土曜日, 9月 24, 2005
Shifting gears
This week will be the start of a whole new gear. Frank is getting me all excited about all these but I am ready. I guess I have to drop the 3-year plan afterall.
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Went out to dinner last Thursday with Veronica - a neat girl. We drove around Stanford Univ and found a nice Italian restaurant. She's a friend of my friend and we just hit it off. We talked about our career and how we both feel the need to shift gears. People may think we're both so career-driven, but it was a mutual feeling that life isn't all about climbing that corporate ladder afterall. We all make decisions whether to become the CEO or be the little homemaker back home. She did. I did too. We wrapped up the night in a Gordon bar nearby. Cheeers to our convictions! :)
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Martin and I stopped by the SportsMart first and I was absolutely delighted to have found a cool snowboard attire. I also found some real cool, not to mention cheap boards. I'm thinking about buying the board but I've done so much shopping already that my hands are full.
We had dinner at Krung Thai. Good food. Nice staff. Woozy air of old memories??? Nah~ I don't think so.
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I'd be back next week but I'm really looking forward to the Munich trip. I have a feeling Frank will want me to fly to Taipei in November to do the initial presentation of our team's inital accomplishment, that's perfectly fine! This is my life now and I am fully embracing it. Afterall, I always loved to be first. So....welcome back to the 'now a name, soon a legend' thing, huh!
# posted by Unknown : 9:06 午後
木曜日, 9月 22, 2005
Joy rides & U-turns
Another great find!
This tandem clicks?! You'll spend the whole night laughing your worries out with jokes and stories and fun stuffs these two guys are capable of (naturally) cracking out.
And mind you, they're shopaholics as well!
Life is great when you take time out to shop, enjoy nature, breathe cool air, eat at Denny's, chit chats about life's oddity and humor and U-turns in between.
U-turns???!!! Why not. There's no such rule in joy riding that prevents Us'.
This tandem clicks?! You'll spend the whole night laughing your worries out with jokes and stories and fun stuffs these two guys are capable of (naturally) cracking out.
And mind you, they're shopaholics as well!
Life is great when you take time out to shop, enjoy nature, breathe cool air, eat at Denny's, chit chats about life's oddity and humor and U-turns in between.
U-turns???!!! Why not. There's no such rule in joy riding that prevents Us'.
# posted by Unknown : 10:27 午後
Shopping Center a la Park
Stanford Shopping Center is a great find ~ if you just merely want to go window shopping and enjoy the breezy autumn day (or night).
Well, for those who just loves "branded", then this could be haven in Mountain View.
Well, for those who just loves "branded", then this could be haven in Mountain View.
# posted by Unknown : 10:20 午後
Stanford Shopping Center ~ A good find
Getting lost could be a blessing in disguise. Sherille, Hirahara, Ojisan and I got lost last night while we were trying to figure out the way to Target and Marshall shopping center. Instead we found Stanford Shopping Center. It was a great find. Nice place. Good branded stores. Cozy environment.
A great quick get-away from a hard day's work huh?!
A great quick get-away from a hard day's work huh?!
# posted by Unknown : 10:16 午後
水曜日, 9月 21, 2005
Is the search over?
I am about to do something that would probably change the shape of my future. I don't want to spoil things but I am hopeful that I get optimistic result. I have a feeling that my search for what I really want to do and what my true calling is finally over. Reflecting this thru, the recent sequence of events has slightly opened the door for me. I keep my fingers crossed at the moment.
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The week's been crazy so far and I still can't manage to win over my jet lag. I wish for a vineyard retreat. How nice would it be to just relax and taste wine and enjoy nature and escape from crazy urban life! Foolish of me to sit here in my hotel room at this hour of the morning, wishing and imagining for something that I could really do something about, if I tried hard enough.
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Next time a drive to Napa would be something to put in my TO DO list. hehehe.
# posted by Unknown : 7:42 午後
月曜日, 9月 19, 2005
Closing Cycles
I got up at 4am San Jose time feeling hungry and bought some chips and decided it's too late to go back to bed. Thus, opened my PC and started catching up with my hundreds of personal mails. Good thing about traveling is it forces me to stop and slow down with my life and have time for the other things that matter in life. Anyways, I received this email from Lerma, something that's worth posting. It's kind of an eye opener for me.
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Closing Cycles by Paolo Coelho
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist onstaying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters, whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.
Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents' house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long lasting friendship ended all of a sudden? You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won't take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust,just like that.
But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children,your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves,getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at astand still.None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us.
What has passed will not return: we cannot for ever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back.
Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. That is why it is so important (however painful it may be!) to destroy souvenirs,move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books youhave at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts, and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.
Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return; do not expect your efforts to be appreciated,your genius to be discovered, and your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.
Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, and decisions that are always put off waiting for the "ideal moment."
Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person, nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need.
This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult,but it is very important. Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, and shake off the dust.
Stop being who you were? and change into who you are.
# posted by Unknown : 9:19 午後
I worry about Mama
HB always say I shouldn't stick my nose out on other people's biz. But I can't help but worry about Mama. She's acting a bit too weird. If I am one hell of a crazy girl, I have no doubt she's even crazier. The pick-up service called me and asking why she hasn't showed up in Denver. I have no idea. I pray she'll find whatever it is she's really looking for.
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More goodbyes. Blesh is finally leaving. It's sad. A real loss for the company. But as life moves on. And things happen for a greater reason. Thus, I won't worry and I won't dwell in sad goodbyes.
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I moved my stuffs to my new cube before leaving. I wasnt expecting anybody in the office on a Sunday mid-afternoon, and guess who showed up, my oh my, my dearest. It's funny coz when I play it in my head, I remember Bruce Almighty asking for all the signs not seeing all the obvious ones...
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The week that passed me by was just simply so exhausting. I had two concurrent workshops in my hands. Had to play hosts to foreign team members. And I had to go on and do my usual day job.
# posted by Unknown : 2:54 午後
Thanks for visiting!