Places

where i’ve been since graduation:

…-6/1 Princeton
6/2-6/8 San Juan, Puerto Rico
6/9-6/20 Central Jersey (i.e. home)
6/21-6/26 Bay Area, California
6/27-7/4 Seoul, Daegu and Busan, Korea
7/5-7/7 Singapore
7/5 and 7/9 Pudong airport, Shanghai, China
7/10-… New York Metropolitan Area, USA (i.e. home)

note 1: 7/15 was my first day of work
note 2: at some point in the near future, i should be moving out and my location will become solely New York, NY

There’s so many things i could say about each of these items that trying to talk about any of them without giving it its own post would be doing an injustice.   so my plan is to write about as many of them as i can over the course of time, in whatever way i feel like at the moment, hoping to eventually cover a good amount.  that’s my semi-promise to you, reader, at this point :P

“it’ll never be the same”

as i go through these times where every day brings with it a new goodbye, and sometimes a new hello, it strikes me that there are only a few goodbyes that i get sentimental about.  unexpected for me in a sense, since i am the type of person who gets easily attached to my surroundings.  but given that my transition is not so much leaving princeton to go to some completely disparate environment as much as it is zooming out of the orange bubble to the local “real world”, which includes home, campus, the city, and a lot of places in between, as well as a whole lot of people from my college years – given this, i feel that there are relatively few people i am actually saying goodbye to, and even fewer things.  and of the people who are leaving the megalopolis “bubble” in which i now find myself, there are only a handful that i feel i will really, actively miss.  these are the people with whom i’ve shared countless memories during princeton, the people who have shown me and done for me so much that i cannot even measure it.  and yet, these are the people with whom i feel that our relationship may be as transitorily dependent on the sustained proximity of the college environment as it is meaningful and real.  there are, of course, those friendships which have taken on different forms throughout the years, sometimes more proximal, sometimes more distal, in various capacities - but i am not talking about these friendships.  for these relationships, i like to think that the transition to post-grad life will be just one more transformation.  rather, the transitions that truly make me pause for a second are those for which i feel i must say, “it’ll never be the same.”  so i stop, ponder, give thanks to God for the time that i’ve been given with each of these friends, and finally, reluctantly but expectantly, turn my gaze to what lies ahead.  to those friends, i think (and hope that) you know who you are; this entry is dedicated to you.  thank you.

Observation

The trees outside of Spelman are ridiculous

Chinian Manifesto 1:3

All shoes are created equal, but some are waterproof.

Chinian Manifesto 1:2

All governments are created equal, but some are more equal than others.

Jason Chin

Columbia University Fu Foundation School of Engineering Class of 2014

yayeahhhhhhhhh good job kid!

hmm

i feel like i should write something.

the right answers…

are often the simplest. they’re all right there, in God’s word. learning how and when to apply that knowledge, though, is often more complicated than it should be, huh.

May 26, 2009

a few things:

first of all, Star Trek is awesome.  mostly because, besides being the perfect combination of action and epic, all on a huge screen with ridiculous graphics, it glorifies physics and makes smart people look cool. :D  watching it definitely brought me back to the days that i used to be into science and all sort of interesting things… now i feel like i’m too busy just learning how to survive in this world as an adult haha.

on a slightly related note, it’s finally starting to hit me that junior year is over.  today i went back to 1903 for fun/to look for kenneth, and the whole time it was hitting me that we don’t live in our 1903 rooms anymore.  everything from opening the 4th entryway to turning the knob on the 413 door to walking the path between entryways 4 and 3 was so strangely familiar, as though it were just another day in junior year. except everyone was gone. and the room was locked, this time for good.  in a way, i guess junior year just left without me really having left it, in my mind.

on top of that, work starts next thursday, and i haven’t quite thought about that nearly enough yet.

hello summer.

Chinian Manifesto 1:1

“There are philosophers

and there are philosophies

and then there is philosophy”