Recap. I finished reading the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower that Rex lent me for my trip, and it was amazing. The book is a lot like "Catcher in the Rye" except in modern day; well, as modern as it can get while mixtapes are still cool. But yea, it follows like a year in the life of a loner kid as he enters high school and makes a couple friends. I just really connected with the character and empathized with a lot of the feelings, cuz I wasn't exactly the coolest kid in high school either. It's pretty short and reads fairly quickly; go read it- I think it's my new favorite book.
Anyways, I wanted to make a list of all the things that happened so far this summer that I didn't blog about, but that I don't wanna forget happened. Watched A Day Without a Mexican; it had such a good premise, but the movie sucked. Also watched The Girl Next Door; it was one of those movies that you can't in good conscience say was a good movie, but in the deeper libido-controlled part of your (male) mind, you actually kinda liked it, haha.
Oh yea, I bought an iPod mini before I left Plano; it's only 4 gigs, but that's actually plenty considering my entire music collection is only 2 gigs. iPods also work as portable hard drives though, if you're into that. But yea, I guess overall I think it was a pretty good purchase. But I gotta rag on the terrible battery life, and the bad bass response (partially due to the PoS headphones they give you, but not completely). And funny little story: I first bought an iPod, then not even 10 minutes after I open it, it falls off my table, and the LCD screen cracks. I called up the store, and they told me I was jacked, but when I went to the store in person, they swapped it out for a new one, no questions asked, heheh. So yea, these things are pretty freaking fragile, I guess.
Since coming to Taiwan, I've played mahjong like every weekend (and lost every time). My cousin took me to the batting cages, and I was reminded why I never liked baseball much: I can't hit the dang ball, even at the slowest speed, hahaha. Went and watched The Day After Tomorrow. It was exactly what I expected. About the science of the movie though: everyone agrees it's exaggerated, but you can find articles with scientists arguing both sides of the credibility issue. Too intertwined with politics not to be, I suppose. Well, believe what you want, and I'll keep believing that global warming is a real problem.
Aaaaaaanyways, so Taiwan has been fairly uneventful. I made some headway on the problem I was supposed to solve for my "research" project. But yea, I guess even if I don't solve an real problems, at least I'll get some good experience with ANSYS software- hopefully that'll help me land a job one of these days. Yea, I had to learn how learn how to use the program from the internet, cuz they only have instruction manuals in Chinese here, hahaha.
Oh yea, it took me like an entire week to set up the dorm internet here. Had to do the whole cmd.exe -> "ipconfig /all" business, then manually change my Default Gateway and DNS servers and all that good stuff. It was vicious. Anyways, so yea, I started playing Warcraft 3... did I mention I also saw a dramatic drop in my productivity? =P Played the campaigns and ended up cheating my way through the end. Oh, and I went to KTV with the TFAA (foreign students' assoc. or something) the other day- weird.
Anyways, I wanted to make a list of all the things that happened so far this summer that I didn't blog about, but that I don't wanna forget happened. Watched A Day Without a Mexican; it had such a good premise, but the movie sucked. Also watched The Girl Next Door; it was one of those movies that you can't in good conscience say was a good movie, but in the deeper libido-controlled part of your (male) mind, you actually kinda liked it, haha.
Oh yea, I bought an iPod mini before I left Plano; it's only 4 gigs, but that's actually plenty considering my entire music collection is only 2 gigs. iPods also work as portable hard drives though, if you're into that. But yea, I guess overall I think it was a pretty good purchase. But I gotta rag on the terrible battery life, and the bad bass response (partially due to the PoS headphones they give you, but not completely). And funny little story: I first bought an iPod, then not even 10 minutes after I open it, it falls off my table, and the LCD screen cracks. I called up the store, and they told me I was jacked, but when I went to the store in person, they swapped it out for a new one, no questions asked, heheh. So yea, these things are pretty freaking fragile, I guess.
Since coming to Taiwan, I've played mahjong like every weekend (and lost every time). My cousin took me to the batting cages, and I was reminded why I never liked baseball much: I can't hit the dang ball, even at the slowest speed, hahaha. Went and watched The Day After Tomorrow. It was exactly what I expected. About the science of the movie though: everyone agrees it's exaggerated, but you can find articles with scientists arguing both sides of the credibility issue. Too intertwined with politics not to be, I suppose. Well, believe what you want, and I'll keep believing that global warming is a real problem.
Aaaaaaanyways, so Taiwan has been fairly uneventful. I made some headway on the problem I was supposed to solve for my "research" project. But yea, I guess even if I don't solve an real problems, at least I'll get some good experience with ANSYS software- hopefully that'll help me land a job one of these days. Yea, I had to learn how learn how to use the program from the internet, cuz they only have instruction manuals in Chinese here, hahaha.
Oh yea, it took me like an entire week to set up the dorm internet here. Had to do the whole cmd.exe -> "ipconfig /all" business, then manually change my Default Gateway and DNS servers and all that good stuff. It was vicious. Anyways, so yea, I started playing Warcraft 3... did I mention I also saw a dramatic drop in my productivity? =P Played the campaigns and ended up cheating my way through the end. Oh, and I went to KTV with the TFAA (foreign students' assoc. or something) the other day- weird.
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