Jul
29th

• AIR CONDITIONING (what a perfect time to publish this entry). At least this should make the bosses happy that I’d rather work longer than leave this building and go melt away with the rest of Vancouver in this unbearable heat.
  

  Whether or not you were born here, you’re a true Vancouverite if you bitch about the weather, be it hot, cold, or rainy. Complain away!

  - @blandcouver

• Free 24-hour gym … with a tanning bed and towel service (you know how they always make you pay extra for that at other gyms). It’s definitely not one of those dinky community center-like gyms either.



• Free Starbucks coffee, free tea, free hot chocolate, etc. at the coffee stations on each floor. Even though I buy my own coffee on the way to work, I have my own stash of Chinese/Japanese teas and I rarely drink hot chocolate… at least it feels good knowing it’s all there.
• Relaxed atmosphere. There’s no one checking up on me every 5 minutes and everyone is chill. I even took a nap in my cube during lunch once when I was severely hung over.
• No dress code. I can wear whatever I want! The only thing is that one day I’ll be really dressed up but the next day when I’m feeling uber-lazy, I’ll be totally fashion faux-pas-ing it (like I’ve been doing this entire summer because I just don’t care about summer clothing). I wonder if anyone notices since I sit with mostly guys anyway.
• Lots of meetings/events/BBQs with free food and beer. Although I don’t take advantage of it all the time… can you imagine how much I’d weigh and besides, I have my own stash of unhealthy snacks at my cube. Plus I don’t drink beer which means I’m wasting one of my benefits!! Oh well. They should serve free bubble tea!! Hyukhyukhyuk.
• The “Gourmet” Cafeteria. The caf has it’s hit-and-misses (like that day they decided to experiment with sushi with processed cheese) and I only eat there a couple times a week but the staff is nice, the sushi chef always makes me my specially ordered chopped-scallop nigiri (sooo good), the salad bar is always good, the breakfast wrap is muy awesome. They also have poutines (my favorite) at the grill station but the gravy sucks. Too bad for me.
• Boyfriend gets to reap away at my benefits. Like the gym… good thing for him because he lives 3 minutes away while I live 20 minutes away. *inserts jealous glare here*
• Cheap games. I get my Sims games (the only game I really like) for very cheap. Gotta thank my company for wasting my life away especially with the release of Sims 3. :dead:
• Pay and benefits. Blah blah blah… uninteresting but it belongs on the list.

From The Secret Society of List Addicts

Jul
20th

I got the inspiration to this entry from Michelle’s Twitter bio saying she’s “chic and nerdy” which I can totally relate to. Chic? That’s easy, everyone knows I love fashion, make up, getting my nails/hair did and everything vain/materialistic.

What makes me nerdy:

• I’m addicted to Twitter. The only reason I got a data plan on my phone is so I can Twitter 24/7 (and read RSS feeds). Sometimes it’s such a pointless waste of time but I can’t stop. Sometimes I wish the Twitter-craze would blow over soon because it’s taking over my life!!
• Some of my favorite conversation topics: blogging, Twitter and Photoshop (oh, and books).
• I love reading and I collect books even if I don’t intend on reading them. Chapter is my favorite store.
• Coding websites = sooo much fun. I never use site builders like Dreamweaver because once you start out as a hand-coder, I think you’ll always be one.
• Boyfriend knows that if we were to move in together, he’d have to get his own computer because I’m so anal about people using mine. And if we live with someone else, they’ll have to get a separate internet connection… no one is going to slow mine down.
• When I buy my own house, the first room I’m going to decorate is my study. I also can’t wait to buy more bookshelves because I hate seeing my books double-stacked; it looks hideous and unorganized… not to mention that I can’t find certain books when I’m look for them.
• I love documentaries. I can watch them all day.
• When I’m bored online, I read random articles on Wikipedia.
• I love setting up WordPress blogs or help people get started on blogging and social media. If you need help (and I know you), let me know!! I need a new hobby, I know.
• Guilty pleasures: anything related to science-fiction, fantasy, aliens, the paranormal, conspiracy theories, evolution, history, etc. And I think it would be so awesome when the world ends (other than the fact that we all die). Hyukhyukhyuk.
• I’m so down for wasting my life on video games.

What makes you chic and nerdy?

On a side note, it’s funny how we become so dependent on technology. There was a time when Google was down and I needed to look up something and I didn’t know what to do except to sit there all pissed off and frustrated… I know there are thousands of search engines out there but my mind just went blank. My sister was in the other room screaming, “OMFGOMFG GOOGLE IS DOWN!!!“. We ? Google (and can’t live without it).

Jul
19th

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don’t speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. If can be anything you want, either good or bad. I promise not to come after you. When you’re finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you.

Jul
18th

Everyone complains how Twitter sucks but that’s because it’s hard to get into if:

• You’re not into the social media scene.
• You don’t understand the benefits of Twitter (or just the web in general).
• You don’t know any interesting/helpful people to follow.
• You think Twitter is only about “what you’re doing.”
• You only joined Twitter to follow celebrities.

I think it took me about 2 months to really get into it but once I did, it took over my life!! Why?

• Up to the second news updates … and most importantly: K-Pop updates. Now I’ll know when and where Taeyang is flaunting his smexy abs even when I’m in the washroom.
• Great time-killer when you’re stuck in traffic for 3 hours. ‘Course I put my Blackberry down when it starts moving again… I want to punch people who use their phones while driving (they’re like those people who insists they can drive when they’re obviously wasted).
• Interacting— I’ve met so many cool and funny people on Twitter. We may never meet in real life but at least our 140-word exchanges kept those couple minutes of my life entertained.
• Ask a question, get an answer.
• Shameless plugs to my blogs and other projects (thatIhaventouchedinagazillionyears).
• Interesting articles, funny quotes, inspiring people.

I use Twitter for fun and I don’t take it seriously nor is the number of followers important to me so with that in mind, here are some things that I realized:

• Nobody cares if you’re brushing your teeth at the moment but people will if you can tweet about that and make it funny. Eg. “I’m brushing my teeth and a spider just crawled up my ass.” Okay, that’s not even funny— just plain gross but if I read that, I’ll be laughing my ass off to your misfortune. :blush:
• My confession: Sometimes I only click on Twitter’ers with interesting looking avatars. Image is everything when it comes down to a 24×24 pixel square!
• Don’t think you’re all that because you have tons of followers. I bet 75% of mine are spam and don’t even read my tweets. Same goes for most of you.
• For some reason, we are all attracted to haters… they make the world interesting. I like controversial Twitter’ers.
• I’m sorry, but hash tags are soo annoying because most people don’t use them properly. Plus they’re kind of pointless when you click on the trending topic and it’s filled with people going “WTF is a #monkeyfruit?!” I’m guilty of doing that once.
• If you need more than 5 tweets to complete one thought, just publish it on your blog!!

Other Twittery links:

• The 5 Stages Of Twitter Acceptance
• The 46 stages of Twitter
• How to explain… Twitter is not a waste of time

Anyway, I hate the term “Twitter’er” but have been too lazy to make up my own.
What do you call people who tweet?

You can follow me on Twitter here!

Jul
16th

HAHAHA I had to put this picture up for proof (even though they’re all wearing flats)!
It’s funny how I feel short everywhere else with heels on EXCEPT when I’m with the girls.
♥ BUT they’re all average height while I’m the tall-black-sheep-Asian.
Hyukhyukhyuk.