Life 3 months after graduation...

...Although its only been 3 months ..things sure have changed...after finally deciding to come back to San Francisco instead of staying in San Diego, I finally got a full time job. After sending out hundreds of applications/emails/resumes and doing over 10+ interviews in the months of June and July, I finally got a job at Genentech as a Quality Control Analyst. This job was sort of not what I expected. I thought I would meet a lot of people, but instead I am only working with 3-4 people most of the time in inspection! It's ok though I guess, they are super friendly and we have a lot of things in common. I realized having people you can click with at work is a crucial aspect at the workplace...Nevertheless!..I definitely can't see myself doing this more than the one year contract..not my type of job!..also training has taken close to a month already! who wouldve thought.. But then again I shouldn't be complaining, afterall its still a decent paying job with a pretty good company. Working with UCSF/SFHP as a part time for a month in July before Genentech was veryyy interesting. Talking with Cantonese elderly with diabetes was an awesome experience, especially when they wanted someone to talk to since most of them seemed like they were pretty lonely. It felt good to be able to help them with their medications, give them help whenever I can, and even better, I was able to work on my "formal" Cantonese. Before I left there, I trained a new hire to take my position. He was in his mid-late 30s from Hong Kong. I ended up treating him to yum-cha because he was very interested in telling me about life in the "real-working-world" ..He always referred to old chinese idioms...I felt like I was talking to some type of GURU. One of the quotes I won't forget from him was...."知已知彼百戰百勝"...
"人在江湖身不由己" .. awesome. Very meaningful, will never forget it.

Coming back to San Francisco, I just have to say, I've been missing college life. First, living situation here just sucks. I didn't have to deal with other people's problems and expenses, and I was pretty much doing my own thing. I realized I had more friends/apartment mates to talk to and hang out with in SD, but I can also understand contact with friends die down especially when everyone is sooo far away after college. However, my close childhood friends are still around and I am very thankful for that. There's always tradeoffs I guess...

In a year, my buddies plan to be going their separate ways..noooooo! I guess that's life, but we better keep in touch! My close friend Wes (WAI SEE LEI!) is planning to go somewhere in Asia doing missionary trips after he grads, and my friend Alfred is planning to head up to UCD to hit up some more studying..



My 兄弟's... We just had to hangout...ah my nigggggs...Alfred me & Wes...we don't get many of these days no more...since middle school/elementary man!
Our childhood city of San Francisco...in Sunset and Richmond.

What I am looking forward to now:
Ever since high school, I've wanted to go back to either to Hong Kong or go somewhere in Asia such as Japan. I've been thinking lately how could I go to Japan and try to live there but also make money? I've been told from a lot of friends and coworkers that teaching English is not too hard there and it'd be a great experience!!...My parents said go for it, my friends encourage it...so I am really going to go for it! Hopefully it goes through....I wanna do something exciting while I am still young! Putting GRAD school on hold while getting that $$$, and trying to start things anew in a new place with new people ..and see what I really want to do in life!..looking at my old posts..its crazy how plans can change so quick...but like my friend said...just go with the flow.