so none of that frantic writing of "to do's" until aug 1!
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what else? hey, i remember my burgeoning friendship with this guy i chatted up online. on wednesday we made a date to go see a local museum and afterwards had lunch. he seems allright, cute in a way, but not exactly sure if we have that much in common to be honest. but right now, i've realized that i sort of just have to entertain everyone as a potential friend i think... and maybe then i can meet some other cool people. after seeing the museum on wednesday, we hung out again i think it was sunday... and i met some of HIS friends... which really was the whole point of the escapade (since i'm beggining to think a romantic involvement isn't there)... and they were cool. i have seen them once again since then and they were very enjoyable. Jake, that guy i first met, even has called me to invite me to a hang out, as oppose to the other way around, which i find to be a good sign no? there are also other guys that i have been meaning to hang out with and who knows, maybe we eventually will. i think i will just let thing sort of settle where they naturally want to i guess. haha, i remember driving home one night and getting nervous about calling a guy that is aid i would call if i was coming home early from work...which i was. but ultimately, i have to regretfully inform that i chickened out and decided to just go straight home. strangely enough, in retrospect you really wonder why would i be afraid in the first place... and i couldn't really answer why... i'm just bad about calling people on the phone.. always have been.
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anything really cool happen over that first weekend? hmmm... watched a movie. oh... yeah, had some fun with "friends" on sunday... it really sucks that this blog is a technically public forum... because some of the juiciest stuff in my life i have to censor...for reasons of incrimintaing evidence... haha. so, suffice it to say, Alex had a little bit of fun the day before work... just to kick off the new life in a good, relaxing... yet energizing way. Thank you Paul and Rick.... wink wink.
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so how was work. OH MY! overall, i think i'm gonna have a dandy time there. in general, everyone is pretty nice, there is some newbie hesitance with some... but others are fairly forthcoming in friendship and conversation. i find the office and odd combination of typical houstonian firms populated by UT Austin/UH/Rice people and then a significant contigent (maybe 1/3) of chinese speaking employees (because of all the work in china that my firm is doing). actually the best thing to describe this, is that on my second day, i was told of my future planned involvement in a china project that will send me over THERE next month... only for a few days at most... but OVER THERE! haha... and in preparation for that, i am to take it upon myself to have an informal chinese learning program going on.. basically brushing up on my chinese...by speaking only chinese to the chinese speakers and then having them replying only in english. trust me... i am the one who needs to learn more chinese as opposed to them learning more english. haha! but oevrall, people are pretty cool. got asked out to have lunch, which was akward as usual, but allright in general. also, two days were filled with company lunches so those were fun. its funny, that even such a silly thing as lunch can still bring you back to silly high school dramas of trying to fit in.
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i won't describe the few people i have sort of begun to get to know now, as i am sure, if they are note worthy, they will again appear in this tome. suffice it to say, the first week was pretty enjoyable. the people were in general cool... they seem like they could become good friends. there seems to be a high contingent of "asian-ness" in the studio, which is nice, but i wanna utilize it only for real benefit...i.e. learning chinese for me, but not necessarily as being part of their group. i've never fared well with "uni-mind" mentality as i am a social free agent of sorts. but yeah... there seems to be a ponopoly of kinds of people and i hope to get to know the lot of them.... i mean, there's prob only about 30... can't be that bad!
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friday night was an interesting time at work. oh by the way... the work isn't too boring. its not breathtakingly fascinating, but i feel in general fairly equipped for it.... being that it is pretty straightforward urban design planning...starting with site anlaysis and all that jazz. hopefully next week, we'll be starting some real "design"... buta t least this week, its been fun working in GIS and Photoshop... two fun programs that remind me of Elements studio. anywyas... friday we had a sort of community presentation of some works the "intern program" has been doing. to be honest... when i saw the presentation, it was hard not to be in harvard academic critical mode...as i began to mentally pick at all sorts of things and wanting to give critical feedback. but then when the ocmmunity started "asking questions"... it was a complete laud-fest.... which of course, i didn't want to be the party pooper... haha. but it was basically a ... great job, thanks for doing it. sigh... what can you expect from non-academics.... i have been in snooty harvard land a little too long..... haha. well... after that shin-dig.... we then had a little "par-tay" for said interns (because they are leaving....it was a "summer program" for them) at one of the principal's home...which was pretty cool. again..some social akwardness being the new guy but in general i'm glad i went. free booze... how can you disagree. eventually had to leave because i met up with jake and some of his friends again... at this cute "video bar" called guava lamp... my first foray in houston gay culture.... yay!
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this weekend was relaxing... my first weekend after my first week of work...whooo. well friday night did that company thing and guava. saturday had dim sum with teh folks and their friends...which was yummy. and then after sort of just watched DVD's. mei, my cousin, purchased a net flicks thing and so yeah... had some movies to watch. oh... saw "She's the Man"... which is very cheesy and juvenile..... but it was so much fun... and had the hottest guys... haha. oh that reminds me... there's another gay movie called... well... another gay movie, that is coming to houston in sept... a must see.... its basically a gay version of american pie... haha... four gay boys who make a pact to lose their "ass" virginity.... haha! too raunchy fun! sunday? well... actually sunday... went to go see this big house and gardens part of the MFAH collection, which was very cool i have to say. had the opportunity to pretend to be fabulously rich and influential... one of the premier "families" in Texas... haha... i wonder if these guys are still around? i mean, robert has met the rockefeller scion so... they DO exist. i wonder what the fuck-ups are doing? haha. after that, went to the galleria on an attempt to find a gift for a friend but really ended up just browsing random things and getting very tired as had a late night wasting time online, the night before. after waking up with a double shot espresso machiatto... whcih by the way...really perked me up.... had dinner at the supposedly famous "Hunan" chinese restaurant... whcih i ahve to say...wasn't bad... and i guess you could call it "Fine Chinese Dining"... but i dunno... the idea of Haute Cuisine Cinois... ummm... i dunno. anyways... $40 later, called it a day and headed home.
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now just wrapping up some stuff... like writing this silly blog...and waiting to start the eventful 2nd week of work, the week where the shit really hits the fan... and i'll be thinking... why the fuck did i sign up for this.... but then again... that's what the hefty signing bonus which i get with the first paycheck is suppsoedly going to alleviate.
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oh real quick.. speaking of grown up things like jobs and salary... i did a grown up thing last week by putting away some money in a CD witha great rate...and also opened up a fairly high rate savings account as well. in general, just part of financial planning... in about a month i plan to acquire a new car...so there will be some significant out flows... so this month its all about hoarding the money...haha. god... in 6 months it will be about buying that townhome... man...don't i feel adult. saturday night, i had a major case of potification to mei, as i was trying to say in my nicest way possible...which i dunno if is all that nice.... that she has to take stock of what the hell she's been doing since she's been in the states...and to really think what benefit all this "experience" has for her.... and to figure out what she wants for the future.
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haha... the older i get, the more like my parents i am. yikes.
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