Cafe Revolution: A classical evening with Melody, Dara and Pascal

After my very long day in the lab, partially due to interruptions from people on facebook and my own slow ways, I decided to join Melody, Pascal and Dara at Cafe Revolution. It was pretty amazing that they had Classical music on nights at the cafe. I think I enjoyed this more than going to a bar and just listening to club hits. Not that I'm against those type of music. Sometimes you just have to break out of the monotony. Awesome times were had all around. Some questions are lingering... Did Melody get with that cute guy at the cafe? Who was that old lady who came in to get a cookie? What was that guy writing about in his notebook? Will Pascal ever get to read my blog?

Interestingly, I can't wait till Melody starts her own blog. I'll have to show her how to do that sometime. Enjoy the clip of the video, it turned out better than I thought it would...

Updated: Apparently that night, Pascal told me of some song that gave him nightmares. Apparently he dreamed about killing his ex, and then another similar dream about killing someone else. Creepy song.

Completely appropriate lab attire...

I quickly snapped a photo of Jarmilka shipping out some fine blood to
our good friends at [pharm company]. You can never get too dressed up,
I say.

Day of Firsts: Grad school and Salsa Class

Today I had my first taste of grad school and salsa class. Both made me want to go screaming for the hills...

The grad school orientation was both helpful and insightful. I got to meet many of the other grad students in my program, many of which were nice. The others i didn't meet, but i assume that they're nice too. I also realize that my handwriting needs work and that when i get nervous, i lose all track of thought. I'm going to try to get into the habit of writing on paper every once in a while and to stop relying on my laptop to take notes. I also realized that there's only 3 asian guys in my program. Wow, I am in the minority. This feels weird. The rest are hot grad students... Rawr... All in all, I think I'm in for a good year..

Salsa class however was frightening. This class picks up fast and glosses past a lot of things such as setting up open breaks, hand positions, etc. I also was in a horrible position because I couldn't see what the instructor was doing. And when i did turn around to see him, I couldn't see the correct foot or hand placement. It kinda made me feel like I was going in blind. I'm hoping that thursday will be a little slower and smaller, and I'll be able to retain more.

Eeep I say, eep.

Here's a few videos of grad school orientation that i recorded from my phone. Interestingly, you can only hear me as the mic doesn't pick up well.

Here are some clips. I'm streaming these videos, so sometimes the signal isn't too good and there's a delay and pauses in some of these videos

Popcorn, the guinea pig of my qik experiment

Jaws Theme Song

Hilarious

Mario Kart DS japanese ad

Hilarious...

Star Wars Vs. Rush Hour

Completetly and utterly funny.

Woefully awesome.

It's been a long while since I've blogged so I'll start from Friday where I had to bring back my drunk brother from Blow-up (a hipster indie dance party at the Rickshaw). He was so drunk and so intoxicated then I've seen him for the longest time. Somewhat responsible for my phone buzzing during the Dark Knight. Very annoying, but forgiveable.

I loved the Dark Knight! I completely believed Heath as the Joker (with a Jigsaw like mentality from Saw). I'm looking forward to the next Batman movie and I love the fact that the series has become darker (as it should) than its predecessors.

Yesterday, I ran the Bay Trail as someone had so suggested and I loved it! It's definitely my new trail, since running on treadmill gets boring. I was actually worried that it would be really windy and cold, but it's actually pretty nice. I did come back with a new fro... (yeah, no pictures thankfully).

I'm only taking a few classes this semester (two grad classes with a few days for grad research) and I'm extending my employment till Oct 2nd before i switch to another research group. I'm also checking out Kforce to see what they can do for me since I have soo much experience in research.

In other news, I'm joining a salsa group and they might do some bachata, which I've never done before. Woohoo!