They are really comfortable and so unique. Would college girls in the US want to wear them?
Photos are courtesy of NoConcept, the original shoe retailers.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
A very interesting project - Collectable Shoes
They are really comfortable and so unique. Would college girls in the US want to wear them?
Photos are courtesy of NoConcept, the original shoe retailers.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Green Card Interview - painful 4 hours...
"Green card? I thought you were getting certified to be an organic farmer!" said one of my co-workers who heard where I was going today. I wish I were getting certified to be a green farmer...
After quite a long battle with the green card application process, it finally came to this day - the interview. All my knowledge of the Green Card interview came from the movie "Proposal." (If you haven't seen it, you have to! Lots of it was shot in New England!) I gathered all my documents to prove that my husband and I got married because we actually LOVE each other (which by itself is very tough already) and gathered my husband to go to the JFK federal building in Government Center today. After security check and long hall ways, we were faced with a rather unfriendly lady sitting behind the desk. Great first impression...
Out appointment was at 1:30pm and we arrived promptly at 1:15pm. We were told by the rather unfriendly lady to go take a seat along side with two dozen others in the room. The clock ticked and time slipped away, it was 1:30pm - no call, 2:00pm...still NOTHING. Even some couples who were accompanied by their lawyers that have arrived later than us have already got called into the secret chamber but not us. I was getting really agitated and annoyed...Why do I have to be here on time but then you would just keep me waiting for more than an hour! (ok, so this is a general complaint even when I go see my doctors.)
Finally, close to 2:20pm, we were finally invited into the secret chamber which was in fact a long hall way with dozens of small offices. We were asked to make an oath first to promise all we say is true. Then the officer asked me a series of questions that I had to answer with my serious expression. I had to try hard not to appear contempt, but the questions are such a waste of time...The legitimate ones include "How did you guys meet?" "How long did you date?" "What's your married name?" and that's it. Everything else is "Have you ever been arrested, have you been involved in brutality, have you ever trafficked drugs, will you try to hurt the United States (ie. will you become a terrorist?)" One question- have you ever profited from illegal gaming? I almost burst out laughing...and thinking to myself, yea right, I would ever be able to make money gambling...(Jon said less than 2 sentences during the whole time)
Anyways, the whole ridiculous interview process took maybe 10-15 minutes and we were again asked to wait outside. 2:35pm, I continued to sit in my spot, read and waited. Another hour has passed, I finally got a piece of paper that states that I need to re-petition in two years to remove my "conditional" status. Oh, and after waiting for an hour for the piece of paper which I imagine standard for every applicant, there is a big typo of my name on it. I was horrified by the thought that I needed to wait any longer so that they could fix the typo issue. Luckily that piece of paper isn't that important after all so there's no need to change the typo. (THEN WHY IN THE WORLD DID I SPEND ANOTHER HOUR + WAITING FOR IT?) I left the government center around 4pm. There goes my day...
Bottom line- I am glad that I don't need to think about this for another two years. And two benefits that I am actually quite excited about are a) I can finally go through the "other" lane when I enter the customs b) I can go to Canada with the Green Card, no need for visa! yay...
One last PS: the officer who interviewed us was actually really nice. He told us while we were departing his office that he lived in Taiwan for a year, in "Tien-Mou." I had to gasp when I heard that...It was 1986...when I was 3 years old, this officer was hanging out in my neighborhood. This is crazy!
After quite a long battle with the green card application process, it finally came to this day - the interview. All my knowledge of the Green Card interview came from the movie "Proposal." (If you haven't seen it, you have to! Lots of it was shot in New England!) I gathered all my documents to prove that my husband and I got married because we actually LOVE each other (which by itself is very tough already) and gathered my husband to go to the JFK federal building in Government Center today. After security check and long hall ways, we were faced with a rather unfriendly lady sitting behind the desk. Great first impression...
Finally, close to 2:20pm, we were finally invited into the secret chamber which was in fact a long hall way with dozens of small offices. We were asked to make an oath first to promise all we say is true. Then the officer asked me a series of questions that I had to answer with my serious expression. I had to try hard not to appear contempt, but the questions are such a waste of time...The legitimate ones include "How did you guys meet?" "How long did you date?" "What's your married name?" and that's it. Everything else is "Have you ever been arrested, have you been involved in brutality, have you ever trafficked drugs, will you try to hurt the United States (ie. will you become a terrorist?)" One question- have you ever profited from illegal gaming? I almost burst out laughing...and thinking to myself, yea right, I would ever be able to make money gambling...(Jon said less than 2 sentences during the whole time)
Anyways, the whole ridiculous interview process took maybe 10-15 minutes and we were again asked to wait outside. 2:35pm, I continued to sit in my spot, read and waited. Another hour has passed, I finally got a piece of paper that states that I need to re-petition in two years to remove my "conditional" status. Oh, and after waiting for an hour for the piece of paper which I imagine standard for every applicant, there is a big typo of my name on it. I was horrified by the thought that I needed to wait any longer so that they could fix the typo issue. Luckily that piece of paper isn't that important after all so there's no need to change the typo. (THEN WHY IN THE WORLD DID I SPEND ANOTHER HOUR + WAITING FOR IT?) I left the government center around 4pm. There goes my day...
Bottom line- I am glad that I don't need to think about this for another two years. And two benefits that I am actually quite excited about are a) I can finally go through the "other" lane when I enter the customs b) I can go to Canada with the Green Card, no need for visa! yay...
One last PS: the officer who interviewed us was actually really nice. He told us while we were departing his office that he lived in Taiwan for a year, in "Tien-Mou." I had to gasp when I heard that...It was 1986...when I was 3 years old, this officer was hanging out in my neighborhood. This is crazy!
Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Since I am a big nerd, I am having so much fun digging through Google Analytics!
1. Since I launched/advertised my blog on Facebook last night, more than 31 friends have kindly visited my blog and they are from all over the world! (see the Map on top - countries of origin include US, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden, Hong Kong, Canada and Japan and that can be translated into 20 different cities! )
2. Although the average time people spent on my blog is 5:36 minutes, most people visited and exited my site in less than 10 seconds!! (Really!? This is like a Flash Mob!)
3. One person flipped through 15 different pages on my tiny little blog - who could that be? - oh wait, it's probably me!! Ha
4. I got a good amount of visits from 三重 in Taiwan! and there was also one visit via iPhone! Cool stuff.
Maintaining a blog and learning Google Analytics are both very new to me! This is really fun. :)
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Cake decorating class final project
It had never occurred to me before that I could create/bake something so beautiful. I baked this cake from scratch, iced the surface, made the roses and everything! It was not as hard as I thought although I have to say that the up-front investment in acquiring all the tools was a bit higher than I thought. The instructor said that the best way to practice is to always bring a cake to whoever's potluck party you go to. I think that's what I am going to do.
ps. It's devil's food cake underneath- chocolate chocolate and chocolate!!
Now, this is the one I made last week - you can definitely see it's more rudimentary. But since it's my first baby, it's still very special. FYI- I am planning to make a chocolate chip pecan pie next week!
Learning Google Analytics
Today I want to set up a Google Analytics account and start learning about how to analyze traffic, source, bounce rate and all that fun stuff on my own website. So I started a blog, which is long overdue, since everyone in the modern world has a least one blog that they actively manage. So here it is. My First Step.
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