A happy opportunity to go to Hawaii fell into my lap a few months ago and tomorrow morning I'll be on a plane to the wonderful island of Oahu.  Aloooooooha ( Read more... )

A huge CONGRATULATIONS to two very dear friends, Thomas and JJ, on their recent engagement.  I wish I was there to pick up the phone the night the engagement happened!  Alas, I was at a play and cell phones ringing are rude.  Such happy news!  I wish you both great happiness.  Ah, I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy.

Went home this past weekend to ( Read more... )

Apologies to loyal readers for being absent. Work has kept me busy and it seems like I have hardly any free time. I decided to take biochemistry in hopes that doing well will facilitate an easier first year in med school (M1), though I doubt that it would significantly reduce the M1 stress. After a year of no classes or studying, it felt ( Read more... )

My friend Robert has been a kind, patient tutor these past few days. As I had posted last week, I discovered how to set my preferences on my work computer so that it would write in traditional Chinese. qtpi314 pointed out, "You're in love with Macs, just face it!" I would venture to say that discovering how to write Chinese on the Mac does not ( Read more... )

It took me about 30 minutes to figure it out, but I can write Chinese with my Mac! Woohoo! 但是，我要開始提高我的中文. That may not be grammatically correct, but I'm super excited about this new development. Maybe I can even chat with my friends in Chinese. Granted, it will take me about 20 minutes to translate each line of dialogue. How sad. 不好意思.

I had a sort of paradigm shift the other day. I'm not sure how the thought came about, but that is probably irrelevant. I realized that there was the option of being a housewife and depending solely on my future husband's income. (For those of you wondering, no, I'm not any where near getting married.) I'm not sure if it is a result of my ( Read more... )

Per qtpi314's request, the result of a personality quiz:

hyphen
You scored 38% Sociability and 58% Sophistication! You are comfortable around others. While you don't have to go out every night, yet you take pride in being easy to get along with. This should not, however, be misconstrued as believing (as many do) that you are without subtlety. ( Read more... )

Happy Tuesday all. After an eventful weekend, my current life pales enormously. Not to say that my pals party like rock stars all the time, but they certainly do know how to show a gal a good time. Details of the weekend below ( Read more... )

A busy weekend lies ahead: going up to Baltimore to visit qtpi314 and then heading further north to pay an overdue visit to Miss E. I've been to Baltimore a few times to visit Lady I. and so, I'm not too nervous about the trip to her place. It's the drive to Philly that's a bit scary. Specifically, ending up in shady areas of Philly where petite people ( Read more... )

I just discovered the greatest thing of all time. Okay, perhaps that is a hyperbole, but it really is the most wonderful computer application I've come across in a while. Unfortunately, it has the effect of making me love my Mac even more and now I'm even more tempted to get a Mac as my next computer. Ah, curse you Apple with your attractive and ( Read more... )