chiyola says time to blog again!

its been quite some time since the last update huh. in case you all were wondering wad i was up to... i've been to the death valley and back but i'm too lazy to post the pics yet, i'll do it tomorrow i think, theres too much photos i've yet to filter out.

i've been working too for the past three days and since they are public holidays and Saturday, work is quite slack. hope my next pay check have more money man! *pray*

and last but not least i've book my first driving lesson for Tuesday =) hope i can learn fast and i can get a car soon! finally man!

o and i went to the Asian art museum today at san frans for the national geographic Afghanistan's exhibition. i was more amazed by the Buddha exhibition there though. haha. theres a Afghanistan film at the museum showing about the Buddhas of bamyan that were destroyed by the Taliban and then after the event theres people trying to resurrect the Buddha statues there and also in china there were also trying to replicate the Buddhas of bamyan and in the process destroyed some other important heritage thingy.

i personally think there is no need to do such thing as to reconstruct or replicate or rebuild as Buddha says "everything changes, nothing remains without change." wouldn't it be better to just leave the hollow part and the Buddha statues remains there so as they can serve as a good lesson to be learn for the people and be an important part in our human history?

anyway jus my own personal opinion.

chiyola says scenic drive to half moon bay

oops forgot to mention previously that i've passed my driving theory and am ready for practical lessons already! yup, today instead of nuaing at home, we went for a scenic drive to half moon bay and tasted very very yummy food along the way. seriously the food i ate today is the best so far not including home cook meal of course LOL.

chiyola says genentech xmas party

my company has a xmas party in san frans at AT & T park, it was huge with lots of freebies =) free food, free alcohol, free fun and also got fireworks. i oni tried the ice skating there but there were others which i dun dare to try as usual like rock and tree climbing, fake bull riding, ferries wheel (cause too many peeps) anyway its like last week so lazy to type liao haha. see the pics ba!

chiyola says sorry for the lack of updates!

actual shift had started and hence not much time to blog on the days which im working. so gonna do a update now!!!

first of all gonna show you guys my room:

nice a not?

chiyola says good stuff!

our work training ended early today and so the bunch of us went down to club genentech to check out the gym and also to sign up. i was amazed by the size and the facilities of the gym, it was the biggest gym i've seen so far in my life! bicycle room, yoga room, weights room, gym equipment room, indoor court and counting. and theres free classes too like boxing, yoga, pilates, salsa bla bla bla. this company is really like a school, theres internal shuttle buses, online learnings, celebrations and ECAs for you to join too! maybe i should join something and attend some classes in my off days. so far so good, hope my actual work will be great too and i dun screw up anything as its not play play liao!

feels good and fresh after a run just now in the hotel gym, i've tried running outdoors but i dun really like it because of the cold weather.

chiyola says yay my new key!

yesterday was whole day shopping for our new house, it was really tiring and this morning i have aches all over. we went to sears first to look at some mattress and thereafter we went to burgerking for lunch. burgerking is ex here! same price as sing but in usd lo. but den the quality of the food here is soooo much better! yummy! i really dislike burgerking back in sing man. after lunch we went to the post office and i duplicate my house key there:

cute right!

after lunch we head to ikea in oakland. spent the rest of the day there. ate there too but o man the food there really cmi compared to sing and there were no delicious chicken wings. so sad! i miss the days when ahgohgoh and me ate like gluttons back in ikea sing =(

ok guys gotta go do homework liao, hope to show you all my room next weekend.