Recent tipbits

Not much specific that I wanna talk about lately, except few things that happen in recent weeks that caused few spikes on my brain wave…

Funeral - I went to the funeral of an old friend/coworker last week. I had already blogged about his pass away previously. So, I’m not gonna repeat my thoughts and initial feeling here about the incident here. However, being in the ritual, saw his picture and his cold body lying behind a glass window, heard the weeping and sobbing of some attendees, I felt all of these together really like put a seal on the fact that he was gone. I was quite ‘down’ that night on the way home, thinking that he is only my age if not few years younger and he’s gone. Life is just precious and fragile. It was the first time that I met his wife there, not a favorable time or place to meet. When I held her hand after she bowed to me before I left, I didn’t say anything as I really didn’t know what to say. Rather than saying anything wrong, or even giving a smile would be inappropriate, I guess my firm but warm handshake properly the best I could do…

Beach – My wife and I took our son to the beach for the first time this year, also the first time for his young life. Actually, we went to two separate beaches on two separate weekends recently. The first visit had scared him while he was standing at the coast with his feet sweeping by wave. Also, the sands on the first beach were to rough, it was hot on that day that our feet were torched. However, my son was enjoying playing with sand even without any bucket or spade. So, we decided to be better prepared and gave him a better experience the second time around. My son had his swimming pant on, bucket and spades were ready. We rent an umbrella and armchair as well. It was a cloudy day and rained a bit. Nonetheless, it was fun to play with sand castle on a bigger beach with fine sands. We stayed there longer and took more pictures. While looking around, there were family, church goers, young and old people, even tourists, but it was crowded by any mean. We all just had a good time!

New work place – kinda settling in the new office with new coworkers in a new district, things are so far so good. I’ve heard the nasty part about the job, but have not yet deal with it first hand yet. People are ok there, and the nature of my job is ok so far. What I don’t like the most is the absence of ‘Sametime’ which was such a convenient tool for communication in my previous job that I miss it very much here. I also love the district where my office is in. It is just so convenient for most things and there are just so many choices for lunch. The best part is that it is not difficult to find seats even at peak hours. Also, there were many bookstores and electrical appliance shops in the area for me to hang around after lunch if I have time. The caveat on top is that I’m now closer to my wife’s working district, so we can go lunch together easily. In fact, we already did that twice this week. It is just nice!