driven by herd instinct to start blog.
guess it's really nice to pen down all my thoughts, but somehow i dun think i will record all my feelings cos ultimately there are personal things that u never want anyone to find out, no matter how close they are to you.
oh well.... but still.. i will just give this a try =) and see how long i can maintain this for...

hmmm what should i talk about today.....
find that i am not all that cut out for city and regional planning after all... guess the syllabus here is geared too much towards the US scenario.. with little insight into planning internationally and the details of it all put me off a little. plus my classmates all seem to be super on and informed about planning in the US, while my interest is somewhat shallow as compared to them. somehow the material is starting to lose its appeal.... my IAS 45 lecture on decolonialization was really invigorating on the other hand.. some history professor from a college in massachusetts came to give a guest lecture... he argued that roots of decolonization lay in colonization itself... that the ideologies preached by the colonizers to the colonized peoples led to these very ideas used against them.... the power and influence of ideas!!

i suddenly realized that people think that i speak very softly... ok maybe not suddenly, cos some ppl hav told me that before, but i just think that it's strange how u urself cannot really gauge the volume of your voice.... and just a little baffled how the way i speak projects a certain image of me...

made the effort to 're-establish' old ties.. typed an email to Chen Lao Shi... and she replied! quite happy. will try to write to her in Chinese and prevent further deterioration of my already lousy Chinese. and can ask her to introduce chinese books to me.. haven read any chinese books for such a long time, really quite sad. posted a birthday postcard (March Chagall, I and the Village) to Joyce and Jeannice... speaking of I and the Village, i think i can claim back my painting, but i guess i wun get it back eventuall... sometimes i am driven by sudden impulses to do art, paint, sketch, and images of nice pictures and sketches on my wall just flood my mind. but i never get down to doing it... well maybe this summer, when i stay in Berkeley to bum around.... plus learn to cook.. (though no one would try my food =( ) there's actually so much to do... but just that i wonder if i would ever get down to doing all these things.