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January 23, 2010

How quickly these two weeks passed. Slowly but surely, I was absorbed back into the world of classes and academia. I had a really great time meeting new people, learning to present myself, and making a new group of friends. May this friendship and knowledge stay and continue to grow.

Meanwhile I just unpacked my last item and stowed my luggage in the closet. I have gotten a bit too busy to miss home, but in the back of mind I have that feeling, and I didn't want to remove it entirely. It's time to focus on school work now.. Strange, but I still miss home even after all these years of 'practice'.

Back in Baltimore

January 10, 2010

This morning I flew back to Baltimore to get ready for my classes tmr. I arrived at noon, a rather stable flight.

I knew it would be cold, but thankfully I had a very warm welcome pickup by Stanley and Lili and we had lunch @ Miss Shirley's.

I miss home though. I miss home food. A lot.

A new beginning

January 7, 2010

It's 2010. It's a new decade. Wait..no it's not. It's the last year of this decade really - 2001-2010, 2011-2020 etc. So 2011 would be the start of a new decade. Now, it's the beginning of the end of this decade.

Firstly, let me just apologize for disappearing (again) for a number of days, even missing a 1/1/2010 entry.. 2009 gave me alot of memories - some sweet, some sour - but all in all it was a very enjoyable year. I shall not do a review since thats what archives are for (btw, they are reopened now; previously closed as there were wallpapers posted long ago was generating a lot of traffic). Somewhat unfortunately though, I have sort of strayed away from writing down my thoughts in 2009. Thus, a resolution this year is to blog more and more often.

2010 will be an interesting year, as I will graduate and who knows what will happen. In a way it really matures me and makes me more grounded to reality. But I think I will miss being in the 'school bubble'. Perhaps I should be a student forever..

On another note, I thought it was interesting that there was no major disaster near the end of the year in 2009. In the past few years, something always happened between christmas and new year, usually a natural disaster. Well, this is a blessing, but..the world is going to end in 2012 anyway, no?

Btw, I've been using Chrome on my mac for a few weeks now. I find it more responsive than Safari, and I really like it's all-in-one-box. One function I love: after visiting and doing a search on say, Amazon.com, it registers Amazon's search function and the next time you type 'amazon' in the a-i-o-box, click tab, type in what you want to search and voila, it searches it on Amazon. Much more handier than Safari's primitive search box. Now if only it has a bookmark manager!

Anyway, hope that 2010 will bring us joy and luck and prosperity and good health. Happy new year to you all.

HNY

December 31, 2009

Bye 2009.

Merry Christmas

December 24, 2009

GF1 or E-P2?

Snow

December 5, 2009

A good Friday

December 4, 2009

Firstly, a happy birthday to Amy Fu on 12/2. Hope you had a memorable one.

So today, after taking my 3rd Monte Carlo midterm, I winded down at home and watched Julie and Julia (in HD) in the afternoon. It. was. amazing. Meryl Streep's character, Julia Child, was contagious, charming and somewhat hilarious, especially how she says 'I do!' to everything. Her acting is just unbelievable. Plus, I would really like to try Julia's recipes..sometime in the near future.

Everyone is fighting a tough battle, no? Good luck to you, and me.

Much left to do

December 1, 2009

Midterms, finals. When will it end..?

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