JeniuZ's Xanga

My own breed goldfish !!!

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:01:40 GMT

Last Saturday I saw one of my male Ryukin chasing another female Ranchu... As I was always anticipating the spawning will occur sometime soon, I've quickly removed them from the main tank and placed into the breeding tank.

After two hours of work, the female finally laid hundreds of eggs that were soon fertilized by the Ryukin =)

It usually takes 3-4 days for the eggs to hatch. As I'm a beginner, I was quiet surprise that they did hatch !! There are at least 100 frys in my little tank.

After another three days, they are starting to swim and looking for food. Here is a close-up pic of two fishes which are 4 days old.

I am so happy and excited !

My 9 days U.S training ^o^v

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:38:49 GMT

Sorry for the late update, no I'm not busy, I'm just being very lazy these days lol ! Anyway, photoes first then the texts will be coming in shortly.

The Hotel - Sheraton Great Valley

Now let me take you a visit of my hotel...

Outside view

Photo was taken at a Sunset. Believe it or not this is 8:30pm EST! The hotel does not look furnished and modern as the ones you normally see in cities, but that's what so special about it - a grand suburban hotel!

Very clean and tidy toilet and washroom.

My wardrobe. As I was staying for 5 nights, I make sure my outfits were hanged tidily.

My view from bed. Desk with wireless internet access (but I didn't bring my wireless card). And a TV filled with expensive entertainments.

Nice comfortable couch for reading and talking on the phone!

Extremely large bed with 2 cushions and 2 pillows !! I can roll-over triple times without falling off.

Suburban view of West Chester

The streets were extremely quiet even at 5pm. Looks so dead and dull.

This the place where my generous Taxi driver took me to fetch food after I complained that the hotel foods' were too expensive =P

Appetites on MAIN take-away !

Just takin' pix =)

I don't know what this is , maybe a local court or something. It's near my office.

As you can see, the streets were very quiet as well, even at noon!

Here is side view of my West Chester office. This where the main office of Moody's Economy.com is located. Economy.com owns the fourth and fifth floor and planning on expanding.

Here are just some random shots on my way to hotel. It's very green and outback looking doesn't it?

This is the Exton Shopping mall, the place where I spent $700USD in two days !!! OMG!

If you're paying attention, I'm sure you'll noticed that the Americans are very fond of plants and trees...

Foods

Foods were probably the least anticipated part of the trip (hence showing to you last). That was because I'm trapped in the hotel and it's inconvenient to go to a local restaurant without a car. Anyway I tried my best to get the most of what I can !

Caesar Salad lunch, my colleagues are telling me the American sizes are much larger.

This is probably the best thing I ever ate in US - the CRAB CAKE. I ate it at the 'King of Prussia Shopping Mall' - one of the largest shopping mall in the world.

Disgusting Philly-steak-burger... Where's the steak?!

Fried Salmon with Rice ate at the hotel's restaurant.

Inside the restaurant.

Rib-eye steak near the outback steakhouse next ot my hotel.

Chouda-seafood-soup

Grilled-Taryaki beef at San Francisco fastfoods.

Colleagues:

Megan, a new girl for data training just like me, but she's from the US office.

Andrew, our mentor during our first week's training. He knows a lot about the NBA and Basketball. He even knows Randy Foye who plays for Timberwolves in the NBA!

Words from myself

Forthcoming...

Flying to US TODAY !

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:46:30 GMT

I will be catching a long 20 hours flight to U.S today for a one-week training with Moody's Economy.

During this trip, I will be picked up by a chauffeur in a 'town car' at the airport and to my hotel - SHERATON !!!

The next day I will be going to a morning tea to meet and greet all the new employees @ 8am. OMG ! The rest of the week will be just training for my role.

I should return to Sydney on the 15th Sunday.

Flying to U.S - Very Soon

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:44:45 GMT

Just received my itinery from my company. I'm quiet overwhelmed, did a quick calculation and the entire trip is worth at least $x,xxx.xx USD !!!

Oh today at the office we had a guessing jelly bean game, where we had to guess how many jelly beans are contained in the jar. Without too much thought, I put down a 4 digit number - 1018 .

Good luck Annie~ GANBADE Tomorrow =) !!!

Working on Queen's B'day

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:13:43 GMT

I was the first arriving at the office this morning on a public holiday, so I took the opportunity to take a photo of myself in the office, (cos usually this place is flooded with a large crowd of people)...

Ta ~da ! ! !

I so desperately wanting to have a break ~ ToT

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Haven't had time to introduce the people I hang with at work...

My team... FRET = Fix Rate Entry Team, we fix loan for our clients =D

This pic was taken during our TRIVIA NIGHT PARTY last Thursday.

From left: Eric, Me, Benson, Caroline (back, our team leader !!), Lancy and Avni...

Apparently we are the only team in the floor with so many Hongkies in one group!! Last time a Chinese IT person came to my desk and saw our name tags, he said, "This area here, just like working in a Hong Kong office ! "

Today another 12 hours...

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:34:57 GMT

Worked my third OT in two weeks @ Macquarie Bank... 又一次響公司到熬13個鐘 ToT...

呢排自己很多心事呢﹐所以每逢放lunch便獨自行落Circular Quay散散心...

Not so pleasant.

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:23:52 GMT

Started work at Macq. Bank, had a pretty good team, young and energetic and nice pplz.

We've been very busy lately, and I worked 50 hrs on my first week. Including 2 OTs , 1 Saturdays. I also took a partial day sick leave due to swollen gum infection of my wisdom tooth >_<"

I took my little brother and his cousin (aged 6) to cinemas today. The little kid had been well known for always misbehave, and I shouldn't have taken him along. After 1 hour into the movie, that kid decided to stand up, talking loudly and jumping around... =_=. At the end, I need to ask my aunt to pick him up from the cinemas and take him away.

Other things hasn't been too pleasant either. If you have watched CLICK!, this is the part of my life where I want a fast forward.

Becoming a Fish Hobbyist...

Tue, 08 May 2007 20:13:52 GMT

I've recently installed a new 220 L tank to cater the needs of my 45cm white Koi. The big fish and its accompanies seems to like the new house pretty much. I will upload photoes later.

Just a side story, I have received an offer from Moodys Economys.com, that's the second offer I will be declining since I've accepted the role from Macquarie Bank. Life's so ironic, why don't they come earlier?! Anyway I'm already looking forward working with Macquarie Bank so I guess it's fine.

Lastly, I saw this pic of Twin's Ah Sa, I couldn't stop laughing because it looked so fake! I wonder which movie is this.. XDD

Oh, and I watched Spiderman 3 yesterday with Kwun and Henry. It was a pretty good film and has a great storyline to seal an ending for the previous two Spiderman movies. Go Spidey !

Interview x 落大雨

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:43:24 GMT

今日去左面試... 點知一入到來有三個人見我...可能我見識少﹐一般int 我果D都係單對單 or 2 對 1... 好少o甘大陣將 !

出奇地拒地講左10分鐘都沒就interview完 O_o ... 我都吾知比咩反應好﹐所以唯有自己lurr 多幾句﹐問左拒地幾個問題便走luu 。

一行出棟Building見到出面狂風暴雨 (明明20鐘前仲好地地)。沒有帶雨具的我唯有無可奈何地濕晒個身。當時既情景令我想返Cathy之前都好似都嘗試過o甘既經歷, 哈哈。吾駛2分鐘我由頭到腳都已經濕晒﹐我望到鏡裡的自己﹐真係不敢相信我今日係來見工的。

Black Friday Interview ?!

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:46:31 GMT

OMG ~ today is Black Friday, and I have selected today for my second round interview with a finance company. Why did I do that !!!

So nervous >.<"

Annie must be enjoying herself at Korea now. (Hope you're having great fun la! )