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

FACSS Site Tour

Spent hours doing this just so it's fluent without long pauses, correction of bad wording, mismatch of video and audio, external noise, whatever that makes it flawed. It turned out pretty much to my satisfaction.

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.

East US Roadtrip

10 days road-trip through east US, or a "glance of US universities" as we call it since a handful of famous US universities, some are in Ivy, is in route of our schedule.

4th of July Firework Show in St Augustine

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:
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Pick Blueberry

It's a blueberry farm located just outside Newberry FL, where only AT&T subscribers have the privilege to make and receive calls. We have full load of 5 cars, with only a handful on AT&T, and the rest on T-Mobile. The farm is quite off the GPS, so we spread out to find the location, and suddenly realized we could not communicate with each other because we do not have AT&Ter on each car, so once I found the location, I would have to drive all the way back to notify all the other 4 cars. Quite the way ancient people did it, huh? It's quite fun. That's when I decided to switch to AT&T with the new release of iPhone 4.

Thunderstorm Season

Thunderstorm everyday, looks kinda scary, isn't it? Nah, not that much, it has been like this for weeks, it's not like it's gonna rain the whole day everyday. Mostly in the sunny afternoon there will be one or two thunderstorms, lasting less than an hour on average. So everything will be cooled off during that hour, but after that hour, everything goes back onto its original track so soon that you wouldn't realize that there's been thunderstorm already. So it's not as bad as it seems, actually I kinda like it as long as I'm not caught driving in the thunderstorm. That's free car wash everyday, why not like it.

Knock knock