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birthday present

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I suppose this would be my birthday present to me.

Happy Birthday

I spent most of today travelling. Hung out (quick stroll actually) in downtown Montego Bay with a few other travellers. The cab driver asked me, "You 24?" I said, "No, I'm 25." I was fresh-faced, bespectacled, dishevelled, and dressed down. I'm not pretty, but just plain (and young).

12.06am

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Jia Jia said, "Yo, your work laptop says it's 12.06am. I am getting dark circles around my eyes now ~"

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I lose a lot of my pictures to friends'cameras, which seem to be a black hole. So if they ever "publicize" the pictures from their cameras, I will put them up everywhere, to make sure that I won't lose them ~

he's sweet

I was watching the movie titled Adam, with director and writer commentaries on. They said, Adam was so sweet and delicate. The main actress also said he was very sweet. I thought, what? I didn't think he was sweet. On a few occasions, I thought that my assistant was quite sweet. Then I thought, hey, my monkey student did something similar for me too (but said it very differently), but I never thought he was sweet. On the contrary, he absolutely drove me up the wall, and of course I repaid kindness with kindness. But now as I take a different perspective, I see that the monkey was quite sweet. How regrettable that it takes so long to know someone. One day Boss came to ask me about the tall guy. I asked, which one (all were over 180 cm)? The tallest one was very junior but very sociable. The skinny one was good (and Boss thought he was not bad too). There was one who almost always had a suit on (???) but I had never dealt with him. Then there was the blond one whom B...

Year 2011

January - covered manager during the busiest time of the year while she went on a three-week vacation; attended a U of A reception that bridged the gap between professionals and students; introduced Jia Jia to my workplace February - March - being interviewed by CGA Association; co-workers celebrated my birthday ; friend came over to my workplace to celebrate my birthday with me April - being profiled in CGA Association of Alberta's online magazine May - road trip to interior BC and Vancouver Island with my Guangzhou buddy June - Dad went overseas; being protrait-photographed for publication in CGA 2011-2012 Student Calendar; ex's camera condemned by rain in Courtenay, BC; lost CGA ring in Comox, BC July - first (solo, last-minute, no itinerary) trip to Europe (Germany and Denmark); first train ride in Europe August - recruiting; reconnected with a German friend after almost two years September - trained the untrainable; started actively job-searching; attende...

me & Jia Jia

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