March 3, 2002

3:23 PM » This page will be on hiatus, pending a re-design and migration to our new domain: goldensushi.net -- stay tuned!  !

March 2, 2002

8:47 AM » This article was published in the San Francisco Examiner on the 27th.  I just received it today in my inbox, courtesy of my friend Pia.  I suppose as a group we (as in we -- Filipino immigrants in the the US) aren't doing too bad.  In Wichita actually, the Filipino community is thriving.  We have large soirées and take every opportunity we get to have a party.  Hosting a party (complete with food and dancing) is the all-time favorite pass-time of Filipino Wichitans.  Brian and I are getting to be the same way.  We love having company over and hosting dinner parties and such.  I'm hoping that we'll be done with our living room in time for the nice weather because I'm really wanting to have people over already..  Of course, I can't because the house is such a mess.

In other news, Spiegel Group continues to lose money.  Revenues continue to decline.  As a result, Spiegel Group (which owns Eddie Bauer also) will be closing 45 of its almost 500 Eddie Bauer retail stores.  The stores affected are the ones which have not been performing well.  Plans to open five new Eddie Bauer retail stores are still in progress.  My thoughts?  If the 45 stores were not performing well, why didn't they get closed years ago?  Anyway, in addition to closing some stores, Spiegel Group will also sell First Consumers National Bank (FCNB -- their credit business) in order to refocus on retail.  From the numbers mentioned in the article, I'm thinking that FCNB is losing money and it's losing money really badly.  It's kind of an infected limb.  You have to amputate it before it gets any worse.  Since it's giving me, a layman and innocent bystander, this impression -- I'm thinking to myself who in their right mind would want to buy this piece of shit company?!  The deal stinks like an overloaded septic tank.

I guess I should worry that I may be in danger of losing my job.  After all, the company continues to lose money.  We are sinking and we're sinking really fast.  There are so many holes to patch, you don't even know where to begin.  That's the impression that I get, anyhow.  Of course, I keep these thoughts to myself at work.  I wouldn't want to cause any more panic than is already there in the hearts of my co-workers.

I'm not a worrier, though.  My mantra: everything will turn out okay in the end.  !

8:29 AM » The end of the vast number of GeoCities hosted weblogs is finally here.  At least, the free hosting anyway.  I got an email from GeoCities about this change in policy the other day.  I guess they're finding out that blogs eat up a whole lot of bandwidth and they're wanting to -- not so much put an end to it but -- reduce the number they house.  They are doing this eliminating the FTP capability of free hosting clients.  Cheap, broke-ass people such as myself.  This takes effect on the 2nd of April, according to the email that I received.  It means I only have a month to think of a strategy.  Since I'm super-duper lazy (can't you tell?) I refuse to relocate this entangled mess of pages.  I'm thinking of just starting fresh.  What about you all?  Got any suggestions for me?  !

March 1, 2002

7:48 PM » It's time again for the famous Friday Five..

1. What's your favorite vacation spot?  I've never really vacationed as a grown-up.  When I was growing up in the Philippines, I used to vacation in my grandmother's village every summer as soon as school let out.  There are some very beautiful secluded location there.  I hope to bring Brian and share them with him someday.  We plan to honeymoon in Belize come August.  I think that will be my favorite vacation spot.

2. Where do you consider to be the biggest hell-hole on earth?  Wichita.  It's boring and the night-life is non-existent.

3. What would be your dream vacation?  Any secluded resort where Brian and I can relax and not worry about other people.  Yes.  We're kind of anti-social.

4. If you could go on a road-trip with anyone, who would it be and why?  Brian doesn't like road-trips!  If I went, I'd have to leave him.  And that's not going to happen.  So I guess, I can kiss my chances of going on a road-trip in this lifetime goodbye.

5. What are your plans for this weekend?  Sunday: nothing.  Monday: Brian has to testify in traffic court for a couple of handicap parking violation tickets that he wrote a while back.  After that, we're going to go over to mom's house and check out her new dining room funiture.  Also to borrow her karaoke microphone.  It's really neat!  It's got hundreds of songs programmed into chips built into the microphone itself.  You don't need any kind of receiver or CDs or anything -- just hook-up the mic to the TV and you're good to go.  Cool, huh?

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