Google!

Today I was phoned by Google and told I had an internship there over summer. I will be working as a test engineer at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.




Wuhu!

I'm unabashedly happy... I went out with as many people as I could find to celebrate.

Snowboarding!

Last week Wednesday outside the library, horizontal bullets of ice whipped passed the window. This weather makes you studious, and also very happy if you happen to be going snowboarding, which is what I did with a group of other international students on Friday at Hunter Mountain in the Catskills. The conditions were fabulous and it was great to be back on a board again.

The Superbowl Experience

Sunday was the the Superbowl here. Its the day on which Americans eat (and presumably watch more television) than on any other day apart from Thanksgiving.

Like Christmas or an election, the build-up to it is unavoidable.

Today there was an article in the New York Times analyzing the half-time adverts. Apparently there were subliminal references to violence and Iraq. I know nothing about American football, but I suspect the game might contain subliminal references to violence anyway.

So how was the Superbowl itself? I have absolutely no idea, and man, its bliss!

Flushing Chinatown

Today I went with Michael to the third and last unexplored Chinatown in New York, in Flushing, Queens. Its at the end of the 7 metro line, and getting there you pass a New York hodgepodge landscape of graffiti and scrap yards and amazing views across the east river to Manhattan, and the world trade fair site which turned into a spaceship in Men in Black.

The Chinatown in Flushing is more of a Panasiantown: mix together a mass of Korean and Chinese restaurants and supermarkets full of tanks of live fish and evil-looking vegetables, throw in a Quaker building, a bit of the Smithsonian institute, a gray stone church and the obligatory McDonalds and Starbucks that every part of New York has and there you have it.

Great tempura!