Creative Efforts in March 2010
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…
Protests and Politics
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…
Happy Lunar New Year!
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.