I did not get hurt or burned in the dryer cans, difficult start up & starch saga!

Where is the end of the tunnel?
Why did I eat that sandwich for lunch?


After a really difficult start up effort at the stacks, the sheet finally sat on the reel at 12:30 AM. I left the mill at my max 1* hours and wasn’t able to chip in my help to the crewat startup, then shortly after that, the starch make down system decided to give up. That really helps made my day on Friday! Gelatin was so smelly and sticky!

Dryer can inspection was a thrilling experience, now I pretty much have most of the infamous vessels on my entry list. I can hold my head up high now~! Wait a minute, I should avoid being crowned as the designated inspectors in the near future. but I can smell it coming~~!

Rumor was verified, my old caption, MR. O found the lawn in IA is greener; thus he decided to move east and go inland to a Big W-recycled mill! I am somewhat suprised and I wish him well in the very very very very flat land!

Ruby, I needed that really bad!

It's about time...

U.S. to check safety of imported Chinese seafood
Court Rules for Cleaners In $54 Million Pants Suit
Takeru Kobayashi of Japan to take a break...
CBC to be a police chief in V-town

MISS J

恭喜, 祝你新工作事事順利!

Oregon State vs. N. Carolina

They WON the college World Series, back to back, beating the same team!!!!!!!

Knocked Up was a pretty funny movie.

Someone passed this on to BoringFish, hope you may get some laugh out of this!

Words Women Use

1.) Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right, and you need to shut up.

2.) Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means half an hour. Don't be mad about this, it is just the same 5 minutes you use when it's your turn to help do things around the house.

3.) Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine (see #1).

4.) Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!

5.) Loud Sigh: This is not actually a word but a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing . (Refer back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)

6.) That's Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. "That's okay" means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

7.) Thanks: A woman is thanking you - do not question or faint. Just say you're welcome.

8.) Whatever: Is a women's way of saying "%@&* YOU!"

9.) Don't worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking "what's wrong" - for the woman's response, refer to #3.

Happy Birthday, Lois!

Hope u are having a blast in V-town!

My baby was gone 2 years ago today.

Other news:
Kite festival in Lincoln City this weekend.
Fourier transform spectroscopy
New neighbor: It turned out that one of the interns is my neighbor at the apartment building, right down the hall. I guess it’s a really small world and we never saw each other in the building in the past month.

鄭秀文 如果你有事

Still missing my love very much

See my lovely Coffee! I miss him very much.....

陳慧嫻- 飄雪

Happy B-day Lawrence!

Happy B-day Cuz... be safe at E-town!

BoringFish aka Beaver girl

Can a girl have some fun?
Duck boy & G started giving me nickname and reputation of being a wild beaver girl.........
Rumors!

On the side note... no house in C-town anymore! It's recorded.

OSU vs. UC Irvine 7-1

Beavers are going to the World series final!!!!!!!! They will repeat history. U betcha!
I got to see part of the game, starting from the 5th inning (5-1) at a bar tonight, drinking a white peach sangria & eating my dinner, then a chemical supplier recognized me and he ended up joining me and bought me dinner. That was weird.

Anyway, the game was great, now they will either play against Rice or NCarolina for the title. I showed my love for the Beavers at work today, how? It's been 4.5 years since I wore a Beaver shirt at work. Btw, I got lots of cheers and compliment. Graham was really slow and finally caught on the big news at the end of the day and asked " is there something going on with the Beavers, Is that why everyone wear Beaver shirts around here? " I was shocked to find out that he knew NOTHING abut 2006 series or this year at all.... silly husky!

Go Beavers!
OSU vs. UC Irvine 7-1

馮文樂

新殘酷一叮 馮文樂 再一次扮歌星
★超勁馮文樂★ -【 全球一叮版 part1 】
★超勁馮文樂★ -【 全球一叮版 part2 】
扮聲天王- 馮文樂 和Eason一起扮，噗!
★超勁馮文樂★ -【 扮譚詠麟，張國榮 】

These were the clips from 殘酷一叮! He has talents. I need to get a life and be away from u-tube!

努力加油!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Miss J.

努力加油!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Miss J.

China building more power plants
Old & new Hong Kong
Everest Olympic road work begins
Harnessing the power of grey Japan
Japan MPs play down 1937 killings
Sleep Myths

今天是端午節, 您有無吃糭?

Alphabet C

C=caring, courage, compassion, commitment
C=character, competency, creditibility
Watch out! My work soup is all about the Cs!
C=confidence, customer, cost

Yasu

He and his family will be relocated to Shiraoi mill in Hokkaido.
His family opt to stay at Tokyo. I will truly miss him.

張二小姐 blog:對不起 謝謝你

張二小姐

" 對不起 " 永遠是最難說出口的三個字.......
難在於面對自己越熟悉、越親密的人前，這三個字就越難說出口，即使明明錯在自己。
奇怪的是，面對越是陌生，越跟自已沒相干的人等，他可能是你上司、客戶，又或是路人甲、乙，什致是一名大廈清潔女工，我們往往卻會毫不吝嗇、經常地說:" 對不起! 我...........不好意思啊.....我.........."

" 謝謝你" 永遠是最容易被忘記和忽略的三個字........
面對與自己越親近、越關愛的人前, 這三個字就越少說出，仿如一切是理所當然。
相反，跟那些可能名字也未弄清、無關痛痒的人一起時，不管談話內容有多空洞無聊，聽得次數最多的卻是 " 唔該晒...係呀....唔該，唔該..........!" 又或是" 麻煩你了....我..........,.謝謝....謝謝你喔!"

既然我們可以跟隨便一個不大相干的人，都會表明自已的悔意或心意，讓對方舒服釋然，為什麼面對父母、兄弟姊妹、丈夫、妻子、子女，男友、女友和朋支時，我們的行為就有所不同，什致不及那些陌生路人? 既然對著那些不怎麼重要的，我們都會願意放下面子，以禮相待; 那麼面對著自已的摯愛, 不是更值得我們雙倍、三倍、四倍的尊重和善待嗎?

面子究竟是用什麼構造? 面對外在世界, 有時候它可以不值一文, 薄如嬋翼; 然而， 如此輕且薄的面子, 在越真實的情感裡,它卻可變得重如千斤, 輕舉起而難放下?! 眼看不少人因為面子~ 死撐, 執持一念，寧願放棄本是美好的情感關係。

承認自已的錯不容易，敢放下面子說聲" 對不起! " 更不容易, 不要因為面子奪走你的幸福!

尊重人同樣是不應該分圈子的, 被愛、被恩寵是幸福, 但絕不是一種服務，亦不是必然的，真心關愛你的比任何人都值得你向他/她們說聲" 謝謝您!" 。

Oregon State vs. Arizona State 12-6

I got to see the most exciting part of the game, starting from the 2nd inning. Beavers racked up 12 runs before I thought they had it in the bag. went to dinner and came back to find they gave up 5 runs to sun devils. I am not too thrilled.....but they took care of the sun devils. Mike Stutes is the man. Darwin Barney (6) & Joey Wong (1) are my fave beavers.

Go Beavers!
Oregon St. 12, Arizona St. 6

Weekend update/snapshot

What a shinny car! It was a very interesting experience, remind myself not hiring whiny, grumpy middle-aged man ever!
Cute dresses for B-girl


Well anticipated Miss J's 糭

Cuz Lawrence and gf Angela were in WA over the weekend for Gwen S. & Akon concert. It was nice to catch up.

What represents Portland? Mt. Hood, Powell's, 82nd, Multnomah falls? What else?

Pan's Labyrinth

Cheap loans for 'bright' Japanese, what a demeaning concept!
Shanghai seen overtaking Singapore as world's busiest port 1. Singapore, 2. Shanghai, 3. Hong Kong (no....)

KFC gave me a comment "good report"! Yeah! Well, I think Graham helped out a lot verbally, he even asked for a e-copy so that he could distribute it out to TLs, I feel silly.

ok... this is getting weird... I am rambling...

In May, I mentioned that there was a world series of mahjong in Macau, check out the winner and his secret of winning.

OSU Beavers vs. CS Fullerton; 3-2

I got to see the most exciting part of the game, the 8 & 9th innings, but I missed the winning run by 1 inning. It looked liked the Beavers almost lost their composure, but they pulled it together at the end! They will be playing with Arizona State next.

Go Beavers!

我真的受傷了

Apple is broken.... again....

Third time is the charm....I hope there will be no more trips to the genius desk!

Duanwu Festival 端午節

June 19th is Duanwu 端午節, aka Dragon Boat Festiva!
Whe I was little, grandma would make Zongzi 糭子! This year, I may get some from Miss J, the really cute homemaker~!

From wiki, Japanese and Korean also have Duanwu for differnt reason and on differnt dates, interesting! Duanwu is a public holdiay in Japan, China, Taiwan, Macau & HK.

I was in the high school division race years ago in Portland Rose Festival. Lots of fun!

The report writing is over!

I turned in the report to KFC finally (it sat on his chair). It was a long one with many graphs. My girlie team knew that the topic is really political, so they gave me a hand with some pointers this afternoon. I hope my back is not someone's target, and maybe by next week, I will be walking around with knife & arrow sticking out.

Gary and Graham read it and gave me a thumb up.
Thanks to Birdi, Sara, Gary and Graham.

Now it's waiting time.

SMT award

SR. VP was here to present us with the SMT Bronze award for achieving 1,000,000 work hours without a lost time injury... YAY... that was from 1.19.06 to 1.26.07! What an accomplishment and I did my part for 127 days.

Rain

6.12.07
Who is he?
Answer: Rain, 鄭智薰 and this is one of the 9 official sites (in English). Apparently, he is really popular in Asia and has a myspace page.

Rain Performance


Check out Rain in Colbert Report---Super Funny!
Colbert Report & Rain: Top 100 Most Influential People

The actual Song

Chihuahua - Joey Yung

X'mas chihuahua by Joey Yung

The Doors

Before you slip into unconsciousness
Id like to have another kiss
Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss

The crystal ship

Working hard

I am still working on my Peroxide report, listening to Justin Lo's No protection.側田 Justin Lo - 月半灣 (Live)

Chinese birthday 舊曆生日快樂!

Grandma called me! Yeah, today (Asia time) is my birthday again in lunar calendar, she is in a zone 15 hrs ahead of me and she made me all tears up!
舊曆 Chinese calendar, study up, there will be a quiz! Kidding..

RIP Fishy

Say byebye.

Currently listening to

while I am working on the peroxide report, my boss is being impatient, he has been waiting for this for +/-3 weeks......... what can I say? I am busy killing bugs

My day3 of week24. What do you think?

Partner choice 'shaped by father', oh boy, I would be in trouble... !

Would you believe it? I hope the predcition is some-what true! Worst is Over for North American Paper & Forest Products Industry & maybe after all, I would still have a job!

It's just bizzare! Fundamental Mormons seek recognition for polygamy, can you imagine how those people live?

A friend passed the page to me at work. Just keep clicking your mouse anywhere on the black space when it opens or yet, just click and drag your mouse over it and watch the flower pop up everywhere, try this!

Birdi ordered lunch for sharings, according to her I should expect an gastrointestinal adventure.... sounds scary!

Another one of those emotionally drained and challenged nite!

I am really tired!

The start of week 24

I am really tired of fighting bugs every week, they just won't go away. Machine is dirty and I am in crisis mode every day!!!!!!!!!

Actually, I am very nervous on an upcoming project in PM1 outage on June 28th (work week 26). I was assigned to be the dryer cans inspector back in March/April, how do I get so lucky? Don't ask me, considered BoringFish is NOT a licensed PE or a metallurgy expert. I was supposed to have a practice entry in May‘s outage and be in charge for June’s inspection. May’s outage was moved, I never got the learning, and now it’s SHOWTIME.
Besides, being an inspector, I have several boilouts to monitor and utilize the outage as the golden opportunities to sterile the machine. Storage chests will be opened, flushed, washed and killed, killed, killed to bugs. I will be at work probably no later than 4 AM or I need to clone myself!

So now, I will be the project lead on the dryer cans because the real PE on the machine is on his balloon ride vacation in the end of June. For those who know about dryer cans, there is only 1 way to get in & out and it’s only fitted for someone liked me, enormously big! The function of the dryer can is to transfer superheated steam to the paper surface & evaporate the moisture. I hope I won’t have the claustrophobia attack or if I collapse inside the can, I will be the cooked, dead meat! I have a harness & now I am shopping for a retractable lifeline. I love shopping! Or I can think of the cans as a sauna, steamy and toasty!

A typical dryer can is 60 in. in diameter; my entry point is 16 in. x 20 in.
As for reference, this is a 48 in in diameter.

The environment!

I had a environmental meeting this morning at 6:45 AM, learned about Greenhouse gases and how forestry industries are in the lead to act. Then I found this. China's air, water pollution worsening.
See another entry that I had about the environment.

Fiona

A big day, need to tell me!

Recyclable Paper Bags Are an Environmentally Sustainable Solution

See new release.

Fishy is ill, not looking good this time!

It's time to those who want to say goodbye to Fishy cannibal. He is not doing well and you may want to pay the last respect. Here is an old posting.

Beavers are going to the College World Series!

Check out how No. 25 Beavers Advance to College World Series with 8-2 Win! It was a great game, playing against the heavy hitters Michigan Wolverines in the super regionals! Hope they make history again, and repeat the success of being 2006 NCAA baseball champions!
GO Beavs.
Shout out to Joey Wong (1), Darwin Barney (6) and of course Mike Stutes (33)!
Here are the bios.

Chilling with an old pal

Not that we are old and wrinkly... but oh my gosh.. I haven't seen Annette for about 4 years, not since she ran away from the great NW and moved to Minneapolis for college. It was also nice to meet her beau, Mike.
We decided to go to downtown sushi land for dinner. They both were fascinated by the converyor sushi concept & we had a blast eating (unknown) fish tempura and vege rolls. We also got some gelato for desserts at Alotto at NW 23rd.
Welcome back! I am looking forwards to the endless fun, Karaoke, movies, sushi party! and I want my tarot card reading about my Prince charming!

Loose Change

Cuz Ngai passed on the info about Loose Change. Here is the link to google video to view the documentary.

Concert review from another blogger

Concert Review - The Police

12 Indestructible Careers according to careerbuilder.com

See this link for details.

1. Doctor
2. Teacher
3. Mortician
4. Waste Disposal Manager
5. Scientist
6. Tax Collector
7. Barber
8. Soldier
9. Religious Leader
10. Law Enforcement Officier
11. Farmer
12. Construction Worker

BoringFish needs staying power... engineer is not on the list......!

Virus at L-town

Norovirus to blame for illness at Parker's.

C-town

I went to C-town again for what I thought to be a final good bye to 101-house. I am so ready to part with Mr. Trouble. Yes, it’s a he! Please keeps the process moving!



Stopped by Costco and saw a cutie, just a baby. In C-town, I witnessed some doggies in the neighborhood were engaging in some playful “let me bite your head off” game. I was quite shaken by them, I felt really bad afterwards.

Seattle snapshot

$$$$$$

I am so happy! I got rid of my liability!

Week 23

Dow Jones Reps from NY was here today to present us DJ Gold Awards, very cool smelling the chocolate and perfume scented ads.
I wonder how old I am in dog year.
Some May’s production figure came out: PM1 broke speed record again, but overall, the mill wide efficiency and uptime were the worst year to date (My peers and myself have lots to do to turn it around). On the up side, the safety performance was stamped excellent in the report card ytd that we have some of the lowerest digit in the industry internally & externally and the effort was recognized by the SMT! They presented us with a bronze award for safe mIllions man hour work. I wouldn't be surprised if more safety awards are coming our way. Profitability-wide, we did not bleed in May! $$, Cheers! Also A cross team effort/project between the mill and teh recycled fiber division has landed the WY’s prestigious President’s Award! Way to go!
Calcium Ascorbate was used to make sure my sliced apple is not brown. Co-workers were real concern of me eating preservative everyday.
What is Cyclone_Gonu?
Another week of eating out with desserts. Well, I have a great excuse, my BD! But anyway, I went out with Birdi twice this week and really feeling liked a lunch&dinner combo slut! I will be back on the diet wagon with some healthy eating this coming week!
China acts over poor food safety, well it’s about time!

Apple replacement is here!

It's here, finally.................

The Police

BoringFish went to The Police reunion concert tonight in Seattle. Fiction plane was the opening gig. The lead man is Sting's boy. His name is Joe Sumner. The group has a page on MySpace. The concert was at Seattle Center's Key Arena.



It was very fun. It is the 2nd concerts I attended in a large arena. I enjoyed the experience very much, especially watching the drummer, Steward Copeland. Very cool percussionist. Check out the next clip, Truth hits everybody & the drummer.

Hockey & 2007 Stanley Cup

Anaheim Ducks snatched the 2007 Stanley Cup from Ottawa senators......Canadian teams need to work harder next year again! The Wongs are big fan of Edmonton Oilers. My fave team is Vancouver Canucks!
Really old logo, I still have pugs with this!

Around 2006 Stanley Cup semi-final (Oilers vs. Ducks), I was partying with Viv & Mike at Whyte Ave; had a blast! Hope to be in Edmonton again soon!
Here is the 2007playoff score.

Over 600 million worldwide work excessive hours: ILO

Equal pay, equal work? How many overtime do you have weekly?

Baby me!

Came across an old college buddies photo at John E's page, was taken 3.5 yrs ago.
Man...I looked so different! I looked less puffy and cute!... WOW

The threesome

Hair is too long & the face is too puffy (Let's just say forgetting my med!) Having a eating relay this week is too much for me, I will be working on weight control. One more confession: Birdi treated me brownie & ice-cream dessert at lunch! I felt so bad......
Mr.D & Miss J & BoringFish group photo before all of us headed out to the world of bad temptation
With Eric
Sorabol was not cool anymore without its Spicy tofu & seafood stew, the coveryor system and the food selection was NOT impressive
At Pix, we shared Tiki Tiki & Creme Brulee.. oh... Yummy
PS... I walked ok in those 4 inch heel.....it looked pretty good, I admit!

鄭秀文 - 愛情萬歲

BD of BoringFish

Triple Celebration! The house sale, getting a year younger & ________!

One true surprise would be the wake up call from Buddy Mosquito in HK at 3:30 AM. Either way, with her morning call effort, I still couldn't get up ontime and have to skip 6:15 AM meeting this morning (I will pay for that and stay for the 6:15 PM one instead).

Hang in there, Mosquito, I have your back!

China climate stance challenges UK

Someone gets to be the first.

Currently, this week: 孫燕姿:逆光/Against the light & 泳兒: 感應

Last week, Miss J passed on 5 CDs with Cantones/Mandarin Pop... this is from Stefanie Sun and Vincy Chan.

01. Walk the mile
02. 逆光
03. 夢遊
04. 咕嘰咕嘰
05. 我懷念的
06. 安寧
07. 飄著
08. 愛情的花樣
09. 漩渦
10. 需要你
11. 關於
12. Afterward


01. 巴不得
02. 告白
03. 天荒夜譚
04. 心中有數
05. 感應
06. 我的歷奇馬丁
07. 魚在水中游
08. 你我她
09. 球場上的另一半
10. 陪你哭的不是我
11. 感應 (國語)
12. Fly To Me (英語)
13. i'm vincy

SAD

It should not be happening! 我要快樂!

Apple update

The apple is broken.

Emily's Look-a-like!

This is Diamond, and Miss Emily is much prettier!

Surprise, BoringFish got up & moved-->Mt. St Helens

A trip to Mt. St Helens was pretty refreshing! we only went to the South side. Next time, I would like to go to Johnston Ridge Observatory.
BoringFish at Ape Cave

A Very bad/mad/sad Pink lady; apple opening

Lois

My cuz L visiting her siblings and their halves, all my others far far away cousins in a far far away Calgary.
Her honey just got her a new ride...a champion car from Seattle.

Two year ago, we all got together for Grandpa's funeral,see this.