i was just remarking to ser this morning that it's been such a long time since i blogged and she was like ya, you shd blog!
alright that was yesterday as in wed, jan 13.
i have realized that when i don't have deadlines, i tend to slack. a LOT. and be very unmotivated. basically i just wrapped up a case, and the reports were due monday. so the week before i worked late on tues, wed, fri (manager let me off on thurs cos i had tickets to go watch cirque [yay!]), came in on sat and sun. i calculated it was a 70-hr week and have NO idea how i-bankers survive... it really wasn't very fun. anyhow, thankfully the CEO gave us tuesday off :):) i was very happy, it felt like time for the ACTUAL weekend on monday night. and then when i came in on wed i was curious to find out what case i'd be staffed on cos jem's like "20march! tahoe!" and i'm like well... depends on when my next report is due. anyhow. came in for 1.5 hrs with nothing to do (again! gosh, you can't imagine how useless one feels).
and then my first proj mgr gave me a case to work on. but it's pretty far on out and there aren't even that many documents to work with [i guess that's good, better than overload] so i'm just summarizing patent license agreements now. but i'm back to being slack, that i can feel... i guess i need to set my own deadlines else i just float along.
yesterday i was so tempted to go to sushi with my coworkers! but i brought lunch. ah well. and it would've been kind of ex... but i also realized that it's a trade-off between spending $ and getting to know them better. so i guess maybe half the time i should eat out and the other half i can bring stuff. it's also slightly annoying that we STILL don't have a kitchen cos there's no fridge and i can't leave stuff lying around. although today's lunch (portobello mushroom panini) is going to have to sit around until i leave, at least sandwiches are less problematic in that sense i think. anyway it was hilarious, when steve (my 2nd proj mgr) saw that i was going to get lunch with them his jaw dropped and he gave me this utterly SHOCKED look and held it for a while cos i didn't notice at first. rofl.
the funny thing is that i think the staying late thing helped me bond with the rest a bit. like, i'm more comfortable with stopping by offices and asking how things are going. and there was something else but i forget.
mmm. i think i shall try to make pan de sal tonight. :D am excited. and matt gave me his banana bread recipe! also excited about that, but probably not making that just yet... we shall see. he said the measurements aren't exact cos the recipe's at home in minnesota.
anyway the whole getting tuesday off threw me off kilter a little cos it felt so much like a weekend that i thought today is tuesday when it's really thursday... ah well. next weekend! woohoo. and moving. haha. time to unpack in the new house for real! yayyy.
a fortuitous food day!
no seriously, it's so weird... i suppose it kind of makes up for my not having had tea (sob). was supposed to go to lisa's tea treasures (yes, it IS one of those out-of-a-storybook places) w jackie after her LSAT, but they said they were FULL! man, can't believe they're that popular. but actually in this rich neighborhood it probably shouldn't be very surprising. anyhow, we had crepes instead. (and it was 2:30 by then). anyhow, after eating the galette (savoury crepe) i was like hmm maybe i should've ordered a sweet crepe instead cos i love sweet stuff! but, too late. so, too bad.
so somewhere along the way back jackie & i were talking about sprinkles cos it was one of the things she was really looking forward to while holing herself in her apartment LSAT-ing, and she said she'd probably go sometime... after taking orders from different people and ordering. and then when i got home, dayoung brought sprinkles home!!!! so exciting. she went with her big sib to stanford shopping center. and of course i couldn't resist and i ate half of it (which, incidentally, is 242.5 kcal). it's really amazing how many calories these dessert things are... cheesecake factory is just as bad/even worse.
anyway, so for dinner we went with dawn & friends to go eat dumplings at cupertino. and i know ranch99 is in cupertino but you know, it's asian town so the dumpling place could be anywhere right. but it turned out to be at cupertino village, which is where ranch99 IS! so yayyy i got my hello panda! :) which i was also talking about with jackie while driving her back from LSAT. and then cupertino village also reminded me of how we used to go with sean & joel to grocery-shop/eat there, and how daryl devoured 13 packets of pocky in 2 days, and ... and then i just (very randomly) caught sean online and he & jia'en are coming for thanksgiving! so exciting.
speaking of which i still need to figure out thanksgiving and winter break.... eeks. in the midst of markstrat-ing (this business simulation with TONS of info we need to assimilate) and recruiting (i think i've like 8 apps due this week) i think i'm going to go crazy soon... i so need God's grace this quarter. and i really hope i have a job by the end of this quarter! and that my grades don't go down the drain!
man. yay for staying up to do PWR, at least i have company online. haha. just now cs was up, kiat's up too (cos we're pretty much in the same boat, except that i'm not really rewriting my entire paper, which is nice). and also I really thank God for Jackie, she's probably saved my ass countless times (with regard to having to wake up to do work and not waking up cos I'm too tired/have no more willpower). haha. I can't remember if Tomi did that for me last year, if she didn't it's probably cos I had less trouble getting up I think. but I know I had to go over and poke her sometimes cos she'd have to get up to study and such. us poor college kids!
anyway i suddenly crave fishball noodles. the ones that we used to have wayy back in pri school. yellow noodles and fishball/fishcake! yum. sigh. anyway here's a pic, doesn't really look the same but it's the closest i guess. 
oh and zhixiu the silly giraffe is here! how fun. i think i should be able to get to see him on wed.. hopefully. tmr (or today, really) is ridiculously busy. after pwr i have to come back and work on my music introsem presentation, then my art midterm proj (i'm drawing llamas! haha)
okok my goal is to finish this at 7 (i.e. in 3.5 hrs time) so i can get another 2 hrs of sleep, we'll see. blaaah.