Vacation (to students)

Vacation comes and goes,
Like a pass of breeze,
Erasing all your woes,
Until it leaves.

Sometimes I wonder if vacation is helpful--in the long run. Of course, during the duration of the vacation, you are in bliss, happiness and without worries of homework, teachers, tests... etc. But, there are long term effects. After a week or so of total relaxation *school is going to come back harder than before, and unready you will fall, and slowly climb back up.

*But not totally, for the nagging feel of the coming end still resonates.

New Camcorder

I'm on a roll for new tech! My dad bought me a new camcorder. Although its picture quality isn't all that great, its really fun to take movies! I am currently trying to figure out how to upload the pictures though...

It's so shiny! My brother likes to use it too. :)

After the Rain

After the rain, I decided to go outside and take pictures!

The sky was still cloudy, but you can see the sun.There were alot of bugs. Here is a snail

And a small fly.Also, in our backyard is a small kumquat tree (is that how its spelled...?).The dew on the grass is very shiny and pretty! We have bamboo in our yard, and alot of other types of trees.

There is also this pretty pink flower.

I don't know the name of this lovely purple flower.

This is a jade plant, named after its thick and shiny leaves, like jades.We also have cacti in our yard! I got pricked taking this picture. XDAlso, we have many fruit trees. The orange tree has many sweet and juicy oranges that we always make into oj. Yummy. :D

Food food and more food

Today, I went to Covent Garden Cafe, a little sandwich place down by Ohlone. My brother ordered quickly, but I stood in front of the menu thinking... deeply...

I got a crunchy chicken salad sandwich, and my brother got a BLT something like that. And they all included a small pack of chips. :)

My lovely crunchy chicken salad sandwich.

And my brother's lovely BLT or something like that sandwich.For dinner, my mom made Chinese Chive Box. Inside is bits of noodles and chives, and on the outside is crunchy yam paste skin. It is very very good!

More Jogging

One round in the morning, one round in the afternoon, I jogged a lot today and I'm proud of myself! And I also finished my Chinese winter homework.

I just came back from the afternoon jog. There was a beautiful sunset.

Winter Break- Day 2

Today in the morning, I went jogging. It gave me alot of time to think.

Here are some pictures I took at school:


Yes, I took a picture of the ground. So sue me.

I have always liked this old-fashioned chimney. It looks sort of random through the leaves, doesn't it?



While I was jogging past an male acquaintence's house, I saw the male acquainence and his friends practicing a skateboard. They were talking, and when the saw me jogging past, they grew quiet, and started talking again after I left. Guys, you can't live with them, you can't live without them.

Movies

Today, me and my family drove over to the movie theater and watched 'Avatar'. The commercials before it were so long my brother finished off the huge bag of popcorn before half of the previews were over. But, it was worth the wait.

After that, we decided to also drop by Lion market to eat lunch. I am ashamed to say I ordered the most expensive bowl of noodles, but was unable to finish it and had to doggy-bag it and eat it for breakfast the next day.

Then... we all drove home (it was dark by then) and watched two seasons of House MD.