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So, for the last two weeks, I've been in China, taking pictures, and documenting what can mildly be said to be an experience of a lifetime. Unfortunately, due to the Communist government there, a lot of US websites got blocked, Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot, so there was almost no way (short of using supar slow VPN to bypass the internet censor) of updating or posting things. So, over the next

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[Edited from http://skatelogforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=410854&posted=1#post410854]It may take the better part of the week for me to recover from all the fun. (Sore ankles (to be explained later), sore lower back (can't bend forward, have to crouch to pick up stuff off the floor), sore quads(though not so much)) I'm glad I flew, or I probably wouldn't have made the trip back home in my

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Well, it's been over two years since I've last updated this blog, so I might as well start with something worthwhile and small: the "meaning" to my Chinese name: 汪寧(宁)智, where 宁 is the simplified form of 寧 (traditional script).So, to break it down character by character:汪 (surname); expanse of water; ooze寧 peaceful; rather; Ningxia (abbrev.) (Ningxia is probably a city in China)智

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No, I didn't decide to be all super-healthy and start running 26 miles every day. But it sure felt it when I was driving my folks over to Providence, RI, to help my sister move into her university, Brown. A 10 hour drive it was, and it certainly wasn't nice to my car. It racked up a neat 1.5k+ miles (including two trips to Cape Cod and back to Providence), and a ton of scratches from packing and

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Well... almost. My defense happened yesterday at 4:00 pm--about 24 hours ago. Despite completely going nuts and reading five papers within two hours as last-minute preparation for the defense, the Q&A wasn't as bad as I thought it would have been, and I passed without any real objections, at least that was what it seemed, since I got called back after less than five minutes of deliberation.The

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Yesterday, Barack Obama dropped by the Cuyahoga Community College as part of his last stop in his initial leg of his trip for the Democratic Party nomination for presidency. An interesting trip, to say the least. For one, the Tri-C (which the Cuyahoga Community College) is actually a pretty nice place. A lot more ritzy compared to, say, John Carrol University, which is relatively run down.

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Yes, a week late... I need to get into the habit of updating this blog more frequently.Anyway, as many of us in the Plains/Great Lakes/New England states got to experience last week, we got absolutely snowed in by a storm for about 24 hours. CWRU shut down for the whole day, which was a first in the six years I've been here. Unfortunately, I was also at CWRU when they decided to do so. Living

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Well, after over two years since my last post, I have finally regained control over this blog.Due to a ton of problems with forgetting my login, the password recovery utility refusing to work correctly for me, and the website refusing to accept my password, I have finally (and successfully) ported this log to my google account under my flagship handle.Whether this is going to be a long-term blog

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Kannazuki no Miko. As I attempt to update this review for the series, I just can't think of anything that I can say that would do this series justice. In all honesty, Kannazuki no Miko has redefined my criterion as to what good anime could and probably should be. The storyline moves quickly. Flashbacks are rare and don't dwell. Visual hints matter and foreshadow events to come. Characters have

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So, today, in AP news, a male contraceptive has now been tested in monkeys and has been shown to be a a birth control for men. I'd love to see their reactions to this new development, and I'll bet you that I know how it's going to go... On another note, pharmacists have been reported to refuse to give contraception pills to their customers while also refusing to give the prescription to another

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As much as it pains me to say it, Bush has won re-election. Basically, it all did boil down to Ohio, but it was not as close as everyone thought the election would have been. For one (and as I correctly predicted on Monday and told several graduate students in my lab, but did not post on here), Bush would win Florida and Ohio. Is it by dirty Republican politics? Most likely not (I'll admit, I

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As it has been incredibly obvious ever since I started this blog, despite my attempts to be as impartial to the election campaigns and the presidential debates, I will be voting for John Kerry on November 2nd. I'll lay it out in a list format to make things less painful to slog through Foreign Policy: Iraq: This is _the_ most important reason why I am voting against Bush and supporting Kerry.

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Right now is the lunar eclipse that should be visible to just about everyone in the northern part of the western hemisphere. As much as the newscasts talk about the different colors that the moon can take, this lunar eplise (and my first, mind you) is very different from what the astronomers say. They've claimed that the moon takes on a copper-like hue to a dark blood red shade when the moon

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Running comments on the 3rd Presidential Debate 2110 Bush is still back to his fear tactics and stretching truthes on the order of a lie. He claims that he never said that he doesn't care about Osama bin Laden, but he so did. This is exactly what he did when Kerry said that Bush owned a timber company, and Bush denied it (and was later confirmed, at least according to a friend over a phone

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Here are my opinions on the two other events that occured last week that was worth mentioning. And they come two days late Capitol Steps: Featured frequently on NPR, this political satire musical group is consisted of former Capitol Hill aids to senators and representatives. They mostly poke fun at popular and political figures and happenings in the world and in the US. The Capitol Steps were

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I forgot to enter a blog entry regarding what I did at CWRU after the Veep Debate ended 2 big things happened, more or less. 1. I got interviewed by a reporter from the BBC News (Brazil Service) about my opinions about the debate and on the presidential/vice-presidential candidates. This time, there was no camera, but a microphone and a Sony Minidisc Walkman. And this time, I actually spoke

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2105 Cheney is still using old information about linking Al Queda with Iraq ('the 10 year relationship'). There has yet to be any _solid_ evidence to link AQ with Iraq It seems that the cameramen are adhering to the established rules strictly. This does not bode well for this debate. 2109 Edwards is following Kerry's message from last Thursday's debates. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to be

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So, CNN was on campus today to get video footage for their 25th aniversary celebration and recruited a lot of different students to talk on camera about various issues that they consider important in the upcoming elections. Yours truely got camera time, but I stammered and sweated my way through the whole thing. This does not bode well for future venues that require interviews.

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041004 Student Vice President Debate at CWRU [Officially known as the National Student Debate] Apparently, it's an Republican vs Democrat matchup that looks like a mock VP debate on various issues Colleges: JHU, Fisk, Emory, CMU, ROchester, Stanford, Cornell, CWRU, MIT, Duke, OSU (Ohio), University of Miami, Vanderbelt, Washington U @ St. Louis, and U of Florida. At first glance, this

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Started at 9:26 Stupid computer refused boot properly, so I'm starting in the middle of the debate 9:24 Good and the bad: Kerry: he's doing well in attacking Bush. However, he isn't talking much about the details as to how he's going to approach foreign policy. Specifics. At times, he's also sacrificing time to answer the real questions and attacks Bush instead. Bush: It looks like he

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According to this from the NOAA, Hurricane Jeanne is now on a crash course to Florida after doing some fancy footwork in the Carribean. This will be Florida's fourth hurricane this year. As I put it aptly, God is telling Florida to not screw up this year's elections. But then, a colleague countered with this: Maybe God doesn't want Florida to participate in the next election.

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So, apparently, we're still in the middle of hurricane season. I'll have to admit, I'm feeling quite guilty for my malevolence towards Florida when Ivan rolled around. At first, I thought that it would have been a cool statistic for a state to get hit three times in a year by hurricanes -- something I don't ever recall witnessing or hearing. Then when Bush started to pander the state for the

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Sorry for the lack of posts for the last month and a half or so. Blogspot was broken for quite awhile and somehow got into a recursive login loop whenever I tried to log in, and, thus, I couldn't post. Anyway, as you can see, Blogspot has now un-broken itself, so you'll be hearing more from me in the future. Hopefully

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Hah! Just when you thought this blog was suffering from negligence, I'm back! Ok, so this post is about a week late in coming, but bear with me. So, for those who live in the US, last weekend was the July 4th weekend. I, actually, was in Toronto visiting the city (more than visiting relatives, actually). I had a great time, and finally had a chance to get a good look at the city where I was

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The United States handed over sovereignty over to Iraq two days early of the June 30th deadline. This is certainly a surprising move, but one that makes a lot of sense. It would certainly prevent insurgence activity that, most likely, would have aimed to symbolically disrupt the power transfer that would have happened otherwise on June 30th. It is certainly a win-win situation for the US and

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Just to fill in some dead-time with some personal business... btw. my MCAT score came in and it was a 34N... I could have done, much, much better... I know. Typical Asian overachievement, but the score distribution was all weird: P14;V09;B11;WN ------- Dear MCAT Program Office: I am writing to you to file a complaint/concern in the testing procedures and environmental conditions of the

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So apparently, Bush is going to give Pope John Paul II the Presidential Medal of Freedom when he goes to Italy. Is this really a wise move on Bush's part? Personally, I don't think so, given the timing: 1. Bush will look like he's pandering the religious vote, which has been divisive among American voters between church-goers vs non-church-goers and secularists during an election year. The

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I went out on Sunday (yes, four days ago) with my sister and mother to see Shrek 2. Here are my thoughts about the latest release from Dreamworks: With the whiz-bang, in-your-face performance of Shrek of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, and the (almost too obnoxiously loud) Eddie Murphy and the Dreamworks CG team, it was tough to not expect a Shrek 2 performance that is better than the original

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As the NYT article states, The Day After Tomorrow may be badly-needed publicity for environmentalists to get the message out about global warming and about the terrible environmental policies that the Bush administration has adopted. Considering that the MPAA with anti-piracy and cracking down on illegal movie distribution, has Holly turned over a new stone? Hollywood has always been known to

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As I read more and more about the Iraqi quagmire that Bush has gotten us into, I try to think of a reason why, after a 13 months, there is no noticable progress towards instating a secure Iraqi government, despite what the Bush administration tries to tell to the Americans, more or less until this past Monday (click on title link for the relevant article to start out). After much article reading

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Thus is the birth of my second attempt at blogging. Yeah, I know. The first blog never existed, but can be found here.I'll attempt to follow up with semi-regular blogging, though I would have preferred if I could have been able to get this blog to work with my website at http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kev, but I suppose I'll have to deal with the blogspot.com domain until I can figure out how to

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