Laurinda
  • Area of Law: Real Estate, Corporate, International
  • Hometown: Medford, MA
  • Student Activities: Co-Chair of Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, International Law Society, Phi Alpha Delta
  • Hobbies & Interests: Reading, swimming, dancing
  • Undergraduate School:Brandeis University
  • Undergraduate Major:Politics and Economics
  • Undergraduate Year of Graduation: 2006

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January 30, 2009

New Year Resolutions

January 1 is the date that the world celebrates the New Year. Asian countries can be seen counting down. I was watching the Taiwan news and watched the spectacular fireworks sparking from 101 Taipei. Still, many Asians also celebrate the Lunar New Year. (Twice the fun! This year it was on Monday.

In China, the Lunar New Year is an almost three week celebration of food, festivities, and family. However, in America, most Asians who celebrate it, just have that one day. If it is a work or school day, most who celebrate still go in.

I did although it wasn't too much of a hardship since Raytheon Tax Department threw a mini Lunar New Year lunch party. Good food, good people, and riddles!

I like to say that I am making my New Year resolutions in accordance with the Lunar New Year, but really it's because I didn't actually start keeping them until this week.

Still! My New Year Resolutions are
1. Exercise more (I am joining the millions who also claim this)
2. Be more persistent in the job search (more on this later)
3. Do not get distracted (This will be nigh impossible with facebook . . . just kidding I just needed a third resolution to make this look neat and calm my need for numerical symmetry)

January 23, 2009

My Favorite Thing About the Weekend

As you know, I've been working at Raytheon. I really like my job. I know most don't find tax the most interesting thing ever, but there are a lot of different things involved in corporate tax and working at the tax department gives me a survey of all the different credits and deductions that a corporation is involved in.

Still a work week is long and I always look forward to the weekend! My favorite part of the weekend is breakfast. I have to wake up before 7AM to get work and that usually means a cold and lonely breakfast of cereal. But on the weekend I splurge with sleeping in and hot breakfast.

Still I am not a wonder with a spatula and pan and I stick to the basics. I'm going through a sunny side up phase. It was a fried egg (cooked all way through) a few months ago, omelets before that, and inevitably when my omelet making skills failed - scrambled eggs.

Otherwise, it is Chinese New Year's on Monday!

This means that this weekend is especially important because the house needs to be made ready ... meaning lots and lots of cleaning.

A lot of cleaning. Sigh.

PS Here was a very funny article on NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/europe/23crapstone.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper