Barcelona...my fav!!!

It's all OVER!!!

School's out for me! Kinda crazy...been waiting for exams to be over for the LONGEST time! Now I can finally get out of the coffee diet. Though now that it's over, I'm feeling a little sad. The night before my last final, I basically couldn't study. It was hard to imagine that it'll be the last time I'm gonna sit in that lecture theater taking the final. Even if I stay in NYC and go back on campus in the future...it's gonna be different. I'm no longer part of that undergrad life...

Alright...enough about that! Get a lot of stick from my Dad for being too sentimental.

The break has been great so far~ Kana came over to visit from Japan. Terry's been not too busy with work...so these days we've been having quite some going out, great food and crazy midnight chats=) Looking forward to the EU trip! Plus going HOME. Missing ASIA + the SUN big time!!!

Otsuka Kouhei!!!

2007 Upper House Elections, Japan

Aichi-ken 1st: Otsuka Kouhei!

All the hard work paid off=)

Campaigning and being in the jimoto really showed me the importance of local politics, the importance of what's not glam to many.

食べ盛り

a new way of thinking...

The office is a male dominated world. Well, most offices, more so in countries like Japan. Woman are thought to be the weaker sex. The man is the head of the family. The woman's job is to stay at home and be a good wife, mother and daughter-in-law, to take care of the family.

Having grown up in a family where both my parents work, I stand firm on the notion that woman can both work and handle the family well. I turned out fine, if not better than average...haha

I guess to a certain extent, women try to prove that we are just as strong. But have we ever thought we never need to prove that because we already are? At the Kawamura Fellowship party last Saturday, someone raised a very interesting thought. That is, "women are oppressed because we are strong".

When the time comes when all women have to be mobilized in the work force, then the end of the world must be near... *put in extremes*

What do you think?

「子は親の鏡」

けなされて育つと、子どもは、人をけなすようになる
とげとげした家庭で育つと、子どもは、乱暴になる
不安な気持ちで育てると、子どもも不安になる
「かわいそうな子だ｣と言って育てると、子どもは、みじめな気持ちになる
子どもを馬鹿にすると、引っ込みじあんな子になる
親が他人を羨んでばかりいると、子どもも人を羨むようになる
叱り付けてばかりいると、子どもは「自分は悪い子なんだ」と思ってしまう

そう言うとおり。。。

Summertime is coming!

Val = Inspiration

Yatta!!! I finally managed to recover my blog after attempting multiple accounts. Great! Now that I can log in with my gmail account, it's one less password to remember.

Yes I should be cramming for finals now...but thanks to Val and her brilliant idea of putting all the course websites on her blog... The story starts with me trying to find Tim Huh's 3402 website. Can't remember the exact address so I figured googling with give me the answer...never did I think this will lead me to Val's website! Made me feel guilty that I made zero attempt to keep it going for the past year. So... here I go again!

btw...you should totally check out Val's blog and the post on "Guys...this is how to get dumped". Hilarious!!!

alright...I shall leave u with... a pic!!! hmm let me choose one...

i shall post more photos

This one is for TIFF!

i will persevere

Don't know why I am in such a weird mood now... I just have zero mood to do work...or anything else. There's like... this huge 'stone' choked up my throat or breathing tube *sorry for the bad description, never a bio-genius*

So what's wrong with me?

It's so scary that there's only like 4 weeks more to go before my semester as an upperclassmen ends! Am I going to screw up my GPA this sem?!? NO... I cannot let that happen! haha...against my principles. Somehow, I know that I'm going to make it past my expectations... But how?!? I'm not even studying right now! Maybe I'm being too optimistic about my own abilities... haha

Does my 6th sense work? You know...I always thought I have an awfully good 6th sense about what people are thinking. I always can tell if my good friends are unhappy or there's something wrong with my friends even if they don't say it. Or whether someone's irritating, whether that's a decent guy to get to know... But sometimes... just sometimes... I wonder if I can really trust my 6th sense and follow my heart anymore. I mean... this world is getting so much more complicated.

*Actually, the world is not getting complicated. It's just I'm slowly being exposed to the complicated-ness of the world*

Hopefully writing is a way to help me get out of this bad-thinking loop. I'll be fine. Things will all go fine.

"Take things easy & just do what I want... There's nothing to fear"

So cheezy! hahah... it's all an experience right? *SMILEZ*

For those of you who got even more confused after reading this... haha I'm sorry. I hope I can explain soon=D

can you 'conveniently' help me eat the cheese as well?!?

So... I made a bet... that I will have a no carbo diet until Halloween so I can look good in a mini dress... hahah...

I've been pretty disciplined up till now=D Thanks to my 'dietician' and Val... We had brunch today @ kitchenette and shared cobb salad and omelette (egg white ONLY!). So Val said, "ok lah today I help you eat the carbo = muffins". And I said, "can you also 'shun bian' eat the cheese as well?"

haha I'm so mean... I love you VAL!

P.S. ooh i forgot... must go to GYM as well=)

all will conquer this fever called living

edgar allen poe wrote in his poem 'for annie'
...'and this fever called living is conquered at last'

Isn't this a great quote?

cute or not?!?

As usual... the ego me and my nice friend=D

my stupidity

I saw rach's MSN pop up on my screen and thought I should let her know my latest gossips!

"Rach, check this photo out!"

"Do you think the guy in the centre is cute?!?"

*Photo sending*

She didn't reply for a long time. That's weird... not usu like her when I am actually trying to show her a pic of a cute guy.

Then I looked at the nick again... it's RAPHAEL... KNN!!! hahah...

I quickly cancelled the photo transfer and screamed "PLS IGNORE EVERYTHING!"

now it works!

Template changes again. This time, I'm using traditional blogger-provided templates. So at least everything runs. Spent the past hour trying to find a template that I like. They are either really nice but not supported on Firefox, or don't support East Asian fonts, or at the extremes of being too loud or too subtle. In the end, I just got sick of choosing.

Today's SUNDAY... homework day again... sadly=( Have a shit load of DATA SRUCTURES and FORECASTING to do. But hey, this Sunday's not been like any previous Sunday. I actually woke up pretty geared up about finishing my work...heheh. Maybe 'cos last night I've been a good girl, i.e. didn't go partying. Edward "the PIMP" invited a bunch of us to his housewarming gathering. I hafta say...you cook really well...will be a challenge to anyone to up that standard! And with mooncakes, snacks, drinks, cards and mahjong, what else can go wrong?!? =D

question

Just a random thought...

Say... you broke up with someone. And later that someone got a new gf/bf. If you are still friends with your ex or somehow got to see the new beau... Should you be feeling happy or sad if you think this someone new is not as good as you are? Or if this someone new is a lot more attractive? Does it actually matter whether you broke up with your ex or the other way round?

Haha... points to ponder=D

my new template

I love it! But it doesn't work well on FireFox=( Check this out in IE... it's cute=D

*I need to find a CS literate to fix this...

人間は元来弱いものだ。。。human beings are born weak?

What do you think? This is a question from my latest Japanese homework. And honestly speaking, I really don't know if I agree or disagree with it.

so sick...

Don't know why... but just feeling kinda stifled... and I just remembered that this blog still exists. Heh.

Tiff really knows me too well. So she's been making these once a week trips up to Columbia for one of her design classes, and it's really cool. "redesigning" the brands... or whatever you call it. And yesterday, even before she saw me, she already sensed the bad vibes.

"what's wrong with you?" That was her first question. And all I can do is laugh and feel glad that she's here. you've found a true friend when you can sit all silent with the person and leave feeling like you've had one of the best conversations This is one of those moments I guess. Somehow...it just made me feel much better.

Haha I don't want this to turn in to a Tiff-praising entry...ok last bit of all the mushiness!!! You've always been here (at least these few years) and I'm glad you are... Thank you for being there to share my laughter, sadness, stupidity, craziness... and most importantly tell me "Jinkie, you just need to get it done!

new semester...new year...long awaited new post

SIR!

So Su Chang and Xianjun were relief teaching at RJC. I went back to especially see them teach. I hafta say, I am impressed! They actually made sense!!! haha...

Mr Su and Mr Chang were teaching integration techniques. The rest of us sat at the back of the class and listened. And then it was 'Over The Hedge' at Junction 8...Cute movie=)