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• pho restaurants
• teriyaki restaurants
• Jamba Juice

Things they need less of:

• Dunkin’ Donuts
• pizza places
• student muggings

YAY. I made good progress today! So a good day I guess, though it’s getting cold out here. I keep saying that and the temperatures spike back up….but the forecast is for mid 20s up to mid 40s for the rest of the week. Gloves and scarf are becoming essentials. Glad I picked those up while I was in Seattle. I also got a North Face vest this weekend which is awesome.

I think this is the first week where I don’t have any events to go to with free food… If there’s one thing that Yale is awesome at is keeping their students content with free food and drink. There is always something going on on campus, so really no excuse for not getting involved or attending extra events in free time. Hm..I’m sure there’s something for this week Today I got lunch at the food carts outside the School of Management. They also have them outside the med school. Best food around campus in my opinion and the cheapest. During lunch hours a whole bunch of portable food carts show up on campus and sell all kinds of good food cooked on the spot. It includes Thai, Japanese, Korean, Mediterranean, Indian, Chinese, etc. I’ve tried two so far and they’re both delicious. I try to make all my meals since it’s healthier and cheaper, but if there’s anywhere worth buying it it’s at those carts in my opinion. And I always have enough for dinner too!

I fly home in a week! Next Sunday night I fly out of Newark home to the 206!

It’s scary that the semester is almost over…I only have 3 or 4 more classes for each course Um, and I have 2 finals the week after Thanksgiving…whoopee… I really hope we don’t get any assignments over the break because I’m going to need to spend the time studying for the exams rather than doing problem sets.

All, in all, I was surprised I actually got some stuff done this weekend. I got some work in and also make some progress on my compilers assignment which has been sucking down all my time. Not only that, but I was able to enjoy the tailgate in the pouring rain yesterday I got there early to help set up at 8:30am and then was there til 2. The tailgate lot is huge and it’s impossible to find anybody. Total chaos, with tons of tailgates going on with the undergraduates…so our grad one was lost in the mud. We had sooo many burgers, hotdogs and kegs. Next year they really need to have a designated spot so people know where to find us. Any way, it was still fun even though we got drenched. The game itself…pretty boring. Ivy League is not known for sports There was barely anyone actually in the Yale Bowl watching…everyone still tailgating through the 3rd quarter it seemed like. I escaped at half time since I was all muddy and getting cold. My white shoes got ruined…need some new ones…shopping…

Speaking of which, I’m going down to NY on Friday so maybe buy some sneakers then Going to meet up with Marian and have dinner with friends most likely. And then Saturday is Cambridge!

Quantum of Solace was pretty good…though I should have watched Casino Royale again before because I couldn’t remember the details from that movie. The two were connected.

New “rankings”. Poor Yale SOM dropped…the dean just left and i think everyone was up in arms. Hm…but look at UW prices, what a steal! Harvard is sooo expensive.

Man, some days I just so ‘blah’ here. More of the same old same old every day - can’t wait to be done with this semester and take some hopefully interesting classes next semester. And after a convo with Jessie yesterday and what I’ve been thinking for the last couple months I’m trying to figure out what I want to do with my degree. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t regret coming here to get my degree, but now I’m just not sure what I want to do with it! I am pretty sure I am not meant to be a programmer and sit at the computer all day cause that’s just not what I’m good at and more importantly not what I want to be doing. An advanced technical degree will be excellent though in whatever I end up doing. I feel like a lot of people in management or other less-technical positions make too many critical decisions with very little technical knowledge.

I’m thinking about getting a project management certification in the next couple of years.

I think I have some kind of anxiety disorder or something, I never feel relaxed here. Always something to do and never time to just relax. I don’t remember it being this way in undergrad - somehow I had time for all kinds of stuff like going to wushu 4 days a week and taiko and random other stuff.

There’s a lot of fun events coming up this weekend, we’ll see how many I can make it to. Thursday got GPSS meeting, Friday going to sushi buffet. Friday night there’s another party at GPSCY but I don’t know if I can go cause i’ll probably be in the zoo (computer lab) working on this assignment Saturday - Quantum Solace & Yale/Princeton Tailgate and Game. That’s going to eat up most of my day and then there’s some dance party at GPSCY - doubt I’ll make it to that. Sunday stay home and get some stuff done. On top of all that I need to get stuff done for work which has taken a back seat to school work…need to get some good hours in.

Tonight I saw a couple of comedians from Last Comic Standing the TV show who performed on campus. It was actually really hilarious - the comedians were Corey Kahaney and Dat Phan (who was the winner from the first season). They’ve both been on Leno and Letterman I think and Dat Phan has got a couple movies coming out soon. Any way, it was good cheap entertainment - Corey, the lady, was hilarious. She did a really funny Jersey accent. And then of course we got our fair share of Asian jokes when the Vietnamese guy went on. Funny stuff.

Jessie, Arpi, and I are plotting a trip to NY the first week of December. It’s gonna be awesome. I think we’ll start in NYC, come through New Haven, and then go up to Boston. Yay!

14 days til I come home for Thanksgiving!!

I went shopping in Milford with Tiffany today, at a REAL MALL! Yeah first time to a mall in Connecticut. I bought a shirt which is the extent of the shopping I’ve done since I got here (other than my boots and some socks).

I have a lot of stuff to do in the next two weeks…I am looking forward to the Princeton tailgate this coming weekend and then there’s some kind of Bollywood dance party or something. I will probably go for an hour Sat night and then have to bail to go do more homework. Ugh. Hoping to fit in another all-you-can-eat sushi dinner sometime, but I don’t know. I’m expecting to spend many long hours on this one assignment that is due in a week and a half

A poem that was emailed out by a co-worker…I for one cannot wait for the Holidays. And now that Halloween is past it’s full-speed ahead towards Turkey Day!

‘Twas the night before implementation and all through the house,
Not a program was working not even a browse.
The programmers hung by their tubes in despair,
with hopes that a miracle would soon be there.
The users were nestled all sung in their beds,
while visions of inquiries danced in their heads.
When out in the machine room there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my desk to see what was the matter.
And what to my wondering eyes should appear,
but a super programmer (with a six-pack of beer).
His resume glowed with experience so rare,
he turned out great code with a bit-pusher’s flair.
More rapid than eagles, his programs they came,
and he cursed and muttered and called them by name:
On update! on add! on inquiry! on delete!
on batch jobs! on closing! on functions complete!
His eyes were glazed-over, fingers nimble and lean,
from weekends and nights in front of a screen.
A wink of his eye, and a twitch of his head,
soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
turning specs into code; then turned with a jerk;
And laying his finger upon the “ENTER” key,
the
systems came up and worked perfectly.
The updates updated; the deletes, they deleted;
the inquiries inquired, and closings completed.
He tested each whistle, and tested each bell,
with nary an abend, and all had gone well.
The system was finished, the tests were concluded.
The users’ last changes were even included.
And the user exclaimed with a snarl and a taunt,
“It’s just what I asked for, but not what I
want!”

November 2nd through 30th!!!

http://www.dinearoundseattle.org

Yesss that means when I’m back I can go!

And wow, what an emotional and historic election. I like McCain’s concession speech…how funny his most presidential speech was his concession speech.

It’s finally here! Let’s get it over with and move forward…how many of you are attending watch parties tonight? There’s some on campus so I’ll be going to watch the polls for a bit this evening.

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This weekend was fun - Halloween I had dinner at a delicious vegetarian Indian restaurant which is near by. Went with a group of friends and then we went to the grad pub (called GPSCY) across the street from my place for the big party. Apparently there were like 4 or 5 grad parties going on that night. The GPSCY party was alright - they had 3 levels of stuff. Bar with free beer and pizza and candy on the bottom, 2nd floor was DJ and dancing, and another DJ and bar upstairs on the 3rd floor. My costume went over well - everyone loves a burger! But it was hard to move around cause my costume is huge and people kept running into me. haha. Any way, I saw some pretty creative outfits at the party and was generally impressed by the effort people put into some of them. I met a hotdog at the party and we took a picture together. lol. The weather was perfect this weekend - sunny and clear but chilly.

Yesterday morning I took the Greyhound to Boston to visit Jessie! My first time to Harvard and to Boston - and I really liked what I saw! We ate awesome Taiwanese food at Taiwan Cafe in Chinatown. I got to see her office on the medical campus and in the evening we saw High School Musical 3 and had dinner and then went to a party at someone’s apartment. Boston is so cool! All the universities are so close together and the food is good! I’ll be back there in a few weeks for the Yale vs. Harvard Football game, and then possibly again in December to visit again. This morning before I left we went to the main Harvard campus and wandered around Harvard Square. They have all these cute restaurants and stores there. Harvard Yard is just like the yard on Yale’s campus.

Thanks to Jessie for letting me stay with her