Avatar II trailer

Avatar+Star Wars+Harry Porter=EPIC

7 mile bridge in True Lies

Rumor says that's how the bridge has that breach there, yah, the jet bombed it up. Believe it or not, the bridge is so famous partly owe to the movie, at least I know the bridge because of the movie, and made it a must-not-miss-site when I visited Key West. Now it's open to walking tourists, so you can simply park your vehicle at the intersection of the old and new 7 mile bridges, and walk to the "bombed one". The view is absolutely astonishing!

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2010 US Census

I'm not paid to promote this, just feel excited to see Chinese in US government official letter. Probably Koreans will feel more excited than I am...

Spring Break II - Tampa

When it's spring break, you would expect an influx of students from northern states to Florida, it's either Miami beach, or Disney World in Orlando, or the southernmost point in Key West. So when you plan your trip during that period, try avoid going to those hot students spots, because you know, traffic would be bad, and students would be everywhere. So we decided we go to Dali Museum, a place students definitely would not consider for spring break. This is taken outside Dali Museum.

We got to Clearwater beach at 4pm, hardly found a parking lot. The sand is so white, but the water stinks. West Palm Beach is way better.

Spring Break I - Savannah

It's a 4 hours' drive from Gainesville FL to Savannah GA, a great place senior people to live. There is this Savannah College of Art and Design, it has buildings all over the town, and students there have quite different tastes in appearance, unlike the students I see at UF, whose styles are more or less the same. This is the famous Forsyth Park Fountain.

ISOM Workshop

It's annual workshop hosted by ISOM department, which means free food at Hilton hotel as well as work presentations from big names in IS/OM area. Well, I enjoyed it, especially when I got this little Gator clip. It comes with my name tag and conference folder, so basically my name tag is clipped to the folder by this little gator. It's very small and light. I like it, I would love it if it's made of gold.

T-Shirt War

Amazing idea! This group worked for two days, "wasted" 222 T-shirts to make this video. I just hope they're using "rewritable" t-shirts, but that would've taken more time.

Google Buzz

This was several hours after Google launched its Buzz.

Swingle Singers

It's so cool! Wonder if we can do it in next year's performance

UF ranked 2nd in Best Values in Public Colleges

Good news for University of Florida. Probably because of its low in-state tuition and reputation for sports.

Way to go, Gators!

Source: Yahoo!

Speeding Ticket

A 241 dollars' speeding ticket, that's only 2 months after I got my drivers license. They say, every driver will have their first pull-over sooner or later, but mine comes a little bit too soon and the price too high. Anyway, lesson learnt, when you are driving on local road to Jacksonville, do as the speeding limits say and do so as fast as you can, because somewhere in the woods or on little trails, right where the speed limit signals you to slow down, ambushes "invisible" police cars. So you better look for these speed limit plates and step on your brake hard once you see one!

Fireworks at Epcot

2010 Countdown at Magic Kingdom

This amazing firework show recording was made possible only after standing at the same spot for more than 2 hours. Wanna move a little bit? Yeah, first try to lift your left foot, put it nice and slow to the tiny little spot between god knows how many legs on the ground, try to avoid stepping on somebody's knees or feet or livers or anything. Then turn your body 137.98 degrees to the right and lift your right foot and put it in another spare spot, and repeat this for like several dozen of times, congratulations! You've made it to a new location, oh, no, wait, just 10 inches from your original location! You get the idea. It was people everywhere, either standing or sitting and lying on the floor or by the fences, all waiting for the last moment of 2009 to shed on the beautiful castle. What a night in Magic Kingdom! The best countdown ever!

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Miami Beach

We stayed in a hostel right on the Miami Beach for three nights, but only got 2 hours to actually see the beach in day time. Why is that? Because we headed out early to other places and headed back at night. So on the last day in Miami Beach, we decided why not give it a couple of hours to the beach only 5 mins walking distance away. That turned out to be one of the best decisions ever made.

I proudly present you "MIAMI"

what a scene!

Hop on, I'll give you a ride to deep blue!

Key West

Key West is a city in the very south of Florida, also of USA. Anything there is labeled as the "Southernmost something". e.g. the southernmost christmas tree, the southernmost buoy. You cannot miss the sunset in Key West, Mallory Square is said to be the best place to see it.

Sunset in Key West

on Mallory Square

People make big fusses about the end of US 1 road in Key West, you would see this "Mile 0" thing on many of postcards there. Probably that's the best proof of being in Key West, moreover, the southernmost place of America.