It\’s strange how some people are more prone to forgetting things that happen last year. I remember so clearly when things happened and how much we paid. But why argue over little things like that? The past to many is very fuzzy and hazy. The past to me is clear and emotion-laden.

On the way to Costco with Ray and Elena, I heard Papaya\’s Hero. It\’s one of the songs from the original DDR machine back in the day. When I was a freshman in Berkeley, I was totally into all that kind of stuff. And remember watching videos from ddrfreak.com (owned by one of Ray\’s friends). What a small world. And how things always happen to circle back to where they started.

The other day I met the guy who was a reader for my CS160 course in Berkeley. He had just started the hci phd program in CMU. What\’s funny is that the first moment I saw him, I thought he gave me a bad grade! (the graders were picky on homeworks and tests). And I could felt the bitterness coming up, but I held it back as I reintroduced myself (he somehow remembered my name even though I was one of the quiet ones in 160) and told him about how I remembered him sharpening pencils on the first day of 160. Times like these I wonder who I would meet in one year. Probably a resident that I totally ruined the computer of…in my RCC days…