November 2006 Archives

Please have a fantabulous day!!!

It's been really crazy. I wasn't able to go back home this morning and came to the Tokyo station straight. BTW, I guess the Bullet train was invented here in Japan because we work too much and don't really wanna spend a lot of time for transporation. If we were not this workaholic, there would have never been the bullet train? I don't know.... Anyway....Yes, I am officially on vacation for the rest of this week. I've been waiting for it. I was told I should have kept my work cell phone on but I decided that it "accidentaly" ran out of the battery and that I didn't take a battery charger with me. Anyway, it's a domestic trip but I hope it will be a lot fun. Suprisingly, Mr. Stubble is from the sister city of the destination but he has never been there before. If there is anything interesting to upload, I shall do that. You have a fantabulous week!

1... So this is my day off. Yesterday was "Labor Thanksgiving day" here in Japan and it was a national holiday. But I had to work. Today, it's just a usual Friday but since the headquarters people are so busy to eat Turkey, I decided to take a day off. I went to Muji which is a Japanese chain that sells stationary, food, and clothes. It's indeed Christmasy in there even though many of us don't practice Christianity. Anyway, you can see what I got by clicking the photo. It's my disease I usually spend too much in there.....
2... So I had a date with Mr. Stubble yesterday. We drove around with my motorcycle. Yes, I told him my car hasn't been fixed. And it's the only time I get to wear a leather jacket anyway. :-) But it was too chilly to drive in the bay area so we were very shivering until we got ourselves coffee... Now I admire those bikers who can drive in the middle of the freezing winter...
3... Mr. Stubble speaks Japanese fluently so he doesn't have any French accent when he does unfortunately. It would have been much sexier if he spoke it with a french accent. Speaking of which, French sounds so sexy. I don't disagree. But German sounds so angry. Is it just me? I heard one angry German speaking German yesterday and it was very scary....
Anyway, you have a fantabulous weekend!

1... I requested the paid vacation days. It went through this time! Only two extra days though. Considering I've been weekendless for some time, that's something. I'd love to go somewhere but I have to take care of a lot of personal stuff like washing my car or entertaining myself.... huh...
2... So one unreasonable angry user called the helpdesk to accelerate his unreasonable request, and he told them he would call the main number in our department. I usually take calls for the main number. So I "coincidentally" got out of the office and enjoyed coffee at Starbucks. Well, I have a serious coffee adiction problem. It was time for me to get it anyway.
3...This guy who was giving us a presentation in the early meeting was definitely hot. But all I could see was his underwear line through his pants. Did he intentionally wear those tight pants? in the Q&A session, I wanted to ask about it but didn't.
4...Do you have a time when you are amazed at how much you can furt? It's like you are proud of yourself doing that huge... or is it just me? At least I was when I furted for minutes. It must have been something I ate yesterday or this morning.... don't worry. I was alone in the server room.
You have a fantabulous Wednesday!

It looks like Mr. Stubble is not happy with my work schedule. I had to work yesterday as well. I didn't go to his place by the time I said I would. The dinner got cold and Mr. Stubble was grumpy. We had a non-erotic fight. Ugh. But I learned that some serious anger is a good source of intense um... private interaction. :-) This is why I am not a marrying kind. I am married to work at the moment. How pathetic do I sound? That's why I'd been trying to avoid any regular dating routine until I met him. I hope this will last though. Anyway, I was slow yesterday and I had to schedule one application program I created to run at midnight on Tuesday. This is where I got confused. 12a.m. or 12p.m.? That's why I like millitary time system. You know I could change the time display settings there to 24 hour time scale but it didn't even cross my mind so I had to think hard... my little brain was almost fried. I couldn't figure it out. Googling about it didn't come to my mind, either. So I scheduled to run it at 1min after midnight on Tuesday. When you work too much, this happens to you, too. :-) FYI, 12am in Japan is considered midnight at least according to the dictionary... whlie it's recognized as noon in some other countries. Oh, my head hurts .So on my way back from the furious fight with Mr. Stubble, I picked up the seasonal limited edition beer by my favorite beer company, Sapporo. "The winter tale". You know what? This was the best beer ever!! I wish I could export this to all of you... huh... Anyway, I should get up early tomorrow so you have a fantabulous week! So shall I :-)

It's been crazy. It looks like I will have to work on Saturday and Sunday this week, too which means I will have to work 20 days straight even though I am so gay. :-( If I don't get a day off like this, I get stressed out at work. I do the followings when I am under stress. 1. Going batting in the batting cage. 2. Run a lot. 3. Private entertaining stuff several times (more than 3) a day. 4. Cooking. I am not good at cooking but it's getting chilly here in Tokyo even though it's said it will be a very warm winter but it's the autumn and I wanted to have something autumn. While fresh uncooked oysters are great, I find oysters taste better when they are actually cooked. Am I so wrong? So I fixed oyster gratin as shown in the photo. Oysters :-) But after cooking this for myself alone in a lonely kitchen at 3a.m. in the morning, I realized I hated cooking. But I did it anyway. I am not thinking straight. Anyway, I am so submitting the resignation letter in two weeks. Wish me luck!
You have a fantabulous weekend!

1... So this was my lunch yesterday. Oysters from Hiroshima over rice. I actually had these last week in Hiroshima but anyway. Oysters. :-)
2...It's been almost a year since I quit smoking. I don't miss it. I still find a hunky cowboy (not that Brokeback mountain cowboy type) smoking is a great sight to see. I really should go see a real hunky cowboy.
3...Listening to iPod on my way to work is sometimes so not the thing I should do. I didn't even notice I was skipping down the street and did a little steps. No more iPod commuting for awhile.
4... When I was searching for something and trying to take the thing out of my bag, a pack of condoms slipped out as well. And a friend saw that. And I said "No, it's not what you think" even though my friend didn't comment about it. She actuallly didn't even notice until I said that. The more I give excuses, the more embarrassing it gets. sigh...
5...So there was an incident that I misshaped my eyebrow. Ergo, I am using the eyebrow pen not to look stupid. I had never felt qeer-er than this before.... I hope it will grow back soon.
You have a wonderful Tuesday

I only talked about what went wrong. No photo request is taken here. Thankee. :-P Please click the thing if it's too small to read.
You have a fantabulous week!

It's still warm here in Tokyo... huh... I read the newspaper that due to the El Niño effect observed, the winter here in Japan will be ridiculously warm... that means no snow in Tokyo probably. Which is actually good though so it won't ruin my shoes. :-) Anyway, I will have to work tomorrow. Sad.
Please have a fantabulous weekend for me!!!

My life is pretty much non-exciting these days but I guess this blog suits my non-exciting days very well. Yay

You have a fantabulous Thursday!

1... Both in Japanese and in English, there is an expression which you say after getting a gift or something. "You shouldn't have". um.... just "I love it! Thank you!" will do. I am sorry but I am not particularly fond of that expression.
2... It's ridiculously warm here in Tokyo, these days. It's supposed to be November but it doesn't feel like it. The high for today will be 23 degrees celsius = 73 degrees Fahrenheit. And people say this might be associated with the global warming effect. I am glad I didn't plan to make a trip to do the leef peeping this year then. :-) They will turn yellow/red eventually? I am keeping my fingers crossed.
3... My boss told me there was a major problem on this one particular server (A bigger version of the computer). I kinda knew what was gonna happen by looking at the histroy logs last week but I didn't really bring it up because I didn't wanna deal with it. The server monitoring person should have caught it though. And all I did in response to his comment was "SERIOUSLY! OH NO!" by covering my mouth. I am tired of acting.... But I continue.
You have a fantabulous Tuesday!

So the extended weekend went very well. I did cultural exchange alright. Yesterday, it was a very warm day and it didn't feel like November at all. I wonder if the winter is this warm this year here in Tokyo. We will see about that. I don't wanna write anything about how great Mr. stubble is and how it went in details because it will bore you to death for sure. Anyway, I happen to tell a lie every once in a while. Like when we were about to drive around in Tokyo yesterday, I told Mr. Stubble that my hybrid car wouldn't run at all and told him we should take a motorcycle. Well, my car starts just fine but I wanted to take the motorcycle instead since I hadn't driven it for awhile. Besides, if we did take that, Mr. Stubble would have to hang on tight and I could sorta get hugged appropriately. More homo body contact legitimately in public. Since it was his first time to ride a motorcycle, he did hang on tight alright. :-) But this kind of lies is allowed, no? It was sorta a nice different way of foreplay if you know what I mean. Another lie I told my boss today is that I was told to join the 3 hour mind-numing meeting. But I told him that I had another meeting. So I came to this meeting room that I reserved and all I do is checking my personal e-mail and blogging. I should be totally fired for this but hey, I am not deligent. I do what I have to do. But I don't try to go beyond the expectation since I am so quitting. :-) Anyway, I am a liar. fine. :-) You have a fantabulous week!

I wanted to sound pretty so I tried to raise my voice. I guess I should have done something less sane than this. Oh well. I just said things I came up with :-( Anyway, you have a fantabulous Thursday/Friday!