ALECKY IS IN CALIFORNIA!?!?!?!?!?!?!

edit:
most people should know how anal and controlling I am. That is, when I plan out an event, I plan everything right down the last detail. I don\’t feel comfortable if there is an area of time that is NOT PLANNED.
e.g. NAIM\’S TRIP. Every day was planned. There was very little time for…mistakes. Money was planned. Time planned!

AS FOR ALECKY, because he was going to Santa Cruz first…I had believed that Stacee was planning it all. But I got anxious and gave him a very clear schedule of what he should do once he is off the plane-provided him with a map of the airport, a schedule of the time of the buses, the prices of the public transportation, then what to do in case of emergency…

*cough* apparently something didn\’t happen right!

if I could start over again, I would major in molecular cell biology. sigh.

Considering the fact that I did extremely well in biology and chemistry in high school, I wonder why I never chose this path. The fact is I had struggled a lot with C++ in high school…

So I am admiring my parents\’ skills at keeping the house clean.

Ever since I was young, my parents have enforced a no-shoe rule. It wasn\’t just an asian thing either. Every house we lived in was new…and they wanted to keep it that way. And how my dad takes time to wash the floor every week. Then he would annouce after the finished task that \”it was so clean that we could kiss it\”

On the contrary, I don\’t know why my apartment is just not like that…

While sorting through random sheets of paper, I found my old CS homework. It was from a more innocent time of my freshman year. Where things seemed so new and I was so determined that I would succeed in these challenges.

Sniff, those easy days of programming…

All this just to switch the pronuns in a sentence!
(define (switch s)
(cond
((empty? s) \'())
((equal? (first s) \’you) (sentence \’i (switch-rest (butfirst s))))
…
(else (sentence (first s) (switch-rest (butfirst s))))))

> (switch \'(you told me that I should wake you up))
(i told you you should wake me up)

It\’s interesting how you have 33 people online in your aim buddy list and nobody is iming you.

Those quiet days…

A study group is most productive if you\’re studying with people who chose to be in a study group vs. a study group where people were forced into participating.

My linguistics study group was formed when a guy asked the entire section whether people wanted to make up a study group. And it has helped me a lot in that class. Time usually lasts around two hours.

My cog sci study group on the other hand…was formed because we were all required to work on our homework in groups. Every member in the group are complainers…whiners…and our work seems so unfinished by the end of the hour. ONE HOUR, FOLKS.

Then my slowly forming cs study group. People seem to be enthuastic.

THIS SEMESTER IS WORSE THAN I THOUGHT.

Stress builds up. Sigh.

10 page paper due Tuesday.
Perl hw due Tuesday.
Midterm Wednesday.
Neural network program due Wednesday.
ALECKY WEDNESDAY.

I am staring at a CDE (common desktop environment) at the unix machines in the cs labs right now. And I am realizing how ugly it really is. This squarish grayish control panel on the bottom and the ugly wallpaper (can you believe I spent 30 minutes trying to figure out how to change it…unsuccessfully). Plus the icons that are so…geeky and rigid. Functional, yes. Aesthetics, no.

Every GUI should look like Mac OSX. Where when you click on something, it bounces. :D bouncy bounce! And when something has an error, a dialog window shakes like nobody is watching.

edit: I have found the SOLUTION. the problem with this version of CDE is that the stylemanager isn\’t on the main control panel but is hidden in the desktop controls.

So you know, it\’s obvious that I am sensitive to things.

I can\’t believe that after more than 8 months of not programming…I have lost my basic skillz. I am taking an Introduction to Perl class and it seems like I am struggling more than necessary.

Then again, maybe it\’s because I haven\’t put that much effort into studying the syntax.

Thanks to Daynah who gave some help. And Naim…well he tried…

And no thanks to Lele who freaked me out with an unknown sn. I 8 U TOO! :p