http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/ hellen Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:05:01 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2006. Poetry Alternative Medicine Biology http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/archive/133.html Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:01:35 GMT because i've been experiencing with some technical difficulties with uploading, i've started another HELLEN site on blogspot. please visit http://hellen2.blogspot.com for posts after August 26, 2006. thanks! http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/comments?id=133 http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/archive/132.html Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:43:05 GMT the campus is reviving with new comers. it's been really exciting for the past week to see new (and old since my med school really likes its own undergrads) faces in and around the dorm. pre-orientation started on thursday and a group of us went around did volunteer acvities in the city, like building houses for habitat for humanity and cooking at soup kitchens. was nice exercise for me who is out of shape. the original plan on the first day was to landscaping the yard of a house but because of the rain, we all went inside and painted/stained boards instead, inhaling the cinnar fumes... (more) http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/comments?id=132 http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/archive/131.html Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:13:05 GMT out of nowhere, my pc started to run very slowly, checked system restore, found that something called "software distribution service 2" is installed, apparantly as a part of the automatic windows update. microsoft does not have anything official about this. afetr googling for a while, found that a lot of people are having problems with it and no one knows what exactly this thing does and why it's causing so many problems, mainly things slowing down, and some random deletion of emails/files, and denial of access to web pages. almost sounds like a censoring tool or something that monitors... (more) http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/comments?id=131 http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/archive/130.html Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:34:10 GMT as i was walking down hillhouse ave today, noticed that the shadows of leaves on the trees were out of focus and wondered why. the time was around 1pm, so the sun was shining directly from above. the shadows of street lamps which were of the smilar height were pretty sharply defined. but the tree leaves were blurry and the space betweem the leaves were almost perfectly circular, very very out of expectation for something found in nature. the circles of light were also of almost uniform size for those near each other. isn't this strange? i tried to reach my hand as high as i can to... (more) http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/comments?id=130 http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/archive/129.html Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:53:46 GMT a friend is coming to visit me from china this friday and staying over for the night. since i've been living in my pig pen for almost 3 month and my laundry card is nonfunctioning, i am running out of fresh sheets and pillow covers. of course i can't let her sleep on my dirty sheets, decided to take a walk outside. suddenly remembered that there was a fabric store on chapel street. i used to go there a lot during freshman and sophomore years. they had all kinds of fabrics from silk to cotton to fleece, at very reasonable prices. there were some even for $1 a yard! so i thought it's a perfect... (more) http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/comments?id=129 http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/archive/128.html Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:37:00 GMT college tours BEFORE you get admitted. it's summer and the campus is flooding with college toursists. especially the HUGE groups of asians, the arrogant second generations, the proud parents hoping their sons and daughters would become dragons, and the even more arrogant asian + white 1/2s. also the not so interested annoying suburban white girls, and their "oh this is the responsibility of the parents to take their children to college tours even though it's so much trouble for me to travel this far with the kids" parents. here is why i think college tour before admission is such a waste of... (more) http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/comments?id=128 http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/archive/127.html Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:25:37 GMT time asia put out its selection for "best in asia 2006" and named hansheng the "most esoteric magazine." wondering what this is, checked out hansheng as available in the sterling library, and behold, this is so cool! hansheng started out in 1971 as an english language magazine that introduces chinese cultures to foreingers, then it added a chinese version in 1978 or so. for about 10 years, it still remained the regular magazine type of publicaiton. you can recognize its look from issue to issue (it used a square block/ checkered cover design, 10x12 or so size paper). pretty colorful for... (more) http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/comments?id=127 http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/archive/126.html Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:02:59 GMT went time travel to the future this morning, saw how human is living. (by this, i mean the wandering of the soul, which origins from the thought. this is actualy ni kuan's theory, how human thoughts has absolute speed that is truely instantaneous, faster than light, and the soul if it can follow the thoughts can also achieve this free state to wander wherever, whatever time it wishes.) anyway, the future i saw was in a polarized genetic distribution. there were midget human and giant human. the smaller people were about a foot high, but with prefect proportion to mordern humans, and the... (more) http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/comments?id=126 http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/archive/125.html Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:12:00 GMT after watching oshin (a long long morning drama series aired in japan in 1983, total 297 episodes), started to think about the misery of poverty mentioned constantly in the show. really lack of money can turn people away from their relatives, to hate their siblings, to sell their daughters, and betray their friends. one of the central theme of the show is the fear for poverty, for oshin, for her brother shoji, her husband ryuuzou, her son hitoshi, etc etc... everybody is striving to avoid poverty, to crawl up from the bottom of poverty, to fight off poverty. money is good, and the show says... (more) http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/comments?id=125 http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/archive/124.html Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:32:06 GMT 7/2 night-- leftover curry with rice 7/3 morning-- 1 cup cheerio with vanilla wafers + milk 1 peach night-- leftover curry + somen noodles salad (lettuce, peach, carrot) 7/4 morning-- 1 yogurt + 1 peach night-- leftover somen noodles + salad 7/5 mornig-- 1 yogurt + 1 peache night-- frosted flakes + milk, 5 rice crackers, snack peas 7/6 morning-- 1 yogurt http://hellen2.blogdrive.com/comments?id=124