Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Sense of humor

One thing that I noticed here in the US is the sense of humor among the people. I see many people have sense of humor, and they try to use it as they are talking to the other people. In my country, it was very rare to see someone with sense of humor. I talked to Ryan about it, and he said, "you are right. This is a part of their work ethics." I am very happy about it because I enjoy joking with people that I like.

A few days ago, I went to Natalie's office. She had sent me an email and asked me for the reply regarding my summer forms. I said to her that I came for signing the forms.
She: Why did you come here? What did I exactly ask you?
I: You asked... Hum....
She: Come here. This is my email. I asked for ...
I: I just came here to see you [smiling]. It was a long time that I didn't see you.
She: [smiling] Read this. I asked for a reply.
I: Oh, OK. It is a kind of relay; a physical reply :)

I said that, and she busted out laughing. This was just one example. I talked to a Jamaican boy today, and we also made lots of jokes while talking. 

One more final exam is remained

I took two final exams a few days ago, and we presented two projects today. I have one more final exam the day after tomorrow. And we also need to finish our documentation by Thursday. I feel happier today. I think that the pressure of these exams and projects caused lots of stress to me these days.

I also received Angelina's gift today. It is very cute, but looks cheap. She was very happy today. She is very shy when I am talking to her. She don't look at me when she is explaining something to me.  I wanted to give her gift after our class. However, as I didn't want nobody to see me doing that, so I couldn't give it to her today.

A stupid idea advanced to the shark tank show

Oh, I can't believe it. I read a news about one of the ideas that advanced to the next level of the shark tank show. Among them, I saw a very stupid idea that doesn't worse anything in comparison to my map idea. I don't know how their stupid idea advanced. I will start working on my idea from the summer. Someday, I will show them how stupid they were.

Over re-use

Our professor asked us to meet him the previous week. I had no idea that what was happened. When I went there, he explained me that our team (my team with Indian students) copied and pasted some parts of our documents from previous year teams. They made references to that project, but they copied word by word that was not acceptable. 

I didn't know that. He had asked teams to re-use, but people did over re-use! Instead of understanding something and using it in our project, they copied any part that didn't work on it. Hopefully, the professor knew me well, and he knew that I was not the person who did that. And hopefully he understood the situation, and asked us to fix it. We could be accused for plagiarism. Those who did that didn't even think that the plagiarism was very intense in the US. Ryan told me that an international student was fired from their university for this reason a few years ago. 

I spent lots of time to fix their mistakes. We re-wrote everything from the beginning. I also spent lots of time to make the project myself to make sure that nothing wrong happens again. I wish I were in Angelina's team in the other class, too.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Ryan got his export license

Microsoft called Ryan last night and inform him that he got his export license. Now, he can start his job in Microsoft. I talked to him about the available positions in Microsoft and other similar companies, and he guided me a lot.

 It was always my dream to work in these companies because this kind of experience is completely unique, and I couldn't get it in any other country. However, my previous experiences are completely unrelated to their requirements. Ryan explained to me, "these companies hire talents only. You should show your talents to them, not your previous experiences."

If I decide to enter them, I need to study many topics that I've never studied. Ryan studied more than four months to get an offer from them. He said two important points to me:

First, in his previous university, there were many students who were going to apply to MS. That's how he got lots of information about the interviews, and the process. In addition, he was in the atmosphere of applying to these companies. The same as what we had for applying to abroad universities.

Second, entering these companies is highly competitive. Therefore, preparation for their interviews process is quite like a university's entrance exam. One should study at least 3 months to be able to pass their interviews. Some students study more than eight months to enter Google. Once they enter, they have lots of unimaginable opportunities.

My preference is to have my own company, a start-up. However, it is very valuable for me have experience of working in an environment like Google. It is very tempting to study a few months, and enter the world's best high tech company, Google. I really need to decide about it, but I should wait until summer to see what will be happened to our XPrize project.

It will take lots of time to be prepared for their interviews. I wish someone had told me about it before coming to the US. In that case, I could have plans for that or at least enough time to think about it.

Three hours conversation about a forbidden debate

I had three hours conversation about ga.y and le.s with Ryan last night. He said to me many things about them that I've never known before. He said some of his friends were ga.y, but they didn't know.  And he is able to recognize them after being more than three years here in the US. We also talked about the kind of problems they faced in their lives. It was the first time, that I heard about some debates related to their rights.

Jason Evanish's blog

One of my friends shared me a link from Jason Evanish's blog. I read some of his posts. I really liked his post about San Francisco. I think that I like San Francisco more than any other city for living in the future. I wish my blog become better than his someday.

I missed your videoblog

I watched some of the Taylor's old videos. I really missed these kind of home made movies. I saw that some of her fans also had the same feeling. I liked their comments. I wish my Tay Tay back soon.


Taylor Hot n Cold Taylor Your world is my world

Once Upon a Prom


God, I know that I didn't keep my promise, and you said no; but I still expect you to change your mind and help me again.

Four hours thinking only about my spent time

I spent more than four hours to think about what is happened to me during this semester. I had lots of depression and emotional issues. I changed direction of my previous writings about two months ago, and now I don't write anything there. I think that my emotions affected a lot because of my workload and problems of this semester. I thought hard about the causes and effects of my decisions during the whole semester. I think that my performance was not satisfactory at all. I could do many things that I didn't do that. I tried to figure out what did I do with all my time.

Unplanned time spent

General:
Time for applying to companies for internship positions (job search, resume writing, applying, interview prepration, interviews,...) (5-12 days, I can't remember)
Time for creating this blog (about 3 days)
Time for helping people with email (excluding my blog comments) (I answered more than 200 emails, 200 * 10 min ~ 70 hours ~ 4 days)
Time doing nothing because of depressions (I don't know, maybe more than 10 days)

Time for finding an American friend (I really don't know)
Time for thinking about Angelina (I really don't know)
Time for potential research (3 days)
Time for dealing with uncertainties for the internship positions and research possibilities

most of the above time is not used well.

The time for English learning:
Time for watching 76 episodes of Yu Yu Hakusho (76 * 20min  ~ 25 hours ~ 3 days)
Time for watching 4 long movies (about 10 hours)
Time for watching Taylor's videos (about 8 hours)
Time for reading bible (about 10 hours)


The time that I didn't expect but I used well:
Time for learning Android programming (about 2 days)
Time for learning JSP (about 2 days)
Time for my course projects (about 5 days more than my expectations)
Time for obtaining information regarding new Apache products (about 2 days)
Time for learning information about medical gadgets (about 3 days)


After this analysis, I understood that why my performance was not satisfactory. I lost my balance this semester, and the above completely shows its effects. However, if I pass my two qualifying exams this semester, I still would meet all my goals of this period.

I need a better plan for the summer. This time, I spent lots of time out of my plan. I still need to spend more time to define better short-term goals.

A loser

I feel like a loser these days. Samuel told me the previous semester, "You become a loser since you came to the US." I analysed his words today completely.

Failures:
1- failed to win the business idea competition
2- failed to win the hackathon
3- failed to develop my own idea (map), and start my own business
4- failed to find a research area and professor
5- failed to get an internship position in large companies like Microsoft, Google,.... (they didn't even select my resume)
6- failed to get an internship from start-up companies (I just got 2 interviews without any success)
7- failed to find an American friend (Angelina is still in progress after four months without any hope for success)
8- failed to buy a car (I spent lots of time to do that without any results; I shouldn't have spent that time)
9- failed to continue my previous writings (unexpected problem happened)
10- failed to keep social communications with other people (due to unexpected severe depression)
11- failed to keep my plans for reading books and praying (a big failure)
...

Lots of them happened in this semester. In fact, I am satisfied from my performance in the previous semester, but the problem is started from this semester.

Causes of failures:

1- unexpected homesick and emotional issues (depression)
I should have done this failure analysis a lot before. I could decrease my homesick effects by knowing it and changing my direction.

2- underestimating processes of job hunting, car buying, friend making, business launching, ...

I should have better estimation of all started processes by studying more and consulting more people. It was one of my biggest mistakes during this semester. I need to gather more information in the summer to have better estimation. Lots of wrong calculations intensified my homesick.


3- Very bad plan for the summer (I was not certain about going for internship)

I had no plan for my summer from the beginning of this semester. I spent hours and hours writing resumes and applying to the companies without having a certain plan for going to an internship position. I focused on all large companies without having the required qualifications.



Next
Despite these failures, I had some achievements; however, they are not enough to cover all these failures. I will analyse them later after my qualifying exam. Failure in it or bad grades in my courses really completes this collection. I have no chance other than passing it.

Friday, April 26, 2013

Success Indicator

Somebody sent me this picture, and I liked it, so I decided to share it here.


http://www.workingmomsonly.com/tag/success-indicator/

I don't know why the successful person is a woman, and the unsuccessful one is a man. 

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Another painting from my son


I received another painting from Andrew today. This time he painted a car, and there are lots of more happiness in his painting. I really like these kind of letters. I wish I could get one of them every day.



However, in that case, I had no time to write about it! Be happy my darling forever.

A gift for Angelina

I decided to buy a very cute gift for Angelina. A gift that I am 100% that she likes it. Maybe someday she becomes my friend and helps me to write this blog. I ordered it last night, and I expect to get it on the next Wednesday.

I am sorry Angelina; I really liked you, and it was needed to do that. I know that this will touch your heart, and this is exactly what I wanted.

Ms.Taylor, I know that you also like this. I'll buy another for you later. Just remind me!

very sad day

I closed down my previous blog yesterday because someone had found my identity. It turned out that many readers complained and cried for it. Knowing my identity was a red-line from the very first day that no one should have crossed it.

I knew that this happens one day, but I didn't expect it at this time. I had no other choice but closing it.

Last night, I had a bad dream. I saw that I was in a street and somebody was dead. We were walking over a bridge where there was a machine to compress dead corpus. Once the dead body fell into that machine, a scream came out of that body. I hated that innovation. I just couldn't endure it, and I started to cry. I was crying that I woke up. I slept about 3 am, but I woke up 8 in the morning after this dream. It was strange because most of the time I could hardly wake up at 9 am when I sleep that late.

I believe that it was something related to my previous blog. I've never seen such a sad dream since many years ago. As far as I can remember, the last time I saw I am crying while sleeping was when my grandfather passed over. I don't really know what to do for it. I really can't endure people being sad and hopeless. They were used to read my writings to the point that they couldn't believe the end has come, and I couldn't believe their comments. It sounded that my blog was a part of their life. I wish this wouldn't happen again.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Angelina tested me?

I woke up 7 in the morning and I saw this message on my cell phone, "Eh, our project doesn't work, way behind schedule." Angelina sent me this at 3 A.M. "What is happened to our project that she asked me that time of day." I thought to myself. I just asked her for more explanation.
"Eh no I mean senior design project" she answered 11 am.
"Oh, why? How can I help you? Email me your project and the problem to see whats going on" I said. I wish that I had a car, so I could go and help her.
"lol its ok. our group is working on it. [] is giving us trouble, []"

Her group was working on their projects and she expected me to help her 3 am? Was she testing me? I think so. Did I fail? I don't think so. I like you Angelina. I am not a lair. You don't need to test me; I'm more honest than you think.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Just thinking about her

I couldn't do anything yesterday and today. I just thought about Angelina from the morning to the night. I went to Walmart yesterday to buy her a gift. I spent an hour there, but I couldn't find anything cute.



Three hours conversation with Angelina

Talking about why I didn't talk to her
That night, I decided to text her again to see whether she really wanted to talk to me or not. I started with this message, "One day tell me why did you decide to cut our conversation, if you dont mind.
Anyway, I really didnt expect you to be interested about it. Sorry to bother you"

"Cut it? I responded when I could, phone was on silent and I don't check it much cause I don't get a lot of texts usually. Anyway if you need to text about it you can. I'm not that good at consoling people though," she answered immediately. I understood that she was waiting for it. She also had forgotten that we had an ongoing conversation. She tried to hide this by giving an excuse.

After talking about meanings of "want" and "need" and why I didn't answer her. She said, "I wasn't trying to say you were needy. Lol it was like 1am, I was not that coherent." I understood that she had an ability to put all her cuteness in a single message. I decided to continue our conversation. I pretended that I was interested in a girl, and it turned out to be a heartbreak. I didn't want to lie her at all. All I said was about herself, but I didn't reveal it to her.

Beginning of our conversation
I started to talk to her about my background, the country I grew up, and all experiences that I had with other girls. When I was talking to her, my heart was like a little kid explaining all he knew to a best friend. "I wanted this for since the very first day I met her. I am talking to a girl whom I know that understands me very well. What am I telling her? talking about my previous stupidity? Shouldn't I talk to her about all good things instead of these things?" I thought to myself while I was writing for her. I had no idea; I started something, and I couldn't change it.

"I don't understand, how did you meet?" she asked. Her questions showed me how she carefully followed all my words. I also implicitly told her about Taylor when I said, "There is a girl that I love her so much, but it's a forbidden love," but I wish I didn't do that.

...
"But she ... you can guess.", I said.
"So she stopped being friends cause she had bf?" she asked.

"I have no clue" I said.
"She might just want a bf. Or her bf doesn't like her hanging out with guys." she said.
"It's normal for people to put aside friends when they get a bf or gf," she continued.

"I don't know it. I don't even know what is a boyfriend?" I asked.
"She may not have liked you as a friend. It's hard for some people to be just friends with opposite gender" she said.

"Could you tell me please what is a boyfriend?" I asked.
"Idk how it is where you grew up but here people date first then get married. When you date and are in an exclusive romantic relationship with someone that's a boy/girlfriend" she answered.

"Oh. In my country, it is different. People get engaged and then marry." I said.
"No its opposite here, if you just marry people think it's not serious and that you will get divorced soon" she said.

...

"... friendships don't last. Especially girls, they will put love first. Is she American?" she said.
"She speaks fluently. I don't know she born here or not, but I know that she was here since her childhood." I answered.
"I think you shouldn't take the friendship so seriously, it is hard to maintain a close friendship between guy and girl when one is dating someone else" she said.

"I didn't know it. I have my friends for many years even since my undergrad." I said.
"Then I think you should give her space, she might be new at dating or just really like this guy but that means her friends will take second priority. Friends can last but it may not be that close," she said.

"I don't have many friends, but they are all good friends. It is hard for me to ask someone to be my friend. I never wanted my first experience of having a female friend be that way." I said.
"You probably just have to wait and see how she is with her bf, eventually she might be friends again. Or she might not, which means she not worth your time" she said.

"In that case, how can I trust her again?" I asked.
"It's just a friendship, don't worry so much about it. Just find new friends while she is busy with bf", she said.

"Just tell me if I did something wrong." I said.
"No it wasn't you. I would suggest just keep in touch with her like say hi once in a while but let her have space and have fun dating her bf. Np it sounds like it's all on her end not yours." she said.

"Do all girls who have bf like her? Is it common here?" I asked.
"Yes that's what people do here especially at high school or college age, we don't usually think about marriage until after graduating" she answered.

"Do I expect something strange?" I asked
"Idk personally I don't have that many lasting friendships. The only ones I have had for years were with girls" she answered.

"You know most of the students here are in the marriage age, and they may all prefer to have a boyfriend like her. Do I have an unrealistic expectation to be friends with them?" I said.
"No it is an individual choice. Some people are good at balancing friendships and a relationship" she answered.

"One more thing. Do all girls fall in love easily? I am really scared to be friend with someone and she falls in my love, and I couldn't marry her." I said.
"Yes girls are love crazy" she answered with a few minutes delay.
"Also I think you mean the phrase "falls in love with me"" she continued.

"My English is not that good. I had four courses in high school, and one in undergrad. I learnt everything else myself within two years before coming here. Thank you so much for everything." I said.
"No problem. Don't stress about it, it's a normal occurrence" she said.

"If you could tell me anything about the girls, I really appreciate it." I said.
"It's not that easy lol if you have a question I can answer... Girls are more emotional and care a lot how they look and do irrational things.. " she answered.

"I am writing about you in my diary. Is it OK for you?" I asked.
"Uh ok... That's not usually something you tell people. Unless you're referring to a public blog ir something" she asked.

"You are right. There is a public blog. I already wrote somethings about you there, and I would like to add your tonight's comments to it." I said.
"That's fine just don't put my name. that's neat that you have a blog" she said.

"Thank you for everything. Good night. [some joking] I'll really miss you after end of this semester. Take care :^*" I said.


I felt a strong emotion about her after this conversation. She was just like what I expected even better. She listened to me carefully. She never asked me anything about that girl. She answered all my questions logically. I knew that not all girls are such realistic about their life as a girl, but she was.

I said to her that I needed a friend

I supposed to study my qualifying exam that day, but I couldn't do that. I was thinking about Angelina  all the time. I decided to send her an sms to know whether she likes me or not. I wrote for her, "Hey, what r u doing?" I said to myself, she won't answer if she doesn't care.

"I'm in ...[her city] right now," she answered after 2 hours on 11:52 P.M.
"'What' is different from 'where' I guess :) I just wanted to know did you do anything for the 'term paper'? And a few more thing...," I said.
"I didn't do the paper", she said.
"... I am tired of all these courses and exams. You forgot to tell me what were u doing?", I said.
"About to go to bed"
[some joking! and then good night.]
"Lol ok did you need something?" she asked.
"I needed a good friend who can understand me. Somebody broke my heart and... But not now. Now, I just need to sleep. I slept 4 am last night," I said.

I was waiting for her answer that I fell sleep. I got her answer tomorrow when I woke up. She had written, "Ok you can text me tomorrow if you need"
She wrote this one hour after my last message. I understood that she was confused what to tell me. By the way, she had decided to talk to me. This meant to me that she still cares about me, or at least she is curious to know more about me. However, part of her message, "if you need", was weird to me. If I answered her, this would be meant that I was needy to contact her. I didn't want to look needy. She could say, "if you would like" or something else. But I knew that there is a possibility that she didn't mean to say something to discourage me. If she wanted it, she could never answer it.

I decided not to contact her that day. Next day, I saw her in our class. I decided not to talk to her at all. She looked nervous, and sometimes she was playing with her hands. I've never seen doing this before. It sounds to me that she was very curious to hear from me. I am sorry Angelina; I didn't want to annoy you, but it was required to do that.

Tell me





If you are single-hearted with my heart, tell me
If you are aware of my heart or not, tell me
If you are angered with me or in peace with me, tell me
I don't know what to tell; tell everything you would like to tell

You are silent and cold, why?
You brought us coldness, why?
Why did you do bad to my tired heart?

Your heart doesn't want to be with a tired and broken heart.
Stone and glass can't be together.
To a black and gloomy night,
Sadness and darkness come, but not light

Glassy wall

I see you all the time standing in front of me. Your eyes say, I love you. Your hands are opened, and your lips smile to me. My heart says to me, cuddle her once forever. I open my eyes and run toward you. But I hit a  sturdy thing. I stretch out my hands toward you. but they can't reach you. I look into your eyes. You are still smiling. You don't know that there is a glassy wall between us. We'll die if it breaks.


Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Why Angelina?

I expected to walk with Angelina after our class to the next class. I waived my hand to say her hello. She just said hi, and didn't smile like before. 

"We have nothing to say. Don't walk with me." She said to me in her imaginations. 
"I had no time to print the last document. Would you mind to come with me and print it?" I asked her. 
"I printed it before our class" she answered me. 
"Now, Go." She said to me in her thoughts.

I left her, and went outside the building to breath the fresh air. I left the second class earlier to wait for her. I stayed outside the building to walk with her toward her car. I was playing with my cell phone, and waiting for her. I saw her coming out. I waited a few minutes, but she didn't come out. I looked back and I saw that she was disappeared. "She has changed her way because of me. OMG, why? She used to come and talk to me, but now..." I thought to myself. I went back to find her, but I faced my professor. "Are you free now to talk about that research now?" He asked me. "Sure." I answered while I was thinking about her. "If you don't like me, at least be the same." I asked her in my thoughts.

It is almost end of the semester. I have two final exams next week, and I should study for them. I have Two projects and one another final exam in the next two weeks. By the end of this month, I should also pass two qualifying exams that I didn't finish their study yet. I feel lots of pressure and stress these days. That's why I think Angelina has become an issue for me. I wish she could understand me. How cruel is she?

Angelina broke my heart

I can't really believe it. Angelina broke my heart while I hadn't fallen in her love. Angelina came to the lab yesterday to finish our team's project. She had worn a beautiful t-shirt and jeans, and in one word, she was shining like a white panda! I've never seen her like that before. "She looks amazing. None of our team members have shown up. Why aren't you talking to her?" I thought to myself. I was working on my own project while she finished his part. I was thinking to invite her to a coffee that she said, "I should leave within 20 minutes cause my boyfriend is coming."
"Your boyfriend? He is coming to our university? here?" I asked.
"Yes." She said while she was texting with her phone.
"Oh my god. I can't believe it. She has a boyfriend. Then how can I expect her to spend some time with me? Why shouldn't she be with her boyfriend?" I thought to myself. I really didn't expect it, so I asked her, "That's why you look amazing today?" she said, "I guess ..." while she was thinking to herself, "It is none of your business. Why are you asking me?"

I was thinking about all these things that she printed the documents, and said goodbye to me. I was completely baffled. I wanted to go and walk with her, but what if her boyfriend saw us? She left the lab thinking to herself that what am I thinking about. I couldn't even answer her. I came after her, and she was talking very slowly. I wanted to run, and talk to her, but I found no reason. I just watched her going far and far until I couldn't see her anymore. I came back to the lab, and I didn't know what's happened. "She is like me in some aspects. She is sober and sedate. She walks calmly." I thought about her. "But she really don't care about me. How stupid was I? I made a big mistake by not talking to her two months ago. I should have known it when she started texting all the time, and had no attention to me anymore." I said to myself.

I was frustrated. I couldn't even finish the project. I took a bus, and went home. "She has a boyfriend? So what? I was not going to be her boyfriend. All I wanted was to be friends. I expected her to at least care about me as much as I care about her." I thought to myself. "So what? Did you really expect her to spend her time with you and not with her boyfriend? Did you want her to come with you to the movies and parks instead of him? Why should she do that? She is 22, and she should have a boyfriend to marry. It is natural that a beautiful girl at her age to have a boyfriend and marry. Many Americans are like that." I answered to myself. Suddenly, I remembered that I didn't even thank her for printing the documents.

"Hey, I just forgot to thank you for coming and helping. If I could do anything for you, please just let me know. Have fun." I sent her a SMS.
"Thanks np :)" she answered instantly.
I put the sentence "If I could do..." to see her reaction, but she didn't care at all. "Why do you send me smileys when you don't really care about me?" I asked her in my imaginations.

 "I didn't love her; I didn't even know her, and I had never talked to her. But she could break my heart. How is this happened?" I asked myself, but I had no answer for my question. I felt very lonely; I remembered all my previous heartbreaks, and fell into sleep.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Very sad day with my friends

Today was Ryan's birthday. We went out with Henry and some other boys. Weather was great, and the place we went was incredibly beautiful. It was windy, but I like wind a lot, so I enjoyed it.

A boy in the group started to talk about the girls. I hated their conversation. We were all about 30, but the only thing they were talking about was how to find a girl to spend a night with her.

"This is an important topic. I hear from any group of students here talking about the girls. I had a lot in my own country, but I couldn't find any here." The boy said.
"Even though you find a girlfriend, she looks for a long term relationship or marriage." Henry said.
"You can always break up." the boy said.
"Yes, but they don't have this in their mind when they decide to be your girlfriend." Henry said.

The boy said a story about a boy who had lots of sex in his own country, and he couldn't find as many as them here. I was silent during all their conversation thinking to myself about myself. How cruel are they? I am about 30, and I would like to have a happy family. So, who can I marry? It is more than eight months that I came to the US, and I never saw even one case who could be my future wife. Will this situation continue? The only amazing girl whom I saw during this period was Angelina, who I couldn't even talk to her for friendship.

What if I found no one? What about Taylor? Did I come all this long way to forget my dreams? Am I delusional or it's a way to distract my feelings? What about Angelina? Nothing is wrong with her. Why shouldn't I marry her? But I really don't think about her that way. My heart is not belonging to her.

I felt extremely sad about their talk. I am not a cruel person like them, and I know what I want, but I can't find a way to get it. I wish I could change it, but I can't. I thought about my future. My only way now is to be patient. I had an amazing dream two nights ago, and I felt great all these two days until today and their annoying conversation.

first mail from my African-American boy

I received a mail from Donovan, my African-American boy, yesterday. I like to receive these kinds of letters everyday.



My boy is very boyly! He wants to be a football player. I wish he would like to be an intellect. I found nothing about "Raven" in the Internet, so I have no idea about what he read. It was the first time that I heard about "chuck e cheese." I found a Youtube video about it:


I am sure that he had a great fun there. However, personally, I prefer outdoor activities for children. Playing in parks with friends is probably the best kind of fun a kid can have. By the way, I prefer Disney's parks better than these indoor playgrounds.

SaveTheChildren told me that there would be no communication during the summer when schools are closed. I hope that he could send me emails regularly unlike my girl.

A research topic

I got an idea this week to work on it as a research topic. I asked my professor, and he liked the idea. He scheduled an appointment this week, but he forgot to come. He scheduled another for the next week. I hope that this becomes a good research topic. I am also thinking about a revolutionary topic in programming. However, I still need more time to ponder upon it.

This week with Angelina

In the previous week, Angelina looked very sad. She listened to the professor all class time, and looked at her mobile only once or twice. Being her hand under her chin, she looked very sympathetic. I don't know what was happened to her, but I knew that she wasn't happy. After our first class, I waved my hands for her saying her hi, and she also brought her hand up, but she didn't smile this time. I walked with her again to our next class. I talked to her about our project, and other projects. In our second class, I was talking to one of our team members that she joined us. Usually, she doesn't do that.

Ellie was absent, and I thought that it was the best time to talk to her. I could walk with her to her car. I wanted to ask her, "Would you like to be my friend? A real friend, and nothing more."After our class, I was talking to one of our team members, and she stood near us talking to another team member. Their conversation lasted for a long time. I waited for her outside the building, but she was talking to that man. I thought that it was not good that she saw me there, so I went to the bathroom. I thought to myself, "If God is willing, I can meet her after I came back." I came back to that building a few minutes later, but she wasn't there. I looked everywhere, but she had gone.

"What a stupid person you are?" I told to myself. "Why did you let her go? Today was the best day to talk to her?"

I went to my office, and I felt guilty. I saw that she had sent us an email about our team work. Therefore, I decided to talk to her personally. I sent her an email to ask her scheduling a meeting for tomorrow. She answered me a few hours later, and she told me that she couldn't come because of her senior project. I replied her joking with her about her project, and asking for a team meeting on Monday. "lol. I can come Monday." I didn't notice it until now when I was writing this in my blog. I thought that she said, "I can't come," but she had said, "I can come" Therefore, I sent team an email for a meeting in tomorrow.

Friday, April 12, 2013

Chess playing

A few days ago, I found a website (chessopenings.com) to remember chess openings. I saw some of its movies, and I learnt them. Today, I played chess with some students in our university. I won several matches and resigned some others. I enjoyed it a lot. I had a headache after the games. It reminds me the time that I was child and I used to play chess everyday. I didn't experience this headache for many years.

I decided to join a chess club after my qualifying exam, and play chess at least once a week. I think that it worth to spend some time playing chess to open your mind and empower thinking abilities.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

French music - Et si tu n'existais pas, Joe Dassin

Today, I listened to a French music for the first time. I really liked it. I like to experience new things, and I am sure that you will like it. Here is what I listened. This is for you:



And if you didn't exist
Tell me why I should exist
To drag along in a world without you
Without hope and without regret
And if you didn't exist
I would try to invent love
As a painter who sees from beneath his fingers
The colours of the day being born
And who doesn't return.
And if you didn't exist
Tell me for whom I should exist
Passing girls, asleep in my arms
That I would never love
And if you didn't exist
I wouldn't be but another dot
In this world, which comes and goes
I would feel lost
I would need you
And if you didn't exist
Tell me how I would
I could pretend to be me
But it wouldn't be true
And if you didn't exist
I think that I would have found
The secret of life, the why
Only to create you
And to gaze at you
And if you didn't exist
Tell me why I should exist
To drag along in a world without you
Without hope and without regret
And if you didn't exist
I would try to invent love
As a painter who sees from beneath his fingers
The colours of the day being born
And who doesn't return.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Taylor and Kevin

I read about Taylor's promise to Kevin last year. This year, they will go together for ACM. Taylor, you are my girl. Don't ever change.


"Last year Taylor Swift promised to take Kevin McGuire, a fan who has cancer to the ACM's with her. He ended up being too sick to leave his hospital bed in New Jersey.
This year he had recovered through treatment enough to be her date, and last night his dream came true when she took him to the show with her.
Thank you Taylor."

[Taylor's Facebook]

Angelina was sad today

The previous week, our team had a conversation after our class. Angelina also joined us, and we talked and laughed a lot. Ellie doesn't feel uncomfortable with me anymore. After our meeting, she expected me to walk with her for a while. Angelina avoided the walk by changing her direction back toward the class. I couldn't go back, and I didn't want to walk with Ellie. Therefore, I changed my path toward my office. I felt that we didn't say goodbye to each other before leaving the building. I went back to find Angelina somewhere, but she has gone. I came back to my office, and I sent her a message, "Hi. Where did you go? We didn't say goodbye." However, she never answered me.

Today, Angelina was tired. She left the first class before I wrap up my stuff. In the entire class time, she was playing with her mobile cell. I saw that she was checking a very long text message history between herself and some other person. She was reviewing her previous conversations. I was very curious to know why she looks such tired today. Even the professor noticed that, and he said, "I am telling you this story (something about Mission Impossible movie) to wake you up because some are not paying attention to me. He showed his hands imitating Angelina's hands to notice her, but she didn't understand.  She also left our second class before than me. I went after her, but she went to the advisor's office, and Ellie and my other teammates came and asked me some questions about the project. When I was answering their questions, Angelina left the office and went to the other building. She could join us for discussion, but she really avoided us. I don't know what is in her mind. Maybe she didn't like my message, or she was just down today for another reason.

Ellie had wore a beautiful blue T-Shirt today that suited her so much. Unlike our first meetings, she looks happy and sociable. 

Thinking of ...

She is thinking about ACM, and I am thinking about ...



Monday, April 8, 2013

Limitation and Creativity

Yesterday, I was thinking to myself why I couldn't easily select a professor to work with him, and I found a relationship between creativity and limitation. Limitation is against creativity. I look back, and saw my life until today, and I noticed that I always avoid limitations of any kind. And the reason is that I would like to be a creative person. If I limit myself to a certain research topic, I can't think about other things. Now, I am limited to my major, but this major is wide enough to be creative. I hope one day there would be no limitation.

Friday, April 5, 2013

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

A reader of my writings told me, "you are like Jonathan, the seagull, free and fortunate." I had never heard about that book before. I found the book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and I read it.
She was right. I always wanted to be like Jonathan, but sometimes I am not; I feel that I am tired of being like this, maybe similar to Jonathan in the first chapter of the book. By the way, I enjoyed the book.

I am sick today

I had a bad feeling today morning. It seems that I have caught a cold. I felt sick, and gloomy. I feel that I am far far away from what I want, and I even have no plan for it. I am doing things that are not in the direction of my goals. I need some space and rest to start again. I am sure that I will change everything after my qualifying exam.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Playing Facebook

I played with Facebook's people search for three hours yesterday. I found out that Ryan is a family member of one of my old friends! It is a very small world. I also found Melody's profile there. I couldn't believe that she was such an adventurous girl. She had visited many beautiful places in the US, including wild natures in the north.



I thought to myself that how a different country can cause such a drastic difference between people's experiences. If I was born in the US, I probably became an adventurous person like Melody.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Shark tank TV show

I received an email today about participating in Shark Tank show. They invited entrepreneurs to register and be ready for their speech.
I watched one of the episodes from ABC website, and it was awesome. It is too soon for me to be in a show like that, but I will definitely consider it for our team in the future. Although I have no confidence to be in that show, and I don't like to be in front of any camera. But I hope that my future team has a chance to be there and get some attention.



Qualifying Exam dream

I had a dream about my qualifying exam two nights ago. I saw that I was talking to the professor of one of my courses about the questions; he told me if you expected to have an easy exam, you should have registered in another university like Santa Monica.

I have no idea why he said Santa Monica, but I know that this exam obsessed my mind. I hate the time that my mind is obsessed with stupid trivial things.

feeling of being dumb

These days, I feel like a dumb; I cannot speak well. I knew that my speaking is better than Henry, and some of my friends, but I would like to speak like a native American. I try to watch movies, listen to the talks, but I have no idea how to improve my speaking. I have no or little progress. I can't make sentences like Americans. I stayed after class to talk to my American teammates, but I felt very uncomfortable when I couldn't speak fluently. I wanted to talk to Angelina after that, but I had no confidence to keep on like that. Maybe she wanted to talk to me. In our meeting with that professor, even, I stuttered a lot. I wish a day that I could speak without any stammering.

Decided about the summer

After deliberating about my summer plans, I decided about it yesterday. I talked to that professor, and I asked him to support me here for the summer. This summer, I won't go for an internship anywhere. Instead, I will stay here in the university, and will work on our XPrize competition.
In our yesterday's meeting, we discussed about the potentials. The professor told me that we didn't have enough money to support you at this time; however, we will work on it. By the end of this summer, we hope to get enough resources.

I know that it is a challenging project for me. It may even procrastinate my PhD, and I will not get paid enough for it. Nevertheless, I would like to try my chance here. If I become successful, I would have the chance to get everything that I want. It was always my desire to be an entrepreneur, and this project is a great opportunity.

from desire to success - Wreck-It Ralph

Ryan, my roommate, brought me Wreck-It Ralph movie yesterday, and we watched it together. I liked some parts of it very much. The idea itself was very creative. I always had this dream to see characters of old games are for real, or at least are again in 3D games.

The most important part of the movie was the glitch character (the girl in the candy land). She had this desire to win a race, but she didn't even know how to drive. She tried and tried to create a car and compete, but they never allowed her to do that. The story goes well when Ralph, the main character, came from another game and forced to help her to obtain what she wanted all her life. In fact, Glitch was the main character of that game, but nobody knew her. Her desire for winning the competition was for real. That desire guided her to get what she truly wanted from her life.

In our life, everybody has a desire inside his or her heart. Some people listen to their heart, and follow their desire and become a successful person (as God planned for them). Some people ignore their heart; they don't enjoy their life truly, and they never become successful.

In a nutshell, following one's heart is the main key to the success.