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Hi again. Long time no see. So I have big news. I GOT A JOB! And not just any job, a job at GOOGLE! It’s pretty crazy to be honest. To think, I’ll be going from working part-time living at home not doing much to working full-time at one of the best companies to work for in the world. Needless to say, I’m really excited.

Part of me wants to say that I guess all things to happen for a reason. I mean, if I had gotten any of those other jobs I had interviewed for in the last couple months (mainly Universal and Disney), then I wouldn’t be here today with my very top choice company. On the other hand though, I know I’m only saying that because things worked out for the better for me. I very easily could have been rejected and just been same old me with my same old life. 

My official title is “Global Online Advertising Associate,” although I’m pretty sure it’s fancier sounding than it actually is. The way I’ve been describing it to people is “glorified customer service person,” haha. 

So obviously with this awesome new job comes a lot of pretty significant life changes. For one, I’ll be moving up to the bay area! I’m pretty set on living in San Francisco, just because I figure if I’m going to be working in the bay, I might as well take advantage and live in the city. It’s where I’ve always wanted to live, after all. With the move also comes apartment hunting/roommate searching. That will be an interesting challenge. Hope that that works itself out in the end as well. Trying to get a jump start on things though so it doesn’t creep up on me. 

It’s all pretty crazy. I’m going to be working for GOOGLE! I’ve wanted to work there for probably the past 3 years or so. I’ve applied and interviewed for three other positions (2 internship, 1 full-time) before I even got past the phone interview, and now here I am with a full-time offer. Free food, free wi-fi shuttle, free gym, cheap massages, cheap laundy, free snacks/drinks, and free every single amazing Google benefit that I’ve always thought was so cool here I come! It’s very surreal. 

Life is really good right now. The Orange County Mixer is in 2 days which is pretty exciting since I’ve never actually been to an OC one before. My next three weekends are jam-packed with plans. Vegas with camp people this week, Warrior Dash next weekend, and WHITE PARTY PALM SPRINGS the week after that! While I’m definitely excited for all of them, I’m unbelievably anxious to go to White Party. I’ve never been before and I haven’t partied like that since new year’s. AHH I’m so excited. 

After all that is over I have until June 6 (my start date) to organize my life back at home and get ready to move my life up to the bay. 

Here’s to a new chapter in my life! I just hope it’s a fun ride :).

Happy Chinese New Year! Today I cleaned my room up quite a bit (finally). Still a little bit to go before everything is ACTUALLY clean and organized, but I’m getting there. All right it’s getting late and I have to be up in about 6 hours, so wan an! 

How have I fallen so behind in blogging? Fail. Lets see… where to begin. It’s weird—I feel like I really haven’t been up to that much, yet figuring out where to start writing is as hard as ever.

Last weekend was the WALL lock-in. Basically spent 24 hours with my fellow WALLers learning about hiking gear/nutrition/wild animals, socializing, brainstorming for fundraisers, and going on a hike in Malibu. I’m definitely glad to be doing camp again this year—especially WALL. Its been something that I’ve wanted to do since my freshmen year of college and I’m finally apart of it! At the same time I’m a little nervous—carrying 30-40 lbs of gear while leading a group of a dozen kids for a 26 mile hike up the tallest peak in southern California is much easier said than done. I’m definitely up for the challenge though and looking forward to getting to know my fellow WALLers better all whilst getting back in shape :).

This past Sunday I went to The Little Door for dineLA with some fellow WALLers. I somehow got charged with the task of organizing the dinner and, of course, stressed out over planning and organizing it. It all turned out fine though. Smaller group than I had hoped for but it was still fun. The Little Door, I must say, is probably the best date restaurant that you will ever see in your lifetime (at least in LA). Yes I know that’s quite the statement, but I fell in love with the interior. It reminds me of a modern yet rustic alice in wonderland/garden of eden. Very strange description but you’d have to see it to know what I’m talking about. The food was good overall, but not great, and definitely not worth the price tag. I even wrote a little yelp review about it! (http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-little-door-los-angeles#hrid:ZMCBIJLOw_3feNCbYzCm7A) And yes I started a yelp account today—lets just hope that I keep up with it.

Today I had yet another interview with Universal. This is the 3rd position that I’ve been up for (sadly didn’t get the first two). I’m really hoping that this whole 3rd time’s the charm thing applies to me, but we’ll see. My interview today was honestly kind of meh. It started out terribly. All my interviewer asked was, “So what did you do as an intern [at Universal]?” And all of a sudden I lost the ability to speak and form coherent thoughts. I was really, really nervous—partially because I probably didn’t prep as much as I should have, but mainly because my interviewer gave me that whole cold stare down treatment that really intimidates me during interviews. It didn’t help that one of my old internship supervisors told me that this guy I was interviewing with was really nice and that she thinks we would get along really well.  By the middle/end of the interview things picked up quite a bit though and I was (hopefully) able to somewhat redeem myself and demonstrate that I’m not totally inadequate. He also lightened up substantially by the end too, so I was actually able to see this “nice guy” that my supervisor spoke of. He said he would let us know about second round interviews by the end of this week/early next week, so here’s hoping for the best! This whole job hunt thing is so frustrating though. On the one hand I feel so qualified for a lot of positions, but then rejection after rejection comes in and I really start to question how qualified I actually am. It’s kind of depressing, but hopefully things will work themselves out eventually. For now I will continue to enjoy this “time off” while working part time and job hunting.

This blog is kind of turning into the old blogs that I used to keep—random ramblings of things and events that are going on in my life. Although I suppose that’s what blogs are supposed to be, right? I just wish I had a more systematic way of deciding what I end up writing about and what gets forgotten about simply because I take too long to update. Hmmm… I guess I will just have to try harder to update on a relatively regular basis. Until next time!

… kicked my ass today :(

Original title, I know. Anyway, so since today is 1/11/11, I figured it would be a cool day to start some things that I wanted to include in my new year’s resolutions for 2011. The two things that I wanted to get started on today were starting up a blog and starting my workout regimen. Instead though, I’m about to go hang out with Connie to go grab some Half & Half (my current fatty addiction: iced milk drink with taro & honey boba) and then watch The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I really didn’t want to waste this awesome lucky date though (although it would be even better if I could start on 11/11/11… at 11:11… but that would probably be a little too far into 2011 to start on my resolutions, huh?) so I decided to create this tumblr account and make a quick entry so that technically my first post of this soon-to-be-awesome chronicle of my semi-adult life will still be on 1/11/11.

Mission accomplished.