Dear Blog,
Wow, I guess it did take me a year to come back to update you. So many things happened since the last time I've updated you. Lets start with the basics, I turned a quarter of the century and the year 2014 started.
2013 wasn't a bad year, if I had to say so myself. I tried the whole lets write something every day so I can look back into every entry at the end of the year and have something to remind me what the year was like. Like I said last year, didn't happened. Lolx not really surprised, should have expected something like that from myself X] Also tried the lets take a picture that highlighted my day every day, nope the life span of this also ended in a few months. Hey, at least it lasted longer than the diary stuff X]
Didn't travel much for the first couple of months of the new job. Then I asked for a week of vacation for the annual family & friends vacation that I take every year. West coast road trip for the summer of 2013 - LA, San Diego, and Vegas. Had a ton of fun, glad that both Andy and I were able to take our vacations since both of us started working only a few months into our new jobs. Met up with a friend of mine that was staying in LA for half a year for an engagement that his company had placed him on. Actually, this was my second time in LA. Revisited some touristy spots and went to a few new spots that I didn't see last year.
Spent Fourth of July in San Diego. It was pretty amazing. We stayed at the Westin in downtown and the view from our room was amazing! We also had a balcony that led onto the roof. We spent the night on the roof deck watching the fireworks, the view was just spectacular! The sky didn't look as hot after the fireworks, or should I say clear X] Have to admit, San Diego is a pretty small place. I was honestly expecting a little bit more. Ooo and we hit up the San Diego Zoo before leaving and heading to Vegas. Man was it hot!!!
We saw so many broken down vehicles on our way to Vegas. I've never in my life saw signs of turning your AC off in the car cause of the hot hot weather. Our windows were also burning from the heat! Vegas turned out to be pretty much the same kind of routine every time we went. Shopping, walking around, eating, and watching shows. Unfortunate for us as well as the acrobatic lady that fell to her death during a performance, we were not able to watch KA. I guess it was definitely more unfortunate for her, at least for us, there were other shows to choose from, but shouldn't these things be safe to begin with??? I highly doubt that somewhere in their contracts state "possible death maybe occur during performance."
On a lighter and happier topic, I went to Boiling Crab for the first time of my life!!! Lolx it was a big Big BIG mess hahahs both mommy and daddy was saying, how can ppl eat with their hands like this, if ppl in the old days were to look at us now hahahs. Of course happy and fun times go by in a blink of an eye, soon enough it was time for us to go home and I had to go back to work. After getting back from my vacation, it was constant traveling for me at work. Oh did I mention, that included another two more trips back to LA for work??? Of course it wasn't as fun as it would have been if it was all fun and games and not work. Never in my life have I've gotten sooo tanned. This summer, I became darker than my bestie and her complexion is shades darker than mine!!! My mommy made fun of me and said I looked like a roasted duck lolx
The traveling finally stopped in December. Have to admit all the traveling is taking its tolls on me. My 25th crept up on me before I knew it. The first year that I had to spent it alone since I was out on a job. Such a bummer 25th, wished it was tons better since its a capstone in my life, I mean how many quarter of a century may one turn before their death??? Must admit, I got pretty bitter about it. Esp. since my mother made plans to celebrate it with me but she completely disposed those plans on the day we were suppose to celebrate. Not the happiest birthday of my life, to be honest, this might have been the saddest one that I ever had since I could remember.
2014 finally started, and the year couldn't have been any worst. So many bad and unfortunate things happened in the span of the first three months. The cake topper of all the crap that was happening and had happened, was the delivery of the news that a childhood friend of mine had passed away in a car accident. The news had hit me hard. Reality started spinning and denial begun. Nobody expected it to happen, esp. not to him. His wake was actually on Valentine's Day. After the burial ceremony, all of us realized how short life can be, how important it was to make the best of every day we have, and how necessary it is to keep in connect with those who matters to us. It sucks that it take something like this to happen to gather us all together.
On a lighter note, through a chain of events that happened because of the situation, I happened to run into a friend of mine that was back from service for his vacation the Friday after. And the next day, he set me up with his buddy. I would have never imagine that he of all ppl would do such a thing. Soon after, my three week vacation to HK finally kicked in. I told myself that this vacation is going to be the turning point of 2014 for me. Enough with the bad luck and all good things from there on out. Hey, I'm making a trip to the other side of the world and then coming back, time for luck to turn for the better don't you agree? I certainly do. The vacation was UH-MAZING!!! Went back to HK, visited 大理, 廣州, 深圳, and a few places around the 深圳 area. The trip was full of self pampering sessions, shopping, and of course eating. It was definitely the life of royalty lolx I didn't wanted to come back X]
The three weeks felt sooo short, soon enough I was back and working again. How miserable I felt and feeling. They're killing me with work and to top that off, they're scheduling jobs for me with insufficient time to complete it, so that means I'm hauling butt to finish the darn jobs. I'm sick of these more than 10 hour days and did I tell you, no overtime pay since I'm on salary, and to top it off, they took away all comp days!!! I was that close to buying my own return ticket back to Chicago and quitting on the spot! Oh life!
Quote -
"Live without regret(s), life is just too short"
Love,
Jess （嘉慧）
