i did it again.

25 days ago, i made an entry on my blog about how i'm gonna get my act together and look for an accounting job. well, the days have come and gone and i only have a week of work left. guess who's gonna be umemployed at the end of the week! me! whee! i finally installed microsoft office on my computer, so now i really have no excuse for not doing my cover letters and whatnot. augh. it can't be that hard! i dunno why i haven't started.

so i was catching up on ab's blog today.. cuz you know, that's how we know what the hell is going on with each other. since we can't pick up the phone or write emails. heehee. and he was talking about people he could potentially pair up with if he were to apply for Race. this is par of what he had to say:

"Eve's out the fuckin' question (think Zack and Flo). We would come out of the race either as winners or not speaking to each other, haha."

first of all.. i'm Zack, and he's Flo. and i think there's some merit in his hypothesis. we'd drive each other insane if we were stuck together day-to-day. but the truth is, i dun think we'd hate each other, cuz ab's the only one out of all my friends whom hasn't totally bugged me. ever. in the 10 years i've been friends with him. everyone other close friend i've complained about or "wronged" me at some point in my friendship with them. but ab? nothing to complain about. i make fun of him, sure, but they are all just jokes. like the time he put unwrapped choclate in his pants and was surprised to see that it had melted. or the time he forgot to bring shoes and socks when he rollarbladed to my bbq... or the time he pulled up the whole bottle of a mini water-cooler, spilling water everywhere, simply because he didn't know there was water in it... and the time... wait. i'm getting off track here. ab's an excellent friend, fun, entertaining, loving and just so so so understanding.

k. i'm ending my anti-rant about ab right here before people start asking me what's wrong with me.

time for: the rest of my sunday nite pampering. then talk to hunny. bunny. and then off to sleep.

yay, family!

my sister Dawn arrived unannounced last friday, stayed for a week and left yesterday. haven't seen her since christmas, so the past week has been lots of family time. we celebrated both my dad's birthday and Dawn's birthday since they were only 4 days apart. it's been a while since we all sat together at the dinner able eating an elaborate meal my mom prepared. it's also been a while since we sat together and laughed at stupid things.. i rememeber the days when i used to crack up so bad at least once a week at the dinner table. my family had a bbq on thurs for dawn's birthday and they invited edward. it was the first time he ate with my whole family and i hope he wasn't too uncomfy. i mean, he only wiped ketchup on his shirt... and spilled fruitopia on his pants. heehee.

speaking of people i haven't seen in a long time.. my HK friend from grade 3 with whom i haven't spoken to in 3 years emailed today informing me of her new gmail account and so i replied, cuz i too, have a new gmail account. lo and behold, she added me msn right away and we ended catching up on stuff. she sent me a link to one of her online albums and damn, she's so pretty now! not that she was ever ugly.. but she's grown into really a pretty girl (at least i think so) with nicely-developed features while retaining a look of innocence. i told her she was really pretty a couple of times in our conversation and now i wonder if she think i'm lesbian.. cuz she asked me if i was attached, not if i had a bf. hahah.

i've noticed that a lot of people get prettier as they get older.. their skin clears up, they lose their baby fat and their makeup is applied with an expert hand. this is where i feel inadequate. skin clears up? not so much. lose baby fat? sure, but i gained some dense, adult fat. makeup with expert hand? nope, i keep buying the wrong shades of foundation that give me clown face. i think i should spend the rest of the year working on this.. but i'm always afraid that even if i lose 30 pounds, have clear skin and get all made up, i'd still only be average. fuck it, i'm average now, so why the hell bother? or perhaps this is just an excuse. bah!

time for: going out with hunny!

rent-a-car? rent-a-purse!

i was listening to a chinese radio station today and according to them, there's a new business concept in hk. as you may already have guessed in the title of my entry, the concept is to rent out deisgner bags to people for a fraction of the price. they have the same service in the states called Bag, borrow or steal.

i must say i'm quite against this idea. there's something about it that just doesn't seem right. the host compared this idea to the idea of renting a luxury car or an apartment you cannot afford to buy. i fail to see how these ideas are similar. an expensive car costs 60 grand, an expensive apartment costs half a million.. an 600 dollar bag pales in comparison. besides, you can't compare this with the luxury cars and condos because the difference between renting and owning those item are exponentially more than the difference between renting and buying a designer bag . people called into the show and said this is going to be thriving concept (to which i agree, since there's lots of demand), but the callers also said that it's accpetable and they wouldn't think there's anything wrong with engaging in this business. uh. no. i don't agree to that.

the whole idea here is that people can use something they cannot not afford to own. specifically, using something that they think will elevate their status. they want to use this bag to show that they can afford items of luxury when in reality, they can't. it urks me to think that people will go this far to pretend to be something they are not. okay, so you can't buy a 600 dollar bag, live with it. go buy another bag with the 60 bucks (plus s&h) it would've cost to rent a bag that you will have to return!

the guy on the radio also made a comparison between the similarity of renting purses and renting wedding gowns. i'm gonna go kick that guy's ass. wedding gowns are special, you use it for only one day in your life, it's the most special day in your life (or so they say) and most gorgeous, great-fitting dresses are going to cost an arm an a leg.

bags are meant to be used more than once, you use it for day to day activities, a bag isn't going to make you look radiant, and really, the bag looks the same on everyone.

don't pretend to be someone you cannot afford. or maybe you can just keep using your 80 dollar LV knock-off, poser.

time for: thinking, "damn! i ranted again, didn't i?"

i got nothing... to say.

had quite an enjoyable weekend. spent a few hours watching what not to wear with edward on friday. i really like that show. I especially like clinton, he's so much better that the first season's long-haired freako. then i was maggie's hair model for saturday and sunday during the day. that was interesting, the teacher showed a lot of techniques of styling the hair and whatnot.

then there was the group of 7 bbq on sunday. Group of 6, really, cuz queenie no longer shows up to any of these things. it was a lot of fun, actually. it was odd cuz we had 4 couples and mike. i mean, not that any of the couples were excessively lovey dovey, but it must've been odd for mike. i know if i was me, i'd be kinda uncomfortable. Actually, i know i would've been uncomfortable. i recall going to a dinner a couple of years ago with about 15 other people and i was practically the only person who was single. it wasn't the fact that seeing all these couples annoyed me or took away from the conversations, it was just that i felt kinda alone. and i remember making a vow that i'd never become one of those ppl who were always "bf this, bf that". i'm not sure i'm doing a good job keeping that vow right now. dude, i try. i just hope to hell that i don't make anyone excessively uncomfortable and if i am, i'd like to be told about it instead of being made fun about it. cuz as we all know, i'm a very defensive person, if i get made fun of, i'll rant and there'll be no solving things.

i have nothing to rant about today, something must be wrong with me.

time for: finishing something at work...

email for dummies.

i have sat in 8 hours of training for Microsoft Oulook in the past three days. It was not only boring, but very very useless. Apparently there are all sorts of fancy features in Outlook, for example, did you know that you can schedule meetings that will never take place because everyone's schedule change constantly? how about the feature where write yourself "sticky notes" in the program? yeah, so that when the computer crashes you can't find that vital piece of info anywhere. umm.. how about writing on an actual post-it and stick it on the side of your monitor?

oh.. and Outlook allows people to assign tasks to you. i can see my manager abusing this feature. he's the kinda guy that will pull you in a two hour meeting at 9am under the pretense that it'll only take 10 minutes, then at the end of the meeting at 11am he'll tell you have that he "forgot" to mention that you have a deadline at 11:30am.. for a task that will take you two hours to complete. augh. friggin' windbag.

if i wasn't paid for sitting there, i'd be pissed.

time for: dinner.. and then laundry? hopefully?

shut... up!

heeeeeeeeeeeehahahahha.. HEEEEEEEEEEHAHAHAHAHA... HEEEEEEEEEHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

that's all i hear from 12pm to 1pm everyday when i'm working. there's a lady at work who likes to talk on the phone during her lunch hour from 12-1 everyday and she laughs while she talks. i don't know who the fuck she's talking to, but it's really annoying! i can't concentrate when i hear a hyena laugh every two seconds. and her voice is really shirll too. grr.

we recevied an email about the dress code in the office today. it was about casual fridays. and get this, "while fridays are dress down days, pls note that t-shirts and running shoes are not permitted". uhm. ok. so what do i wear? the running shoes i can deal with, although i still think it's bullshit. but t-shirt? what do you mean by a t-hsirt? one of those extra large white t-shirt with stains on them? or one of those many fitted t-shirts which i own and not only wear on fridays, but on a daily basis? what am i supposed to wear if not a t-shirt? a blouse? what the hell is a blouse? who even wears blouses, except for middle aged ladies stuck in the eighties and wearing colourful suits (which in reaity are ill-fitting jackets with huge shoulder pads and matching pants/shorts/skirts) with their pantyhose and flat shoes? i haven't even seen the word blouse in stores for the longest time. besides, how does the way one dress affect the efficiency of their work? i mean, if people aren't wearing something that will distract others, such as tube tops with overspilling boobs, or wearing something which inhibits them from working, such as, oh i don't know, a strait jacket, then what's the harm in dress the way we want?

i understand that professionalism comes into play here, but please, if you are going to send out an email indicating the inappropriateness of t-shirts and running shoes, then perhaps an email about hyena laughter should be circulated as well.

time for: grabbing some lunch.

wish me luck please.

i finally got around to printing a list of designated accounting training firms in toronto. now i have to call the ones that are accessible (ie. doesn't take me 2 hours of commute each way) and see if they'll take me. i have one month to do this. just one stinking month! aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!! then again, i'm ready to leave the place i'm working at right now. it's a pretty easy going office environment but there is just so much office politics. i suppose that's natural in any office, but i'm caught in the middle here. i don't like to be the middle of things and trying to get along with both sides of office (basically young and old) is difficult and irritating. i know what led up to this status of mine... and when i start another job, i'm gonna make sure i stay out of everyone's way. esp. middle aged women who like to complain. the average employee in this office have little to no post-secondary education, maybe that's why they like to gossip and make big deals out of nothing. things can get a little unprofessional. i am by no means an elitist, but i can totally see a difference between the people who had more schooling and people who had not. the ones who have tend to know exactly what they are saying and are quite rational. the ones who don't tend to scream and be shrill to get their point across. i also think common sense is directly proportional to education and work experience too...

then again, ab just completely shatters this hypothesis of mine. heehee.

oh, i thought this was kinda cool. odd how elections in canada and in the states are so different.

time for: going on mapquest.ca to see where some of these accounting firms are.