Lots of things happening! Don’t know where all my time went!

What’s going on, Seattle weather? It’s June 12, no more rain storms! It’s windy and cold. It’s even snowing in the mountains! Time for sunshine and warm hot sun!

Changed jobs. It’s a good thing. Finding new things to do, plenty of opportunity and growth. Have already done many things I never thought I could do in my former position. Compensation is acceptable (ok ok, will it ever be enough?! doubt it) , it’s the experience that I’m in for. First job that requires extensive travel. So far, it hasn’t interfered with my personal life and I’m ok with it. Just have to figure out how to maintain my exercise regime at the same time.

BTW, check out glassdoor for user-submitted reviews and salaries. Pretty good site, it can only get better with more submissions.

Heading to Malaysia for a couple weeks. Looking to have a great time, schedule is quite packed, will try to relax as much as possible. Will get some tailor-made clothing done – jeans won’t cut it in the office anymore, need to be a little more presentable. Will be going to Perhentian again – that’s going to be fantastic.

Listed my townhouse for sale, it’s been a few weeks and I’m getting irritable. Feedback shows house looks great, fantastic, priced right …. where’s the offers?!

Together with Alice, we’ll be getting a place in Bellevue too. Completion end of this year! Pretty excited about it. Great location, size and has pretty much everything we want.

Down with my 3rd cold of the year, I won’t miss another flu shot again, I can tell you right now.

Cooking. I’m good. Congee with a roasted chicken from the store is easy and amazingly good. Learned a couple new things to cook as well. Can’t wait to get back to a gas stove with a large vent hood. Asian cooking tends to stink up a place without proper air circulation (not to mention, that smoke alarm!).

Lucas has messed it up again. What on earth is up with the Tarzan bit? The kid magically learns how to swing from vine to vine?? That’s about equal to Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars Ep. 1.

Less investigative work this time around – the alien theme was a bit of a let-down. I guess I wished this movie would be more like The Last Crusade (less like Star Wars Ep 1 and Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind). It was surprising to see how quickly they went down the river, past 3 waterfall drops AND entered the secret location to discover El Dorado within minutes. No funny business, traps or puzzles at all. Hmm, even The Mummy series was more entertaining – it stuck to the similiar storyline. Crystal Skull was all over the place.

A pretty big disappointment to me.

Had low expectations for this movie, all the cheesy, tacky cliches etc. Surprisingly, it was pretty good. Funny and entertaining. Jack Black brings great character to any role he plays. Most of the funny stuff came from him. Final fight sequence was pretty good (it’s cartoony obviously) especially the ending (the finger!)

I seem to be a sucker for what’s supposed to be crappy movies. Lots of cheesy dumb scenes but the humor is funny. Lots of good jokes about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The ending was a little silly but then again, the whole movie is. Silly funny.