"Ethiopian, Anyone?"
Originally created on Thu, 041306
--Morning Journal--
It’s Thursday, a sunny one. No rain, not cold, but still, I’m taking my umbrella with me, just in case.
Ok. Weird thing happened this morning. When I was in the shower, I got a call on my cell phone (which I missed, of course). When I dialed the number back, somebody said it’s “Microsoft Tech Support,” and when I told her somebody called me from that number she said, “This is Microsoft Canada, 800 people work here so..” And I was just, “Oh, okay. Thanks!” Weird, huh? I’m just wondering who might call me from Microsoft Canada, and even, for what purpose? Gosh.. I hope it’s not something with software piracy because I have never done such a thing. I’ll try to research the phone number from work and maybe, call again to make sure that everything is fine.
Anyway, OMG it’s only Thursday! It’s supposed to be a meeting day but my boss is going to be at Stanford for a Job Fair (no, he is not looking for another job, our company is opening a booth to find new employees instead). So, the meeting is moved to tomorrow, 4 pm! I will have to call in from home since I will be working from home in the afternoon after my Friday prayer at Stanford. I haven’t done the report though, which I will do first thing I get to the office.
Yesterday was a little bit sucky. The first half of the day I spent on doing auditing with the work that has been done by the China team. It was quite painful since I had to check one by one as if I am doing the research again for the first time. At noon, Arundhati came to me and asked if I wanna meet to talk about dividing the task, as Nimish, my boss, has asked about the estimate of how long the auditing process will take. Long story short, we decided that we need to change our style of auditing. Instead of doing it very detailed and go over the products one by one, we’d rather just do general auditing and make it fast. I’m not sure but, auditing 250 products a day is tough even though it’s only a general auditing.
The other half part of my work spent on working with bugs filed by Rohit and/or Alex. It was for Hyperion and Informatica. I thought it would be easy but it turned out to be complicated. With the company keeps changing name of their products, I had to really understand the whole organization of their products. I made a few progress on one bug, hopefully I can finish that bug by today.
Another interesting thing yesterday, dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant. Sounds exciting? Well, it’s weird, and I can’t say that I really enjoyed it. Anyway, I’ll tell later, my station is coming. So, see ya in a bit?
--Afternoon Journal--
Ok. So, it turns out that it is definitely not a good day to take an umbrella with you. Its super shiny and bright! It’s even warm! Gee.. I wonder if spring has actually started. It will be awesome, I’m gonna keep all these heavy jackets in the storage and take all my tight shirts out. Yeeha!
Today’s work was quite bearable, had to deal with Anthony several times, had to deal with Alex and David, but at least they were asking for my suggestions/opinions, not asking me to verify things. Even some bugs under my name that I’m working on, I believe they actually are the result of Alex’s mistake so, it shouldn’t take that long for me to close it or shift it to Alex.
By the way, yesterday’s dinner. Paul and I were driving around hoping that we can find some new place where we can eat decent food in considerably short time (since we had to go to Office Depot and the gym). We drove along San Carlos and saw nothing, until we saw something says “Ethiopian restaurant.” We have dared each other into going to try Ethiopian food some time and we though, what the heck, let’s try, let’s get it over with.
There we were, in an Ethiopian restaurant full of Ethiopians chatting and socializing in their languages. I looked up at the menu, it was rather disappointing. They have quite some vegetarian food but they don’t have anything else other than meat that I can’t eat. We decided to go with vegetarian. It was like a combination of several items.
It took forever for the food to come, 15 minutes or maybe more. They didn’t even serve water, we had to buy bottled water. And when the food came, I was like… “Hmm.. that looks weird.” I tasted some, it was weird. The vegetables were bitter, the creamy hummus-like beans are.. ahem.. gross. I couldn’t even take my mind off the image of.. sorry.. poop, since it really does look like it. And the “bread,” gosh.. it’s bitter, weird-tasted and.. I don’t know, even the presentation is kind of like.. not pleasant. Maybe it was just me since Paul actually ate the whole thing. I could only make myself to eat the potato-cabbage thing. Other than that, it made almost throw out when I put it in my mouth.
I think I’m not gonna have another Ethiopian food anymore. Well at least not in the immediate time. No thank you.
Oops.. my station is coming. Nice trip today, really. Everything’s on time and I will get home within 10 minutes. Hopefully I can make some pizza and chop a little vegetable for salad and, have a little relaxed and decent dinner while watching some TiVo.
So, I guess I’ll see ya tomorrow!
--Morning Journal--
It’s Thursday, a sunny one. No rain, not cold, but still, I’m taking my umbrella with me, just in case.
Ok. Weird thing happened this morning. When I was in the shower, I got a call on my cell phone (which I missed, of course). When I dialed the number back, somebody said it’s “Microsoft Tech Support,” and when I told her somebody called me from that number she said, “This is Microsoft Canada, 800 people work here so..” And I was just, “Oh, okay. Thanks!” Weird, huh? I’m just wondering who might call me from Microsoft Canada, and even, for what purpose? Gosh.. I hope it’s not something with software piracy because I have never done such a thing. I’ll try to research the phone number from work and maybe, call again to make sure that everything is fine.
Anyway, OMG it’s only Thursday! It’s supposed to be a meeting day but my boss is going to be at Stanford for a Job Fair (no, he is not looking for another job, our company is opening a booth to find new employees instead). So, the meeting is moved to tomorrow, 4 pm! I will have to call in from home since I will be working from home in the afternoon after my Friday prayer at Stanford. I haven’t done the report though, which I will do first thing I get to the office.
Yesterday was a little bit sucky. The first half of the day I spent on doing auditing with the work that has been done by the China team. It was quite painful since I had to check one by one as if I am doing the research again for the first time. At noon, Arundhati came to me and asked if I wanna meet to talk about dividing the task, as Nimish, my boss, has asked about the estimate of how long the auditing process will take. Long story short, we decided that we need to change our style of auditing. Instead of doing it very detailed and go over the products one by one, we’d rather just do general auditing and make it fast. I’m not sure but, auditing 250 products a day is tough even though it’s only a general auditing.
The other half part of my work spent on working with bugs filed by Rohit and/or Alex. It was for Hyperion and Informatica. I thought it would be easy but it turned out to be complicated. With the company keeps changing name of their products, I had to really understand the whole organization of their products. I made a few progress on one bug, hopefully I can finish that bug by today.
Another interesting thing yesterday, dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant. Sounds exciting? Well, it’s weird, and I can’t say that I really enjoyed it. Anyway, I’ll tell later, my station is coming. So, see ya in a bit?
--Afternoon Journal--
Ok. So, it turns out that it is definitely not a good day to take an umbrella with you. Its super shiny and bright! It’s even warm! Gee.. I wonder if spring has actually started. It will be awesome, I’m gonna keep all these heavy jackets in the storage and take all my tight shirts out. Yeeha!
Today’s work was quite bearable, had to deal with Anthony several times, had to deal with Alex and David, but at least they were asking for my suggestions/opinions, not asking me to verify things. Even some bugs under my name that I’m working on, I believe they actually are the result of Alex’s mistake so, it shouldn’t take that long for me to close it or shift it to Alex.
By the way, yesterday’s dinner. Paul and I were driving around hoping that we can find some new place where we can eat decent food in considerably short time (since we had to go to Office Depot and the gym). We drove along San Carlos and saw nothing, until we saw something says “Ethiopian restaurant.” We have dared each other into going to try Ethiopian food some time and we though, what the heck, let’s try, let’s get it over with.
There we were, in an Ethiopian restaurant full of Ethiopians chatting and socializing in their languages. I looked up at the menu, it was rather disappointing. They have quite some vegetarian food but they don’t have anything else other than meat that I can’t eat. We decided to go with vegetarian. It was like a combination of several items.
It took forever for the food to come, 15 minutes or maybe more. They didn’t even serve water, we had to buy bottled water. And when the food came, I was like… “Hmm.. that looks weird.” I tasted some, it was weird. The vegetables were bitter, the creamy hummus-like beans are.. ahem.. gross. I couldn’t even take my mind off the image of.. sorry.. poop, since it really does look like it. And the “bread,” gosh.. it’s bitter, weird-tasted and.. I don’t know, even the presentation is kind of like.. not pleasant. Maybe it was just me since Paul actually ate the whole thing. I could only make myself to eat the potato-cabbage thing. Other than that, it made almost throw out when I put it in my mouth.
I think I’m not gonna have another Ethiopian food anymore. Well at least not in the immediate time. No thank you.
Oops.. my station is coming. Nice trip today, really. Everything’s on time and I will get home within 10 minutes. Hopefully I can make some pizza and chop a little vegetable for salad and, have a little relaxed and decent dinner while watching some TiVo.
So, I guess I’ll see ya tomorrow!
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