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Welcome 2010 !!!

LOL I am tired of reading "Happy New Year" every year on AIM and Facebook. I do not celebrate New Year eve for a few years already because I am not a kid anymore.

A new decade!!

Yeah, it's 2010, another decade since 2000. So what? Just stay home, like we never had a new year before.

I have a boring life now. I really need some works to do over this break. I have a planned agenda before the break, but I am procrastinating. Oh my god, I need stop it.

Oh, I am reading Rainie Yang's bog recently. Her latest entry 心.煩... is here. Her blog says a lot about her life. I have read a few other artists' blogs before, yet, I find Rainie's one frankest, especially with her emotion state. For numerous times she mentions that she wants to be in love.

I start learning about the true face of Rainie Yang through various sources: drama, blog, news and interviews. At 娛樂百分百, she interpreted her new song "青春鬥" how she felt as being 25 years old. She said only love could keep her young. As an actress, as well as a star, she could not have an open relationship. She has at least five known love affairs and the only one she ever admitted was with 小鬼, whom was her first boyfriend in high school, and whom she thought she would marry with. Nevertheless, her parents' divorce had her lost faith in marriage and love. A week ago she told the reporters that she was still single, but she felt she was "in love" for the past couple months. She was referring to her role in Hi My Sweetheart. She once admitted that she wanted to be in love, but she would not promise because she could not.

Oh well, it is my time to sleep. I wish everyone has a great starting.

I am really bored without Hi My Sweetheart !!!! >3<

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After a few months of efforts, I finally got a room near school. It is right across the main campus, about 30 seconds away from the gate. I am very happy with it.

As I have mentioned before, I would share this room with a visiting phD Columbia student from Beijing. Nevertheless, the room is large enough to fit two people, enough space to sleep and work. The basic rent is $720 per month, shared by the two of us. Utility is electricity, and is shared among the four of us, probably between $20 - $30. To round up the total cost, $360 + $40, I am expecting $400 per month per person. This is not bad at all.

I will move in mid-Jan, probably around Jan 10 - 15.

I am looking forward with Hi My Sweetheart ep.10. Oh my god.

Anyway, tomorrow is December 31th, but I am going to stay home. It is too cold to join the crowds at Time Square tomorrow night. Oh well. I am still waiting for Ross to review my grade. I can't believe he gives me B+. My final project deserves an A.

Oh today the NYPD had an investigation near Time Squares because of a suspicious white van. By noon they found the van safe, with only clothes and tables. Man, terrorism is really bad-ass. Ruin people's life.

Si-tu-but seems to be ill today. I hope she gets well soon. <3 I love my hamsters.

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Oh my god. I am in love with this drama. I can't stop thinking about the characters and story. It is a really cute drama fantasy. I even image-cut a scene when she cries to her pink tiger doll, and makes it my AIM default.

Rainie Yang is really cute, and her acting is mature and good in Sweetheart. For the last few years, I refused to watch her drama for some unknown reasons. Nevertheless, I find her a good actress in Sweetheart.

I remembered her from Meteor Garden. I was surprise to find out that she was a former member of 4-In Love at age of 16.

Rainie is now 25, and is getting older. Yet, I find her now more attractive. She has femininity - I just like how she is now. Pure and lovely.

I know she has makeup on, Mike. But in my opinion I think she still retains at least 60% - 70% of her beauty without any makeup. I am serious.

Hi My Sweetheart is hilarious. I laugh to death for every 5 minutes. They make the love scene funny too. I am looking forward with ep 10 next Sunday.

I dream that I will find a girl like Chen Bao Zhu (寶茱姐). She is not rude, just very independent and assertive.

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Yes. Christmas Eve already. Happy Christmas.

Nevertheless, what I really want to do is work. Well, actually, I want to eat first, but my refrigerator is empty.

So I have been looking for a room near City College for two months already. I have visited one, which is only two blocks from City and with utilities I am expecting $550 a month. The landlord is a nice lady, but I really want to minimize my expense.

After spending more than a thousand dollar on Wendy last year, I am really broke. I did have a summer job and it was quite good bonus. Two months ago I decided to save all my money into my bank account, and I have $2200 left.

A Columbia PhD student spoke to me if I would share a room with him, between $600 - $700 a month. The deal is that if we divide it half, each of us will only pay $300 - $400. Although I always hate sharing a bedroom with another person, I guess I just have to learn it since MIT and Cornell only provide shared dormitories.

After speaking to an admission staff at Cornell, since I have course conflict this year, I would have to apply as a junior standing. For MIT, it's worth a try this year, just to get the experience. To get admitted to MIT, one must demonstrate its unique potential contribution to MIT community, and I already have a concrete idea about what I need to do. It's worth that $70 this year and next year again.

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I am very disappointed with phpBB team. Their team members are so double standard. While their own people proposing feature implementations, and have no problem with those, they would warn users not to jump ahead the schedule.

While there is no specific restriction or vision what they want since the beginning, they police my thoughts and ideas. I am totally sick of their tones and attitude. I was the first one asked people not to draw any tangent, and later they came back to lecture me.

What a shame to these experience software engineers. I am only a freshman in college, and I find myself a better engineer than they are. They tell users their expectations implicitly. They want to discuss archeiture, then please have the developers start the discussion first. Users' engineering experiences do not matter at all. It is about correcting the attitude.

They make users uncomfortable to give in. Users are penalize when their comments offend the developers even if they are facts. They police users' thoughts and ideas. I agree that we need to monitor every reply and to keep our discussions relevant to the subject, however, phpBB team does not let users know their expectations.
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Do your work. Don't be stupid.

I like this quote because it tells the story. I was a bit lazy to do my work and ended up with Counter Strike. I finally left the clan (well, I demoted myself from full admin to a member) because I couldn't take the risk to fail my college career.

Midterm
I just suffered from my midterms. I would strongly remind all of us that we need to focus on our studies because finals are coming in 5 weeks. I was glad that my chemistry midterm was over. I hate raining especially when it happened on the day of an exam. I thought I failed but I got 82 which Professor made it an A grade. I was lucky to have this A. We are only given one chance, one grade to be dropped from the calcuation. I will have to work very hard on the next exam and be prepare for the final. I have a good feeling that if I do study everyday and since he is giving his sample exams to us, I probably can ace it easily. Right after the exams I had lab. It was a 17 points lab. I probably got a 12 or 13 because of the precision.

Concert
At night I went to a concert at 92nd Y. It was a great concerto trio performed by The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robison Trio which features a pianist, a cellist and a violinist. It was a Franz Schubert's trio performance. They played the followings:

Piano Trio No.1 in B-flat major, Op. 99
Piano Trio No.2 in E-flat major, Op. 100

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You made it, John Liu! Yes you did. I am proud of you. We are all proud of you, John.

First of all, John is the first Asian-American stepped into the City Council of New York and now he's the first A-A made to a city-governmental level position, the Comptroller of NYC.

For the past 8 years of your hard works as a Councilman, John, you deserved this victory. I am proud of you, not only because you are a Chinese / Asian, but because of what I see from your dedication. You aren't those money-loving creatures. You are the good moral and the model of what a politician should be. When we approach you, you will always come forward and step into the problem. You will help the helpless and hopeless people to get their needs. You made MTA the real liar and you made the education more into the hands of the parents, not the small petty-group appointed by the Mayor.

You did a lot for our high school as well. Francis Lewis is proud to have you as a friend who helped us getting those MTA buses to serve the student everyday. We are proud of you. You have attended the Arista orientation and my graduation. You have been a friend to us, everyone in the community.

John C. Liu. Yes, we can. We made it.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/liu-and-de-blasio-lead-in-early-returns/?ref=nyregion

http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=137175583546#/john.c.liu?ref=mf

Congratulation, John Liu, the Comptroller of NYC.
Are you ready, John?

John Yeukhon Wong

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There was something different about Lewis. It seen like I wasn't welcome to Lewis anymore. All the sudden I felt like I was only a visitor. When I tried to go around, I didn't know where to go exactly. Even with the alumni, Mr.Shama didn't mention too much.

I think I need to focus on my study then.

Well, after seeing Wendy yesterday, I just lost all the mood and she completely wiped out my mind. All I did after visiting Lewis was sleeping. It was a sad story. I felt like it was impossible to keep this inside my head. It was completely stupid to dream "I will get you 10 years later".

It was completely pointless to like someone who isn't my friend anymore. It was completely painful to remember all these people I hurt and people I liked. Two days ago I came across to Grace Tsui. I always feel disgusting every time I remembered what I did in my Sophomore year. That letter and presents I gave to Grace make my sick now.

What about Wendy? There was a feeling of worthless. All I remembered was another disgusting moment. Those memories would drive me crazy. It took me a couple months to finally not get into these memories as much as possible. But every time when she appears in front of me, these disgusting moments and love returns like they will strangle me to death.

I have two exams comping up and I know I must ace those two exams.
Mike Chen told me she's planning to attend Baruch. I know exactly why she made this decision. But she gave up on me. She said she would go to engineering. She lied to me. Just a year ago.

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Sometime, things go oddly. I thought about meeting her one day, especially the day visiting Lewis again. But God has His own plan for human.

As soon as I stepped out the E train today at Roosevelt Ave, I saw her. She was walking. Yes, right at the moment I left the E train, I saw her. She was so easy to be recognize. Same bag, same back-look. I knew it was her. I turned around, and tried to move away from her. I even thought about leaving that area and moved down. I refused. I meant my feet refused to cooperate with me.

There was so much bumping and pulse went crazy. I felt a pressure.
I admitted the truth: I miss her and I still like her. I want her. Period.

When we got out the train together, I turned to the Q.B direction instead of the entrance to Grand Ave. I wanted to avoid her and pretended I didn't see her at all. I knew she wouldn't dare to say hello to me. She knew I wouldn't want to talk to her again.

Maybe she had the same feeling too - she didn't want to talk to me either. Or maybe she didn't have any pressure because, she didn't like me.

When I finished my shower, I went to sleep. I didn't want to think about it anymore. But I noticed one thing: I lost the mood. It wasn't just the mood. But her appearance wiped out my mind. I just like her very much. Maybe God should let me rewind the past and fix that error.

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757No Comments »http://opensourcebot.com/blog/2009/09/17/odd-fate-much/odd+fate+much%3F2009-09-17+23%3A42%3A12John+Wong

CUNY started the new semester on August 28th, which was a Friday. My first class was music 10100 which started at 8:00am and last for the next 2 hours and a half, until 10:30am. Then I had my chemistry, FIQWS lecture and finally chemistry workshop.

August 28th was a week ago. So how's my college experience so far? Well, so far so good. I actually enjoyed being a college student. I am very satisfied with my chemistry professor, who called himself "a crazy professor". Since his first lecture (he brought his son to our first lecture), his demonstrations were always an epic win to the students. They scared the students (including myself, of course) though but we still loved to see them every in the end of every lecture! For example, he would put a handball and a banana into [i forgot the name of the liquid]. These objects lost all their heat and so they froze. Then, unexpectedly, he threw the handball across the lecture hall, and it broke with a sound just like breaking a glass. LMAO

He did so many amazing and great demonstrations which I hopefully will get a chance to record them (I have to ask his permission, of course). He did record his lecture because he used the "lecture text pad" to write notes and presented it on the screen. He recorded the pad and his lecture, but I doubted about the demo part.

Anyway. My calculus professor was a phD and he wrote textbook. Although our first two classes focused on high school materials, such as inequality and absolute values, he actually put effort into the presentations and used amazing examples to prove his points. I actually enjoyed the class. Yet, I hoped someone could turn down the air-conditioner, just way too low.

Anyway. I have an amazing time with CCNY. But as I progress, things get harder and more time consuming, I will eventually hate college. We have Monday off due to the national Labor Day, but I have a list of things to do, especially with the CCNY Student Group - indeed a pain in the neck.

Filed under:CSC 1000, Calculus 20100, Chemistry 10301, College Notes, FIQWS 10026, Music 10100, Personal  Author:John Wong
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