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Name: Miranda
Birthday: January 19th
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Currently living in: USA Fav. Colours: sky blue, neon green, super light purple Language: Mandarin Chinese, English, Taiwanese, and trying to learn Cantonese Hobby: blogging,eating, playing piano, listening to music idk, badminton, looking up hot guys. Likes:
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Saturday, July 22, 2017
11:44 PM
First week
Today marks the end of my first week working. It's been alright, but honestly, is getting slightly 悶 at times. The most interesting parts are actually when interacting with people. More specifically, when I need to look up a product for them. That's the thing I feel most comfortable with right now, other tasks that customers ask for low key freaks me out. Mostly because I'm still so new and don't know the store layout all that well yet. But it's been a fine first week.
Co-workers are all really nice, and CL & MH also work there.
I've been closing a lot this week, and tbh don't like it. There's so much to do :(
My legs are also very tired, esp today.
2 days ago I got to close the store with MH, and that was nice tho cuz someone to talk to while closing lol, made it more tolerable. Also I felt very comfortable asking her questions. She's legit helped me a lot and has trained me better than my manager/trainer in some aspects (the important ones). For example, telling me more about checking schedule online and checking payroll info online. Won't blame my trainer too much because well she's pretty new too (kind of don't understand why 她train我if她自己也是新人???)
Interesting thing happened yesterday when we encountered a 情侶that偷東西.
I was actually slightly scared at some points. Anyways, they successfully 偷走一雙
right in front of us. literally right in front, but because we're not suppose to do anything about it
(to avoid dangers of confrontation??), they got away
Thought that was fairly interesting but others seem to have experienced it several times already
Today, one of my mom's friend came in stores and came up to me but I didn't recognize/know him at all, and was slightly slightly slightly creeped out a little. Mom also seemed to have told him quite a lot about me..sigh. The most 奇怪would prob that he asked for 自拍, which I was kinda like hmm...
but i mean, couldn't say no?
Another thing, mom's friend and her daughter from taiwan came on Wed the 19th. Once again, more guests as if _____ wasn't enough already. Literally le sigh. Seriously annoyed at the situation, not because of the people itself, but because of the situation in the house. I just want this house to be just us, it's something so simple, yet I don't remember the last time when it was just us. Not gonna lie, I hate sharing a living space with others. I guess that also played a role into why I'd never want to room with someone I'm close with in college, cuz I'd legit have no privacy.
Though I am living with others in a dorm, they're not people I've known for a long time, so I actually feel that I have alone me time.
Another thing, I feel like time is passing by so fast. It's already 7/22, and then school is gonna come before I know it. I feel like I'm always worrying about the future sigh.
In terms of watching dramas, I've been watching 花甲男孩轉大人and 賭城群英會.
賭城was bad at first but it has gotten better. Definitely tolerable.
花甲 was such a hit; I wasn't that interested at first tbh, but it was discussed a lot, and after seeing that it was only 7 episodes long, I decided to give it a shot. And man, I'm soooo glad I did, cuz it really is good. It's also very local, I like that feeling. Connecting back to the roots.
It's so real, which makes me think a lot, which makes me depressed af tbh.
Not gonna lie, had a nervous breakdown yesterday(?) and just cried. I think it can be attributed to a bit of everything. Worrying about the future, then watching the drama, which made me worry more, and then the situation at home right now. I just don't feel like I am at peace. At this point, seems as if my room, with the doors locked, is my only sanctuary. Oh, and at night. Definitely at night when everyone is quietly asleep. I sometimes wanna blast music on my speakers during this time. One to enjoy the music, but two, wanted some form of rebellion against the outsiders in my house. But I guess I can't do that...
That reminds me, Linkin Park's lead vocal Chester Bennington passed away 2 days ago. I was surprised, because Linkin Park was definitely a band I listened to in the 2000s, late elementary to middle school days. Music those days were the real shit. Him passing away was almost like..., like I have to let go of the past.
Speaking of so, was [finally] cleaning out my room before the guests came, and was getting rid of clothes. And cleaning them out brought so much memories, because each piece triggered some memories. Some impressions of who/where they came from, and maybe some scenarios where I wore them. A lot of them were from my cousins, and so I was def hesitant to throw them out, but this is the most firm/determined I've been to get rid of them. So that was another instance of letting go.
Must say, been quite an eventful week...
[203rd day of 2017: 6/10]
Thursday, July 13, 2017
11:30 PM
Job!
After a month (since school ended?) of looking for a job, finally found one after sending in countless resumes and cover letters. I remember 380 prof said something along lines of you apply to 10, will only get interview for ___, and for ____ (that amount), you will actually only get one. something liek that, idk. forgot the numbers.but anyways, it's kinda true. cuz for the countless ones I applied to, got interviews for 3, rejected to 2, and finally got one in the end. For this one that I finally got, I forgot which day I applied, but my phone interview was on Sat (7/ 8), and got call back Mon (7/10). After filling out some online paperwork, and another call, finally went in stores today to meet the manager and complete the rest of the I-9 form, where I provided identification.
Surprised to see that C.L also works there. But actually, now thinking about it, I do have some faint memories of seeing it on Facebook I think. Haven't talked to her in so long, but it's nice having someone I know. Manager was really nice so that's swell.
My training begins Sat. Also will train/work all next week except Sun and Wed. Most of these end at start and end late (10pm). Not too excited about ending at 10pm, but I think I'll be ok though.
Hope all goes well!
I've been playing the piano a lot these days, like around 3 - 4 hours per day (except weekends). Mostly because I have nothing else better to do (jk, I realllly need to clean my room), but also because it really gets so addicting when you're playing something you enjoy. I can finally play 洗衣機 all the way through (been some time since I've played a whole piece lmao), and also got the chorus of 黃昏 down, not trying to slowly figure out the rest. Also been trying out 伴奏 stuff. For that, I have the chorus of 如果我們不曾相遇 down.
Besides piano, also really just been into music in general. Not that I wasn't into music before lol but I feel like I've been paying more attention to the whole composition. The arrangement and stuff.
I don't know why, maybe because I haven't been doing anything these days, but I keep wanting to start new projects. And they all kind of involve the creative aspect. For example, tried to code my own portfolio (even though I have no 'real' works lol) earlier, but have kinda put that aside...Definitely need more motivation to finish that.
Another thing I wanna try but have not started yet is some simple/minimalistic/modernism graphic design related stuff.
And one last thing is something I've just started putting down on physical form yesterday. Hopefully I can finish or at least have a rough draft before I run out of motivation. I've done this before, got some solid parts down, but lost the motivation, and then couldn't find the file on my [old] computer, so that's completely lost, and I absolutely can't remember any part of it. So yeah, starting another one of that.
Also kinda scary to see it's already about halfway through July...school's gonna come faster than I know it. Time passes way too fast. In 6 months and 5 days I will also no longer be a teenager. Honestly hella scary to think of that. Everytime I think about the future, and how much I have to accomplish in the very near future, scares me very badly. There's just so much change that will happen in these years to come, and thus so much uncertainty. As if I have no control over my own life...
[195th day of 2017: 7/10]