There's a snowman outside a grocery store near my office. It started showing up on January 18 and has since grown in size and stature.

( Image heavy behind cut tag! )

Dear ziasudraI send you greetings from Resty's family. They are doing well and wish to extend their thanks to you for loving and caring for Resty since you picked her up. Thank you very much for the letters and cards you sent to her, the fees, medicine and gifts you sent helped them alot as a family and that you made so special ( Read more... )

Year 21

June 4, 1989 - June 4, 2010

21 years later, quiet day on Tiananmen Square
Video: Tiananmen marks 21st anniversary
Thousands Attend Tiananmen Vigil in Hong Kong

I feel like my default life speed nowadays runs on fast forward. Many new things happening and the old things are getting busier and busier. Here are some bullet points:

• Just finished a five-week class called "How to Understand and Analyze Non-Profit Financial Statements" at the NYU School of Continuing Education. Four hours of class on Saturday ( Read more... )

Go Big Red!!!

Oh Cornell, you do me proud.

After years of hearing rave reviews about it, I finally read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

( Mild spoilers ahead, nothing too specific, but behind a cut just in case )

Today marks my 20th year in the U.S. Time flies. I'm not feeling particularly nostalgic though -- life has a tendency of taking your attention away from deeper thoughts when there are other things that must be tended to OMG RITE NAO. So here's a bullet list of random thoughts, not necessarily related to my bi-decade anniversary:

• Neopets also had ( Read more... )

From NY1: De Blasio, Liu Claim Victory In Primary Runoff
From New York Times: Liu and de Blasio Win Primary Runoffs

This is big for the Asian Americans community. John Liu was the first to be elected into City Council back in 2002, and now he's the first to be elected into a city-wide office*. And the best thing? I like John Liu. I've been ( Read more... )

Within the last week and a half, I managed to set foot on all five boroughs of New York City. Finally.

Go me.

1. House ThingsThings at the new apartment are beginning to settle, and it's finally feeling less like a hotel that I can decorate and more like a place I'm going to start getting used to and maybe even dream about soon (dreaming = the benchmark that something has been incorporated into my routine, like the day I remember dreaming about my current ( Read more... )