... in response to Jollibee is PEOPLE!!!, posted by Ray on Feb 12, 2002Hello Ray
Nice to hear from you! If I make it down to Long Beach or if I take another jaunt down to San Diego (Which is tempting) I will try to locate the Jollibees. Do you think that they put the saugar in the burgers here to apease the filipino community or do they go main stream and leave it out to appeal to everybody else?
As for the Far East I am working on that project ever so slowly but I am thinking about it every day.
I have been looking through pastry courses that were being taught for this year. When I noticed that these 2 sugar courses were being taught back to back and in Las Vegas (driving distance and we have a hotel there where I can hopefully stay for free) The opportunity is too good to pass up. I have been wanting to take these sugar classes for the last 5 years or so and they will teach me a skill that definately will make my salary improve if I can become somewhat proficient in them. So I will have to allocate a week of vacation time to take these courses.
Obviously afer 9/11 the job market took a nose dive. and the part time job market never materialized for me. One of my coworkers just left and the other girl who does the wedding cakes is pregnant and will have to leave so I will start to train with her and do wedding cakes. I also will start some supervisory development (management training) classes in March. Since we are short staffed maybe I will have the opportunity for getting overtime. I have reasoned it will be ultimately better for me to use my time to focus on my skills and training for the long run than to get a part time job flipping burgers or baking dog biscuits ha ha ha for the short term though I could use the extra money.
My plan is to save up money and more vacation time for the fall or winter when I will have 2 more weeks saved and maybe take a week off without pay and take a trip to Japan. Then I can hopefully stay at the Four Seasons property in Tokyo for a few days for free also. I am working on building up a network of penpals in different locations who I can get together with.
Now you might say why don't I go to the phillipines instead because it will be cheaper. First of all I have had much more interaction with the Japanese and I am also researching the possibilities of working abroad and I think that Japan will will provide a much better market for my skills but maybe I am wrong.
On the home front I am trying to get something cooking with a Japanese older woman (5 months ha ha ha) who is living in Glendale she has just moved here to study to be a drug and alchohol counselor. so I am a little optimistic about that possibility. we are e-mailing a couple times a week and she is open to me driving down to meet her when we can arrange it. but as is the case usually I have not seen her picture yet. Don't worry I know your philosophy on that ha ha ha ha!
That's about it for me. I will have to tighten the belt financially and I want to do some beach walking every other day so maybe I can tighten the belt physically a notch or too also ha ha ha. I might as well enjoy the sun and the t-shirt weather like yesterday and today while I am here in california. these hibernation habits from the East coast are hard to shed esspecially when I have no excuse for having them here.
Windmill Boy
