Month: July 2006

Just for my little brother – I thought you would enjoy this Optimus Prime thing I found. Live action movie – next summer!

Vince took me to a Singapore subway tour. He showed me how to get on subway, headed for Woodland where Jeremy works and get off.

He told me all the regulations on the subway, no food, no pet, no duran (? smelling fruit), etc. Well, the good news was that we didn’t get lost. The bad news, it was just too short.

We bought Edda a new swimming suit. Vince treated himself with ice cream, of course. And I had the privilege to take the subway with my grandkid.

Vince was a great tour guide.

Doris: What the heck are we doing in Singapore?

Jeremy: (shrugs) I dunno.

Doris: I want to go home.

We have no house in the US. We have no address. The address we use for our mail is a mail stop at Jeremy’s US office in Austin, TX. It’s hard to miss home as much as I miss home and not have a physical place to miss.

In the 10 years Jeremy and I have been together, we have lived in the following places: Catalina Dr, Pasadena, CA; Lyndon Ave, South Pasadena, CA; McLaughlin Ave, San Jose, CA; Hester Ave, San Jose, CA; Fair Oaks Ave, Sunnyvale, CA; Riata, Austin, TX; Barton Hills Rd, Austin, TX; Juliet St, Austin, TX; Hsinchu, Taiwan; Bard College, Annandale, NY; Millbrook, NY; Wappingers Falls, NY; Singapore.

That’s a lot of places (13) and I’m not even listing the 2 times we moved to Bard College or the hotels we’ve stayed in for at least 3 weeks. It’s been hectic around here.

I love to move, I love throwing old crap away and staring new again someplace else, but having my kids really makes me want to settle down and get to know my neighbors and see the same dentist for more than a year. (Every dentist I see asks if I’ve had my full mouth x-rays within the last 5 years – that usually means 2 or 3 dentists ago. How can I possibly remember?) Maybe have some friends I don’t have to re-explain my past (engineer), my present (mom) or future (who knows?). Now that would be great…

My mom is so cute. Look what she got us from Old Navy. Vince is grumpy, but Edda and I look great!

Hi, everyone, this is Noel, in case I didn’t log in correctly.

I am still in Singapore right now and will leave early Sunday morning. Although my stay is a short one, I treasure every moment of it.

Vince is a good boy and Edda is brave, to say the least. I saw her fell so many times, but almost every time, she walked with her knees until she reached a chair or sofa in order to get up again using her hands also. Sometimes, she gave those innocent smiles you really couldn’t interpret. Occasionally, you called her and she turned her head and I thought that was one of the most memorable moments that I experienced.

Too bad, three weeks stay is almost coming to an end. And it gave me some memories that I always remembered 🙂

My Yoshoo mesenger does not work. They ask me the click on refresh buttom. I did couple times. It did not work.

The best way to do is to wait for the IT manager comes back from Singapore on 7/30.

The last time we went to the beach, it was a bit of a mess, 2 adults, 2 kids and a dog. It was really more than we could handle. This time we had my dad along with us, which made the trip a lot more easy to execute. Ruby and I went swimming in the ocean!

It’s 12:35am, and I’m still at work on a Friday night. Wheeeeee! It’s sorta funny. I’ve never really ever had a software deadline before, and honestly, it kinda blows. Also tho, sometimes I think I am a slacker at heart too and do my best work under pressure, and lemme tell you, I am under some pressure right now.

I’ve pretty much reached a good enough milestone here, and I’m able to store and verify all my files from the various storage archives that we have. It’s nothing fancy, and there are some features I’m missing. It’s a work in progess as they say.

I did manage to take a break and go out to dinner with Choon, Pei-Sun and Joe. Joe is a friend of Choon’s from high school and he’s out here on an extended business trip. Also, he’s making his way to Austin next week, so if you Austinites out there have any restuarant recommendations to give, I’ll gladly pass it his way.

Also work won’t stop me from preriding Downieville on Sunday. I’ll have to try to get in this ride as fast as I can, and then drive back to the Bay Area. Hopefully we’ll wake up by 6-7, do the ride, be done by noon, drive home and I can be at work around 4-5. I hope I don’t kill myself . It’s super technical.

In more Jocelyn news, oh joy of joys – She’s moving to Milbrae sometime very soon to work up in the Bay Area for a year or so. Her new guy actually lives in Sunnyvale, which of course, means that I’ll probably cross paths with her quite a bit more in the coming year. I’m doing cartwheels. I am. Really.

I’m going home now….

The whole island of Singapore celebrated Racial Harmony Day. Singapore tries very hard to keep the different Races living in Harmony. They do a pretty good job of it. Vince was instructed to dress in his traditional costume and to bring some ethnic food. So what the heck is Vince’s traditional costume? I axed Chinese since everyone and their brother was going to wear a Chinese outfit. I mentioned to Jeremy maybe Vince should wear a Jewish (yarmulke) or German (lederhosen) outfit. But we decided to go for the most obvious traditional costume – Superman! As for the ethnic food, my dad suggested Oreo cookies. So that’s what we did.

First, a big thank you to my wonderful secret pal! A beautiful bouquet arrived today, completely unexpected and completely fabulous… A nice surprise in the middle of the week. Makes my incredibly plain apartment a bit brighter..

Edda got her first EEG today. I suspect it will not be her last. She didn’t enjoy getting the electrodes pulled off her head. But the test went fine, we’ll get the report in a few weeks.

I’m going crazy at work!

Man this blows. I’ll be coding all night for oh… 2 weeks straight now. Sucks. Really sucks.