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.
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Susan, Dakshi, Charlotte, Doris, Jeremy, Noel.
Photographer : Vince
I have been here almost 10 days. Everything is cool except I could not hear any bird singing – no birds at all, except in the zoo.
I sat with Edda in her school all days last week and met a bunch of special kids with lot of disabilities among them. It was heart breaking to see all that. Well, all mankinds are not created equal.
This week, since Edda does not have school, I am taking Vince to school and back. His school is just across the street. He is enjoying his school very much. After school, we were in McDonald’s twice already. I guess that was everyday. Tomorrow, absolutely, no McDonald’s.
At home, I hanged around with Vince and Edda. I also went to swimming almost everyday. The pool is shallow and fairly clean. It is a nice place to be. But, I miss Mom a lot 🙂
noel
Humans have about 25,000 genes or 3,000,000,000 base pairs.
Edda is missing just one god damn guanine.
Here’s a funny picture from Lynn and Jack’s Wedding reception the other night. From left to right, Choon, Pei-Sun, Lynn and Jack. Choon was a bit tipsy as you can see in the photo, and was pretending to take off a few buttons from his shirt. HAHAHAA.
The food was pretty good, tho really the crepes and deserts were better. They were making custom crepes on a burner – nutella, strawberries, blueberries, banana and whipped cream. yum yum. 
So Charlotte is in town, Jeremy’s taking a few days off and we are seeing the town. Charlotte is the person who married us, it’s nice to see her and think about the promises we made to each other on our wedding day – the most important was that we would eat dinner together every night. I’m happy to say we’ve missed very few dinners together since then.
We saw her last night at her hotel and this morning at the zoo and Edda sure did put on a show about how difficult she can be. Lots of crying, mainly because of the heat and the fact that she didn’t eat at the right time. But lots of crying in public always puts me on edge… Blah.
Can you stand another picture of us at the zoo? I didn’t get a picture of Charlotte. Grumble. Only me and some birds.
Hmmm, I’m not really the best dresser am I? The pants are a bit large and what’s the deal with my belly button? And the wonderful laynard with house key and magnetic card. Spiffy. Oh well, at least I look happy, that’s nice.