First snow this winter…Thanks to working from home, I enjoyed watching the beautiful “little white cloud” falling outside the window without having to “dig” my car out to go to work. I remember 2018, a historical freezing winter, my fingers were “hurt” inside 2 gloves and though the heat was on in my car, I …
Category Archives: Joy
Fun & Why of Halloween
Have you wondered why people dress up in custom in Halloween? Why children go trick ‘o treat? Also, why people carve pumpkins vs. zucchini or other vegetables…and why they are “spooky” faces? I decided to research on them for my Toastmaster speech, “Fun and Why of Halloween”, let me share with you what I’ve found… …
Hybrid Meeting
One of my bucket list is to visit all 50 US states. If without Covid, I’d make that and visit my last state, Arkansas in March. Also, I love meeting Toastmasters (members) and joining meetings around the world. With Covid, many clubs have brought meetings online so let’s make a “double” – I contacted Little …
Double Celebration
Today is my roommate Stan’s birthday. I thought to get lunch to celebrate but he was busy on the phone. I changed to plan B: make croissant (as he loves it) and give him a ‘surprise’. I pulled the little piece of trigger and the cylinder ‘pop-open’, what a cool packaging. I pulled out the …
I Have Time
My roommate Stan is a consultant at a top healthcare consultancy. It’s not unusual to see him to work till 10PM or later and over the weekend. Sometimes, with big project and tight timing, he even worked till 2-3AM or overnight…yet he is usually cheerful and always willing to support others. I asked him how …
Thoughtful and Resourceful
A few weeks ago, we received email invitations from CEO’s executive assistant, Tammy and head of HR for a “social distance” lunch today. It will be great to see everybody after seven months of working from home due to Covid. To keep social distance, we were assigned “time slot” based on last name to get …
What Sells?
My editor got ill recently and apologized that she wouldn’t have the energy to work on the book. She recommended Linda, a freelancer friend. I talked with Linda. She told me she has been focusing on marketing works for a company. She also did editing and ghost-writing for some others. When I asked if she …
Mid-Autumn Festival 2020
Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the top three Chinese festivals. Last year, I celebrated it with 2 friends by a feast of seafood pasta, wine, and Barossa cheese with tomato. We walked around “Little Italy” (North End) to help “digest” afterwards. Then we watched the moon with Boston skyline while sharing the moon cake on …
Possibility
At work, we are rotating to support incident management. I noticed my duty days in November and December are 11/26 (thanksgiving) and 12/18 (close to Christmas holiday) which I will be out-of-office. How ‘lucky’ am I? Who (colleagues in America) is going to exchange with me during the holidays? First, I tried to change 12/18 …
Positive NO
On my usual after-lunch walk, I noticed one of my car tires was flat. What happened? I went to the auto repair shop (2 blocks away) asking if I could borrow a hand pump to put air into the tire to drive it over. The guy at the shop told me NO, they don’t have …