I am engaged

I proposed to my fiancee last month. I was so lazy to add a post to this blog

Some understandings of mine about H1B

1. H1B visa is a  non-immigrant visa for foreign workers in the United States. Usually, half of them goes to high tech workers.

2. There is a quota for H1B visa every year. As far as I know, now the amount of visas issued every year is 65,000.

3. Professors/University employees (post-docs) are exempted from this quota.

4. Some Americans blame this policy for “taking their jobs”.

5. Some companies are willing to hire H1B workers because they can pay the employees less.

6. Some Indian companies even hold the visa quota, and hire some `slave’ workers who want H1B visas. They will contract you out and you get paid little.  This is called H1B visa fraud.

7. In the stimulus plan, there is an attachment stating that employer must not fire an American worker and then hire an H1B worker to replace him within 6 months. This is a big nail on the coffin of H1B program.

Everything is tough in this season.

Secret keeper

Obviously, my girlfriend knows all the gifts I am going to give her tomorrow. I am usually an early bird in shopping for gifts, but not a good secret keeper. 

Last Christmas, I knew that her mom would give me something, because her mom emailed her asking for gift ideas in an email titled: “Don’t let Eric see this”. I saw that title, thus, I asked her what my Christmas gifts from her mom were. She wouldn’t tell me. I threatened her by saying something like: “OK, then I will go to China to find  another wife“; or “I will steal your baby penguins and sell them to a penguin serial killer“. She just kept her mouth closed.

Finally, one day, when she was half asleep, we had a conversation like this:

“Honey, will I get a T-shirt this Christmas? My T-shirts are so sloppy. ”

“You might.”

“What else?”

“I don’t know.”

“I will leave you for China.”

“O, NOEZ, a fluffy turkey. ”

“What?”

“Yes, a fluffy turkey. ”

“OK, if I don’t get a fluffy turkey, I will kill you. ”

Then, she ordered a fluffy turkey online and asked them to ship it to her parents’ house. I got a fluffy turkey, on Christmas, Yes, a stuffed turkey, on Christmas!

Anyway, she is a good secret keeper, and I am not.

A post from iPod touch

This is a test post. I am writing this in a grade school student’s diary style.

Valentine’s day is coming. My girlfriend is sitting in front of her computer searching for places to go. I am typing this random post for my blog. I am not a good boyfriend I guess.

But I do have a good idea: I will take her to a boat (well, neither a canoe nor a casino cruise. It’s a dinner cruise). Don’t tell her:) I bet she will be very excited about this.

Happy Valentine’s Day, my readers!