Hong Kong was fun and relaxing.  Somehow I managed to avoided doing all the touristy stuff that friends and families drag me to in previous years.  This is probably partially because I came during a different season - people are either at work or in school.  So instead, I just hung out a bit with my cousins, helping them with homework, making fun ( Read more... )

I speak Cantonese with a good enough level (and with a local Hong Kong accent) that people don't think I'm from anywhere else, even if sometimes it sounds like I'm an idiot ( Read more... )

So, I'm in HK.  I got struck between two fat dudes, one who kept waking me up every 25 mins to go to the bathroom or just rolling around.  Literally.  Didn't get to sleep all that much, so I'm drained ( Read more... )

So, I was at the Worlds Science Festival the other day.  Ah, New York is a wonderful place to live.

There was an atheist group near one of the corners of the Washington Square park.  As I was walking by, some dude tried to give me a leaflet about doubting God, probably trying to lead me into buying the related book. (I forgot the title, though it ( Read more... )

Harlem has this reputation of being this really dangerous place in the city. (here, the city refers to Manhattan.  The outer boroughs are "New York", and the rest of the New York is just "upstate") It's probably true at some point, and probably relatively true for now, but it's not so bad ( Read more... )

So despite almost certainly advancing, I'll have to wake up early again tomorrow.  Joy.
I hope tomorrow's set will be just as simple, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it - they'll probably end up using another, much tougher set, and it's going to wreck chaos.

Hopefully for me, it's just annoying.  Shame for some other people though.

Also, I had 249 ( Read more... )

Today's got all the makings of an epic day.

Sick as hell.
2 hours of sleep.
Snowboarding.
Chipotle.
Drinking.  Drinking.  Drinking.

But I'm here instead of staying out until 5am today, probably disappointing a few people who I haven't seen but still wanted to drag me out for even more drinking.  Maybe I'm just old.

It'll start again tomorrow..

I didn't want to appeal to friends to make it a true popularity contest (though I did nudge a few members who already have accounts to it) but it was kind of cool to be a finalist ( Read more... )

Horrible TCO on my part. It was one of those nights where I knew exactly what to do, but the programming was absolutely wrong ( Read more... )

I've been playing Tetris DS lately.. not really taking away from my time, per se, just reallocating my TV time away ( Read more... )