June 26, 2008, 9:41pm

This is the most impressive about the cafeteria here. I can get icecream from the machine myself! I keep doing this almost every meal. :D

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This is a question for the last lecture. What are we doing? What are we trying to do? Are

we getting there? What do we want to do? What do we want to achieve?

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I finished the book in the bookstore! No need to pay for it. :D

June 25, 2008, 10:29pm

I skipped the student presentations this afternoon. Was trying to finish a bestseller in the bookstore, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.

June 23, 2008, 10:07pm

Providence has 100% humidity! My goodness. I think I'm used to dry Colorado. It's pretty uncomfortable even though it's only 70F/21C.

June 22, 2008, 12:45am

I was having a break between lectures. Was reading Karl Popper, "The lesson of this century: With two talks on freedom and the democratic state."

Brown is incredibly beautiful. The narrow windows remind me of U. Lib at CUHK. But the view out there is like HKU, yet infinite times more beautiful.

June 21, 2008, 1:30am

This is the State House in Providence, Rhode Island. I really like it here. It's beautiful. :)

Never know what's going on with NBA. Just happen that I was there for the parade. Something like Celtic won the first time in 30 years?

June 17, 2008, 10:51am

My flight's cancelled because of bad weather. Oh, how bad can it be to cancel a flight?

To compensate, I had karaoke with a friend until 3am. :D

Looking at Leslie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Jimmy Lin... in the 80s and 90s... I'm now older than them in the MTV. Time flies, unnoticeably.

June 8, 2008, 1:58am

Got some pictures from a friend. It was her graduation party three weeks ago. She's already back in Japan.

My Japanese student also graduated and she's now in Florida.

It just doesn't seem real. Time flies so fast. This reminds me when Ann and Bert showed me pictures of them in their 60s. They said, it's like a flash ago. It's more than 20 years ago but it doesn't seem like long ago to them.

I'm getting there. For a while I was expecting that Saturday for the party after my exams. Then, I was working in the morning and I drove there with my Japanese student. I had a great time sitting outdoor. I was having a drink under the bright sun, talking with my friends that Saturday...

It was that Saturday, three weeks ago. Really? Is life that short?

I'll miss this beautiful world when I die. It's a lot of dandelion seeds on the sideway these days. All of them have the potential to have a life. All of them are trying to find a place to root. By chance, some of them live. Most don't. I feel lucky to be living.

It's probably an advantage for survival to love the nature and to love life. Yet, all lives head to death, somehow, someday. It's such a dilemma.

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大江東去, 浪淘盡, 千古風流人物.

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I have M!

June 4, 2008, 12:00am

http://www.tiananmenmother.org/

A hyprocrite deceives no one but himself/herself.

June 3, 2008, 11:50pm

19 years ago... If human right is perceived as valuable, this is probably a cohort effect.

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The sprays and medicine work and my allergy is getting better. Only if I knew about such good things, I wouldn't have those years of sleepless nights.