During this week (Dec 3-7, 2007), there is snowing all day. The result is everything is turned to white! Wow! I never see the world like this before. It completely makes me excited. The temperature is also very low (sometimes it reaches -7 c!). I will go out to build a snow man!
On Tuesday Dec 4, 2007, I have a poster fair (showing my final project in class with the big poster board) for Privacy, Policy, Law, and Technology class. I am very nervous because I am afraid that my project is not good enough (-_-"). My project is an extension for Firefox called "FoxBeacon." Other people's projects are also interesting. However, this fair just lasts for 80 mins (class period).
P'Pop, P'VJ, Park, and me go to wait in front of Best Buy in the night of Thanksgiving (Nov 23 2007). We are buying to buy a lot of discounted items just only for this day. The shop will open at 5 AM, and there are a lot of people since midnight. After a long wait in snow (it's damn cold!!!), the shop opens at 5 AM. We go and grab all the items we want. At last, we all spent totally about 1000$! Wow!
Thai students at CMU have Loy Kratong + Halloween Party (wow! duo cultural party! never seen before). This party has some interesting activities like shows of freshman, fancy competition. I also attened the fancy by dressing as a "RAPPER." Ha ha ha. That's very funny to do. Prie, P'Choob, and me also sing a rap song (Prie and me are beatbox...).
It's fall now and everywhere is very beautiful with the colorful trees! This big tree has all their leaves in yellow. That's so terrific! It's on my way to home.
This is a picture from the first meeting of my Software Engineering group, "JAYA." My team includes Juan Pino, Yimeng Zhang, Ankush Gupta, and me. Juan and Yimeng are from Language Technologies Institute, Ankush is from MISM. They are all awesome! and I have a very good time working with them. Our task is creating new algorithms for Recommender of Interactive Active Learning module (what's that?!! -_-"). Hope I can get through this project safely.
Sniff...sniff....Finally, our team, SIAM, had to stop after we lost in the 2nd match of play-off. The score is 4-1 (Oh! how bad!). However, the main point is for fun and health, not the victory, right? :P
I spent nearly 400$ for my shopping of winter stuffs at Waterfront!! (ToT) These are what I bought:
On November 20th, 2007, there was an event called "College Puzzle Challenge 2007" supported by Microsoft. It's an event of puzzles, and riddles! We used ReturnoftheGeek as our team name because theGeek is the team name of the previous year. We started at 12 PM with the 1st problem set. It was really really hard and we 4 (P'Ping, P'Pop, Park, and me) couldn't do it at all. We decided to go home after 6.30 PM (there was free pizza). However, P'VJ came at 6 PM and solved 2 problems. We got 70 points and we're 38th from total 39. Thanks god (and thanks P'VJ)!!!
These two are my new display pictures!! Andy Fire and Andy Winter!!! I tried to make myself looks like Kung-Fu boy. Is that true? Ha Ha Ha
Today at 2 PM, we have the 2nd soccer match. We have to win this game for chances to go into the playoff. The weather is damn cold!! It's 45 F (4C)! However, we did really well. P'Golf, N'Arm, and N'Pree score total 5 goals. And we win 5 - 2. Wow! really awesome!!
It's Saturday for caving! Laurel Caverns is the name of the cave. I take a bus from CMU which takes about 1.30 hour. Inside the cave is really dark! (you can't see your hand in front of you without a light), and it's really cold. I have to crawl (yes, I do!) above a shallow stream, climb over stones, and slip through muddy ground. It takes about 2.30 hours to complete this trip, and go out with dirty clothes!
Wow! New Mac OS X "Leopard" has its world premier grand opening today at 6 PM. Park & I go the Apple store in Walnut street. There is a very long line (about 100 persons in the line). I wait for 1 hour until I get a free T-shirt (Yes!). After taking a look at Leopard for a while, I realize that I still have a Vista machine I just bought, so I can't buy it now. :-(
Today Thai students have a meeting for taking pictures of fall foliage. The trees in front of Warner Hall are very red and yellow. Wow! It's very beautiful! This is one of my dream to see the red & yellow leaves of maples. :)
Let me proudly present my beloved bike....here is Jacky. He's my bike I bought from a guy here for only 20$. It's a very good deal comparing to its usefulness. I ride him to school everyday and it takes only 5 minutes! Wow! I can sleep longer! \o/
It's Haloween. Yes! It's coming. So, today I create my own Jack O'Lantern from a pumpkin bought from Strip district (an Asian grocery store area in Pittsburgh). I think he's pretty cute rather than scary. -_-"
Arrived USA
English course at UDEL
Bye bye...UDEL
Arrived Carnegie Mellon
Sunday at Pittsburgh (playing soccer)
Semester started (chilled)
Knew the first quiz score
Lots of homework
Knew that the midterm is coming..
More books to read....
How can I relax !!!
Fist subject exam..Still have more books to read....
2 weeks of reading in a row..
A day before the 2nd exam...
During the 2dn exam...(reading the 1st question)..
Finished the 2nd exam...
Now.........
Wow! At last the real "fall" has come. After being stressed with my midterm exam (I didn't post this blog for a whole week!), I've just noticed that the colors of trees change from green to yellow and red already. Does this mean that it's fall? However, I really love the trees' colors at this time. It's really beautiful!!
As the topic says, how can I survive from this midterm exam ??? !!! Arrrgghhh....
Software Engineering for Information Systems is my favorite class in this semester. I learn a lot about software creating process. Especially, the instructor is really good and funny. His name is Eric Nybergh. I really love his style of teaching. He always gives us an reading assignment before class which is about 20 pages each day. Prior the class starts, there will be a quiz to make sure that his students actually did their reading assignment. Even his voice is pretty low (make me sleepy :P), but his humor helps me to wake up. I really have fun in this class.
