Pencil forced to write
Can you crank out poems at will?
A timeless vision

In the midst of midterms, protests, programming, TAing, grading, rehearsal, and restoration of hacked websites (…), I’ve decided to add one more (small) piece to my life. Remember @VeryShortStories? The idea was cool enough to make me want to try some, and unlike full stories or even Ensorcelled-sized short stories, these are of a convenient size such that even if they’re not that good, they won’t take too long to come up with.

So. In the spirit of NaNoWriMo, I designate March 2010 to…

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Last semester, during one of the major protest at UC Berkeley, I sat in the Main Stacks spiral staircase area and wrote a long piece about my take on what was going on. I never posted it anywhere, partially because I didn’t really want to have to defend my hastily-typed position. It was just a catharsis, getting thoughts out on paper into a file.

The regents went and voted to approve fee increases, construction continues, I don’t think sports funds have been reallocated, even the CS department has been hit (somewhat) by the budget cuts, and as far as I…

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Happy Year of the Tiger!

I don’t know if I explained this before, but every (solar) new year I send nengajō (new years’ cards) to my past Japanese teachers. It’s fun! Anyway, here’s mine from this year. It has a tiger and says “kinga shinnen”, which is a more formal “Happy New Year”.

Tomorrow I will ask my Vietnamese-speaking friends how to pronounce chúc mừng năm mới, since I can already do 新年快乐.

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