Super Busy v.s Super Lazy

Haven't updated my blog for a long time. Of course, I was rather busy these days. And when I had time to rest, I just want to lie down and sleep. Who wants to spend one hour just to update the blog when one only has one hour to rest.....?? Anyway, this is just an excuse. I admit that I'm lazy, especially when my school workload become heavier. Let me update some news for the past week...

Last weekend was ok. I went jogging on Saturday, later I watched the baseball game. Sunday, I studied a little bit and watched the final baseball game. Oh yes, it is the Red Sox won the World Series again, after their last championship in 2004.

Monday night, I watched a movie DVD with my roommate, Matt. "Dummy" is the name of the movie. It's really interesting. It talks about a Jewish family and the son is eager to be a ventriloquist. Then there are a tons of things happened to him, to his family. Here is the link if anyone is interested in it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246592/

Later that night, my stomach hurt and I got diarrhea after the midnight, feeling very uncomfortable. But I was fine the other day. I studied for the whole day on Tuesday and tried hard to finish the assignment. Well, I have to admit that the courses of this half quarter are harder than the ones of last half quarter. I really have to spend more time on them.

Wednesday was the Halloween. I went shopping after class with 2 friends, and bought things for my aunts. They've sent their orders to me and ask me to get those things for them. I myself only bought a very cheap sleeveless dress....
Halloween Bags from Galleria Department Store and the Halloween coupons.

Halloween Decorations in my neighborhood

Later that night, I went to a friend's place for the Halloween party. There are so many people. Some of them have dressed up for Halloween. It was really funny!!
Happy Halloween~~~

Annie and Jason: Beauty and the Pirate(or the Beast??)


This is the very first time I had Halloween here in the U.S. Everything is new to me anyway. I left the party at 10pm with my friend, Lin, and we decided to go to Castro Street to see the crowds. Usually there is a big parade for Halloween every year, but last year there was a gun shot event so they canceled the parade this year. However, there were still quite a lot of people dressed like crazy on the streets. We only drove through the streets and then he dropped me home. (we were already too tired... :-p)

Did not sleep well for the past few days. My eyes are getting red and hurt recently. And I also had a nightmare Wednesday night: Richard sent me a text message, saying that he's getting married because a girl is pregnant and his the baby's father!!!!!!That really woke me up at 5 am and I checked my phone immediately and found no message was there....it's just a nightmare....I think I was just too stressful and nervous about the new half quarter of study. Also it may be that I miss him too much.

This weekend, I spent almost all my time with my dad. He arrived on Thursday evening and I went to the airport to pick up him and his colleagues. I called the cab and went to the hotel with them, helped them checked in, and then I went home and tried to study for the quiz and finished my homework. Friday morning, I met them at the hotel at 9am, waiting for one of their colleagues' sister who lives in San Jose to take us for a sightseeing. The weather was not too good because it was all foggy, we could not see the Golden Gate Bridge very clearly.
The Golden Gate Bridge: Only can see the top, others were in the fog.


We also went to Sausalito, a small peaceful town across the Bridge, to take a short walk.
Sausalito: by the sea


Then we came back to downtown SF, went to Union Square for lunch at The Cheese Cake Factory. Since it was the first day they've arrived, they had jet lag so they went back to the hotel for rest and I went to my class for quiz and lecture. After the lecture, I went to the hotel and took them out for dinner at a Japanese restaurant. Saturday, I took them to the Fisherman's Wharf in the morning and to the Golden Gate Park in the afternoon. It was a very nice day and was totally good for walking. They had dinner at my place that evening and then I walked them to the bus stop and they took the bus back to the hotel. After they left, I watched 2 movies at home with my roommates. One is very old and short, but funny, called ""The Dark Army"; the other is the famous "American Beauty." I've always wanted to see this movie but never got chance. I like this movie a lot. The pace, the story line, and the characters in it. It's really a good one.

Sunday, I met up with them at the hotel, the colleague's sister came to pick us up to Palo Alto. We had lunch at an nice Italian restaurant on the street and then went to Stanford University to take a look. Wow!!! It is huge!!!(compared to USF......) and it's beautiful~~ We went through the front gate and got into the famous church on campus.
Stanford University: Front Gate at the end of the road

Stanford University: the Church

Stanford University


After taking some pictures here, we went to a nice shopping center to do some "window shopping," then we headed to the airport. I helped them checked in and said goodbye to my dad. I went home by taking the BART, alone again...

I was so tired that I fell asleep on the BART. After I got home, I started to study and do my assignment. It cost me a few hours to figure out just one graph...Macroeconomics is confusing.....compared to Microeconomics....anyway, I can't complain about this, it's my own choice to get into this field....I'll do my best to get through this program and the CFA exam in June.

Need to rest now, I'm tired...... for more pictures, please find my album link under my favorite links. I've already uploaded all of them. Enjoy them!!