Swamped!!

Swamped looking for house, moving house, settling in, closing project, reading textbook, finding company for industry analysis, bringing folks around... These goodness are too intense!

OMGGGGG!!!

Mom told me to open the large plastic bags in the living room and pick whatever I wanted. I opened one of them and OMGGGG...I counted what was 40 Coach bags!!! >.<''' Craziness!!

I miss my family!!!

I'm not a very expressive person, I really am not; but i want to say that I am missing my family sooooo much!!! You know what's the weird thing? I'm missing them even more now that they are actually right beside me. I can't explain this. Is this what love really is?

Picked them up at the airport yesterday and it was crazy having to juggle work (with a presentation due this Friday) at the same time. Thankfully, I love what I'm doing; otherwise I'll drive myself nuts with having to give up family time for work stuff. :)

We had to stick religiously to the plan I made for them and brought them to Hollywood after we got settled down. They literally brought me food supplies that can last years of battle!! Hard to imagine as my mom & aunt are super health conscious folks who are against snacking!!

Brought them to Avenue of the Stars and Highland Mall to catch a glimpse of the famous HOLLYWOOD sign :) It was a pity the Chinese Mann Theater was closed for a movie premiere! But well, it was cool that they got to see a REAL MOVIE PREMIERE LIVE IN ACTION!! :)

Of course, we had to go to the Kodak Theater - home of the Academy Awards. Guess it'd be a whole new different feeling the next time we watch it now that we've been here :)

Decided to bring them to this yummy korean BBQ place near my home for dinner and here's my very cute little sister acting like a rabbit with the HUGE bowl of salad in front of her...

But before you think "wah...so healthy", this is the REAL SOLID STUFF!

By the end, we were sooooo full, we looked like that!

Amidst the fun, joy, happiness and reunion, there were actually many times I felt rather poignant. I looked at my parents and saw that they've really aged through the years. Much of their youth has been spent caring for us and it's not till I'm older now that I really appreciate their selflessness and 用心良苦-ness. I also thought of my grandma back home and boy! I really want to be back in Asia. Ang moh land is no fun. But I guess every extra day I spend here brings me closer to home by 1 extra day! So I'll be sure to make every moment memorable!

Sworns in Los Angeles

It's really 苦境干来, 先苦后甜！ Sworn came to LA straight after my CFA exam ended n we had such a blast! Besides just chilling out, yakking n catching up, we also had much fun attending a charity auction, checking out Santa Monica pier (one of my fave places on earth) and chasing characters in Universal Studios! :)

I remembered I first came to Santa Monica with Fayfee & cK 6 years ago and fell in love with the place instantly! I later read this book, "Five People I met in Heaven" and felt that it reminded me so much of Santa Monica pier; and voila! It was really inspired by the same pier! Never did I imagine I'd get a chance to come back again- much more, to bring my BFF over here! :)

Without going into details of our trade secret, I am really delighted with the last minute breakthrough in our SSP! :P
Goal of hitting it before turning 30 - lots to do, can't wait to get started! :)

Liberation time!

Yahoo! It's all over. Pun intended. ;) I just couldn't wait for the CFA exam to be over because it was Byebye Books and Hello Sworn! :) Picked her up from her hotel in Torrance and we went to Santa Monica for an atas charity auction then to Santa Monica pier, one of my favorite places on earth. That's not too bad for someone who hasn't slept for the past 36 hours!! -_-'''zZzZzZ

We had korean food for dinner but Sworn wasn't "satisfied" cos it was just one of those days when the carnivorous streak in her went completely berserk. :) So we went scouting for meat at 1am and ended up at..... TAADAA!!!

Got free fries somemore since we were their very last customers. :) Come to think of it, it's pretty interesting that I haven't been to any McDonald's the whole time I've been in the Land of Fast Food. That's not too bad for some 成就感！

And then ROUND 2 of my post-exam serious work started. It's SSP (Secret Sworn Project) time! Lots to discuss and plenty to think about...I think we could be on to something great!

It was real fun just catching up and laughing till our bellies hurt. I mean seriously, who would put a black marker in my coffee (& get away with it!!!) other than Sworn? lolx! I think she was subconsciously either trying to make me black coffee or trying to make the marker brown.

Well, for now, the cabin crew is jetlagged and the muggertoad is wiped out. We need to zonk before another crazy day starts! - we'll hopefully have a really nice breakfast, have some fun at Universal Studios, continue on with SSP and research, do some shopping and then chill at her hotel before MY FAMILY ARRIVES on Monday! Woohoo! I can't wait!!! :) This all feels too much like a perfect, magical dream that I really need.

Summer time never felt so goooooooooooooooood!
now that the hermit's out of the shell and the muggertoad's hitting the roads!

Procrastination...

Maths and I share a relationship similar to like poles of two magnets put together. Progress at studying today has been super slow in part due to binomial distribution and a splitting headache I attribute to brain fatigue.

I really love acquiring new knowledge, but that under the context of deadlines and exams just makes it a chore. :( So I'm treating myself to a cathartic release by blogging now. A few rewards are coming my way after this exam ends on 6 June!

1. Sworn is coming from 6-7 June

2. My family (including cousin, Derek and aunt - my eng) is visiting from 8 June - 29 June

3. Peiying my darling is also coming from 25 June to 5 July

4. Carmen xiao mei mei is arriving for internship in LA on 27 June- Sept

5. Peiying, Carmen and I are planning to look for Sue in Arizona over independence day weekend (2 July-5 July). Something tells me we're gg to head to Las Vegas and Grand Canyon again!!!

6. Buddy zj is coming to visit from Sept 13-18

Fun times! It will truly be 苦境干来！The not-so-fun part is having to juggle work, company/industry analysis, studies and house-scouting-and-shifting during the same time. My life is always so packed whether I plan for it or not...!!! Now I just need the CFA exam to end, but yet I don't want it to end so soon because that means it has to start, which also means I'm not prepared for it yet!!! -_-'''