The lameness of the airline industry resulted in me having to spend Christmas in the states. Today's (or tonight) is X'mas eve. My uncle organized a X'mas lunch at a Chinese restaurant in Berkely downtown. The food there was actually very good. We ordered Peking duck, dumplings, shirmps etc, etc, lots of food, so much that we had to take 40% of it ( Read more... )

Sorry, looks like I won't be able to come back to HK afterall. I was at the airport on the 18th, just to realize that my flight to Tokyo was delayed indefinitely. The issue was, Patty was supposed to take a transit flight from Tokyo to HK, so the delay messed everything up. In order to get to HK I'd have to fly to Tokyo, stay over a night, then ( Read more... )

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Yes people, I'm alive! Things are going pretty well at UC Davis. Been pretty busy with school work, friends, and self-maintainance. Today I instigated something kind of crazy--a chinese food galore. Worked with 5 cooks in our small college kitchen, subsequently fed 8. I'M SO TIRED!!! Cooking really drains you. Made curry chicken, beef and zuccini, ( Read more... )

At UC Davis, the four days prior to fall instruction is known as Fall Welcome week; to the many Soirities and fraternities this the perfect opportunity to recruit new members. The fraternities and sororities at Davis all come under an overseeing organization called the Greek system. The respective brotherhoods and sisterhoods are distinguished by ( Read more... )

Last night, DDR was offered in one of the dorm halls. Goodness gracious, UC Davis has its fair share of DDR maniacs. The people there were all dancing to really hard songs. Its crazy watching them--they were jumping and stomping at the speed of light! Well...not quite but close enough. I was sitting there reading the arrows. Before I could ( Read more... )

Finally moved into UC Davis today. It was hectic moving all my junk into my bedroom--had to put the bedsheets on the bed, had to wipe down my desk, all my drawers. I imagine that move in day would have been less annoying if we didn't have ten million flies milling around our bedroom. It was scary, the mere action of speaking imposed infinite ( Read more... )

When I first came to California, it was a wonder to see how this state maintains its water supply. For the past two months that I've been here, there were nothing but blue skys and golden sunlight. For the time I was here, the notion of rain became an exotic concept. Yesterday this "concept" was realized; it started raining and thundering in the ( Read more... )

It was great to see my daddy after 2 months. He arrived at the SF Int Airport on business class. I was a little peeved because I only got to go on economy class. But never the less it was a happy reunion. Next week I'll finally start life as a college student. This Sunday my parents will accompany to Davis to settle into my dorm. Its kind of sad to ( Read more... )

Woohoo!! Joy to the world, got my California driver's license today! Second time taking the test, I got a very nice examiner. He was this old Indian guy who was very talkative, he kept making conversation during the test. When I blundered on my backing up (wheels hit the curb) he even gave me another chance ( Read more... )