let the hourglass pass right into ashes

haha i googled the line above, &someone else has this line as their blog post title.

>1. presentation: yesterday i had two presentations! one was for my intern group project. i didn't have to speak for that one. &the second one was a presentation/review of my project with the department vp & directors. now this one i was REALLY scared about. two days before the presentation, i reviewed it with my manager, & he was telling me how, depending on the vp's mood, the vp sometimes totally rips apart the project & can be really blunt. &etc. also, i've read some of the emails the vp sends out to my team. &sometimes he can sound REALLY harsh when he is disappointed. &then the day before, i reviewed it with my mentor. & she told me how the director that she reports to is big on formatting, like having everything capitalized or excel boxes done correctly, etc. ohmygosh i was so scared! but thank God i did really well yesterday ( i think). haha. well the vp & the directors & my manager all said i did a good job. &the vp didn't even say anything bad at my documentation! he was pleased with the layout! ohmygosh, so surprising haha. &when i was speaking, they all listened intently &with really nice faces, not critical; made me feel like i was slightly important ^__^. so i was super happy yesterday :) haha. &the whole time during the presentation, i just kept thinking about exodus 4:11:

The LORD said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

sighh :) i am so grateful i did well. i seriously cannot speak in front of people, esp not in front of vps &directors. soo much grace from God.

>2. 1.5 weeks left: of my internship! ohman. so fast! so since the vp didn't have any criticisms on the layout/format of my documentation yesterday, i have basically no work left for these 1.5 weeks :) well they wanted me to do something on the ppo side but my manager said that i wouldn't have time. so now i am preparing for my final presentation to show my department what i've learned. thisss preparing is fun because i get to play with powerpoint & do fancy little things on it. ^__^ i guess with this presentation, i will have to show off a little bit more about what i've learned to impress them.

>3. fun stuff:
today: after work i'm going to our sunday school teacher's wife's place to hang out with her &some other lovely women :) it will be fun to hang out with the college/young adult girls.
friday: meeting up with timotee to help him with buying stufff....
saturday: two doctor appointments!: dentist/eye doctor to get new contacts. &then, if all goes well, BOILING CRABB :) but i will be missing bible study :( sadness.
sunday: FINALLY meeting up with the besties &will finally see eunice's oh so cute puppy!!!! :)

okay. that is all :)

nevermind what haters say, ignore them til they fade away

HEHEHE. i like being in the cubicle. i can't eat lunch today with coworkers cause still no appetite :( sigh. i will have to fool myself into eating again.

next week is going to be hecka busy T_T. monday i'm reviewing my presentation for the vp with my manager.
tuesday is reviewing intern project presentation with the Human Capital Team in Minnesota.
wednesday morning is my intern project presentation (though i don't have to present ! =] but i have to get here at 7 am T_T)
wednesday afternoon is reviewing of my documentation project with the vp, the directors, &my manager. i is skurrred. T_T iuno what to say :(
so today i am preparing for that review process. as to what i'm going to say. what section i'm going to walk them through. etc. ughh. scary scary scary.

this weekend shall be quite fun though.
tonight, my parents are speaking on guy-girl relationships at the fellowship for singles/couples w/o kids on the chinese side. ima go listen.
saturday, we have our last bible study, &then we're praying & fasting for the church retreat & leadership, &then we're going to downtown disney to watch fireworks!
sunday, there is retreat leadership meeting &then meeting up with church friends after that for a catch-up session... a wayyy long overdue catch up session.

ohman. i hope i get enough rest this weekend & next week.
ONLY TWO MORE WEEKS OF INTERNSHIP LEFT! wowwww. :)

i got paradise on call

my favorite part about blogging is making the title. HEHE.

i have no appetite lately. it is weird :( sigh.
today, i got some work. i am taking my sweet time doing it. that way my manager won't look so upset when i bother him every 5 min. T_T
after work, im going to go to the boiling crab with coworkers. hopefully by then i'll have an appetite.

i changed the template layout on my personal blog. now it is all pretty. i had anthony download it for me. &he got a virus. hahaha. i just stole his post topic. HEHE. but he got rid of the virus, &now i have a pretty layout ! :)

here is my schedule for the next semester:
my classes are so far T_T all the way on the north edge of campus T_T
i shall be fit next year.

1.5 hours till freedom..

Few things I've learned so far:

1. I realize that when people say "Hey how's it going?", it's typically nice to respond to their question. Haha. At first, I used to just respond by say, "Hey, what's up?" or with another question but I realize that when I ask first, the convo would go.. "Hey how's it going?" "Good, how is yourself?" and that is probably the more proper way to respond, instead of ignoring their question with another question..
2. Having things to work on makes my day go faster. And it makes me feel less guilty when filling out my time sheet. Haha =]
3. When things (contract plans, specs book, etc) are said to be 95% done, they are actually only like 80% done.
4. There are 4 other interns here in my building, 1 in the engineering department (I'm in construction management), 2 in the planning division, and 1 in the water division.. There is also another construction intern but he is out on the project site. Working with them makes my day go faster and work more fun. We have a "save energy" project that we're working on together. It's been pretty fun. I'm pretty chill with 2 of the other interns, the other 2 are pretty MIA.
5. There are quite a few Cal alumns here. All the interns are from Cal or will be going to Cal for CEE grad school. The president here is from Duke and he likes to make fun of Cal people. He thinks Duke is a better school, I'll just reassure him that they just have a better basketball team. 6. One of my superiors, likes to make fun of Cal grads as well. Haha. We were working on our energy project, looking for the best place to put reminder posters up and he sees us and asks what we're doing and then says, "It takes two Cal grads to find the best spots for posters eh?" Haha maybe Cal people just like sticking together or maybe Cal just does a good job teaching people about community. =]
7. When it comes to CM/EPM the only thing that’s helped from school is cost estimating, the majority of the other stuff I've had to learn on the fly. Work work is very different than school work.
8. Engineering Construction is really 95% men. The other 5% are the EC Admins, and they are all females. It's also 95% white as well. I make up the other 5%.
9. Cubicles make work life very quiet and private.
10. Not really something I learned.. But something cool: I get to keep all my safety gear. Hardhat, gloves, safety vest, safety sunshade glasses, and my $132 hardtoe safety boots. =] I guess it would be kinda gross if they re-used it. Now if only I get to keep my work cell phone…hahaha

Sighzor. The internet went down today at work again…why does this keep happening? Apparently it doesn't happen very often.. Just two times already in my 3 weeks of work. Also I watched Transformers last night, it was good but it made me lose 1 hour of sleep. Now I'm at work--sleepy. =/ Lunchtime nap in my car is in consideration…other than that… sleeping at 11pm and waking up at 7am isn't as bad as I imagined it to be… its only really bad on Mondays cause my weekend sleep schedule is skewed.

val misses her homies...

Mike was online today.
Christine was not. What a weird change of events.

On Friday we learned that one of the Senior Engineers who work here passed away. Yeah… it was sad. He was in the hospital for a routine check up on Tuesday but doctors found an infection, so he spent the night there and then on Friday we learned that one of his organ failed and with a chain of events he passed away. He was maybe like 50 at most, probably late 40s. It's kinda eerie cause theres been a lot of death-related incidents lately. However, I think this is one of the few that actually impacted me or one that I've been in touch with (I was working on a project with him last week.) My grandpa passed when I was like 5 so I barely remember that.

Something that's cool: his church has been helping the family out a lot. Yeah--the church. I only just recently found out he was involved at a church. One thing that’s weird though is that the church set up two funds for people to donate to: a church scholarship fund (cause the church is also a school apparently..) and a church building fund (finances that will go towards new chuch buildings..) I think it's kinda weird cause it feels a little exploitive? But whatever it's what the family wants I'm assuming and it lets non-christians get involved to help the church grow. It's cool that you can help impact the church even when you passed away.

One of the things that suck is…one of the direct consequences of this is that everyone's work has been bumped up quite a bit and therefore expect less blogging from me.. maybe. Haha. Though a lot of this work I've been given, I don't really know how to do. O_o" Is it fair to assume its not that important since they give it to the intern to do it? =] There's not really anyone to teach me either since everyone is also very busy…and oh my mentor/supervisor is out for vacation this week… haha what timing..

mmMm yeah I'm feeling some jamba right now.. buy one get one free anyone? =]
where my homies at?