Jen's diary

22 December, 2005

Day 22th

這是我搬出來的第22天了.

今天覺得特別的冷, 外面大約只有9度吧.. 傻傻的, 我都沒有戴手套騎車, 為了省錢, 晚上也只有吃陽春麵止餓.
最近真的累壞我了, 昨天去南港的中央研究院 學 蝦紅素 可能用到的設備, 儀器, 可是自己的工作已經非常的多了..
Apollo告訴我這個有趣的數位視野 http://www.dcview.com.tw/gallery/ 讓喜歡攝影的我也可以看看別人的作品, 比較一下相機等等...

I translate the above a bit and write more in English...
I am so freezing today and its about 9 degrees outside. It was silly to ride motorcycle without gloves. For saving some money, I only had a very simple noodle soup and spicy tofu.
I have been working so hard recently.... went to the Academia Sinica at Nankang yestereday to learn things about Phaffia rhodozyma, astaxanthin and some equipments.. Its interesting though I don't think our company will be likely to get involved in the area as it costs so much to buy this and that. However, we discussed it with Ms. Dr. Su again today, and decided to do the trial run in the Academia Sinica first before the mass production. I then got a huge pile of papers in English to read... Its silly cuz I know I even cannot finish reading it before Chinese new year and my jobs is overloaded already....

Now, I like to record what happened about 3 weeks ago.. On Sunday 12/4, I went out with Sales Henderson and two of our European customers Klaus and Bruno. The fastest elevator in Taipei 101 impressed me.. I couldn't remember the exact time it took .. its about 38 seconds to arise to the 89 floor.. but it took a bit of longer due to the gravity. I also had fun watching Bruno having noodles... cuz he drunk all of soup first and noodle later. We separated after lunch, and I took Bruno to play pingpong to complete with some society group female champions. I didn't dare to play there cuz they are too good. We gathered again with Henderson, Mawder, Klaus for dinner in a superb restaurant.. forgot its name now.. then headed to have foot massage... my first try and its pretty comforable after finishing. Also, its good I got to see 4 men's naked hairy legs, feet...

Its about 1:00 am now and I used to sleep quite early.. but how come? Its just the neighbor's girl friend came again so late after 11:30 pm that she used to come. I feel I like being with myself these days though the noises still bothers me... I played the killers' song "Somebody told me" trying to scare them.. it seems doesn't work too much though. They did nothing wrong, but not sure how I can live this way............ must try to get some sleep!!

01 December, 2005

My first day of living outside myself

Today, Dec. 01, 2005, is the first day I live outside of my home and being alone all by myself. I used to be surrounded with a bunch of people all the time, and it was just a big challenge for me. Comparing to most of people, especially foreigners, I know its really nothing.

I kept trying to contact the landlord for the depost I should hand in, and at last he showed up after 8 pm in front of my window thats a bit if late since I arrived before 7 pm as we planned. Well, its okay after knowing he isn't used to bring his mobile phone (nobody calls me ...he said that). However, the sounds of TV from my neighbor bothered me a lot. It stopped after one hour or so, and its very silence when the landlord came. I said nothing about it to him as this is my first day.

The landlord was nice to help me make the internet setting. Then, I went out to buy tissues, water and had a bit of porridge. The place where they cook porridge is so noisy!! I cannot understand how would people like to have food there. Maybe it is my problem, so I told myself to try to bear with the noises and then I would be fine... After 10 mins or so, I finally felt better, but still not that like this kind of noisy places. The place I lived with my family has busy streets, but its not this sort of noisy... At least, their porridge is not bad!!

On the way home, I felt more relax. I was so excited not having to wear anything after shower and walked around the room..... Need to put on clothes for this weather though.. Then, I heard some talking from the neighbor and was very certain that the sound insulation is very bad here... this is so far I found annoying, but I am more comfortable now. :) Hope the coming days won't be too bad!! Damn!! They keep talking now and I could hear the talking and laughters very clearly!!! Not sure how it will be if they are going to have something naughty together... I think I will soon move to another place... How come I cannot see through the problem when I rented it??