First Work-Year

It's official. My three-week February hiatus aside, I already have one year's worth of work experience under my belt.

 

Go Lakers!!!

63rd NBA Season starts tonight. LA Lakers open their season against the Portland Trailblazers.

 

The Alaska Rap

This might be Amy Poehler's last skit performance in SNL (I hope not). And yes, it's the real Sarah Palin you're seeing in this video - not Tina Fey.

See Amy's mad rapping skills:

 

With Manny Pacquaio

I tagged along with my cousin to a party after finding out Manny Pacquiao would be there.

 

The Gergen Bandwagon

Count me in.

I'm one of the observers who, if "polled", will have a "very favorable view" of CNN political analyst and former presidential advisor (to Ford, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton) David Gergen.

 

Falling Oil Prices

As the oil prices continuously go down, I got reminded of a CNN Money article I read a couple of months back predicting that (and explaining why) the then $4-dollar-a-gallon gas price will eventually tank.

At the time of the article, I was paying $4.59 a gallon. Today, prices at the pump are around $3.29 a gallon.

 

Sick and Reading

Yesterday, at around noon time, people from the office got permission to go home if their routes back are among those affected by the SFV fires. Fires were actually all over the Valley - there was one just a block away from our apartment and another that can be seen from my West Hills office. On both places, I could smell the smoke from the fires. In the office, the smoke had this dark red color, implying that the fire is just close by. I went home at noon not because of the fires but because I was down with flu.

As I was preparing to go to work this morning, I got a call from my officemates Cindy and MK informing me that our site's head honcho, Bob, sent an email advising us to stay away from the office and giving us all the permission to work from home. In between the couple of hours' sleep, I managed to pick up on my reading.

I've engrossed myself with Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. I should be finished with my reading tomorrow. Hopefully, the flu's also gone by then.