Late for class...

For the first time in my life, I overslept and was late for the first class meeting of the new semester!

For some of you it's quite a norm but it was the FIRST time in my life I never wake up in time to get to class!

Alarm rang @8.30am but then just dozed off...and when I' was enjoying my dream suddenly my roommate called me up @ 10:04am and OH NO! My class starts @10am!

(*actually my roommate knew I'm having class @10 and he also has class @ 10 but only woke me up when he's ready to go...and the reason he woke me up only @10:04 = he thought I'm already out but obviously I was still at my bed, and he definitely couldn't have not seen me in bed because he must have seen me because he must pass by my room to go in & out to his room...confused? )


Then although it was late, I still arranged my bedsheet before rushing to bathroom to get my face washed and messy hair combed. I must keep my room tidy all the time, regardless rain or sunny, snow or sandstorm, day or night, left or right.

And with empty stomach I ran to Dennison Building which is 10 minutes away. And since I never went to the lecture room before, more time was wasted searching for the room...

And finally @ 10:21, I slowly turned the door knob and get into the lecture room as quiet as possible but to discover my professor was in front the lecture room and glanced at me...for a short while....ok...then I just grabbed a seat and sit down and pretended as though I was there since 10am...

But late only mah...in It's not really a big deal...there are a few more people later than me and just came in like it's their home...

But that's just not me...so this post is the first warning letter to myself! No more late for class. (although I skipped all the ungraded discussion sessions for CHEM210 last semester because it's @ the very early 8am...)

[Update] so far never late :)

Another Amazing Adventure @ America

This will be a very very long post...to save your time, just read the summary

Summary: I went to Washington DC, Philadelphia, UPenn, New Jersey, and Pittsburgh with a friend. Then I came back. The end.

Long story: A journey that confirmed & planned just a few days before the journey. After the finals, with limited money left, but with my enthusiasm of travel, I agreed with Sharon's invitation for a trip.

A backpack, a small one, but everything for 5 days' needs are fully loaded. A journey begins! in an beautiful evening, from a small town of Ann Arbor.

Holding my Amtrak tickets, eagerly waiting for first train. Upon announcement, we went out the station and discovered that a bus is waiting for us...not a train! Huh? Ok...thruway ticket = bus. A bus bring us from a train station to another train station to board a train...

Oh...it was Wednesday April 23 9pm. And we were heading to Toledo!

@April 24 12:30am, a delayed train finally arrived

And first time stepped in Amtrak, Capitol Limited.

Yeah, @ 7am I finally woke up. But actually I was awake most of the night...susah tidur
then I felt something strange...the train was at halt!

Why huh? but at least it stopped beside so at least could see the river flows with beautiful sun hanging(?) on the sky, with flowers blossom in the spring...

And 1 hour passed...finally announcement was made and the delayed was due to a freight train...ok. Then 2 hours passed! What, still not moving!

And finally! after they realized we were bored with the scenery, the train moved! Hurray! But wait a second! the train was moving backward!!! HUH? ok...they are so considerable they reversed the train so we can have different scenery...(real situation: the train reversed to change track, u'll know why later)

Then after almost 2.5 hours. We were moving forward again! And finally we saw the freight train moving @ 5mile per hour beside us...no wonder...but I wonder why they never changed the track earlier to pass the turtle train...

And after so much delay, we arrived in Washington DC @ 4pm!

And in the limited 5 hours (3 hours stolen by Amtrak), we walked to so many places:

following sequence: Union station > US Capitol > US Botanical Garden > The National Mall > Washington Monument > Thomas Jefferson Memorial > Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial > Lincoln Memorial > Bush Memorial...wait! where got?! > Vietnam Veteran Memorial > The White House > Chinatown > Verizon Center >McDonald > Amtrak to Philly!

And actually I met bush at the White House! and I kicked him! and I just left safe & sound...you know, the bush...not that Bush...

But actually I almost detained in Guantanamo Bay with Harold & Kumar because I left my bag unattended while taking photos...luckily I was wearing a green shirt so the police officer thought I'm just a Greenpeace member and ask me not to demonstrate in front of the White House, but the green house...with Al Gore the ex-Vice President to promote reduction of green house gases...what the craps I'm writing??
*the red words are truth [never leave your bag unattended, esp near bush and never pretend to be a terrorist, or else you'll be treated as terrorist]

Next, @12:00am April 25, Philly


@Philly I stayed in Ryan's room while Sharon in Yie Lyn's. And while they were busy preparing for finals we were having our holiday...

The first morning was just amazing :) while I was in bathroom looking at mirror wondering why I have so many pimples, a sweet girl walked in and I was stunned for a moment, and I "Hi" and she "Hi" back and basically I forget what I did while she washed hand and then "bye"...ok, it's Upenn, coed dorm...

And that started my first day (April 25) in Philly! With City Pass, We've ventured more places in Philly than our friends in Upenn did :) [2 days vs 2 semesters]


So, places we went: 30th St Station > Upenn > Franklin Institute > National Constitution Center > Reading Terminal Market > See the bell > Penn's Landing > Columbus Memorial >Korean War Memorial > Vietnam War Memorial > Chili's > Independence Visitor Center > Tour Philly with double decker bus > Eastern State Penitentiary (a really nice jail) > Philly the American 1st Zoo > Banana Leaf Malaysia Restaurant (nice foods) > A Hong Kong Restaurant or bubble tea & duck rice! oh I wonder why Americans don't eat duck but eat turkey > lots of parks > New Jersey (Adventure Aquarium) > See Rutgers @ Camden! + etc etc

And the last hour in Philly+NJ was truly an amazing race! We were across the bridge in New Jersey @ 11:45am @ Adventure Aquarium. Our Amtrak @12:42pm. One hour, enough la. But after we farewell with penguins, we discovered that the next NJ Riverlink train come @ only 12:18pm/ what! That'll be very late! We need to get to WalterRand Transit Center, 8th St Station before 30th St Station!

click to experience the journey!

Wah! After the amazing journey, goodbye Philly!

But the real journey is not ended!

Next: Pittsburgh!

@8:30pm April 27, we arrived in a quiet city of Pittsburgh. The streets are just empty at night and the only opened eatery was McDonald (again...)

At the scary place it's better to wait in the station until next train to Toledo to take bus, again...

And @ 8:30am April 28, back to Ann Arbor!

Wah...next adventure: New York!

Watch out!

So do you think technology help improve our living? In most of the cases, it's definitely positive. But in some rare cases, technology is really bad...

So let me introduce a technology which is disastrous: the GPS.

GPS=Global Positioning System.

Its novel intention is to guide drivers to navigate. Or for anyone who need direction to find their destination. But sometimes, we can never reach our destination by solely relying on the technology.

Let's see some of my findings

Case Study 1
Location: Arboretum, a place in USA
Time: the past Wednesday
Who: 21 Garfield High School (a school that enrolls only Garfield's fans) girls
A bus driver
A bus
A GPS device
A bridge
A warning sign

How: A bus is driven by a bus driver. The bus driver using the GPS device to navigate. There are 21 Garfield High School Girls on the bus back from a softball game.
And the journey was just like a normal bus ride...which (assumed) some girls reading Garfield comic books and watching the animation with iPod Touch.
Then a CRASH! and it's not a normal crash but the bus was plowed into overpass bridge!
The reason: The driver never use his common sense to look at the warning sign & what's infront of him...but he instead trust the GPS and just drove through the obviously low overpass bridge. What a great driver....My reasoning suggests the driver thought he's driving a VW Beetle.
The moral of the story: never drive with GPS.

Case study 2:
This is a short study investigating the unfavorable circumstance brought by GPS.
"Villagers in Carmarthenshire say they fear restoration work is being damaged by drivers using satellite navigation."Quoted from BBC.
BecauseAfter restored, the building will be damaged again...The culprits: drivers who drive giant vehicle using GPS. They never see how narrow the street...but as long as there's a way, it's a way.

So this is technology.

Username!

I assume you all know how to online...

When on the net, there are so many services...including Facebook, FaceBook, and facebook. And of course we have Windows Live, Yahoo, Gmail, Youtube and whatever...

The problem with all of them is a big problem: we need to register to use the services!

When registering, usually the first thing we have to fill in is username...and the real problem is with the username!

Sometimes, we just can't get our favorite choices...especially in Youtube where the whole Earth population has an account.

and when I try and try and still no luck...why just put my username as "username"!?
So I type "username" and check the availability....

Oh No! username not available!

If username is unavailable why we need to select any username??!! weird...

So inspiration suddenly pop up! since username unavailable...why don't I choose "without1username" and finally I have an available username! I have a username without a username...haha

So from now on I have no username!

No Money = No Food

Warning: article below contains ambiguous/confusing words/ phrases that might cause a syndrome called "whattheheckareyouwriting!"

Food is essential for life...you know that.

Money is a must for life...you also know it.

So food = money

Thus, no money = no food
The picture above already proven my statement. It's indisputable.

Here's another proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

------- :)

That's my intro, now to main points.

Living animal needs energy, so human acquires energy from food. In order to get food, we need to buy food. Before you can have the food, you have to pay for the food (or you can pay yourself if you are the food producer).

And the current issue I'm discussing is insufficiency of money, which directly related to food.

As information researchers of Ministry of Public Service (MPS) in the states, we are now facing delayed allowance payment, which directly pose a great survivor threat for some of us, including myself. However, some reseachers are doing extra researches so they fare better in the crisis. Or some of them have a solid financial background who can live luxuriously even without allowance or extra money source.

As for me: a guy who eat so much and never grow taller; a guy who too preoccupied in eating until forsake the chances to do more jobs, the situation is critical.

Hope the relief will come soon so the I can continue to grow taller...my aim is taller than Yao Ming.