My vacuum cleaner broke recently. The switch is a plastic rod that when slid, pushes the actual electrical switch... I thought it was the mechanical sliding rod broke, since it worked intermittently... Nope it turned out to be the switch. Sears said it was about 3.50 for a new one, but why put the same switch back in to go bad in about a year... Got a nice cheap one from RadioShack, and that seemed to work, after some dremelling of where the mechanical rod was, and the switch works now... Yay!!!

Pass my MFE exam in November 2007, but not such good news in May 2008 with exam C... Revenge is mine in November 2008 though :)

My road racing bike is slowly getting transformed into a commuter bike... I'm trying the riding to the train station and then to work, and the other way back home... Needing to carry things, having safety lights... yea its not light anymore...

That's right, I got myself a free trip to Atlanta with Delta Airlines. I was supposed to be going to Ottawa, ON for my cousin's wedding, but there was bad weather at the Atlanta airport, and by the team we get redirected, refueled, permission to land and had actually landed, my flight to Ottawa was gone a whole hour ago. The next flight from Delta was the next evening, and any other possible solution of flying and driving would get me there after the wedding. So I ended up staying in Atlanta, and hanging out with my one of my friend's from high school that I haven't seen in about five years. We were having such a good time I had to call and ask them to put me on the later flight back home that evening :). While I was getting my flights sorted out the night of all the mess, the ticket agent said to call them and ask them for a refund. I was expecting about half of my refund, though I could argue for more since I only flew about 30% of the miles I paid to fly for, but I ended up getting a full refund... as in every single penny. Given that I spent at most $100 while in Atlanta, that's not bad I think, thanks Delta :)

I passed my third exam, well the first part of it. It took a while, as in a few days, to sink in that I actually did pass. The reason? The exam was brutally hard and I had walked out of there thinking I was not going to pass, but I managed to pass and for that I am grateful :) Of course I'm studying for the second part of the third exam now, the exam is on November 6th... I think it is on a Tuesday.

It was crazy!!! The exam was just a lot harder than I expected or anyone else expected I believe. That being said, I'm hoping I pass. I came home and fell asleep promptly for a few hours. I'm still feeling tired for the exam. Another guy at work took today off to relax it off. Here's to hoping I pass!

It's summer time and that means one thing... Lots of new movies being released. In the line are Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Live Free or Die Hard, Ratatouille,Transformers, The Simpsons Movie & last but not least, Rush Hour 3. Sure there is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, but I'm not a big Harry Potter fun though it might be fun to rent it once its out on DVD. I just realized that there is a IMAX version of Spider-Man 3. That would be something to go see :)

Well its rainy here in Florida, which is a good thing because we need rain. Last Monday night I reached home 2 hours later than I usually do because the train had to slow down and stop sometimes because of a brush fire along the interstate. At least I got home, but still not sure why we had to stop still when we were miles away from the fire.

I've been studying lots, I got my next exam on May 17th, Exam MLC, scary exam it is, but I'm hoping I do pretty well, at least I hope I do. Should be lots of fun.

Oh yea, I been working at Gabriel, Roeder, Smith & Co. for almost three months now, started on February 13th. I love the job and the people I work with on my team are great (Jen and Larry). I'm learning lots of great things, making mistakes and learning from them and getting better and better.

I spent the better part of December working and having fun in the Apple store. Just the usual, lots of customers buying iPods for the Christmas. The cool thing is we didn't run out of any iPods for the season, awesome I say, since local third party iPod resellers did.

Barbie is at home with her parents for Christmas. My uncle Arno and aunt Sharmin are here for spending Christmas with my Mom, myself and my Dad who flew up.

Job searching is still going, slowly, I'm at least finding new companies or openings to keep applying for, or making contacts from meeting customers in the store. But still no promise of an actuarial job yet.