girls here are rather pretty. too bad none are asians.
chapter 370 came out, but haven't had time to check it out.
it's interesting to know that an ACTUAL group meeting that was scheduled for 30 minutes can turn into 2 hours. and that has yet to end.
it seems that in HEP, two-hour long simulation is considered fast, and 10-second long simulations are considered to be surprisingly super fast. it's rather ironic knowing that the world's smartest people spend about 20 hours a day waiting for a simulation to run.
if you think dorm food at UCSD was bad, you should try here. kristin was probably right. i am downgrading myself by going here. but it's all good. i found wireless all over campus; all i need to do now is figuring out how to actually get myself connected, because airport is acting all weird.
week in the woods meeting next week, meaning that my advisors and the gradstudents are all going to be gone for about a good week. time to slack off. haha.
i'll write some more crap tonight. i still have to finish paar's homework. ~_~
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
MN day one
three and a half hour flight isn't bad. it's worse than what i thought. cramped seats and crying babies and punk stewardesses. thought i could get some NOvA reading done during flights, but the pressurized cabin worked better than a sleeping pill. a well-planned three and a half hour intensive reading turned into a three and a half hour nap.
none of my luggage were missing, so that was good.
the plane arrived at 6pm local time, and the first thing that came to mind as i walked out of the airplane is the international airport in indonesia. hot, humid, lots of mosquitos. well, i have not really seen the mosquitos at all, but i figured the hot and humid made it reasonable for them to camp out here.
everything here is air-conditioned, so that's a good thing. jeebus, this really feels like jakarta, only not.
dorm rooms are small, but that matters not. i'm sharing a room with a guy named bobby from rice university. i've spent a good three hours in the room, but he has yet to show up. this shows that he either: 1. has a life and is currently exploring minneapolis, or 2. is a nerd and is currently stuck in a lab running experiments.
as the plane was descending, i looked out the window and noticed that there's more trees than buildings here. that's nice. maybe i will like this place after all. maureen showed me a park in the middle of the city that has hiking place and is basically a jungle. that is beautiful. i could really use some trees and grass since i don't get to see them that often in sandiego. well, there are some, but it's hot as hell because it's almost summer and the grassy areas are never accompanied by trees.
heat radiation falls like 1/r^4 right? because right now my teapot is about half a centimeter away from my ice water, and i don't want the tea to get cold, or the water to get warm. and no, increasing the separation distance between the two is NOT a solution, for it requires effort.
i do not have an internet in my room, so i don't think i will be in there most of the time. apparently the dorm rooms does not have wireless as well. i guess that's something i have to get used to, living in a suburb like minnesota.
that, and the fact that food places close at 7. double you tee eff? i had to get off campus on foot and find some place to eat because apparently i fell asleep on the bed and didn't wake up until 9.45pm. it's somewhat funny because you'd think, oh man, i have to go to downtown to find a place to eat, and i have to walk. so there you are, walking, and then two blocks away from your dorm is already the downtown. convenient, i say.
the receptionist in my building told me about village wok, a chinese food restaurant that she said "super good." so i went there, ordered a wonton soup and a roasted pork fried rice. while waiting i took out my laptop, thinking i could do some more reading, and guess what i found? WIRELESS. NETGEAR. THREE BARS. and so here i am, blogging and eating fried rice.
gonna walk around some more after my stomach is full. maureen said peter want to see me at 9 tomorrow, so i better not sleep too late.
check out PHDComics's new strip. the fall of mike slackenerney.
cute asian girl at 3 o'clock. glasses, skinny, ponytailed. yummy.
none of my luggage were missing, so that was good.
the plane arrived at 6pm local time, and the first thing that came to mind as i walked out of the airplane is the international airport in indonesia. hot, humid, lots of mosquitos. well, i have not really seen the mosquitos at all, but i figured the hot and humid made it reasonable for them to camp out here.
everything here is air-conditioned, so that's a good thing. jeebus, this really feels like jakarta, only not.
dorm rooms are small, but that matters not. i'm sharing a room with a guy named bobby from rice university. i've spent a good three hours in the room, but he has yet to show up. this shows that he either: 1. has a life and is currently exploring minneapolis, or 2. is a nerd and is currently stuck in a lab running experiments.
as the plane was descending, i looked out the window and noticed that there's more trees than buildings here. that's nice. maybe i will like this place after all. maureen showed me a park in the middle of the city that has hiking place and is basically a jungle. that is beautiful. i could really use some trees and grass since i don't get to see them that often in sandiego. well, there are some, but it's hot as hell because it's almost summer and the grassy areas are never accompanied by trees.
heat radiation falls like 1/r^4 right? because right now my teapot is about half a centimeter away from my ice water, and i don't want the tea to get cold, or the water to get warm. and no, increasing the separation distance between the two is NOT a solution, for it requires effort.
i do not have an internet in my room, so i don't think i will be in there most of the time. apparently the dorm rooms does not have wireless as well. i guess that's something i have to get used to, living in a suburb like minnesota.
that, and the fact that food places close at 7. double you tee eff? i had to get off campus on foot and find some place to eat because apparently i fell asleep on the bed and didn't wake up until 9.45pm. it's somewhat funny because you'd think, oh man, i have to go to downtown to find a place to eat, and i have to walk. so there you are, walking, and then two blocks away from your dorm is already the downtown. convenient, i say.
the receptionist in my building told me about village wok, a chinese food restaurant that she said "super good." so i went there, ordered a wonton soup and a roasted pork fried rice. while waiting i took out my laptop, thinking i could do some more reading, and guess what i found? WIRELESS. NETGEAR. THREE BARS. and so here i am, blogging and eating fried rice.
gonna walk around some more after my stomach is full. maureen said peter want to see me at 9 tomorrow, so i better not sleep too late.
check out PHDComics's new strip. the fall of mike slackenerney.
cute asian girl at 3 o'clock. glasses, skinny, ponytailed. yummy.
.02
off to MN tomorrow noon. hope i have time to blog after work kicks in.
if i don't come back alive, know that i love you. yes you.
got a new leather jacket. and so did tin. i'm happy, she's happy. life is good.
it's either a cup of coffee, or two cans of coke before bed. bad for teeth, but good for sleeping.
i'm bringing my scanner along with me to MN. just in case i have time to doodle.
checked out weather forecast. 79F and raining. wtf?
cousin said there's a thunderstorm in minneapolis. great. will the umbrella survive this time? last time there's one in sandiego it almost died.
electronics final sucked. no way i'll be fiddling with electronics for the rest of my life.
driving home gives off a nice feeling, the feeling of going home (duh). but staying home kills all the pleasure. it's almost like how growing up is much more fun than actually being adults. it's always about the process, not the goal.
370 is coming out soon. franky is the shit.
neutrinos, here i come.
for those who still have finals, i wish you luck. and please know that i am currently laughing my ass off because i am done and you are not. sucks for you.
cheers,
e
if i don't come back alive, know that i love you. yes you.
got a new leather jacket. and so did tin. i'm happy, she's happy. life is good.
it's either a cup of coffee, or two cans of coke before bed. bad for teeth, but good for sleeping.
i'm bringing my scanner along with me to MN. just in case i have time to doodle.
checked out weather forecast. 79F and raining. wtf?
cousin said there's a thunderstorm in minneapolis. great. will the umbrella survive this time? last time there's one in sandiego it almost died.
electronics final sucked. no way i'll be fiddling with electronics for the rest of my life.
driving home gives off a nice feeling, the feeling of going home (duh). but staying home kills all the pleasure. it's almost like how growing up is much more fun than actually being adults. it's always about the process, not the goal.
370 is coming out soon. franky is the shit.
neutrinos, here i come.
for those who still have finals, i wish you luck. and please know that i am currently laughing my ass off because i am done and you are not. sucks for you.
cheers,
e
Sunday, June 05, 2005
the rollercoaster ride has ended
again, i'm too stupid to do what the old saying told me to: "some things are better left unsaid." this fucking mouth acts before the brain does.
an interesting topic was brought up last night. when a person moves from places to places, this person loses the feeling of having a home. not only that, but living such a life also requires one to not get too attached to anything, because it is inevitable that one will be leaving everything that surrounds oneself at that moment. bring whatever is within your ability to bring, physically and mentally, and this usually means spending a night segregating the important ones from the non-important ones.
why would anyone want to live such a life? the excitement one gets from the uncertainties? the hope of finding something better? the valuable experiences one can have along the way? possible, but i do not see any reason why this couldn't be had by NOT living such a life. a person can still experience all these without having to be a nomad.
the twists and turns one experiences by living a wanderer's life is precious, and not one you could find anywhere else. they make you stronger and they teach you more about life than anything else, i was told. that might be true, but then this would be a subjective case, because the lessons of life a wanderer gets, might not be applicable to a non-wandering life. when a wanderer decides to settle down and stop wandering around, he/she will realize that living a settled life has its own lessons that can be learned only by living it. each path has its own twists and turns, and which one is more worthy to pick, is a question without answer.
for now, i shall pick a settler's life. i think it suits me more. i'll switch to a wandering life later after i retire.
an interesting topic was brought up last night. when a person moves from places to places, this person loses the feeling of having a home. not only that, but living such a life also requires one to not get too attached to anything, because it is inevitable that one will be leaving everything that surrounds oneself at that moment. bring whatever is within your ability to bring, physically and mentally, and this usually means spending a night segregating the important ones from the non-important ones.
why would anyone want to live such a life? the excitement one gets from the uncertainties? the hope of finding something better? the valuable experiences one can have along the way? possible, but i do not see any reason why this couldn't be had by NOT living such a life. a person can still experience all these without having to be a nomad.
the twists and turns one experiences by living a wanderer's life is precious, and not one you could find anywhere else. they make you stronger and they teach you more about life than anything else, i was told. that might be true, but then this would be a subjective case, because the lessons of life a wanderer gets, might not be applicable to a non-wandering life. when a wanderer decides to settle down and stop wandering around, he/she will realize that living a settled life has its own lessons that can be learned only by living it. each path has its own twists and turns, and which one is more worthy to pick, is a question without answer.
for now, i shall pick a settler's life. i think it suits me more. i'll switch to a wandering life later after i retire.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
the anticlimax
some things have now been reconciled. glad that everything is working out well. glad that i can finally let it go. it's not easy, but dwelling on it means more instability, and such a thing is something i could really use less as of this moment.
i'm still hoping that our path is intertwined. maybe sometimes in the future?
two more days. let me live these to the fullest.
got another perfect score on my second quantum midterm. but the final is scaring the hell outta me. it will all be over after 1pm tomorrow. hope everything goes well.
wish me luck. lots of luck.
i'm still hoping that our path is intertwined. maybe sometimes in the future?
two more days. let me live these to the fullest.
got another perfect score on my second quantum midterm. but the final is scaring the hell outta me. it will all be over after 1pm tomorrow. hope everything goes well.
wish me luck. lots of luck.
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