so...the Apple presentation went well! the new senior manager said it was great and looks forward to working with me later this year, when i transfer over to the Cupertino office. (peperima, we can finally go on real dates. you should be warned that i will attempt to keep the both of us inebriated at all times. because that is the fast-track to true love ( Read more... )

spent a drizzly weekend in Hong Kong with my grandma and great-uncle, who are presently on a pan-Asian tour via cruise. they were terribly excited when i told them i decided to take the job in Santa Clara, since they live in Cupertino. well, grandma was excited. great-uncle kind of wears the same facial expression always, so there was some ( Read more... )

they need to stop chewing things to destruction. seriously. Alfie loved his new blue, light-up bouncy ball so freakin' much that he actually chewed all the way to the center. and swallowed parts like the circuit board, rubber tubing, and LED lights. we think. we can't actually find said parts, so that's what we're assuming ( Read more... )

so i have to repost the too-adorable-for-words drawing that distracterisey sprung on me out of nowhere. i will love it for eternity! ♥ i dare you to resist Eames's Basketweave Shirt and Arthur's Angry Little Face. (by d's book, he is angry because his hands are too itty-bitty to hold a coffee cup properly. and Eames is unabashedly squashing him like a pancake. \ ( Read more... )

same coffee shop, waiting for my American colleague who should be arriving in the city in about a half-hour. Korean beef & kimchi chige, plus a hot drink consisting of boiled Coca-Cola and lots of ginger. it is absolutely delicious and will hopefully stave off the oncomings of a sore throat. (i love China, i do, but i am always getting sick here. ( Read more... )

WSJ, you are unreal. and not in a good way: "In Defense of the Western Mom", Ayelet Waldman's response (significantly less ragetastic) to Amy Chua's bullshit excerpt of bullshit. which is still the most popular article in the Asia section ( Read more... )

excerpts of conversations he had with me:

dad: "I KNOW YOU LIKE DARK HUMOR."

dad: "Alan Ball also wrote American Beauty? wow. i like him."

dad: "Kevin Spacey is amazing."

dad: "you were right. i should've avoided Eat Pray Love. dolphins crapping."

and this is why he is my most favorite person in the world. <3