I Am Finally Back Online!

I can hardly describe how great I feel right now.

After struggling with my awesome Lenovo Thinkpad T61 on Ubuntu Linux for about a week’s time, I am finally back in touch with civilization. Long story short, everything was working flawlessly until I deleted — out of pure stupidity — Network-Manager (the program… Continue reading...

Wreck Beach Trails - Life’s Good

“How are you doing?”, I ask.

“Life’s good, you?”, replies the nude man – humming and passing by me as I walk amidst the breath-taking views of the Pacific Spirit Park Wreck Beach trails.

Life’s truly good. Now, I hardly recall what stress is. Photos or even video simply cannot do justice here. I’m not just talking about

Freshly Brewed Post

So it seems like the rest of the 1st Year Blog Squad along with myself have officially made it onto the New to UBC newsletter. Whoohoo! I feel kinda famous now — expecting people to hunt me down in the middle of the street asking for autographs

Don’t know about the rest of you reading… Continue reading...

Beginning of the Hectic School Year: Cramming Already

Hate to break it to you but… we’re hardly into the first complete week of school and I am cramming like mad already.

There’s a math test coming up tomorrow! I’ve been at Irving for the past few nights consecutively. We indeed live in sad, sad times.

Some tips for this hectic period: eat well… Continue reading...

UBC Sauder Frosh 2008!!!

Notice how I used three exclamation marks?

I’m not going to go into deals what exactly happened at frosh. Why? I believe that the Sauder Frosh simply cannot be described in words. It’s simply indescribable.

What I am going to do, however, is to give you an idea what it had felt like being at… Continue reading...

I Would Write More, But…

I would write more, but I’m currently too tired.

Sitting in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, I reflect on many things: crazy weekend at Frosh, Imagine UBC, my very first offical day of classes…

There’s a lot to be written about. Stay tuned. To be continued…

UBC’s Internet Speed is Insanely Fast

Currently, it is 1:36 AM. I’ve finally settled into rez @ Vanier, Robson house.

Before I get to Sauder Frosh 2008, moving in…etc., let me just say:

UBC’s internet speed is freaken fast! 9464 KBits/Sec translates to (divide that by 8 ) 1183 KB/S (the unit we see on a day-to-day basis) which translates to 1.2 MB/S!… Continue reading...

UBC Blog Squad

I guess now I can say that I’m officially a part of the UBC Blog Squad.

Oh, on a side note: I wonder where this post would rank in Google for the search query “UBC Blogsquad”. The wonders of SEO

*Update* - As of Sept. 1, 08, this post ranks second in Google for… Continue reading...

Police Car in Beijing, China: Toyota Prius!

I wanted to publish this earlier on, but didn’t really get the time to. So here it is: a Toyota Prius police car that I saw in Beijing on Aug. 5, 2008, parked adjacent to Tiananmen Square.

You see police cars of all sorts: old, beat-up Volkswagens… shiny, new Hyundais…. unmarked, covert Mercedes Benz… you name… Continue reading...

So University Begins… Almost?

My first official post for UBC Blog Squad

Thu 12 Aug, 1:08 PM
Scattered clouds
17.0 oC
Calm
Sunrise: 06:13 / Sunset: 20:18

I’m having mixed feelings about university: on one hand, I’m feeling all nostalgic about the end of summer, the end of “childhood” as we know it (how cheesy) …etc. On the other hand, I’m really looking… Continue reading...