Last entry of the year: Happy New Year!

Y'all,

I am going to do a Houdini. Take Care!

Love,
Boringfish

PS. Happy B day to Moline! (tomorrow)

Week 53

Workers from Big W wood plant in Stayon, OR were sent to the hospital after eating holidays cookie police believe might have been doped with pot. The wife of a co-worker is the plant manager of that site! I wonder what she has to do now. In Longview, there are several securities checkpoint located at various entrances, you can't really get in with out being checked, they also do random car search!

I have been dealing with the blue dye system in the last several weeks. The clean up effort was slow and frustrating. It was completed days ago and maint. contractor was contacted for repair work. Things took a wrong turn and now we are back to having messy and corrosive dye outside of the containment because some careless practices and inproper ways of switching a empty tote sometimes in the past 48 hours.

I am on cruise control mode in work week 53, just trying to float with 4300fpm. By the way, I am starting to be a penny pincher, well ok, just for work! (THURS)I just asked the piano man-twin to make some additivies adjustments and we saved $10/ton. Not bad, but could be better! Seattle Times with back wet edges are the hot topic!

Find out mentor JH got a promotion in ALB and SP, I think, good for him! Horace is nice and have send me an email to say hi. It's important to know that I am somebody. I miss having him around. He is a great teacher. But afterall, he is only a phone call away.

There was fire and medical emergency call, this time is for real and the individual was transported to the hospital. It was very disturing and the exceptional YTD safety record may go down to toilet! RIR <1! Wish I could do something to prevent it!

Sun Bowl Part II, OSU won!

Oregon lost to BYU in Vegas; AZ State lost to Hawaiiin Honolulu ; UCLA lost to FL State in SanFran. Pac 10 gotta be better! California won against TX A&M, 45-10! OSU WON, playing Missouri in Sun Bowl in El Paso 39-38. It was a nail biting event and I was cheering for them with Roberta at work.

Go Beavs!

The other pac 10 team yet to play is USC to Michigan.

Angela is engaged!!!

My girlfriend Angela is engaged to be married! Congratulations to her!!!!!!!! This was taken in June of 06. We got together 2 weeks ago, but I don't think we took any pictures.

SAD!

What happened to this adorable cutie? I am not lovable anymore. I really need to shake off the moldy blue and get ready for 2007!

Fishy baby

Mercury-Fishy baby. What do you think? My family eats fish 7 days a week.

Speaking of Fish, I am dealing with some stinky, nasty sashimi!

New scale of BoringFish

Folks, liked the new layout? Gotta go from green to blue. It fits well, I am so freaking not doing alright, HELP!

Sylvia Plath

I saw Sylvia Plath last night and found the story powerful and irnoic. Highly recommended and warning, it will get you depressed!

Hot Pot Craving

Buddy 2310 talked about Hot Pot and I decided that it's about the time to have one!

A date on Friday night!

I read that there is a outbreak of Norwalk virus (aka stomach flu) in japan. The rumor is no SASHIMI for a a while... ..

爭吵是很難受!

I am going to be an auntie!

My cousin Ngai and his wife, Liz are expecting. I am so happy for them! I am going to be an auntie!. No more question from grandma about great-grand-children! Hurray!

Fiona B's day

Happy Birthday Fiona. She is in Japan! Go Panda!

Merry Christmas!

聖誕快樂!







聖誕快樂!

Yummy Dinner!

Christmas Eve's Dinner!

PS. chilled with Miss Janet on 23rd! Laura is gonna be in town!

The lame catchy phase of the year

Stay the course!

Oregon's Only Asian American Film Festival Returns for a Second Year

Film Festival!

Excessive!

Is he really worth that much! Is anyone?
How much rear end do you have to kiss to earn that kind of bonus?
Would he share a few million if I ask nicely? What if I ask *really* nicely?

Bonus!

Work week 52

As the last 2 weeks of 2006 approach, I have been busy at work, although I have a hard time seeing much progress, since most of my compliments have to do with being foreman before. The machine is finally starting to run well, but my daily activity is mostly restricted to chemical process monitoring. I have also been keeping busy working on safety, including a recent MERS' drill, where I got to save a 50 year old woman. I was placed in charge of the scene, a diabetic patient with a heart condition and no pulse or circulation. Even with CPR and the work of the whole team, we lost our patient. Hope I do better next time!

I also enjoyed my first quarterly envirnomental advocate meeting. It was a little intimidating to think that the responsibility lies with ME! Of course, it always does, for everyone in the mill.

In my free time (what's that?) I picked up a tutoring student again. The preparation is very demanding, and good practice for me to brush up on my rusty skills from school. It's tought to tutor after a long day at the mill, but good for holiday bills. In what little time I have left, I have been trying japanese learning! Buddy 2310 got me an audio program, and I picked up some isolating headphones, but there is only so much Japanese I can absorb in one day - most of it goes in one ear and out the other.

Curse of Golden Flower滿城盡帶黃金甲

I heard so-so review about Zhang Yimou's latest release. What I walked away from the review about his 3rd martial art movie was about Color, martial art scene and Gong Li's cleavage.

Curse of Golden Flower website.
Gong Li on Curse of the Golden Flower.
Zhang Yimou Wraps-Up His Kung Fu Trilogy.
Wiki's Curse of Golden Flower 滿城盡帶黃金甲.
Angryman review.
BBC Movie comment on Li's.

It is showing in selected US cities.

Ski Washington

David finished his mission to ski Washington! On a sad note, the body of one of the three missing climbers was discovered in a snow cave near the summit of Mt. Hood. Here is the article.

Chemistry is so much fun!

Molarity, percent yield, limiting reactants, acid-base reactions, redux reaction, ideal gas law, polarity - kill me please. All of this is basic stuff, but I don't really use it in my day-to-day work. It's tough to dredge my memory for all these ancient theories. Especially so late in the year. But it is good for me to exercise those rusty brain cells. Just a guaranteed headache after a long haul at the mill, though.

A battle of Wits

I heard good review about AL's latest release. 墨攻=A battle of wits

墨守十年　攻愛天

Miss J's B-day! Cake Picture

5th & 6th calendar

I got more calendars today. It's from BASF & BTG.

Finally, got my pics!

The pics were taken back in Nov, 06, granny's bday dinner. Mike, Vincent & Eric

Missing Climbers at Mt. Hood

Hope they are OK!.

MT.hood climbers blogspot.

Miss J 's Birthday. Let's celebrate with dinner & cake!

WSR team went to Todai for the traditional birthday dinner celebration. Our tummies expanded till we no longer could move, then we had caKe. I ordered a Chocolate Mousse birthday cake for Miss J! It was very yummy. (waiting for Miss J pic to show you the good times!) Oh btw, she got a Blink J! very stylish!

膨脹 和 浮腫的我

暴肥的我, 很難看!

Time to be on a diet and get healthy!

Fiona

YOU called.... where are you?

Going Nano and loving all the calendars

Outside of Old town P! Getting luck with a parking spot out front & center! You liked my work clothes?

Chemical engineering.
What do I do exactly? 2X4, I hate that~ Lately, I've been asking myself that question and I needed WIKI to tell me. I kid you not. Actullly, I am playing with cutting edge technology! We are gonna make nano fiber for NP2/3/1! Let's hope so in 2007! We need capital for reactors and all, but wait a minute, we have no $$$$$. I hope to be on the team! Nano fiber was the most exciting thing happended this week! NP! is runnning good with speed! 8 days without a cut break!

I got my 4th calendar today. Kemira's cities. Another pretty one, but seriously, how many calendars do I need? Other practical x'mas gift would be nice. Last year, I got a wreath from a vendor. It was awesome, but expensive.

I am a 2X4 man. Not my best quarter!

Very sad reality. What the hell am I doing here?

SUCKED!

My car stereo got stolen! Some low-life broke into my civic and ripped the music maker out. I feel so violated and alone without my NPR. After being all psycho with the trauma, Jackal=ScaryFish got ok and moved on with the weekend stuff. The highlights were:

1. Evening with 2 blonds, Mr. Bond & the self-proclaimed Mr. very very good looking. New_007 is good looking without the 2 verys. I enjoyed the movie alot. I am looking forward to "Bond 22".
2. Kevin’s engagement news
3. Dinner with Janet
4. Panic attack from the disappearance of David and his office hottie D girl
5. Paul Gauguin 保羅·高更:So far, I got three-2007 calenders. The first one is from Mom with Chinese date on it. The second one is from BIGW, the themes is Wild life, very pretty winter wild life animals (gave that to mom). The third one is the paintings of Paul Gauguin. The calendars/ders are both very nice-looking!

Sun Bowl

Beavers (24) will be playing Missouri (from big 12) in El Paso on Dec 29th! Sun Bowl.

Nov 30 & NANO

Nove 30th NP1 shut

The nanotechnology.

I attended a seminar about the frontier of nanotechnology tonight.

This is the article about the speaker.

MERs

It's offical. After 24 hours of first aid training (basic & advance) I am a the 34th medical emergercy responder at NP!

Busy body across 3 towns! Civil war & Apt 2310's return! Hay!

Snowman D is on his hunt for fresh powders, you better stay out of his way. He even would go to timberline with his "fussion" pass.

I am so glad that Apt 2310 is back to P-town. It took a little adjustment since she took off to the Far East. I miss my alliance. Great to catch up with the W-girl + Present (A language book from the Far East, O-genki desu ka?), we went to to dim sum and did some holdiays rec club shopping. It's always fun when you spend other's $$!

I also went to C town to check on the fallen fence and the leaves. Very frustrated. Then we went to Salem to drink some vine and do the shopping at the Old-Army!

The forecast said snow & freezing rain is on the way, perfect time for HOT POT!


Beaver won. They rank 24th in the Bowl Champ series.

Hk HEAT-Smoking!

Happy Turkey day, another excuse to have a feast!

Turkey Day

I had hams on 22nd and 23rd!

Coffee update and 3 other doggies

This is Rascal! Cute & sweet dog! I met him at the Ham dinner.
This is Coffee-misfit! I made my way to the PT town after another round of tips. I came face to face with the look-a-like. Shy and he wouldn't even come close to me.

The up side: I was spending quality time with Emily. She is a poser!
But I failed my mission, because I did not bring Coffee home.

Snowing on the mountain and the pass on my way back to the cities.


Side note: BC cat won the blue cup

My teacher

I called my teacher this week to see how he is doing. In return, it was a confidence booster as it turns out that he would have been taking the same steps to tackle my current work challenges!

Hope all is well with him!

Clean & Purge! You heard me.

I initiated the MASSIVE, DREADFUL “clean up & purge” program as I know such tasks will take me years to finish. (For those who know me well, this is a big deal!) In several of months, I will be moving (cross states); in several of weeks, I will be moving (cross cubicles) –Office clean up is on the way. So I decide to start with my email account. Well, I have an outside source of motivation, I am getting IT daily reminder about my over size account limit. I have emails dated back from 2003. OMG!
I came across several funny emails that was sent to me over the years! I won’t store them anymore. Brian's selection: Most of his forwards were dialogue. There are the pics.

Good wife's Guide: Double Click to expand image.

I want one of these!

Happy Birthday Tod!

Belated!

The Oregon & Washington Ski resorts are opening in 2 days!

David is on the move, Mt. Baker and Crystal Mtn. Others could also tried Steven Pass in Washington, Mt. Bachelor, and Timberline Lodge in Oregon.

Ski Oregon and Ski Washington Challenge

Are you ready?

Gotta give props to Eric!

He achieved his ambiton to be recognized for his stylish hair. I spotted him in a salon ad inside the local Chinese weekly newspaper. I did not know that we have a model in the family considered the shy guy never let me take his pic.

No more deer! Safety Mascot!

The deer is gone, no more safari decor at the CR6!

As of my weekend highlight: there were lots of heart pumping activities! Monitors were broken from R's collision and on the blink of the insanity; my notebook was malfunctioned temporary on Friday evening. It was saved later by a smart engr. Thanks!

Emily's live toys: 2 kittens have been relocated from the bedroom’s closet to the bathroom. They better stayed there for their own safety. Shame on the kittens and the human! Emily was sniffing, a very hard working K-9!

Extra dark chocolate truffle, massage chair, yummy scallops with extra heart shape, minus no rice crispies treat made it a memorable day.

I don't get compliment often, remark liked "a fine-looking woman" made me fall off my chair.

NW college football was having a bad weekend, the fuskies were beaten by Stanford (1-6), how embarrasing(see note below about the fuskies)!

EndoraT's B-day!

Happy Birthday, girl!

Lunch Time Breaking News: We got the Senate back!

Dem Victory, too soon to say.

Side note: N1 is still down with power breaker failure/bump.

Machine misfortune

Doug said "How do we be #1? Oh we were built first!"

That statement reflected the challenges and the daily fights on N1 in 2006. We need to examinate the machine inside out to find some anwsers to the runnability issues. Today the new item is moisture profile STINK.

Since my days at N1, I have seen numerous downtime related to STINK that hurt runnability, productivity and efficieny, quality and cost. Internal struggles are deposits, pre dryer breaks, wrinkles, seam breaks, profile. External factors are wrong starch to machines (L3), high turbidity etc and frankly... many more.

Long way to climb back to the top of world.
oh no... another outage.. gotta run.

Go huskie site!

Huskies Roberta sent this over. Go cougs. Then you may think, what's the dealio? After clicking at Huck the Fuskies, I couldn't stop laughing. You gotta give credit to the brain behind the site with its tasteless humor about HARRY.

Oh Deer! Round 2!

Coincident!
N1 went down with a failed aircap and I was in RC6, working with the Furnish operators. After several hours of rescue mission, I turned around and found that. Now Mr. deer is in a full safety compliance with all his PPE; to go beyond 100%, someone was trying to put on a respirator for him. Tomorrow his owner is on duty, we'll see.

Record in the making, not the kind I want.

Rain, rain, rain. What else is new? That's what happened when you and I live in the lowland. Flooding Warning

Oh Deer!

As I walked into RC6 this morning, I found a new decoration on the plain wall. I was told this is just temporary. Can you believe that?

The departed

Being a hard core AL fan, I finally saw the American cinematic version of " Infernal Affairs". Too bloody, too vulgar with the some frictional sexual content that the Chinese version lack of. Overall, I do think that they did a pretty ok job developing the plot with the final twist.

Are we mean?

yellow fever

I am a long way from my other profession: competitive eater

Eating Champ 小林尊 Kobayashi Takeru

Happy Birthday to Grandma! & Mike, belated!

Belated happy birthday, Mike!

It was nice to talk to you all last night.... Shout out to Ngai, Mike, Eric, Grandma and mom!

Port Townsend, WA

I decided to cruise to PT for the weekend insearch of the vital sign of my loving Coffee. It was emotional as I revisited the landmarks. Flyers were once again posted at major bulletin boards.

Beavers topple USC

Beavers defeated No. 3 Tojans 33-31!
Go Beavs! I still like Benny and Bernice.

EXtreme winter sport

Davie and I went to see Warren Miller's OFF THE GRID last night at Arlene S. NAH, we DID NOT win that monster JEEP!

The movie captured some very pretty mountains in Montana, Alaska and Salt Lake City. Maybe I will get to see SLC. Anyway, it also mentioned Yukigassen. Very funny.

The red bird won!

Cardinal won.. saw the last of it.

World series!

Cardinals lead series 3-1, 1 more game away from winning the world series! I know who will be watching that tonight!

Dead tired ~ round 3 ~ 歡樂今晚, 再會,各人觀眾, 晚安!

Oyasumi-nasai = Good night.
There will be more delays at the dryer section on the machine, my "red-eyed leader" instructed me to go home and so he can have my "fresh" mind in the morning at 7! Yipee! I guess no easy Friday for me! I hope things are running well when I come back in the morning.

Dead Tired ~ round 2

I am back! More actions.... sheet is at the press pulper!

Dead tired

N1 is half way being buttoned up again for operation. I officially have my 12+hours day. Just a quick break to say hello. I will leave the mill for lovely 2 hours and be back for start up so I won't violate the 1X hours work day rule! The pic is a vendor that I worked with. A fellow ChE. I did not suit up liked he did (He was wearing chemical resistant green suit and I just had my yellow gear) and let me tell you for what it worths...I did not miss it.
Ja mata(see you) in ni(2) hours!

Birthday?

Grandma B's day is coming up??

心愛的