Oh O!...Spider Sense Tingling!

hehehe...I've just always wanted to say that! Spider-Man 3....May 4 2007! Go check it out!

Happy Chinese New Years

It's a new year...well, for us Chinese folks it is. I'm not so big on this one, but I do try to keep up with the tradition of it. There's certain superstitions that I follow to have a good year. One of the superstition I believe in is on the first day of the new year, the luck of the first person to enter your home follows you for the entire you. The only reason I believe in this is because one year, one of my uncle was the first to enter our house and that year, we had unbelievably bad luck the whole year.
Something that we started doing to avoid having a person with bad luck enter our house first is to do it ourselves. My parents always think I'm good luck so they'll have me walk out the house for a few feet in a certain direction (according to the year and how the stars line up with my birthdate) and then return home and be the first to enter the house. I have to say...for the last 3 years that we've done this, nothing majorly bad has happened. Knock on wood of course, but it hasn't failed yet.
So this year we're doing it again. Last year I went with my dad, but this year, my mom wants me to go solo...since she believes that my good attitude, happiness, and determination will prosper the family. I certainly hope so.
Here's a funny story that they told me about during dinner today. When I was a baby, we were in a jewerly store and I had a lil accident in my pants (#2 to be exact) while in the store. Well, at that time they didn't make diapers with the bands to keep everything inside...so one of my "gold nuggets" come loose and found the floor of the store...hahaha. My parents were apologizing to the owner, but the owner was not at all mad. She was in fact thrilled. Apparently it's good luck. ??? (I'm so confused at this moment) ??? It was good enough luck that she opened a second store and both stores are still in business today. I never knew that this could be such good luck...but apparently if that happens with babies...it's good luck.

Helpless Feeling

Today during our usual Saturday morning bike ride with the club, a pedestrian accident happened. Although it happened only feets ahead of me, I didn't witness the accident cuz it happened around a curve in the road. As I got around that curve, I saw a group of riders hurdled up around a car so I knew something bad happened. I saw another rider on the phone and she yelled out to ask me what mile we were at. I told her I think it was about 3 miles from the start of the ride. I pulled aside and quickly got off my bike and ran ahead to the scene. I saw this girl just laying by the side of the road. She was still awake and talking to the guys who arrived on the scene first....so that was a good thing. One guy was getting her name and info, another called 911 and I ended calling one of our support riders. Luckly she was just ahead and was able to arrive on the scene pretty quickly. Not before one of the town sheriff though. We were able to put a couple of blankets on the girl to keep her warm. Thank goodness that Amy, SAG, had blankets in her car. But then soon after, the ambulance arrived.
The girl was bleeding pretty bad from her head. Other than that...she seemed ok. Nobody tried to move her cuz we were all worried about broken bones. We heard from one of the witness that she saw her flying off her bike, took a couple of flips before landing. From what they tell me, her read tires saved her cuz her rear wheels where crashed. I'm kind of glad that I didn't witness it. I don't know how I would have taken it. Just seeing her on the ground was enough for me. And then seeing blood from the head area just did it for me. I think that was one of the worse feelings I've ever had. Feeling so helpless...not knowing what to do. How do you even comfort someone who just got hit by a car? I was almost at a lost for words. I'm glad I kept my composure though. One thing I've learned is not to panic around an injured person cuz you'll only end up scaring them and they could possibly go into shock. Never good when they go into shock.
I decided to continue the ride and after finishing, I ran into the girls I was talking with while at the accident scene and they tell me that the girl was lucky to come away with only a head injury, no broken bones...just a few stitches. It could have been worse.

Outstanding Performance

Another year, another outstanding performance yearly review. I tell ya...I have no where but down to go from here. I just had my 2006 yearly review today and received another outstanding performance rating. That's 2 years in a row now. I didn't understand how I got it for 2005 and probably still a lil confused how I received it again for 2006. Although...I did feel much better about my performance in 2006 than 2005, but from what I hear, it's so difficult to receive an outstanding rating that I'm not believing that I received it again this year. Sure...I'll take it and run with it, but still unsure how it happened.
It's a lil scary to receive such a high rating though. People then expect so much out of you. I just want to do my job and stay low key. As you remember, last year when some of the guys found out...they heckled me for days. I hope they don't find out this year.
But this year will be a completely different story. I'm currently on 3 different projects and since we lost my other half to a different group, I have to pick up his projects. So now I have 6 projects on my shoulders. I don't know how I'm going to handle this. I think this will be a rather rough year for me. My performance will definitely fall on my next performance appraisal. I hope not, but am already anticipating it. But o well...I love my job too much to ever stop working hard. Who cares what my grade will be next year as long as I know that I did all that I can.

1 Dribble, 2 Dribble, 3 Dribble, Fall!

Yup...I've still got it. It's been a while, but yesterday was the first time in a long time I played some ball. I played about 3 weeks ago, but that doesn't count cuz it was only a 3 man 21 game. No real competition there. Yesterday...it wasn't much, but we ran a 2 on 2. I played like I was a man with a mission. It's been a rough week at work so I took my anger out on the court a lil bit.
I was totally in control on the court. I scored all night long and had some great set-up plays to my partner for the easy score. I think I enjoyed setting him up for the easy basket more than I did scoring. I had some of the most beautiful passes to him. Man...it was one of my best night assisting.
One play that stood out was when I had the ball at the top of the key. I worked my way up to the freethrow line. My partner was to the right trying to setup a pick for me. I dribbled once. Thought of going with my pick to the right. Hesitated. Second dribble. Saw my defender pulling right. Third dribble...crossover! I had my defender falling back so hard everyone thought he twisted his ankle. Didn't know I still had that in me, but I guess I did. But unfortunately I couldn't finish the play. I was wide open on my way to the basketball and couldn't nail the shot. That happens to me though. Everyone knows that I couldn't make a shot if the basket was in front of my face, but put a defender on me and I'll score from anywhere. Yeah, it's something I gotta work on. But it's still nice to know I still have my crossover working for me.

2007 Thus Far

Well, 2007 didn't quite start with a bang considering how great 2006 was for me. A month in and I'm still wishing it were still 2006.
But not all is bad. Work is really busy cuz one of the guy in our group got transfered to another group so we're one short. My engineer and I have been trying to pick up the slack, but we're so overwhelmed at the moment. Especially this week...we're starting to feel the pressure. It also doesn't help when the guy, who left, is an asshole. I've never hated anybody as much as I hate this guy. And I'm not one that hates ppl. But I hate this guy so freakin much. I'll leave it at that. I don't even want to waste timing thinking about this.
I've committed myself to the MS150 this year so I've been training hard for that. I got a flat tire the other week, and rode on my mountain tires last week. I just got in my new road tires so I'll change them out before this weekend's ride. I can't wait to try them out. I think it'll make a heck of a difference. I just signed up for a ride to raise money and support the Fort Bend School district. That'll take place at the end of next month. It'll be a 35 mile ride, but that's ok cuz we've been averaging about 30 miles on our saturday club rides.
My buddy held a small Super Bowl party at his place this past Sunday and we had a pretty good time. Half the ppl he invited bailed, but I was able to get Elodie to come join us. She's french so she really doesn't know much about american football, so she got a pretty good lesson from me. I'm glad she came out though.
Well, I'm sure there will be more to talk about. But that's all I have time for now.