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Little by little
After been working for 2 weeks, I'm now a little used to this kind of life. But still feel weird that I don't need to study and prepare for any exam and quiz everyday. But I think if I keep reading nothing for these 5 months, my brain will oppose to work for exams and quizzes in the future. So since I'm not very busy at my work, I try to still read something. Maybe I'll borrow some books about accounting and do the exercises of them. It's a good way to kill time by doing accounting exercises since we always had 4-hour-exams when I was still in Taiwan. I think I'll ask my parents to send me more books.
I called my parents again today, actually, I called them yesterday also but they were having their dinner and were drinking tea outside. I said " How can you enjoy your life like that while your daughter is working so hard!" Haha, I was really jealous... I made a list of items that I wanted them to send to me. And of course including the food I like. When I called them today, dad was the one who picked up the phone. I haven't heard his voice so clearly for a long time since he's working abroad most of the time. When he said "Wei~" I thought it's a really young guy who picked up the phone. I was shocked a little, and I said "Wei~" also. I was wondering if I dailed the wrong number but then I didn't think that I'd forget my home number just in 6 months. I said "wei" again. And dad said "OH~ hi~" Then I made sure that it's my Dad... I told him that his voice sounded so young. Then he raised his voice and said " I sounded younger?" Seemed he's really happy that I thought so. I didn't talked with him for too long. I just told him something that he has to pay attention to my Bagel and told him my working shift for next week. ( I don't think my working shift help a lot to them but they always ask for it.) Anyway, it's good that I could talk with him by phone though. He'll go abroad again after few days.
Jessica has a day off today and Cindy had a 2 hour break this afternoon. They went to my shop to chat with me since it snowed really heavily today and fewer people came to my shop. We really talked a lot of things. First Jessica asked us what we're going to do for valentine's day. There's a activity in school which people can deliver flowers or chocolates for you to whom you like. As we know, there're a least 5 people are going to give Jessica flowers or chocolates. Cindy and I said we just want to skip valentine's day. Maybe we'll eat instant noodles in our room tomorrow night to make at least something special. Seems like Jessica's really excited for tomorrow. We guess there're 5. But maybe more. And then we talked about her wedding. She's going to get married right after she go back to Taiwan after finishing her job here. Maybe in August. And she said that Cindy, Vickie and I can be her maid of honor at her wedding. And she'll invite Monica to go as well. And she'll have her wedding in Taipei 101. Wow~ I"m really looking forward to it. haha~
Tomorrow is the day for my friends in Taiwan to go back to their work again after the Chinese New Year vacation. Everyone's lazy and feels like need more days off, just like me.
My friends took this one. They were on the same train with him.
I called my parents again today, actually, I called them yesterday also but they were having their dinner and were drinking tea outside. I said " How can you enjoy your life like that while your daughter is working so hard!" Haha, I was really jealous... I made a list of items that I wanted them to send to me. And of course including the food I like. When I called them today, dad was the one who picked up the phone. I haven't heard his voice so clearly for a long time since he's working abroad most of the time. When he said "Wei~" I thought it's a really young guy who picked up the phone. I was shocked a little, and I said "Wei~" also. I was wondering if I dailed the wrong number but then I didn't think that I'd forget my home number just in 6 months. I said "wei" again. And dad said "OH~ hi~" Then I made sure that it's my Dad... I told him that his voice sounded so young. Then he raised his voice and said " I sounded younger?" Seemed he's really happy that I thought so. I didn't talked with him for too long. I just told him something that he has to pay attention to my Bagel and told him my working shift for next week. ( I don't think my working shift help a lot to them but they always ask for it.) Anyway, it's good that I could talk with him by phone though. He'll go abroad again after few days.
Jessica has a day off today and Cindy had a 2 hour break this afternoon. They went to my shop to chat with me since it snowed really heavily today and fewer people came to my shop. We really talked a lot of things. First Jessica asked us what we're going to do for valentine's day. There's a activity in school which people can deliver flowers or chocolates for you to whom you like. As we know, there're a least 5 people are going to give Jessica flowers or chocolates. Cindy and I said we just want to skip valentine's day. Maybe we'll eat instant noodles in our room tomorrow night to make at least something special. Seems like Jessica's really excited for tomorrow. We guess there're 5. But maybe more. And then we talked about her wedding. She's going to get married right after she go back to Taiwan after finishing her job here. Maybe in August. And she said that Cindy, Vickie and I can be her maid of honor at her wedding. And she'll invite Monica to go as well. And she'll have her wedding in Taipei 101. Wow~ I"m really looking forward to it. haha~
Tomorrow is the day for my friends in Taiwan to go back to their work again after the Chinese New Year vacation. Everyone's lazy and feels like need more days off, just like me.
My friends took this one. They were on the same train with him.
posted by Jackie at 2/13/2005 09:35:00 PM
8 Comments:
I think that little by little maybe you’re dying. Get better soon. Hopefully your long grocery wish list of food from your parents will make you well again. The resemblance in the last picture seems to be somewhat less than in the ones before. I could probably find better resemblance at my school if I were looking. They could take off their glasses and you could put yours on. You can’t even tell your own father’s voice, though. Either your senses are bad, or you see and hear what you want. In that case, you should make work seem more fun. If you find doing 4-hour exams each week fun, then work should be really exciting. Even if it isn’t that fun, it doesn’t seem that you’re that hard working if you can talk to friends when they visit and still have so much time off that you want to do extra homework. The worry shouldn’t be that you’ll not want to do homework later, but that you want to do it now. You’d rather do that and skip out on Valentine’s day things, but maybe that’s just because your optimism is low. Just as your optimism reflects life, your life will reflect your outlook on it. Optimistic Jessica is already getting married. Well, perhaps her optimism is too high and should be brought down to the instant noodle level. If you really think it’s too high, then maybe you don’t want to be a maid of honor. Even if that marriage doesn’t work, it seems like there are plenty more possibilities. Well, it’s too late for you to get out of her business now, unless you would actually back out. So, from now on you can’t just say that it’s none of your business; it will be: you’ll be one of the few to stand with her when it happens. Just smile for all the pictures and light a luck candle in a church. You’ll have to dress up. Poor Monica will be left out, though, and will only get to sit with the other strangers.
I don't get it...who are these punks in the pictures?
The bottom picture is Jackie's boyfriend. The picture above it is somebody at their school that she and her friends think resembles him.
I wouldn't want to look like anyone famous...that would suck. People would always be comparing you to them.
Fortunately for the guy in the picture, he doesn't look like anybody famous.
Haha, Ximen. Or Xiaotian.
:)Nihao, Jackie!
Hi Apple~
Yeah Ximen Ximen~
Haven't heard people call him Ximen for a long time. haha~
Et tu, Apple?
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