Late Night Post

Instead of trying to find places to apply for jobs or look for a place to move (need to move out and move in to a different place in 20 days...)

I used my time watching videos on YouTube.

Including the music video to new Britney Spears song, "Work B**ch".

And the song keeps repeating in my head, round and round and it goes "You better work b**ch"

LOL

Interviews and Onions

Interviews are like onions, there are so many layers.

I just got off of the phone with an interviewer. It was a phone interview.

I don't recall if I had any phone interviews before, so that would make it my first, I guess.

The interviewer said that they will be calling back for the second interview. It sounded more like it will be a gathering of applicants to see how they work together, and then there will be a third interview.

The applying and interviewing for jobs are stressful! It sure ain't easy.

So the interview process begins for me again after not getting an offer from a (disclosed!) place last week. For that one, it was such a long process, I think one month? Perhaps more. It included 3 interviews and freaking hard questions.


How do people go through this apply-interview process? Do most people get the jobs they want?

Hello Blogger!

Hello Blogger!

I see that you have changed the format quite a bit.

I came to start blogging again after...33 months?

Yes its been quite a long time, but here's the story:


I'm needing to start a new journey.
I'm needing to learn little bit more about my self so I can know what to do from now on.
I've finished school, desperately looking for work, concerned about my status to stay in United States, and so many worries here and there.

So in hopes of getting inspirations and such, I've decided to start my new blog life.

I'm needing to write again.
:)

First Post From iPhone!

For the last post about the Bzzagent, I wrote it from my iPhone thinking since when was I able to publish blogs on blogger on my phone?

Before, blogger was not smartphone capable. Today, I am able to publish from accessing the blogger site on Safari on the iPhone.

Hmm theres gotta be an app for that.


And there is!!!!


I am using the blogger app right now! This was an awesome discovery. I wonder when did the app become available?

I was hoping someday I could write on blogger from my phone. I'm glad google was able to do so. Thank you!

Fun trip & My far away bread pan :(

I completely missed out on writing and reading blogs for a little while now. I have been *busy* being a tourist for a week. Busy meaning going to places and playing around. I haven't had this kind of trips for a while so it was awesome.

Sorry for the sudden change of topic, but I've wanted to get a bread loaf pan from Japan. I've asked my dad to bring it when he came back from Japan last week, but he came back with no bread pan. However, he did bring back some Manneken waffles instead.

There was two kinds of waffles inside, the original and chocolate. The original waffles are definitely the best. I love Manneken waffles, I wish they sold them in U.S. :(

Forgot to add, they are the best when toasted in a toaster !


I had a second attempt of asking for a bread pan last month, when our family friend had come to visit. Their visit is the reason why I had been a tourist for few days. This attempt of getting the bread pan also failed, because of timing, location, and etc.

Instead, I got some nice souvenirs. One of it was some kasutera (カステラ). We got both original and strawberry one. It was my first time to try the strawberry kasutera.

I didn't really like the strawberry kasutera. I guess often times anything "original" turns out to be the best.

Ah I feel really hungry now from writing about food.

Late night days

My sleeping pattern has been screwed to the point I don't know how I can sleep and wake up at normal hours anymore.

So what is normal sleeping hours? My ideal would be waking up between 7-9 AM, then going to sleep around 12AM.

For the past week I have been up until morning (around 5 or 6 AM) and then waking up around 3PM. Seriously, not good.

So today, I decided to not sleep for over 24 hours so I can fall asleep at night and not morning.

It's almost 6AM here now.

I will give my self 1hr at most for nap during the day. I hope this will work.

Anyways, I tried to eat healthy for one day and then I went back to eating bad again.

I've cooked something with vegetable in it the other day.

Yesterday, I didn't eat any vegetables at all. I don't even remember what I ate.

Ah, maybe I should sleep. 

My brain probably needs some sleep because it can't remember things. 

No, I can't sleep.

 I must get back my normal sleeping pattern.

Crunch 'n Munch

I often struggle to find late night snacks.

And I happen to have difficulty falling asleep when I'm feeling hungry.

I grabbed this "Crunch 'n Munch" from the store the other day thinking I will eat this when I have a snack attack.

The name isn't so appetizing to me. But I like the idea of caramel and popcorn.

So it's around 3AM now, and I decided to eat this.

It's pretty good, but I'm not sure if it's good as a late night snack. It's a little too sweet. But it will do for now...


By the way, I didn't eat that great lately. Today wasn't the most nutritious day.

For breakfast, I ate a croissant & coffee, egg fried rice with Indian spices, Whopper Jr., and then the Crunch 'n Munch.

I think I should start cooking more...

Jasmine tea

I always have a big pitcher of jasmine tea in the refrigerator, so I basically drink it instead of water. I was wondering if jasmine tea has some benefits or negatives.

From my googling of "jasmine tea," I found out that it is a form of green tea. It does have caffeine, but not as much compared to other teas.


One website lists 5 reasons why it is a healthy drink:

1. Powerful antioxidants
2. Promotes weight loss
3. Reduces fat, cholesterol absorption
4. Helps prevent cancer
5. Calms your nerves.

It definitely reduces fat absorption. After a big fatty meal, I like to drink hot jasmine tea because it almost feels like it melts the fat inside your stomach. I always feel refreshed after drinking it even after a heavy meal.

With that said, I think it's not great to drink it on an empty stomach.

I remember drinking iced sweet tea made with jasmine tea from a vendor type place that served chinese food. It was so good especially because it was such a hot day outside.

Next time when I make a big pot of jasmine tea, I'm considering putting sugar to make sweet tea for my pitcher in my refrigerator. I need to figure out how much sugar I need to put. I don't know if I really want to know this because it probably will require hundreds of pounds of sugar to taste as good as the sweet tea that are served at restaurants.

Some things are probably better not known.

Shampoo and hair stuff

I decided to use the amazon associates, because I was looking for a way to post pictures that I don't need to transfer from my camera to the computer. I think this amazon associates will work for me. :D

Right now, I'm using the Herbal Essences Touchably Smooth shampoo & conditioner, and I think its making my hair a little too oily at the top. It might be because I'm using too much conditioner. It's a bad habit that I have from winter when my scalp was so dry. I love the smell of herbal essences though.


Since the shampoo & conditioner that I'm using right now is almost running out, I will be on the hunt for a next set of shampoo & conditioner. My hair is getting pretty dry at the bottom because of color and straightening chemicals. It seems like the herbal essences isn't moisturizing my ends that great. So I think I will look for a shampoo that is for color treated hair.

Because my head was pretty oily today, I was in need of clean non-oily hair. I made sure not to put too much conditioner at the top of my hair. While blow drying my hair, I was telling myself not to put any cream or any moisturizing product in my hair. I wanted NOTHING on my hair for a change. After my hair was completely dried, obviously without thinking, I put on some hair cream. I was telling myself not to put anything on my hair, but totally forgot about it in 10 seconds. Wow.

I like the hair cream that I'm using though. It's not too oily, it reduces frizz, and it's good to put on before going to sleep. It's called "Tsubaki Chan" (椿ちゃん）. I got this in Japan, and it has tsubaki oil in it, which is said to be good for the hair.

Before I had my hair straightened chemically, my hair was so frizzy and wavy. To reduce the puffiness, I used the tsubaki oil. I'm not sure how pure the oil is, but it was "oil" and not a hair cream. I think tsubaki oil is a Japanese thing, because I never see any oil for hair in the U.S.
It made the hair pretty oily, but it definitely reduced the puffy volume of my my hair. Besides the weird oil smell, it's a really good product to use on frizzy puffy hair. Thanks to the hair straightening that I got, I don't really need to put the oil anymore. Tsubaki hair cream works good for now, and it smells much better than the oil. :D