Friday, December 15, 2006

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

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

5th & 6th calendar

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

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

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.

Monday, December 11, 2006

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!


Sunday, December 10, 2006

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?

Friday, December 08, 2006

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.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

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

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

Monday, December 04, 2006

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!

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Sun Bowl

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

Thursday, November 30, 2006

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.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

MERs

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

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

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.

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

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

Monday, November 20, 2006

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!

Thursday, November 16, 2006

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!

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

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?

Monday, November 13, 2006

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)!

Thursday, November 09, 2006

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.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

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.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

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

Monday, November 06, 2006

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?

Sunday, November 05, 2006

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.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

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!

Monday, October 30, 2006

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.

Saturday, October 28, 2006

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.

Friday, October 27, 2006

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!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

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!

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Birthday?

Grandma B's day is coming up??

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

心愛的







Sunday, October 22, 2006

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!

Saturday, October 21, 2006

iPod nano

My iPod Nano has arrived!

Friday, October 20, 2006

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.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

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!

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

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

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Astoria

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

Saturday, October 14, 2006

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

BoringFish with Janet, she is in Brooklyn!

Thursday, October 12, 2006

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.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Monday, October 09, 2006

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....

Friday, October 06, 2006

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.

Thursday, October 05, 2006

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.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

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!