My manager wanted everyone on the team to take an online assessment made by the people who did the Gallup Polls. The assessment was supposed to help us discover our top 5 strengths out of 34 themes. I just completed my test and here are my results ( Read more... )

This is something random that occurred to me the other day as I was riding in the car with Ivan. Although he and I had a lot alike, he isn't an anime fan. Since he is also rather homophobic (at one point he was so homophobic that he wouldn't watch "Philadelphia" even though there was no sex in it), the subject of yaoi would undoubtedly traumatize ( Read more... )

I was out in Virginia from March 1st to March 3rd for a business trip. Due to the fact that it was a very short trip and that my hotel was located all the way out in the remote part of the suburbs, I wasn't able to have much fun or do much sightseeing ( Read more... )

My department had our weekly meeting today and at the end of the meeting, we all participated in an activity about values. I am going to write down the process of the activity here because I feel it would be a big eye opener on discovering what and who we are. Basically, each of us were given 38 cards with different value inscribed on each of ( Read more... )

Or as I generally call it, "Single Awareness Day" or "Villaintine's Day". Before I proceed, I would just like to wish everyone (whether he or she has a significant other) a happy Valentine's Day! In spite of my opinion toward this day in general, I still would like to wish everyone who can enjoy this day the best, as it was nothing against ( Read more... )

Last Friday, I flew from Orange County to Las Vegas to meet up with Ivan. Since last Saturday was our one year anniversary and he had to be at Las Vegas from Feb 6th to Feb 14th for a shoe show, I figure I would make use of my two newly acquired vacation days to accompany him. After all, one year is a big deal for both of us. I never even ( Read more... )

This Saturday will be my one year anniversary with Ivan. Truth to be told, I'm surprised we even lasted more than three months! Anyway, I'm going to be flying out to Vegas tonight to meet up with him. It's unfortunate that with his company, they attend a shoe tradeshow everytime around this year ... so it's almost always a given that the ( Read more... )

I've recently compiled a list of Asian horror movies that I wanted to see. I'm just curious as to which one of my Livejournal friends have seen it since I really wanted to watch them all but I want to make sure they are good before I rent them ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went against what the critics said on the review and saw "The Butterfly Effect". Basically, I walked into the movie expecting it to be very bad, and walked out feeling rather ... impressed. Perhaps it was because of my expectations, or there lack of, I found the movie to be much better than I thought. The premise and the idea behind ( Read more... )

So I finally saw "Return of the King" last Saturday. It was an awesome film. Well, "awesome" doesn't do it justice, actually. It's definitely one of the film classics of our time. No, I'm not going to do a review on this one, since I doubt I can do it much justice. That, and the fact that it has been ages since I had read the book. Not only ( Read more... )