Shogun Express

I had lunch with my boss today at Shogun Express, our favorite restaurant in town. Both of us could eat sushi for every meal every day. It's just a bit pricy. I found myself liking the crunchy rolls a lot lately.

Brian's wife baked a huge fresh home made carrot cake for the whole department and then we had taste panels to try some smoked salmon in the afternoon. Sam's Club really keeps all the employees nice and full every day. Because we don't have windows in the office at all, it's really easy to get depressed, over eat and gain weight.

New York State had transferred a lump sum amount of money from my checking account because we forgot to file Biajee's state income tax for the portion he lived in New York in 2005. We immediately filed the form, but still don't know when we'll get the money back. We'll probably use H&R Block to file our income taxes going forward.

We're planning on going to Sam's Club for lunch tomorrow. Every once in a while we crave for hot dogs, pizza, soda and chocolate milk shake, especially when all these things add up to less than $7 for a meal for both of us.

复活

人死不能复生，手机死了却可以复活。我昨天发现新诺基亚的手机并没有把以前黑莓手机的通讯联络地址和电话下载之后，不由得非常沮丧。Biajee建议再将经过水洗的黑莓手机充电试一下，结果发现黑莓手机又可以使用了。

我们俩都非常兴奋，决定我昨天去过健身房之后直接将诺基亚手机和耳机退回给AT&T.一下子节省了180多美刀是很让人兴奋的事。回家以后赶快上网下载了黑莓手机的软件，将所有电话和抵制全部存入电脑，以免将来又有飞来横祸。网上的AT&T在做促销，买黑莓手机是免费的，看来以后一定要从网上订购手机。

我自从到了阿肯色州就成为世界健身房的会员了。这里的人都很懒，健身房早上5点钟才开门，周末更晚，星期六早上８点开门，星期天下午１２点开门。难怪这里大胖子多多。

今天中午去吃了红龙虾. Biajee昨晚睡得太晚了,现在又在睡午觉了.我早上起来给全家做了三蛋早餐,非常美味.吃午饭之前去取西装.上星期给Biajee买了约瑟夫A银行的西服,并且让商店将裤长改到正合适. 这个牌子的西装是美国最好的品牌之一,Biajee去面试一定要穿这种西服.

阿瑟现在每天睡17个小时,和猫的作息时间非常相像.他醒来的大部分时间都在吃,所以现在越来越胖了,每顿大概得吃四盒婴儿食品,连幼儿园的老师都叹为观止.

自从搬到阿肯色之后，阿诺，阿瑟和我就轮着生病，现在已经到第二轮了。阿瑟今天又发烧了，我的喉咙又开始不舒服。Ｂｉａｊｅｅ已经定好过了国庆节就得去科罗拉多出差。他不在的日子我又要过单亲妈妈的生活了，想起来一点都提不起精神。

Business Cards

I haven't ordered business cards for myself yet, mainly because I don't know how. But I'm starting to get things in order these days.

Every service related business in northwest Arkansas area is very expensive and crowded. I called the dentist to make my appointment earlier this week and the earliest they could get me in is end of October.

Biajee and I are working at least 9 hour days since we moved here. We don't have a lot of spare time at all. Shopping for groceries on weekends became a huge entertainment activity for our family.

We did find out that Braum's serves the best icecream and milk in the local area. This is a privately held company that has 280 locations in the four midwest states. It originated in Kansas. I strongly recommend everyone to go taste their icecream when visiting Arkansas, Kansas, Oklohoma or Missouri. Now we have converted from Dairy Queen to Braum's. It's cheaper price, better quality and without any RBGH.

Immigration

I just found out from the INS website that I still cannot apply for US Citizenship yet because we just moved to Arkansas. I need to be living in the current state for at least 3 months to be able to qualify for the application. Since we've moved on May 26th, I'll at least wait till end of August to apply.

I paid the fee to order application though and filled out all the forms and printed them out. I'll wait till August to sign and date them and enclose the money and documents with the form to send it to Texas. In the mean time, if Biajee finds a job in Arkansas, the employer would have to sponsor his work visa.

Fortunately Wal-mart sponsors work visas for qualified employees so we're lucky in that sense. Biajee will have an initial phone screen with Wal-mart's HR recruiter this Thursday. We picked out a nice suit for him in case he gets to the 2nd round. Well, I'm confident he'll get to the 2nd round. He is very smart and has all the credentials an employer could look for. A lot of spouses in my group are trying to find a job in Wal-mart.

Sam's Club

We're going to Sam's Club at least 3 times a week at the moment. We do all our grocery shopping there and eat pizza, drink chocolate milk shake or soda with kids. The pizza at Sam's Club here are really delicious, but sometimes the quality is not the same throughout the week. The weekend pizzas are of the best taste. This is all due to chef changes throughout the week.

I also learned yesterday that Braums here not only sell icecream, but also sell very good milk and fresh groceries. Biajee and I will take the kids there this weekend to test them out. We picked Bizy's restaurant in Fayetteville for our Father's Day brunch. It looks like a wild American food place so that we won't be embarrassed even if Arnold start to scream.

I've lost 6 lbs since I started my job. The pressure to get the work done is pounding at me every day while I was hardly given any time for learning the system and database. Got to jump to a delayed meeting now.

梦里不知身是客

梦里不知身是客，醒来天水一般秋.

终于有时间在周末的早上起床上一会儿网了。公司不让用私人电子邮件，所有的私人电子邮件网站都被屏蔽了。我每天早上4点起床之后草草看一下自己的电子邮件，凡是和卖房子没关系的全删。每天都得删除上百封电子邮件，生活真是很辛苦的。赶快把丹佛的朋友们为我们开的告别晚会的照片贴出来，以后再回丹佛的时候找大家喝酒，打牌去。

阿诺和我好像的了猪流感了。我们俩的症状都一样，已经持续一个星期了，只不过我不发烧，阿诺每天都发烧。索性我们用药把温度压下去了，所以学校也没太在意。好在下星期二就要带阿诺去看医生了。希望医生能提供一些抗生素。最好是不要让学校知道阿诺生病，否则Biajee就得在家看孩子了。他现在的工作任务就很艰巨，加班都做不完。如果请假，老板势必非常不高兴。

我们的生活现在比以前有规律了，每天早上5点钟把Biajee叫起来，晚上9点以前全家就睡睡了。在家上班比在公司上班要辛苦，因为老板重视的是出活。星期六的早上Biajee也无法睡懒觉，他得起床去剪草。这里每天都下雨，所以草长得极快，，每星期都得剪。我们的新剪草机用这还算顺手，不过如果让我去剪，还得戴帽子和手套，否则碎草都飘到脸上了。

Resume

I've given Biajee's resume to my boss, EVP in my group (my boss' boss' boss) and the chef in Comfort Suites we stayed at who knows someone working at Wal-mart's ISD Department. My goal is to have his resume on the desk of every senior manager, executive and recruiter I can network with inside Wal-mart. We need to move his job to Arkansas so the whole family can be together.

Biajee has been home since Saturday and I finally can sleep for a few more hours every day. He's installed the Pur water filler in the kitchen and has already mowed the lawn and trimmed the edges. We bought the John Deere lawn mower and edge trimmer last Saturday after he came home. It took him 2 hours on Sunday morning to get the grass cut. Our yard looks great in comparison to the neighbor's yard.

Biajee has strict dead line working from home as well. We're both working average 9 hours days not including lunch time. We bought some Mayonnaise and salad dressing from Sam's Club today. Never thought we would ever eat that, but they would make great quick dinner if we are on time crunch.

Work

I'm a single mom at the moment. Biajee went back to Colorado on May 31st. I need to get up at 4 am every day, shower, prepare the kids for school, nurse Arthur and then get onto the road. I feel exhausted all the time.

My company blocked out hot sites like gmail.com, hotmail.com, etc and I don't have Chinese settings on my computer at all. All the future blogs will be English only then.

Work has been progressing well so far. I've been in a lot of meetings in the past 4 days. Tomorrow I'm going to the annual shareholders' meeting in Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville. The meeting starts at 7 am, but I'll be late for it since my kids' day care opens at 7 am. Some of my coworkers will be saving a seat for me if allowed.

We have a monthly meeting on the first Saturday of every month, but I could take the boys there for that one. A celebrity from Hollywood will be invited for every such meeting. Basically you see a lot more celebrities in Bentonville than in LA.