Going through RA training, it's interesting going through this again for many various reasons.

For one, I feel like an adult in college for once. I am like one of the oldest RA's in the room, most of them are around 19-21 and I'm way older than that. Then second, its also interesting to be mixing with all the white kids again. Speaking of race, we had the most interesting Diversity training ever.

I will rant abt it here because I did not download it onto my gf, she was too busy glued to the idiot box (television). When I have something burning or exciting to talk about and I don't get the proper audience, I feel like I have a time bomb in me that I need to get rid of otherwise I feel like I will explode with this information.

So this lady is called Maura Cullen comes in.

She is a tall skinny white lady. All the minority students are like oh man, how can we be having diversity training with this white lady presenting. To make matters worse, it's like gonna be 5hrs long. One presenter for 5 hrs...what a loong boring day its gonna be...WROOONG. It was the best RA presentation I've been to and I've been an RA for a while.

First she started off with some impressive, original ice-breakers to break the ice. She could also do magic tricks which I tohught was really cool..especially since I could not figure out how in the world she did it even if I was seated like 5 ft. away from her.

So anyway, she was funny, cocky (New England humor), she had a very dry sense of humor and really knew how to engage a crowd. Most of all, I was impressed by the way she kept the fact that she was a lesbian till the very end of the presentation, after we had given her our stamp of approval as an intersting presenter. You know with us college kids (or with them...for some reason, I don't consider myself a college kid...I dunno..do grad students count as college kids? ..anyway)...with us college kids, u gotta grab our attention within the first 5 min of ur presentation or we're off to lalaland. So back to the point, she kept that lil secret for the end to avoid any sort of stereotyping or labelling from teh start.

She really hit the nail on the head when it came to diversity..and it was not just abt black and white..she covered internatioal students, fat ppl, mentally handicap..handicap, rich, poor, ..anything u can name, she covered it, she took us on emotional roller coasters, made us laugh, cry,laugh, smile..all emotions u can possibly think of in just one presentation...now that's what I called a solid presentation. She forced us to analyse those sensitive topics btwn race..and I was surprised at how open the white kids at NU were...I must admit I had my own stereotypes that most Northeastern college kids are not diversity compliant, ubt there is hope after all...at least more than back in Indiana... I guess I could have seen it coming with the Director of REslife gave her a mountain-high introduction.

To sum it up, it was great...oh, another cool ting that she did, was that during the 20 min break that she gave us in between her presentation, she took random pics of students on her digital camera, and by the end of her presenation, she had integrated all those pics into her final powerpoint presentation slide, with R.Kelly ..I believe I can fly playing in the background...now that was awesome.

According to NYTimes, a Dell laptop caused this explosion in that poor truckers car. It shd be noted however that he had ammunition in the glove compartment to assist in the reaction.
However, Dell laptops have been responsible for 6 similar incidences ever since Dec. hence the biggest recall in comsumer electronics ever that shd cost them 300 million dollars. Wow.

I can picture Osama in his cave exclaiming,
"Dude, I'm getting a Dell! "

Present time: As I eat my lunch of white rich and General Chau chicken, I muse over how I came to have this delicious meal.....hmmmmm......(delirious melody plays in background)

Last nite: After a long day of work, I get home and there's no food in the fridge..what Aunt Jus didn't cook (yes yes, I'm one of those spoilt , lazy no-good college graduates that stay in school forever in order to stay home longer..but thats besides the point).
My cousin and I decide to go out in hunt for fast food to fix our munchies. Waltham has very few fast food places open past 10pm. Even McDonalds was closed. The only open place was Wendys and everyone knows Wendys sucks!
we're driving on main street and then Voila, ASIAN WOK is still showing the glowing neon sign - OPEN. Can everyone say Chicken Wings!
we get in and place our orders. While waiting and making small talk with the visibly impatient attendant, I;m thinking too myself, these Chinese guys are really hardworking. I can't picture a Ugandan, let alone an African restaurant being open past 10 pm and opening till 1am in the morning. Keep in mind it was only two guys holding down their fort. But then again, the demand for African food is ont as great as that of Chinese hence no need to open late for no customers.

Anyway, so he recommends chicken /beef and broccoli, rice - 5.95, big meal, u can add chicken wings for a dollar, good deal, u will be very satisfied.
Sure, why not. We order exactly that, he serves it, staples the bag and hands us our take-outs.
We're greedily walking out of the place with our dinner adn then I remember to check the contents since Chinese restaurants are notorius for messing up my order (or sometimes I mess up the order). Sure enough, they had messed it up once again. The chicken was white, and I wanted the brown juicy chicken.
I angrily showed it to Ivan, but the greedy punk was too hungry to care.
I storm back into the restaurant and demand for my order to be changed.
Mr. attendant is mad too. "You order chicken broccoli, what u are sayin now is General Chau chicken. It takes longer to prepare..next time u shd know what u order, now I gotta change the order..." rests for a frustrated mintues..."you know..that is why they insist that when u come to this country, everyone must learn English, you must know what ur ordering for next time, it will save a lot of time..blah blah blah".... wait, did this dude wth an accent stronger than mine make fun of my English...oh well, as long as he gives me my chicken, I really don't care, he can blubber on forever. 10 minutes and many insults later, I happily walked back to my car with my order of white rice and General Chau chicken...
Moral of the story:
1. Never settle for less than you deserve
2. Even if the error in the order was yours, don't settle for food you don't want, especially when you're paying for it

I'm excited that adsense finally approved my account again to include ads on my sites and generate some revenue. Now only to get the darn thing working. For some reason it's not working on my blog. It says error 202 when I try to activate it, any help is welcome.

I always wrestled with how much to write in a blog, how much to expose.
When I was younger, I kept a diary..u can say I was kind of a wierd kid that thought too much of himself..well I still do..I don't think am that wierd. I've successfully integrated into society. Anyway, back to the secrets of diary and my life.
sometimes I think blogs are stupid lil ways for ppl with no lives to presume that the whole world cares what goes on in their lil boring lives. But then again, the world is obsessed with watching other ppl's lives hence the success of Reality TV. So what is the importance of a blog and what do the above rumblings have to do with anything? oh, now I remember, how much to expose in my blog.

I was telling the story of when I was a kid and how I was so secretive. It so happened that my best friend Baja was so bent on reading my diary. I wd faithfully write in it daily and hide it from him. I believed my world would stop once he read it. And then one day, he read it and found out all my teenage secrets and crushes. Wonderfully enough, I did not die and the earth did not swallow me. So whenever I feel like I have secret thoughts the world shd not know abt....or that I cannot talk abt on this blog..I remember that moment (thanks Baja)....
ok..what point am I trying to make....secrets only weigh u down and u feel liberated once u let them out to the world.

Lately, I feel liberated. I've been weighed down by the fact that I felt that I owed a lot to my ex, being the one that had gotten cold feet. But now I feel like it's time to pick up and move on for both of us. I'm sorry for the pain I caused, at teh same time I know it's for the better. Okay, maybe I'm not ready to release all the secrets.. it takes time.

Winding down work, I'm doing computer programming/research in Market Data analysis for a Chemistry professor....it doesn't make sense to a lot of ppl how a CS major is doing Economic resarch for a Chemistry professor. It only comes down to one thing, we're trying to make money off of stocks. Wish us luck cos my tuition is riding on it.

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If you get an email from your friends telling you to play online bingo with them, DELETE IT!!

Okay, maybe Hack is an overkill of a statement, but hey, it got your attention.
Gmail does not allow for the sending of .exe files as attachments due to a potential threat of viruses etc.

Imagine you're at work and you come across this killer .exe file that you want to mail to yourself so that you can open it at home, (if you're like me, this happens a lot) you cannot do it because of the above reason.

However, one trick I just realised to use is to save it as a draft. Your draft will be intact on an pc u access your gmail from. Therefore, instead of mailing the attachment to yourself, merely make a draft email and dont send it, then access it from home. Neat trick....as long as they don't read this and prohibit that too.