Alias Season 3 and 4 have already arrived from Amazon.co.jp. I ordered Season 5 but it hasn't arrived yet.

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I failed to get the 2006 World Volley Championship ticket. I guess I have to settle for TV.

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Frank has assigned Tiffany (a returnee and KC's ex) to help me with Product Master. My quest for new employment is at a slowdown, as expected. To make it a little more disappointing, HB asked what's the implication if I don't submit a reference, I said, it's customary. Initially he agreed to be my reference but took it back. 気持ち悪いって。 I'll open my re-negotation with him next year, I have no time for this now.

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Meanwhile, I just have to update my CV and stay focused the remainder of Dec for CRM and my NY trip. I'm also debating whether to go home for Christmas or spend a couple of snowboarding days away in Hokkaido.

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I don't know what's with the Japanese but HB has lately been trying to start conversations to me, and some of it in Japanese. I don't really want to pay attention to what he wants although it's really a challenge because we work together. He still thinks his cuteness can 'normalize' things back between us. I manage to give away a couple of smiles. What the heck, it's Christmas!

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I'd like to write something jollier and I cannot think anything better than my friend Yuri and funny, touching and heart-warming love story. She has finally found someone to touch, to hold hands, to hug and to love. Hers was a very typical highschool love affair where holding hands and going out on group dates skip a beat. Hers was a cycle of ups and downs and the 4 of us girl friends would waste away our lunch breaks disecting what is in this boy's mind. Does he really have a thing for her? Is he really interested? Will he ever really ask? Eventually we told her to take her time and enjoy the ride. Just as when she's not expecting it, the question came. She told me she cried! Ahahhaaha, bless my friend.

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My eyes get all watery and I get too mushy whenever I hear these romantic stories with happy endings. As opposed to my rollercoaster rides, I sometimes wonder if there really such a thing as happy endings...On one hand, I can hardly wait for that new beginning.

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Narita-san said that I'm looking good these days. I silently applauded myself for the masquerade. I like to close this write-up by quoting the book Emotional Intelligence

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'A main function for sadness is to adjust to a significant loss, such as death of someone close or a major disappointment. Sadness brings a drop in energy and enthusiasm for life's activities, particularly diversions and pleasures, and, as it deepens and approaches depression, slows the body's metabolism. This introspective withdrawal creates the opportunity to mourn a loss or fustrated hope, grasp its consequences for one's life, and, as energy returns, plan new beginnings. This loss of energy may well have kept saddened - and vulnerable- urging humans closer to home, where they were safer..'p8, Daniel Coleman.