For the two hundredth post on this new journal, I bring old memories and a new address. The new address comes as part of a shift I want to make to consolidate all my web logging experiences in one place and a want to redesign, not the journal itself (since I still like this simplistic self-designed template very much) but the rest of my website to match the journal. So, that will be coming in a few days. Until then, let me look back at the past year and dig out some of my most cherished memories.
Although it might not be the first chronologically, the first really grand thing that jumps to my mind about last summer - almost exactly a year ago - was reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. What a delight to read that wonderful book was, and still was yet again this summer and I just finished re-listening to it on audio only to move on to Book Six. Perhaps, I can go through them in reverse order this summer. I really enjoyed reading the aforelinked entry because it's just brimming with my excitement and enthusiasm about Harry Potter - a sentiment hard to mask even behind the stillness of written text.
Possibly because my internship was so boring did I get so much work towards personal projects done last year. This year, since my internship keeps me glued so, I barely get that kind of time, not to mention that last year I was friendless in an alien suburb, which gave me more free time than I'd ever imagined having. It got a bit boring, but I feel I made the best of it. And here's something I spent the beginning of last summer working on - the then redesigned Journal, which, as of this writing, is the current design.
Ah, yes and my Chinese adventures continued in full force last year after having studied it for a year at Stanford and having found it to be a supremely interesting language to study, which, if it were not for the characters, would also be counted as one of the easiest to learn languages of the world. And along those lines, I published what I believe is my first post completely in Chinese. And now that I come to read it after a year, I have to really restrain myself from clicking on the little pencil icon and fixing all the numerous errors I'd made back then, which sound disturbingly wrong to my ears now, after another year of having studied the venerable subject.
Toyon, of course! Wow, looking back at the memorable year this has been, living with about ten score sophomores. And these two posts recount the beginning of that adventure, one that would be filled to the brim with endless fun, friends and anime. It was an amazing experience being staff on a dorm and I recommend it to anyone who's considering it. I found out after having staffing that the key point which makes it so much more fun staffing than being a regular person in the dorm is that when you are a staff member, people feel less guilty in bothering you, which gets you, assuming you're someone who likes company, more people to talk to and become friends with than you ever imagined. And afterwards I reminisce over it in Hinglish.
When I discovered Simpu Singh and Indians speaking Cantonese.
When I met Chinese people in New Delhi over winter break. (Hindi)
When I had my best academic quarter ever! God, that made me happy.
When I wrote the first piece of software that made me feel a sense of accomplishment. (Liànxí)
When I finally got a free ticket to WWDC.
And found an internship I really liked.
Although it might not be the first chronologically, the first really grand thing that jumps to my mind about last summer - almost exactly a year ago - was reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. What a delight to read that wonderful book was, and still was yet again this summer and I just finished re-listening to it on audio only to move on to Book Six. Perhaps, I can go through them in reverse order this summer. I really enjoyed reading the aforelinked entry because it's just brimming with my excitement and enthusiasm about Harry Potter - a sentiment hard to mask even behind the stillness of written text.
Possibly because my internship was so boring did I get so much work towards personal projects done last year. This year, since my internship keeps me glued so, I barely get that kind of time, not to mention that last year I was friendless in an alien suburb, which gave me more free time than I'd ever imagined having. It got a bit boring, but I feel I made the best of it. And here's something I spent the beginning of last summer working on - the then redesigned Journal, which, as of this writing, is the current design.
Ah, yes and my Chinese adventures continued in full force last year after having studied it for a year at Stanford and having found it to be a supremely interesting language to study, which, if it were not for the characters, would also be counted as one of the easiest to learn languages of the world. And along those lines, I published what I believe is my first post completely in Chinese. And now that I come to read it after a year, I have to really restrain myself from clicking on the little pencil icon and fixing all the numerous errors I'd made back then, which sound disturbingly wrong to my ears now, after another year of having studied the venerable subject.
Toyon, of course! Wow, looking back at the memorable year this has been, living with about ten score sophomores. And these two posts recount the beginning of that adventure, one that would be filled to the brim with endless fun, friends and anime. It was an amazing experience being staff on a dorm and I recommend it to anyone who's considering it. I found out after having staffing that the key point which makes it so much more fun staffing than being a regular person in the dorm is that when you are a staff member, people feel less guilty in bothering you, which gets you, assuming you're someone who likes company, more people to talk to and become friends with than you ever imagined. And afterwards I reminisce over it in Hinglish.
When I discovered Simpu Singh and Indians speaking Cantonese.
When I met Chinese people in New Delhi over winter break. (Hindi)
When I had my best academic quarter ever! God, that made me happy.
When I wrote the first piece of software that made me feel a sense of accomplishment. (Liànxí)
When I finally got a free ticket to WWDC.
And found an internship I really liked.
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