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Thursday, September 18, 2003

Wow another fun filled day.

To start off, going all the way to Stanford to sign up for the audition was a waste of time. The drive there was hell. First I got off at the wrong exit on the freeway (missed the Palo Alto/ university Ave exit on the 101). Then once I found my way back on University Ave, the traffic was denser than a Japanese apartment complex in Tokyo. It was friggin' nuts. Now here's the fun part: when I got to the Braun Music Center, the sign up sheet wasn't there. Great eh? Good news is that, I called up the lady in charge (she's also the conductor) and got myself an audition date. It's gonna be next Thursday (25th Sept), after work! Gotta practice harder!

My department picked up the tab at dinner tonight. Went to this Italian joint called Don GIovanni's in Downtown Mountain View. There's a website somewhere for this place. . So the portions were a bit on the stingy, but the quality of the ingredients and and flavour makes up for the lack of edible mass. I even got the courage to talk to some of the Field Apps engineers. They turned out to be pretty nice. Too bad I didn't get a chance to talk to the Asian ones -- the Taiwanese, Japanese and Chinese FAE's. They looked tired, and left super early. It's mostly because of the jet lag. Can't blame 'em!

Believe it or not, my roommate got home AFTER me. That's a first. I actually needed the car tonight to drive a friend back home, but couldn't find it cuz my roommate still had it! Luckily Bri Bri was nice enough to drive.

.::PICTURES::.
None today. Sorry.

posted by Ben | | | 2:59 AM

What I'm Reading

6/28/06 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

7/15/06 Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

links

For your Asian media fix: YesAsia.com

Vice Magazine. Just as bad as your grandma on steroids, but online.

Rajeeth's Virtual Cardboard Box

FrogBrain

Esquif

Chris "FOBster" Yip's page

L.A's very own Maple Leaf Nomad

Eric

Pearl

She's a Better Musician by FAR (yeah You Carolyn)

Mytempdir.com - free hosting service.

misc

You know it's spring when you see horny pigeons struttin' their rear ends around College St.

Will try to get one of those Tag thingies online in the next few days. Perhaps after exams. www.tag-board.com

Something stupid I've said in the past that I thought was completely innocent at the time: "so you're from Israel...do you speak Jewish?" I meant to say Hebrew, obviously....DUH. I'm such a schmuck sometimes.