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I've been feeling moody lately, so I guess I'll just write my thoughts in here ( Read more... )

decisions.

WuHan International Mathematics Conference on Graph Structure Theory

July 5 - 7

Graph Theory ... when I was younger, I thought graph theory was just a bunch of dots and the purpose was to connect them, like a game. Now, after listening to three hour-long talks in the morning, I still think of graph theory as a bunch of dots connected by lines, ( Read more... )

It's July 4th.

Boston. Esplanade. Pops.

Need I say more?

I miss my girls. I feel so deprived here without my girls and girltalk. I'll get my fair share as soon as I get back home though - a nice, long multiple-hours-long phone call until the early hours of the morning with Nghi (he's already penciled me in :) ), chit-chatting for hours while lazily laying on Robin's floor surrounded by blankets (gosh, we ( Read more... )

I was eating dinner when all of a sudden (I don't know how my mind wandered here) I remembered that day back in sophomore year when June, Robin, Dina, Cherry, and I walked to my house after finals. The problem was that I didn't have my key, so we had to search all over for the spare when June miraculously saw the key and none of us believed her ( Read more... )

I haven't been back in China in so long -- 3 years to be exact, 3 summers ago. So much has changed, but what should I expect? I feel disconnected from my relatives here: I don't see them grow or change; I only see glimpses of their lives every few years or so. It's disheartening to me to see one of my second cousins as a newborn baby during one ( Read more... )

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.
~Richard BachSo, tomorrow, in 3 hours, at 5 am I begin my voyage to China for two months. I never really look forward to leaving, but dislike even more the returning. The reason is that I have ( Read more... )

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