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Cheesecake Factory Do you guys have credit cards that accumulate points that you can exchange for things? Whenever I get enough points, what do I get? Restaurant gift cards of course. I got a $50 Cheesecake Factory GC because my mom loves Cheesecake Factory. So one night when dad went out with his friends for dinner, mom said with a big smile, “I don’t need to cook tonight. Let’s go to Cheesecake Factory!”
We always love the bread at Cheesecake Factory. Pinkberry Mom was saying she felt like having ice cream after our lunch at Shrimp House. I mentioned Pinkberry, and mom said she heard about Pinkberry from her friends. Her friend told her the “famous” yogurt ice cream is really good. So I offered to take my mom to Pinkberry to try.
We went to the Monrovia location. This place is huge! I think it’s the biggest Pinkberry I’ve been to. Today is my last working day at my current job. I am going to be laid off at the end of the day. Well, we actually found out the news 1.5 months ago. That was pretty nice of them to let us know early so we can start looking for the next job. So what is my . . . → Read More: Last Day of Work * This is a venting post. * Generally, I believe the goodness of people. Even people I don’t like, I still won’t think them as evil. But today at work, I found evil. There was an incident between co-worker Tracy and I a few weeks ago. She made some mistakes on a customer’s call and the customer called back angrily. I got the angry phone call and didn’t really know what happened. I put the customer on hold while asking Tracy what had she done. She pretty much did everything wrong, even spelled the customer’s name wrong. So I told her right there that she made a mistake. Instead of just admitting her mistakes, she went to our team lead and said that I embarassed her in front of other co-workers. When our team lead told me about her complaint, I really didn’t think I did anything wrong. I had to ask her about the previous call in the office because the customer was waiting on the phone. If she didn’t make mistakes, why would she be embarassed? But this was nothing personal, it was just about work. I tried to be more considerate in her position. I guess for some people “face” is very important. To avoid tension in the office, I tried to be a bigger person and wrote her an apology note for “embarassing her in front of other people” according to her. She then told me that everything’s cool between us and asked me not to tell he manager about the incident. But I still told our manager the incident because I just think she should know about it. I’m really glad I did that. So issue was solved. She stoped talking to me but that was fine. I thought things were ok…. so I thought. Until today…. 今天這篇純粹是抱怨文，我們公司那位韓國大叔John，Potluck派對那天說他忘記帶菜，但是卻記得帶了盤子和筷子來大吃大喝，大家出錢幫經理買的禮物是自願的，算好人數和金額後同事就去買了，大叔說要貢獻$10卻遲遲不肯交，因為我是派對負責人，和大叔討錢時他居然和我吵起來，當我開始數落他potluck也沒帶菜還吃最多時，他居然睜眼說瞎話的說辦公室裡沒人告訴他那天有potluck party，明明前一天我還特別提醒他，他自己還說要帶雞翅，還和別的同事討論了一番，這個謊言讓所有同事一整個傻眼，唉！世界上怎麼有這樣厚臉皮不知羞恥的人啊？ WARNING: This is a long complaining post. I just need to vent! I wrote about my co-worker John Park and complaining about how selfish and inconsiderate he is. But this time he pushed me over the limit. I was so angry at him that we had a yelling match at work. John Park is a 50 something old divorced Korean guy. Everybody at work already knows that he is selfish and obnoxious. We had a few confrontations before. But this time was the worst of them all. As I mentioned in the last post, we had a potluck party at work for our manager. Everybody was supposed to bring a dish. We had a sign up sheet for people to write down the dishes they were going to bring so we wouldn’t have people brining the same dish. On the same sheet, we also asked people to write down if they were willing to contribute $10 to get a wedding gift. 我們經理Lorelyn要結婚啦！只是公證結婚沒有宴客，但是我們大家覺得還是要幫他辦個小小的派對慶祝一下，這次大家都帶了好好吃的菜(除了那個討厭自私的韓國大叔，沒帶東西又吃最多，後氣死我了，等等來寫一篇抱怨文)，我們還買了性感內衣當禮物呢！ Our manager, Lorelyn, is getting married. It will be a very small and simple wedding. Since there is no reception for the wedding, we decide to have a small potluck party at work to celebrate the special occasion for her. Everybody brought delicious food (except that selfish old Korean guy, John. I have to write another post just for him).
I made pinwheel wraps. Whole wheat tortilla, feta & spinach cheese spread, turkey, ham, and 2 different kinds of cheese. This appetizer dish was very easy to make. Great snack for kids, too. This dish was gone in 5 minutes. 同事Iris帶了自己做的三明治來請大家吃，用越南式的法國麵包，中間夾了芥末沙拉醬調味過的肉鬆，配上紅蘿蔔、黃瓜和香菜，很適合夏天的一道三明治，好吃！ Coworker Iris made delicious sandwiches and brought them to work for us. The French bread was from a Vietnamese sandwich soup. She mixed Chinese dry meat flakes with wasabi mayo from Trader Joe’s, and topped it with marinated carrot sticks, cucumber sticks and cilantro. Simple and delicious summer sandwich. I really like it. Will try to make the . . . → Read More: Iris’ Sandwich 這天晚上同事Iris在看DVD，忽然他大叫了一聲：「Eileen！我在電視上看到你耶！」，結果還真的是我，哈哈哈哈！這是好久以前拍的Boston Legal演陪審團，整集中我好像有將近10來個鏡頭，連打瞌睡都被拍到，唉！還蠻想念當小臨演時的多采多姿生活啊！ Last night my friend Iris was watching DVD. All of a sudden she yelled out, “Eileen! I saw you on TV!!” She paused the scene to show me. And it was me! haha….
It was Boston Legal, Season 2, Episode 4. I played one of the jurors in court. I think I worked on this episode maybe 3 years ago? I appeared on camera maybe 10 times throughout the episode. They even caught me falling asleep. haha…. 來自北京的同事Iris看我們喜歡吃韓國炸醬麵，直說中國的炸醬麵比較好吃，這天他特地做了炸醬麵請大家吃，果然無敵好吃啊！中國炸醬麵和韓國炸醬麵口味是完全不一樣的，各有特色，兩種我都喜歡呢！ I’ve been talking about how much I love Korean Jajangmyeon (noodle in borwn sauce) at work. Co-worker Iris came from Beijing. Zhajian Mian (fried sauce noodle) is a classic Beijing dish. Iris kept on telling us for weeks how Beijing Zhajian Mian is better than Korean Jajangmyeon.
On a Sunday, Iris brought homemade Zhajiang Mian to work. Yes, unfortunately we have to work on Sunday. But if I can eat this every Sunday at work, I would volunteer to work on Sunday. |
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