Beef jerky

Not your average, regular beef jerky. The only ones I like are the Hakka made ones. Oh, so yum yum... Gosh, I am drooling. I heard my mom's got some beef jerky. And I asked for some to be saved for me. I don't care if they get stale, I still want them. The junk food I miss. =)

When you have a car, you forget all about walking. That is what happened to me, but now, without a car, you understand what it is like to travel when its raining, what it is like to squeeze in during commute, what it is like to have to walk from here and there (as opposed to circling around for a parking spot).

I tried a Spanish restaurant yesterday. Pretty good. I think my mom and dad would have enjoyed it more. I am sure they would have loved the fish, shellfish in what is similar to a paella except without rice. I will need to try out indian food here, but I don't want to go to a nice fancy restaurant. I have this notion that fancy indian food is not authentically indian. Only in India, maybe. But even fancy indian hotels in india might tailor their food for foreign visitors and upper class looking for a more contemporary menu. I dunno. I like authentic food. I wonder where I can find hakka food here. There probably isn't as many selections as T.

Comparing washrooms

Hah.. yes washrooms, or ladies room.
I really like having those thin paper toilet covers in the US. Pretty much all places in US have them, or maybe I am thinking Sea only. The covers are very nice, feel sanitory + cleaner, and it just flushes down the toilets. Ca doesn't have much of these covers, maybe in only 1 or 2 places.
UK has no covers, but the doors/walls of the washrooms are much better. More solid and full wall/door instead of just a stall. How important is this? hm... gives you some privacy, instead of the person next to you looking at your feet and hearing + smelling what they are doing. Hehe... grossed out yet?

On a different topic, I recently noticed that part of my hair which has been dyed is quite bad. I looked under sunlight at my hair. The part that has been dyed seems to be more frail, thin and weak. I need to stay away from colouring my hair. Perm is probably not good too.

I think I have been in US too long. Why? Because I look at words like organisation, analyse and they look strange. And when I look them up in the dictionary, it says organization and then organisation (British). What is used in Ca? I don't remember. =(

Where am I seeing all this? In UK. =)
Heading for Milan. =)

Relativity

Almost everything is relative in life.
Example:
I am with some tall friends and I think "Oh, I am so short"
But when I am walking with some shorter people, I think "Hm... I feel pretty tall"

Even when I have to look at some numbers at work. Yes, million might seem like a big number, but is it that much compared to a billion?

I am just tossing out things now. I am tired because of lack of sleep. Why do I lack sleep? Green tea. I drink tea in the evening and I am screwed for the night. I feel like a zombie. *yawn*

Football cheer and volunteer

On Sunday, I organized a group of NAAAP-ites to join NorthWest Harvest in collecting food and donations from SeaHawks fans. The fans were encouraged to bring food and/or donate for SeaHawks Tackle the Hunger food drive. The game starts at 1 pm and some people were lining up to go in at 10 am. It was pretty crazy.

It was a really fun experience. We had bins for food, small buckets for money and NorthWest Harvest picket-like signs. The fans were generous and our group collected a lot of food and money!! Yay!! Thanks to all the fans and to volunteers.

What I learnt:
- Seahawks fans are fun!! A lot of fans had their faces painted.
- Fans set up RV, trucks in parking lot early, have the TV running with previous game shows, bring out BBQ and its a family/friends event!
- Running upto people asking them for donations is not easy. :)
- Strategizing on where to position yourself and how to ask is important.

We then went for dimsum as a group. Having food after running around in the cold and rain, felt awesome!! :)

Ship gift

I picked up my ship gift yesterday. It is a digital photo frame, which is pretty neat, since I did want a digital photo frame. I was pretty excited when I got it yesterday.

I took it out to play with it today. Its a 7-inch screen with a white plastic cover, with built in speakers! A 256 MB SD card and a remote control came with it. =) It plays photos (obviously), music (mp3, wma) and video (mpg, avi, divx). I have only tried the photo and music. I have seen one of my co-workers play a short video clip.

It boots up with an office screen. There is a slideshow, which is a photo with music in the background. I thought this was a cool feature, but unfortunately doesn't work that well. My music stopped halfway through my pictures! And when I play music, the speakers had some static noise. I think I will just stick with the basic functionality of the photo display.

Am I glad I got the pic frame? Heck ya!
Would I want some things to be better on it? Yes
- not plastic
- better display screen
- better sound quality
- slideshow to work

But you can't complain if you didn't pick it yourself! =p

Picture this

A bare tree with a few golden leaves hanging at the base of the branches.
=)

I am addicted to shopping. I went shopping last Saturday and Sunday. I got myself a bubble skirt. And I finally got my pair of red shoes! Very cute! Now, I need to get a pair of short boots, or maybe tall, but with short heels, so I can actually walk for a whole day in them.
I want to get a new jacket too, but I don't want to spend that much money. I need more $$. =p

Flooding

Sea is experiencing what I'd call a mini-flash-flood. I don't think I have seen so much "heavy" rain in Sea before. And the roads are getting huge puddles of water. Rainy rainy Sea.

I love warm chocolate cake. Had it yesterday at a french restaurant. Yum yum... but didn't appreciate the bill. Heh!

Ooooh and I got my business card today! I've been working for a while and never really needed it, but now, a need arose. Someone actually asked me for one! So, I ordered it!

Office RTM-ed. Its an awesome version. New look and feel, new, smaller sized file type, cool new features. A lot of blood and sweat went into it. :)

On a slight, not so happy note, I realized my english grammar is quite bad. Apparently, I don't know my grammar rules and I cannot pin point the faults in a sentence. *sigh*. And my sudoku skills have been going down the hill. =(
I need to get my DS back and work on getting my brain up to speed!