Let's get spooky

Ig Nobel Prize

Heard about Ig Nobel Prize today in Modern Analysis class. Just to be clear, it's NOT the Nobel Prize awarded in Oslo. Ig Nobel Prize acts to award "research that makes people laugh and then think", as they state their spirit. For example, this year, peace prize is awarded to the mayor of Vilnius, Arturas Zuokas, who solved the illegal parking problem by crashing these luxury cars with an armed tank, they even have a video for this

Tennis again

7 days to Qualify

it's gonna be four tough days from Aug 1st to 4th, wish for the best!

4th of July

Movie time

Watched 7 films in cinema this month! Guess that fandango deal (2 tickets for $9) on Livingsocial has contributed quite a bit to box office.

X-man: first class

Pirates of the Caribbean 4

Kungfu Panda 2

Super 8

Midnight in Paris

Hangover 2

Transformer 3

more yet to come...

2011 UF ISOM Workshop

The ISOM Workshop this year will be held on Feb. 11th and 12th at Hilton, topics would be on Healthcare and IS. Great opportunity to socialize with faculty from other schools and meet with new ideas, and of course, the free food is always attractive!

Link to 2011 ISOM Workshop

2011 FACSS Chinese New Year Show

Dancing to I gotta Feeling on Kinect

Dancing to Poker Face on Kinect

Dancing to Crank That on Kinect

Pumpkin Night

Thanks to HYZ's whole set of carving tools so that we are able to accomplish such a grand project. Basically you need to first stick a pattern on to the face of a pumpkin, pierce a whole bunch of holes into the pumpkin along the pattern line, saw through the holes to get a prototype of the pattern, polish the edges to make is smooth, light it up and Ta-Dah, you'll get one of these beauties!

I did the witch, the hard part is her hair and face, since they can easily get snapped off. But it turned out to be an art!

It wouldn't last very long, it gets all creased and shrunk and smelly after just a few days

Move in day

Finally moved in to new apartment, it's a nice place, fully furnished with utility ready to use. Moving is always a hassle, especially the packing part, there're things that you know you would never use, but dumping them would make you regret so much; there're also things that you know you'll have to use it so frequently, but you'd rather get a new one in the new apartment; there're things that you've kept for so long a while just because it's memorable to some event, but in the end you wouldn't give a second thought to getting rid of them just because they're such a burden to carry. So it took me days to pack things up and just 1 hour to unpack them.

Watch out, moving house on highway!

On my way to Orlando, this moving house came into my sight. This makes moving so easy, just lift the house up, load it on a truck, and hit the road. Driver feels tired? Well, just pull over, unload it somewhere in the grass, get into the cozy house, there you go!

Not for kids

For a first timer, firing a gun could be so overwhelming and sweating. Each step is proceeded with extreme caution, people could die in there for god sakes! Can't believe it only takes an ID to play with real guns in USA, never dream about such things in China, though we played quite a lot toy guns with these BB plastic bullets when we were young, it never comes to my mind that one day I would be holding and firing a real thing. So this has added to our excitement when we were actually aiming at the target and pulling the trigger. I could even imagine how wide open my Chinese friends' mouth would be when I show them these pictures. It was fun and very special experience!

FACSS 2010

Yep, it's still drivable

picture explains itself.

Alaska license plate in FL

It must has gone through a hell lot driven from Alaska, the very northwest, to Gainesville Florida, the very southeast. It doesn't seem like a rental car, in which case it might have served a couple of drivers around the US and finally reaches FL and never finds its way back to Alaska ever again, that means there's possibility it's going home at some point. Now, I would be really so astonished to see a Hawaiian car.

Well, this is embarrassing

This was taken inside the bathroom of Maguire common room. Embarrassing enough to Chinese. The font looks weird to me, the boldness of the characters is not even, and don't even mention about the lousy translation. It's not like the Chinese broadcasting at the airport in US, or a Chinese version brochure at a famous tour site here, which we would probably feel proud of, this is a Chinese translation of warning Chinese not to grab the toilet tissues in a public bathroom. Why not French, Korean, or Spanish? It's like we Chinese are stealing it all the time, and we need to be warned in our native language just in case we don't understand English, not to do so.

Double Rainbow in Gainesville

It's like one is just not enough, let's double it! Absolutely astonishing, especially when you have the full view of the rainbows. The upper rainbow is not as evident as the lower one, and this seems to be a universal phenomenon from the pictures I've searched online, probably it has to do with certain physic theory.

Click below to see more double rainbow:
http://bit.ly/cAffue