January 2012
1 post
December 2011
1 post
Countdown.
One week left in Nanjing! Gah, where did the time go?! On the to-do list is…
German vaffles
Peking duck
Mysterious Magi with the small group (the British version of Secret Santa)
Two final exams
Research paper
Volunteering at community center for the last time :(
Volunteering at migrant school for the last time :(
KTV
Graduation Banquet
Taichi performance…
Possible Chinese...
November 2011
4 posts
Glass.
Picked up my new prescription glasses. Last pair was already four years old. Life is so much clearer and glare-free now!
Got crapped on by a bird, smack-dab on the middle of my head.
Went out with the Photography Club and my tutor (club president) to shoot portraits around campus.
Got yelled at by a security guard with a superiority complex. He wouldn’t let us go into a building with our...
DJ Tiesto ft. Jónsi - Kaleidoscope
I blame...
Sichuan/Tibet.
Flew into Chengdu.
PANDAS.
PANDA BEBES.
1000RMB (~158USD) just to pet a panda and snap a pics. Even more for the panda cubs… :((
Super legit Sichuan hotpot. Sat with the other Chinese/ABCs who actually knew how to enjoy it. By the end of the meal, we were the last ones left eating, with four carts of food (leftovers from the other tables) parked beside our table.
Early morning lecture...
September 2011
2 posts
WatchMade using Windows Movie Maker (yeah, I know… FML)
I made this video slideshow as a going-away present for the other interns. But I got so swamped with travel and schoolwork that it was finished a week late, hahah. The pictures from intern training were taken by HR, but everything else was shot/filmed by myself over the summer :).
I miss all the beautiful people in these pictures. And the...
August 2011
3 posts
Stop this train.
Got off the plane from Paris 40 hours ago.
Jetlagged.
What I did today: Church. Tex-Mex. 4 hour nap. Thai food. 1 hour nap.
I have overeaten every meal so far. Welcome back to Texas.
It’s 6AM in the morning, and I’m wide awake because my body thinks it’s 1PM.
Haven’t had time to take pics in a week… But that’s okay.
Tomorrow’s agenda: Unpack....
July 2011
6 posts
Your Word
samuelock:
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June 2011
10 posts
Paris Syndrome.
From Wikipedia:
Paris syndrome (French: Syndrome de Paris) is a transient psychological disorder encountered by some people visiting or vacationing in Paris and more generally France and Spain […] Japanese visitors are observed to be especially susceptible […] According to an administrator at the Japanese embassy in France, around twenty Japanese tourists a year are affected by the...
Le 1er jour de la reste de mon été.
Only one stop south on the RER B, followed by a five minute walk downhill. Total trip time: less than 20 minutes.
Awesome automated coffee machine. Short, long, cappuccino, hot chocolate, and green tea!
Free filtered water? Umm, yes please.
My laptop has an AZERTY keyboard… Gonna have to get used to this…
AMAZING cafeteria with DELICIOUS food at subsidized prices (think JCL but...
Phlog.
I realize that I will be out of the states for almost the entirety of the next seven months. I will be starting a new photo blog and attempting to keep up with it daily until I return to the states for good in January.
Here’s my itinerary:
Paris: 06/11 - 08/20
Houston: 08/20 - 08/23
Nanjing: 08/23 - 01/11
Unless I did my math wrong (very likely), that should be 215 days. The goal is to...
Á Dieu.
In a few hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Paris, where I will be completing a 10-week internship. I haven’t told too many people, and only when asked, for the personal fear of worshipping the blessing over the Blesser. The acceptance process has taken the entire academic year and longer, and I can say beyond a doubt that God led me all the way. It’s been a difficult,...
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Oldskine, Newskine.
I love old moleskines. Its frayed and travel-weary cover, loyally safeguarding the contents within from contamination. Its expandable inner pocket, overflowing and over capacity, heavy-laden with the task of containing church bulletins, notes, and doodles. Its pages saturated with ink and scarred by the knife-point of a 0.38mm Uni-ball Signo RT pen. God-inspired knowledge flowed forth from the...
May 2011
10 posts
Two firsts.
Felix’s Bucket List:
Learn how to ride a bike
Okay, technically I somewhat learned during sophomore year of college. But today was the first time I rode for longer than a few minutes.
Yes, that’s purple trim on the bike. I’m learning on the mountain bike my (female) cousin gave to us when she moved off to college. It’s a bit small… But all she needed was a...
More kayaking adventures.
18 friends
8 kayaks
1 canoe
3 bridge jumpers
1 epic eight-kayak long train
1 train whistle
That makes three times on Town Lake in the past week, four if you count jogging around it. :)
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I don’t want this week to end. Because with it comes the end of many things. The convenient community and comfort of being surrounded by...
Recipe for an EPIC adventure.
2 hours on Town Lake in perfect kayaking weather
6 kayaks
6 shirtless guys, with varying intensity of farmer’s tans
1 frightened and cornered duck
1 elusive black swan
1 tennis ball, thrown between kayaks
1 letter D alphabet block, found floating in the water
1 pitch black service tunnel running underneath the park, filled with cobwebs and a layer of nasty lake water
6 paddles used...
[Update] Rodeo.
It’s been over a year since I posted about Rodeo, the homeless man and brother in Christ whom I met in front of the church of scientology building. I’ve had the pleasure of running into him again several times since then. So here’s an update on his situation.
May 2010 — Near the end of last spring semester, Rodeo mentioned that he wanted to read the Bible that some college...
Changed Hearts.
Today was the last lecture of ANS361 - Modernization of East Asia. I can’t really say it was fun class… but it was definitely interesting. The course was focused entirely on comparing and contrasting Taiwan, who followed the Western model, and China, who followed the East Asian model, in the ways they achieved modernization. I enrolled in this class purely out of interest, and I was...
April 2011
4 posts
Street.
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
- Mother Teresa
This quote was given to me by Joan Cheever, one of the street retreaters from Mobile Loaves and Fishes. It is what inspired her to briefly trade the warm comforts of Austin suburbia for the cold, unforgiving concrete of Austin streets. For four days and four nights, street retreaters,...
March 2011
7 posts
Watcholafurarnalds:
Last year i re-arranged my whole new album for a full orchestra, and performed it live in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, joined by 60 other people on stage with me.
The whole concert was filmed for a documentary called Press Pause Play (www.presspauseplay.com) which talks about the changes in creative industries in the digital world, and follows me around a bit.
Here is...
Chinese Christians at UT →
mzhang:
Growing numbers of Chinese Christians at UT! WOOOOOT
report by ABC.
Woohoo!!! 谢谢,耶稣 :).
Direction.
Dear Abba,
Why have you given this to me? It’s what I’ve dreamed about, hoped for, and aspired to gain for the past six months. I daresay I probably even idolized it in my heart on a few occasions. So why have you still laid this before me? I’ve waited so long for this, and now it’s finally, officially within my grasp.
A few weeks ago, this would have been exactly what I...
2011 TED Prize Winner: JR →
JR exhibits his photographs in the biggest art gallery on the planet. His work is presented freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not museum visitors. His work mixes Art and Action; it talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit.
Incroyable.
February 2011
3 posts
WatchThe Daily Texan’s video feature on China Care Playgroup :D! I see myself digging food out of my teeth with my tongue LOLOL.
