in anticipation for Boston

Hey all, I'm back.

I guess there isn't much to say. or will there. i might end up coming up with a super long entry, or if the chain of thoughts in my mind suddenly stops, i will stop blogging.

i'll be going over to boston over the independence day weekend, and i have taken the tuesday off so that i can spend more time with relatives i havent seen in ages. sheesh, i miss boston, i don't think ive been there since... 2001? its gonna be great seeing my cousins again. plus, Pamela will be there too!

ive been downloading a whole bunch of stuff off bit torrent lately, and boy am i glad. with the demise of i2hub, my download source was cut off, but with bit torrent, im back to hunting. though searching for torrent files can be a pain. there might not be enough people sharing the file that i want. nevertheless, its a way to get files i want. ive downloaded way too many things that i need to start clearing out stuff from my ipod. i thought i cleared out enough stuff that i dont listen, but apparantly that wasnt enough. i have roughly less than 2GB left, and i gotta be careful. i downloaded and completed all of oasis, sarah mclachlan, radiohead, travis and many more that i can't recall. since i listen to my ipod for 2 solid hours each day while commuting to and from work, i can check out the stuff that i like and delete the ones that i dont think i will be listening to. even then, that's a lot of songs. i want to have enough space left so that when i decide to transfer huge files like a number of divx movies, i wont have any problems.

this weekend was a complete waste. i hate not knowing whats going to happen, and the weekend was more or less wasted on waiting for other people to get ready or decide where to go. half of summer is gone and i really think that the weekend can be utilized much better. i have finished watching the first 3 seasons of seinfeld, so i think i better move on to watching the movies that have been in my powerbook since last semester. i have some great independents there, and ive been yearning to catch them. thats what im lacking this summer, some great movies.

ive been putting a lot of effort into work lately that by the end of the day, im mentally drained. most of the mini projects that i was in charge of is more or less done, or now in the hands of someone else before coming back to me. soon enough, i will be back in school, this time, putting what i learned into application, which should prove to be beneficial.

ive bought some books via ebay, which will hopefully give me more insight into the supply chain/logistics industry. there are couple of approaches to business, of which two have caught my attention. one is known very well in the industry as 'six sigma' which is basically a rigorous product quality test, from various stages of production, leading all the way from the beginning til the end, which should lead the number of defective products (or processes) to about 3.4 per million opportunities. a very fascinating concept, but one that is extremely hard to on-board and implement. another one is 'lean' which is to banish waste and maximize productivity. it is fairly more easier to understand, i assume, but one that is also hard. the book that i bought concentrates solely on toyota and how they managed to be so successful in mass manufacturing affordable, yet reliable cars rapidly world wide. im very much into the concepts that are discussed and hopefully i will be able to self teach some of these principles.

alright, i guess my chain of thoughts has run out now, which means its the end of this post.