Jujubee’s Blog

Work was kinda slow today. I might ask for an additional assignment hehe. Then I’ll be super busy again. Maybe… Well, tennis was fun today. I was very close to spraining my ankle though. I was jumping to reach the ball and was totally focused on it that I didn’t land right. It hurt a little but it’s okay now. Maybe tomorrow morning it’ll hurt again.

Today was full of surprises. The job that I had been working on, that had a deadline of today or tomorrow, was cancelled. It looks like it was already done and they assigned it to us by mistake. Now I can focus on my main project, which is a tough one.

For lunch I brought leftover pineapple fried rice that I made. I think leftover tastes better than eating it right after making it. Anyway, it was good.

After work I played tennis with 2 other people. It was pretty fun. Since there were only 3 of us, we played Australian tennis, and I won both times.
 

Man, I’m exhausted. Today went faster than I’d like. With deadlines coming up, it isn’t good. After work, I had to go downtown to do some errands and I dunno why but I decided to walk from my apartment. So… I did a lot of walking hehe.

Yesterday, I played tennis again. I was actually moody after work. The guy who arranges the ultimate frisbee on Wednesdays (the same guy who is so competitive and makes tennis not fun) kept bugging me at work to play frisbee with them today. When I told him that I didn’t like frisbee as much as tennis, he said “You have to love all of God’s sports equally”… I didn’t want to reply with “Well, I don’t.” because it seemed like blasphemy, and I couldn’t come up with anything so I didn’t reply. If he was trying to persuade me, it’s the wrong approach. I have no such belief, you know. So, it was kinda awkward when he showed up for tennis. As soon as possible, I started a game with this other guy so that I wouldn’t have to play with him anymore. I don’t play well with I’m in a bad mood anyway, and nowadays I always feel like that when he’s around.

Today, work went pretty well on my part. My team actually got 3 fix requests that were critical. I help a little but I didn’t have to. They were assigned to the others. It was a pretty big and rare thing. It’s so critical that they’ll be working on it all night until they fix it. I like my team. They work well together… hopefully, I’ll be more dependable soon. It is something that will take some time. Sometimes I can see how the older guys dislike being told what to do by a team lead that is 25+ years younger than them. They probably view me in the same respects. This will be a big personal goal for me.

After work, I played tennis again. This time with less people. Usually fewer people show up for thursday tennis. One of the girls I hadn’t met before. She’s pretty good. I don’t think she’ll be playing with us regularly though. She’s an intern and has to return to school soon.

On my way home, I was freaking out after I saw smoke from the freeway. It looked like the smoke was coming from my apartment complex. All the streets leading to it were blocked of course. I was trying to figure out a way to find out what was on fire. I called Eric, who lives close to me but he wasn’t in town. I called me sister to see if she can check the news online but she didn’t answer. Finally I called my downstair’s neighbor. I forgot I had her number. It turns out the complex next to mine was on fire. First I parked my car at the Barnes and Noble but it was too far for me to walk tomorrow morning when I want to go to work so I parked it at the park and walked home. News 

Yesterday, I had a pretty good day. I was expecting it to be much worse because of the deadline I thought I was going to miss. I came in early and a few of my teammates helped me understand the situation better. I made the fixes quickly, which turned out to be something like 10 lines of code. Then I passed it on to this other guy on my team who will be testing it.

After work, I played tennis. The usuals came plus a few others who play with us once in a while. Although I prefer playing singles, I think I’ve gotten much better at doubles. I partnered with this guy who is pretty good and we were unbeatable. Muahaha . It was pretty fun.

Man, today I was really busy at work. It was my fault though. I volunteered to help out with one of their deadlines since it seemed to me that I had the least amount of work to do. Now I have 2 projects I have to work on. One of them (the one I volunteered for) is due tomorrow. I don’t think I can finish it by then but I’ll give it a shot. It is taking too long to investigate these 30,000+ lines of code. Thank goodness for the search functionality. I stayed a little later today but I chose not to stay too long even though I wanted to. I’m really not allowed to work overtime.

This weekend was fun. Scott and I went up to Sacramento to help Elaine and her family move her into her new apartment. On Saturday, I went to the nearby mall with Elaine’s mom and got some work clothes. Elaine had a work picnic to go to so we had to shop until she was done with it. It worked out well, I’ve been meaning to get work clothes anyway. Elaine’s dad and uncle arrived with the Uhaul on Sunday. There were a lot of helping hands so it didn’t take too long to move everything in (though nothing I carried was that heavy ).  

Today, I got soooo tired and sweaty playing tennis. It was pretty hot at 5pm even though it looked like it was going to rain this morning. One of the guys that played today was annoying me. He’s really competitive and thinks he knows everything about tennis. Once he started playing with us, it wasn’t fun anymore. I like competition but not the kind where you’re arguing about points and being so strict with the rules. So, I just ditched that doubles game and played singles with this girl who was a beginner but it was worth it. After she got tired I played with one of the regulars who always plays with us. I lost by one point but it was fun.

Oh, when I got home, I noticed how my shirt was wet only where my sports bra was. How embarrasing! I hope nobody saw it.

There was a huge fire in an apartment complex on Civic St. yesterday. I’ve been trying to find some news about it but, as of last night, there were still firefighters there. Maybe they’ll be more news on it today. The good thing is it doesn’t look like anyone got hurt.

Yesterday afternoon, we went to the bookstore and I got some books to read! Yay! =) I’ve been meaning to get a new thriller. The second book I got is more of a romance I think (shhhh… ). It has a good plot. I can’t read a romance book if it doesn’t have a good storyline.

I was just thinking about… I tend to like Japanese media, such as anime, manga, and music, but there is one thing I think is weird and gross. There are a lot of japanese pop groups out there and the age range can go all the down to 7 years old from what I know. There is this one group called Berryz Koubou that is a group of 6 girls (I think) ages 12 to 15. They’re not that good, but there are some songs I like. I think some of them are good for their age though. I was scanning through their concert (to the songs I like) and I couldn’t help but notice that their entire audience is made up of a majority males. And most of them are definitely not the girls’ ages. Why would these 30-some-year-old men enjoy watching these girls? It’s gross. It seems almost like pedophilia. It doesn’t seem right to think that these guys are huge fans of their music (since most of their songs are kiddy and not that good). Oh, there’s also this kinda cosplay non-asian group that do some jpop performances youtube. It’s disturbing also, but in a different way. I always think it’s weird when men dress up as women. It is a prejudice of mine, one that I should just throw out the window. Why should I care about what people look like?

Today is my second day with my new team. So far, I’ve only been talking to 3 of them because they are the ones closest to me. I should venture out and talk to the others… I’ll try to work up the courage next time. =) I’ve been reading documentation all day today. Some of it is boring so my mind tends to wander. I wish I had better focus. I would think of things like what I’m gonna have for lunch, when I’m gonna continue working on my scrapbook again, is my computer on at home, and what I should add to my new website. Every few hours I start to wonder what the weather is like outside so I check weather.com several times. I could just take a break and walk outside though. I’ll try to do that next time. I know one of the guys that works with me goes outside to smoke.

Oh, today, while being bored I started googling things. I googled madlibs (remember those?) and played with some. I almost started laughing out loud. It would have been bad haha. They would have known that I wasn’t reading the documentation. My boss sits near me, in the adjacent row, so I have to behave. Today, in the break room I saw the technical director of the entire San Ramon location. Basically, his position is above that of anyone in the entire campus, even my boss’s. I only know of him because he attended one of our MATREX presentations and asked really hard questions that we couldn’t answer.

I’ve discovered a new pop artist that I like. Actually, it’s a French pop artist, named Alizee. Her song “J’en Ai Marre” is really good. Besides Japanese pop, I tend to like French pop also. It is just difficult finding French music. Oh, I remember watching a clip of a French concert. They had a close-up of these two people in the crowd making out. At first I thought it was two women making out, but when I looked again, one of them was actually male hehe.