Chef Lee Chinese Restaurant

Today is my 4th day working in the restaruant after I graduated with 2 master degree in August. What have I done so far are that I broke one glass, fell once like flying squirlle while holding a tray on the slippery floor while walking into kitchen, ordered couple wrong entrees, and made customers waited for a to-go box for about 10 minutes and so on. Good! What is going to happen next...and next..

The New World

I have been thinking about writing a narrowtive about Carey. I met Carey while I was in Texas working on my master degree. He was working on his too. In my view, he is a true artist, photographer, and a friend with funs. Talking with Carey makes you feel that you were filmed by him. This might be a little too abstracted. But if you have seen his graduate thesis video about the forestry story, you will know what I mean. In this short historical documentary, he interviewed the people from Roosevelt's Tree Army. When those young boys who were between 18-25 age planting trees for living, they won't know how much it means to the world today. Under Roosevelt's Tree Army, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was designed to reduce unemployment while also conserving natural resources. The CCC changed the lives of several million people, along with Big Bend National Park in Texas.
In the film, these unmarried "young boys" are now covering with grey hair, wearing reading glasses and singing song with guitar on racking chair on porch. The story starts with the some black and white pictures showing young men planting tree in the wild then comes with the aside speaking of different people's memories. The audiens were seem to stand in the wild with those young men planting tree. There were some laughting, sweating, and singing. The story ended with an old man singing with giutar. I was so touched.
When I know that Carey is going to be part of a hollywood movie, I was so excited and happy for him. I know he will make it. He was just coming back from Mongolia filming a short film. The movie maker informed him to work in Virginia and he went for about 6 months. As he came back, I was shared some fun stories about Ferrel Colin, the director and so on. Life is fun when you have stories to share with firends.
The movie is my type of movie. I like indian legends and all kind of things about native american. It is kind of mysterious and taboo. I know that I will definately enjoy the movie and think of Carey!

Finding a job in New York City

New York City is crazy as Van Gogh. This is how I would put it in my own dictionary. Last week I went to the National Career Fair in Holiday Inn at NYC. My aunt lives in Massapequa, Long Island, thus I commuted from her house to the city almost everyday. The first day was not fun at all. I took the midnight run away bus at 1am and arrived at Chinatown at 7am. The girl next seat was talking on the phone all the way. No need to say, I almost hit her with my high heel. (I was grummpy being forcing to listen her conversation with her family). About the high heel, I had the job fair to go at 11am in the city so I was all dressing up while riding the bus.

New York, where I should start with the story. Oh, the job fair was so crowded when I got there. The line just to get into the fair was long and made me feel like to knock everybody down to get to the frist in line since I haven't slept on the bus last night. I was tired, sleepy and had two blisters on my foot. I heistated if I wanted to join the line. I went down stair to the lobby and sat on the sofa just trying to relax a little bit. About an hour, I decided not to go in and went to the public library. There is a job information center in the library. So I wrote down some information and got on the train to my aunt's.

My leg was hurting me because of the new boot and I walked a lot between avenues and streets. I needed to go to Columbia University Medical Center to check out some job position and maybe tried to introduce myself to people. It was really a nice and well-equipted from my view. The hospital itself is near the riverside and you could see the Wasington Bridge. I think it would be cool to work there so I sent my resumes to different department online (it is the only way to apply for their job).

While walking on NYC, I felt like I was just a small fish amont the school. People are from different backgrounds. Skyscrapers, tourists, and venders this is the most metropolitan city in the world I was thinking this myself. Do people really live here or people just exist here for the most golden period in their life?

This time, I walked one step further about finding a job in NYC. I think it is enough for this time. Next month, I need to do something more and maybe I need to be more aggressive. "Here is New York!" as everybody says.