Work work.

Just found out today that the Vendor coming for the big project I'm signed up for is......as my other boss put it "green as grass." IT boss told Controls boss and me that he isn't an expert (we had assumed so) and is just someone who is willing to go through the project to learn. AKA he knows even less than I do...he's a SQL programmer for Weyerhaeuser somewhere and wants pulpmill experience.Gah!

The rest of this week is for me to research this system as much as possible and contact companies to give demos.

Pretty excited to take on something new, but at the same time...my IT boss always does this, lol. We haven't even closed up our old projects and we prob won't. I'd do it but I don't have the access to. /shrug!

Kick up progression has not gone any further! I can't get past the point I'm at >< Due date is this weekend too...

Am I coming back this weekend? I don't know. I'm really starting to detest wasting 8+ hours each weekend going back and forth...

Hmm walking thing. I'm getting DESTROYED by everyone else and the teams. Well, I don't count the teams since they get to add their kms together...must...walk...more! Went with Marvin and Wilson to Bear Creek the other day but they didn't want to walk past the section that had a bear and deer warning sign.

Maybe I shall go today...weather is still nice and sunny...or wait I need bread for sandwiches...walk to store? Both? Hm....

~EJ

Meep.

Blargh. I am now scheduled for a large project that kicks off...right after our July trip to Lake Louise. More manuals to read, yay!

Lets see...goals. I haven't been doing half of them, haha. Haven't picked anything for guitar yet, and I have yet to do all the organizing I said I'd do...

I joined a walking distance challenge at work. I think I've talked about this before. Anyways, that is going well. The weather is nice which is helping a lot, though I don't mind walking in light rain...probably not too healthy though.

Kick up progress > I have finally gotten the hang of using my arms as well...and I get that "air" feeling. Then I land on my back or ass. Maybe my butt's too big...I dunno! I just need like a little bit more but I can't get it! xD Like Damien said, it's sometimes hard if no one is watching you. You can't watch yourself...I guess you can record yourself. But yeah, I dunno what I look like and it would help a lot if someone could comment, haha! I keep telling myself to watch videos of people doing it but haven't gotten around to that...

Eep. My storywriting/copying due date is tomorrow too. I was supposed to get to the point where they get branded as l'Cie (for those of you who know FFXIII). Haven't done much editing either...I keep changing my mind. That's the hard part I guess...deciding to leave the sentence as is and stop to fixing it :D

As Osaka would say..."get it together, get it together..."

~EJ

Weekend!

Whoops! I was going to post yesterday but Blogger was down....

Anyways! Edmonton on the weekend! But there wasn't enough time >< sis and I were like bat pohs (Hakka accent...) the whole time. Blargh! Lots of...pirated goods hm hm hm >D Pokemon was extremely hilarious...."let us unica the world!" or something....it was bad English, half Spanish, and random Jap parts. Uhm, yeah...just lots of catching up...

We watched Prince of Persia! I liked it. The ending was kinda bleh but whatever. I'm easily entertained...

Haha! The gas station attendants recognize me now..."Hey you were here 2 weeks ago!" OTL "Yes...." Other attendant: "Do you have a points card blah blah or rewards thing blah blah." First attendant: "No, she doesn't, I remember from last time." XDDDDD

So yeah....that was my weekend...nothing crazy. Hopefully next time I can chill with some OTHER ppl next time....you know who you are :D and do stuff....I still haven't gone to Southgate yet..or bought new sneakers...or bought any new clothes since 2010 started actually. OTL

Omg I forgot about Judge Judy! GO TV GO FASTER.

Hm. Oh, I signed up for this walking goal thing at work. 684 km, which is from here to Banff...we have 1 month to complete that challenge...so I guess I will be walking...maybe...might not happen....my coworkers were telling me to just shake it like 5000x times everyday at 6 pm or something. I virtually backhanded them....too bad it got rainy!

I have a story to copy too, to refresh my writing skills...

~EJ

Dx

Haha. Downloading software...is never easy. Spent 3 hours on the phone to figure out that the problem was our anti-virus. Now before I get flamed from computer ppl, yes we probably should have turned it off, but again, this is a corporate/business server so simple things like that have to go through a certain and timely process.....same for restarting a machine. Bleh!

On the bright side, since the vendor will still be here tomorrow, he will be giving a presentation on the software instead of me. I'm actually totally comfortable with doing it, but might as well use the expert, right? :D

VJ is back! and jetlagged! Mahaha.

Man, there's never enough time.....

~EJ

Vendorrrr Visit!

A guy from another company came to upgrade one of our programs. I'm totally in charge. Of course, technical difficulties decided to attack today. Do I need to say overtime? :( For once, the vendor looks like his voice, if that makes sense. Young guy, and comfortable to be around, so there isn't really any awkwardness that you usually get from hanging around with a stranger for an entire day. Hopefully everything works out tmr.....the server I connect to decided to fail on a critical upgrade, wiping all user configurations on that box too. Good thing I saved everything on a networked drive since bad stuff happened when we had the blackout D:

New stuff, new stuff......still can't do a kick-up....I get that feeling of momentum every few tries but then I rush and end up falling on my ass. Well, no. My back.

VJ comes back to Edmonton today around 8:30 pm or so! Excited to visit her and see my mom this weekend. I bet she's black. Jk! Jk. She won't let me keep the ps3 though :( Should I just...not bring it with me?! Mahaha. She doesn't have her license so not like she can drive to come get it....just kidding again.....VJ's the boss :(

So nice outside....I want to....sit with my laptop. But then that kinda defeats the purpose, so I just have the patio door open. I'm so lame, haha! Though the grass in front of my patio thing is gross compared to everyone else's. Grass greener on the other side deal there.

Really itching for a road trip!! That road trip! Bring music guys!!

~EJ

Saturday...

Didn't do a lot today...just a lot of WoW and random stretching. Weather's pretty gloomy here, but heard it's the same in Edmonton D:

Jaw & ear still hurts/is sore. Kinda annoying. I had a really, really long cavity fill or something a long time ago. My mouth was open so long that.....that part that connects your jaw to your skull....it sticks out a lot more than normal when I open my mouth...but only on one side....and that's the part that hurts. Hurm.

Sore all over from doing push ups and trying to kick up yesterday. xD I still can't do a full push up...just the girly ones OTL Such a shame D:

Heard a nice guitar melody on a commercial, but I never get Shazam open in time to see what it is when it plays, haha! For those who aren't familiar, Shazam is an app you can get and it tells you what song is playing. Really useful when watching tv, in the movies, or radio and you missed the song name :D I gave it some random Asian songs and random anime songs and it got them so it's not too bad. Seems to pick up even when tv ppl are talking over the music most of the time. I highly recommend! Some of the comments complain that it can't pick up new songs, but well, duh! Their database or whatever probably isn't updated if the song is really new....

Food is a problem nowadays....I can't eat everything before it expires. Damien! :( I'd buy a normal loaf of bread but I get through like half....and I really don't want to eat bread for all 3 meals, haha. I guess it saves money though!

A lot of ppl are asking me about Grey's Anatomy too. What's going on?! D:

~EJ

Restart...again!

Whoops! I kind of just let this blog thing drop.....I'm not doing a lot with my life right now though, so I'm gonna start again just to keep me on track. There's a lot of things I want to accomplish but I'm a lazy person and I have no motivation.

So......first thing due for tomorrow to to book that cabin for the Lake Louise trip....I haven't done that yet ><

I got a calendar but I went and left it at work so I can't write down goal dates OTL great start, right? Haha.

So not much to say here....really excited for Prince of Persia though....grr!

My goals are going to be small things...the first one I have set in my head right now is to learn how to do a kick-up....by June 19th....that's more than enough time. The trouble is getting through the fear like with most of the Hapkido things >< at least for me anyways...and before Damien yells at me, I have more than enough space in the living room to do it :D Don't worry! I won't break things!

~EJ

Uhhhh......

Catch up time! Kinda distracted by the song currently playing on my iPhone though. "....touch my ass, feel my lips, smell my skin, lick...." eh heh heh....don't ask. VJ GAVE IT TO ME.

I FEEL SO RELIEVED now that I'm done my term paper. Whew. My fault for procrastinating it though.....came home yesterday and just worked it till 10:00 pm. Then I submitted it and crashed. Mang. Officially 6 days, almost a week! without my Lightning.

Weather is so nice out. I went for a little walk right after work. Wish they had some equivalent of Lake Beaumaris though...there is this sidewalk that goes halfway to my workplace, but I dunno. I might be attacked by rabid deer or something. It's kinda out there.

Things of excitement.....OH. I am buying a Lion for those of you who don't know already. Going through discussions with the people but their English isn't very good and my Chinese/Malay is non-existant so it's kinda hard getting specific details out of them....isn't it pretty though?!

It will pretty much look exactly like that....this default is already so beautiful...but I might throw some personal customization in there...

They have red and blue in this style as well, but that's pretty much exactly like the ones we have at JQLDT. There's also pink....but...the response was "ugh!" (I'm sorry Vivian) Hopefully they have more colors....what do you guys think will go good with the green one? I'm getting one for now but maybe another in the future to pair them...color coordination go! Gooooold...? Reminds me of the UofA colors...errrrk.

Mmm...

~EJ

Hoboman.....sick!?

Oh no! Damien's sick :( he made funny coughing noises at night and got me to pick him up from work early because he had those dizzy headaches. He had a sore throat for the past 2 days too....hm! I'm really bad at diagnosing these things; seems like all the symptoms are the same....hope he feels better by the time we head back this weekend!

Speaking of which, I was going to ask my boss to leave an hour early at 3:30 pm on Friday. Damien managed to get hours that end at 4:30 pm so we can leave for Edmonton and get there before it's too late at night. I was going to ask after a teleconference I had with Rick. Unfortunately, during the teleconf, Rick asked for the Vendor to come down here Friday for a day to help us prepare for shutdown. Darn it! I suppose I could still ask but it costs money for us to have a Vendor here (obviously) and Rick'll want to milk a good 8 hours out of the guy......

There are 7 people in my office area counting me. 3 of those guys took a one-week vacation. One guy is a tech so he's out and about. This week is freedom friday for one guy. It's supposed to be freedom friday for Rick too, but that would leave only me in the office and i'm a dumb-ass so he needs to be here. Meaning! There's only going to be Rick and I here on Friday to deal with the Vendor visit. Rick's been super stressed this week because he has to pick up for those 3 guys that are on vacation....so I'll most likely be working with the Vendor on my own. MEANING. I have to be there for the full 8 hours Friday....maybe even OT. Darn it!! We see, we see....I wanted to get back earlier to see some LD :(

Anyways, enough whining from me....time to make dinner and play with Lightning! Nah. I should be taking care of hobo...maybe he got sick because he spent all his energy making this delicious and amazing dinner for me yesterday.....oh, that's Hainan chicken rice too....not just normal rice...

:( Get well soon!

~EJ

Monday....

Nothing to report. Except that I got raped by all the monsters in Gran Pulse on FFXIII. This game is pretty hard....

Damien works from 1:00 to 9:30 pm today. I lazy to cook so fast food it is!

Work is getting busy....not much to say...haha.

Should start on making my school schedule for Fall and Winter. I gotta do some catch up now. Kinda looking forward to going back....who am I kidding. I don't want to go back to school, haha. I have 1 week and 2 days to do my work term paper too. Meh.

Sis and mom are going back to Brunei. I was thinking of going on a trip to Lake Louise again. Darn. Planning planning....

Snowed 5 cms today. Still somewhat snowing. Sigh. My car wouldn't stop yesterday too. The road was a sheet of ice and I just kept going and going and going....by the time I stopped I was in the middle of an intersection......I seriously went a really goddamn long way.....good thing the car going perpendicular to us saw me coming and stopped in time....then it happened again at the next intersection, but I stopped even earlier and just let myself skid slowly....Damien's screams were very distracting though. JOKING. Joking, he just said "whoa."

I also made a discovery today. If you pull up your windshield wipers they won't get snow and ice frozen on them. I realized this after noticing that about half the cars in my usual parking row had theirs pulled up. Silly me for not figuring this out sooner xD Oh, I washed my car the day before it snowed too. Blargh!

~EJ