Throughout the previous years when the Business Career Fair arrived at A&M, I was quick to walk past the booths on my way to class, relieved that I had lots more time before it was my turn. It always seemed so intimidating to talk to recruiters and find the perfect job in sync to your CAREER that you are (sort of) expected to do for the REST OF YOUR LIFE. How scary is that. I do have one favorite part though, and that is to see everyone looking so sharp in their business attire. This time round, it's my turn. I can't emphasize enough on how much I dislike the whole process of putting together a resume and stumbling from recruiter to recruiter, fumbling for the right words to say in hopes that their respective companies will see past the shitty GPA right into my winning personality and pay me tons. It doesn't help when the recruiters have about a thousand resumes from other hopefuls with only one position open. ONE. Ahhh, fuck it...at least I look sharp.

Unfortunately, whenever I'm stressed, I start cooking up a storm and stuffing my face into said storm. It's the Bridget Jones Syndrome. Luckily my metabolism is still intact (ohgoshpleasedon'tslowdown). But oh, how I need some Thai food right now. However, for the sake of a bangin' beach body I will resist and let my stomach eat itself during this late hour...or I'll just unconsciously eat my arm while asleep.  Right after new years in Malaysia, I headed to Thailand for some much needed R&R and man, that region never fails to amaze. I actually wrote about this trip on another site, but will do some slight editing:

While Bangkok had brilliant shopping, I had been there before so I knew what to expect. The area I was awed by was Pattaya, that was on a whole new level altogether. I lived on the strip overlooking the beach and damn, did it feel like I was in the twilight zone. There was an overabundance of people in speedos, g-strings, thong bikinis, sarongs, etc…except they were all very old, fat and happy Europeans who had decided to retire there. I saw a lot. No really, I saw A LOT. The ratio of Europeans to Thai people was like 3:1. All the signs were in English, and everyone spoke English because there were that many foreigners there. I tried picking at a selection of books at the resort but all were in German. Give me a dictionary and I’ll have a book read in about 16 years. The whole area seemed to only consist of bars, massage parlors, currency exchanges and 7-Elevens. Ah, they got the essentials right. It’s probably also the only place in the world where there are as many hookers as there are grains of sand on its beaches.

Aesthetically, the hookers didn’t impress me anywhere near the ladyboys (transsexuals) of Pattaya. We hit the Tiffany Show where it was a cabaret performing and wow. They were GORGEOUS. They put real girls to shame...until you hear their voices. Haha. Since they were formerly guys, they don’t have fat in the thighs or arms that girls are cursed with which results in some of the most toned, slender and slim bodies I have ever seen. I am so jealous! One of them looked like a fusion of Pink and Nicole Kidman. During the show, my younger brother turned to look at me to say, “I’m forgetting they’re guys.” HAHA. Apparently they were some of the prettiest girls he has ever seen.


This one was my favorite. She was sooooo beautiful and this picture does her no justice.


You see what I mean about hot bods?



Overall, my first impression was that I didn’t care much for Pattaya…until I got a Thai massage. Oh man. It was the best massage I have ever gotten in all my 21 years of existence. It's another plus that Thailand has the greatest food ever and is the country with THE nicest people I have ever encountered. Everyone is exceedingly nice, SO charming, and I absolutely love how they greet people with both palms pressed together under their noses/chins. I constantly have to suppress the urge in ordering them to bow down while they're at it. haha.

For Valentine's dinner, our hotel put on a variety show and dinner to celebrate the event. They had the bartender get on stage to dance and perform a bunch of tricks when he messed up a couple of times by accidentally throwing the beer bottles offstage into the lawn. Immediately he paused embarrassed to do the palm thing before resuming the bartending act. Awww so cute, so nice, so polite!


Another perk is that the cost of living there is ridiculously low and it makes sense why so many foreigners retire there. Heck, I’ll retire in Pattaya too and join in with the ranks of very old, fat and happy Europeans (I'll be the overweight one in the highlighter yellow Borat swimsuit). I’ll probably get hookers as well, except for different reasons:

“You there, fan me. You, foot rub. And you, tell me jokes.”


Can’t wait.

It's been a while, but I'm home baby! I've been spending the last few months traveling around Asia and will be writing about said countries and regions in the next couple of posts after a long hiatus.

...makes things taste salty.


Ironically enough, I find myself updating in the midst of an all-nighter. This will be the second one in the past three days, but it's not so bad. Compared to last semester, this is practically a holiday since that was the time I pulled 3 all nighters in a span of 5 days. I stayed in the same spot without heading home to shower, brush my teeth, or practice good hygiene (for 2 days!) and after heading outside to my car, it just felt like one extremely loooong day. Let me tell you, I looked fantastic. Finals are usually the time I start fantasizing about having the ability to mind read or control time.

While I don't have any new resolutions or clever anecdotes to say (insert random song line), there have been updates in my exciting life. EXCITING!

• I decided to stop double majoring, drop Finance and simply focus on Marketing.
  
  • I like to have a plan especially when concerning my FUTURE but sitting in FINC 434 naturally caused me to get depressed and to begin questioning if I wanted to do this for the rest of my life (The answer is no for all you quick ones). Despite realizing Mktg would better fit my personality, I chose the Financial route due to security. Ultimately, I'm going out on a whim and doing what I think I would enjoy rather than settling for a nice paycheck. Scary.
    

• Due to the exccessive free time, I got a job. Yes, you read right...I, Sarah, was working until this past Saturday when I had to quit since I am to be studying abroad next semester. I was lucky that I thoroughly enjoyed said job and the people I worked with, especially after receiving those beautiful paychecks. 
  

Now that I've gotten the salty stuff out of the way, a few cubes of sugar are due. November was a magnificent  month indeed.

• Sports
  
  • Basketball - I attended two games this month. One was in Houston with the Rockets vs. Bucks. Unfortunately in the group of four I went with, there consisted a solitary individual in a bloody sea to wear the taboo colors of purple while we, the innocent trio were associated with that when we were for the Rockets baby! I also was able to cheer for the game between the Aggies and UT El Paso where we pwned. We had some badass cheers too. WHOOSH!
    
  • Football - We beat UT...again. Considering our track record, it was a very pleasant surprise. I was working that night and between that and the bball game of the Houston Rockets vs. the Dallas Mavericks (where of course I would root for Dallas over Houston ANYDAY)...we kicked ass! That was one hell of an exciting game where I definitely neglected my job to stand in front of the TV for a good period. haha

• Shopping 
  
  • Immediately after Thanksgiving, ten of us drove to San Marcos, Austin to participate in Black Friday. We arrived there at 11:30 PM and did not get home until 7:30 AM where I was also due to work later on that day. I will never do that again. People are insane to spend all those hours just in LINE waiting. Mad props. I love shopping, but I doubt I will ever have the stamina nor patience to wait all those hours...unless of course it was a free dog, plasma TV or something. Uh oh, cheap Asian genes coming out! haha

• Social Life
  
  • Since I was this close to dropping under so much stress last semester, I've been making up for it by playing hardcore this term. It has been an extremely fun month aka paintballing (where I got the largest and most magnificent bruise of my life on my right thigh. Everyone who's seen it so far has exclaimed in horror at the sheer size and color of this gorgeous monstrosity), birthdays, road trips, parties...so on and so forth.
    

Speaking of partying...I'm going to miss everyone graduating in December. Ugh, I'm going to have to make new friends! While I doubt most (if any) of you guys will read this, I'm going to insert a few sappy comments here. I have been so fortunate to meet some of the most wonderful (and colorful) personalities here at A&M. I know everyone thinks their own specific group of friends are the best in the whole world, bla bla bla but i'm going to have to bring in reality and tell said people that you're wrong! MY friends are the best in the whole world, bla bla bla (I am so mature). It's amazing to know there are people you can count on anytime, any day for anything and I'm really going to miss you guys a LOT! While I have realized that we can't party here in college forever and you guys have to earn a living, I have accepted it since I know ultimately you will all use that cash wisely to take me out when I come visit.

Before I embarass myself any longer with this incoherent babble, I want you guys to pray for the final that I will take in 2 hours and 14 minutes. Pray that I will know/guess the correct answers so fluidly and with such ease that I can be done in 5 minutes...fine, I'll be realistic: 7 minutes. Pray that the boring, useless, and terrible man that dares to call himself a professor of this pointless, painful course will have a heart and grade with tremendous mercy or give a very, very nice curve as most people go in there insanely close to sliting their wrists.

Okay, make that 2 hours and 9 minutes.