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Movies, work and school; my week4
chris lin posted in Personal, School, Work on August 3rd, 2004

Man, blogging seems like a chore again. Maybe it's because I have been so…active this week and I didn't really feel like telling anyone about it. Or rather, write an entry about it; I don't mind talking, that takes less brainpower.

Grace and Elise came down last week and stayed down until yesterday. Little Elise has grown a lot since I have seen her. I went to the my aunt's house where they were staying last Sunday and Elise didn't even recognize me when she saw me. Oh well, I need to give it a couple more months. She does however speak though; not fluently of course but it's really cute when she is trying to talk. I took some pictures of her playing in the sprinklers which was so cute since she gets all excited when she touches the water. Beto called it the poor man's pool or something along that lines.

That Sunday I also went to watch The Bourne Supremacy with my cousins; it was SO FREAKIN GOOD. Ignore what the people say about how you need to watch The Bourne Identity before this film, it is a really good standalone film. You should watch The Bourne Identity when you have time though, that is a really good film but never got that much hype.

Work. What to say. Oh, it sucks. Who the heck likes to do their job anyways? And if they do like it, they probably aren't making that much money. If they are making a lot of money and loving their job, 95% of America envies them. I just don't see how our boss could be so cheap. Yes, he makes a lot of profit but at the same time he probably has the highest turnover of workers per year compared to all the other Coldstones. Which is why we all hate him. He needs to realize that his workers are important and provide better care of us. He works us like dogs and he pays us minimum wage.

I can promise you if everyone got an immediate increase in their wage his profit would go up higher since we care more about keeping our job and making our boss happy. Since you can get any other minimum wage job anywhere else, there's no incentive in working hard. Look at In-N-Out, most of their workers are always hard working and happy and that's probably because everyone wants to keep their job which starts around 2 dollars above minimum wage excluding the benefits they get. I don't know, I hope I can own a business one day and test out my theory.

I know Ford did that when he started his mass production line by paying the workers 200% higher than any minimum wage job for doing something so simple. I bet all his workers wanted to stay there and worked hard trying to keep their jobs. Anyways, a little off topic rant -.-

School is over this Friday and I get one week before I start my Fall session. What the heck is that. You figured the school would give me two weeks of rest before starting but I only get one. Study well in high school kids or you will end up like me, taking 19 units of Honor classes just to get into a good UC.

What superhero power would you want?12
chris lin posted in Personal, Work on July 11th, 2004

Working on saturday nights is always a blast since I am placed with a very cool crew. Seeing how none of us would be able to go out Saturday night, we need to entertain ourselves so we ask stupid off the wall questions to each other. That and scaring trainees in a fun way like singing an old song then all going to the back so the trainees are all left out there clueless on the lyrics to the song. Hey, we all get embarrassed when we first start work, I just want to speed it up for them.

Yesterday we asked ourselves what superhero power would you like if you could choose one. Powers ranging from invisibility to flying were chosen, along with powers such as x-ray vision which our boss (who came in to check up on us) chose. Ya, we all know why you want x-ray vision, I just started laughing at him and told him I know why he wanted that. At first I chose telekinesis because, that's a damn cool power. The ability to pick up things and move it without physically moving, it's like a lazy man's dream! I mean, what are you going to do with a power like flying? I'd wack you down with like a house or something. I later decided to change and switch my power to the power Magneto from X-men has — the power to fucking control metal substances, including liquid metal. What does that mean? If you saw X2, remember how Magneto got out? Ya, the ability to morph lead into anything. I'd have metal going around so nothing can touch me, including invisible 'people.' The only thing that could stop me would be like someone like Xavier, or someone with psychic powers, but who wants that as a power? It's not "cool" or "impressive."

I ask you, the readers the question, of what you would want to have as a superhero power and tell me why. I am dying to know why you chose the certain power.

A pent? wtf is a pent?0
chris lin posted in Personal, Work on June 20th, 2003

I just woke up, so some of this might not make sense, if not, I'll change it later…If I'm not asleep.

One of my favorite things to see at work is FOBs. And I'm talking any FOBs, once they come in the door, you smell a unique odor of homemade kimchi or just fish. As always, they come in packs in multiples of 5, do not ask why for it is the FOB way. I sure as don't care…until I have to serve them.

"Next party in line!"

*they scamper toward me all excited for even though this is there 20th time here, they act like it is there first*

"Hi, welcome to Coldstone"

*they start talking about what they want, then they speak*

"Ok, ok, I wont a pent of chocalate"

"Excuse me? a pent? What's a pent?" I would ask since, it sounds like they are speaking engrish and I only know english.

"Ya, a pent *does hand motion showing how big it is*"

"Oh! a PINT. Ya, sorry, I thought you said pent, reminded me of a pen."

I start serving their ice cream, 20 minutes later, all 100 ofo them are served, speaking really fast in their language commenting (I assume) about how my ice cream is made and whatnot. They are not judges, but they sure act like them. And what's worse, they don't leave a fucking tip. YOU BASTARDS, you take so long and you don't leave a tip? How dare you!

That's all for now, I'm still tired so I think I'll go hibernate again.

And that ends my chapter….0
chris lin posted in Personal, School, Work on June 10th, 2003

Hell. Yes. Tomorrow, I shall graduate from High School and move onto the real world. Where shall I go? Probably onto a higher education then move onto a job, work 30 years, retire and ultimately die. But according to [url=http://www.deathclock.com]this[/url], I won't die until I'm 90 some years old. So that's one long retirement.

I've been listening to trance/techno again, I recommend downloading Hybrid's music, they do a good job remixing and creating their own songs. I'll upload some to the server later. Life's been busy, my job is still the best, and I got the weirdest stories to tell…but that's for later. Even though life is busy, I started a new layout after I was doodling in Adobe late saturday morning. I'm going to use flash as a menu so I'll see how I am with that.