もう少し....

あっと言う間だったわよねぇ／／／

September approaches quickly. Time is flying like there's no tomorrow. No, I'm in no ruch actually.. just thought I'd go through with my 'plan' by now. Plan's still not completely worked out yet. It's getting rather frustrating...

So the last week (with half a week left) of work was pretty good, surprisingly. The highlight was our manager being called a penguin (cuz of the way he looks, his beer belly and the way he walks). It was used to identify him when a trucker came to find him. The trucker told our penguin manager to his face and we ended up rolling on the floor laughing for ages (me, post-front desk lady and neighbouring co-worker who thought of the description and told us).

The company managed to find a replacement (wow) for us who was actually a friend of some kid and that kid's dad works in our building. She's... touchy. A bit TOO touchy. To the point of overboard *COUGH*. Either too flirty, too friendly, too gay.. I don't know.. I haven't had the time to ask my post-front desk lady about it. It was already awkward enough for her to ask me so many personal questions on our first conversation and next she starts getting all touchy and feely and agh, too much detail from me. Let's just keep it at that. She has to like fricking touch me when she leans over my shoulder or when she comes to ask me something or give me something.. STOP TOUCHING ME. DUDE YOUR OLD AND A BLOODY WOMAN FOR GOODNESS SAKE. AND I'VE ONLY MET YOU TWICE. DON'T COME NEAR ME LIKE YOU KNOW ME. ANYWAYS! I think the company's going to have hell with her. Her english and mannerism is.. lacking.. majorly. *SIgh* Mainland China lady. Did I mention she's loud? Wow, check out that obnoxious screaming in Mandarin from my side of the room to the other. Yikes. But anyways, good luck to her. She's only getting barely a week and a half's worth of training from the both of us. She'll need to know everything in.. oh, three more days.

I haven't agreed to help them out on the weekends to do some data entry and whatever miscellaneous shiet they'd make me do (especially the pinguin manager faggot) yet but it's still under consideration. Some extra money's nice but sometimes I wonder if they even deserve my help... knowing I detest the company itself for its management and really bad work ethics. I don't knows yet. I think I might try a day or two first.

I _finally_ went by Iwase the other day. I picked up my delayed issues of Newtype and a copy of Ouran Host-bu 6 for some reading at my new work. The Newtype KiraxLacus shijitaki's really nice eh. I didn't see the other manga I wanted so I just ordered them online. I might as well try out an online shop I haven't bought from before. Let's see just how reliable they are. If the first one's a success... I'll be getting all of my manga goodies from these guys.

Sty and I went to Half Moon the other day to finally check out the place. Whoa. Gheeeetto. The place reeks of old books LOL. Anyways, super cramped in there but lots of old books, magazines and manga you probably won't find anywhere else anymore due to its oldness. I'd order from them (loads cheapter than Iwase) but their place is so out of the way. Unfortunately the both of us didn't find anything good (may be a fortunate thing too -- to not spend) but we spend the rest of our evening at good ol' Oakridge and duuude I bumped into crazy IB Jon. He's so DIFFERENT from BEFORE it's WEIRD.

First day "training" at my new job and I get to meet a guy who's Last day of work. I had a quick run down, followed the manager everywhere, and almost got nothing into my brain. After she left, I sat around bored for a few hours watching the last day of worker slack. Hahaa..

Saturday. Lunch with grandma & auntie. My Aunt got surgery on her eyes cuz the eyelids started drooping over he eyes and now her eyes are all strangely bloody and puffy. It's strange how sudden it all happened... Afterwards, my bro n I followed my Aunt to Richmond Market to grab some drinks, food and 'shop'. It's always nice to talk with her.

Second day of REAL training followed that evening. Moni was my trainer yay! Still too much to learn... my brain's gunna explode. I only got two nights (one night left) of practice with someone else before I have to do it SOLO. Gah, so worried.. so worried.

Ok sleep.

Weekendism & some

Hello! There's so much to talk about.. :3

AnimeEvolution = teh suck.
After AX, I think all cons'll suck. Can't help but compare with AX but AE was the ultimate suck. Yeahyeah, it's small but even if it's small, it doesn't mean it should be BORING!

AE Friday:
Duuude, I skipped out work for this day. I was "sick". Sty and I woke up bright and early (met up at 8AM to be exact), had McDix and went on our way. Got there, regged and went straight to the exhibitor's hall which apparently already had a line-up. So we sit for about mm.. 3 1/2 hours (we were 3 hours early :3) and it was only a 1/2 behind schedule. The merchandise... was rather disappointing. There was NOTHING but Inu Yasha, Bleach, GSD and Naruto... really. So I left empty handed that day but Sty spotted a nice FFS manga set. Yes, it was frustrating to leave spending absolutely nothing... despite being one of the earlier ones that had access to the exhibitor's room (meaning there should be GOOD STUFF early but no, not in this case). Um, we left right afterwards. I followed Sty DT to her workplace and she treated me to another movie [War of the Worlds!] and it sucked LOL. I personally thought it was retarded. Yes, it got your heart racing a few times but that was it. Everything was kinda dumb. o__o;; After movie, we went to White Spot for some late night food and drinks. Belinininininini...

AE Saturday:
We woke up early (sorta) again and had A&W breakfast this time. Got there and headed for the exhibitor's hall again. We were a bit late but the line-up wasn't long anyways (at least nothing compared to the AX lineups that spanned through multiple hallways and rooms and didn't require 3-4 hours prior arrival with possible 2+ more hours of delay and wait Lol. Anyways, I was trying to be hopeful by going again Saturday hoping there'd be some new stuff but I WAS WRONG! Everything was the damn same! Once again I had nothing to buy... so I last minutely grabbed a CLAMP no Kiseki package (vol.2) for relatively cheap and now I gotta go and collect the whole damn chess set. Woohoo. I still felt empty. :b After the quick exhibitor's hall visit, we went and took a nap outside for a few hours. Then we went to catch the Panda-Z Animation that was some nice very random 5-minute episodes. The opening by JAM Project is amusing, like all of their other typical stereotype superhero-feel songs. After that we fled from the area. The end of AE 2005.

That night I met up with Jo and Simon for sushi and night market. All you can eat is killer. Fukuroku and Iron Chef = Good times. Night Market was the same as always. I got myself the Gundam Seed Destiny chibi gashapon (that I wanted to get at AE but I decided too long and it disappeared...) set while Simon got the first season set. I think I would've prefered the first season set better. Anyways, now they sit on my printer. Check back in a month for its first fresh layer of dust.

Sunday. Wow I felt like a BUM! I didn't feel like going anywhere or doing anything. I was just extremely tired and slept so bloody much after coming home from church.

Yesterday. Good news for the Fish and his new job! Pretty awsome stuff. :DD Now he doesn't have to go back to HK~ More good news: my MobileMate is FREAKING AVAILABLE for a change. I gotta go pick it up asap. It's rather inconvenient to go pick up all the way at Broadway though. Ooh, I seriously need to visit Iwase (I think I'll do that tomorrow) for the delayed stuff from like last last month... they better have it by now! I got my new balance paycheque! The raise wasn't as I thought it would be (they tricked me!) but anyways.. a raise is a raise. Apparently they really want me to stay really badly.... the boss and I had a conversation and he offered to let me work whenever I'm available to help them do some data entry ( only data entry = ok; data entry+phone calls+front desk = no good). I think I'll keep them on the side for some extra cha-ching. The boss thinks highly of me (wow, that I did not know) and so does everyone else in the other divisions... all the nice comments will just go to my head and inflate my ego. It ALMOST made my stay. But *shakes head* oh no, I won't get tricked! O_O!!

Today! The post-front desk lady submitted her resignation letter today! LOL! This company is SCREWED! No data entry/custom service/freight cashiers available for this side by the end of the month! They'll probably grab somebody from my original branch though. But still, this company already lacked/lacks manpower but with less of us, they'll be in a major PINCHI! This side's manager's such a henachoko wuss. He says he's done so many things and yet he didn't do any of it at all. Instead he just whispers under his breath saying he remembers he did it and stares at the computer as if he's thinking and examining the problem when he's obviously NOT. I think I mentioned this already... but everyone in this side of the company thinks he's a total wuss too. No wonder my original manager says he gets picked on.. hell yeah he does. Even *I* pick on him! Just today he said he e-mailed one of the clients to request for some information, and obviously he didn't because he didn't get back to me. So I constantly bugged him all day for it and he just did he whisper-under-his-breath thing and stared at the computer. I offered to help him e-mail the client instead but he's like nooo I did it already and then he stares some more. Ahh what the hell. I'll remember to bug him about it tomorrow. Not to mention he waives one too many outstanding charges... no wonder this company's poor and shit. One of the clients that came by today even spoke with me about this company's reputation and wtf are they actually doing considering the crappy jobs they do. *shakes head* This is nothing to be proud of. And I'm glad I'm not going to be representing them any longer.

Training for my other job starts at the end of this week. I don't know what to expect. Mo^2 says the manager's just overexaggerating. I hope she's right... I'm not even sure if I know what the attire is. I asked her again about it and I THINK she said she gives us uniforms but... *shrugs* does that include pants cuz she also mentioned that she was wearing shorts... and Mo^2 wearing capri's and ahhh... I can't ask Mo^2 either since she's off having fun right now in Victoria. Awwwww... I hope I don't mess up. >_> The manager also said some other higher up manager wants to meet me too... eep. Am I supposed to dress nice or not on my first day then?! So confused on what to do. Wing, wing, wing it I say.

A thanks to Amy for letting me use her laptop to access my memory card. Yay for phonebook recovery and pretty ringtones! And I'm having fun wasting money on e-mails on my phone... moblog is active but not public yeeet. Hopefully I'll get to a layout sometime before I release it. Yay exciting but no time!

Yays n Nays

Yays:
- moblog in the works (and it works!)
- I got internet on my phooone finally
- leaving job fufufufu~
- paycheque soon (this one's gunna be BIG!)
- influencing co-worker to leave job too :3

Nays:
- no contacts in my phone phonebook b/c I need my card reader
- can't get my card reader
- AE dealer's room doesn't open 'til 1pm, diu
- AE doesn't have dealer's room only passes; gotta register and get their damn badge
- don't have time to finish air gear fl, gotta extend
- got a bruise on my hand from work somehow D: ow.
- I don't have my sexy battle ringtone anymore
- gotta sleep now

Astrosexy, baby~

*typing resignation letter while listening to m-flo*

I managed to get a guy from HoFo to help me out with fixing the WAP on my phone. He hooked me up with a 902 fixer guy so I'm helping him make his m-flo CD by sending him songs heh. I can't wait to waste precious money on bandwidth charges lol.

So I've finally decided to scrap my current job and jump to the one Monica introduced me to. Today was the last straw, seriously. First there was the manager from my old branch that called in the morning and started getting all pissy about a problem that didn't concern him. Not to mention, he's been giving me BS excuses lately for me to do things out of the blue that I had no experience with. With no expanation he leaves me up to ME to deal with. Hey? I wouldn't mind doing it for you, just assist me or give me some sort of instruction of any kind instead of just throwing it at me? The manager from this branch... he's a wuss. Then there's the lady who I took her front desk seat from... is amazing slow, likes to swear, makes ONE TOO MANY MISTAKES that she stares at and goes "I don't remember!" and I'm like WTF THAT'S YOUR WRITING DUH THAT'S YOU? DDD:?!?! She's causing more trouble than it's worth s'all I'm trying to say. I don't enjoy having to follow up on these mistakes and having angry customers barking at me. I also don't enjoy watching her not knowing what priorities are. Yea, it just seems like I like finding as many reasons as I can to hate this place so I don't have to regret leaving.

BUT there are things I'm going to miss... even though the trucker guys that come by to pick up freight are all old dads and grampas, they're all really friendly and cool. Hmm, that looks like the only thing I'm going to miss LOL because I can't think of anything else.

That reminds me.. there's no DECENT PLACE TO EAT. There's a lunch room here which is nice BUT there'd always be people sitting around SMOKING IN THERE (e.g. THE FACKING BOSS) or the people eating there or people who just so happen to be there (e.g. THE FACKING BOSS AGAIN) would pester you. So I'd have to eat in the FIRST AID ROOM which also reeks of smoke but there's SOME solitude... People still come in and bug you though.. :T And you get stared at by people who walk by. Psh all of you!

*yawn* I will rant later. Work tires me out. I come home and nap and be able to sleep plenty at night... And actually feel sleepy too! That's how fricking exhausting it is.

Anyways, tomorrow's busybusy.

作戦。

Plan plan plan.

I have a plan.

I just gotta follow it through for sure this time.

Try not to back out as usual.

ガンバルぞ。
U>ω<)ノ

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Summer Conf. this year was pretty good. We were at the same spot as last year, Summit College on a mini mountain in Abbotsford. New faces, old faces, missing faces... The drive there [and back] was devistating. My dad's car didn't have A/C so we got a mighty beating from the sun and the heat during the ~1+ hr ride. Interesting group skits, amusing games ('cept the outdoor ones which felt rather pointless), a dance off (very fun to do and watch), an extremely GOOD [returning] speaker.... the food was not so great though. Ah well, as long as it filled out stomaches and didn't cause painful stomachaches it's all good. A everyone was either younger or older than me [which was kinda weird]... The same aged people couldn't make it.. ;; I brought KH:CoM with me, so I played that every so often. I managed to clear a level during the whole trip. I managed to not overpack this time either... instead I underpacked and forgot stuff instead. I, like everyone else, got very little sleep so I came back feeling a bit more tired than usual. Everyone was surprisingly high... without the help of any drugs and liquor. :b

Work was busy today. Apparently... the other front desk lady (which isn't front desk anymore actually since I kinda.. uh, replaced her) seems to be always in the air. It's getting rather frustrating to communicate with her since she either isn't understanding what I'm saying or she doesn't bother actually listening to what is being said. I want her position again (aka. my old position) because front desk is too hectic and busy. I need my surf time! You've got like other people and their desks facing you so they see everything you do! So duh you can't surf. :b Well you can, but it's uncomfortable knowing there's someone who might be watching... :3 Only the accountant lady's computer has Japanese encoding installed too so I can read my daily dose of Moon Phase. Everywhere else is no good. D: I guess I won't get the chance anymore... Okay bad to talk about slack time. Anyways, the manager from my old branch is apparently has high hopes on me (and expects me to stick around longer) since he suddenly phoned me from the other side and started giving me a 'be the pillar of support, Echizen' speech. Surprisingly he told me that they plan on merging the two branches into one now. They ARE separate companies but they share and exchange many things internally which is why I think they find it too confusing and badly organized (yes duh). He also gives me a raise right before he starts giving me his speech. Yes, more ways to keep me around huh.
"Because we pay you more, you must stay." Ya. I'd prefer benefits over more money though. Benefits are so much more useful. So no matter what, it doesn't appeal to me the same way and it still makes me wanna keep looking for another job. And yes, I still am. Casually.. whenever I come across job postings, etc.

My original plan was to leave at the end of this month but after coming back from summer conf., thinking about school again, I did some research and figured I'd be ready by next year. But for the time being, I have nothing to do before then so I suppose I'd stick around. I'd like to try and do something more productive and something helpful for my upcoming school year. My typical parents obvious don't approve of my idea knowing I'll just put it off when the time comes again... Prove them wrong? I always say I will.. but I chicken out all the time. Maybe that'll change this time. I totally need some better motivation. But yes that's a teeny weeny part of my 'plan'. Another thing includes my website. Duuuude, I want to update so bad. But I _FEEL_ so busy everyday, even though I'm not really not busy at all, but it prevents me from wanting to start a new layout since it IS time consuming and who knows.. maybe my skills suck now for not making anything for... a few months plus. Knowing I don't have time to make layouts and keep mantaining everything, I applied for another fanlisting. I'm retarded. But well, fanlistings are addictive so...

Well I received depressing news a while ago: Mike is leaving all of a SUDDEN. Gee, talk about last-minute. Then he argues I've been avoiding going out.. which is sadly kinda true. It sure doesn't feel like I haven't been out. I sure don't miss anyone o_O It doesn't seem like I haven't seen anyone in a while either. Time just flies so fast when you're full time. I didn't even realize... I feel really bad.

Old news [now] but apparently Sou-niisama's closing down his BBS because he doesn't have the time to maintain it anymore since his schedule's getting busier and busier. Everyone, including me, on the BBS' upset... It IS upsetting... the most awsome hangout spot is going to close down. Aaghh now I know how it feels like when message boards close down. I'll never close down The World BBS and Platinum Boards! (that is until this feeling wears off right :b *runs away not keeping her word*)

[note to self - more 'to do' stuff]
- get my online banking working already
- get my moblog working already too dammit
- put my EI on hold
- hurry up and figure out the rest of the 'plan'

Hrm. Mini-Work Rant/Random.

Domain Renewed. Booyah.

Fireworks Wednesday with China! Pretty but boring China! Yay to smiley faces. I wonder if they even attempted to syncronize their shiny explosives with their music...

Yay I got my KH: CoM back from Mo^2~ I get to finish it now :33

Um, Starbucks MMCF is good.

Work's been weird. The manager guy at this branch all of a sudden told the main front desk lady that I replace her for a day (or more :X). Mmm, where's my long delayed raise after probation assholes?! Sometimes I really detest working with Chinese people... they don't tell you what they plan on doing or why they do it. They don't give a reason why and they just order you to do it. I bet the front desk lady feels bad. :[[ I don't want to replace her... she's cool. D: She's like the only person I'm able to [almost] speak [all of] my mind to. Yes, I rant a lot about work with her and she rants right back. It's lovely and harmonious (sp?).

I feel permanent work location transferrage so far. They haven't exactly told me yet *coughchinesepeople NEVERtellyou anythingcough*... unless I go up and ask. And even when I do, they're all umms and uhhs and give an uncertain answer that I end up feeling confused still. Aaanways, enough putting down my own race... that reminds me, I spotted a cool ad in the paper.. better try applying. I need to ditch and I need to ditch fast.

Wow, it feels like it wasn't long ago since I last said that LOL. Damn, I'm such a job hopper.

I noticed everyone (lots of people) will get to take Japanese in the upcoming semester. Man I feel jealous. ;[[ I want Japanese tooooo~~ Uguuu... *shakes fist*

Not to mention... I wanna make a new layout.. or two. Or three... four... more. five... six..ty.. *needs better time management*

[for my own reference - soon to buy list]
- Air Gear 11
- Hot Gimmick 11
- Radiata Stories (sept)
- Host-bu 6
- Bushi Lord 1
- KH 2 (Q4)
- Magna Carta (Q4)
- Romancing SaGa (sept smthn')
- Sengoku Basara (Devil Kings / when? o_o)

I can't wait to feel rich again [which unfortunately won't be anytime soon] and blow all of it.

And Online Shopping is EVIL.
I'm going to get custom taxed like a bitch.

Reminds me of a mangaka that wrote about how he was addicted to online shopping instead of focusing on his manga [in one of his tanks]. Heh--SEE IT'S EVIL!!!

Ok, gone for the weekend. BBL.

Deal = NO GOOD!

The container hauler guys didn't like the deal that was put forth... MORE STRIKING ENSUES!

Soo... I had a fun week at work at the other branch. I like this side a lot more because it's cleaner, more spacious, washroom is more easier to access, brighter, and the list goes on... BUT I don't have my own computer, this branch location's too far [getting to and from work sucks], the annoying guys from the other divisions keep comin' in to bother us... mmm... I've been told to work there Tuesday so far [and probably the rest of this week as well...] or at least until the strike's over.

The strike should end because I need my monthly/weekly dose of manga and magazines.

The strike should not end because work will be busy like mad again... madder, even.

Oh I'm so horrible... all the businesses are suffering because of this silly strike.

So our accountant (from my original branch) apparently QUIT. Aww man, gives me less of a reason to stick around... she's like the only other around my age. Old geezers bakka... She quit while I got transferred (temp) to this location. Boo... And upon arriving, I also found out that Cathy, an elementary school friend that worked at this branch, ALSO quit only a WEEK AGO TOO (right before I transferred in). Gah!

Anyways! Fireworks!

Wednesday and Canada. Not bad... I wasn't paying full attention though.. I was too lost and lonely to care XD! Then I mad flashed everyone with my led light afterwards.

Saturday and Sweden. The clouds were so interesting that day. Sty and I made collab artworks. We rock. :o The show started good and then ended meh. Weird mixxxage.

Oh... Friday: Had dinner with some elementary school friends, Phyllis Andy Cindy Amy... We went our separate ways right after. It was quick. o_o; Night marketed afterwards though... Iwase's not there anymore (aww I wanted to check it out). A number of useless junk tempted me. RESISTED RRRRrrgrg--!

I'm still quite poor right now... I gotta renew my domain soon too.