tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54925292009-12-19T13:47:57.610-08:00An MBA student tells it like it isneenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11294229631828552238noreply@blogger.comBlogger307125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492529.post-8660738138384326562009-12-14T22:39:00.000-08:002009-12-19T13:47:57.618-08:00

Ah, the holidays. Time for joy, time for cheer, and time for our annual holiday cookie decorating. As usual, our holiday cookies were of a secular nature, including ninjas (now pictured!) and monsters (see below). In lieu of a nativity scene, we opted for something more timely and "news-y" (see below). Apologies in advance for the smushy frosting. YJ has a non-smushed photo, but I couldn't

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Yesterday I felt like some overpriced sugar water (e.g., vitaminwater), so I headed to my local Safeway. It's a Safeway that I'm very familiar with, so as I approach the building, I don't even have to think as I walk towards the "entrance" doors versus the "exit" doors. As I get within several feet of the door, my brain slowly registers a face looking at me...it's some guy inside the Safeway

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...and will stand an hour in line for. Recently, Dubya granted my birthday wish by chasing down the oh-so-popular Kogi BBQ Taco Truck with me one afternoon. Although I still consider myself to be young, I do manifest maturity in several ways: for example, I am extremely good at being the curmudgeon. I'd been interested in this Kogi phenomenon for a while now, but the idea of having to wait in

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During month close while I was feeling particularly grouchy, Cut the Line! shared this site, which made me smile!

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I heard about these kids on NPR. They are tooooo cute! I love how much they are enjoying themselves, and it's just another reason to support arts education in our public schools.The PS22 Chorus has their own website, check it out!

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I'd been intrigued about the movie The Hurt Locker ever since I heard about it on NPR, and the fact that it is a movie from Dubya's company, Summit Entertainment, got me off of my lazy butt and into the theater to watch it. I gotta support my peeps, right?The movie, which follows a group of US soldiers in the Army's Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad in Iraq, is very intense. It was an

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Now that NPR is playing the Sotomayor confirmation hearings all morning and afternoon, I am learning a lot about the role of the legislative and judicial branches of our government, thanks to the fact that almost every senator feels the need to expound about it over and over and over again.What I have taken away from these confirmation hearings are as follows:Congress may be anti-torture, but

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Just thought I'd share a website that Dubya introduced to me:texts from last nightAs technology advances, so does drunk dialing.

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Dubya: "I love how we celebrate our nation's birthday by blowing sh*t up." Hey, you gotta love fireworks.

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I thought this was an interesting read from yesterday's NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/dining/01burg.html.

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I'm talking about beans. But they don't always make you "toot," which is a good thing in my opinion. As a kid, I stuck to more Asian-y beans, like green beans, mung beans, soybeans, adzuki beans, etc. That's because I pretty much ate what my mom cooked. My legume horizons broadened considerably in college, when I was forced to eat dorm food every day, and soon I grew to appreciate all those

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David Lebovitz, who I follow on Twitter, retweeted this today: "davidlebovitz: RT @drvino Somebody needs to alert Stonehenge that the missing slabs have been found masquerading as beds in my parents' guest room."Sounds like drvino's parents stole my childhood mattress from my house.

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(You might not get the reference if you haven't been to a Mitsuwa food court lately). I love tomatoes...so I thought that this awning was so cute!

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Last week's Top Chef Masters' elimination challenge was to cook street food featuring offal for people at Universal Citywalk, which apparently is a representation of "middle America," whatever that means. The key proteins that the chefs had to work with were heart, tongue, tripe, and pig ears. Right before the commercial break, they had a text-in contest where contestants just have to text

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To commemorate Father's Day, I will recount a recent exchange around the family table.Me: Have you ever eaten a baby kiwi?Dad: The fruit or the bird?(entire table bursts into laughter while Dad looks at us, confused)Thanks, Dad!

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On the way back from work, I decided to stop by Berkeley Bowl West, the recently-opened, long-awaited second branch of Berkeley Bowl, a very popular market in the area that boasts a stunningly great variety of produce.I have never enjoyed the Berkeley Bowl shopping experience. Yes, their produce is awesome. I love their bulk grains and pasta section. I love the fact that I can buy almond meal

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For people who are not that familiar with Excel are switching into a career where they will be working with Excel a lot, such as company finance, I highly recommend learning how to use "Paste Special..." function. For example, you can copy and paste just formats (instead of using the format painter button) or multiply everything by the same number or convert numbers stored as text into number

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Why is it that the only picture the media has of Euna Lee, one of the reporters that was sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea, is a poor quality photo that looks like (1) she took it of herself from an old camera phone and (2) it was possibly cropped from a saucy photo she was sending to a significant other? They couldn't find any other photo? Really?

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Just some things that came into my head while I watched Game 1 of the NBA Finals.During 1st Half:Walton?! Six points! Really?Oh, now GM is running ads in Transformers 2 movie ads...if they weren't in such a sorry state, I'd just ignore that bit of cross-marketing. Now it just looks sad.Damn, Kobe is on fire. The guy can play, I'll give him that.During Half Time Show:Are they playing some

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You might think that "smoldering" is obviously a great word to describe me. That's because when you see the world "smoldering," you probably think of "sexy," "sensual," and other words that perfectly depict me. So it's not a surprise to me that it might be a surprise to you that I'm not talking about my undeniable attractiveness today. Don't feel bad, it's an understandable mistake.No, today,

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The next time you think your beef noodle soup needs more kick, a heaping tablespoon of sambal oelek (hot chili paste) might be a little too much to start with. Yikes...my soup is hot.

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About once every couple of weeks, I stop by my local Safeway to get quarters for laundry. After I've secured my laundry money, somehow I always manage to get distracted by the products on the shelves (ooh, look at all those shiny labels) and end up spending more minutes than planned staring at products I eventually don't buy. And because my Safeway is frequented by many undergraduate students,

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My sis informed me of this news story on ABC's Good Morning America web site:Polar Bear Attacks Woman in Berlin ZooWoman Jumped Into Polar Bears' Enclosure During Feeding TimeBy JOSH GAYNOR and LEE FERRANApril 13, 2009 Seriously? No, really...seriously, people? Seriously? Talk about "senseless" violence.

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Let's start with the bad first. On Monday, I had to get my car serviced. Since I have a new job, I had to go to the dealership in Vallejo to get my maintenance done. Mind you, I have never been in Vallejo. Ever. And as I drove from Vallejo to my office, I discovered that some of the worst drivers in the world can be found on the stretch of Route 29 that lies between Vallejo and Napa during

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At the office building of my now nonexistent employer (thanks, economy!), we had no free coffee. You had to walk down two floors to the cafeteria if you wanted hot water for your tea. Each of us sat in these ugly beige cubicles, surrounded by ugly beige walls that were only occasionally interrupted by giant hanging photographs of our merchandise, tinted a depressing shade of blue. My new

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