But somehow I made this video, looks even fancier than a poem :P
Wish my baby Happy 25th Birthday !!!
Love ya :)
10/16/2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Birthday Gift
Haven't got time to put up the words together for the poem, a poem that I have promised Raj as a birthday gift.
But somehow I made this video, looks even fancier than a poem :P
Wish my baby Happy 25th Birthday !!!
Love ya :)
But somehow I made this video, looks even fancier than a poem :P
Wish my baby Happy 25th Birthday !!!
Love ya :)
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Raj's first trip to China !!! :)
Finally back to Berkeley. Sigh... how cool the weather here, around 20 degrees, always sunny, blue sky, big trees, squirrels and deers are alive, jumping here and there carrying no fear of being eaten or made to Chinese traditional medecine and hand bags...
After almost a month's adventure in China, riding bike again in the streets of Berkeley seems so cherishing, at least, we are back in two whole pieces.
Called Amanda's home since her cell already being switched off for the trip to Canada, Mrs. Bradshaw picked up, she literally laughed to the ground while listening to my description of our summer trip.
"Ya, we lost our passports on the first day first hour after arriving in China. Raj gave me his passport, so both of our passports were in my small handbag, I left the handbag on the back seat of the taxi, we didn't remember the name of the taxi driver, didn't even get a receipt. You know, I was too exhausted and too nervous about everything in my own country, and of course, carrying too many luggages."
"bhahahhaha, you guys are crazy."
"Ya, we were stuck there in China and it was so hot, around 100 degrees. We stayed in Guangzhou for getting a new passport and exit visa to Raj, I showed Raj some cities while waiting for Raj's new visa, it was so tiring all the time, we keep sweating the whole trip, now we are both very black and thin."
"bhahahahha, you guys are miserable !!"
"Oh, I also brought Raj to my hometown to show to my parents... my dad said, Raj is indeed a well educated, good mannered, promising young guy, the only thing is, his skin color is a bit too dark..."
"bhahahahah, Mo, this is a good one !!"
"Ohya, since we were not able to take flight (no identities) , I took Raj into some Chinese crowded trains, they were soo crowded, the government sold us this type of tickets (called standing tickets) with no seat, so we had no seat !! We spent 15, 16 hours each journey standing or sitting on the ground with other Chinese sitting, eating, sleeping, spitting and throwing garbage on the ground..."
"bhahahahha, Mo, you guys were really miserable !!"
......
We also met Debu Da, from Raj, the China trip looks like this:
"China looks so so so rich, much richer than India. All western brand good/ luxury cars in the street, each every city has huge buildings, everywhere is under construction, a lot of cities have very advanced metro or BRT system, the public transportation is awesome.
Although it's weird that the government is so powerful to get rid of all the motor cycles in Guangzhou, the streets look exactly like US which filled with expensive cars.
I have been to a lot of places this time in China, even villages, the roads are really wide and have good quality. The highways are also new and in good shape, but I heard it's quite expensive and there are not so many cars in some of the routes.
There is no train in China has no AC, but they sell tickets with no seats (with the same price as tickets with seats), for long distance, they also sell tickets for seats (besides sleepers) which you can't lie down and sleep. Since we only bought the tickets two or three days ago, tickets with seats (and above) already sold out, for 15, 16 hours' night journey, we had to stand or sit on the ground, the best scenarios was that we were capable to sit and sleep for the whole night, obviously there were many more miserable people compared to us.
All the things government made or sponsored, are grand, golden, shiny and awesome, you don't see slums no where, very clean streets, no poor people are capable to be seen. Feels like China is not a place for poor people anymore, which confuses me because according to the statistics, China is still a developing country with huge poverty.
In China indeed women work everywhere, means, in all kinds of professions and positions. In public, almost everywhere from cities to villages, you can see half women half men working or traveling. Although it's always crowded, people won't take your advantages and keep well manners, normal people are generally quite helpful and humble, sometimes more helpful and nice than some officiers.
After almost a month's adventure in China, riding bike again in the streets of Berkeley seems so cherishing, at least, we are back in two whole pieces.
Called Amanda's home since her cell already being switched off for the trip to Canada, Mrs. Bradshaw picked up, she literally laughed to the ground while listening to my description of our summer trip.
"Ya, we lost our passports on the first day first hour after arriving in China. Raj gave me his passport, so both of our passports were in my small handbag, I left the handbag on the back seat of the taxi, we didn't remember the name of the taxi driver, didn't even get a receipt. You know, I was too exhausted and too nervous about everything in my own country, and of course, carrying too many luggages."
"bhahahhaha, you guys are crazy."
"Ya, we were stuck there in China and it was so hot, around 100 degrees. We stayed in Guangzhou for getting a new passport and exit visa to Raj, I showed Raj some cities while waiting for Raj's new visa, it was so tiring all the time, we keep sweating the whole trip, now we are both very black and thin."
"bhahahahha, you guys are miserable !!"
"Oh, I also brought Raj to my hometown to show to my parents... my dad said, Raj is indeed a well educated, good mannered, promising young guy, the only thing is, his skin color is a bit too dark..."
"bhahahahah, Mo, this is a good one !!"
"Ohya, since we were not able to take flight (no identities) , I took Raj into some Chinese crowded trains, they were soo crowded, the government sold us this type of tickets (called standing tickets) with no seat, so we had no seat !! We spent 15, 16 hours each journey standing or sitting on the ground with other Chinese sitting, eating, sleeping, spitting and throwing garbage on the ground..."
"bhahahahha, Mo, you guys were really miserable !!"
......
We also met Debu Da, from Raj, the China trip looks like this:
"China looks so so so rich, much richer than India. All western brand good/ luxury cars in the street, each every city has huge buildings, everywhere is under construction, a lot of cities have very advanced metro or BRT system, the public transportation is awesome.
Although it's weird that the government is so powerful to get rid of all the motor cycles in Guangzhou, the streets look exactly like US which filled with expensive cars.
I have been to a lot of places this time in China, even villages, the roads are really wide and have good quality. The highways are also new and in good shape, but I heard it's quite expensive and there are not so many cars in some of the routes.
There is no train in China has no AC, but they sell tickets with no seats (with the same price as tickets with seats), for long distance, they also sell tickets for seats (besides sleepers) which you can't lie down and sleep. Since we only bought the tickets two or three days ago, tickets with seats (and above) already sold out, for 15, 16 hours' night journey, we had to stand or sit on the ground, the best scenarios was that we were capable to sit and sleep for the whole night, obviously there were many more miserable people compared to us.
All the things government made or sponsored, are grand, golden, shiny and awesome, you don't see slums no where, very clean streets, no poor people are capable to be seen. Feels like China is not a place for poor people anymore, which confuses me because according to the statistics, China is still a developing country with huge poverty.
In China indeed women work everywhere, means, in all kinds of professions and positions. In public, almost everywhere from cities to villages, you can see half women half men working or traveling. Although it's always crowded, people won't take your advantages and keep well manners, normal people are generally quite helpful and humble, sometimes more helpful and nice than some officiers.
Indeed, it could be because that there are police forces, cameras everywhere in public places. Police cars are at least Honda accord !
There is no small bribe in need for the lowest level of execution, official works were easily and efficiently done for us. The police arrived in 3, 4 minutes, let us get into their car and drove us around searching for hotel or street cameras to identify the taxi we took that day while we lost our passports; after whole afternoon's search we still couldn't find anything, the police also gave us a police report without asking us for any bribe. Momo got her new passport within 3 days, then her dad delivered the new passport which would be expired in 2020 to Guangzhou within 1 day so that she can apply for her US visa together with me in Guangzhou while I was waiting for my exit visa.
I have lived in Singapore for two months, I thought the girls there wear the shortest, after seeing China, I think Chinese women are the ones who wear the shortest compare to the other parts of the world... Of course you would see young girls wear short skirts or pants in the west, but you could only see women at the age of 30 to 50 who have kids with them, wearing very very short dresses while shopping or walking in the street. This is weird and made me uncomfortable.
Chinese society is insensitive to women, most of women are not treated as what they deserve, according to me, women's social role is really special since each woman is a potential mother who would give birth to babies and raise them up with her own blood and sweat, the whole society should respect each every woman just because of this. However in China, I didn't see this point, for example, they played dirty joke videos in public while no passengers complained, they shouted at anybody who looks poor, no matter man or woman, some of them shouted at Momo and insulted her with weird questions which made me very uncomfortable even I didn't understand fully, as for me, I would say this shows non respect towards women.
Definitely, China is not a place for poor, although I am from India where Chinese people generally know nothing about it except the poverty, people dare not to treat me bad since I study in the US. I saw officiers shouted at poor looking elders like shouting at dogs.
......"
Ok, got to go now, actually I opened this Chinese Sina blog (http://blog.sina.com.cn/feimoyu21) to write about all that happened, this afternoon I was trying to transfer all the articles into this blog since Sina has the power to delete any of my article or my whole account for no reason.
Sorry that not all the content I wrote and am going to write is in English (since I realized that Chinese written articles were more urgently needed to change some people's mind)...
Cheers
:)
There is no small bribe in need for the lowest level of execution, official works were easily and efficiently done for us. The police arrived in 3, 4 minutes, let us get into their car and drove us around searching for hotel or street cameras to identify the taxi we took that day while we lost our passports; after whole afternoon's search we still couldn't find anything, the police also gave us a police report without asking us for any bribe. Momo got her new passport within 3 days, then her dad delivered the new passport which would be expired in 2020 to Guangzhou within 1 day so that she can apply for her US visa together with me in Guangzhou while I was waiting for my exit visa.
I have lived in Singapore for two months, I thought the girls there wear the shortest, after seeing China, I think Chinese women are the ones who wear the shortest compare to the other parts of the world... Of course you would see young girls wear short skirts or pants in the west, but you could only see women at the age of 30 to 50 who have kids with them, wearing very very short dresses while shopping or walking in the street. This is weird and made me uncomfortable.
Chinese society is insensitive to women, most of women are not treated as what they deserve, according to me, women's social role is really special since each woman is a potential mother who would give birth to babies and raise them up with her own blood and sweat, the whole society should respect each every woman just because of this. However in China, I didn't see this point, for example, they played dirty joke videos in public while no passengers complained, they shouted at anybody who looks poor, no matter man or woman, some of them shouted at Momo and insulted her with weird questions which made me very uncomfortable even I didn't understand fully, as for me, I would say this shows non respect towards women.
Definitely, China is not a place for poor, although I am from India where Chinese people generally know nothing about it except the poverty, people dare not to treat me bad since I study in the US. I saw officiers shouted at poor looking elders like shouting at dogs.
......"
Ok, got to go now, actually I opened this Chinese Sina blog (http://blog.sina.com.cn/feimoyu21) to write about all that happened, this afternoon I was trying to transfer all the articles into this blog since Sina has the power to delete any of my article or my whole account for no reason.
Sorry that not all the content I wrote and am going to write is in English (since I realized that Chinese written articles were more urgently needed to change some people's mind)...
Cheers
:)
Monday, June 28, 2010
arrr... at last
There are so many "draft" articles in my dashboard, both Chinese and English, all half written or with a start.
Was trying to write all the time, however once it stopped somewhere, I couldn't find it back anymore.
Same to the flow of thoughts: always having loads of thoughts and always reminding myself to write them down while still in my mind; cause once the time passes, they would just all slip away.
So maybe I should get over writing long articles... now I see why Twitter becomes so popular.
No matter what will come and stop me today, I will definitely publish this article, even without anything special.
I think I just have too much to say (write) most of the time. I am flowing with the time, my mind is changing each second by knowing more facts, reading more articles, talking to more people and leading my own way of life (unpredictable).
Just like a baby exploring the surroundings by smelling and tasting every item, I wish I also grow like a baby, an old baby :)
Ok, publish now, click !!
Friday, June 4, 2010
理想与现实
有的时候，理想与现实的区别远不止流离在骨感与丰满之间，在满目沧痍的现实世界里，理想和现实往往漂移在流亡与苟活、铁窗内与外甚至是生与死之间。
之前走过的二十多年梦幻般的日子，从不知晓有着这样一个特别的日子，当然更不可能看见自己世界的真实面目。在那些日子里纵然有过各种挣扎与痛苦，但与被梦幻掩盖的冷酷丑恶的真实相比，竟如此微不足道。
那么纪念，就打今年开始吧。
红色与蓝色的药片，你会选择哪个？
Monday, May 24, 2010
Do you have a flag?
Ya we built up empires, we stole countries... that is how you build empire... we stole countries with the cunning use of flags.
Just sail around the world and stick a flag in:
- I claim India for Britain.
- You can't claim us, we live here, 500 million of us !
- Do you have a flag?
- We don't need a bloody flag, we.. it's our country you bustard !
- No flag no country, you can't have one. That's the rules that I have just made up ! And I am backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association.
* Eddie Izzard *
He is my No.1 brilliant artist !! :)
Just sail around the world and stick a flag in:
- I claim India for Britain.
- You can't claim us, we live here, 500 million of us !
- Do you have a flag?
- We don't need a bloody flag, we.. it's our country you bustard !
- No flag no country, you can't have one. That's the rules that I have just made up ! And I am backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association.
* Eddie Izzard *
He is my No.1 brilliant artist !! :)
Friday, April 23, 2010
Amazing Indian choreography from UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley 2010 dance competition, the Indian choreography won the first prize.
The Indian dances are amazingly awesome... I ♥ crazy Indian people....
Now that I know how to "embed" videos, here post some more Indian dancing vidoes of us... :D
This is Raj, Moritz and me in Paris, had some fun in our room :)
This is Berkeley students dancing at Holi celebration :)
And this is my favorite...A tribute to M.J. while we were in Paris with Moritz :P
The Indian dances are amazingly awesome... I ♥ crazy Indian people....
Now that I know how to "embed" videos, here post some more Indian dancing vidoes of us... :D
This is Raj, Moritz and me in Paris, had some fun in our room :)
This is Berkeley students dancing at Holi celebration :)
And this is my favorite...A tribute to M.J. while we were in Paris with Moritz :P
Thursday, April 22, 2010
The Earth Day
I wrote something in Chinese this morning, not as happy as what I always write in English.
It's just that I'm a very moody and fluctuated girl, sometimes extremely pessimistic, sometimes extremely optimistic, when I'm sad, I'm extremely sad, when I'm high, I'm extremely high, when I'm hungry, I eat extremely large amount of food. In short, all the animal emotions are having their extreme terms in me.
So guys don't worry about me, I'm a tough angry crazy Chinese young lady who has very strong arms and legs, and trying to grow a strong heart too... :) And thank you so much (Angela) for your special support !!! I love ya :)
Today is the Earth Day, Raj and I don't celebrate it, because we live in Earth Day almost everyday. We don't have a car, we use man force transportation - bicycle and feet; I scold Raj very hard for leaving lights or water not switched off immediately after usage; we don't use too much heater if it's not truly necessary (also for the bills); and we don't eat beef and pork, only chicken once a week maximum; we never take unnecessary medicine like vitamin ABCDE or fish oil. The only thing is we travel by flight quite often since right now both of us live in a foreign country.
So my friends, please don't just celebrate the Earth Day for 24 hours and forget about it for the other 364 days, the life style of Americans is not sustainable for the planet, and now the Chinese and the other developing countries' people are following up in a even worse pace. Be tough for yourselves and always be aware that maybe our mother earth is reaching her limit, if our generation don't change the trend, things could be out of control.
Ok, I am going to enjoy my orange we bought in Whole Food for $0.49/lb...I love orange so much that at least I would eat 3 oranges at the same time...
:)
It's just that I'm a very moody and fluctuated girl, sometimes extremely pessimistic, sometimes extremely optimistic, when I'm sad, I'm extremely sad, when I'm high, I'm extremely high, when I'm hungry, I eat extremely large amount of food. In short, all the animal emotions are having their extreme terms in me.
So guys don't worry about me, I'm a tough angry crazy Chinese young lady who has very strong arms and legs, and trying to grow a strong heart too... :) And thank you so much (Angela) for your special support !!! I love ya :)
Today is the Earth Day, Raj and I don't celebrate it, because we live in Earth Day almost everyday. We don't have a car, we use man force transportation - bicycle and feet; I scold Raj very hard for leaving lights or water not switched off immediately after usage; we don't use too much heater if it's not truly necessary (also for the bills); and we don't eat beef and pork, only chicken once a week maximum; we never take unnecessary medicine like vitamin ABCDE or fish oil. The only thing is we travel by flight quite often since right now both of us live in a foreign country.
So my friends, please don't just celebrate the Earth Day for 24 hours and forget about it for the other 364 days, the life style of Americans is not sustainable for the planet, and now the Chinese and the other developing countries' people are following up in a even worse pace. Be tough for yourselves and always be aware that maybe our mother earth is reaching her limit, if our generation don't change the trend, things could be out of control.
Ok, I am going to enjoy my orange we bought in Whole Food for $0.49/lb...I love orange so much that at least I would eat 3 oranges at the same time...
:)
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Some great news and summer plan
Today's headline: Raj and Momo fall in love with getting tanned on the beach...
Well, this is not actually a news and is not so great cause a yellow and a brown who love to burn themselves on the sand shouldn't use the verb "tan", but "blacken".
OK, toady's real headline: Amanda got into one of the Ivy League institutions - Columbia University, graduate school, Latin America studies.
Amanda is the first mutual friend of Raj and me (it was also because Amanda went back home for weekend so that Raj found out an empty room... anyways...), we all spent an unbelievable summer in Berkeley I-House, year 2008. For kids like Raj and I who come from loud and crowded countries like India and China, Amanda is different from what the American girls "should be" according to American soaps and movies. What is the difference? I can't accurately describe, but I love the sincere way she treats her friends, I love her messy dorm, I love her talkative and energetic Philipiono mom and the backyard farm they have.
Somehow I envy a lot their little farm at backyard. Amanda's parents are taking care of all kinds of vegetables, they are also feeding about 15 chickens and collecting their eggs...The vegetables and eggs come from their farm are so different from the ones in supermarket, no matter labeled "organic" or not, they are fresher, greener, goldener and juicer.
Last time Mrs. Bradshaw brought us a box of fresh eggs from her farm, this made me so happy because my mom also loves to buy me "local eggs" (土鸡蛋) from farms where chickens have standing life and successful crow. Industrialization, even eggs are industrialized...Anyways, so each time when I opened the box, I touched each one of the eggs very carefully, picked up one, smelled it, since this could bring me back to my childhood memories when I was playing around with cats dogs crickets and carpenter worms at my grandma's garden.
Mrs. Bradshaw and I are making spring rolls - Philipiono style :)
It is indeed a fruitful season, dozens friends are admitted by more than one top universities worldwide. I-house gangsters Shailabh, Suman, Gourab, Raj's other friends from IIT and Bokaro. Although I don't really know all the details, also they still need some more time to make the final decision, I would like to say congratulations to all of them :)
Raj's friends are mostly top ranked engineers in India even the whole world, if possible, lots of them would love to get out of India for different reasons, temporarily or permanently. It is almost the same situation in China. Recent years more and more scientists and engineers went back to China since the Chinese economics's ability of absorbing talents has improved. I wish India is embracing the same progress so that these smart ass IITians could actually pay some more valuable tributes back to India other than direct foreign investments.
But somehow, I am more worried about China in the sense of absorbing talents besides scientists and engineers, for example, independent journalists, film makers, writers and artists. Ironically, it is usually this kind of "idle" people who give history a big kick once a while. Can China move in the right direction without consulting them? Can China stubbornly maintain the same attitude towards them? How long it would last? I wish within my life time, I could find out the answers.
Ohh, and our summer plan !
China and India !!
Would be my second time to visit India and Raj's first time to visit China. There are already a few Raj's friends have confirmed that they would come and join us in New Delhi and around. Yeeeeee, I am so excited to meet them and see Delhi with them !!!
For Raj, I would most probably show him Xia Men, the very fine city at the coast, take him to eat a lot the Chinese food and I won't forget to show my Chinese lady friends the rare animal - an Indian boyfriend.
Well, this is not actually a news and is not so great cause a yellow and a brown who love to burn themselves on the sand shouldn't use the verb "tan", but "blacken".
OK, toady's real headline: Amanda got into one of the Ivy League institutions - Columbia University, graduate school, Latin America studies.
Amanda is the first mutual friend of Raj and me (it was also because Amanda went back home for weekend so that Raj found out an empty room... anyways...), we all spent an unbelievable summer in Berkeley I-House, year 2008. For kids like Raj and I who come from loud and crowded countries like India and China, Amanda is different from what the American girls "should be" according to American soaps and movies. What is the difference? I can't accurately describe, but I love the sincere way she treats her friends, I love her messy dorm, I love her talkative and energetic Philipiono mom and the backyard farm they have.
Somehow I envy a lot their little farm at backyard. Amanda's parents are taking care of all kinds of vegetables, they are also feeding about 15 chickens and collecting their eggs...The vegetables and eggs come from their farm are so different from the ones in supermarket, no matter labeled "organic" or not, they are fresher, greener, goldener and juicer.
Last time Mrs. Bradshaw brought us a box of fresh eggs from her farm, this made me so happy because my mom also loves to buy me "local eggs" (土鸡蛋) from farms where chickens have standing life and successful crow. Industrialization, even eggs are industrialized...Anyways, so each time when I opened the box, I touched each one of the eggs very carefully, picked up one, smelled it, since this could bring me back to my childhood memories when I was playing around with cats dogs crickets and carpenter worms at my grandma's garden.
This is beloved Amanda cuddling her beloved chicken.
Mrs. Bradshaw and I are making spring rolls - Philipiono style :)
It is indeed a fruitful season, dozens friends are admitted by more than one top universities worldwide. I-house gangsters Shailabh, Suman, Gourab, Raj's other friends from IIT and Bokaro. Although I don't really know all the details, also they still need some more time to make the final decision, I would like to say congratulations to all of them :)
Raj's friends are mostly top ranked engineers in India even the whole world, if possible, lots of them would love to get out of India for different reasons, temporarily or permanently. It is almost the same situation in China. Recent years more and more scientists and engineers went back to China since the Chinese economics's ability of absorbing talents has improved. I wish India is embracing the same progress so that these smart ass IITians could actually pay some more valuable tributes back to India other than direct foreign investments.
But somehow, I am more worried about China in the sense of absorbing talents besides scientists and engineers, for example, independent journalists, film makers, writers and artists. Ironically, it is usually this kind of "idle" people who give history a big kick once a while. Can China move in the right direction without consulting them? Can China stubbornly maintain the same attitude towards them? How long it would last? I wish within my life time, I could find out the answers.
Ohh, and our summer plan !
China and India !!
Would be my second time to visit India and Raj's first time to visit China. There are already a few Raj's friends have confirmed that they would come and join us in New Delhi and around. Yeeeeee, I am so excited to meet them and see Delhi with them !!!
For Raj, I would most probably show him Xia Men, the very fine city at the coast, take him to eat a lot the Chinese food and I won't forget to show my Chinese lady friends the rare animal - an Indian boyfriend.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Colorful life - the Holi in bay area and Santa Crutz trip :)
Besides lying on the sunny beach, dancing with crazy Indian people, surfing the internet from our cozy apartment (with a heater while it's windy outside) is also a luxury in my life, especially when my reading and editing preference is having effect on some readers.
Everything has its own price, for me, doing the things I like or being with the people I love has its highest price than other things in my life. I have seen a lot of giving-ups, it's called "being practical or realistic". I seem like driving my life train in an opposite direction, never tasted the so-called success as being in strong financial position or strong social position (like my finance department peers back in Xiamen U). But the surprising thing is, I am feeling good (if not moody). Maybe after all we are just human beings, the happiness mainly comes from the things which touch your heart, such as the things you like to do or the people you love.
I never know the taste of success after giving up the man I love, but right now I am feeling the happiness of being with the man I love, and because of the choice, now I have the chance to make my own career out of the things I truly like to do. See, I am redefining the word "success" in my own way no matter what the society told me.
Maybe sometimes most of the people are blind, but the majority keeps accusing the sober ones to make them feel that they are wrong, you never know...
The only truth is: you have to be tough and have faith in yourself !
I am grateful for the people who encouraged me, there are not many and I will remember them one by one, one sentence by one sentence. It's also kinda like building up a psychological community myself, I will tag this community as "sober", adjust the definition through experience and time, and use it as a lighthouse for my life journey in the sea.
But you know, I am also very happy to be around with different people even the ones who disagree, they are also the colors of my life :)
Talking about color, it's Holi time!!!
Spring break we went to Standford for Holi. Standford's Holi is the biggest Holi celebration also one of the biggest Indian affairs in bay area, thousands came, well organized and Indian family involved, guess there are just too many Indians living around Standford and Silicon Valley. Here are some pictures:
seeeee... evidence !!!!!
see the horrible horrible couple...
Bros in Standford: Nishank and Madhur!!!
Me being colored !! :D
As Raj says: the two people change the world. (changed and will change hopefully:)
yoooo Standford bros :)
See the crazy Indians ....!!!
This is where we got the colors :)
The crazy Indian guys jumped into the freezing Standford fountain after dancing with colors... :) Indians are crazy, I LOVE them :)
Also we went to the Berkeley Holi yesterday. Berkeley Holi was very nice as well, more of a student's affair, less people due to the limited space but more awesome dances. As you can see, Holi everywhere !!! :) Here are some pictures:
See Raj and crazy Sravan :)
That is me riding on Raj's neck!!! :D
hehehhe
Raj --> traditional Indian dancer
That was before we were colored :)
People getting high :)
Berkeley bro Debu Da is carrying his friend... :)
And during the spring break Raj drove me to Santa Crutz !!
After 6 hour beginner's training, Raj decided to drive me to Santa Cruz beaches for a one day trip, also a part of his driving practice to get a license. I haven't checked how the road would be, when we arrived at Pacific Highway 1, I got totally scared...
see the beautiful views.....
this is when we crash into the flowers
The fact is even experienced drivers would be very careful when they drive on Pacific Highway 1, no need to mention Raj, who had never drove any car before. He did a lot of "too much right", "too middle", "too sudden stop" for the first half an hour, severe enough to make me start screaming.....and then, I suddenly found out what "the most beautiful highway" really is.....
The world's most ridiculous couple in the world's most shockingly beautiful highway....
After all, Raj is a very talented driver so that we didn't crash into the Pacific, just got horned by loads of cars. And of course after my non-stop Chinglish shouting of "slow down", "too sudden turns","more steady", Raj figured out that he should adjust his vision a little bit further...
So somehow we arrived, saw the hidden beach, got tanned and had some fun :P And on the way back home, Raj already became an experienced driver who doesn't need my shout...
So people, Enjoy Your Life !!!!! :D
Everything has its own price, for me, doing the things I like or being with the people I love has its highest price than other things in my life. I have seen a lot of giving-ups, it's called "being practical or realistic". I seem like driving my life train in an opposite direction, never tasted the so-called success as being in strong financial position or strong social position (like my finance department peers back in Xiamen U). But the surprising thing is, I am feeling good (if not moody). Maybe after all we are just human beings, the happiness mainly comes from the things which touch your heart, such as the things you like to do or the people you love.
I never know the taste of success after giving up the man I love, but right now I am feeling the happiness of being with the man I love, and because of the choice, now I have the chance to make my own career out of the things I truly like to do. See, I am redefining the word "success" in my own way no matter what the society told me.
Maybe sometimes most of the people are blind, but the majority keeps accusing the sober ones to make them feel that they are wrong, you never know...
The only truth is: you have to be tough and have faith in yourself !
I am grateful for the people who encouraged me, there are not many and I will remember them one by one, one sentence by one sentence. It's also kinda like building up a psychological community myself, I will tag this community as "sober", adjust the definition through experience and time, and use it as a lighthouse for my life journey in the sea.
But you know, I am also very happy to be around with different people even the ones who disagree, they are also the colors of my life :)
Talking about color, it's Holi time!!!
Spring break we went to Standford for Holi. Standford's Holi is the biggest Holi celebration also one of the biggest Indian affairs in bay area, thousands came, well organized and Indian family involved, guess there are just too many Indians living around Standford and Silicon Valley. Here are some pictures:
My first Holi !!!
seeeee... evidence !!!!!
see the horrible horrible couple...
Bros in Standford: Nishank and Madhur!!!
Me being colored !! :D
As Raj says: the two people change the world. (changed and will change hopefully:)
yoooo Standford bros :)
See the crazy Indians ....!!!
This is where we got the colors :)
The crazy Indian guys jumped into the freezing Standford fountain after dancing with colors... :) Indians are crazy, I LOVE them :)
Also we went to the Berkeley Holi yesterday. Berkeley Holi was very nice as well, more of a student's affair, less people due to the limited space but more awesome dances. As you can see, Holi everywhere !!! :) Here are some pictures:
See Raj and crazy Sravan :)
That is me riding on Raj's neck!!! :D
hehehhe
Raj --> traditional Indian dancer
That was before we were colored :)
People getting high :)
Berkeley bro Debu Da is carrying his friend... :)
And during the spring break Raj drove me to Santa Crutz !!
After 6 hour beginner's training, Raj decided to drive me to Santa Cruz beaches for a one day trip, also a part of his driving practice to get a license. I haven't checked how the road would be, when we arrived at Pacific Highway 1, I got totally scared...
see the beautiful views.....
this is when we crash into the flowers
The world's most ridiculous couple in the world's most shockingly beautiful highway....
After all, Raj is a very talented driver so that we didn't crash into the Pacific, just got horned by loads of cars. And of course after my non-stop Chinglish shouting of "slow down", "too sudden turns","more steady", Raj figured out that he should adjust his vision a little bit further...
So somehow we arrived, saw the hidden beach, got tanned and had some fun :P And on the way back home, Raj already became an experienced driver who doesn't need my shout...
So people, Enjoy Your Life !!!!! :D
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Woke up by an adventurous dream
Had a kinda scary dream, woke up, Raj also had the same kind of dream (infected by me)...both of us survived though...
My brain is just full of crap, weird things floating around, sometimes takes me to space, sometimes heaven, few times even the hell, of course I have been to the transition area of heaven and hell... lol... that was an awesome dream I had when I was a kid...
Used to write by hand, finished tons of hard cover dairies, used to write tree four times a day since my brain kept sending me craps worthwhile to be recorded, also, I was in school, what we studied was boring...I really should keep that going, maybe in my computer or internet...
Sci-fi was my no.1 favorite...now I only have time for sci-fi movies and fabulous dreams once a while...those kind of books and magazines gave me a new life, a brand new world. I am not a fan of being in real life sometimes, and dragging me down from cloud seemed like my mom's daily duty...why not just let me be there, in my own world (although it seemed stupid), let me dream whatever I want, let me read whatever I like, maybe I already became a famous sci-fi writer by now...ya, I even started to write sci-fi stories... all this just seem so far away to me today...
We were discussing the running train in the dark corner of bar "Graduate" the other night, me and bunch of international Geographers, we were sitting in the dark, suddenly started to describe the dreams deep in our mind...life is like this running train, filled with half-dead things which are flying around, running towards nowhere in the desert, some of us didn't see hope, jumped out the train no matter what and struggled in the desert alone, some of us jumped out but came back for the people they love. Me? Never had this kind of dream yet...but I was there, in the same train, while they were describing it...I wish I will have my own running-train-dream soon, just to figure out what would be my reaction.
Really should pick up my writing now, I want to be a good writer someday, no? ...no matter what kind of things I write...because it depends on my brain which functions randomly, not my mind...
My brain is just full of crap, weird things floating around, sometimes takes me to space, sometimes heaven, few times even the hell, of course I have been to the transition area of heaven and hell... lol... that was an awesome dream I had when I was a kid...
Used to write by hand, finished tons of hard cover dairies, used to write tree four times a day since my brain kept sending me craps worthwhile to be recorded, also, I was in school, what we studied was boring...I really should keep that going, maybe in my computer or internet...
Sci-fi was my no.1 favorite...now I only have time for sci-fi movies and fabulous dreams once a while...those kind of books and magazines gave me a new life, a brand new world. I am not a fan of being in real life sometimes, and dragging me down from cloud seemed like my mom's daily duty...why not just let me be there, in my own world (although it seemed stupid), let me dream whatever I want, let me read whatever I like, maybe I already became a famous sci-fi writer by now...ya, I even started to write sci-fi stories... all this just seem so far away to me today...
We were discussing the running train in the dark corner of bar "Graduate" the other night, me and bunch of international Geographers, we were sitting in the dark, suddenly started to describe the dreams deep in our mind...life is like this running train, filled with half-dead things which are flying around, running towards nowhere in the desert, some of us didn't see hope, jumped out the train no matter what and struggled in the desert alone, some of us jumped out but came back for the people they love. Me? Never had this kind of dream yet...but I was there, in the same train, while they were describing it...I wish I will have my own running-train-dream soon, just to figure out what would be my reaction.
Really should pick up my writing now, I want to be a good writer someday, no? ...no matter what kind of things I write...because it depends on my brain which functions randomly, not my mind...
Friday, March 12, 2010
These days...
lol....
Long time....last post was few weeks ago I guess~
Keep being busy, but really happy :P
I am feeling sooooo lucky...finally I am doing something I really have passion on :)
A lot of things happened in the past few weeks.
First, I have to show the picture of the Indian kid we sponsor:
A serious kid, no? Raj registered in this program to help Indian kids not dropping out from school, every month 15 dollars, only, will be enough to make sure that he/she could continue school instead of going to the labor market.
My Indian/ American/ French/ German/ Chinese... friends, if you saw this, please do the same thing for the kids in need wherever they are!!! Just a good eating out for you, right?
Then, I have to show the mess in our kitchen, just to give Raj some pressure and idea of how much work a woman has to do to maintain a clean apartment !!
Actually Raj already got some idea while I was not in Berkeley (2 weeks Chinese new year back at home), and that was why Raj started to help me wash the dishes after I returned, especially when I am moody :D I don't care, guys just need some training and lesson, even they would keep saying: God I miss the good times of being a bachelor......You have to train them with no mercy!!
Ohh, and the peaceful Berkeley protest...very peaceful actually...We haven't participated the whole trip, walked up to Parker street with them and came back with work. But got some pictures:
find out where Raj is -->
a very daring guy in Berkeley --> hope he won't be beaten up by our Geographer friends one day...
"Go away? No way !" ya that is our most famous quote for daily/weekly fights...
And that is me !! :)
see the kid !!!
and the kids !!!
Raj is being interviewed by a very cute French student reporter,
see the video in Youtube :) And she is actually an East Asian looking... Raj's type !!!
Raj and our Geographer friends !! :)
And these are the small ##s (Raj also doesn't know what it is called) I collected.. :)
I actually wished to continue with them in the protest, but both Raj and I had some work to do... and I can't explain but I got so excited each time when protests happen... poor Chinese girl never enjoyed a real protest before coming...
Long time....last post was few weeks ago I guess~
Keep being busy, but really happy :P
I am feeling sooooo lucky...finally I am doing something I really have passion on :)
A lot of things happened in the past few weeks.
First, I have to show the picture of the Indian kid we sponsor:
A serious kid, no? Raj registered in this program to help Indian kids not dropping out from school, every month 15 dollars, only, will be enough to make sure that he/she could continue school instead of going to the labor market.
My Indian/ American/ French/ German/ Chinese... friends, if you saw this, please do the same thing for the kids in need wherever they are!!! Just a good eating out for you, right?
Then, I have to show the mess in our kitchen, just to give Raj some pressure and idea of how much work a woman has to do to maintain a clean apartment !!
Actually Raj already got some idea while I was not in Berkeley (2 weeks Chinese new year back at home), and that was why Raj started to help me wash the dishes after I returned, especially when I am moody :D I don't care, guys just need some training and lesson, even they would keep saying: God I miss the good times of being a bachelor......You have to train them with no mercy!!
Ohh, and the peaceful Berkeley protest...very peaceful actually...We haven't participated the whole trip, walked up to Parker street with them and came back with work. But got some pictures:
find out where Raj is -->
a very daring guy in Berkeley --> hope he won't be beaten up by our Geographer friends one day...
"Go away? No way !" ya that is our most famous quote for daily/weekly fights...
And that is me !! :)
see the kid !!!
and the kids !!!
Raj is being interviewed by a very cute French student reporter,see the video in Youtube :) And she is actually an East Asian looking... Raj's type !!!
Raj and our Geographer friends !! :)
And these are the small ##s (Raj also doesn't know what it is called) I collected.. :)
I actually wished to continue with them in the protest, but both Raj and I had some work to do... and I can't explain but I got so excited each time when protests happen... poor Chinese girl never enjoyed a real protest before coming...Ohhh, Raj and me went to my professor's place for dinner !!! It was awesome, we enjoyed a lot !!! Professor's kids are sooooooo cute and smart..... Raj and I like them a lot..... and I also want some cute mixed blood kids !!!! :) Just hope they are not turning out to be too dark.....
Next Sunday (day after tomorrow) is Holy celebration in Berkeley, we will join the crazy Indians and color each other with all the beautiful colors, my first semi-official Holy, in US... And next weekend we will go to Standford for Standford's Holy celebration, my second semi-official Holy, in US .... :P Hope one day soon will be with Chinu, Tanu, Dibyendu, Abhay and other friends in the land of India to color each other :)
Raj is right now busy at reading his precious bio fuel books and learning a lot of things which I don't understand (and I definitely don't want to) at all... looks like he is really into it... ok, maybe they are really serious... Raj, Nishank and some guys from Standford are working on the plan of a bio fuel company, to win some initial funding to kick off....very promising idea actually, wish them good luck then, although I am not capable to offer any help in this step :)
Next Sunday (day after tomorrow) is Holy celebration in Berkeley, we will join the crazy Indians and color each other with all the beautiful colors, my first semi-official Holy, in US... And next weekend we will go to Standford for Standford's Holy celebration, my second semi-official Holy, in US .... :P Hope one day soon will be with Chinu, Tanu, Dibyendu, Abhay and other friends in the land of India to color each other :)
Raj is right now busy at reading his precious bio fuel books and learning a lot of things which I don't understand (and I definitely don't want to) at all... looks like he is really into it... ok, maybe they are really serious... Raj, Nishank and some guys from Standford are working on the plan of a bio fuel company, to win some initial funding to kick off....very promising idea actually, wish them good luck then, although I am not capable to offer any help in this step :)
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