As This Year Comes to An End

It's like one of those moments when you feel like "crap!! another year has passed and I have achieved nothing. NOTHING!!!!"

yep! exactly how I feel right now. Knowing that I'm graduating this year (hopefully), I started panicking about my life after college a long time ago, but now it's more like the feeling of regretting the fact that I haven't done enough or college.

When you are a freshman in college, you either feel that you need to get suited up and start partying or get suited for tons of classes waiting ahead of you. Well, I fit the latter one, and I'm glad I have done so. There's a fact that you guys should know: even since I started taking upper division classes, I have got a single A. I've got some A-'s, but it's never been a solid A. Sometimes I messed up on my midterm or projects, sometime I messed up on the finals, and sometimes I just messed up both. My sister has told me that the companies usually don't look at your GPA. Apparently they only care about your college and major. Fine, if that's the case, I guess I don't have to worry about my GPA that much. However, I AM glad that I did pretty well on my lower div. classes.

Back to topic. As I became a junior, I decided to finally widen my social circle and party it up. The result? I stayed in my lab most of the time. Party? What party?

And here we go. This is the fourth year and hopefully the last year of my college life, and I feel that I've got nothing done. True, I've learned something in college; true, I've had some fun, but in the end I feel like I'm still not ready for the real life which is finding a job and be my boss's bitch until I die or retire, whichever comes first.

Like I said at the beginning, this is one of those moments when you feel like you have got nothing done. This usually happens to me when I make new year's resolution or birthday wishes. Something bad about being a Chinese? You've got two new years, so you make the resolutions twice......and you feel really bad twice......

My dad often tells me to update my resume constantly so that I don't forget to put anything important on. I always tell him: "Dad, the only thing that will change on my resume is that my GPA dropped again." and this is usually the time my sister starts laughing at me. Thanks, sis.

Anyway, so here's my new year's resolution, and it looks pretty much like last year's......

1) pull up my GPA

2) graduate on time

3) find a job

4) know more people

5) stay in touch with friends

6) consistently practice guitar

7) exercise and train for marathon

8) improve basketball skill

9) get a girl friend (?)

At this point of my life, I really don't give a crap about school anymore, but I guess school would not just go away simply because I give up on it, so i guess I gotta do what I gotta do. Life sucks, isn't it? You know what else sucks? A vacuum.

This is #5 on the list

College Food Series: 法國土司春捲 (French Toast Spring Roll)

I haven't had a post about this for a long time, and I'm glad that I have time right now.

This one is a little tricky, and it requires much more work compared to the other dishes. however, it's still pretty easy overall.

Ingredient:
1) yellow chives about .1 lb
2) Enokitake 1 pack
3) bean sprout 1 pack
4) toast several pieces
5) egg about 6
6) oyster sauce

Procedure:
1) heat up the pan, cook the chives, enokitake, and bean sprout until they are cooked.
2) add oyster sauce for the flavor. The amount is up to you depends on how salty you want it to be.

3) heat up another pan
4) scramble the eggs and put it aside
5) smash the toast until they are flat (that means the bread is not soft anymore)
6) coat the toasts with eggs and pan fry them (french toast pretty much)
7) while you are doing it, preheat the oven to about 250 degrees
8) put some of the chives and stuff on the bread, roll them up
9) use foil to seal the rolls (shiny side facing in)

10) put them in oven for 5 to 10 minutes
11) the point of putting in oven is to dry up the extra water and let the sauce sink in a little more, so adjust the heat and amount of time accordingly.
12) when you are done, cut it open and enjoy :)

Where's the future?

So the other day my friends and I were talking about the life after graduation. This is how it started.

friend A: hey jon, u going to grad school after college?
me: probably, but i dont wanna go to grad school for engineering
friend A: what are you gonna do then
me: MBA maybe? but its just a plan for now. i dont really know yet
A: you going to graduate this year right? better start planning

which then I started thinking about the step-by-step plan after grad

me: so......i guess i'll find a job first and work for like 3 to 5 years before applying for grad school
A: what if you dont get in?
me: uh.....work more and maybe try again? i dunno, never thought of that
A: dude jobs are not that easy to find either you know?
me: yea, but hopefully by the time i finish school the economy will be better
A: yea, there are also more ppl coming out of college who are competing with you
me:......your point?
A: we're doomed. even if we get a job it's gonna be crappy, and you have to work for like 10 or 15 years before a promotion or something
me: what!? no way! it cant be that long. i mean a lot of companies are hiring ppl and they probably need to promote some ppl to get that open space for new undergrads.
A: or they can lay them off......youre too optimistic
me: find then, what's your plan?
A: finish college, get a job, then whatever
me: hows that different from mine?
A: exactly! it's not. so we'll probably be competitors in the future.

in one of my classes, there are around 100 people. despite the effort i put in, my grade is around a C+. and that's about 40 to 45 percent. That means there are 55 percent, or equivalently 55 people who can do better than me. That's only one school. Say if we make my rank around 50% of the class, there are always 50% of people who are better out there. With so many colleges, the chance is that there will be more supply of workers than the demand of labor, so the companies are gonna choose from the better end, which leaves me a little chance of finding a job, a stable job.

and then friend B comes in

B: hey! have you heard that UC's are going to increase the fee again?
A: yea, it really sucks. i cant even stay in school longer

the UC's are going to increase 40% of fee starting next quarter, and more raise in the coming year. Thanks to our broke government, students have to take the direct hit. As my professor always says: welcome to university of california, where there's high tuition, low service.

the story doesnt end here

B: when is this going to end
me: as long as our government still sucks, the fee will only go up. its a one-way street
A: hey! there's a protest thingy on facebook
me: you really think it's going to work?
A: seems like berkeley is doing something
me: dude, after all, we are only students. they dont give a shit about students because we have no power to fight against them
A: ditching classes?
me: so you can just not pay the fee?
A: see? more problems, we're really doomed
me: yea......
B: things are not that bad. i'm pretty sure some good solutions will come up.

From what i can see now, the only solution for me is to get the hell out of here asap and find a job. but according to A this is gonna be hard. and according to B i cant even stay at school. also according to myself I suck at doing well on school

so, where's the future?

trying things out

MouseHunt on Facebook

AS i Watched UP Again.....

I had a post about UP before, and as I watched it again yesterday I actually got something new.

I'm not sure if the staff actually meant to create this but this is what I got.

For Muntz, he represents Carl's old self--stubborn and captured by his own wish. For Muntz, anything can be done as long as he gets Kevin, so he killed many people to keep those away from his bird. Then we have Carl, who's dream was to move his house to Paradise Fall, and he's willing to do anything to achieve this goal including letting Kevin go......if he actually did that of course.

Therefore, if Carl didn't read the rest of the Adventure Book and found out his wife's message, he might turn into a second Muntz......except he has no dogs.

And this is why Muntz has to die. Carl's no longer his old self, so this "old self" must die or disappear. There we go: Muntz must die.

Another point: I mentioned that I thought disney wouldn't kill villains in a violent way. Well, I was totally wrong. They do it all the time. So we were watching Snow White Diamond Edition, and if you've seen it you know how the queen died--pretty much the same way Muntz died. My friend said that disney always kills the villains in the most dramatic way. I guess that's true huh......

Oh btw, when we were watching snow white, we found this movie really funny cuz it makes no sense at all XDDDDD

College Food Series: 青椒包肉(Ground Pork in Bellpeppers)

I wanna call it 翡翠團圓 but it's college food so it should not have such fancy name.....o well

Thanks to Veteran's day, I've got some break to create some new things. One of the reasons why I should thank the veterans lol.

Sometimes I really wish I had better skill at photo shooting, so I can actually change the name college food series to college food porn series......lol

Anyway, let's get to the topic

Since it's college food, it's really easy as any other recipes introduced in the series.

Ingredients:

1) bell peppers x 2 (I choose the green ones. they go better with the meat.)

2) ground pork 1/2 lb

3) ginger and green onion, some

Procedures:

1) marinate the pork with a little soy sauce, and the solution made of rice wine, ginger, and green onion. Pour enough to cover the bottom of the bowl. (don't use too much, or else the meat is gonna have a strong alcohol taste, unless you like it that way of course.......)

ps. to make the solution, simply pour wine into a bowl with chopped ginger and G.O. and squeeze the juice out of them.

2) chop the bell peppers into 8 pieces (4 pieces for each bell pepper)

Okay, so there are actually two ways to cook this thing.

Method 1:

Pro: meat will cook for sure

Con: longer processing time, the shape might not fit into the bell pepper

3.1) shape the pork into balls and cook them in a pan.

4.1) take the pork out, and then put in the bell peppers. Just cook one side. It's good enough.

5.1) add some salt (no soy sauce. it kills the color) to the bell peppers to add some flavor

6.1) put the meat into the bell peppers

7.1) you are done!!!!!!!

Method 2:

Pro: it stays in desired shape, shorter processing time

Con: If you are not good enough to tell whether the meat is cooked or not, you might be eating raw meat later, it's a bit hard to turn it upside down sometimes

3.2) put the raw pork into the bell peppers

4.2) put them in the pan WITH THE MEAT FACING DOWN. It simply cooks faster this way. Also because the meat takes longer to cook. While waiting for the meat to cook, add some salt to the bell peppers

5.2) when the meat is almost cooked (tricky part, be careful), turn all of them upside down to cook the bell peppers

6.2) when both the meat and the bell peppers are completely cooked (you can tell the meat is cooked by sticking a chopstick in, if it goes through without a "sticky feeling," the meat is cooked.) turn off the stove

7.2) EAT!!!!!!!!!!!

You know.....my original plan was to make this blog very professional.....

very professional by filling it with recipes, deep analyses of basketball, shows, or other stuff, but if you look at the category section on your right, the one with most entries is "random."

Great......totally failed.......and here's another "random" entry