Thanksgiving week

Before the main part of my post, let me just share some joy with everbardee...

From an email that the head of our math dept sent out today:
"Because we have just started on the max-min theory in lectures, we decided to postpone all Section 4.2 homework problems until Assignment 9... For now, the announcement is Assignment 8 now has 11 problems, all the problems assigned from Sections 2.6 and 4.1."

I've completed section 2.6. Which means instead of having done 1/3 of the hw (which is due thu) i've done half! whoo hoo! =) It suddenly seems a lot more doable. Thank u God!! :D

Anyway, last week was thanksgiving week and we had the whole week off. Took the time to rest, relax, get some hw done... in the process of all of it I suddenly realized to my horror that we only have 2 MORE WEEKS of school and then it's finals week!! And I have math finals AND an IHUM paper due on Monday of finals week (11 Dec). XP Nvm nothing is impossible thru Christ who strengthens me! :)

Thanksgiving was on thursday; I went with Ai Lin, Dewen, Andrew (Hongkee Singaporean friend) and a guy from my dorm called Peter to Cynthia's place for thanksgiving dinner (Cynthia's the american girl I met on the trip to Redding who's moving to Singapore for work at the end of this week... have I mentioned this before? I forget). It was a really good meal and really nice company. Other stuff that I did during the week included renting DVDs (Cars and Thank You For Smoking) and watching them at Ai Lin's place together with De Wen and Andrew, and a trip up to San Francisco on wed. Check out a few of the photos I took at San Fran:

picture of part of downtown san fran

me at the northern coast of San Fran with Alcatraz (famous high-security prison on an island) in the background

a sign prohibiting ppl from taking these really expensive and high quality crabs should they show up on the pier (with san fran in the background)

a guy BALANCING ROCKS (those rocks aren't glued together. AMAZING STUFF!!)

and the Golden Gate bridge in rather foggy weather.


Throughout last week it started getting much colder than usual. Now I usually wear a t-shirt under another t-shirt or a polo shirt or something like that, so I'm effectively wearing 3 layers with my jacket. But it's comparitively warm here; other parts of the USA have been snowing for a while already. We're really in autumn now... getting colder and leaves are turning red and brown and falling. :) Gotta go do some hw now, I'll leave u guys with some photos of the Stanford campus I took last week. Cheers! =)


Taken from just outside De Wen's dorm:

And from across the road from my dorm, looking towards the central part of campus (my dorm's just to the right of the photo)