A friend told me today that she's upset because she got bad grades on what she tried hard on. She asked me what to do. I told her that she should believe in herself and never quit trying. When she try, everything can be possible. That was my bold answer to her. But whether that is true or not, even I questioned myself. Everyone has been trying, for a purpose or for a dream. Yet how often do we witnessed a dream comes true? I'm no exception either. There are things that even if I try all I could I still could not possibly accomplish. But knowingly, I keep on trying. I didn't want to give up hoping. The reality is cruel and unfair most of the time. I don't know if I could called this fate. But I have tried to defy fate.

I got up very early today (around 11:00am ) so I can make it on time for the many moon's festival event at Towson University. It was their biggest cultural event of the year as I was told, that bring together multiple cultural showcases and performances from regions included Japan, Vietnam, China, Korea, Thai, India, and Filipino. Since Prince Li as you have known well is someone who embraces culture and love meeting cultural people, there's no way he will want to absent from such event, right? Well unfortunately, he did not make any new friend , but he did enjoyed the performances alot.

Some of the highlights:






















p.s. I love their dresses

这周末我回了Bucknell一趟，虽然累了点，总的感觉还挺不错。 见了很多旧的， 新的朋友。 本来还在犹豫星期六要不要回去， 在朋友的游说下，就这样子星期五晚8点整临时做了决定， 8点半就开车回了Bucknell. 哈哈。 单程2个小时半，11点到达Bucknell.

星期五晚 7st cafe 有个 open mic live performance， 本来在那跟力碰个面，没想到一下子碰到一大堆熟面孔。Jessi, Ashley, Nancy, Jim, Taeko, Karina ....。 也见到了Morgane. 要说Morgane, 现在每次见到她我总会有种莫名其妙尴尬的感觉， 虽然说都过了一段时间。 我想她也一样吧所以才装没注意到我。 Morgane是个好女孩， 当初我是不想欺骗她的感情而没给她一个机会。 而且因为忙， 我也没好好的处理事后的问题， 我想我肯定是伤害到她了。

1点多音乐结束后我走回Kress Hall, 跟nadir， nga， shiro, 和 irene他们聊了会儿后，就在Jim的启室里打铺了一晚。 第二天睡了中午才醒。 睡的才可以，就是脑袋瓜僵硬的很。 我想以后我都会记得随身带个枕头吧。 哈哈。

中午又见了几个朋友。 跟Tejo, michele她们玩了mario kart. 可怜的我总是排名最后。之后我又去见了Allison, 在她的舍室里看了一集Tokyo Juliet。 哈哈。 说起Tokyo Juliet, 早些也算因为它才认识了上她吧。 这人人小古怪，满脑子shopping. 老想我载她去mall， 去New york. 时儿甩甩小祖宗的脾气，她人方面吗却还不错。就缺乏了点自信心。

9点半我开车回了Baltimore...

What a Crabby Day!! Free crab cake for lunch, free crabs at the crab feast festival, crabs cranking competition. Life is all crab.

Some of photos I took at the event. I took these photos after we've done eating crabs. There are over 200+ of us, so u know, I had to make sure I got some crabs . I had 7 crabs


Bucknellian, a bunch more were missing.



Our Bucknell Banner, proud of it!

It has been more than 4 months since my last karate training at Bucknell University. After a short break, I decided to picked it again. Thinking back, I've been doing karate for over four years now, on and off. Marcin was the one that got me into it. Thanks to his many couragements, I remained in the club many times that I felt discouraged. People tends to get excite about interest stuff like karate fairly quickly. But they also get bored and unmotivated easily. Once they are, most would quit. For me, martial art has always been a fascinating interest. Not that I got disinterested in it at the time. but a few times I was very stressed by works. I couldn't attended all the meetings and I felt I was very behind. I admitted I tend to have a high expectation of myself. If I'm doing something, I want to do the best. In my view, good is not good enough.
The training tonight was a rough start. The training was much more intense and harder than what I had at Bucknell. Freakingly, a few guys said that tonight was only a mediocre level training and wait til I got to see the 'real' training. Still, I'm excited very about all this training. Our instructor is a 7th Dan black belt; his son is a renowned karate fighter; and we have a dozen more blackbelt level fighters. I will definitely going to have a great time learning from these guys

So today I decide to showcase some of my recent dish creations. Mom, you should rest assure that I have not being starving myself. And to my friends, if you haven't tried out Prince Li's mad cooking skill, hello, where have you been??


My first dish, string bean pork & scrambled tomato egg, 2 jello cups with a coke



One of my fav combinations, sweet potato rice with eggplant chicken, served with two glasses of freshly made 100% strawberry bananna smoothie


what I had tonight, shrimp veggie delight served with a glass of Carbernet Sauvignon



What I hope to make one day. I wish I'd inherited those cooking skills from my parent. Those shown are only half of dishes that my parent cooked that day. Oh man, I missed those lobster, the crab, the squid...

I went and got my Maryland driver license today finally. I sneaked out of my lunch break to get my driver license. Thought I could get back to work on time. I ended up waiting there for 2 whole hours. At one point, it nearly drove me nut. I got up and was about to leave when they called out my number. The whole registration took less than 10 minutes, but I was more disappointed that they confiscated my PA driver license. I love my PA license especially that I just got it new this May. I asked the lady if I can have it back for recollection purpose. "No, We destroy your PA license" was her response. Fook!!!
Had my second lecture class today. For all my EE foes out there, here's the link to the description of my first embedded project.
http://www.apl.jhu.edu/Notes/Gustin/715/project1.html
Any insight off course would be greatly appreciated!!