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I helped make dinner today. I cooked two dishes: tomatoes and eggs, and sweet and sour fish. I don't cook very often but it is always fun when I do.

I have finalized my entries for the San Joaquin County Fair for this year. I used to submit entries consistently each year, but since graduating from high school and moving to Connecticut, I have stopped. This year, I'm submitting four photographs, and for the first time, will be entering them into the adult division rather than youth division. Valley View I took this one last summer during our Lake Tahoe trip. It was the second time we went to Lake Tahoe. We stopped at one vista point that overlooked the valley and gave you a view of the lake far in the distance. The sun was just about to set and the sky was glowing with a soft pastel haze. Pelican at Sea This was from this past winter. On the way back from Tucson, Arizona, we stopped at Venice City near Santa Monica and walked on this pier. A pelican flew down and stood on the wooden railing for a while, and people started crowding around. I tried petting it, and it tried to peck me. Fortunately, I got out of the way in tim...

There's this old tree stump in the backyard. Today, I finally got around to digging it up. It took a while, but wasn't as hard as other stumps I've dug up before.

The Maker Faire is a convention for do-it-yourself enthusiasts held in San Mateo this year. This is the first time I've been to one of these conventions, and it was indeed quite interesting. It presented people with an opportunity to showcase their creations. Aside from the various booths, there were some quite unusual displays such as fire-breathing sculptures. The huge gift shop, the Maker Shed, had various books and kits on sale. It in a way brought me back to my childhood days when I would browse book sale catalogs we received from school for science books and craft kits. Today, there was one book that caught my eye in particular. Someone very special to me used to send me notes with Food Play stickers. In the afternoon, EepyBird, the people behind the elaborate coke and Mentos geysers, performed a pretty impressive show. They gave out the Coke Zero bottles after the show. I managed to get a hold of one of them. There was still about liter of coke left, and the Mentos were...

Today, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pacman, Google replaced their logo with a real playable Pacman game. They removed it later, but it is still playable here .

It’s that time of the year again. At long last, another school year, and half of college, came to a close. Yesterday was a long day of cleaning out the room, and packing all my belongings into six boxes and three suitcases, and somewhere along during the craziness of packing, I had the wild idea of relating the process of packing our stuff to prophase chromosome condensation (I took cell biology this semester). I decided not to sleep because my flight is scheduled to leave New Haven at 7:40 in the morning, which meant I would have to leave campus at around 5:30. Around 4:30, I got hungry and went I went to A-One first, but found that it was closed. Instead, I got a Reuben sandwich from Gourmet Heaven, the grocery store across the street, and resumed my House catch-up while I ate. As promised, I will start on Glee once I finish House, which I will do the next few weeks. I called Metro Taxi, booked a ride for 5:30, and got to Tweed Airport before the security checkpoint opened. I...