Hey guys. My birthday’s Friday the 22nd (and I’m turning 22! Woohoo, it’ll only happen once in my life!!!), and I’d like to host a party-thing on the evening of Saturday the 23rd. 1. Dinner at 8pm at Shen Hua (on College Avenue in Berkeley… <http://www.elmwoodshop.com/pages/stores/shenhua.html>) 2. Party-thing at my apartment after dinner (9 or… Continue reading birthday invitation via livejournal.

As some of you know, I am not doing Berkeley this semester. But I am taking one online class via Foothill College. Intro to the Global Economy. Well I missed 7 out of 55 questions on the first midterm. I’m dumb, but oh well. I just wrote a very long reply on the class forum… Continue reading Untitled

My glasses broke. The right limb disconnected itself willfully from the frame. They still balance on my nose, if I press down and make the nosepieces hug my ski jump.

Chu/Zhu1 (mom’s surname) is the 16th most common Chinese surname, and Tuan/Duan4 (dad’s) is the 118th most common Chinese surname, according to http://zhongwen.com/xingshi.htm which I found from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_family_name i like this part of the wiktionary: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Chinese_Pinyin_index though i haven’t found a good way to go from english to chinese? it seems that some of the… Continue reading Untitled

Help me get a free ipod. Click this. http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=8286107 You will have to sign up and I think you have to do one of the promotions. There are a lot to choose from. You don’t have to pay anything. I did the free 4-week trial of stamps.com because I like the idea of printing postage… Continue reading Untitled

I’m home in San Jose! I’m moving into new apartment in Berkeley tomorrow! Play with me!

The following section is copy/pasted from an email I sent to my family. It says what I did on the three-day boat tour I took down the Yangtze River to see the 3 Gorges and the big dam and a bunch of temples.

(this pasted from an email i just wrote to my high school students from taiwan) Right now I’m in Chongching–I finished the three weeks of teaching in Guangzhou, and now we all have one week off. Ryan and I are going on a boat cruise (we’re going to get on the boat in a few… Continue reading whee

Ok, let’s try again. All I want to do is record what I’ve done, roughly. It’s all I can do to not spiral into being angry about everything, because I could type for several hours straight and not even be done with the tip of the iceberg. Yesterday was Sunday. Sundays are our day off.… Continue reading Untitled

I have 22 students. They are 11 years old, mostly. They are awfully cute and I’m getting really attached to them. I’m really tired all the time. Other than teaching, I’m miserable. The organizations we’ve gone through to get here are really shady, and basically some businessman is exploiting us volunteers for as much as… Continue reading Untitled