25 degrees fahrenheit

Gees, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that on the thermometer. It was horrifying. My car was covered with ice. A white sheet of ice. I missed my train because I need to defrost the car. It was so dangerous to drive.

Rainy Monday

Strange luck. Must be a sign. It rained hard when I got out of Caltrain and then again Light Rail. We will see if the same happens this evening.
otherwise, it is a cold day today.

DOB - Christi Marquina

Just to document the date of the puppy that I purchased on 2/16/09 (president's day) from Santa Cruz. La baby died on 1/12 and I felt the need to get a replacement pet for the Marquina Family.

Can't shake the cold

I came back from Taiwan last Sunday. It's been a week now and I am still having this damn cold. The good thing is that it is slowly fading away. The bad thing is that I can't seem to relax myself. I always have to do something. I don't even want to take a day off or anything. It is because that I have spent all my 5 days of vacation time with Talent Merchants and have no time left. So, I have to be frugal.

since I skipped Thanksgiving, I just haven't felt the holiday feel yet. It is not raining, either. So, I keep forgetting to put on a sweater. So, that slows down the recovery. I also noticed that I was trying to get used to my own crappy bed, too. On top of that, the jet lag is bothering me as well. Luan once commented that "Jason, don't get old". I thought that was quite interesting. She did not know that I am very old already. :)

Caltrain Complaint

I would like to complain about the rude behavior of the female conductor on southbound 216 today (11/12). She is white, overweight with fluffy long hair. The incident happened at Hillsdale Station that today experienced a sudden spike on the number of the passengers.

I arrived at my regular hour, but was forced to seek parking over the other parking lot near TGI Friday's. I finally got a spot # 172, paid the parking ticket and ran to finally reach the last car only to get rejected and door shut at my face. I politely asked her to validate my 10-ride ticket, but she refused and said I should get it validated before I get on board, otherwise, she would write me a citation. The other male conductor was at the last car this morning as well. And as a daily commuter myself, I know that by comparison, he is a much nicer person. He greeted people and provide friendly interaction when checking tickets. That said, he would not have said those things to me, let alone doing such a horrible act to any passenger. So, he and other passengers on the train and across the rails on the northbound platform are my witnesses. He knew that she shut the door at me and I was all peaceful without raising my voice nor creating a scene.

Everyone knows the proper manner to handle this is to let the passenger get onboard, kindly “warn” the passenger that this is to do them a favor and for this time only and validate this ticket. However, I expect more from a “professional” conductor. I expect service, not rude, unprofessional behavior.

I normally buy a monthly pass along with parking permit for $126. Since this is a short month, I opted to get the 10-ride ticket. I know that I will not get any more chance to run into a situation like this. But I certainly hope that this will not happen to anyone at all.

first day of the last quarter

It's the first day of Q209. I was busy pulling the quotes from suppliers. It has been quite a struggle: verifying pricing, trouble-shooting, etc. The good thing is it is getting better and better each quarter. Well, let's make it the last quarter. I have spoken with the boss today and she seemed to want to transfer me out to the other department, since my direct boss, who is on PTO, had already transferred to the other department.
After Paul came by to the cube to circle back to me on the status of the new req, I could tell that it was not going to happen. I wouldn't be surprised if there was another position alloted to Michael once I am gone. However, it seems more likely that there will be more reqs for the asian pacific region. If I were the boss, I would do that. Move the force east. Commodity Managers, commodity specialists, etc.

唉聲嘆氣-鄭秀文

到圖書館無意碰到,鄭秀文的專輯, 不是沒錢買cd, 只是不聽流行歌了. 如果小時候被教導好的話, 就不會耗那麼多時間,金錢在流行音樂上. 這歌極可能是我最後喜歡的中文流行歌了