| BUNION SURGERYOne month ago, my great toe got injured again. Tired of dealing with the dislocation and the problems associated with that, I decided to get bunion surgery. It hurts. It sucks. But I love the drugs! =) This makes working from home pretty fun. My toe will be healed in time for a couple of wedding trips to NYC: Byung&Annie's and Ray&Carol's. Congratulations to Jerry&Rosemery (Houston) on their engagement! |
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| NYC - Oct 18th thru 22nd
Who wants to hang out Thursday or Friday? I'm taking reservations! |
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Hello from Taiwan!! I've been up for i-dunno-how-many-hours, high from caffeine and mosquito poison. Don't you just love the f'king tropics? Even tho I'm technically on vacation, laying over in Taiwan for a day before a week in Australia for a cousin's wedding, I've been working. Sitting in a smoke-filled hole-in-the-wall internet cafe trying to concentrate while some punks next to me are playing online games and others are dancing to youtube videos. Just kidding bout the last part, even tho I wouldn't be surprised if I saw that in Taiwan. The sad part is I would be the only one cracking up.
I'm fighting with a lone mosquito over my much-needed cup of Coke, she keeps stinging me and stealing my drug repeatedly. My left index finger sticky from the Coke residue left over on the side of the cup, trying to catch the bug in the middle of her act. If only I had one of those electric bug zappers, the bug would be fried and my drink would be safe. Oh well...
Last week was me and Kimmy's 1-year anniversary. Too bad I didn't upload pictures, otherwise you'd get to witness our weekend excursion in good ole' downtown Dallas. Instead of letting us enjoy our weekend and letting me wind down after weeks of hard work, my mom discounts my efforts and insists on me getting steady income. What a way to ruin a nice weekend. So on top of a thriving business and a handful of freelance programming gigs, I put monster.com to good use. MONSTER, what a joke I used to think. USED TO...
Recap of 2000-2002: "Let's go find internships!!!" That's what I thought most college kids said, so that's what I did. I used monster.com when it just got started, and i used to sift through the 20 sales&marketing jobs they offered to get that IT job. Unfortunately, 11 of my friends applied to the same job, and - no, the one with the lowest GPA never wins.
So I kissed monster goodbye and never looked back... until now.
I gave it a wussy shot, I updated my resume on Saturday and added a few contract gigs I've been doing. I wasn't expecting anything, just wanted to shut the mum up. Sunday: I get five emails about some relevant jobs. OH, shocker. I replied to two. Monday: I get four calls, answered three just because I was bored. One sent me a programming test to be completed in 48 hours. The others wanted a face-to-face interview. I wanted to stall, so I said I'm leaving the country in four days and won't be back til 10 days later. One said let's interview whenever you can, so I went in Wednesday morning for a face-to-face. It turned out to be a good interview with nice people and a promising company, several personality/behavior/IQ tests, no brokeback Swordfish s**k-a-c**k coder tests. I was surprised, I can choose to work on whatever I feel like, and they pay for good ideas. What a programmer's dream! In the afternoon, they extended an offer.
"You get back Tuesday right? Why don't you start the next day?"
"Sir, I get back Tuesday close to midnight. Besides, I mentioned on my application that I need until November to sort things out."
"But we like for you to start ASAP because we could use a brain like yours."
"I need a few days to get over jetlag."
"Why don't you start on Wednesday?"
"Why don't I start Thursday."
"Deal."
Doesn't life suck at this point? I guess I'm someone's tool again.
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| OK, I admit I've been lazy the past month, no quality entries... but I updated my picture in case some of you forgot what your "friend" looks like.
Just got back from a week-long NYC/ATL excursion, and I ran into many familiar faces. Hopefully I'll be able to get off my lazy bum and make an interesting post. In the meantime, keep checking but don't hold your breath! =O |
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| The only Good NBA ref is a DEAD NBA REF. |
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