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I love the cute cartoons of open source software (i.e. Digsby, QQ, Pidgin, Linux) I support them because they are random people working together, motivated by passion, purpose and drive to make the internet a better place for everyone.

My friends and I had some interesting exchanges with the locals. For example, we had dinner with 3 Chinese students at a cafeteria. The experience was like speed dating - Awkward. There was the occassional silence, not because there was nothing to talk about, but starting conversations was hard without my bilingual help to bridge [...]

So the BIG day has come and its official. You are a University Graduate. All those years of 8am classes, cramming for tests, homework sacrifices and writing essays have finally climaxed… to a piece of paper…

Lessons learned from the ECE experience… After enough screwing with your body’s biological clock, when day night day night day night becomes night day night day night day, you can be qualified in joining the league of ECE professors to state “Sleep is Over Rated”. Fortunately, the situation is not as hopeless as it looks. Below are the Top Ten reasons why we continue when things get tough…

When my eyes were close, a faint brightness comes.
A stubborn dreamer who tried to grasp that light.
Sometimes you live without acknowledging yourself.
But if I could laugh just once then I don’t care how many times I cry.
Sailing day, take the rudder
A silly dreamer who sails the Ocean…

I am the Wind
The flowers sway as I wander on Land
The surf parts as I drift across the Sea
The clouds lift as I escape to the Sky
There is no place that I cannot reach…

The fateful day of the scholarship interview. To my left, a Chinese scholar wondering if he should go Harvard. To my right, another Chinese, also discussing along the frequencies of Stanford, MIT etc. The waiting room is COLD. The competition is BRUTAL. I have this particular question burnt into my mind forever which the interviewer shot me…

Innovation, the creative process used to churn out new ideas is often the strategy against competition. The funny thing is a lot of people seem to have the mindset that there is nothing new in the business world and everything that could be done has been completed already.

I used to devolve into the same state of mind. For example, in a Universirty of Illinois at [...]

I am going to try and describe a feeling I experienced as I wander in the World. It is not nostalgia, dejavuu, or reminescence. But flying off to a new place everytime feels like… Rebirth. As a Drifter in this world, I feel that a sense of continuity in Life is broken. I reset my [...]

Yes, I played that game. I started wel, but once the novelty factor looses its attraction, I got bored of the game. I know what I like to be, the Black Mage, the White Priest, the Summoner, the Mystique, the Wizard adept at the Art of Magic. But once I know how I wanted to [...]

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I love Summer. The Sun is warm, the Trees are green, the Flowers are blooming, the Birds are singing, the Squirrels are jumping … Although the Sun fires me up like a Solar Powered machine at werkout and I can punish my arms for the day, punish my legs the next [...]

“If happiness had a form, what would it look like?” It might be something like Glass, because not everyone notices it, but it is actually there. If you change the angle when you look at it, the glass will reflect light and state its presence more beautifully than any other thing in this world…