The End is Near

Reg day is Monday QQ (I already handed in my forms yesterday).

I finally made my first "good" cup on Friday. It has a translucent green body, wrapped around with an opaque dark green spiral. It's still off centered, but let's not talk about that. For lunch I decided to get some sushi and clam chowder; a few hours later, I realized why I had stopped getting sushi and chowder from non-sushi and non-chowder shops. I did some UROP (Hyperstudio) for a couple hours before going to 6.470 awards ceremony. Let me first say that although Expresso had some functionality issues, I was impressed. But the final 8 sites for the 6.470 were RIDICULOUS. A bunch of them looked professional and is easily better than half of the Web 2.0 community websites out there. It's crazy what some html/css/js can do, and then add some Flex and Silverlight, and g fucking g. High quality stuff.

(insert 45 min MASLab trip; SELECT * FROM disfunctionalBots)

Julian and I were planning on treating Anton to dinner for all his work on 6.370 and 6.470 on and off for a week now. We decided do it Friday. Along the way it somehow turned into a boys night out (mainly to stick it to Sandra), but it didn't turn out that way. Anthony was busy on resume/cover letter stuff, Bohan has dinner with his good looking 8.01 table mates, Robert had a retreat, Chris and Peter is afk somewhere, and Nathan had late track practice. Anyway Anton, Julian, and I managed to catch the Cambidge West Saferide (and almost got ran over by a bunch of cars running to the bus stop). Apparently Cambridge West != Tech Shuttle. The bus went past MicroCenter and did a loop around the residential area of Central Cambridge (Cambridgeport according to Anton). I was like I don't know where we are, and Anton and Julian was like "wtf mate?" Then I saw that we were really close to Central Square, and I asked the bus driver if he can just drop us off on the spot. The super nice driver did :D. Julian for some reason wanted a super $$$ restruant to take Anton to, and I obliged him by planning on going to Z Square (not $$$, maybe $$). It was closed (luckily?). Since it was a cold wintry night, Anton and I had a craving for some hot Pho, so we went to Li's instead. Each of us got a bowl of Pho (Julian had to be persuaded and I got the extra-large bowl T.T) and then ordered, chicken skewers, ginger chicken, and catfish for some family styled grubbery. Pho was nice and hot (not super good, but very suitable for the climate), and the entrees were delicious (the fish was somewhat lacking in quantity though). All in all super awesome fest without leaving a gigantic pit in our wallets. After dinner, we talked around the square for a while to walk off the uncomfortableness of such a big dinner. We ran into Julian's Hawaiian friend (Feng and Anton approved) from Harvard. Apparently they were both talking about each other right before we ran into them, karma right? Harvard has a formal that night, and a bunch of people were heading there including Julian's friend and.... VARTIKAR. Somewhat weird chance meeting. For some reason I thought I gave a bad impression, but why the fuck should I care what he thinks... weird. On the way back, the three of us talked about girls (what else lol?), and how it's been a long time since we've been in the game (or attempted to). And it has, but school makes me tired. Why spend that extra effort when you can hang out with friends? But then again, I don't know what I'm missing out on...

Once we got back to MIT, I stopped by MacG to grab my "portable" entertainment system (aka laptop+HD+cables). Went to Nathan's some asap and hooked everything up. Next thing you know, I got this 720p version of my desktop on Nathan's 30-something inch HDTV, and music from my computer was blasting out of Nathan's Z-5500 sound system. It was a sweat setup. And then it was Ip Man time. Ip Man turned out to be a badass kungfu movie (Julian was watching the Canto version on his laptop simultaneously). It was much better than the 1000 trashy kungfu/supercop movies out there. And like most Chinese movies, there was a lot of anti-Japanese sentiment. The scene where Ip Man owned 10 Japanese soldier/kungfu students was friggin' epic.