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November 20 Born again!The day hath finally come. My baptism, the day I am reborn. There are few things in life as exciting as celebrating one's own "birthday", literally. Pretty happy today, finally able to join all the good people in Christ and be a part of them. And I can join the choir now. We had a great dinner at Tony's house. Lots of good food, I have a feeling that this is going to be the best thanksgiving that I am ever going to spend.
There are quite a few things happened before today though. Liching got in a car accident, hardly hurt, but the car was a totally different story. And she's still suffering from that cold. Bless you, Liching.
Amy is having some problems causing her headaches right now, luckily she finally got them all taken care of. Bless her, too.
November 15 Houston, we have a problemThe trip to Boston was awesome everywhere except that the Houston Rockets lost in Fleet Center by 20+ points. Considering we only wanted to see Yao Ming and feel the homecourt advantage, this game was really nice because Boston fans were high through the whole game. Of course, they were never leading by less than five points after they went ahead 16 to 6 in the first quarter. Maybe Tom Hanks was right, Houston, we have a problem: YAO SUCK, oh, no, no, no, it's Y'ALL SUCK. Maybe we should be too hard on them, after all, T-Mac just came back after the injury and they just played a hard game the day before and the Celtics are pretty amazing this season. Just frustrated to see them not even providing a fight in the fourth quarter by keeping T-Mac on the bench. Hopefully they can do better.
November 12 Boston, BabyFinally The Day is here. Boston, yeah! For me, in the first couple of times i went to Boston, it was nothing for me more than China town. But this time, no, no, no, it's all different. Fleet Center, or as more widely known in the 80s, the Boston Garden. And just one other good news, Tracy Mcgrady is back from his back injuries and is likely to play in Sunday's game against the Celtics. What a great thing it is to watch Yao and Tracy working together. Hope they are going to win tomorrow. Good luck to me. November 10 Darn good Can't believe I got a 100 on my stats test. Nothing to brag about, though, cuz I couldn't have made it if not for Liching's effort. Now there's sternberg's project waiting for me. Hopefully I can get that done pretty quick, and once agian, have to refer to Liching for help, it's just so good to have a veteran on your team. It helps a great deal. Thinking about next semester, still need to work together. Something that our Creative Actor class teaches me suddenly came into my mind: once you are on that stage, the most important thing to do is to support your teamate and make him/her look better, but the premise of that, is to take good care of yourself first. It's the same when it comes to preparing for tests and doing everything else, got to help each other out, but you can never back people up when you yourself don't know what you are doing.
Thanksgiving is drawing near, and so is the day of my baptism. Can't help feeling exited.
The weather is getting pretty cold, guess it's the same in Northern China, hope everyone can take good care of themselves. 身体是革命的本钱。 November 08 DarnNever thought about this before. I could have got an SSN had I insisted on working for that tutoring job. Now that I have quitted, I have to find another way of doing it. It seems that I can't learn driving without an SSN. Hopefully I can get that figured out pretty quick.
Got to choose classes tomorrow morning. Going to choose three maths, a Micro econ, and hopefully, I can choose a fifth, which will probably be Astronomy, don't know what we are going to do in that class, but the few of the SPs which requires only a semester. Defiinitely don't want to take any of those regular science courses, I hate labs. And all of them got labs as long as three hours. I'd rather die than taking them. I would rather get up at four in the morning and go out watch stars, better yet, try to find a girlfriend in that class to make the assignment a little bit romantic. That's just day dreaming. Anyway, hopefully I can get all the classes I want.
Another pretty big event tomorrow, going to get our probability test back on tomorrow. After all these things, I just wish Joyce won't let me down, just like his name, Joys.
ProbabilitySo we finished the Prob. test yesterday. The very first question came out to be pretty easy. But as the pages turned, it became harder and harder. At one point, I went from the fourth question to the fifth, the sixth, and then to the seventh, which was the last one, and noticed that I can't do any of them, and decided that I would go back to No.4 and just do it from there. It did turn out that I did all of them. But you know what the most frustrating feeling is when you are doing a math test? Not being able to do a problem? Nooooooo. Doing one wrong? (although there is not much of a method you can decide whether you have done it wrong or not) Nooooo. It's finding out that a problem is wrong after you thought you have corrected it. It's like, "when is it ever going to end?" And Liching, special thanks to you, if it hasn't been you, I would have done a problem wrong. Hopefully it's going to be right.
We were talking about Musicals in the Creative Actor class today. I noticed once again how incredibly I was lack of music sense. They've been talking about music for almost half an hour, and I noticed that I didn't know any sonts they were talking about except that song in "beauty and beast". It was the first time ever since that European History class a year ago that I have felt I am a complete moron in the class. I listen to music, I just don't know what I am listening to. It's just so frustrating again.
I was watching TV last night, and suddenly thought of "Saving Private Rein(is that the way to spell that name? anyway)" And then that incident years ago in China where a college student lost his life saving an old cleaner and all the topics arised about whether it's worth it or not wasting a life that could potentially contribute a lot for the people for one that's almost over and not much potential, or more generally, trading lives for lives, or in Rein's case, risking lives to save a life. "Speed" by Sundra Bullock and Keanu Reeves is on recently on the screens. There is a spectacular scene in the movie where Jack (Reeves) and Annie (Bullock) saved a bus of people from the Bomb and then trying to get out themselves. They managed to get out of the bus, but the bus lost control when they got out and ran into an airliner. What personal heroics by them! There seems little to think about after they saved their lives besides to see them kissing each other, but what if that airline was getting ready to take off with full capacity? There is no problem with trying to save one's own life, but when that comes up against the lives of others, shouldn't the topic be a little different? November 05 ProbabilityGot my probability test next monday. And a performance contest for the creative actor class. I really don't know what's going to happen on that class. I hope I can be fine. And may God bless me.
November 04 cursedI am just a cursed math major. Maybe my old friends knew me better than I do. I got my Linear Algebra test back today, and as easy as it was, I got an A- on it. It was not bad, but surely disappointing considering the mistakes i made. I just never thought he would have wanted us to give the answer from such a viewpoint. I am just taking things for granted. Maybe I will never be able to get a full score outside Chou's class. I am just a math major who can never do his best in math tests. Can't hate myself, there is another test coming up next monday, hopefully I can do that well enough.
For a basketball addict like me, there is few things as "must do" as watching an NBA game live featuring Yao Ming when I am in the US. And that opportunity just came up. Staying in Boston means there is only one chance in a whole year that Houston's going to come and play, and because Boston don't have a chance in a million years making the NBA finals, the regular season visit might be the only chance. And they are coming to Boston Nov. 13th. How great it is to know that it's a sunday and the game starts at six, so that I won't have to leave too early and come back too late. And the ticket price is $30, which is not too bad, considering the opportunity costs. Hopefully Houston's going to have a great game when they come here, so that I won't have to spend $30 enjoying my own desperation.
The spring schedule is coming out. I think i am going to once again choose three math classes. And hope I can be lucky enough to be allowed to choose five classes, so that I can choose the classes I want to choose. And what's better is that, all the classes that I want to choose don't collide, and they don't take up my basketball time, which is 12 to 1:25 every monday, wednesday and friday. Can't wait for this semester to be over, this creative actor is really driving me crazy, although it might not be that bad after all.
Some of my friends are driven crazy by their courseloads. May God bless them and grant them the strength they need. Quan, Liching, good luck. November 01 test tomorrowgot linear algebra tomorrow. Hope I can do well. Bless myself.
NBA tips off tonight, with a double header tonight on TNT with four beautiful teams in the west, I am going to enjoy that, too.
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