Monday, January 26, 2009

Happy Niu Year

刚过去的周末,两天去了三个party,吃了好多好吃的,当然吃得最多的是饺子,比较解馋。

(Making Red Pockets at one party:)

Friday, January 16, 2009

Long weekend ahead~

终于可以在新公司打中文了,那就随便写两行吧。

新公司的building很大,两层楼,据说有两千人,还据说很早以前这里是个warehouse,难怪整栋楼的形状是方方正正的。 我们部门一共100多人的样子,十来个中国人,比起从前Florida的旧公司里就我一个international来强多了。 

到公司上了两个礼拜的班儿,就是reading, reading, 再reading,看很多training的材料,要不就是开会讨论要做的projects。 4月和5月是整个部门最忙的时候,因为6月1号是bids的deadline。 听说很多同事到5月底要加班到半夜12点,HR统一给order dinner进来,我听了还挺excited,尤其听说HR给买来的food都特好吃,象饭馆儿给catering的。

公司里面有一个Cafeteria,中午大家或者从那里买点儿或者自己带饭,我们好几个中国女生围坐在一起边吃边聊,有时候有个把男生也鱼目混珠地加入我们。 好友Cathy本来就在这个公司,我刚来的第一天她就带我走了一圈儿认识了很多同事,后来我没事儿就去她office晃荡。 离我cube不远有一个马来西亚女孩子,才22岁,超级可爱,一笑起来灿烂得要命,特纯真无邪,名叫Rain,她是华裔,中文很好,我们俩也互相bug去对方cube聊聊天,不然太bored。 I really like this little girl a lot.

新搬的apartment是two-bed, two-bath,很宽敞,YOYO和PINGPONG终于有地方玩儿捉迷藏了。 家里完全没有收拾好,90%的箱子还没有unpack呢,最近很忙乱。  

前两三个星期,我和xiao的关系一度很紧张,有一天晚上我终于忍不住大哭了一下,跟他哭诉说在外面雪地里开车我时时都要小心翼翼,回到家里和他相处一点都不亚于在雪地里开车的感觉,一不小心我就会惹他不高兴甚至生气...... xiao很诧异马上说他会注意自己对我的态度。 

即便是如此,接下来的几天我们还是天天吵架,他表现生气的方式就是暴跳如雷啊,摔dishwasher的门啊,有一次开车回来,我抱怨他开车走错路激怒了他,结果他把车钥匙甩给我,然后拂袖而去转身先坐电梯上楼了,我得自己抱着一米乘半米这么大袋子的重20磅的猫粮,外加十几个猫罐头,我从电梯里出来,他就坐在lobby的沙发上,对眼前满怀抱着猫粮和罐头的我视而不见,他悄无声息地跟在我后面,我走过半条走廊要开家门的时候才突然觉得身后有人,我在那一秒钟不知道是谁,就忍不住尖叫一声,回头看见是xiao,他横眉冷对的表情,让我觉得很陌生。 当晚我就想买机票回Florida了,当然只是想了几秒钟而已。 xiao的一个大优点就是每次吵完架半个小时以内,等他气全消了之后,他就会主动来哄我,我是典型吃软不吃硬型的,每次我都接受。 再加上最近每天打电话妈妈劝慰我很多,让我多做自我检讨,换位思考。 还记得临从FL搬来MN之前师母的一席话,她对我说要“bite your tongue”,要三思而语,不说任何让对方可能会不高兴的话。 做起来真难哪。好在最近两天xiao没怎么发脾气了。 我想一切都会越来越好的,希望是。

接下来是三天的长周末,可以好好睡整觉了,天气也开始暖和起来。 前几天我从公司下班走到停车场,坐进车里,就感觉象掉进了冰窟窿,我拿着车钥匙的手一直发抖,以至于都插不进start里去。 好了,好象有人在刚开始说能打中文了只随便写两行的。  No winter lasts forever, & no spring skips its turn.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Cold cold January in MN

This is the 3rd week I moved to MN. The extremely cold and dry weather is killing me. Driving on the snowy roads is NOT a lot of fun.

The moving process isn't over yet and there's still some stuff left in xiao's old apartment. Living in one place and paying rent for three different apartments at the same time make my January even colder, not to mention the slippery relationship with the main (or "only") reason why I relocated to MN. Going back to my home church makes me really happy even though I really miss the Chinese church and good friends in FL a lot.

About my new working environment, I'm still kind of in the "honey moon" period: Everybody around is being so nice to me and there's not much work for me to do now. My new boss is so nice that he scheduled twice-per-week meetings to help me get used to my new work. I start to get involved in two big projects since this week. The data will be in by the end of this month and I should be like a busy bee flying or spinning around, not dizzily, hopefully; no falling, please.

To be happy EVERYDAY is truly very very hard, it'd be totally different if you have a thankful heart. I keep telling myself this sentence recently.
Yes, I should be grateful and strong.