Coincident...

Mariners' season of big expectations starts with win over Millwood, Rangers, I did my cheers for the opening day game by wearing a Mariner polo at work. GO Ichiro!

No Movie and a dinner date and running on empty....

The dinner club had a change of plan. We did not watch THE NAMESAKE (which I managed to get 2 copies because I was a mess), instead we fillied ours empties stomach with very yummy Korean food and laughed through a .25 game of mahjong.
Intoxicated with love, I failed to notice the needle was pointing to E. I figured it real soon once I was on the freeway. But it was so low that I did not make it to the next exit. With a little help from my friends, I was on my way within an hour with some fossil fuel. A lesson learned.

I was so nervous on my way home I even forgot my headlight until I was reminded by a honking bystander!

Doggie

Romeo thinks Emily is a cushion.

Crusaders 'left genetic legacy'
The search for the 'political' gene
Li Ka-shing ups Facebook stake to $120 million
Making a Home in an Unfamiliar Homeland
Monks disrupt Tibet media visit
Crunch time for Argentine agriculture
Silicon chips stretch into shape
Crocodile crossing for SA pupils: go to schools or be eaten by croc? Tough decision.
13 Things Not to Share with Your Co-workers
Tibet's troubled times: Flames on the roof of the world
Roast Fish: An Elegant, Flavorful and Easy Solution
Peeps: They're Not Just for Easter Anymore
For Company, Trashing Junk Is Big Business
Tata buys Jaguar in £1.15bn deal
The Director's Chair, the sponsor of the 26th S.F. International Asian American film festival.
18 Foods That Make Your Skin Glow
港海洋公園撼贏迪士尼
Study links preemies, long-term risks
Corvallis man, 56, killed in Iraq rocket attack
BBC website 'unblocked in China'
'Manners police' hit Japan metros, you may find it surprising, but it's true. Japanese people can be rude, especially during the morning commute hours.
The Home Song Stories, hotties for you.
Indian women isolated in Silicon Valley, desperate housewives!
NPR's All Things Considered did a piece on Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles in the 80's that many AA have something to say about it: Long Duk Dong: Last of the Hollywood Stereotypes?
Asking the Right Questions,
Peru tribe battles oil giant over pollution
Mexico now the 2nd fattest country, after U.S.
Ukrainian sailors missing off HK

Longview Fibre sends home 300 workers from its pulp and paper mill in Longview, Wash.; action prompted by recent 'safety events'
Domtar paper machine being moved from P.A., not encouraging news when you are taking the machine apart.
Murdoch’s £650 Million Investment Talks Louder Than Words About His Vision For The Future Of Print Newspapers
MeadWestvaco CEO Gets $8.6M in 2007
Hundreds of millworkers idled again — or still
Trucks serving Port Townsend mill must take the long route north

Are you round or square?

I am an ellipse at the moment, some part of me is thicker than the other. But if everyone is a circle, it doesn't matter. I would prefer you being an ellipse! --White Banana

Portland City Grill

Great meal, great view and fun companies!

New word for the day!

Imminent!
Shutdown is taking a turn on #2, because #1 is joining them to fix a vaccum pump, those things are huge!

Let's it snow!

NadaSurf & Sea Wolf concert ROCKS!

Nada Surf "Popular"
Sea Wolf "The Garden That You Planted"

Grandma's Food Festival

Yummy egg stir fry, baby bokchoy, mango salsa shrimp and tomato halibut
Sea cucmber
Yummy egg dish

Question of the day:

The most of these in IL and the least of these in UT?
So what is it?

Living well is the best revenge - George Herbert

A low key Happy Easter weekend

Happy Easter!
Do: Dim sum, got bark collar, thank you cards, cinnabon and D-chocolate cheese cake and uke meeting, granny home meals.
Don't: Boarding, tennis, church buffet, calculation of area under a fucntion.

劉德華遊歐洲 帶仔仔睇Bra; the link

Opposition wins Taiwan presidential vote
News Checker
It's official: men like meat, but I know a few will tell you otherwise.
Is cougar hunting breeding chaos?, Check out the video, it's really cool.
Attacks target Asian women in Beacon Hill area
梁朝偉全度妍稱帝封后《密陽》掃3獎威盡亞洲電影大獎, I really like 全度妍 in 《密陽》 and 梁朝偉 in 《色，戒》!
Casual games make a serious impact
Male fertility 'set in the womb'
Muffins enter typical UK 'basket'
Women 'unprepared for childbirth'
Vegan diet 'help' for arthritis
Stick to that resolution. Oh yes you will
Religion 'linked to happy life'

Spoon & Toya ... can't wait to meet them!

Singing Toya

Toya

He is bilingual too, he knows Chinese!

張敬軒- 我的天

OMG for family emergency

Correction: Weyerhaeuser CEO stories, I do want to know how much he gets paid!!!
Colorado State University driving its biofuels research into global marketplace
Younger, Heavy Online News Consumers are Not Newspaper Readers, According to comScore Plan Metrix
James hits the stumps in hard-hit sawmill town

Week 12

Annette is going to CSU for sure yeah.

+++thinking to Miss J!

The recent success of pudding and sand really defined my work for the rest of the year. I will gain resistance of the noun: starch. Me being filler and the chemical clown, I will learn to keep a straight face, learn all my XYZ right and getting to be really good friends with F-3, S-2 and S. natans. I don’t mind saying good bye to them for good. My next buzz: bulky comic.

Boring Fish have attended the official kickoff-retreat-workshop of professional C-school. It was great to network and get to know many new faces. I hope to have some great friends from the experience. Grant is one of the Beavers mentor. GO Beavs!

A high-powered intern may come this summer and I will be working with him. It would be very interesting. Prof as an intern never heard of it before and Huskygal did not favor the idea from prior experience & drama..… the plot has thicken.…………

Cirque de Soleil is in town!

I want to see this movie. 颐和园 "Summer Palace"


Weekend adventure:
BC was so-so, surprisingly not so tasty food.
A new hairdo (and I have became the mushroom again), I like the makeover.
Grandma is here, very cute. All 3 generation again…
Hung out with VIV, good times.
Mocha ‘story, can’t wait to meet her.
6 month clothing, shoe shopping hiatus! Couldn't resist a 1-$ purse..:P

I plan to do it all. School, tennis, swimming and dancing......

Mom, Happy B day!

Career change

Mr. Dan is changing his love from fiber to coal. He will be moving across the river for work. I wish him all the best and I hope his forehead is not sore anymore.

Last day of Nihongo benkyoo for Winter term

I am done for the term. My presentation was about 山梨県富士吉田市 and Mt. Fuji, I could have done better, oh well... I will pass the class!

Taka's last day & party

Taka-san
Sara and I have the most important & difficult task
Us
Taka and his special piece
Group LunchThe day has came and it is hard to say see you later. He was my Nihongo sensee and I hope to see him and his family soon in Nihon.

After doing yard maintenance, Cougar Bob said

You don't own a house, it owns you.

Angie's Engagement picture

Just got this via www.

"If You Want Me" Marketa Irglova & Glen Hansard from Once

Did you get pinch?

Saint Patrick's Day
No Irish beer, just tea, having Pad Thai with WJ after school and dreaming about no school nights, long week for both of us with meetings (Tuesday, no matter who you work for), I think I may have a new record of the number of meetings in this week. It would be sweet if Saturday is here and I can go straight to Easter church buffet, uke meeting and doing some area under the curve integration with Tommy.

Mocha is feeling cold till May

This should give me some time to turn my crib into doggies-ready-home! I need to get escape artist, dugger, barker, chewer, stealer-proof. I am sure these two are already plotting a new surprise for me.
I will go special collar shopping soon because last week I got a welcome letter from the county animal control and protection agency. Great neighbors, huh?!

The patio is done and the gate has been replaced, so what else can I do? lot of cable wire? Bark collar? A nanny?

OMG, last man standing!

Headline: Nine Dragons revenue increases 44.2% to US$944M in second half 2007; plans to invest in Vietnamese paper mill to enter markets in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
Talked to HH several times in the last 2 weeks. I also talked to Genius Dave about the latest development and encouraged him strongly about learning Chinese or Thai.
Weyerhaeuser Sells Containerboard, Packaging and Recycling To International Paper for $6 Billion in Cash
International Paper brings it all home
Weyerhaeuser to Close Honolulu Box Plant

Back from my breaks

Your views on the situation in Tibet?
How many Vancouver are there? Do you know? Vancouver, BCVancouver, WA.Vancouver, Seattle, Portland: A Tale of Three Cities

No Clubbing

I wanted to enjoy the night life with Viv, but gave into the elders pressure instead, wishing I am at downtown right now.......

Best Days

The official site

Inner World, Outer World by Howard "H" White

Gus is here!

Link, YAY!

Wayne's B day

Found an old pal from college via the www. Shout out to Wayne at NC.

Just got this from Lizzy..kawaii!

....aw....

Top 10 2008 Hybrids
Short people are most prone to jealousy, say scientists
羅國《墮胎日記》實感很強
Awash in cash, oil patch braces for changes
Alberta approves of Ottawa's new emissions rules
New scrutiny for green claims
New technology has high costs and legal pitfalls
Stops construction of paper machine in Brazil
Lucky dog: Longview family beagle Copper survives a cold night in the woods
House of Augustus opens to public
Camera 'looks' through clothing
Both sides find solace in Spain poll
South Korea swaps first astronaut
Fewer confessions and new sins
Weyerhaeuser to lay off workers at Albany plant

Hard to say goodbye

I will be saying "Ja Mata" to my bud, Taka-san. He and his families will be traveling back to Japan in about 10 days. I wish him all the best.

Is that flattering, or what?

You are an engineer, you actually know what you make, all 7 of them, I am an artist, I am done keeping track of what I made -Huskygal

I was sitting in the traffic last night......

One of the carInterstate 5 crash kills Vancouver women, so tragic!

Dinner at home
I love my hairdoThanks!

Having doggies back are great, lot of work though, karaoke at school was weird.
Had a blast with the boys on the mountains.... trying to do S and all.. I did ok... and fell once hard on buttercup.

Mr. Darcy

Pride and Prejudice

So long, Uno the beagle
Licence to lie for Italian women
婦女理想家庭 有夫有子女
Do men care if their wives earn more?
Records: Southwest Airlines flew 'unsafe' planes
Computer viruses as they look in 3D
Genes 'play key happiness role'
Somalia's security nightmare
New medal plan for German heroes
Iranian power grows but clouds remain
The lives of China's nouveau riche
Dying of hunger in Indian state
Culture clash: Lives of young Tibetans reflect tension with tradition
China's young entrepreneurs
Click here to see 'the boxing kitty". Gizmo is so cute.
Top Diet Myths Exposed
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, someone from Corvallis OR was in the race. Defending champ Mackey leading Iditarod
星洲第一香港十五 駐外員工選「最好住」
Is being shy an illness?
Breakfast 'keeps teenagers lean'; Start them young
Sara's next read: The World Is Flat
Suspected Eco-terror: FBI investigating 'Street of Dreams' fires
街巷偶遇牛魔王

Weyerhaeuser to permanently close Green Mountain sawmill in Toutle, Wash., due to weak demand for wood products on May 1st.
Port Townsend residents zero in on paper mill's emissions, social impact
S.F. to buy only 100 percent recycled paper
Thieves Pilfer Stacks of Weeklies -- For Recycling Cash
Norske Skog halts construction of new newsprint machine at its Pisa mill in Brazil due to cost overruns
Recommended capacity reduction of 450 000 tonnes, ready for more volumne reduction? European need newspaper.
Closure of iLevel Veneer Technologies Facility in Junction City, Oregon

BoringFish’s EQ needs some mending. I got the EQ notice in an email, no punch intended from the sender. It is for my glorious moment in winning this popularity contest. The training is about the awareness of how emotions impact our working relationships and how to manage those emotions and relationships effectively. Going to the finish line all the way, baby!

Smelled liked MacBiggies here lately at the silo with the leftover French fries, who knows we could smell good with fries and pudding. No complaint though, they sure are keeping me busy, besides having a crusade with the bacteria, mold and fungi. Bring it on, holes and breaks. it's not all me.

I am going to start the "AA" experience program next week, I am excited, meanwhile, after having a 3rd term and a final presentation in the coming weeks, I will get to enjoy spring break, working and dreaming about a vacation....until then, a road trip to North, it's family and it's obligated. Painful...when I turned down free ticket to Cirque du Soleil: Corteo and a ski trip because of this commitment!

What so fun about doing paintball, besides being a good shooter. Opie is an "obvious" target.

Fatty Kim will be around more often, man she just finished "Marley and me". It's an awesome book. What would Mocha think when she meets Panda? Or Emily? Or Romeo? Definitely a can't miss canon moment.

Another veteran is leaving "world clas" and "the best of the west", an engineer is walking away from his last 29 years of sweat (It's hot, dirty and deafening), tears and joy! It was very hard to say goodbye and we were balling hard.Then you have Richard, who is walking away from his 2 years R & D hand-on pipe connecting, valve opening engineer gag to pursuit an exciting world of supply chain management. Oh wait; there is Sean, whom is planning to leave Murphy's land soon to go for a belt-tightening ChE experience.
Lunch from the retirement party, all the bad food you can get in one servingCheck out the dessert cornerBoringFish with Dinah, a French Bulldog

Gus's debut to planet Earth is counting down to the last 10 day. No surprise there. But I am shocked to find out that HappyBiker is leaving the Pacific NW to be a part-time resident in Alaska. Last when we hung out, the team were talking about a special assignment to Thailand. I am sad to see him go and gonna miss him a lot.

Damit dolla very sensitve matter.

Positive energy sending to Miss Mon, Miss J and Miss WJ

I want a pineapple baby! -- White Banana

From Lizzy:

"Don't bother driving me crazy, I know my way on foot."

"All you want to do is something good, so get ready to be ridiculed and misunderstood." --Aimee Mann

The hardest thing of loving someone is to have the courage to let them love you back.-- DM from a wedding-themed movie

Happy Birthday!

Karen B, Adam, Sara H (Soy team) in Pullman, Wayne in NC, Austina, and Mom!

Crime scene?

I will fail in the next house keeping audit.

Low key weekend at home, rough weekend at work

BoringFish is thinking about red dress party, Mexico, Ireland, Japan, Korea and Germany.

After visiting my pretty girl and wolf-liked Romeo, I changed my mind about going to the Japanese Garden (wanted to see the HINA MATSURI, THE DOLL FESTIVAL) because of the cloudy Portland sky and went to dim sum instead. MOM, Miss J and Miss WJ & I went to the crowded WK. We got the usuals: dumpings, rice noodle, vegie, chicken feet and seasame balls. Miss WJ and mom are long lost long distance relative (黃).. hahaha.

After some serious groceries shopping, WJ and I headed home for some hw, some serious girlie talks, and some serious banchan and kimchee tofu soup. Oishii! She was so much fun!! The food was delicious, the conversation flowing, the laughter contagious. Like Miss J, I think she will be a regular in Bblog.

On Sunday, I stopped my weeks of hiatus and spent some quality time with the Bulldogs family, Adam is healing from his broken collar bone when snowboarding at Hood pretty weeks ago. Jenny is naughty as always and here is very mellow Molly.Tom is doing well with integrals and starting varsity soccer and paintball. It's all good.

Having a bad belt at motor and hole at fabric this weekend did not help N1 get back to speed for month end. Bad start at 2008 YTD as we finished February with below planned performance.

Beavers Updates

Beavers Win Third and Final Game of Papé Grand Slam In Comeback Fashion. Bulldogs lost! Sorry, TOM!
Leunen’s 32 leads Oregon to 80-68 win over Oregon State, not too pretty............

My good looking girl

Listening in the car....

衛蘭 - 愛才

Fatty K's Forward

-----This is an actual letter from an Austin woman sent to American company Proctor and Gamble regarding their feminine products. She really gets rolling after the first paragraph. It's PC Magazine's 2007 editors' choice for best webmail-award-winning letter

Dear Mr. Thatcher,

I have been a loyal user of your 'Always' maxi pads for over 20 years and I appreciate many of their features. Why, without the LeakGuard Core or Dri-Weave absorbency, I'd probably never go horseback riding or salsa dancing, and I'd certainly steer clear of running up and down the beach in tight, white shorts. But my favorite feature has to be yo ur revolutionary Flexi-Wings. Kudos on being the only company smart enough to realize how crucial it is that maxi pads be aerodynamic. I can't tell you how safe and secure I feel each month knowing there's a little F-16 in my pants.

Have you ever had a menstrual period, Mr. Thatcher? I'm guessing you haven't. Well, my time of the month is starting right now. As I type, I can already feel hormonal forces violently surging through my body. Just a few minutes from now, my body will adjust and I'll be transformed into what my husband likes to call 'an inbred hillbilly with knife skills.' Isn't the human body amazing?

As Brand Manager in the Feminine-Hygiene Division, you've no doubt seen quite a bit of research on what exactly happens during your customer's monthly visits from 'Aunt Flo'. Therefore, you must know about the bloating, puffiness, and cramping we endure, and about our intense mood swings, crying jags, and out-of-c ontrol behavior. You surely realize it's a tough time for most women.

The point is, sir, you of all people must realize that America is just crawling with homicidal maniacs in Capri pants... Which brings me to the reason for my letter. Last month, while in the throes of cramping so painful I wanted to reach inside my body and yank out my uterus, I opened an Always maxi-pad, and there, printed on the adhesive backing, were these words: 'Have a Happy Period.'

Are you f------ kidding me? What I mean is, does any part of your tiny middle-manager brain really think happiness - actual smiling, laughing happiness, is possible during a menstrual period? Did anything mentioned above sound the least bit pleasurable? Well, did it, James? FYI, unless you're some kind of sick S&M freak, there will never be anything 'happy' about a day in which you have to jack yourself up on Motrin and Kahlua and lock yourself in your house just so you don't march down to the local Walgreen's armed with a hunting rifle and a sketchy plan to end your life in a blaze of glory.

For the love of God, pull your head out, man! If you have to slap a moronic message on a maxi pad, wouldn't it make more sense to say something that's actually pertinent, like 'Put down the Hammer' or 'Vehicular Manslaughter is Wrong.'

Sir, please inform your Accounting Department that, effective immediately, there will be an $8 drop in monthly profits, for I have chosen to take my maxi-pad business elsewhere. And though I will certainly miss your Flex-Wings, I will not for one minute miss your brand of condescending bullshit. And that's a promise I will keep. Always. . .

Best,
Wendi Aarons
Austin , TX

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." ~ Albert Einstein

Swell Season

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, The Swell Season - Falling Slowly (Live '07) from the motion picture, ONCE
WJ and I are going to see them in April YAY!
(Movie and dnner club is in business, having sushi with the V-girls, i am so drooling fo WJ's BBQ)