Bored…

It’s a wednesday night and I’m sitting at home with nothing to do. :/ Do I need a new hobby? I stopped scrapping for a while. After I completed my mom’s mother’s day gift, I guess I’m taking a break from scrapping. I’m thinking maybe I should start dating again. I’ve been thinking this a lot though. Right now, work is the best it could be, and I’m having a lot of fun. After work I play tennis on some days and maybe ultimate frisbee on one of the days. Still, I have so much time. Before, when I was picky about how much time I spent at work I felt I didn’t have enough time to do anything after work. Now, I feel like I have so much time. I don’t really want to start dating yet… I think it’s because it’s a lot of work and I’ll lose the free time I have. I am selfish with my time but of course if there was someone I really liked, I’d enjoy spending time with them. Then it wouldn’t be ‘work’. Finding that kind of person is the hard part.

 

Gmail’s new Custom Time

Haha, when I first read about it I had to laugh. Now people can send emails from the past. If you missed a deadline, no problem! You can trick your superiors into thinking that you in fact delivered on time. It really seems like cheating/lying/hacking to me though. Although this seems like something people will use, I don’t know why we need it. I’m not cheesy like, “Honesty is the best policy” or anything but I really think we don’t need this kind of functionality.

 

A Strange Culture at Times

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?

 

Daydreaming

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.

 

Something to Celebrate

As of friday, I have been working for 1 month. =)