I'm in love with Duluth

The most gorgeous weather I ever seen in Duluth,I'm tottally in loveeee with Duluth.Today is like 70-80 F with sunshine and a little bit windy. The weather is so fabulous, everybody loves it. my friends do sun tanning in our dorm's yard.. I'm so happy today.



My friends took picture of me when I was sitting in the yard this afternoon, we just realized that there's a yellow dandalion flower in the yard. Arent they pretty? I feels like relaxing in one kind of mountain in Austria or Switzerland, like the one shows in "the sound of music" and then you lying down surround by the meadow and hearing the flow of river, bird singing... what a perfect place for relaxing. hehehe =)
I cant wait for the summer, a lot people said summer is awesome up here, especially in canal park and lake superior. I'm so excited for the summer. =)

have a great day everyone, I hope that all of you enjoy read my blog-diary..miss ya all...

A great book comes from great teacher

Hallo everyone.. It's been 12 days since the last day I've posted. well..I'm survived from hectic-crazy weeks, a lot of issues happen to me during this week, so yeah... Thanks god it's friday, so no wonder there is a restaurant called TGI friday. hahahaa =) lol..

well.. one more week to go before my final week, I've to work hard for it; especially for chemistry.. since it was so tough so... I want get the best I could, I will move to my new apartment at 2nd and superior street in downtown duluth on may,11 right after the finals end. I've looked for it on last tuesday, It's pretty awesome apartment but the sad things that they didnt provide any furniture at all which I have to provide it by myself so yeah.... I dont have any idea where to buy it, well.. there's no IKEA in duluth, all the nearest IKEA is on Minneapolis so ... It impossible to go there and buy it because I didnt have any car so how can I buy all the stuff there? it doesnt make any sense.. so.... what am I gonna decide? I dont know yet. =(I also havent found job for the summer yet, it makes me so frustrated. I dont know what to think or what to do. there's bunch of interview next week, but it doesn't mean I get the job.

yeah.. that's why that's alot of issues during this week makes me cant do anything.
welll.. the good news is.. as I mention as an adage, that "a great book comes from a great teacher" .first,I received a great inspirational book " the secret" by Rhonda Bryne from my beloved teacher in RACC,Maryanne Brown last tuesday ; I believed this book is a great book for me, and I get spikelight as well.It is very useful to me so I can read in the darkness when my roomate fell asleep, so I wont bother her. anyway, from deepest of my heart.. Thank you Maryanne. I do appriciate your gifts.
Second,My teaching assistant in Chemistry Lab, Marissa Harle treated us with donuts as compliment on the last lab on Thursday. Having Marissa as my TA was the luckiest thing ever, because there's no TA as good as Marissa did. She explained the review chem problems before quizzes and exams,and she gave reasonable grades for our experiments.

Ok lets call it a day.. Have a great day everyone..

My 23rd birthday gift... YAY !!!

Finally... finally.. hehehe.. I"M so HAPPY TODAY!!! I just received 2 packages today as my belated 23rd birthday gift from my friend,phebe she's also being a sister to me, because I always ask opinion about something matter in my life... yeah.. so happy, since there's no one sent a birthday gift to me........ pretty sad... ( just kidding)
but yeah.. as times go by, as you become grown up, there's will be few people remember your birthday..
I also thanks to my buddy, andy and his big sis, katherine,
and also fony sis, who has been bought,delivered,and also handled the homemade ingredients that I miss so much from Singapore.

besides stich, I also received the bossini t-shirt from HongKong mannn....
I'm so excited to go there but since there're limited time and money to spent. so yeah..
Life is tough
so I have to stay in DULUTH this summer and work hahaha

I also received two bad news.. I didnt get the chemistry analysis job for this summer, yeah..
what can I say? I figure it out that I'd be rejected by them because I havent had enough experiences in Chemistry and they had stated in the requirement that you have to be had experienced in Chemistry at least 2 years and also had been junior or senior student who had greater intense in Biochemistry.. so yeah..... please release it... let it gooo....
I also heard news from Virginia technology University that a gunman has killed 4 students who lived in dormitory and about 29 students wounded from the gun-shoot, and gunman suicide by his own gun... REALLY CRAZYYY.. you can die everytime and everywhere without no specific notice... even at the dormitory, you think it's the safe place.. but it isnt.. how horibble was that.I hope that the victims and their families can recover soon from post traumatic disorder ( PTSD).
ok, have a good day..everyone !!!

Moody Saturday

Moody Saturday...........

yes.. it was... well, I wake up at 5.30am this morning because Amy,Abby, Danielle were coming come from the relay of life, then I went back to sleep after they tidy up their stuff. then...
I wake up the next 5 hours, which is 10.30 am, I was like; What the heck?I've missed call to my bro so yeah I couldnt call him since he wanted to hang out with his friend so..after I woke up for around 10 minutes, I just realized that all part of my body was hurt, I dunno why, but It just hurt ; so I decided to have a little workout at the gym, then I met Annie,one of my bestfriend in psych class and also a UMD football team squad, ready for work out such as lift barbble, incline,and tread mill.

I accompany Annie for about 1,5 hours while she was work out, we were talking about her family, her plan to spend weekend in her uncle house in Superior, Wisconsin,canoeing and kayaking, how she and her family loves kayaking so much, even her grandpa .. I was wondering how healthy and sporty her grandpa is. yeah.. times go by so fast ... so she done with her work out, and we say good bye to each other,then I went to dining center to get some subs for lunch....... then guess what? I GOT STOMACH ACHE.. it was so suck..... I hate it.......... because I ate jumbo bananas and I drank 3 glasses of skim milk,which makes my digestion.. oww..so aweful.

Anyway, today is Gorgeous day outside.. with 50 degree F with sun shine through our window. It just so lovely.. I love it. Have a great weekend everyone

Next step in MP3 : wireless

FYI, I took this article from UMD statesman, by Nick wingfield, but I want to share with you guys, so.. I type it on my blog..

A long and distinguished list of Companites- including Sony,Microsoft and Samsung-have tried and failed to make deep inroads into the digital music player market dominated by Apple's iPod. Internet giant Yahoo and its partners dont want to join the list.
A new wirless MP3 player called the Sansa Connect-the result of three-way collaboration among Yahoo,MP3 player and storage device maker SanDisk and technology start-up Zing systems-hit store shelves on April 6. The $250 device, crafted to work closely with Yahoo's Internet music and other online services, has a novel twist : It's designed to download music from the Internet wirelessly when the user isn't necessarily near a personal computer.

The sansa connect is the latest effort to succeed by emulating elements of Apple's iPod formula. Apple's success with its player-about 100 million have been sold to date-results in large part from the product ease at use.And that's mainly because iPod hadware,software and the online iTunes store are designed to work together seamlessly.
Apple's rivals in the digital-music market initially sought to compete by introducing players and online music services that weren't as closely integrated, resulting in technical sanfus for the products' users. Increasingly, though, software,hardware and online service companies are working together to make their products easier to use.
Last year, Microsoft introduced the Zune,made by Toshiba,designed to work with Microsoft's digital music store. So far, though, the Zune hasn't taken off.

SanDisk has done better in the MP3 player market. It quickly rose to No 2, with 9% of the US market, after it entered the music business a little over two years ago. Among the company's products are a music player, the Sansa e200R, that's designed to work closely with Real Networks' Rhapsody subcription music service.Yahoo and its partners are gambilng that they can have an impact by offering a new class of connected devices that are different from iPod but with similarly tight links between hardware and internet music service.A key feature included in the Sansa connect,a black device sized like a small stack of bussiness cards,is wireless technology that's commonly used to provide Internet access through homw networks and countless cafes,hotel lobbies and other public "hot spots".

If Sansa connect users are within range of a Wi-Fi network,they can connect directly to Yahoo's music service.User's of the device dont always have to be in ranget of a Wi Fi connection to enjoy songs, though. Yahoo offers a subscription music services that permits unlimited download.. of course with $11.99/month. Subcribers can fill up their sansa connects as many as 1,000 songs and still access them when they leave a hot spot,though they dont permanently own the music. The device also lets users access Yahoo's flickr photo service so they can browse through their picture online.

However, there are limitations to the Sansa Connect,though.For one,it doesnt have keyboard,so users cant find a song in the service just by typing an artist's name. It takes a few button clicks instead.
The mean idea behind the Sansa is to give users a way to download the new music on the go,something the iPod doesnt currently allow users to do.

If you want to find out more.. go to.. www.wsj.com

MY comment for this article : sansa connect is quite good I think, but since it has a limitations than ipod so I prefer iPod than sansa connect, even I dont have iPod I can felt the difference, I've been satisfied with my Sandisk mini .. hehe..

Have a great day everyone

Lily of the valley

Hallo everyone, I finally survive from this stressed-week. I'm sure that's another one after this week. however, I realized now.. at your young age,you have to "fight to the end" no matter how hard it is.. it's your challenge,so you have to do it.

Anyway on last post,I was quite sad because I was rejected by one of the kindest person for me, I guess.And I've been applied to couple jobs for working on campus, such as working at book stores during the summer, and also working at housing office for delivering mail to residence halls and apartment,it isn't for the summer,I think its gonna be fall 2007. Anyhow, I hope that I will get one of those jobs.

Yesterday, I received an easter e-card from one of my best friend, and suddenly I was suprised when this flowers appears at the end of the e-card.

When I googling it, I didnt find what the name of this flower.(fyi, I have seen it at snow queen drama, so It made me so curious, so I ask my friend, phebes... ( pron, vippsss.. like the tv drama, friends) and then.... she said, it probably would be calla lily as her sister
use it when she married. but... when I try to google it.. it isnt.... what was it???????? I was so damn curious yesterday..then I try with the key word " lily" and I found it..It was Convallaria majalis,commonly known as the Lily of the Valley or Prolificans Lily-of-the-Valley.....
oh how sweet it is...

According to wikipedia, the leaves and flowers contain glycosides that have been used in medicine for centuries. In overdose, preparations can be poisonous; pets and children can be harmed by eating Lily of the Valley.

The flower is also known as Our Lady's tears since, according to the legend, the tears Mary shed at the cross turned to Lilies of the Valley. According to another legend, Lilies of the Valley also sprang from the blood of St.Leonard during his battle with the dragon. Other names include May Lily, May Bells, Lily Constancy, Ladder-to-Heaven, Male Lily and Muguet.
By tradition, Lily of the Valley is sold in France in the streets on May 1. Since 1982, Lily of the Valley is national flower of Finland. =). The name "Lily of the Valley" is also used in some English translations of the Bible in Song of Songs 2:1, although whether the Hebrew word "shoshana" originally used there refers to this species or not is uncertain. The meaning of this flower is "You will find Happiness"......upss.... I'm so exicited by the flowers.. so sorry guysss...well then I try to find it online, there's real one which is a little bit expensive for me about $33.95 for one bunch, but the most interesting part that there's an articifial one with arcylic vases about $29.95. I want to buy it but..
I dunno if it was worthed or not to spend money on it. so.... yeah. let someone give it to me as a suprise( daydreaming... =) =)

well.. I think lily of the valley will works for everybody who had a hard time, when you think you're so tired or in deepest depression that no other way you can figure out your problems, So just looking at this flower, you will have positive thinking... that you will find happiness. hehehehheee =)
and also yesterday......
I received the same photo from my friend in Jakarta... phebe, the first one send it to me, robert, the second one and Henry,the third one. I miss spend time with them, but life goes on,everyone has it own business so yeah.... what can I say..

soo.. I spent my weekend cleaning my room and having a hair cut- but I wont back to the hairdresser, she doesnt have a skill as a stylist, it's just ordinary style. I think that everyone can do it as same as she does. oh my goodness.. I dunno what to comment........ ok then.. that's it........ HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE

As It sayss so...

As I predicted before, today is wednesday the 4th and Amy didnt call me or emailing me about the job, It means I didnt get it.. =( =( =(,I dont understand why she keep avoiding from me, well never mind if you want to tell me the worst part, I'm okay with it, but.. yeah..what I can I say, everybody has different personalities.
It's really so pissed me off...well, I dont know what i'm gonna do right know, but I'll find another job maybe tommorrow.