This Past Saturday...

definitely an activity-packed Saturday. The most exciting part, of course, was finally getting my hair cut - something that has been bothering me since like the beginning of February (Wait, is it normal for someone to be excited about an haircut? Oh well, I never claimed I am normal anyway). However, with the deadline on 2/17 and things were kind of behind schedule, taking a trip down to Chicago for my haircut really wasn't an option. So finally the deadline had past and the weather was somewhat decent (or so I thought), I decide to pay a visit to my hair stylist - No more getting frustrated trying to gel my hair in the morning!!! I also have my hair colored this time to a copper-ish color. Since the "brownish-red/reddish-brown" I did last time was too subtle, I decided to go for something that's "easier to see the difference". I remembered I tried similar color in 06 or 07 and really liked it, and so far I'm loving this one as well.

Oh... might as well do an advertisement for my stylist here then: Headquarter Hair (Norris: will I get reimbursed for this? Hahahaha....)

Also met up with the Chen's for lunch... the little kiddo is definitely growing fast. At 6 months, I felt okay to hold him now as chances of me accidentally dropping him has receded. Hahahaha.. Also went to the MS store afterward at Oak Brook. I guess that's MS's response to the Apple store, but honestly I wasn't very impressed. It's definitely lacking something but I can't exactly pinpoint what it is. To me, it's not much different than simply walking into a Best Buy.

All the above happened in Chicago, which means a 2.5hr drive each way. To Chicago, it was an okay trip but definitely not a good one. I knew this pretty much as soon as I got on the Belt line and I started yawning... 945am? Definitely too early for me to function on a Saturday (And I already head to bed early the night before... at 2:15am)

On the way back it was much worse. Besides the constant need for caffeine to keep me awake, there was also the freezing drizzle which forced to me to stop from time to time to clean up the ice on the wiper blades and the wind shields. Yikes!

Fun continued when I got back to Madison with another night of "Bang!" with the team. In our last two team game nights, it has replaced Settlers of Catan and became the game of choice.

Like I said in the beginning, it was definitely an event-packed Saturday.

差啲唔記得 blog 底...

12 月返 HK 時近距離見到林一𡶶... e+ 諗番真係應該走埋去搵佢影番張相都好... Oh well, too late now~
佢真係真係唔係太高，另外佢個樣，真係睇足咁多年都係差唔多，一樣都係咁 baby face... 直頭係無言啦...

btw, 唔知佢幾時會開 “個人” 演唱會? 好强調係個人因為我對佢個妹冇乜興趣．我成日都話佢真係開嘅話我係會極力撲返黎睇嘅... XDDDDD

有啲歌，係唔可以亂咁聽嘅...

完全係 mood changers...

[Edit: 咁又呃咗一個 blog post... 哈哈哈...]

It's been a long week...

It's been a long week at work due to the development deadline on Thursday. Well, it's been busy ever since I came back from vacation already, but this past week is simply hectic. Basically all my time was split between work and home, with a heavy majority being at work. So it is definitely a relief that I now have my life back... Ha ha ha... Most of the stuff made it into the QA with a few remaining. Considering the state of all the projects on Monday and how many projects made it in, I'd say the whole team did some really crazy job this week. Hopefully this is not happening with every deadline.

Weather

Earlier tonight I was looking at the thermometer and saw that the outside temperature was 30 degrees. My first thought was "Oh, it's so warm tonight". But a second later, my senses came back to me and I was like "What's wrong with me!?" It was still below freezing point and I was calling the weather warm!?!? To my defense, comparing to a few nights ago when the thermometer was constantly displaying temperatures below 0F, tonight is indeed much warmer.

Looking ahead, the weather forecast for the upcoming week is excellent (with high of 52 on Friday). Unfortunately, I'll have to survive the Thursday deadline before I can enjoy any of this...

And so I took a step...

While I think this probably is the right choice, but part of me isn't totally convinced yet. Hopefully this will turn out to be something interesting, otherwise I will have to plan for something else (though that too might not be too bad)~