i stumbled upon this video, which was shown at the beginning of my Econ 115 class say a week ago. (think Columbia Business Sch students produced it just for kicks?) apparently Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School, was dubbed to be one of the candidates for Fed Chair; but of course, Bernanke got the position...
(yes, as you can tell, Shi Min is suffering from senioritis and can't get herself to start studying though her finals are starting next week)
Friday, May 05, 2006
Berkeley's cherry blossoms?
was sitting just outside Golden Bear Cafe some two weeks ago when the very pretty sight of the Campanile with cherry blossoms in the foreground caught my attention. that was when i was super-stressed over thesis... anyway went back the next day to capture this picture. unfortunately, the weather was pretty gloomy during those weeks and so i didn't manage to get the clear blue sky that has showed up in so many of my Berk pics... and as you can tell from the leaves peeking out from between the blooms, the cherry blossoms were approaching their 'end' already... nonetheless, i like how they frame and add subtle pinks to my pic of the Campanile and the Sather Gate. strangely enough, i never noticed cherry blossoms on campus till i came back from DC...
was sitting just outside Golden Bear Cafe some two weeks ago when the very pretty sight of the Campanile with cherry blossoms in the foreground caught my attention. that was when i was super-stressed over thesis... anyway went back the next day to capture this picture. unfortunately, the weather was pretty gloomy during those weeks and so i didn't manage to get the clear blue sky that has showed up in so many of my Berk pics... and as you can tell from the leaves peeking out from between the blooms, the cherry blossoms were approaching their 'end' already... nonetheless, i like how they frame and add subtle pinks to my pic of the Campanile and the Sather Gate. strangely enough, i never noticed cherry blossoms on campus till i came back from DC...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
A planner's concerns
am trying to make use of this short window of free time i have this week to plan for short getaway with family to Las Vegas and surroundings but doing a good job seems exceedingly difficult, for several reasons.... eg. i want to go to Grand Canyon, and apparently it takes about slightly more than 5 hours to drive there from LV. so then i have to think 1) will parents let me drive?? (will ask later, of course) 2) am i really capable of doing it alone? 3) even if obstacles no. 1 and 2 are overcome, will family actually be able to stand a 5.5-hr road trip? will they be carsick? and quite importantly, will we totally get lost?? and this time round, i'm pretty wary of superimposing my own preferences onto my family... my lack of foresight in making my mum walk around all day with me in Tokyo some 2.5 yrs ago resulted in her getting pretty tired by early evenings... while i'm really happy to be able to bring my family around; and i really want them to have an enjoyable holiday, i'm also somewhat clueless as to what they will really want to do... though they prob wun have any major grudges even if some things dun go that well (since they arent exactly that picky about stuff), but you know, you still want to make sure things dun go wrong etc etc.... haha. and it doesn't help that i might hav different incentives from parents... eg. i might want to save on costs and rent car whereas dad might want to be safe and get ripped off by tour groups.... hai. and it certainly doesn't help that i'm a natural worrier :P
am trying to make use of this short window of free time i have this week to plan for short getaway with family to Las Vegas and surroundings but doing a good job seems exceedingly difficult, for several reasons.... eg. i want to go to Grand Canyon, and apparently it takes about slightly more than 5 hours to drive there from LV. so then i have to think 1) will parents let me drive?? (will ask later, of course) 2) am i really capable of doing it alone? 3) even if obstacles no. 1 and 2 are overcome, will family actually be able to stand a 5.5-hr road trip? will they be carsick? and quite importantly, will we totally get lost?? and this time round, i'm pretty wary of superimposing my own preferences onto my family... my lack of foresight in making my mum walk around all day with me in Tokyo some 2.5 yrs ago resulted in her getting pretty tired by early evenings... while i'm really happy to be able to bring my family around; and i really want them to have an enjoyable holiday, i'm also somewhat clueless as to what they will really want to do... though they prob wun have any major grudges even if some things dun go that well (since they arent exactly that picky about stuff), but you know, you still want to make sure things dun go wrong etc etc.... haha. and it doesn't help that i might hav different incentives from parents... eg. i might want to save on costs and rent car whereas dad might want to be safe and get ripped off by tour groups.... hai. and it certainly doesn't help that i'm a natural worrier :P
Monday, May 01, 2006
Black bottom muffins
i would treat myself to one of these at FSM/Bear's Lair from time to time and they are SO yummy! i've been wanting to make them myself... but never got the chance nor time to. now that i need to make something to thank ppl, i finally embarked on this baking proj this afternoon... they turned out fine, looking pretty cute! but the cream cheese/choc chip part doesn't taste as good as the professional ones... somehow my cheese is softer. but maybe it will harden later.
tried to take those cool close-up pics... but still cannot really make it :P
muffins fresh from the baking tray! the third one in the third row has a longish smiley face on it...
and this one has an almost perfect heart shape.....
i would treat myself to one of these at FSM/Bear's Lair from time to time and they are SO yummy! i've been wanting to make them myself... but never got the chance nor time to. now that i need to make something to thank ppl, i finally embarked on this baking proj this afternoon... they turned out fine, looking pretty cute! but the cream cheese/choc chip part doesn't taste as good as the professional ones... somehow my cheese is softer. but maybe it will harden later.
tried to take those cool close-up pics... but still cannot really make it :P
muffins fresh from the baking tray! the third one in the third row has a longish smiley face on it...
and this one has an almost perfect heart shape.....
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