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| So Xanga has changed a bit since I last posted on here. So what else to blog about then something Taiwanese. YAY! For those of you that remember Monopoly was having a contest on which world cities should be included in their world edition and many of my fellow Taiwanese were spreading the word of getting Taipei on there. Well, guess what, Taipei made it. WOO HOO!!!!!!!! 
Feel free to buy me a one. | | |
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Look what my super cool friend Michelle and her hubby animated for me. hehehe | | |
| It’s Friday and instead of having social life. I’m at home chilling. A little part of me doesn’t mind since work keeps me busy and I really need some down time and in order for me to go out, that requires more work/preparation=stress than I would prefer. BTW is it just me or does going out sometimes seem like such a task? 1. Research things to do/eat. 2. Find/convince/beg friends to come to OC-98% failure rate 3. Make sure the car has enough fuel 4. Go to the bank to get money 5. If going to LA, call friends that will offer couch to sleep on, then pack so I’m not reversing my underwear (and no I haven’t done that, but I know friends that have, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!) the next day. 6. Shave/pluck/epi-something the hairy areas (yes, I only maintain when I need to, shoot I got no love life…yeah yeah TMI TMI but if you’ve read this blog before I talk about fun girl week here so you should be desensitized by now.) But my main reason for me not going out is because I’m working on Saturday. ARRRGH, wasn’t planning to but because I care too much/don’t have enough youth staff, guess which sucker has to do outreach…bleah. Yes, I enjoy waking up Saturday mornings. So what am I doing to decompress? Checking out my home and work via satellite. Apparently my car is famous! My car at home  My car at work. Notice how my car is one of the few cars parked and it’s the daytime. It can only mean one thing. This was me working on a Saturday. Yes, a recurring theme. Jen has no life. Woo hoo!  Design courtesy of old school program Paint. | | |
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TACC-LA 2008 New Year's celebration with old school Taiwanese pop singer Hung Rung Hong 洪榮宏. teehehe | | |
| So I've been slowly loading my CD collection into my ipod and when I'm loading my albums from Taiwan, I usually prefer the words in characters vs pinyin, but I'm starting to notice they default into Simplified form instead of Traditional. WTF. I don't like simplified, what kind of BS is this. Also got annoyed when a new org I was working with emailed me back translated material in simplified form. HOW THE HECK are folks from Taiwan and most folks who read Chinese, especially in the OC community going to understand this? Cultural competency 101. Of course, I replied back with my thoughts. So far I haven't seen any benefits working with this org. Waste of my time. Of course I have to be diplomatic and blah blah but they need to provide me stuff in atleast Vietnamese. Dude, Japanese is NOT a high priority Asian language. GRRRRR. BTW the "best" thing I heard working at my job is when I had one of my interns make calls to local orgs to see which ones serve the Asian and Pacific Islander community. One lady actually said, "Yes, we speak Asian". Hello, Asian is not a language. *sigh* Conspiracy theorists, what do you? I remember seeing a petition a few years ago about this topic and look what's happening. Who's with me in the support of keeping Traditional live and well? | | |
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