Looking forward to...

After watching the trailer on TV I thought this would be just another crappy alien movie but surprising it's getting such good reviews. I'm so curious. I haven't seen a good sci-fi movie for so long. so yeah I'm looking forward to District 9.

100th post: A Newsletter made for Etra's summer assignment.

Click to view the PDF

After some trial and error apparently in order to have the best effect you must save as a new document and then open it again and go to View-Page Display-Two-up and also select "show cover page during two-up" option.

Breaking promise.

I promised Chris numerous times that I'd take the Mexican bus in the morning with him but after some serious contemplation and weighing of the pros and cons I think I'm going to break this promise again for several reasons:

FIRST: I simply can't wake up any time before 8:30AM. It's physically impossible.

SECOND: Mexican bus costs money whereas Columbia shuttle doesn't.

THIRD: I don't want to listen to Chris's random personal attacks and BS about his life. He was acting extraordinarily bitchy and obnoxious last night over AIM just because of some petty issue and I just know what's going to happen if I sit next to him for thirty minutes for three days. When my brother and I fight, my mom used to tell me if my brother doesn't want me to talk to him or look at him then DON'T. If I still talk to him or look at him then I'd be very 贱 (low and inferior), which is a very very very very very bad word Chris used to describe me last night along with some other words. If I know very well that he did and will continue to call a "friend" names like this just because he feels like it then why would I be so 贱 to voluntarily spend more time with him?

FOURTH: Although having a friend on the subway ride would be nice but instead of getting insulted and listening to Chris exalting himself the whole time, I rather have a nice conversation with Jackie and/or Gene for about twenty minutes each morning even though I'd be taking the subway and m66 alone.

So Chris, if you happen to read this post, know that I won't be there tomorrow because I am not a 贱 bitch. :)

An Incident that I forgot to tell

One day I was leaving my work place and I was crossing the street to get to the bus stop on the other side. At this moment some random guy biked across so I paused and we both looked at each other for a second but, unlike me, the guy didn't turn away from (aka couldn't stop) looking at me and seconds later he lost control of his bike and fell onto the ground.

I knew I have mesmerizing beauty.

An Adventure?

I went to Columbia for its campus tour and information session today. But this is not the story.

I left my house at 12PM and took the Mexican bus across the bridge and then A train--because I thought A trains runs local on the weekends. Even my mom said yes. But that's not the case. Apparently the A train is still express on the weekends. I realized that after it arrived at 145 street and I didn't want to wait for uptown A and then take 1 train downtown. So I got off at 125th street and got onto a local train for just one stop. And there I was, at 116th street. Well, I thought the 116th street stop on the A train line wouldn't be too far from the 116th street stop on the 1 train line since that's what the map appeared to show me. From the MTA subway map it appears that they are just a couple blocks away. Right, and WRONG. These two stops ARE in fact just "a couple blocks away" and Columbia IS situated right between them but so does a freakin' mountain!

So yeah, I did some climbing today. It wasn't that bad actually; it was really just a "mini" mountain. Plus I haven't climbed for quite a while so I actually got really excited as I fanatically running up the stairs.

Well, just one little reflection. The difference between the two "sides" separated by that mountain is huge to me. When I asked a woman how to get to Columbia she said something like "you mean the other side?" I didn't understand what she meant until I climbed over that "mountain" (and I hate to use the word mountain because it's really not a mountain). The East side where the A train runs seems dull and a bit shabby, whereas the Columbia side is much more lively and elegant in a sense. It's amazing how even within the UWS such a small area can be divided by just a tiny mountain, and develop so differently.