Travel
Apr 8 2010
I kept up with my effort to focus on my friends and went down to Santa Cruz to visit Shawn last Saturday. I haven’t seen him since he first transferred to UCSC so it was nice hanging out with him again. We drove down to Capitola and stopped by my old apartment and school. It was really nostalgic seeing the place I lived in for 2 years. It brought back a lot of memories — some good, some bad. I’m generally not one who likes to look back and remember the past, since there were things I would rather forget about during that period of my life. We were talking about how we would have lived differently if we were to go back in time and relive our past while retaining our current mental state and knowledge. Of course there were certainly things I wish could be changed, but I also try not to regret them since they made me who I am and led me to where I am today.
On a side note, I got an iPad. I wasn’t planning on getting one; I was quite determined to wait for the 2nd generation after getting burnt with buying the first generation iPhone. I reserved one ahead of time for my friend in Hong Kong who asked me to get it for him since it probably won’t be available internationally for another month or two. When I went to pick it up from the Apple Store on Saturday, I started playing with one of the display units. Right then and there I knew I had to get one of my own. Just reading about the specs and actually picking one up in your own hands and using it are two different things. I know, I am a compulsive shopper. Anyway, I’ve been playing with it all week and I must say I’m quite pleased with this purchase. In fact, I just type this whole entry on the iPad lying in bed.
Dec 7 2009
October of 2007, I left San Diego, leaving all I had come to know behind and starting over back in Hong Kong. Exactly two years later, September of 2009, I’m back in the states, not to familiar faces or places I recognized, but a new place where I’m once again starting anew.
So after a couple extended business trips and a worrisome incident, which turned out for the better, my work has decided to get me a work visa. I have now officially moved to the Bay Area. I’m extremely grateful for the opportunities that have presented to me, and to everything that has happened leading up to this point in my life. Until this day, I still don’t know how I managed to go through the past 9 years since the day I first left Hong Kong. Obviously there were bumps on the way, but I guess there wasn’t much I would choose to do differently if the choices were to present themselves again. Looking back, things had always worked out for me in the end, and now I’ve learned to worry less and have more faith in life.
For the past couple months, I have been hectic with all the business of moving and settling down — finding a place, getting a car, etc. Now that I’m once again settled (let’s see how long it’ll last this time), I’m starting to reach out and find my social circle again. It’s always intimidating starting over, but I’m also excited about starting this new chapter in my life.
May 17 2009
My last post was about taking up the new job and moving to Shanghai… That never ended up happening. Well, I did take up the job but I never gone back to Shanghai since that initial trip. Instead, my company brought me out to the headquarter in the bay area twice since. First trip was a month long from January to February. In fact, I’ve been here in Sunnyvale since late March on my second trip. The current plan is still 3 months and I shall head back home in late June, but we’ll see how it goes. Things have been going great. Friends from So Cal have come up to visit and I have made a trip down as well. It’s certainly a lot more exciting than living in Hong Kong, partly because of my not knowing that many people there but I think mostly it’s my perspective and attitude. Either way, I’m surely enjoying it a lot more here.
If you haven’t noticed already, I’m slowly slipping back into hiatus… And I don’t think I can give anymore excuses about being busy and what not, since we all know that if you care enough about something, you’ll always make time for it. Perhaps it’s because I feel like my life is no longer interesting enough to deserve blog posts, or perhaps I have just moved on to easier, cooler, hipper, geekier microblogging systems, or perhaps I’m just too lazy to write lengthy blog posts. But I can never abandon dabs, especially after so many years of happy and tearful memories we shared.
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