random thoughts

Hmmm … daily blog! Just to dispel rumors that I am not doing anything here in the US … I am busy … very busy … … in fact, it’s 3am here and i just finished working … and well … started writing a blog! It’s first Silicon tomorrow for my product so the PDEs will be coming in by lunchtime … so nothing much going on in the morning … so I can actually take my time and sleep late! J I pretty much slept the whole day … woke up around 2pm after snoozing several times … I blame it on good ‘ol jet lag! J … I planned on coming in to work yesterday but I slept really late partly due to jet lag … partly due to fear that I might die while sleeping … (morbid, I know … blame it on Tin for telling me that story about one of our colleagues … ) … anyways, I finally disengaged myself … with a lot of will power … from my super-comfy bed (queen-size!) … and took a bath (my first after ~36 hours!). We went straight to Intel to meet my new team and to look for our cubes … realized late that I needed to exchange the car in Hertz … we rushed at around 5:50pm to go to Hertz which closes at 6pm … didn’t make it! L … so I think I will have to pay a huge fine for keeping the car for one more day! (I should have the car for 3 months but the stupid charge number didn’t work the first time when I was in the Hertz counter in Sacto airport and I had to get the car for one day while they were fixing the reservation for the long-term rental!) … Anyways, I invited everyone for dinner … (by inviting, I mean asking if people already had plans and that if we want to eat together … no suggestion whatsoever that I will be paying for it!) … there’s one asian fastfood place that I really liked in Chandler before so we googled the place to look for one in the area … there’s one … not in Folsom … but in Roseville which is a good 16miles away! J Manuel agreed that it was a good place … Pei Wei … so we went … 16miles and all just for a Chinese fastfood dinner! J It took us about an hour to find the place … nope, we were not traveling at 0.25mi/hr …J we just got so freakin’ lost … so near yet so far was an understatement! J Well, we did find the place and we did have a good dinner (hmmm … well, I did … I think Arli didn’t like her food! J ) … so I guess persistence and a lot of U-turns pays! J