How many chances can a woman give a man?....
Life is just an uphill journey
Full of obstacles and forks.
Circumstances test men and women
We all make mistakes and tumble
And try to pick ourselves up.
A blessing is to lift your head up,
See your woman's hand extended
Willing to help you climb.
Staying by your side and you by hers.
Men act strong and independent, warriors stuck in this modern world.
Life is complicated with finding a career path, working, making money... but all necessary. When in reality,
All I want is carnal: make good food, have a good woman by my side, and good loving.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Free Verse - No Title
I have navigated your body
With my rough lips full sail
Drifting in an ocean of your body
My hands caress your shoreline
I have used my lips to explore
Above and below your hips
I have looked into your eyes
Before succumbing to your kiss
I have mastered the use of my hands
You keep my heart in yours
Why did I not build you a Garden
To make Amytis envious
-Guest
With my rough lips full sail
Drifting in an ocean of your body
My hands caress your shoreline
I have used my lips to explore
Above and below your hips
I have looked into your eyes
Before succumbing to your kiss
I have mastered the use of my hands
You keep my heart in yours
Why did I not build you a Garden
To make Amytis envious
-Guest
Quatrain 2
My trust in you bled
Are you lies in my head?
If you are my Psyche
Your Eros I shall be.
-Guest
Are you lies in my head?
If you are my Psyche
Your Eros I shall be.
-Guest
Quatrain 1
You are in another's arms today
Your happiness you now regain
In your memories I fade 'way
Why must I still languish in pain?
-Guest
Your happiness you now regain
In your memories I fade 'way
Why must I still languish in pain?
-Guest
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
My Job
Here are some pictures of my workplace:
Currently I work in the cleanroom at UC Davis in the engineering building, Kemper. I started as a volunteer for the Northern CA Nanocenter (the people in charge of the cleanroom) at the start of my last quarter at UC Davis. They were going to hire me as a student assistant to help maintain the lab, but by the time they proposed the offer I had already graduated and wasn't a student, thus I obviously couldn't be a student assistant. But when that door closed another opened.
I now work for Professor James Evans, from the microbiology department, and my job is to help design, with a lot of help from the guy that got me the job Mike Irving, and fabricate TEM microscope slides in the cleanroom.
Most of my time is spent in the cleanroom creating the slides. In a nutshell I use the photolithography process to create images on a silicon wafer, deposit metals, and then use potassium hydroxide and hydrofluoric acid to expose 50 nanometer thin nitride windows and free hundreds of little slides. Then I have to inspect all the slides, one by one, under an optical microscope. At their size (2x2 millimeter) static electricity and surface tension dominate. They will stick to any liquid and I've had some slides fly away when I try to pick them up in the wrong way. With all this work I've reached yields of 10%! And only break about 1 out of 3 wafers.
This is only temp work and I will leave some time in September. That is after my lease ends... that should be interesting.
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Currently I work in the cleanroom at UC Davis in the engineering building, Kemper. I started as a volunteer for the Northern CA Nanocenter (the people in charge of the cleanroom) at the start of my last quarter at UC Davis. They were going to hire me as a student assistant to help maintain the lab, but by the time they proposed the offer I had already graduated and wasn't a student, thus I obviously couldn't be a student assistant. But when that door closed another opened.
I now work for Professor James Evans, from the microbiology department, and my job is to help design, with a lot of help from the guy that got me the job Mike Irving, and fabricate TEM microscope slides in the cleanroom.
Most of my time is spent in the cleanroom creating the slides. In a nutshell I use the photolithography process to create images on a silicon wafer, deposit metals, and then use potassium hydroxide and hydrofluoric acid to expose 50 nanometer thin nitride windows and free hundreds of little slides. Then I have to inspect all the slides, one by one, under an optical microscope. At their size (2x2 millimeter) static electricity and surface tension dominate. They will stick to any liquid and I've had some slides fly away when I try to pick them up in the wrong way. With all this work I've reached yields of 10%! And only break about 1 out of 3 wafers.
This is only temp work and I will leave some time in September. That is after my lease ends... that should be interesting.
New Information - Surra de Bunda
Wikipedia featured this article about a Brazilian butt dance on their "Did You Know..." section of their front page.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8GQ16jnCxg
From Wiki: 'The phrase Surra de Bunda in Brazilian Portuguese loosely means "butt beat" or "butt pounding"'
Oh, and Brazilians, here is another idea for a "dance", boob pounding.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8GQ16jnCxg
From Wiki: 'The phrase Surra de Bunda in Brazilian Portuguese loosely means "butt beat" or "butt pounding"'
Oh, and Brazilians, here is another idea for a "dance", boob pounding.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Garden
Just started a new garden in the backyard. I kind of started late but today felt like the day to start planting. I put down Chinese broccoli (芥兰), watermelon, and some medley of herbs. The next step is to finally use my Topsy Turey and get some tomatoes going, put down some lima and green beans, and put down two more Chinese greens and some more Chinese broccoli. Hopefully the bugs and rodents don't eat my plants. Pictures in a bit.
Needle Through Brick
A great documentary about how traditional gong fu and to a degree traditional Chinese culture is adapting to a modernizing Asia. The interesting thing is that they aren't filming in China but in Malaysia.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/142702/needle-through-brick
http://www.hulu.com/watch/142702/needle-through-brick
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Molasses and Coffee
I tried molasses in my morning coffee just as a little experiment. It doesn't taste good at all. The molasses overwhelms the coffee flavor. Cheers to all you drinkers of straight black coffee.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Present Activities
It's been three months since I've graduated from uni and I don't know what to say. This is the first time in my life that I've been out of the school system. I didn't apply for graduate school, so graduate school is not in my foreseeable future. It hit me that I'm not a kid anymore, I'm just some adult who doesn't have a paying job and in all respects is just a bum. Attending university my occupation was a student, so even though I didn't have a part time job I couldn't be blamed for not making some money. But right now I'm just some 22 year old who is living off of his parents. Life isn't constant and I don't know if I'm ready to face the real world.
Things are changing. A housemate and friend of mine for almost 4 years recently moved out, and in the next three months my housemate of 5 years will be moving to Washington D.C., and another guy I've lived with for 2 years will move back home when school ends. I'll be left with some other people subletting for the summer. My girlfriend is hearing back from graduate schools. She got into one as of this writing. Theoretically I could be left in Davis by myself and it feels damn scary.
Life has been pretty stable for me. I've lived with the same people throughout college, and there were turbulent times along the way but nothing has truly rocked the boat until now. Of course I couldn't expect things to never change. We need to branch out and move on with our lives. Could I have prepared myself for this? I dunno.
At the moment I'm working for the Nanocenter in the engineering department of UC Davis. Hopefully I can start getting pay as an assistant, even though I'm not a UCD student anymore. I spend about 20 hours a week there electroplating and helping around the cleanroom and lab. It's a pretty chill job. Every day I go in I learn a little bit more about machines or a bit of chemistry, so that keeps me excited to get up and go to work.
One of my side projects has been to create an e-commerce website to sell about half a small building's worth of imports from China. I've been using Zen Cart and learning as I go; picking up bits of PHP, Flash/Actionscript, and practicing the art of photography. This fits into a bigger plan to build simple websites for small businesses or organizations. This isn't my life calling that's for sure, it's just a side job for a little extra spending money and to be my own boss in some form. If I have to work under somebody else as my main source of income I at least want to be the owner and my own boss doing something.
These things keep me busy and keeps my mind from wandering off thinking about the future. Work, website, workout, eat and sleep. Sprinkle in some time to hang out with the people around me and the time I use to waste online and you have my life in a nutshell.
As for the future, all I know is that come the end of summer if I don't have a job somewhere or haven't gone to China to teach English I'm packing up my bags and going back to Hanford. Davis is great, but what makes it worth staying here are the people around me. And if they're gone well then it's a sure signal it's time for me to move on, too.
Things are changing. A housemate and friend of mine for almost 4 years recently moved out, and in the next three months my housemate of 5 years will be moving to Washington D.C., and another guy I've lived with for 2 years will move back home when school ends. I'll be left with some other people subletting for the summer. My girlfriend is hearing back from graduate schools. She got into one as of this writing. Theoretically I could be left in Davis by myself and it feels damn scary.
Life has been pretty stable for me. I've lived with the same people throughout college, and there were turbulent times along the way but nothing has truly rocked the boat until now. Of course I couldn't expect things to never change. We need to branch out and move on with our lives. Could I have prepared myself for this? I dunno.
At the moment I'm working for the Nanocenter in the engineering department of UC Davis. Hopefully I can start getting pay as an assistant, even though I'm not a UCD student anymore. I spend about 20 hours a week there electroplating and helping around the cleanroom and lab. It's a pretty chill job. Every day I go in I learn a little bit more about machines or a bit of chemistry, so that keeps me excited to get up and go to work.
One of my side projects has been to create an e-commerce website to sell about half a small building's worth of imports from China. I've been using Zen Cart and learning as I go; picking up bits of PHP, Flash/Actionscript, and practicing the art of photography. This fits into a bigger plan to build simple websites for small businesses or organizations. This isn't my life calling that's for sure, it's just a side job for a little extra spending money and to be my own boss in some form. If I have to work under somebody else as my main source of income I at least want to be the owner and my own boss doing something.
These things keep me busy and keeps my mind from wandering off thinking about the future. Work, website, workout, eat and sleep. Sprinkle in some time to hang out with the people around me and the time I use to waste online and you have my life in a nutshell.
As for the future, all I know is that come the end of summer if I don't have a job somewhere or haven't gone to China to teach English I'm packing up my bags and going back to Hanford. Davis is great, but what makes it worth staying here are the people around me. And if they're gone well then it's a sure signal it's time for me to move on, too.
Ammendment to the Amazon Post
I forgot to say something about customers choosing expedited shipping. In this case the cheap packaging may not save you money; it may actually cost a lot more than buying a flat rate Priority Mail box. This really depends on the weight of the book. USPS recommends a flat rate Priority Mail box for packages over 1 lbs.
So if you decide to follow one of the three packaging methods for a book that requires expedited shipping and in the post office find the shipping total is a lot more (roughly 1.5x more) than what Amazon is giving you in shipping credit repackage your book in a priority shipping box. Also, if you're not sure if you will need to buy a Priority Mail box to keep your shipping costs reasonable, bring a roll of tape and a pair of scissors to the post office.
So if you decide to follow one of the three packaging methods for a book that requires expedited shipping and in the post office find the shipping total is a lot more (roughly 1.5x more) than what Amazon is giving you in shipping credit repackage your book in a priority shipping box. Also, if you're not sure if you will need to buy a Priority Mail box to keep your shipping costs reasonable, bring a roll of tape and a pair of scissors to the post office.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Ipod Touch Apps
I received an iPod Touch for a graduation gift and ever since it has been hard to put it down. I use the notepad on a daily basis, jotting down thoughts and composing to do lists. But what really keeps me coming back are the plethora of apps. I've downloaded over 50 apps so far, but there are only a handful that I find not only extremely well written but also useful on a daily basis.
As a side note all apps I list are "free" apps. I have never bought an app that costs money.
Stanza: An extremely simple to use ebook reader. Flipping through pages is simple and intuitive, and you can read an ebook in portrait or landscape mode. I am not a big fan of reading books or PDFs on my computer, but the text is crisp and makes reading ebooks bearable for me. Another plus is that it gives several sources for free books where you can easily download. Books like classics and books in foreign languages download into your library, readily accessible for Stanza to load.
Pandora: No need to describe this app.
KTdict C-E: The best Chinese to English and vice versa dictionary I've found in the app store. You can look words up in English, pinyin, traditional and simplified characters. Not only is the input very generous, but the search results are laid out with the Chinese characters, pinyin underneath the characters, and the English next to them. Not only does it give you the words but it gives you the option to see the individual characters that make up a compound word and you can in turn look up the definition for that word.
BodyFitness: A handy app to keep track of your workouts, within the limits of the exercises it gives you. There are many exercises for each part of your body: legs, back, chest, arms, yoga, etc. The exercises can be put into a daily calendar so you can keep track of when you worked out and what you worked out.
Words Free: A Scrabble like game playable online. You can play against random people, friends online and by passing the iPod around. Playing online is akin to playing chess by mail. A very addicting game.
Epic Pet Wars: Pokemon meets an investment game meets standard rpg (buying weapons and armor, etc). Very dumb but very fun.
I also have some gems that I use once in a while.
Bubble Wrap: You get to pop digital packing bubbles.
Amateur Surgeon Xmas: The Adult Swim Amateur Surgeon on another game in the app store. This time it's Christmas time and the game is much more difficult.
Dark Nebula: It's like a futuristic game of labyrinth, the game where you guide a marble through a maze while avoiding holes, except in the future everything wants to kill you. Enemies shoot at you, spikes swing around trying to impale you, and all the while you collect tanks of orange stuff.
Jungle Crash:
Mancala FS5: A simple game of mancala for the iPod/iPhone. Straightforward mancala with multiple AI settings, online play (I have never tried it), and 2 player pass around.
Paper Toss: Toss virtual paper into a virtual trash bin while a fan blows and changes the direction and strength of the wind.
Line Up:
And now a couple of oddities that others may find useful
Morse Code: A neat little app to aid in learning Morse Code.
Chinese Idiom: An app with tons of Chinese Idioms. Good interface and simple to use.
iHandy Level: A digital leveler.
Learn Chess: An interactive ebook for someone who wants to learn the basics of Chess. An app I've only dabbled with it seems very useful for the beginner.
Tetsuki: A free Go game with online play.
As a side note all apps I list are "free" apps. I have never bought an app that costs money.
Stanza: An extremely simple to use ebook reader. Flipping through pages is simple and intuitive, and you can read an ebook in portrait or landscape mode. I am not a big fan of reading books or PDFs on my computer, but the text is crisp and makes reading ebooks bearable for me. Another plus is that it gives several sources for free books where you can easily download. Books like classics and books in foreign languages download into your library, readily accessible for Stanza to load.
Pandora: No need to describe this app.
KTdict C-E: The best Chinese to English and vice versa dictionary I've found in the app store. You can look words up in English, pinyin, traditional and simplified characters. Not only is the input very generous, but the search results are laid out with the Chinese characters, pinyin underneath the characters, and the English next to them. Not only does it give you the words but it gives you the option to see the individual characters that make up a compound word and you can in turn look up the definition for that word.
BodyFitness: A handy app to keep track of your workouts, within the limits of the exercises it gives you. There are many exercises for each part of your body: legs, back, chest, arms, yoga, etc. The exercises can be put into a daily calendar so you can keep track of when you worked out and what you worked out.
Words Free: A Scrabble like game playable online. You can play against random people, friends online and by passing the iPod around. Playing online is akin to playing chess by mail. A very addicting game.
Epic Pet Wars: Pokemon meets an investment game meets standard rpg (buying weapons and armor, etc). Very dumb but very fun.
I also have some gems that I use once in a while.
Bubble Wrap: You get to pop digital packing bubbles.
Amateur Surgeon Xmas: The Adult Swim Amateur Surgeon on another game in the app store. This time it's Christmas time and the game is much more difficult.
Dark Nebula: It's like a futuristic game of labyrinth, the game where you guide a marble through a maze while avoiding holes, except in the future everything wants to kill you. Enemies shoot at you, spikes swing around trying to impale you, and all the while you collect tanks of orange stuff.
Jungle Crash:
Mancala FS5: A simple game of mancala for the iPod/iPhone. Straightforward mancala with multiple AI settings, online play (I have never tried it), and 2 player pass around.
Paper Toss: Toss virtual paper into a virtual trash bin while a fan blows and changes the direction and strength of the wind.
Line Up:
And now a couple of oddities that others may find useful
Morse Code: A neat little app to aid in learning Morse Code.
Chinese Idiom: An app with tons of Chinese Idioms. Good interface and simple to use.
iHandy Level: A digital leveler.
Learn Chess: An interactive ebook for someone who wants to learn the basics of Chess. An app I've only dabbled with it seems very useful for the beginner.
Tetsuki: A free Go game with online play.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Free Dunkin' Donuts!
Another freebie from Spoofee. This will be the second free Dunkin' Donuts coffee I've received via Spoofee. I have to say the coffee is not as good as they say or what people say. It is more expensive than the store brand coffee (i.e. Safeway) and tastes about the same. No matter, I'll gladly put this Dunkin' badge they sent me for requesting a free sample of their coffee. Because after all coffee tastes better when it's free.
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