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Friday, December 27
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7:41 PM:
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off to the northwest, i have my cell if you want to say hi really bad. have a happy new year everyone!
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Thursday, December 26
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3:07 AM:
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Also, I forgot to mention that Jeff and Perenic’s blogs celebrated their one year anniversaries with little fanfare on the 10th and 14th respectively. Yay for them.
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2:52 AM:
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Only three more days and Tom will have made the one month no blog mark! Tom? You listening? I’m definitely going to deblogrollyerass if you don’t get your act together, then if you make it back on you’ll be on bottom, below Ques! He just started his and it doesn’t even work right now, but I know he posted more recently than you.
I think it would be neat if everyone had RSS feeds for their blog so I could have the blogroll ordered by who’s posted most recently. I am planning on setting up one for mine and a photoblog in the near future (as you can see from the not yet implemented links on the left).
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2:03 AM:
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Yesterday night (24th) Adam and I went to Vision for their Retro Eve. Vision is where they have Spundae - which I’ve been meaning to get to for a while – some of the best clubbing events in the nation. Anyways, the place is cool. Adam and I arrived shortly after 9, leaving us an hour of open bar, we hit it as hard as we could while the Neil Diamond impersonator worked the crowd. About 10:30 he cut out and the DJ spun old school before the band got on stage – about this time I got on the dance floor, where I remained, till about 3:30 when they shut it down. I had an awesome time, high points include:
-Putting my coat inside Adam’s and checking it as one coat, claiming mine was the liner (score 4$). “sir, this is two coats” “it’s a LINER!”
-Approaching women older than myself, which I previously thought was a doomed enterprise...
-Not falling down in those 5 hours I was on the floor.
Anyways, I got home about 4am, and I was supa hungry. Ate approximately everything in sight and went to bed.
Today (25th), we went to meet up with my Dad's side of the family in Chinatown for lunch. Amazingly, all 6 of us grand children were there (a rare occurrence nowadays). While most of us wanted dim-sum, our grand parents wanted lunch, and my dad ordered approximately way too much food, which was just not going to be finished. From there some of my cousins, my sister and myself went to the Ezaki’s to eat some... more. There’s a really good story there but I have to wait until I get the pictures...
From there we went to my mom’s parents house, where we had my third large meal of the day (fourth if you count the food I ate at 4am). I don’t remember ever being so full.
It was a great Christmas. Even though we don’t celebrate the religious aspect of it, I definitely appreciate its family oriented nature. My family is really cool and I only realized that a short time ago. We’re all located in the Chicago area and it’s possible to see everyone I’m related to in a day... when I’m in Chicago. Will I end up in Chicago? Too much to think about right now, I’m on vacation.
Tomorrow: operation take advantage of desperate merchants (in the house).
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Monday, December 23
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6:20 AM:
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Ahhh... stylin’ new look for the Blog (and page for that matter), happy Dave?
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Wednesday, December 18
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9:08 PM:
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I love Rose. As I was leaving the weight room today, an extremely ripped Dr Sherman came out right behind me as I was holding the door, I say “Hi Dr Sherman” and he grabs me by the shoulder and says “I’m going to work out for another year then pick a fight with you” somewhat sarcastically as he walks away.
Luckily in a year I will be far far away from here (I hope).
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1:35 AM:
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Now is the time when I regret cavalierly not applying for graduate school. It might not have been what I wanted immediately, but it might have gotten me to something cool by the end of it, as opposed to a crappy job that would almost leave me worse off than where I am currently. Unfortunately most of the deadlines have made those whooshing noises as they flew by, and those that haven’t are too close to be made. Bleh.
My blog has clearly echoed my stress onto the internet too well. People have been asking me if I’m ok, one of my senior project partners said I should write more with a laugh (the bastard already has a job). A concerned Australian reader sent me a nice encouraging note, my mom would have sent cookies... if they would have gotten here on time. Anyways I really appreciate it everyone, things are not *that* bad, it’s just tough with being behind in school and having this on me also, as my semi-advisor once told me, "Alex, you do good work, but when the pressure is on, you crack like an egg and freak out, then it’s all over." ...thanks Andy.
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Friday, December 13
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12:26 AM:
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Things were looking great at Thanksgiving. I got a 4.0 on the fall quarter, Amazon on-site interview had gone well and was fun, MIT Lincoln Labs was coming up, and plenty of cool job opportunities were going on. Things rapidly went south the day after Thanksgiving.
First, I get a letter from Expedia that was not too promising. Next, I get rejected from Amazon. This was a major blow to my self esteem, I knew I totally blew the technical questions away, I didn’t understand. This weighed heavily on my mind, even when I went to MIT Lincoln Labs three days later, I was extremely distracted and disturbed. MIT LL turned out to not be as cool as I thought it would be, and I totally was not on my game with the interviews, that was disappointing. I got back to school to find out that Microsoft, for some reason, decided not to even take me to the second round of interviews.
This all happened in less than a week.
I felt like a well diversified investor having every stock go out underneath his feet while he was out to lunch.
Me being me, I freaked out. Those were all of my top choices. What the fuck. I am still freaked out - I’ve managed to tone it down a little bit, but I do not know what I am going to do now.
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Saturday, December 7
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6:54 PM:
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[chart of s&p500, down over last 2 years]
(picture was too large for new blog template)
stupid economy, BE BETTER.
i need a job. employ me.
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3:28 PM:
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"I’m going to Ecuador and Mexico with three Koreans, I don’t speak Korean, they don’t speak English and none of us speak Spanish; should be interesting, I’m brining my video camera."
-Adam (going on business trip)
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Thursday, December 5
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5:12 PM:
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“Here’s your homework assignment: you haven’t really known what you’ve wanted to do for the past four years and that’s been okay. But now you need to figure it out. What do you want to do in the next year?”
-Kinley doing his thing while I am freaking out about being rejected from everywhere
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copyright (c) 2001-2003 Alex Lo
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