for the second year in a row, my parents decided to go on vacation during mothers day. so last year, i went to a giants game to celebrate my last weekend of freedom before my surgery. this year... MI3. is anyone else motherless and want to watch it with us? actually at my last pt session (sigh), some of the patients were talking about how they're going to boycott the movie because they think tom cruise is crazy. i think he's crazy too, but... JJ Abrams! how could you go wrong?

tagged by alinna.

1. Four Jobs:
a. reporter/layout artist for our high school newspaper (ok, so not a real paying job, but i've only had two of those.)
b. cash register/food frier/joyfest usher/ticket-taker at great america in college for various fund raising events, like UiC, missions support, etc. (you work for a day and great america pays the non-profit organization you're volunteering with some $ amount.)
c. marketing assistant at my dad's company when i was in high school (funny thing - my pt clinic, or should i say ex-pt clinic now, is on the exact site where my dad's company used to be. it took me 8 months to discover that, even though i used to work there!)
d. my current one. business ops slave for my company.

2. Four Things I Wish I Had Done Earlier: (interpreting the same as alinna, i actually haven't done these things. yet.)
a. live somewhere outside of norcal for an extended period of time
b. go on another missions trip
c. learn how to drive manual
d. wake up every morning

3. Four Places I Have Lived:
a. saratoga
b. berkeley
c. mountain view
d. cupertino

wow, how's that for variety. haha. that's kind of sad. in fact, my entire list consists of only two additional cities: los gatos, and san jose, both of which i lived in before moving to saratoga. unless you count china for two months. maybe it's really time for me to explore outside of norcal.

4. Four Countries I Have Been To:
a. china. uh, i mean "east asia"
b. spain
c. france
d. taiwan (only twice in my life though. once in kindergarten, and once in high school.)

5. Four Countries I Would Like to Visit:
a. japan (been there once, in kindergarten.)
b. greece
c. australia
d. italy (yes again. i love tuscany/florence area.)

6. Four of My Favorite Dishes:
a. any kind of korean food
b. in-n-out
c. any dish at tanto & gochi
d. taiwanese food (ba-wan, etc)

7. Four Sites I Visit Daily:
a. our work intranet
b. google reader
c. xanga pages
d. not everyday, but when i get a chance, the san diego zoo panda webcam. thanks to mary, the founding member of the panda club.

8. Four Software Applications I Cannot Live Without:
a. microsoft excel
b. SAP
c. aim
d. firefox

9. Four Things I'll Never Forget:
a. if you give a moose a muffin - my muffin bday. incidentally, on wednesday, chris happened to mention the whole book series, so i dusted off my book, pulled it off the shelf and started reading what people signed in the book. most people addressed me with "hi gimp" "hey cripple" etc. i love what eric wrote: "hi karen. happy birthday. nice acl. oh you tore it. never mind." funny how not much has changed over the last 7 years. i'm still a gimp, and eric, well, is still eric. :)
b. missions trip to east asia
c. being pulled down the mountain in tahoe last februrary by ski patrol
d. uhh... hm. maybe winning best senior industrial engineering project at cal with sanj, dave and amyn. actually, even more memorable was when i went to second harvest to volunteer a few years ago and saw that they had implemented & used parts of our project. it made our project more than just a college assignment. i think we were given a couple hundred dollars by the ieor department for winning, too. go cscs!

10. I Tag....
a. byria
b. the kittoe household (hehe i cheated)
c. reni
d. eva