Seattle and Vancouver, here I come!!

Finally...finals are over. No more Econ 401, no more professor Kuhn...haha. Will be going to Seattle and Vancouver for this break. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!!!

Super saiyan

It’s amazing how a person can be so busy and so free at the same time. As if the impending finals are not enough, I still manage to find time to do stupid things; my stupidity culminates in my using photoshop to create a super saiyan (超级赛亚人) me…(okay, my mother is so going to scold me when she sees this…)


super saiyan!!!!

It's snowtime!!

Actually, it started snowing quite a long time ago (a week before thanksgiving). Snow can be quite beautiful, when it is in its most pristine form, untouched and unsullied. Watching flakes of snow materializing out of the sky always elicits a sense of tranquility in me, especially when the precipitation is not heavy. It is as if the world has been reduced to "bullet time" akin to those slow motion scenes in "The Matrix"; millions of snowflakes seemed to float in the air as if their movements are frozen by the time. It is certainly a surreal experience, one that distantly reminds me about those forgotten fantasies; so vague, so obscure, yet so painfully beautiful and pure in their nature.


A view from my window...

Martha Argerich's Rach 3

Recently, when I was surfing through the piano forums, I came across this wonderful thread which included a link to download Martha Argerich’s Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no.3 video. The video quality was not bad, and aside from the dazzling piano playing, the conductor’s (Riccardo Chailly) expressions were very entertaining too. Thought of sharing it:

Argerich's Rach 3

Minimalist-modern design

Amidst all the assignments and impending finals, my brain still works wonders. I mean, amazingly, I still have the leisure of fantasizing when I am supposed to figure out what the heck does all the unbiased estimators and variance stabilizing transformations mean. I thought of, if I were rich enough to design my own house, how would I want it to be? Interior-wise, I would definitely apply the minimalist-modern design. I tried googling for the images, and I found this to be appropriately suitable for my taste:


minimalist design: clean, simple and cool.