Thursday, March 29, 2007

Diary: long day in school, Soccer, plane ticket, and Photos

I worked very hard in school today with the numerical analysis. Brian and Kiomi came to my office in the afternoon as usual. We worked out a couple questions. I know I want to speed this thing up so I can be ready for the prelim ASAP.

I also went to give my thesis to Dr. Ruygaart. He looked at it and said my thesis is like a disertation. It has too much info and too hard for master. He said some other professors who looked at my thesis felt the same way. For my thesis, I did spend much time to do before and I learnt so much from it. I know all these time and effort that I spent in my thesis is for my own good.

After I saw Dr Ruygaart, I started calling 5 different travel agents and asked about the price for the ticket from Lubbock TX to Japan and to Hong Kong. It is quite expensive. The cheapest one I got so far is 1335. If I leave on Tuesday and come back on Friday then I also have another $70 off from it but I really don't want to do it since I will have 3 days less in Hong Kong. It was very interesting that Yuko gave me an agent which has a very cute little operator answered the phone. Her English is so funny that I tried to imagined her face and height during the call plus she has very good voice. Too bad, she still can't move my heart to buy ticket from her. She quoted me $1445. Even though, the ticket is a bit high but I think it is still good since I am taking AA to Tokyo and also Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong. The trip will be very comfortable. I plan to travel on July 1st to Tokyo and then stay there till July 17th and then go to Hong Kong. It will be another long vacation.

Yuko told me Miyake is graduating today. I am very happy to get to know him and also happy for his success. His company is going to assign him somewhere around Tokyo. If he is staying very close by, Yuko and I will for sure visit him and we may have another trip together in Japan. (Yuko suggested to visit nikko. I looked at the pics there. It is amazing. I really want to visit there.)

I got a note from Irene. He told me that the soccer game is on tomorrow night at 5:30pm. Oh! my right ankle is still hurting. I can hardly walk straight. I really don't know how to help them in the game this time. But I will show up tomorrow for sure just let them to have enough people. B I also keep messaging my ankle the whole night and hopefully it will be well by tomorrow.

I finally posted most of the pics that I wanted to post tonight. I really like some of the pics that I took here in Lubbock. Well, I will keep taking more pics here in Lubbock and have a good memory of all things around me.

Tonight there was a hail storm. When I heard that I opened the front door and looked at my raddo and lexas. I felt bad for them to stay outside. I really want them to come in the home for rest. I hope they are still ok and without any dents. I HATE HAILING!!!! What kind of weather is it in Lubbock here?