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

Trip to HK

From the family gossip world, I found out that U-Andy & Cuz-Lois were in HK early this month. Mama, Cuz Eric & Mike are going to HK, meanwhile Grandma was in mainlan vacationing. WOW! Grandma is having a busy month with visitors and everyone is on the move except me. I wanna a vacation too! I want to be a powerball winner! Wing is in HK too! I need to work hard to get some powerball tickets... HAHA!

iPod nano

My iPod Nano has arrived!

櫻桃小丸子 Chibi Maruko-chan ちびまる子ちゃん

Chibi Maruko-chan is whom I resemeble as a kid with same hair style. The infamous mushroom cut. Also, 小丸子 and I had very cute, old and funny grandpa!

Thursday night at the concert hall!

The Maya Civilization.

I attended a seminar about the Mayans last night. The presentation was about the discovery of a mural in the ruins during the scholar's expedition in the Northern Guatemala in 2001 and it provided some knowledge of how the civilizaton's view of their surrounding, specially, about TREES. In addition, the presentation talked about the satellite imaging technologoes that was used to locate Pre-classical period of Maya settlement, which was now covered under the rain forest.

BoringFish is Hiyashi-san

Mr. Sato is Sweet Tiramisu. I am Squarehead. My supervisor is KFC. We all have nicknames at work! It's funny, besides being crazy!

Infernal song

Inferal theme song

Andy Lau

Cutie

Road trip & world series

Adma is on the road to UT and CO. FUN Fun Fun!

Side note: STL Cardinals is in the world series, against Detroit Tigers.

美式無間道: The departed

This article features the differences between 'The Departed'/'Infernal Affairs'!

Courtnesy of Mr. angry asian man

Astoria

Astoria Column
Delicious wild salmon with saffron sauce, very colorful!

Happy B-day to Janet & Laura & Todd!!

BoringFish with Janet, she is in Brooklyn!

佐藤 貴光先生

My new friend from work! He is my neighor, cubicle wise.
Also, some other folks that I work with are Sara, Sean (Beavers); Roberta (Huskies); Brian (unknown) and many other ChE.

Declaration of ROC on Oct. 10th 1911

National day of ROC

Shout out to Fish ball girl!

I will survive!

My first week at L-town was alright with lots to learn, lots to do and lots of meeting to go to, way too many meetings! I went to a starch seminar and bummed into a few old friends in the liner world, good times!

I was excited to go HOMES (P & C) for the weekend; went to Marys Peak to see the big, bright MOON and caught up on family gossip! No moon cake yet....

Lanterns

Moon festival

Mid-Autumn is one of my fave holidays as I have very happy childhood memories of the festival. I remember I would play with the beautiful, cellophane and paper lanterns (not some wimpy battery-powered plastic cheap replacement, my faves were the rabbit & goldfish). I remember watching older kids playing candles and wax. I remember eating the arteries-plugged, extremely fatty but yummy totus seed paste moon cakes! It was pretty funny because I would pick out the yolk and my cus, Vincent would pick out the lotus seed paste, so we never have to fight.
Now, you can get moon cake with ice-cream filling. Check this out.

My granny would make me Polmelo lantern and I would have the coolest lantern in the whole wide world.

Gone with the Weam

Adjustment is going okay, but I miss the old crew - they tell me they feel the same. I'm sure I'll have a chance to see them again.

We could have had the highest score at the golf tournament, but my partner was too ashamed to put down the real score.

September was a memorable month - lots of pie and desserts. Five people left the mill over the course of the month, two through attrition, two (Chad & myself) moved into new jobs, and one was simply 'released'. I finished three shift rotations and a week of orientation at the new place. Busy month, but it all went well, and I feel that I have made it through the most difficult part of my transition.

I also made a trip to see mama and Emily up on the peninsula.

I enjoyed my first search upon entering the site at work, having myself inspected made me feel extremely lucky, but I forgot to buy the Powerball... someone else must have won my $200 million.

Winter season is just around the corner. I'm hoping to make more trips to the mountain this year, following in Davie's footsteps. He has been putting together plans to do the Ski Washington challenge this year, and invited me to see the new Warren Miller movie as motivation to join him on the slopes this year.

Moon cake & 進食月餅安全貼士

Moon cake
Ym... the traditional one or mochi w/ ice-cream filling!
進食月餅安全貼士
Have a safe and fun lantern/moon/mid-autumn festival!

Declaration of PRC on Oct 1st, 1949.

National day of PRC