Highlight from Charlotte

I went to that exhibit.
My Maz rental has a IN license plate

Newport, Rhode Island
Phillips Place
Zink
Upstream
Cajun Queen
Village tavern has a really nice & romantic outdoor patio with live music. however, they really messed up my meat. The rubbery fillet was so gross.
Charlotte is a very metropolitan city and a walk in down town was refreshing. The builidings' architecture (Hearst Tower) and street sculptures were very modern and I really enjoyed the beautiful skyline. I was happy to go see the exhibits at the Mint museum, the fiberart international looks so cool.
A night at Maggianos was very nice, esp. my chocolate martini. And I know that I do not want a job in GA. I will go to back to my real world, hmmm...

Happy Birthday! Granny & Mikey!

I will be seeing you 2 in about 3 weeks.... haha.. the good o' days.

Charlotte, NC

Charlotte, NC

Week 39: Crush & burn and we all live.

Nope, I don't work in a zoo and those are NOT animal droppings. I called them pulp turds. They are some great mysterious discovery in the system that we are researching. What a week, can you image? I had trials, auditors on site, presentation at WE mtg, many mtgs on we chemistry, product etc.. Great Week!!! October will be even crazier, I have 4 trials lined up already.

We are into HYBS and Bs, so cool to see those paper sacks. Reminded me the good o' days and I miss the sacks. Maybe Wendy, Donald and the King are our new friends.

News flash, a new rep?!

Charlotte, here I come!

Week 39

匯豐美國子公司結業 次按風暴未停, wow even HSBC USA is impacted by sub-prime rate
環保姨姨
Darkoogle, an energy saver?
Food blog & Chinese Banquet
Beyond the pale? & Bridget Jones, she got it eaay, the stigma of dark skin?! Why!?
Global warming leaves Russians cold
Asian spacefarers race for the moon
中秋浪漫
China dam 'catastrophe' warning
香港廉潔度全球排14, 美國排二十
只有小店真情趣, 蒜茸蒸象拔蚌仔 looks so yummy!
Putting Money on the Table, this is interesting, I think, about having honey without money, hm...
《色，戒》

Tue & Wed: My crash & burn trial is officialy over, actually, it went well and I am hoping to run an extended trial for 2 machines in about 2 weeks. Dom also reached 6 months safety record! Celebration is in planning.
Thursday: outage on PM2

Jane Goodall says biofuel crops hurt rain forests
OL, this is interesting.
海洋插逾億喉管抗暖化 冷水泵到海面 刺激海藻生長吸CO2
美耗油量新測試 本田豐田最慳油
Why Women Worry So Much
科大MBA躋身全球20強 蟬聯亞太第一 畢業生薪金排包尾, MBA, I am thinking about UW!
Most Expensive and Most Affordable Housing Markets, you wanna pack your bags for Killeen, Texas?

Happy B day, 劉德華 Andy Lau

- 我得你

心只有你

Andy's blog

Happy B-day Nick!

Linus Pauling Memorial Lectures

Here we go, I am so excited about the Thursday lecture series, starting on Oct 18th. Have my fingers cross about getting my OWN free tickets.
Last meeting of tennis tonight, then starting in October Wed: Uke night!

Did you eat a moon cake?

The Top Ten Greenest Cities

Source
Portland, Oregon
Austin, Texas
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Boulder, Colorado
Burlington, Vermont
Madison, Wisconsin
New York, New York
San Francisco, California
Santa Monica, California
Chicago, Illinois

The end of summer: 等 LIVE & 一千個傷心的理由

Depression

Ukulele

Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro

I got a flea uke at artichoke music after my first PUA meeting. At the meeting, I did not realize till the end of it that Lyle Ritz, the father of jazz uke was sitting on my left. Wow, silly me, he played 2 songs in open mic and I totally missed out on an autograph opportunity on his latest release. Here is the npr story about him. He is having an performance in the first week of Oct in Portland, but I will be Charotte, NC. Ding it.

Bill Tapia and Lyle Ritz at So Cal Uke Fest October 2004


Pearl Jam - Soon Forget

PS. I am also an member in CUA as well. WOW, so official!

Last day of summer

Highlights from the rafting:
Kimi & Panda are super cool and good times, to meet my own kind that all work at the same site, ok , next store and across the river, but close enough. There were lots of brain power on that raft.
I definitely have fun getting wet, cliff jumping and swimming in the icy cold water.

The moon club was alright, my moon buns were not a big hit, well, I expected anyway.

Team building activity with the ladies

I am so excited about rafting on the White Salmon river this weekend. The trip is 8 miles in length and the first 5 miles is continuous class III+ & IV rapids! Awesome!

Look at all these rafting rivers with rapids in OR & WA: Deschutes River, White Salmon River, Clackamas River, Klickitat River, Wind River, Sandy Gorge, North Santiam, Rogue River, Skykomish River, Owyhee River. They are all within driving distance from where I am.

Currently listening to...

a cd book of Mayflower, learning about the Pilgrims and the Puritan.

Carpool time: Huskygal is listening to "Baits" & "Temptation".

Moon festival 9.25.07

Lantern pictureSource, at page 6
Korean: Chuseok
Chinese: Mid-Autumn Festival
Vietnamese: Tet Trung Thu
Mooncake

Rafting advice

Gonna get ready for the weather though!
For Cooler Weather:
Shorts (quick drying shorts are best, ie nylon) and a T-shirt or bathing suit.
Long Sleeve shirts and a hat if you get burned easily.
Long underwear (couple of layers, both top and bottom), a fleece top, these items are essential to provide maximum warmth.
Wool Socks
Gloves (wool or neoprene), stocking hat if you get cold easily.
Old Tennis shoes, neoprene booties or Sandals (Teva type are best)
Sunglass Strap for both sunglasses and prescription glasses (Croakies or Chums).
Sunglasses
Waterproof Sunscreen (with a SPF of 20 or higher).
Change of clothes for drive home.
An Attitude To Have A Great Time!

Headline

I saw these headline!

Oregon investors working to buy former International Paper mill site in Gardiner, Ore.; agreement made for on-site wastewater treatment plant

《新股上市》群星紙業上市籌１６億元，最低入場費為５４０４元, source: Yahoo news ; 群星紙業 今招股 訂價合理
Chinese Paper Power Producer: 玖龍紙業

Week 38

Work highlights:
35+ hrs outage on PM3 this week, cool capital project in place, C&O & maybe a chemical trial this week, I saw some ALB folks this week and maybe I will see the third group again in about a month for the 3rd audit!

May/December Couples Boost Human Lifespan, now we know!
Mega-city plans for Hong Kong, oh no, that's a insane idea!
Chernobyl to Get New Protective Shelter, where is Chernobyl?
China to hold first-ever 'no car day' on Saturday
Australia navy in breast op row , can you believe that? The miltary paid for your boob jobs!
Eyes Can't Resist Beautiful People, no more lame excuse now, honey, we can stare all we want now, we just can't help it biologically!
World's oldest man turns 112 , listen up, he likes milk, rice, miso and seaweed! No alcohol or smoke and HE READS NEWSPAPER DAILY!! Go Shimbun!
Bush calls for expansion of spy law, are we living in a place liked the former GDR with the secret police?
US family tries life without toilet paper, will you dare to follow?
Big future beckons for tiny chips, NanoAge!! Moore's Law, remains intact.
1st. Series: Has China's one-child policy worked?
Southwest keeps open seats with a twist, the busing system is strange for the first timer, but guess what, it is better than the assigned seat!
One in three Americans expects recession, concern, concern, concern! The job in Thailand is looking better now! Not so fast, see No housing woes in booming Washington state. Ah hah, I may stick around then!
Can China make the polluter pay?
低糖月餅竟含糖量12茶匙, don't be tricked by the less-suger moon cake.
港百歲人瑞1510個, wow really? 1510 of them!
I have tears in my eyes when I read 106歲人瑞獨居深圳拒返港 無依無靠 獨守祖屋
Glamorous politician wants law to allow 7-year itch in Germany. an very interesting idea in a Catholic country.
Mattel sorry for 'design flaws'
Bill Gates leads Forbes rich list. This is absurd with the amount of wealth these people have!
Chile court extradites Fujimori, it's about time!
Very bad guilty pleasure of mine, Starbucks Grande White Chocolate Mocha, 480 calories, 20 grams of fat (with whole milk). And Cinnabon Classic Roll, 730 calories, 24 grams of fat.
Ecuador seeks oil 'compensation'
The politics of guidebooks
Olympic torch will bypass Taiwan, Taiwan is being fussy!
2nd. Series: China's 'perfect child' generation
3rd. Series: Grey areas in China's one-child policy
Rather: Government influencing newsrooms, I think this drama is gonna get ugly.
House prices to drop much lower: Greenspan, he is such a downer! Overall, the outlook looks dimmer for big-W!

New machines, NOT in N. America?! Metso to deliver containerboard line to Mondi Packaging , Metso supplies board machine to Lee & Man Paper in China

George Nozuka_Endora's fave

George nozuka - talk to me - music video


George Nozuka - Stay Up- no visual


Last time

Heard of this? National Singles Week, Sept. 16-22.

Party Of One
Singles Are Happy Being Single
The 10 Best Things About Being Single, I think this list is silly because one can be married and still be able to do some the items on the list, but NONO on #3.

In contrast, see 8 Things No One Tells You About Marriage

Winston Churchill

To look is one thing. To see what you look at is another. To understand what you see is another. To learn from what you understand is something else. But to act one what you learn is all that really matters.

-Winston Churchill-

HappyFish's Weekend adventure!

Beautiful Bike!
HappyFish came home happy with all her limbs!
Zoey, Lydia & Abby
HappyFish w/Zoey
HappyFish, HappYDave, HappyBiker & GreatDad
24 hrs coverage for the new grades production was uneventful last Friday. I enjoyed the opportunity to have an all-stars femme team that made a very good looking sheet. But the real learning was about developing team dynamic. It has been a difficult week to see Huskygal suffered but I don't know what to do to help.

BBQ at the Peeks was something I was looking forward to all week long, nothing was better than to have yourself surrounded by good people full of joy, love and laughter. I remember Emma (from NB), but Zoey is very much liked Emma, esp. her very playful attitude (liked Emily) and her lightening speed. Oh Abby has grown so much since I last saw her. I can’t wait to go to her B-day party in December. Saturday was an awesome day for me, it was great to see old pals, being goofy & just played hard. I went on a bike ride with happybiker in his BMW motorcycle. He is so happy about his new job and we both can say that we did the right thing! HappyDave talked of a new job prospect where it's summer all year long with many tapioca roots! Hmmmm.....well he says he needs a few good engr!

Sunday at driving range sucked. That’s all I gotta say.

Pac- 10 did well this weekend except the Huskies and UCLA. Ducks, Beavers, Cougars both kicked butts. Wow, Utah, impressive.

Week 37

Japan's embattled PM vows to stay
港膺全國最安全城市 不敵北京古今交融 最美麗排名居亞
Chinese inflation at decade high, do you know who is the world's biggest consumer of pork?
Federer makes it four straight at U.S. Open, Djokovic lets it slip away

Weyco: Closures, cuts on the horizon from Longivew Daily News, my heart is sinking!
China bans lead paint on toy exports
Can't quit chocolate? Don't fret, it's no addiction. That's heavenly!

The Good Shepherd
The Lives of Others, can you imagine being watched in every move? Well, our government do that already, they can eavesdrop without warrants on terror suspects.

Monday:
Accounting figures from August came out and once again PM1 broke speed plan (5th month in a row, baby!). I might sleep better tonight, knowing that I was not in red zone last month. I was dressing in red severely in the 2nd quarter & I have been working very hard to turn that around. I can’t afford to overdose the machine. However, despite all the hard work from everyone, the bottom line was red. (-$$$$)

Tuesday:
There was a fire at one of the machine, the fire department was called to the scene. Luckily everyone worked safely through the ordeal and there was no significant damage to the equipment. There was a tour for some Japanese customers at the time, I wonder what they would think of us?

Double decker at I-5 S-bound at Longview, weird? He was really crusing under the posted speed limit
以前多生男 現全球多女
北極地區或無人繼香燈
多氯聯苯（PCB）& 滴滴涕（DDT), so what is 滴滴涕 ?
黑朱古力可防中風
每日一杯健力士 減患心臟病風險
口服避孕藥 減患癌風險 36年研究4萬婦女 風險降3至12％
China shoppers 'to boost growth'

Wednesday: Volunteering the day at the Progress Center Neuromuscular Clinic
The day was great! We did painting, weeding and moving furniture around. I got paint on my hair (new highlight), my shirt and my shoe and a day off from work for a good cause. Tennis night and I am ready to hit some balls!

2 days later, the headlines read After Abe's Exit, Will Japan Retreat?; What led Shinzo Abe to resign?

Animal Extinction, a very sad topic
Conservation alone 'is not enough'
Gorillas head race to extinction
Rare river dolphin 'now extinct'

Reducing newsprint capacity in Europe
Rise of far right alarms Germans
Swiss citizenship system 'racist'
Italy urged to go on pasta strike
Manga shares gain on leader hopes, good for business, the industry that I am in!
Dirty energy threatens health of 2 billion: study
Welcome to Stockton: foreclosure capital USA

Thursday:
Huskygal new motto: I know I was to blame for everything that happened.(In Spanish: Sé que debía culpar por todo que sucedió.)

China cracks down on one-child violators
How do you know you are healthy? So really, how do you know?
Fibre turns a profit
Never Give an Umbrella as a Gift in Beijing
市面「健康飲品」含糖超汽水
Rare Mormon book up for bid

Hey, I talked to cutie Mosquito today!

I am a HappYFisH!

But then, I found out that I will be working late tonight for trial support! Oh well.....no more friday nite catching up beauty sleep time.

The Paperboys

Tod invited me to the Paperboys show with the opening act of the Stephanie Schneiderman Band.


Tom Landa interview on Worldbeats

Paperboys-Fragile

This is "fall down with you" MV. It's my fave song from the show.


See The Paperboys at: official site, you tube, wikipedia, myspace

See The Stephanies Schneiderman band at: official site, myspace & a very brief description of Dirty Martini in wiki

細水長流 - 蔡齡齡

細水長流 - 蔡齡齡

曲：M.Alejiandro/M.Beigbeder | 詞：林振強 | 編：Richard Yuen

不管為何 沿途如何 它都長流 鐵和石也可割破
這是過山的河水 它奔前流流流 不管蹉跎
為流入滔滔大海 方會安心而存在 不管為何
沿途如何 它都長流 我懷內那些愛 也像這一江河水
永為你也永向你一生奔流 現時 昨天將來都也因你而存在
* 若你雙眼是深海 你已經浸沒我 誰令我現能去愛
你已否知到麼 我感激我們遇見 在今生像河與海
你那臂彎溶匯結合我 盛我在內 若有天要被分開
我遠山也踏破 尋辦法又流向你 你會否等我麼
你可知每凝望你 便彷彿像河看海 你那暗湧如在叫喚我
喚我入內 怎可不奔向你 天空晴朗 雷霆來時 它都長流
我懷內那些愛 也像這一江河水 永為你也永向你作一生奔馳
現時 將來 都也因你而存在 天空晴時雷霆來時它都長流
似懷著某種意智 這是過山的河水 它奔馳流流始終堅持
為流入滔滔大海 方會安心而存在
(重唱 *)

FOREIGN ETIQUETTE TIPS

Source: usatoday

The following advice by Sue Fox, author of Business Etiquette for Dummies, may help business travelers avoid an embarrassing gaffe abroad.

Argentina: It is rude to ask people what they do for a living. Wait until they offer the information.

Bahrain: Never show signs of impatience, because it is considered an insult. If tea is offered, always accept.

Cambodia: Never touch or pass something over the head of a Cambodian, because the head is considered sacred

China: As in most Asian cultures, avoid waving or pointing chopsticks, putting them vertically in a rice bowl or tapping them on the bowl. These actions are considered extremely rude.

Dominican Republic: When speaking to someone, failure to maintain good eye contact may be interpreted as losing interest in the conversation.

France: Always remain calm, polite and courteous during business meetings. Never appear overly friendly, because this could be construed as suspicious. Never ask personal questions.

Greece: If you need to signal a taxi, holding up five fingers is considered an offensive gesture if the palm faces outward. Face your palm inward with closed fingers.

Egypt: Showing the sole of your foot or crossing your legs when sitting is an insult. Never use the thumbs-up sign, because it is considered an obscene gesture.

India: Avoid giving gifts made from leather, because many Hindus are vegetarian and consider cows sacred. Keep this in mind when taking Indian clients to restaurants. Don't wink, because it is seen as a sexual gesture.

Japan: Never write on a business card or shove the card into your back pocket when you are with the giver. This is considered disrespectful. Hold the card with both hands and read it carefully. It's considered polite to make frequent apologies in general conversation.

Malaysia: If you receive an invitation from a business associate from Malaysia, always respond in writing. Avoid using your left hand because it is considered unclean.

Mexico: If visiting a business associate's home, do not bring up business unless the associate does.

Philippines: Never refer to a female hosting an event as the "hostess," which translates to prostitute.

Singapore: If you plan to give a gift, always give it to the company. A gift to one person is considered a bribe

Spain: Always request your check when dining out in Spain. It is considered rude for wait staff to bring your bill beforehand.

Vietnam: Shake hands only with someone of the same sex who initiates it. Physical contact between men and women in public is frowned upon.

TOP TEN TIPS FOR WOMEN BUSINESS TRAVELERS

Source: cnn.com

1. Never put personal details on business cards. Use covered luggage tags and insert either a business card (without a mobile phone number) or a card with your name, airline, flight number, embarkation/disembarkation points and date of travel.
2. Pack lightly. You need to be able to carry your luggage on your own. There will not always be a porter available and it is better to avoid asking someone for assistance.
3. In hotels, ask the receptionist to be discreet when handing you the room key and to avoid saying your room number out loud.
4. At night, ask a member of the hotel staff to escort you back to your room.
5. Use the 'Do Not Disturb' sign at all times. If you need maid service, call housekeeping. If you are waiting for room service, ask the kitchen to telephone your room ahead of the delivery.
6. Take a magazine when you go to the hotel restaurant or bar. It can be a good excuse to help ward off unwanted attention.
7. Use the hotel taxi service. Get a map of the local area, find your destination and follow the driver's route. Always carry a mobile phone.
8. Make friends with the concierge. Ask them to book your restaurants and to warn the managers that you are coming/eating alone and will need a taxi back to the hotel.
9. Carry your important documents and money in a concealed money belt. Leave everything you can in the hotel safe.
10. Be modest in dress and wear no jewelry. The exception is a wedding band, which can be a useful accessory -- for the unmarried, too!

Oregon Duck and Houston Cougar mascots in scuffle

From an Okie relative

The Peek family is expecting, congrats!

Lust, Caution

《色，戒》創傳奇 華人導演三連冠, Lust, Caution

Ang Lee film 'censored for China'
"Symphony No. 3" by Górecki

香港映画＆梁朝偉食堂, « 祝！『色・戒（ラスト、コーション）』ベネチア映画祭にて金獅子賞♪ », official site, wiki-Tony Leung

Picnic!

The B-clan with some extra kids
Yosuke with his lovely elephant
BoringFish at the Grand Canyon slide
BoringFish & Yoko at Bingo

28th Annual Toyonaga golf tournament

Posers!
Trying...
The sure win on-par team
I won this!

孫燕姿 [逆光] MV

Week 36 is short, yeah!

Drive Your Car to Death, Save $31,000 Man, did I make a good investment or what 8 years ago?

Shoppers walk below lanterns in a Hong Kong market. The lanterns are a feature of the annual autumn festival, which falls on 25 September this year. Go moon!

Venturing into unreported China, a really good story to read!

BP's answer to food-based ethanol, Big W can get ethanol from tree too! See this press release.

The celebration and farewell for Bill event was very touchy and sad. I am saddened that a very nice guy is leaving us to go camping all the times. It was good to see Tissue Doug, too.

Physics and Calculus..... here we go again for another year, FUN! I love derivatives and integrals,

WimpyFish for Tennis

My arms and back are so sored from last nite practice! Time for wimpyfish to be tough & strong!
My day is going fairly well as PM1 is having a short shutdown and I have been up since 2:30 this morning, a 15 hours day at work! A short week overall though.

US open: Roger Federer beats Andy Roddick in 3 sets
Go Federer!
Other news: Looted Chinese horse head to go under the hammer; Looted Chinese sculpture to be sold at auction

WimpyFish is getting a new pair of fitted ear plugs to protect her hearing, the super good pair with a 100+ decibels rating.

A month away to my 1 yr anniversary, keep it coming the speed record!

Remember that I mentioned about a 9 yr old math prodigy in the blog "week 34", check this out. University 'very easy' for Hong Kong nine-year-old
Here is another child prodigy, Michael Kearney and his interesting bio.

I hope to go to Burning man with Lance next year. Just a thought, more news on buring man later.

Labor Day weekend

Food:
Korean Food
Pad Thai, Frutti di mare, sunny side up eggs and muffins was my favorite of all, so special!

Labor day weekend
A380 superjumbo gives thrilling morning air show
我阿爸係大佬 山口組頭目女兒 改邪歸正當作家
港人均工時2200 全球最高7地之一

Movies: Puccini for Beginners, Ocean's Thirteen

Yakuza moon by 天藤湘子Shoko Tendo

Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter
Book Review:
Amazon.com, Oxford University Press, Revealed: Shoko's dragon days with the yakuza,Mecha Mecha Media Blog, Reuters , her picture .

Week 35

Child labour in Kyrgyz coal mines
Silk Road city marks 2,750 years
China to act on gender imbalance
Obesity rates climb in most states
20 Timeless Money Rules
從小吃到大的越南檬粉
China dishes up menu translations

Disaster trial for pudding
Sara and I took heat for the trial as the pudding trial caused suffering to PM3. We learned this time.

Carpool a lot this week with Huskygal. I felt bad because I was working late most of this week and she ended up waiting for me. She introduced me to Nora Roberts & Karen Robards.

Wednesday- saw Lance, he is doing ok.
Tuesday- BoringFish's tardy day. I was tardy to meetings all day long. Attitude adjustment chamber is one of my key term I learned today!
Monday- 310 bad rolls produced and shipped to customers were the highlight!

What is thyroxine?

Me at Seattle Mariners Game 8.14.07

Me, Ichiro (my famous nick name)

Happy B-day Dave!

Go Beavs!

Oregon state vs Utah; 24-7; I heard that Beavers were playing rough and Utah's QB was hurt.

Got a text messgae bright and early this morning that said " It's a great day to be a beaver! "

Ronnie and his Oscar

Ronnie and his families went to Alaska several weeks ago. Then he came home with an new addition to the family, Oscar. He is a very BIG boy.

What color paper do you want?

We have cream, violet, blue, red, and white!

Guys & gals pay attention to this.

Boyfriends Do More Housework Than Husbands: boyfriends forever??? But if we all really just want someone to do housework, maybe we should just get a maid! and not the significant others!

Reduction of head count

Catalyst drive for improvement continues, well, they are not the ONLY one.

藍宇 & 順子

LanYu藍宇
Wiki: LanYu & Shunzi順子

My doggie would LOVE this:

Bye Bye to Eriko.

Korean BBQ at Toji 8.25.07

Moving & Unpacking

I finally moved out of L-town and settled in V-town quite nicely. Moving came with unpacking, the nightmares came with me being crushed by cardboard boxes! (16-19) luckily, my super mama came and gave me a hand, her super power of cleaning & organization forced me to face the fear of looking at my own junk! (16-24), well, she is the one looking at it actually. My job is to admire her amazing results.

WOW. Maybe she should have her own show on HGTV, organization of mission impossible. LOL! At her rate of breaking down the cardboard, I will be able to host a house warming party in no time. Friends and families, are you ready to help my fund-raising?

Week 34

BoringFish started carpooling to work with HuskyLady. The experience was interesting. Huskylady opted to be the main driver in this carpool collaboration, a plus for SleepyFish because I could just sit back and relax. The weekly learning from the carpool were: her sister unique parenting skill & her fascination about adult romance books. We finished the last disc of a 4-disc vampire-pirate adventure friction and the first 6 chapters in a vampires-warriors romance friction. One challenge we faced was to agree on a GO HOME time daily. She is a 45 hr/week engineer and has been whining about the work time conspiracy from KFC because BoringFish got her home late everyday this week. I really need to improve my time management otherwise, I will lose my ride!

Work week was stressful. Catching up, meetings, gauging project(I want to go to OH), bleaching trial, caliper trial, cost & ops (both machines on my own), and new trial planning, trouble-shooting and continuous picketing with vendors about cost and inventory were the key ones. “KFC quitted us liked a dirty shirt” one said. Rumors were flown high about his alternatives replacement(s)! I definitely missed him as a leader because he smiled too much now! He went to the dark sides!

My new nickname is "bad date", coming from " do you miss me ? " !

To ensure the quality of our pleasant work environment and excellent team spirit, PM1 got a new popcorn machines. Not to forget the spacious kitchen, with clean & practical appliances (washer/dryer/range/fridge), why do we want to go home when one can enjoy machine break movie on those flat screen TVs with a cup of coffee, hot dogs and butter pop corn?

Safety is not doing so well this week. My fave P&C, Lance got his finger pinched on fiber shutdown, so now we have a recordable. I talked to him at the start of the day, wished him a good and safe day. Now he is injured and we all felt for him. Hope he is doing ok. Then, last night, an operator went unconscious on the machine floor. And today, a fork lift got damaged. Recall about a week ago with the safety gold award, man, we need to work on SAFETY. THE RIR in the end of July was 0.68! That was fantastic!

Wed food nite with Eriko & Miss J took place at old town pizza in old town Portland. My fave Portland Pizza eatery. More later.

Hong Kong maths prodigy, aged nine, wins university place
七人壽司美食團
China's elderly care conundrum, an elderly home-assistance program? Any one?

Movies I saw this week:9 songs, a very sexually explicit movie. I can't say no more.

August is National Peach Month. These popular summertime fruits are believed to be native to China, where they represent longevity and good luck. Today, there are more than 700 varieties of peaches worldwide with about 300 kinds grown in America.

PS: I got home ok via another ride & let's just hope that Huskygalpal won't stay at work for the rest of the night.

Friday's Blue

It’s going to be a long night

My ride just lost her 4 hrs effort work doc on her pc. No saved or hard copy anywhere. It’s for the production today, tonight, and the weekend!!!!!! We will be here for awhile, at least another 5 hours.

She is NOT in her re-do mode. She is trying to recovery the document with IT help.

New Papa..sweet!

My nephew, very cute Enzo
Papa Ngai and baby

Double decker

Are Beverages Making You Fat?

Total calories in popular beverages:
Soda
Soda (20-oz. bottle) = 250 calories
7-Eleven Big Gulp (32 oz.) = 400 calories
Large movie theatre soda (44 oz.) = 550 calories
7-Eleven Double Big Gulp (64 oz.) = 800 calories
Tea and Coffee Drinks
Snapple Peach Iced Tea (16-oz. bottle) = 200 calories
Arizona Lemon Iced Tea (20 oz.) = 225 calories
Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino:
Tall (12 oz.) = 200 calories
Grande (16 oz.) = 260 calories
Venti (24 oz.) = 380 calories
Starbucks Caramel Macchiato Grande (16 oz.) = 270 calories
Starbucks Chai Iced Tea Latte Grande (16 oz.) 260 calories
Dunkin' Donuts, Coffee Coolatta (16 oz. w/2% milk) = 190 calories
Fruit Beverages
Jamba Juice: Banana Berry (classic smoothie):
16 oz. = 280 calories
24 oz. Original = 450 calories
30 oz. Power = 600 calories
POM Pomegranate Juice (16 oz.) = 320 calories
Orange Juice (pint container, 16 oz.) = 220 calories
Orange Juice (one cup) = 110 calories
Naked Juice, Orange Mango Motion (16-oz. container) = 240 calories
Odwalla Citrus C Monster (16-oz. container) = 300 calories
Country Time lemonade (12-oz. can) = 130 calories
Minute Maid lemonade (20-oz. bottle) = 260 calories
Flavored Waters and Sports Drinks
Vitamin Water (20-oz bottle) = 125 calories
Life Water (20 oz.) = 125 calories
Gatorade (20 oz.) = 125 calories

Chip outage and layoff

Elk Falls Division to curtail operations due to fibre supply disruption, bad news for them! See Catalyst corporate press release
Layoffs blamed on market slump, sucks!
Tribune Shareholders Approve Buyout, many changes in the industry

Week 33 Recap

Miss J took me to Bentomama B-day’s party. Great food and warmth people, later on, we met up with her uncle and aunt, and went to Oregon’s tulip capital, Woodburn for some window shopping. Dinner at claim jumper was a nice way to end a week of busy moving.

Movie I saw this week:
Me and you and everyone we know

For mathematician: Cleve Moler & Matlab.

Wednesday was Thai nite for the social group, another enjoyable event for all the nerds out at Hillsboro & Beaverton. I really liked this weekly 1X-socializing big group food feast. The social started with Eriko being here on his summer internship, and since he is moving back to the Pittsburg next Sunday, next Wednesday would be the last social for the group of all the CpE/EE/CS/ChE nerds. We are planning to get some booze and pizza.


Ball game was awesome! More later.

Flooding, earthquake and another mining accident, in the other side of the globe

Eastern China lashed by typhoon
Hopes fading for Chinese miners, another very deadly mine accident.
Peru earthquake

Pics from The Mariners game 8.14.07

What a memorable nite! The people, the run in with Big W, the food, the Babe Ruth suite and the alochol search! We were a bunch of trouble makers!!!!! I am looking forward to the 2008 meeting!

Toy recall sparks alarm over 'Made in China,' but U.S. firms share blame

This is so sad!

UT miners, news from CNN.

20 Things That Can Alter the Value of Your Home

Pretty fair advise, see details.

Increase home's value
1. An updated kitchen
2. Modern bathrooms
3. A well-appointed master suite
4. Natural materials
5. Curb appeal
6. A light, airy spacious feel
7. Good windows
8. Landscaping
9. Lots of storage
10. Basement

Decrease home's value
1. A pool
2. No garage or small garage
3. Garbled floor plan
4. Outmoded appliances or systems
5. Stale or overly personal decor
6. A bad roof
7. Bad location
8. Poor maintenance
9. Environmental hazards
10. A long list of needed home improvements

我懷念的

作詞：姚若龍
作曲：李偲菘
編曲：Martin Tang
製作：李偲菘

我問為什麼　那女孩傳簡訊給我
而你為什麼　不解釋低著頭沉默
該相信你很愛我　不願意敷衍我
還是明白你已不想　回首

＃想問為什麼　我不再是你的快樂
　可是為什麼　卻苦笑說我都懂了
　自尊常常將人拖著　把愛都走曲折
　假裝了解是怕真相太赤裸裸
　狼狽比失去難受

＊我懷念的　是無話不說　
　我懷念的　是一起作夢
　我懷念的　是爭吵以後　
　還是想要愛你的衝動
　我記得那年生日　也記得那一首歌
　記得那年星空　最近的右手
　在那的胸口　誰記得　(誰忘了)＊

REPEAT＃＊

我懷念的　是無言感動
我懷念的　是絕對炙熱
我懷念的　是你很激動求我原諒
抱著我的痛
我記得你在背後　我記得
我顫抖著　記錄感覺相擁
最美的煙火　最沉的相擁

誰愛的太脆弱　誰過頭愛了
誰要走我的心誰忘了那就是承諾
誰自故自走　誰忘了相處過
誰讓愛變沉重　誰忘了要給你溫柔

(我懷念的 )　
我還有想要愛你的衝動
我記得那年生日　也記得那一首歌
記得那片星空　最緊的右手　最暖的胸口

我放手　我讓座　假灑脫
誰懂我多麼不捨得
太愛了　所以我　沒有哭　沒有說

Ball game, what a fun night!

Mariners lost bad 11-3! Details later!

Guess what? News time again.

China inflation hits 10-year high, I guess it's not cheap to live there anymore, the cost is on the rise.
'Sharp rise' in Chinese patents
Modernization or deconstruction of a distinctive cultural, your view? Railway brings new era for Tibet; China's relocation of rural Tibetans, I still haven't gone on my backpacking trip to Tibet. Will there be anything left for me to see when I get there?

Who wants the whole piece of Godiva chocolate? Campell soup group is selling it, see Campbell seeks buyer for Godiva
In my opinion, the Australian man was not blinded by the internet love but from the ray of the gold dowry , see Australian taken hostage in Mali

Chinese bridge collapse kills 29; China's construction projects 'rushed'
YouTube wants to question Jon Stewart

Lunch at Thai place
MER incident at 1:30 PM, the patient was transported to the hospital!
Ichiro, there we come! Adidos to other hard working bees. A short day at the office, but it will be a long night on the road, we are heading up to Seattle for the Marinersgame.

Miss J, get well soon and check this out. We should work on it.

Who is gonna be my new boss?

Profit flash just came out. Profitability finally made plan for the 1st time this year~

My boss, KFC just made an announcement during lunch time that he is leaving the papermaking management world; he is moving over to the Sales department and becoming the general sales and marketing manager for the team. I can’t believe that I chased out another manager on my team, 3 managers transition in the last 10 months.
I am a little nervous about the title question, 10 of us that report to him directly have the same question since noon, 120 or so will have the same puzzlings, he has about 130 indirect reports.

SMT was on site today to present us the GOLD award! Hurray!

Simpsonized BoringFish & Emily

Thanks, MR.R

It's official, these are my shrubs.

I am a land owner now. Ok again.
Front
Back
(7.15.2007 to 8.10.2007)

China drinks its milk
Chinese have many bad habits? Really? No more splitting on someone’s shoe, no more pushing the old lady in front of you in a line and showing affection to one another by elbowing and punching, no more high decibels swearing chats. No more gawking at you. See Olympic crackdown on China's bad habits
Investment:Your Bad Credit Could Cost You $1 Million;
When a Simpler 401(k) Is Just Dumb
Apple Lover: Apple debuts new iMac computers
HK 'can demolish' colonial pier, BoringFish remembered boarding ferries from the Queen's Pier long time ago. It's pity that the pier may become a shopping mall and a highway. I think it is historically significant that they should keep it as a a historic monument!
Dengue fever a risk in south Texas, CDC says. Watch out Texans, Dengue fever is as lethal as WNV!

Dinner at Ridegefield

Several of us were invited to have a open house dinner at a vendor's new office at Ridgefield. Check out the 61 Corvette that my co-worker has. It's perfect for me, don't you think?

British movie fever

My summer of love; Intimacy; The Queen

Random, you know why?

Giada De Laurentiis & Alton Brown!
The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Supremacy & The Bourne Identity !

Safe and productive month of July, hurray!

Month end was yesterday and the numbers are out. PM1 speed record (4th month in a row), PM1 efficency above plan and the mill overall tonage reached record also! WOW WOW WOW $ $ $

Korean food

with Miss V and Miss J

Dating theory, work week 31, Lego Falcon

Duck boy is having trouble at home, and we are all feeling his blue. Things are getting pretty messy at home and I hope he can handle itwell, it's not easy.
He just spent a bunch of $$ and got himself a new toy: a truck and he dressed it liked a duck! It was a war between our cubicles as he dressed the office column with a huge duck flag, I guess he feels the need to decorate. He dares me to follow his trail with my orange/black flag. I will NOT fall for his nonsense.

This week was crazy with WORK , I survived a machine shut, surprise huh? Nevertheless I was well enlightened with Husky gal's the "CATCH & RELEASE" program. Am I a catch/keeper, I wonder?

Renia and Helenia are so cute! It was nice to meet Taka's wife, Noriko. Nice family.

Happy 30-days B-day! Enzo!

Portland Pop festival this weekend
A friend asked "How do you describe Oregon?", your views, please share?!!!!!
The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate (Paperback), I read from other reviews that this is a great self help book for relationship stuffs, but amazon users said so otherwise. I am curious about what other bloggers think of this.

Fisherman catches 'living fossil'
Richard sent this good read: Keep Your Eyes on Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
Another mill closure: Papermaking at Domtar ends
Super trees: The latest in genetic engineering
Avoid eating oversea farm-raised fish: Drug-Tainted Asian Fish Slip Into U.S., States Find

The feast

Korean Cuisine, we all love "Banchan飯饌" and enjoy Galbi.

Pajeon, Pancake with lots of green onions

One of my fave, very yummy sweet potato noodle, Japchae


We like it RAW!

The hard-core Korean cuisine therapy

Hard-Core Korean food eater, some are.

My chemical world has been a mess this week, so many fire to put out and I am very overwhelmed. Dye, biocide, retention aid, starch, peroxide are the big ones out of my very long list.........I can't wait to get Korean BBQ tonight and just chill!

Happy Birtdhay to KFC, my leader!
& "Dilution is the solution to Pollution" who said that?