Short Notes

1. It is not worth it to skip classes in university. Going by the current annual school fees, if each semester=$3250, and there are 15 weeks in a semester, then missing each class means a loss of more than $200. I’ve never thought of it that way.
2. The Open Source group at SMU will be giving away free Ubuntu Linux CDs this Thursday and Friday, outside the food court. I have been informed they will be available for the major architectures, including PPC. There will be live CDs available, too.
3. I’m a 7-Eleven junkie. Just because instant mashed potato is so yum, and the 7-Eleven outside campus is so much nearer to my building than anywhere else within campus.
4. Not bringing a laptop to school really, really helps improve attention span. It took me a full year to come around to that conclusion.
5. Having a better attention span, really, really helps. It took me 20 years to come around to that conclusion.
6. Since I can’t wake up even for > noon classes, I can never hope to be a gainful member of the labour force, without much effort.
7. According to some people, I speak four languages. a. English, b. Mandarin and its assorted dialects, c. the language that has every Indian person sit down to give me masala tea/ plan my India trip/ want to teach me Hindi or Tamil/ adopt me, and now, d. the language that allows me to have free kimchi from any Korean food vendor. What they don’t know is, I’m just too shameless.
8. I didn’t take to the city campus too fondly at first (its architecture), but I will forgive all the bad architecture in the world for having Subway nearby. On the downside, if I keep eating footlong sandwiches.. I don’t dare think about it.
9. I have learned I am very cheena, and spent all weekend dealing with it. You can read the translated cheena-ness.
10. So long and goodbye, fishy. What a way to die.

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