Saving Money

For my upcoming trip to Korea, I've resorted to extreme methods to save money. Maybe I am exaggerating but learning the art of er ... discipline is surely beyond me. Here are few ways:

• canceling my monthly metrocard so that I walk to and from work every morning and evening
• bringing both breakfast and lunch to work everyday including cup ramyun and other obvious korean food. when i feel that the food is a bit extreme for the office, i go to a nearby park and eat it while reading a book
• not going out to eat, to drink, to socialize but instead maximizing the quality of gchat conversations throughout the day

ok fail. i haven't done much.

this is sad.

Tea

How often do you drink tea?

My new company has jars and jars filled with all assortments of tea and I love trying out a different ones about three times a day. But I don't really understand the purpose of tea, especially the caffeine-free ones. Is it just for soothing? I just get sleepy so .. soothing = sleepy? I honestly think I like the idea of "drinking tea" rather than actually drinking it because the act of it sounds so feminine and lovely. High tea, tea parties, tea pots, tea biscuits, tea saucers, tea sandwiches ... how feminine. Who wants to have a tea party?

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My Space

Maybe I should change the name of the blog to an “employee’s journal” since I will now write in the mid-afternoons of a work day so that I don’t shamelessly fall asleep on my cozy desk. I say cozy because the new job came with many upgrades: better pens, better space heater, and better desk (noted, it is listed in the order of importance). To the left of me are leftover dduk from this morning’s breakfast, inspired by Angela’s daily dduk and coffee breakfast routine, cold coffee from this morning, and a water bottle from The Coffee Bean on my recent vacation to LA. In front of me is obviously my monitor, my keyboard, small container of Vaseline, and Visine. To the right of me is my mouse and my giant phone with all these extensions I never use. My colorful pens are scattered all over my desk and I like to color code them as often as possible, now that I actually have the time to be organized and thus colorful. My outlook inbox has a total of 63 emails which is a huge progress from my last job where on my last day, my inbox had 36,000+ emails. No, I did not have folders and no, I did not organize because all of this meant leaving work even later than I was already leaving.

Breath of fresh air here. Figuratively and literally. I have my own space that I don’t share with enough room to stash all of my belongings underneath, beside, and above my cozy desk.

Loving life. Praise God.

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Hiatus

not by choice. i don't have a blackberry anymore so i can't blog while i commute, which defeats the purpose of a commuter's journal. hmph.

Annoyed

I was so excited to get up and listen to the new clazziquai album I downloaded en route to work but as soon as I set down on the bus, my ipod starts being a bit psycho and skips through the whole album repeatedly. What a letdown. I hope I can find the album on imeem today at work.

Current person sitting next to me:
Late 20s early 30s, still party hardy on weekends in the "azn nightlife" scene (yes. one of those), rapping silently but with his hand, reeking of aqua de gio. I hope I painted an accurate picture in your head.

Hah. I wonder what others say about me. I was hoping to see Sun so I can draw on him again.

relaxing

my idea of relaxing after a ____ day (fill in with a negative adjective) is playing bejeweled mindlessly while periodically facebooking and eating random things i find in the refrigerator while listening to clazziquai's new album.

am i weird?

Big Bang

Leaving with a big bang...

My mom always said that the ending is always more important than the beginning because that is what people will remember you by. This is something I've never been too good at, mainly through relationships, romantic and platonic. Well, I guess if it's a good and healthy relationship, there shouldn't really be an end right? But the ones that have an ending, I can't say that I've necessarily tried to give it a closure. In fact, most of them are tainted with a bitter taste, with the exception of a very few.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, when you have worked so hard at something and have devoted so much of yourself to just about anything, it's almost impossible to have a bitter ending... it's rather bittersweet. No matter how much I've hated so many moments while I was in it, as I'm making my way out, it leaves me feeling ... bittersweet. I owe it to myself to leave it with a big bang. You only try to give something a closure if it ever meant anything to you. Well, I guess it did for me.

Disclaimer: David and I are still happily together. In fact, today is our 11th month!