As part of an application I am in the process of making, I had to submit a copy of my university transcript. It has been a long time since I’ve had a look at all the courses I took at WFU. WFU is ranked no. 30 among national universities in the 2007 US News & World Report rankings and has a reputation for being an very academically challenging college. Or at least that it was I tell everyone to explain my less than golden grades. In total I suppose I was an average student. I think I spent too much time riding and racing bicycles. Also rarely being motivated to stay up to all hours studying before tests didn’t help either. But in the end I would say I had a positive experience and I certainly can’t complain about how I’ve done in life since that time. I guess not doing well on a few tests was all part of having a meaningful college experience, though I suppose my parents might not have agreed at the time.
Certainly having the opportunity to study Japanese and study abroad at Tokai University in Japan had an impact on my life. I’ve spent my entire life after university either living in Japan and/or working for a Japanese company.
I ran across this wedding invitation while doing my spring cleaning. If you’ve ever wondered what a “typical” wedding invitation in China looks like, here it is. Of course I am kind of assuming this is typical since I’ve only gotten a couple during my year here. Red is, predictably, a popular color in China and there is lots of gold trim. To be honest I haven’t seen many wedding invitation from the US, but as I recall they are usually white and quite simple… Actually, no I’m wrong. I just did a search on Flickr for wedding invitations and in fact it looks like most people are going with a wide variety of colors and designs. I guess this reflects how easy and relatively inexpensive it is now a days to have a unique design.
The weather recently in Shanghai has been quite spring like. Warm temperatures and partly sunny days. The weather made me think this would be a good time to do some spring cleaning of my office. I cleaned off the desk and went through my drawers. Most of the documents I deal with are confidential so it is not easy just to throw them away. On the other hand, the company paper shredder is a poor excuse for an office machine. It is more like a play thing for someone to use at home and not for someone like me who needs or wants to shred hundred of pages of paper in one sitting. So for now it is all in a box waiting for me to do something with it. Still it is nice to have everything cleaned up and at least looking like I am an organized person.
This is a great photo of an area of Shanghai not far from my home. In fact I go right by this area going to and from every day. Being in black and white gives it even more “atmosphere”.
So many pictures of Shanghai, including most of my own, are of the new modern parts or the pretty historical parts. This is more like “real” Shanghai and should remind everyone that China, even Shanghai, is still undergoing a lot of development and many local residents have yet to benefit fully from the great economic boom.
I gave my mother a digital camera about a year and a half ago. I set up a Flickr account for her back in October of last year. She finally got around to uploading some pics today. This one is of her two cats.
Congratulations mother!!
As part of an application I am in the process of making, I had to submit a copy of my university transcript. It has been a long time since I’ve had a look at all the courses I took at WFU. WFU is ranked no. 30 among national universities in the 2007 US News & World Report rankings and has a reputation for being an very academically challenging college. Or at least that it was I tell everyone to explain my less than golden grades. In total I suppose I was an average student. I think I spent too much time riding and racing bicycles. Also rarely being motivated to stay up to all hours studying before tests didn’t help either. But in the end I would say I had a positive experience and I certainly can’t complain about how I’ve done in life since that time. I guess not doing well on a few tests was all part of having a meaningful college experience, though I suppose my parents might not have agreed at the time.