4/11/2006
Exactly 10 more days to go before I bid work au revoir. The hardest thing is saying goodbye to my co-workers with whom I have gone through a lot of thick and thin. I will miss those lunches, happy hour, maybe a little of the 36 non-stop work hours that we often pull when things got escalated and yes, those annual ski trip to Tahoe.
As a matter of fact, we had just had our third annual ski trip to Tahoe this past weekend. We rented a nice cabin to house all 15 of us. I was never into ski but I would never miss this trip because it's fun. I not only got to know my co-workers better but also their SO. This time though, I fell in love with skiing coz i finally know how to brake and make a turn !!(finally....after all these years struggling) thanks to my personal coach a.k.a boyfriend.
He's a bit "ruthless" when it came to giving a lesson (yeah my co-worker warned me about not taking lesson from your own SO). When I fell, he would not try to help me get up and he's not very cuddly on the slope. Instead, he shouted "move your leg counter clockwise !!" or "throw your butt sideway" and much more which frustrated me. But his military style worked....On my part, I was a stubborn student and often talked back "this method doesn't make sense so I won't follow it" Good lord, we still had fun :)
Thankfully, work is getting slow. I am mostly wrapping up projects, passing down stuffs to whoever taking over my duty, saying goodbye left and right. People are envious about my departure from semiconductor world for good...though economy is up, this once exciting industry is no longer exciting, so people are trying to exit whenever they can. Praise God for my golden exit ticket :)
As a matter of fact, we had just had our third annual ski trip to Tahoe this past weekend. We rented a nice cabin to house all 15 of us. I was never into ski but I would never miss this trip because it's fun. I not only got to know my co-workers better but also their SO. This time though, I fell in love with skiing coz i finally know how to brake and make a turn !!(finally....after all these years struggling) thanks to my personal coach a.k.a boyfriend.
He's a bit "ruthless" when it came to giving a lesson (yeah my co-worker warned me about not taking lesson from your own SO). When I fell, he would not try to help me get up and he's not very cuddly on the slope. Instead, he shouted "move your leg counter clockwise !!" or "throw your butt sideway" and much more which frustrated me. But his military style worked....On my part, I was a stubborn student and often talked back "this method doesn't make sense so I won't follow it" Good lord, we still had fun :)
Thankfully, work is getting slow. I am mostly wrapping up projects, passing down stuffs to whoever taking over my duty, saying goodbye left and right. People are envious about my departure from semiconductor world for good...though economy is up, this once exciting industry is no longer exciting, so people are trying to exit whenever they can. Praise God for my golden exit ticket :)
posted by hokidoki | 9:46 PM
2 Comments:
Oh my. Sounds just like what my own bf would say! And then he'd yell at how stubborn I was. lol. But it's good to know our men aren't soft, right? ;-)
But that's great you're done with work! I want to be done too. What are your plans until school starts?Right now, I'm probably leaving the bay area. I want no regrets in the end, so I'm taking my time with the decision.
Tahoe is amazing. Fortunately you get to stick around the Bay Area and enjoy skiing next season
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