September 17, 2005, 8:09pm

I'm just puzzled. I've been thinking about how big the UF campus is since the very first minute when I decided to accept this offer. And I'm here for 1.5 months already and I still don't seem to be able to figure it out.

With the official figure in the UF website, I did the conversion and calculation and found that it's six times as big as CUHK. But now, when I'm used to the campus especially with GatorLift taking me everywhere, it just doesn't seem so big.

Anyways, I still haven't got the time to check out the lake and see the alligators yet. Hopefully tomorrow afternoon I'll be there after church. Then I'll head back to my office and work on the readings for my research.

The UF campus map is printed on an A3 paper. I still remember when I was at LSE, the little map could be put in my organizer. (Lok, I hope you'll really enjoy your life in London when you're there later this month. LSE is great though it's small and the pub smells so bad...)

Hey, psychologists, I'm thinking about human perception. I'm always fascinated by the finding that, someone from a tropical rain forest won't be able to see an elephant far away as an elephant. They'll see a mosquito... (This is what I remember from the textbook. I didn't read the original paper...) That is, their perception of distance is adapted to see things close to them when the forest is crowded with big trees and they don't see things far away.

I'm always aware of the fact that I'm from a subtropical concrete forest. Ever since when I was on the train in UK and later in Scottish Border when Ann and Bert took me everywhere, I keep thinking, I'm seeing the horizon. How far is it actually? And not to mention about the horizon in the Egypt desert, the Mediterraneon Sea in Greece and the Silk Road.

I got to find the time and think about where to go in Christmas.