LA Times sponsored Festival of Books is held in UCLA campus this weekend. My wife and I visited there yesterday. I had been to Taipei International Books Exhibition in TWTC Exhibition Hall, so I said to myself, “Well, all book exhibitions are the same”. I am very wrong, not all books exhibitions are created equal. [...]
I’ve moved down to Los Angeles, and switched from Covad to SBC Yahoo! DSL. I received two installation kits yesterday, so I called their customer service to ask what should I do. Unfortunately, SBC only provides tech support after normal business hour, so the tech guy, Mike, can not help me. He offered me that [...]
This is an old Chinese idiom. I really need to think about it.
Last Saturday I went to LA with my wife to do shopping in 99 Ranch. When we were done at 4:30 PM and tried to start the engine of my old 89′ Nissan Maxima, it refused to start. I just got a new battery in Sears last Wednesday, so that made me scratching my head [...]
My wife took TOEFL and GRE for the application of graduate schools. She needed some additional score reports, so I had to call ETS and order them for her. However, I need to fix some glitches before putting order.
My wife’s name is misplaced on both her GRE and TOEFL score reports, thanks for reckless Bill [...]
I went back to Taiwan and had my Thanksgiving week there, and I came back to US on Sunday night. I had a sound sleep on Sunday and Monday. However, jet lag stroke back last night (Tuesday), and I woke up this morning at 5:00 A.M.
Well, I think I need a couple bottles of Mountain [...]
Last Friday I took my wife to Camarillo to have her GRE test. Camarillo is a nice city but she’s 50+ miles away from Goleta, where the UCSB and my place resides. Don’t UCSB students take GRE tests? Why there’s no test center in Santa Barbara? Too tough for me to figure it out …
Well, [...]
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