Day 3 at Twi*****e

I finished day 3 at this new job. Now I understand why I always compose a post on day 3 at a new job even though I wanted to post about it since day 1.

It was very stressful on day 1 because there were so many information to swallow, metting new people, learning new technologies, trying to understand new systems... I thought I couldn't do most of the things that I was supposed to do. That night was also a stressful night. I couldn't even smile after work... hehe

The second day was better. I was stressed on the way to work but I could finish a project which had a due date in at least 2 days! I finished it in a day and reported to the development team. I felt much better

The hunt for an apartment

Well, it's not really for an apartment but a cottage would be ideal. It's very limited for us to find a nice place since most of the nice places do check for my credit score. As you may guess, my credit score is not high. I didn't find out until the day I bought a car and the dealer showed me my score. There was a T-mobile bill of $88 that I didn't even remember exists. An $124 AT&T bill since 2006. All these bills came after I moved or changed to different number. I'm not rambling away from it's my fault not paying the bills. They even sent them to the collection services. Jesus.

I am working on paying them off and building up my score. With a stable job and a higher-than-average salary (in my industry and my skill level), I believe I can easily finish this task in about a year or at most two.

Anyways, I've been finishing my last weeks here at Gam**** and getting ready to move our stuff to the Bay Area while my wife was driving around the bay and looking for places for us to live. I admit it's a tough job for her since she's been struggling with communicating with people since the day she came here. She's getting much much better. Sometimes she even takes over my 'talk' duty. She loves to control but that's another long story. All in all, she did a very good job and found us a place to live! I gave her a super good massage today and when I say good, I mean it because she was moaning then she felt into a deep sleep while I was working on her back and legs. I couldn't wake her up to brush teeth...

This apartment (no, not a cottage - maybe next year or next next year) does allow pets. So we are very excited to look for a dog and a kitten.

not the new apartment - our family's house - but i wanna give
our new living room a warm atmosphere like this...

About my job, I've been reading the material for the new job but with my busy schedule these weeks, seriously I am not that committed even though I am very very excited to learn about the new computer language that I will be using.

Tomorrow is my last day at Gama***. There will be another post for that.

I'm going to try hard to wake my wife up again to brush teeth so that I can sleep..

Got a new job in San Francisco!

I have been looking for jobs for a while and got rejected by many companies until I got an offer from the 'first' company by which I was interviewed last trip to SF. Wow. I thought they wouldn't even call me back. They indeed contacted me back a week later and offered me a job with a decent starting salary and benefits plus 3 weeks paid vacation a year, plus an annual salary review!

So I will start working there starting on the 22nd this month. I talked to my current boss and asked for a flexible notice duration so I could leave the job on the 19th.

The next step is to find a place to live. I'm driving north this weekend to look for it.

Everything seems to fall into place. What else could I ask for?

Thank you, Holy spirits to whom I pray!!

Nam Mo Dai Tu Dai Bi Cuu Kho Cuu Nan Quan The Am Bo Tat.