Em's Dailies..

Last night I celebrated my PMP certification with fellow BP members.

Taiju was complaining he's getting fat and he's started dieting, less carbo intake.

I found out that Mr. Greenboy used to ba heartthrob in high school, was playing with a professional band for 10 years, but since his son was born, he's never touched the guitar again, absolutely gone crazy for his boy he forgot his love for music.

Tera who has an evidence that he was harassed by Cutie-chan during the New Year Party. Amazingly, he doesn't remember a lot of things he did during the New Year Party. A case of being too drunk, I guess.

Aizawa-san was also present but had to leave earlier. Everybody's interested about his thoughts on Cutie-chan because he's been spending TOI time with him for the past month.

Sakura on the other hand showed her other side. They say she has a dark side because she's not yet married hahahah. She showed us her MY DARTS. Geez, toughie toughie huh!

Fukuba-san, the one who took the shot was fixated at Sakura. Tera constantly reminding him he's married. Oh well.

a. A friend who values your thoughts on love and loving.

b. A colleague who openly share points of view, however different it may seem.

c. People who attends your party just because they want to spend time with you.

Month-end. Whew~ Time flew fast. I hardly had time to think about January.


Is it an overstatement to say thatI hate my job just as much as I love it?

Month-end. Whew~ Time flew fast. I hardly had time to think about January.


Is it an overstatement to say thatI hate my job just as much as I love it?

Sidelines

There's something unexplainably poignant about this Monday morning.

The day seems fine. The sun's shining. There was a promise of Spring weather this week. And yet I can't seem to get my acts together. I can't seem to pick up cheerful thoughts. Am I really tired? Did I wake up at the wrong side of the bed?

Seint said you can like the life you live and you can live the life you like. I should. I guess I do. It's just that there are these undeniably empty days.

Ahh..tomorrow will be another day.

2006.01.28 Karuizawa Snowboarding

Temperature was 0-1 degree as shown in the thermometer but the sun was shining and the courses were basically thick ice covered with sprinkles of snow flakes that's why you can imagine how painful it is for crashes and falls.

I was practicing the back brake and the 'S' move instead of the basic zigzags and thus I suffered from numerous front falls with my knees taking the most blow. The ice was not so friendly and at the end of the morning, I almost couldn't stand up after every fall. So, after lunch I headed for the sports shop to buy myself knee caps, otherwise, today's snowboarding would be over for me.

For every fall I would ask myself the reason why I'm doing this? Eventually, I let go and decided to just have fun and not push it. Snowboarding is supposed to be fun, it's supposed to be a de-stresser.

Jeff & I were getting brave and we both agreed to go to the summit and from there descend. I found out that the summit was really freezing cold and the wind was just too strong. But I stunned myself by reaching the 1,155 meters length taking on both the beginner and yes! the intermediate routes. We've covered around 90% of all of Karuizawa's routes. I'm really getting good at this, huh?!

This weekend I learned how to relax my knees more and started trusting my balance. I've slowly learned to do the 'S' curve, a little bit of back braking and I learned that when I get off the lift I should take time, establish my bearing first and then let go. But the greatest learning should be 'NO PAIN, NO GAIN'.

I think I'll spend the next weekend back in Naeba where I can go cross-mountain. There are 4 mountains to counquer there and the snow surface is definitely friendlier.

Tidbits

Jeff said Chary is here for a month. But she's not going online and we don't know her phone number. I hope to see her before I fly to San Francisco in February.

Kozue would be resigning in April to pursue her master's. Sad to say goodbye to dear friends.

My PMP certificate and pin finally arrived and I'll be celebrating this achievement this week with people I'm thankful for in the office. Tera's idea is a barbecue party. I don't have time to fix my house and too tired to cook, so we'll just go somewhere to pig out and get drank.

Still no time for housekeeping. My laundry job doesn't seem to end. It's a mystery why.

Kung Hei Fat Choi!