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| well i guess i'll come back to blogging. one of these days i might make it over to facebook. heh. iono. i barely have time to check these things anymore. too preoccupied with "more important" things...like getting enough sleep. but anyway, wow...how time flies. one year older and a *little* heavier  hahah...who am i kidding, a little...but all is well in my neck of the woods, at least from what i can tell. currently work is work, but i'm making the best of it. taking advantage of what my employer has to offer...free tuition. well after a year or so of classes, i applied for grad school at USC...and i got in!! yay!! the class i'm taking now is whoopin and taxing me good. after this course, only 6 more and my MS is in sytems archtecting and engineering will be complete. how long it takes for me to complete the 6 is yet to be seen...quite a few opportunties at work to take advantage of and yet to see if i will be able to get selected... well until next time...hopefully soon... | | |
| happy burfday to me...!! ... one year older, one year wiser, or so it may seem. the 2-6...
well, i'm at work....why? cuz I got bills to pay... oh well..its all good i guess. i think i'm starting to feel the old-ness kicking in....
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| Last few days have been crazy. One of the production boxes went down, so we had a couple of Sun techs come out to try to assess and fix the problem. So where do I currently stand? Last 3 days, 19 hours of OT, and the time today since 9am. Money is good, but is it worth it, esp on the weekend? Well, I think we're starting to get somewhere finally. Slowly...and I mean s-lo-w-l-y. | | |
| Back from the Motherland An update!!!!
Yea, well after several months of nothing, I decided to blog again. Well, its been quite a while, but not much has changed. Just a little older, a little wider wiser, yea yea ok...wider too.
Currently I'm totally jet-lagged from my trip back from China on Monday. My sleep cycle is generally off, but this is whack. It doesnt help the fact that I caught some "something"  while over there and i'm coughing up a lung. But its pretty much the tail end of it. How far the tail is, I dont know. So somehow I make it home after work and I just crash. I slept until like 7:30ish, but then I say F-this, so I sleep until like about 2:30a when I wake up to check email, shower, eat breakfast, wash-up and get ready to go to work. Yes, I know...ridiculous, but its not bad since I start work early anyway. As I was checking my mail, I was surprised to see lighting in the mountains and I though, WOW!!!... Anyway, I left the house at 4:30 with an outside temp of 86 degrees!!!! outside.....and I thought China's weather was bad. On my hour drive to work, I saw more lighting flashes and strike with rain. Wonderful weather...hopefully its a little cooler today.
Well, back to my trip. It was great fun and quite an experience. It was a 10-day tour of China, of 4 cities of Beijing, Xi'an, Guilin and Shanghi. Usually when I travel, its usually with family, and we travel in packs =D. We were a group of 10, out of our tour of 31 ppl. The people on our tour, ranged from people from Jersey, LA and Washington, but I was oldest "kid" there....lol.
In Beijing, we stayed at the Crowne Plaza hotel. Those that came from LA, had the first day to ourselves, because all of the others would be arriving later in the day. So we had breakfast provided at the hotel, then after we unpacked into our room, we set off onto Wangfujing Rd and walked around. Just amazing at how much construction is taking place, mostly due to the Olympics set to occur next year. There is so many places to go around to shop. One thing is that KFC is liked a lot in China. Our tour leader made a joke about the popularity of KFC, how it doesnt stand from Kentucky Fried Chicken, but rather Keep Fat Coming. Since dinner was on our own, we tried this place across the street, which was recommended by our local guide. Well, it turned out to be so-so. No A/C. ugh. Maybe to our standards, it wasnt good, but maybe to them its up there. Not to mention that the food in northern China, is different from that of the south, to stuff that most we (or I) am accustomed to. So this trip opened my eyes to that. But just to try the food is an experience in itself.
The highlights in Beijing were obviously the trip to the Great Wall. Amazing. LOTS of people. Very scenic, depending on the path taken. The scenic path section had 8 posts. My brother, cousin and I completed all 8. And it is not that easy. It was cool to see my grandma and mom climbing it.  It was quite a tiring, but good, experience.
The Terra Cotta warriors in Xi'an were cool. Amazing how they're built all by hand with the sand. our local guide studied english in college and majored in history, so she spoke english quite well. Main thing in Guilin was the Li river boat trip.
Shanghi is real nice. Expensive, but real nice. I wouldnt mind going back here again and visiting all the hundreds of malls that are around. haha. Interesting trivia....most expensive part on a car in Shanghi? the license place. US$20,000 w/ a yearly US$7000 congestion fee. Speaking of places, there's acutally a Hooters in Shanghi  . Didnt get a chance to visit and try the wings, but def a spot to hit up. There was also a place called "Paramount" which is a night club. looked nice during the day. Another item to add to the checklist. The Yu Garden was interesting, its in the heart of Chinatown. hahaha. Also, the type of food served....mmmmmmm. who likes fermented tofu?! =X
Anywho, the trip was a good cultural exposure as well as a minor history lesson...except the chinese opera part  But a lot of things, I come to find out, are NOT as they were back in the day. Like some of the buildings were built with the old look to add to the old surrounding buildings. I got plenty of pics, over 1700 of them. Don't got any, since i'm at work. hehe....update later.
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acutally...you can check out my cousin's pics.... http://picasaweb.google.com/kloricacid
i'll add to these later.
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| took this from Howie...
-------------------------------------------- i got this email from an uncle in texas. thought id spread the word this way as an alternate approach to sending forwarded emails. If you've read the NY best selling book "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Change (who later commited suicide), you'd know about the massacre in China in the late 1930's. The following is a worthwhile cause, won't cost you a penny, only two minutes of your time to sign up. The world has heard and seen the Holocaust, but not the Nanking Massacre. This is our opportunity to show what Imperial Japan did to the Chinese. Ted Leonsis, Vice Chairman of AOL and owner of Washington Capitals hockey team, spent over a year and his own money to make a documentary film about the massacre in Nanking when the Japanese army invaded the city in 1937.
During a two weeks period, the Japanese killed over hundreds of thousands of innocent Chinese citizens and raped tens of thousands of women and young girls. It is a history that we cannot forget. But some Japanese nationalists tried to change history and deny what happened almost 70 years ago.
Ted's production company has done a great deal of research. They found and collected over 500 hours of historical film footages, interviewed many war survivors in China, and even talked to Japanese soldiers who took part of the killing. This is a very powerful movie. It is now accepted by Sundance Film Festival and will be shown at the festival in mid January 2007 (Check out Ted's Take - Nanking Film Accepted at Sundance). Ted's goal of making this movie is to let every one in the world to see what the Japanese did to Chinese and he wanted the Japanese government to apologize to the Chinese people. Ted's team created a web site to educate people about the upcoming film and they wanted to collect one million petitions from people wanting to see the movie when it is coming out. Ted sent the following message to a group of people asking for help. As a member of this Chinese community, I strongly encourage every one of us to support this effort by signing your own name, asking your family to sign their names, and forward the message to your friends and others in your community. We need to show the world that we as Chinese will never forgot nor allow history to be changed because it suits the Japanese.
Please visit the web site http://nankingthefilm.com . When you get there, put your name, city, state, country and email to show your support for this movie. Thank you for your support.
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