My Life at December 2006
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December 31, 2006(Sunday)
After fellowship, I went home study again. I am very hard working. Hansel also took GMAT exam today and got a pretty good score.
There is a new person coming to IU to study; Carmen (and later, I) helped her to settle down for a while. At night, we went to other church friend's house to count down for New Year. We first shared and sang songs. I tried to make sure that we have more time to share rather than pure game time. And then we played some card game for 3 hours and returned home at 2:30am.
December 30, 2006(Saturday)
Today is a quiet day. I went to work out even though I ski till very late last night. I also played board game with Carmen too.
December 29, 2006(Friday)
Tonight our fellowship group went to a place called Paoli Peaks for ski. This is about 1 hour drive from Bloomington. The weather at home at noon is quite hot because I can even wear short sleeves going out. The weather is really weird because it was freezing cold late November but then the weather is so warm lately.
We had a night ski. We left home at about 6pm. There are about 10 of us went to ski. Most of them have no skiing experience. Therefore, I spent most of the night teaching them and showing them how to ski. The weather is quite hot anyway and the snow condition is not good so it is not a big sacrifice. I yelled a lot and my throat is a bit soar. I think that they did a decent job as someone who has no previous experience.
We left there at about 2am and returned home at 3:30am. We went to bed at around 4am.
December 28, 2006(Thursday)
Today is a movie day. Carmen and I went to see four movies: Rocky Balboa, a Night in the Museum, Apocalyptic and dream girl. The "Rocky Balboa" film is the best and is very encouraging. It is about a 50+ years old Rocky came out to fight again. I think that it represents the baby boomers (people in my parent's age) can get "stuff" inside when they really fight. This is especially important because they are now in the older age and the IT technology (e.g. computer, internet) may make some of them uncomfortable or left behind in work place. The "a night in the museum" is simply a relax film that says that the museum comes to life at night. The "Apocalyptic" film makes me sick. This is directed by Mel Gibson. It is about some war in the 1500's by the North American Indians. However, this is very bloody and makes me feel uncomfortable. The level is similar to "the passion of the Christ", but I can relate to that movie because of religious reason. However, I can't relate to this movie and I am really sick of this. The last movie "dream girl" is simply a musical movie that talks about the music group "dream girl". This is quite boring.
By the end of watching four movies, my head is exploding and it is very tough. I think that this is the first time in my life to watch movie or TV or a combination of those for 8.5 hours. I can't imagine how people can watch movie all night!
December 27, 2006(Wednesday)
Today we went to gym to play badminton together. And at night we had hot pot ourselves and then at night we watched the Superman Return movie at home.
December 26, 2006(Tuesday)
There is nothing much going on in Bloomington, because people left Bloomington during winter and there is not much nice shop here. Some of us has nothing to do and decided to go to "drink tea". This is a very normal and easy thing in Vancouver or HK or even in Venezuela. However, in order to go to a "drink tea" restaurant, (especially in Dec 26) we need to drive 1.5 hours to Indianapolis and drink tea there. We actually had a hard time to even find a "drink tea" restaurant at all! We are glad that we got one and hence we drove 1.5 hours there, "drink tea" for 1 hour and drove 1.5 hours back. The gasoline alone costs me $20US! Each of us (including myself) regret that we did not cherish the "drink tea" time when we were in HK or China because it is so difficult to find a place that we can drink tea. We expect that the next time that we can drink tea will be May 2007, after the end of the next semester! I am glad that I am not crazy about Chinese food, or else I would be very home-sick! For the rest of the day, I studied. I ran the program for the health care PhD project and read paper in the same time. I also reformat the old laptop simultaneously too. I like to multi-tasking.
December 25, 2006(Monday)
We went to couple fellowship for dinner at night. I also do homework today too. This is just like another day in the year.
December 24, 2006(Sunday)
We had the first Christmas Caroling for our church tonight. About 15 of us practices music at my home from 5-7. Then we went to the lobby of our apartment (Campus View) to sing for 20 mins. However, there are only 5 people walked by at that time. Also they were too shy and did not pay attention to us. Then we visited three different families and sang song at their house. We first sang the "Feliz Navidad" song outside of their house to surprise them. Then we sang five songs and then enjoy the snacks at these families' house. The last time that I remember I did Christmas Caroling was about 1989 when my HK church Shing Kwong Church rented a tram and we sang songs on the tram. That was unique experience. And this time when we sang songs inside people's house I felt a very warm feeling. Fifteen of us were singing songs and then the host family (2 or 3 people) sitting on the sofa. We had good fellowship time as well.
The official Christmas Caroling has ended. However, the five Cantonese speaking of us went to Nicky and Joyce's house to have a surprise Christmas Caroling. They did not invite us and we just surprised them. At first they did not open the door when we were singing the "Feliz Navidad" song outside of their door because they thought that it was someone else that we singing. It is interesting to surprise them. We left at 11:40.
December 23, 2006(Saturday)
I am studying for several hours today. And some fellowship people came to our house for pre-study while I was studying. We had dinner together and then I played badminton with some of them. I do not have good skill, but then I can hit it hard and run (recover my position) fast as well. That's why I am good. We played for 50 mins because the facility will close soon and we need to return the equipment. They are quite tired at the end but I still went to run (sprint) for 3 mins to kill my energy.
December 22, 2006(Friday)
I helped Chi Fu to move house in the morning. And then in the afternoon I went to gym to work out and I am glad that I got my energy back. At night, the fellowship is a home gathering, where we went to Nicky and Joyce's house for dinner. All the male are responsible to cook something. I cooked the egg plus luncheon meat. The simplest of all, yet I like the taste. Also, under the instruction of Carmen, I made apple pie as well. Then they watched DVD while I am doing some studying.
December 21, 2006(Thursday)
We woke up at 5:30 this morning and then we left the hotel at 6:20. We took a $15 taxi from hotel to bus station and then took a 1.6 hours bus ride from the bus station to the airport. We did not take taxi directly to the airport because it costs $40. The taxi driver said that he has never seen someone go to the airport like this. He should broaden his knowledge!
We took 2 hours flight to Indiana. Then we went to eat Vietnamese noodle and then went back to the airport to pick up Daniel and Yangching, because they took a 2 hours later flight then we did. In the mean time, we also checked email and rest at the Radisson hotel nearby. They do provide free internet access for the guest, and I just went there to check email as a guest!
We finally returned home at 4:30pm. Then I have to spend several hours in updating the online diary and photo homepage.
December 20, 2006(Wednesday)
This morning I slept for 10 hours and woke up at 10 am. It felt refreshing again to have so much sleep! Today we went to the Magic Kingdom of Disney world. Compare to the other two theme parks that we visited (plus the Epcot theme park that we visited last summer), this one is more targeted towards child of 5 to 10 years old. There are some easy rides that describe the life of Peter Pan, or Winnie the Pooh. And also the boat ride of "It's a small world". We also visited Stitch great escape, Mickey's PhilharMagic, dream along with Mickey show, Buzzlighyears' space ranger spin, Toontown, Haunted mansion, watched two parades, Enchanted Tiki Room show.
At night, after watching the parade, we went to the ride of "the Pirates of the Caribbean". This ride was originally under technical difficulties and was closed. However after the parade it was opened again. We were so happy that we can enjoy this ride. However, after lining up for 20 mins and when we just sat on the boat, all the lights are brightening and the ride stopped. There are the technical difficulties again. Nevertheless, we got to go through the boat ride, just that there is no sound, no light (other than the back-up light). Quite boring. And because of going to this boat ride, we missed the firework. Then we went to buy some souvenir. When we were about the leave, we were stuck for extra 5 mins because there is a parade and we can't cross the street. Then after we reached the monorail (for taking us from the Magic Kingdom to the ticket center where the shuttle bus is), we were one of the first people missed the train and have to wait for next train (which arrive 3 mins later). When we finally get back to the shuttle bus station, we were about 5 mins late and we missed the 10:15 shuttle bus. We originally wanted to explore and try to take the public bus, but the public bus does not stop at near our hotel this time of the night. Then we have to wait for the 11:30 Shuttle bus. I remember that Aug 20, 2005 when we left Disney, we had to take an $83 taxi to go back to the hotel. We finally get back home at 12:30 and then get to rest.
December 19, 2006(Tuesday)
After waking up 3:30 the morning and 6:30 yesterday, we finally slept in and woke up at 9am. We went to the Animal Kingdom of Disney World today and arrived there at 11:30. We enjoyed the Wildlife express train, Habitat habit trail, conversation station, we also played the sheep in the Affection section. There is a walking remote control robotic garbage can, that is really interesting. Then we sat through the Kilimanjaro safaris ride, watched the bird show of Flights of Wonder, jungle trek, sit through the dinosaur ride, walk through the Discovery Island Trek. We also played the Expedition Everest roller coaster. There is quite a number of turn and that makes me feel quite sick afterward. Then we watched the "It's tough to be a bug" show. We also watched the two musical shows: Finding Nemo and Lion King. These two shows are extremely high quality and professionally done. It is only 30 mins but it is the quality of the Broadway show.
We took the 8:45 shuttle bus back to hotel. The shuttle bus always is full load. Not only that there is no empty seat, there is not even standing room. It is fully packed. I wonder whether or not this is legal in US. After everyone were on board, there is an American family that complain that this is ridiculous for so many people sitting on the bus and this family of about 8 people left the bus. And on the way back to the hotel, the bus broke down mid-way in the high way. It sounds like a tire is broken, but the driver suspects that it may be the problem of the transmission. Nevertheless, it is quite obvious to most of the people that the main reason is because too many people are on the bus. We are stuck in the highway for 30 mins before the other bus came to pick us up. I am sure that the American family that left the bus must be really happy if they find out about this incident.
December 18, 2006(Monday)
In order to have a cheaper ticket price, Carmen found that by attending the timeshare tour by the Westgate hotel, we can reduce our price. Therefore, this morning we went to the timeshare tour at 7:30. After the free breakfast, we started to meet with the sales. He did a decent job in selling why we should buy the timesharing package from them. Basically, we have to buy their stock. In return, we will be part of the owner of the resort and we can use any resort in the world for free for one week in a year. In return, since we are part of the owner, we need to pay a maintenance fee of about $700 per year. At first, I am really puzzled why there is such a good deal because it sounds like that we can get the one week hotel for free, plus if the stock rise, then I earn more money. At the end, I figure that the maintenance fee is too large, plus we are sacrificing our flexibility of going to wherever we like, but only go to the available hotel. It does not sound too good after all. Nevertheless, we still sat through the whole tour so that we can get the ticket.
There are about 150 sales each time and we had one-sales-to-one-family each time. It is obvious that the sales are trained to talk to us. There are some model answers that they are looking for. E.g. if we pay money to the hotel, then we lost all our money. But if we buy the timeshare, then we lose nothing because we can sell the share and get back our money 100%. However, being someone studying business, I asked question deeper than that. For example, if the stock went down, our money went down. I also mentioned about the "time value of money", i.e. $100 today worth more than $100 in the future because we can invest money in somewhere else and get a return. He says that I over-analysis but I don’t' think so. We have sent a strong enough message to him that, he wrap up saying that "this is not good for everyone one". Therefore he did not push us to buy the stock but just let us go at the end.
We then went to the MGM of the Disney World on 12:20. We went to places such as: Indiana Jones Stunt Show, Motorcycle extreme stunt show, Star war tours, Journey into Nardia, Beauty and the beast musical show, animation, Twilight Zone tower of terror. The last one is a ride with free fall for about several stories. That is really scary and I don't expect that. In general, Disney did great job in scary us or caught us in surprise. Some rides would go reverse, some show would suddenly (according to the plot of the story) dash out water or bad air smell (to simulate people blubbing), or even simulate insect running across my butt too!
We left MGM at about 7:30, took the bus from MGM to the ticket center (Disney world is so big that we need to take bus from one theme park to the other, I think that the whole Disney World is about the size of Burnaby!) and then took the 8:45 shuttle back to hotel. To save money, we did not buy any food from Disney. We then had a buffet dinner at night. Also, I went to internet cafe to check email and also to upload the photo. My camera has only 32M memory. I did not bring laptop this time. Therefore, I need to download the photo such that I am able to free up the memory space for more photos in the coming few day.
December 17, 2006(Sunday)
After some packing up and planning, we slept last night at 12:30am. Before sleeping, I prayed that God will wake me up in the morning, and He did! I woke up at 3:20am, 10 mins earlier than what my alarm clock asked. Carmen and I will travel to Orlando today. We have been traveled together many times, but then this is the first time (other than our HK trip) that I travel for fun, rather than for work. Therefore, I still have the mentality that I have to work (teaching Cisco) tomorrow. However, in reality I can actually enjoy 5 days of vacations. (But then I will try to read some project paper whenever I can)
We are traveling with our church friends couple Daniel and Yangching. They are both from Taiwan but then I communicate with them (as with any other Mandarin speaking people) with English. Daniel is serving as the church president while Yangching is serving as the group leader for the Mandarin student fellowship. Therefore, our role in church is really similar as well. We hope that we will have a nice fellowship time together.
We left home at 4:30 and pick them up from their home. We park our car at the airport and will pick it up at the end of the trip.
For the flight from Indy to Orlando, there is no space for the coach class. Therefore, Carmen and I were upgraded to the business class, sitting in the first row. That is one of the few times that we get to sit first class. However, we are tired to we sleep anyway. The annoying thing about being in the first class is that the flight attendant keep on asking us for drink or snack and that woke me up several times.
We arrived to Orlando at 9:50. We rented a car and I first drove Daniel/Yangching to the hotel to check in and then drove them to Disney World. For us, we only purchased three day pass, hence we went to Kennedy Space Center. Every boy is fascinated by space and air craft when they are small. So do I. Even though I am not doing anything with space right now, I am still glad that I can visit there. However we have to drive for 1.2 hours there because that is located about 50 miles from Orlando. We did not see any space craft, but we saw the place that they launch the flight and also other display and IMAX theatre that describe about NASA. It costs quite expensive ($35 per person) but then it worth to go there once (but not twice) especially we are in Orlando already.
Because we want to save money, we ate a lot before going there, and did not buy any food. At night, we left there at 6:10 and drove for 1.5 hours back to Orlando and had buffet dinner. And then we drove to Disney downtown and walked there from 9-11. We have been there last time when we visited Orlando 21 Aug 2005. It is good to visit again and took some nice photo.
The road sign in Orlando is pretty bad. I got lost several times, and got lost when we returned to the hotel. I am not a person that usually gets lost but then I still do several times this trip. Also, we are tired by the end of the date, consider that we woke up 3:30 this morning, and I drove for 4.5 hours today. I also walked for 14500 steps today, compare to roughly 8000 steps I walk in my normal day. I also did not bring my laptop this time so I cannot check email or upload photo. I am a person that needs to get everything in shape and organize, or else I feel really bad. After writing my daily expense and also organizing the luggages and deleting some ugly photo, I am more relaxed by the end of the night.
December 16, 2006(Saturday)
I played tennis with friend Shangmin. He used to be almost as good as a professional when he was in Taiwan. I asked him to teach me playing tennis. I can run fast, but my skill is bad. I can't do back hand and I can't serve. I need a lot more practices.
I also started to study the Cisco CCIE written exam. The CCIE certificate lasts for two years and I need to recertify before this summer by taking the test. The way to study Cisco certificate is dramatically differ from how I study PhD. For PhD, I need to be deep, but focus on a few things. However, for Cisco certificate, there are so many materials that I need to cover, yet I don't need to study deep. Therefore, my brain is crashing between the two types of studying method.
At night, we went to have dinner with some church friends. Some of us are graduating this winter and so some previous fellowship friends that went to Chicago to work drive to Bloomington to attend the graduation ceremony. Hence we had a dinner with them.
December 15, 2006(Friday)
This morning, I drove one of the fellowship friends Desmond to airport. He has a flight to HK at 7am so I left home at 4 and drove him to the airport. The trip one way can be as fast as 55 mins for 52 miles. I got home and continue to sleep until 11:30.
I had meeting with Prof about the project again. They are encouraging and optimistic about the future of this project. However they gave a lot of criticism about the paper that I handed in 10 days ago. Now I will get back to the writing paper stage again.
At night, we went to the Christmas party of our department. We get to talk to different PhD students and professors. I find that the professors tend to talk among themselves, lecturer (a rank lower than professor) talks among themselves and the students talk among themselves. So there is a huge gap differences. However the professors and the PhD students do have communication as well, because we take classes from them and we will one day be professor too. However there is very little interaction with the lecture.
December 14, 2006(Thursday)
I had the final class for the empirical PhD seminar about operation strategy. I also had presentation for that class. I am so glad that I am over with this class.
At night, there is several other fellowship friends come to dinner at our house. We talked about the fellowship unity problem. Also they pointed out that we don't have enough Bible Study even though we have it twice a month, double what I used to have in Vancouver fellowship! I am glad that we are able to have a face-to-face talk to sort out different fellowship problems.
December 13, 2006(Wednesday)
Today I just worked on my paper and workout. Nothing interesting
December 12, 2006(Tuesday)
Since I have completed all my final exam and paper, I am free to work on the research about health care and queueing, the one that I started a while ago but got distracted every so often because of school work. In fact, I will not have class for the next 25 days! I am glad about that. I can also relax and read some comic as well. I am 75% done with all the courses that I need for the PhD program! One more semester and I am done with all the class. And the fun will begin afterward.
December 11, 2006(Monday)
I will have an Econ Game Theory exam tomorrow night. Also, I plan to make my dissertation to be related to Game Theory. Therefore, rather than studying for tomorrow's exam, I read paper that is related to Game Theory, but more benefit for my future dissertation.
At night, Carmen and I went to have dinner with Jo, Nicky and Joyce. Jo will leave Bloomington for good this Wednesday and we had a farewell dinner for them. Then we moved some furniture from her house to our house because there are other people that want her furniture later and just put it in our home in the mean time.
December 10, 2006(Sunday)
I am supposed to hand in a "Latex" assignment to do Statistic Regression for the Econ class. I love most of the material of this class. However, this assignment is particularly frustrating. Latex is a computer program like Microsoft Word. It is for writing paper, but then, unlike Microsoft Word, it uses some computer codes like HTML. For writing mathematical formula, this program is supposed to be better than the Microsoft Equation Editor. I tried to use this program 10 years ago but I did not really learn that. And this is the third assignment that I need to use Latex this semester for this class. I never really learn it or enjoy it. In addition, I have to do some statistic stuff which I don't enjoy it either.
I am supposed to hand in the assignment three days ago, at Thursday. This assignment is not for grade but only "impression mark". I figure that, for most of the other assignments and the mid-term, I got a good score, so I plan to skip this assignment. It is a very few time that I want to skip an assignment but because of the nature of the assignment and also because I am so busy a day or two before the assignment due date, I planned to skip it. Studying Econ and suddenly got interrupted with this stupid assignment really is emotion draining. And since I have the option (plus the grade) of not doing it, I plan to skip it.
However, yesterday the prof asked me for my assignment. That means, I really have to do it. And I just "heavily" reference another student's homework, made changes and hand in the assignment. This is not fun, but I am glad that I got it done 25 mins, a lot faster than the time that I thought I need to spend.
Carmen also helped me to mark a bit I-Core grade. That really helps me!
December 09, 2006(Saturday)
Carmen helped me to do hair cut. Thanks! And then I went to school for a review section of the game theory class. At night, we had a deacon board family gathering. We had potluck and then played a sharing game called "Women are from Venus and men are from Mars". Each couple forms a team and took turn to answer questions about what other people think. We want to see who answers all type of questions first to win. We won the game! After dating for 10 years and married for 2+ years, this kind of questions would not be too hard for us. Anyway, it is great to see the non-business side of the other people and we cherish the sharing time.
December 08, 2006(Friday)
I do not like take-home final exam. I have almost done the take-home yesterday, and I only work on that for an hour. I think that I am pretty much done with the exam but I am still reluctant to hand in the exam and want to hand it in the last minute. But I think that I should just hand in the exam and move on.
At night the fellowship program is to farewell some graduates. One of our good friends in Bloomington Jo will be leaving next Wednesday. That is a sad thing. Then we went out to have dinner with the group.
December 07, 2006(Thursday)
Today is the last class day (4.5 hours) for the PhD seminar for empirical research. The prof is trying his best to do his job and if I am interested in this kind of research, it would be great. However, since I am not interested, it is boring and a torture. I did not speak as often and I am tired. And then I begin the take-home final exam of the other PhD seminar. It will be 48 hours and after working on it for about 3 hours, I am almost done with the exam. I still need to catch any mistakes that I may make. Otherwise, I can move on to something else. Carmen and I also went to prayer meeting at night too.
December 06, 2006(Wednesday)
I drove Carmen to work this morning and also worked on the PhD project. And then I picked up the I-core case, which I need to mark for the next 7 days (in the same time, I will have two final exam, 2 papers, a presentation. But the papers and presentation are done). The undergrad students spent 10 days to work on this huge project, which count for 25% of their grade. They work in a group of 6 (or 7) and probably each works for 10 hours per day. The report consists of four parts: Finance, marketing, operation and strategy. I am marking the operation part, which are about 20+ pages. The students make everything color copy, and binded all the copies. They do look professional, like a business report. We can tell that they spent a lot of time (600 man-hour for 4 parts) However, my challenge is to find enough time to read them.
At night, we have deacon board meeting, which only last for 2.5 hours.
December 05, 2006(Tuesday)
I had a presentation for the PhD project today; with so many hours of work devoted and so little time for presentation, I feel that the presentation time is really rush. I also completed the write up for this paper as well. I feel good about myself because I have completed both the presentation and paper for both projects. I can be much more relaxed now.
December 04, 2006(Monday)
With the completion of the P602 paper, I am able to spend most of the day (about 6 hours) on the PhD project. I think that I am mostly done with the write up. I am quite satisfied with the last several days, working hard on the presentation and papers. I am now not under as much stress as a week ago.
December 03, 2006(Sunday)
After Sunday School and worship, I went out to lunch with fellowship friend. And then I played squash with Chris. Usually people would comment that I can run fast, which is a good foundation for playing most of the sports (except bowling, golf, snooker or other water sport). It is indeed very boring and demanding to run every time. However, it does pay off.
I also finished off my P602 paper, one that I want to get over so that I can focus on the real one. The title of the paper is "Speed and Cost for the Software Industry in China". Here is the abstract: "Software industry is unique in a sense that it has a huge externality effect, which makes a first-mover advantage really valuable. Moreover, manager does not need to consider the dimension of volume flexibility. However, there are very limited studies that research the cumulative model for the software industry. Moreover, there are also very limited studies that research the cumulative model for the developing nation either. In this study, we will focus on how speed and cost attribute to the success or failure of a company, and how the Chinese software industry differs from this model."
I spent in total about 15 hours (12 hours in the last 3.5 days) and get over this paper. Comparatively, I have already spent 100 hours on the real PhD project #2 paper (queueing for the health care system), and I plan to invest at least 200 hours more in the next several months. Also, I have spent 600 hours for the first project. So it shows what I care and what I don't.
December 02, 2006(Saturday)
I spent about 5.5 hours working on the other PhD paper. I am glad that I basically have a good structure done and a big portion of the paper done already. The title of my paper is "Speed and Cost for the Software Industry in China". This paper is supposed to be an empirical study, where I need to collect data from both Chinese and other countries’ software company and compare how importance are speed (first to market) and cost, when comparing to other industries. However, doing survey and collecting data usually takes about several months to a year. Therefore, I can only write up the introduction, literature review, model, hypotheses and list the collect-data part as the future work. It makes the paper quite short (10 pages double space). However, I feel pretty good about these 10 pages because I combined (i.e. copy!) different parts of a lot of other people's research and make it quite solid. I hope that my professor would be satisfied with the work. Alternatively, I can actually get data from my professors. However the data is not about software industry and is not from China. Therefore, I may have to modify my topic if I want to use the available data set. I decided not to, because I don't want to do (and I don't know) any data analysis because it will take a lot of time. I want to finish this paper as soon as possible so that I can focus back onto the other paper (queueing for health care) which I plan to continue work on for the next several months.
December 01, 2006(Friday)
To satisfy my guilt about my another project (See yesterday's diary), I went to bed last night at 11pm (very early), woke up to pee at 2pm and worked on this project until 5:40am this morning! I am finally getting some progress and my guilt is not as high now. My energy ran so high that I had a hard time fall back to sleep afterward!
I attended the presentation of other students (similar concept to the presentation I did Oct 27) and went to do workout. My physical condition is very good, even though I did not sleep well. Also, today's weather is very cold. Two days ago, outside is still relatively warm. But today the temperature is near zero degree and with the strong wind chill, it felt so bad when I was biking to school. The wind is so strong that I felt like I am going uphill even though I am actually going a quite steep downhill!
I led song in the fellowship. Then there is a visiting night. I went to have dinner with Ah Ku (who is a math PhD student) and also several other friends. We talked about traveling to different places, doing tutoring after PhD, when to get marry, my experience in Venezuela, some math problem, orchestra, etc. Then we visited Ah Ku's office.