A Little Voice

Bobs is obsessed with Sara Bareilles' album, "A Little Voice". I got this album playing over and over while drowning the ambient noises at the Phoenix office. During college, the ambient noises are generally just the fans of the computers or the buzzing noises from the lights above. Nowadays at the Phoenix office, it's cell phones ringing/vibrating, or a coworker singing, telling a story, bouncing, clapping his fist, etc. I mean, I love the collegial atmosphere, but it's happening all the time, constantly, 24/7. I need to get in the zone when I develop, or else I lose my thoughts and need start them over.

Well, back to this frickin' awesome album. I'm addicted to her voice (also doesn't hurt that she's hot). Her lyrics are amazing and not the cliche words like "I don't want you back" or "I can't live without" blabber. Her single, "Love Song" is bouncy, which led me to download the entire album. I would normally never even attempt to get albums like this, but I have my great Zune Card (Zunetastic!!) where I have unlimited downloads. So with that, I tried it out, I downloaded the entire album and listened to every song. Afterwards, I put it on repeat.

Get the album, if not, listen to "Love Song", "City", and "Gravity". Gravity is my drop down favorite. All I can say, WOW...

Time to fly, take care!

Zune-tastic

Bobs has just purchased a Zune (2nd gen). I love everything about it. It doesn't go "WEEEE" like the iTouch does (as Jenn demonstrated), but it does have 80 gigs and a subscription service to get random albums that I'd probably never get. I'll have some trouble filling the 80 gigs, but it's a nice to have.

The interface is frickin awesome, but the touch scroll isn't as smooth compared to the iPod. I got to be faithful to Avanade and Microsoft though, and I'll wait for the possibility of a Zune Phone.

I was shopping for the Zune awhile ago and people were sending me links to some sales that were out. They were selling the smaller Zune for $99. Funny thing is, the sale only applied to the dooky brown Zune. Come on guys, why would you make a Zune in that color and not BLUE! I would rather spend the extra hundred to get a better color than to get a dooky brown one on sale.

Bobs is currently waiting for a standby flight to SFO, I hope I can jump on this one. Later!

Round Asian Guy

Bobs has a fellow Vietnamese coworker, named Quoc. During an afternoon lunch at Zen32, we chill and chat and he goes, "Everyone likes you because you're a round asian guy." How is one supposed to respond to that? First thing that comes to mind is, "Are you calling me fat?!?!?!"

The long explanation goes, in Vietnamese, there's a term that you use to say, "Oh, your baby is so cute" blah blah. Mat Trong is the word, which literally means, round face. So, generally cute babies are the ones that are chubby. So yeah...he's saying I'm fat. 150 lbs, 5' 8'' fat round asian kid nicknamed Chubs, oh yeah!

Thanksgiving Weekend

Bobs had a great Thanksgiving weekend. 3 Thanksgiving dinners, one with the family, one with the Richmond crew, and one with the old High School gang. Bobs made stuffing for the first time ever. I ripped the recipe from one of my favorite cooks on the Food Network, Robert Irvine, it was a Cranberry Apple Stuffing. Bobs wishes he took a picture because it looked as good as it tasted. Contrast in color, texture and flavor being salty and tart. F0ck am I awesome.

I also watched Iron Chef America with Robert Irvine and Tyler Florence vs. Iron Chef Cora and Paula Dean. I was rooting for the guys, because whenever you put chocolate fudge and processed cheese together, you should lose automatically. Should I also mention that my sister is in love with Tyler? Ya, who could blame her, his hair is insanely stylish.


What else did Bobs do? Well, I got this pimp hat, what an achievement. Yes I know, I'm such a f0ckin loser. It's what I love and do though, don't mess with me.

This is from my current addiction, Final Fantasy XI. This is Bobs, the Red Mage who hangs out in an all Vietnamese crew (ya, it's odd). They like to say lots of profanity, which is why I love those guys. One of the member's name is Cuden. It means black dick in vietnamese (no, he's not an African American). I have a mule character who I will name Cuxiu, which means tiny dick, LOLOLOL. We have one girl member who puts up with all our shit too.


This is my recluse.

My First Blog

This will my first attempt to blog. Feeble as it may be, I was suggested by my company, Avanade, that I should start one. Being in technology and all, I thought that I'd might as well get my hands a little dirty. I wonder what I should blog about. Here is a list that I have devised, you will notice how much of a dork I am, please refrain from laughing:

1. Technology and/or Avanade
   
2. Final Fantasy XI or other video games
3. My crappy life
4. How good the Sonics Drive-In is despite the fact that I've never eaten there

And I must note that I love my company, I've been working in the consulting industry for 3+ years and while working with Accenture Technology Solutions, I was constantly unhappy and pissed off. My coworkers may have heard me constantly say that I would like to "knee someone in the face". It is true, I was angry. Moving over to Avanade, I have no complaints whatsoever. I love the people, the work I still do, and the exposure I can get even w/o being at the centralized office in Seattle.

We had our Flyback about two weeks ago, which is a West Region get together, and I had the greatest time ever, even the seminars that they presented were incredible. It's nice to speak to people in your company that can actually SPEAK english without you saying, "Huh?!" or "What?!"

Well, I should shutdown and catch my flight home from Phoenix, Happy Thanksgiving Yall! GO COWBOYS!!