dunno why but there's nothing really worth blogging about this week... feel a bit xian. and little tired i guess, with 3 hws due today didn't really sleep that much yest. spent the longest time trying to figure out STATA and trying to complete my very long 142 prob set. even so i bet i'm prob still not half as zai as some of my classmates in this class. oh well, that's ok. at least i enjoy this class. sitting at comp now i'm suddenly reminded of the d&a dinners we used to hav two sems back and i kinda miss that. not that it was worth 'commemorating' or anything. guess just little things that made you happy that u miss now that things aren't the same anymore.

unfortunately it seems that other profs i've tried approaching so far all refer me back to the same prof who has declined to help me... one's on sabbatical... think if this happened to me say 2 yrs back i would have felt like a total failure... but now i guess i do try to not get too emotional over things, or just lose hope easily. must admit that what happened was negligence on my part too. i mean i'm kinda discouraged... but doesn't mean that without that prof's help i can't write my thesis right? =) and my history prof recommended some books for me to read... so i mean i guess i just hav to put in a lot more effort on my own...hmm but wonder if i sometimes appear too studious to my housemates? (more than once i fell asleep in middle of night with light on and sometimes they think i'm studying but obviously i conked out) because somewhat out of the blue my landlady said to me yesterday, "you need to fall in love, Shi Min"... to which i could only say, "that's not really up to me to decide, is it"... then she just laughed...not so sure getting attached for the sake of getting attached is that wise a thing to do huh?

A Fistful of Quarters

parking enforcement folks must have pissed off quite a lot of ppl, for someone to make a video like this... =P i'm sure most of us at Berkeley can empathise with the female lead? (coincidentally she's called 'squish'.. dun ask me why) i found the signboard esp funny... NB: might take few min to load though for some ppl...

braindead and upset today. need a break...
just spent whole of Sat writing a history response paper due tonight and the past 2 hours or so recovering from shock after receiving an email reply from this prof who believes that i intended to plagiarize something from a paper. sigh, perhaps i should have been more careful in writing up my research question... because it was just a tentative and early draft of what i'm interested in investigating, i didn't quote my sources and i think that's why the prof (who has apparently came across the paper i quoted from) thinks that i have the intention to cheat and warned me that that is behavior not acceptable of Berkeley students. i'm upset cos i really hav no intention to plagiarize and now he definitely wun help me... and he happens to be the prof on campus most familiar with the issues i want to look at... well i guess i can look for other ppl. but i'm just really upset that he totally misunderstood my intentions (though i can only blame myself for screwing things up). =(