Purry day

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Pool adventures! Haven't swam for a while, so I started gently. The squid is a funny stroke. But it's actually pretty fast :-P I shall get goggles for next time so I can swim properly.

Walking in the neighborhood... browsed around in a Nike store. ED got a belt and a fuzzy light blue towel at Marshall.

Mmm, b.good is a grrrrreat place to eat (artworks, yummy burgers, yam fries and veggies and tea, hehe)

Star Trek movie - I wasn't very familiar with the back story, but I knew enough to appreciate certain character exchanges. Good mix of intense and light moments :-) I shall investigate more into this series.

Mathcounts on Today Show

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This is hilarious. And I did (1000 - 512) wrong in my head, how embarrassing.

"He doesn't understand the 'Spanx' part of it" HAHAHAHAHAHA. I see that smirk! I see it!

I just friended my research advisor on Facebook

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And he just friended me back on the same day, haha. I wonder if his profile pic is real. Maybe I'll ask around. :-P

Exactly one year ago...

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I submitted my thesis proposal. And today I've submitted the actual thesis. Two hard copies. I kept one nicely bound copy for myself. Actually, the department secretary made the remark. I wouldn't have remembered when I submitted my thesis proposal, lol.

I was gonna ask my research advisor for a reimbursement (along with the poster I printed out two weeks ago), but he gave all his graduating students a really nice book that I estimated would have cost about the same as printing my poster + 3 color copies of thesis, if not more. So I guess I'll leave it at that. Plus I can use the book as an autograph collection for all the eminent professors I've had...

It's kind of hilarious actually. One prof was slim ~25 years ago but is now rather chubby, while another prof was chubby ~25 years ago but is now slim! I wouldn't have known they're the same person...

Se7en

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The ending is a downer, but perhaps not surprising...

Kevin Spacey is a piece of work. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt's performances are as I expected, but I've rediscovered Spacey since "The Usual Suspects". I still like Anthony Hopkin's portrayal of the intelligent villain better though.

Oasis: "Falling Down"

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Good song. Here's a monstrously psychedelic remix of it... and one sung by chipmunks! It's the opening theme of Eden of the East. Quite a cool series.

I think I would like to hear a simpler and more meditative version, i.e. Ryan Farish style.

Minority Report revisit

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For some mysterious reason, I rewatched the whole thing. That was the third time. The first time was when it came out in 2002, the second time was about 3~4 years later. Each time I got some more out of it.

Two salient points this time:

(1) How beautiful the score sounds... Schubert's Symphony No. 8 (no wonder), and John Williams taking inspiration from Bernard Hermann...

(2) The character Danny Witwer is actually kind of cool... though in the end his ambitiousness and eagerness to please have contributed to his downfall.