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Name: Jason
Country: United States
State: California
Metro: San Francisco
Birthday: 6/3/1979
Gender: Male
Interests: good food, good drinks, and good company. oh yeah, and fresh tracks.
Expertise: professional snowboard instructor (PSIA/AASI). i'm also a business analyst in the bus dev unit of a big software company
Occupation: business analyst
Industry: Software
Message: message me
AIM:  jasoncjung
Member Since:
3/19/2003
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| since my last entry . . . so much has changed.
at least for the people who don't know me. i'm sure you all missed me.
well first, a new year occurred, so happy 2009 to everybody, hope it's been treating you well.
i did a 3 week stint in asia over xmas, encompassing 9 days in vietnam, then a day in singapore, 5 days in hk (lots of eating and drinking), then 6 days in japan (3 of those were on a snowboard). i highly suggest everyone travel as much as possible.
then i came home to my "oh so fun job" to find out 3 days later that i was part of what they called a "reduction in force" or basically "fuck you very much". but i guess it wasn't so bad, b/c all in all, i got about 5 months of fully paid severance.
let's just say the last 5 months have been like any middle-school summer. you wake up when the sun peeks through your window . . . you watch some tv. you shower. maybe go to the gym. maybe ride your bike. go meet someone for lunch. sit in the park. read a book in the sun. maybe watch the girls pass by while sitting in the park. with your bike. you hit up a happy hour with some working stiffs, and you laugh at them. then you go home and watch some more tv.
and then you realize that you can't be a kid your whole life, and have to grow up and get a job. and that part does suck. but it's fun getting paid to do nothing. sort of nervous, but hey, life could be worse right?
well that being said, i've verbally committed to being employee #16 at a small startup, and will be starting on tuesday. sadly, the end of my "5th grade summer". oh well. i will forever remember those days of untracked powder midweek, and those random bike rides across the golden gate bridge when . . . i simply had nothing better to do. so here is to jason 2.0.
god i've seen a lot of movies. top gun, three amigos, the negotiator, a few good men, and a whole load of daytime tv. i've also drank a lot of beer. as my buddy mark always says "turn to the bottle".
enjoy yourselves, realize that life could always be worse, and just generally enjoy the time you have, before you are forced to grow up and someday marry (or not), or someday have kids, or . . . or someday sort of grow up. | | |
| A new priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak.
After mass he asked the monsignor how he had done.
The monsignor replied, 'When I am worried about getting nervous on the pulpit, I put a glass of vodka next to the water glass. If I start to get nervous, I take a sip.'
So next Sunday he took the monsignor's advice. At the beginning of the sermon, he got nervous and took a drink. He proceeded to talk up a storm. Upon his return to his office after the mass, he found the following note on the door:
1) Sip the vodka, don't gulp.
2) There are 10 commandments, not 12.
3) There are 12 disciples, not 10.
4) Jesus was consecrated, not constipated.
5) Jacob wagered his donkey, he did not bet his ass.
6) We do not refer to Jesus Christ as the late J.C.
7) The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are not referred to as Daddy, Junior and the spook.
8) David slew Goliath; he did not kick the sh-it out of him.
9) When David was hit by a rock and was knocked off his donkey, don't say he was stoned off his ass.
10) We do not refer to the cross as the 'Big T.'
11) When Jesus broke the bread at the last supper he said, 'Take this and eat it for it is my body.' He did not say 'Eat me'.
12) The Virgin Mary is not called 'Mary with the Cherry'..
13) The recommended grace before a meal is not: Rub-A-Dub-Dub thanks for the grub, Yeah God.
14) Next Sunday there will be a taffy pulling contest at St. Peter's not a peter pulling contest at St. Taffy's | | |
| this made me laugh. out loud. hard. 
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| so a brick wall was apparently busted through, so we put up the appropriate signs to be on the lookout. please contact the authorities if you see anyone fitting the description on the poster. please, walk carefully, you never know how dangerous your neighborhood is. 
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| so i've been living up the retired life. at least since monday. with this whole week off for our mandatory "week of rest", ive found so many productive things to do. so with our week off, jeff and i being the two only "retired" people for this week, we went . . . furniture shopping, while nobody was in the stores, we sat in many lazy boy's (at 2 different locations), testing for comfort . . . then down van ness to circuit city and video only, to look at different tv's, and test out surround sound systems. all work and no play certainly makes you work up an appetite, so off to union square for our some katana-ya ramen. with a tight schedule, we wolfed that down, then just HAD to check out threadcount of sheets and towels at nordstrom rack and bed, bath, and beyond. didn't find much of interest after feeling a lot of towels and sheets, so of course . . . $1.50 hotdogs/drink sounded appetizing at costco . . . there went another 30 minutes of time-wasting. we sat in MORE lazyboy's there, hotdog and drink in hand, staring at passing females going "heeeeeeeeyyyyyyy" while they shopping-carted by. hahaha it was hilarious. ok we only did that once. but the sitting and living it up IN costco . . . i guess that's what retired people do. in the end, jeff negotiated for a leather recliner for $120 off the sale price, with free delivery, so i guess our retirement day was successful. and of course yesterday . . . yeah i didnt do much either, rearranged some stuff in my apartment and drove jeff to the airport. i wish every week was a "retirement-week". i think today i'll ride my stingray around town and make a visit to walgreens and the sandwich shop. i'm off to LA tomorrow for a wedding of my highschool buddy. have a safe 4th everyone! | | |
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