This is likely my last update from America for a while, since I fly back to Singapore tonight. I've spent the last three days staying with my friend Mason's family in Northampton, which is a town neighboring Amherst. Most days we would hang out with other people who were still at Amherst for various reasons, and generally bum around, watching TV, ( Read more... )

Also, a final note before I go and edit my papers, former Senator Bill Bradley is amazing. He was a Rhodes scholar, and while at Oxford, he took the year off, played professional basketball for some Italian team, and won the European championship with them. Then he came back to America, won a couple more NBA championships, was generally an awesome ( Read more... )

First grade is in. A- in Chinese. Was hoping to improve to an A, given that its an easy intro class, but the final exam sunk my hopes of that. Sad times. :)

Hopefully the rest of my grades are brighter.

It strikes me that I have been posting in double spacing ( Read more... )

Done with Chinese, after the oral exam today ( Read more... )

Finals watch ( Read more... )

I lost all my Singapore phone numbers. People please send me yours! :)

Its somewhat shocking to note that year 2 of my college education is drawing to a close. A week ago I went to debate nationals, and bombed out, doing very poorly by our standards, ending my debate year on a somewhat sour note. Although we achieved a great deal of success in the regular season, our performance at title tournaments (worlds, north- ( Read more... )

its shocking to me that the month of april is upon us and its still occasionally snowing out. really, i'm ready for some springtime now, thanks very much. enough with the damn snow already. anyway, my life continues to be a long debate dedicated trek. no surprises there. i have a ton of work in school nowadays, which is not so fun, but thats life i

So I made the finals at the Providence College debate tournament this weekend, marking only the 3rd time in my career that i've been in a final. anyway, my partner, who was from Brandeis, and I made it there running only cases about religion, God, and love. Examples include: You are God. Should you destroy the Tower of Babel?, You are God. Do you ( Read more... )