Blue Sky's animated film - ICE AGE came to the theater today. Together with Ying and Weichun, we see it at Atlanta Station. The movie is excellent, period. You definitely must go to the theather to see it and laugh to tears with all the other audience. I give it five stars.
I got this mail on ptt2 from Speal saying that she is going to get married. It was such a big surprise. Congratulations, Speal.
After the phone interview with Pixar, I determined to learn Cocoa and Objective-C. Together with Ying, I went to Lenox Square and bought a new Mac mini and is currently using it. I also bought a mouse, keyboard and a 20" monitor. That is a lot of money... This is my first time using a Mac, everything is new to me. Mac has been known for being good to use, good HCI design. Well, sometimes it is still frustrating, many things are different, and I don't know any short-cut key. This makes me understand what kind of situation my mother bumped into when she first came across a computer. No wonder many people call themselve 'computer idiot'.
Planned to play beach volleyball on a windy Sunday afternoon, we (YoYo, KJ, Berrie, Jeng-Fang, Kevin) turned out to have no 'ball' since the borrowed ball from CRC could not be taken outside. We thus turned to the basketball court. After playing two to three hours, YoYo invited us to his department and gave us some souvenir which he brought back from his New York trip during the spring break. I picked a key chain with Time Square picture. Ying picked a golden apple of new york famous spots. I have this talk with Berry about the classes to take in fall. It seems to take OS is not a good idea. And we talked more about the software industry in both Taiwan and USA. It was a long discussion, after that I know more about the working environments and think I need to consider more about my plan of the near future.
I watched John Cornelius's Fickle Nickel on Michael Ammar's DVD classic renditions vol 2. In my opinion it is the only valuable part of the work. It was truely a beautiful trick! Quote from the description of this trick: When John Cornelius fist showed this at a convention it fooled every including Dai Vernon. The best thing about the Fickle Nickle is that it is done without sleight of hand!
Planning to go the Norcross Station to have a dinner with local magician Joe M Turner originally, we (Ying, Weichun) were sorry to hear that he was out of town and won't be back until April. So Ying suggested to try this Japanese restaurant on the way from Ying's house to the school. It is a high class restaurant with valet parking. The food was also very good. We have seaweed salad, grilled cod, two teriyaki plate a seafood pot. We also have ginger and green tea ice cream as well. We all like Japanese food in that you won't get too full and feel very comfortable after it since it is healthy. The only 'wet blanket' is the number on the check, it was about 25 per person. Well, it's weekend, let's just treat it as a reward of the past week :-P
Together with a big group of friends, we went to the Cherry Blossom Festival in Conyer GA. There are lots of booths selling handcrafts, artwork and snacks. Though it was windy, there was also several stages with performance of costumed dancers bringing dance from various countries. The most impressive one was a tap dancing of a group of about 10 young girls. The youngest looks only 3 or 4 years old. Most of them are pretty shy as most of the kids will do. They looks like a club of the local elementary school. However, there was one girl who looks like the leader of all, but not the oldest. She was great! She seems to be really involved, enjoyed in the dancing and happy about it. She always have a big smile and her dancing was great. Watching this carefree young girl taping, you can't resist to put a smile on to your own face and want dance with her together. I will remember this and remind myself all the time to be such a kid, such a leader who brings happy to others and always enjoy what I am doing.
Hi, this is Ang's blog - Hat Upside down. When you see a hat being put upside-down, what would you expect the magician to pull out from it?
