Wednesday, July 29, 2009

10 Things I Like About My Job

Work/School

  • 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. :D
  • Look

  • 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.

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Pink Shirt Mysteries

Work/School

I designed a t-shirt for my game team at work… a couple days later I find it crumpled on the floor in the corner of my room… PINK. It use to be white! Grrr. I swear it was placed strategically and faced down so I won’t notice it in the midst of another pile of clothes on the ground. I still don’t know what happened to it! No one in my family owns red clothes. *Looks down a hot pink PJ bottoms I’m wearing at the moment. Now I usually love pink, but I don’t like THIS shade of [pale] pink. :@ ANYway, I’m just making a big deal out of nothing (because I have nothing else to blog about). I only wear this shirt to sleep anyway. Hehehe. But still, sometimes don’t you wish things like this could be fixed with a touch of a keyboard button; F2 (hell yeah for Photoshop actions!):

And it wasn’t my PJS because they weren’t washed in the same load.

Anyway, tata for now and happy Friday!

So someone at work had to remind me of the horrible truth that we had no long weekends until March… and then my employer decides to issue a leap day holiday for us this year so we have a long weekend on 02/29. :cheer: I love it.

Other work updates, we are moving up to the 4th floor. I just got use to our current seating plan too from the last move too. I’m glad I got over my fear of heights because even though it’s only the 4th floor, when you look down it’s friggin’ high.

Anyway, I updated Captured. I honestly forgot about that site for the last couple of months as I’ve been too lazy to take too many pictures. I imported all the albums into Wordpress so I can easily enable password protected albums and registered members only viewing for certain albums which I’ll implement later. I have a dozen albums left to upload but I’ll do it next time. I batch process some of the albums but I still do it the old fashioned way most of the time because I like to edit image quality and crop each image if possible so it usually takes quite a bit of time.

It’s kind of sad because I was looking at the album and most of us don’t even talk or see each other anymore; maybe just a couple times a year. But then after highschool ended, we all expected this to happen as we carry on with our own lives but at least the memories are still there. :blush: I guess that’s what the album is suppose capture anyway.

I’ve made my ultimate decision… in a couple months, I will no longer be a “shopaholic” (I say “months” to give myself time). I know I’ve said this a billion times before but I think it’s time to start saving my money and investing it wisely. Hopefully after a big tax return this year ;) my student loans will almost be gone so I can start making some REAL money.

Anyway, nothing interesting to write about today. I have a gazillion things on my to-do list today before Boyfriend and I go out for a late dinner. Cheers.

Today at work we had a 2-hour presentation and demo by the wonderfully talented and inspiring concept artist, Andrew Jones. He talked about his life, how he became an artist, what he did, his inspiration, his philosophy and it was super interesting and awe-inspiring with a hint of humor. Then he showed us his demos and tips in Corel Painter. The whole experience was beyond awesome.

He started out as a concept artist for a video game company, then him and his buddies started conceptart.org as a joint portfolio to increase traffic and it exploded into a web phenomom, turning into a major web community. Later on, they started a company called, Massive Black which does concept art, 3D-modeling, animation and a ton of other things for their clients and of course, it became a huge success as well. They also started doing artist workshops because they wanted to travel around Europe but didn’t want to pay for it! It’s funny how something so insignificant like that can blow up to something as big as it is today. Later on, he decided he wanted to do something new and different with his creativity so he started do live paintings for concerts and raves. All I can say is… WOW. I’m high on inspiration. I wish I had ambition like his then I could let my creativity go crazy. Unfortunately, I don’t… yet.

Anyway, their next workshop is in Seattle next year but it’s the same weekend we are going to Big White! I’m not a concept artist nor even an artist, but this is good inspiration and that’s all that matters.

Andrew Jones. Andrew Jones. ANDREW JONES. Don’t forget that name!

Anyway, when I was telling the Boyfriend today, he was like “OOOOH ANDREW JONES!” And I was like “oh, the baseball player?” (trying to sound like a smartass). Little does he know, I googled Andrew Jones earlier and saw him pop up in the results too. HAHA.

If you could travel through time, what era would you visit and why?

Ooh, I would totally travel back to the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt when Nefertiti lived or to Cleopatra’s Ptolemaic dynasty. Or I would go back to England in the 17th Century. Hmm. That’s hard. :S

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What websites do you visit daily?

In order:

1. Hotmail and web server control panel (when I don’t have access to Outlook) to check email
2. Google News
3. MV

Facebook use to be #4 but I haven’t logged on in days because it has turned to shit. I can’t stand looking at people’s profiles with all those hideous applications. That cluttered mess is a sore on the eyes.

So anyway, here I am at work on a Saturday morning. I hate coming in to work on weekends but sometimes it’s inevitable. It reminds me of those part-time days working horrible jobs on Saturdays and Sundays. Yuck. Well I’ll be out of here soon if I can get this humongous poster done and then go downstairs to hit the gym and tanning booth before going home to do more work.

I’m getting back into freelancing and just got 2 and a half projects lined up. Yay.

Last night, Boyfriend and I were arguing about the OJ Simpson incident in Vegas and he tried to sneak in some football trivia while at it. Nooo too soon! I have to enjoy these last football-free days as much as I can. ;)

Yesterday, our Canadian dollar hit a 30-year high at 97 cents US except he still hasn’t received his passport back yet!!!

Oh yeah, paper towel is 58 cents at Shoppers right now. Limit 4 per customer. Be a responsible child and buy your mom some paper towel.

edit 2030 — About to go home soon, but waiting for BF to finish fixing his brother’s computer. Ah what a long ass day, at least I got all the posters finished and PDF’ed. I bet tonight after I leave I’m going to think of new ideas and will have to get them all ready for print again on Monday. :S Anyway, I was watching CNN at the gym earlier, and man, tomorrow I have a freaking long ass rant to post.

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