Happy Lunar New Year

Happy Lunar New Year!

I celebrated lunar new year and my birthday with some of my friends. My adviser also came. She bought me several bags of nuts, as she knew that I love nuts.^_^. My housemates bought me a birthday cake. I also got flowers for my birthday.

I bought wraps. Two of my friends help me prepared three kinds of fillings: pork with leeks, shrimps with tofu, and vegitable and mushroom mixed. We made dumpling together. It was fun. We had a good time.

Pedestrian Safety Summit

I attended "Pedestrian Safety Summit" on Thursday at Southwest of Seattle. I have to say that I was disappointed. I nearly ran over by cars crossing the street to get to the "summit"! What a "Pedestrian Safety Summit"!

To get to the "summit", according to the Metro online planner, I have to take two buses, and transfer from downtown. It would take me one and half hours to get to where the "summit" was held. I woke up very early that morning to catch bus to downtown. After more than 1 hour and 40 minutes on the bus, I got off at a 2-lane street full of cars passing by me at very fast speeds. A lady who took the same bus also got off here. Based on the map I printed out from Google, I need to cross the street. The lady seemed like she wanted to cross the street too. However, I noticed there was no sidewalks, nor cross-walks. The lady and I were standing on the street, scared. She and I waited for about one minute, and found a time there was only one car coming. We seized that moment, and ran to the middle of the street. Almost at the same time, two cars were coming from the other direction, and we had to stop and wait the cars passing. Thankfully, we successfully crossed the street without getting killed. I felt like I was a survivor.

What a wonderful location "Pedestrian Safety Summit" chose!

On the way back to Seattle, I learned that I was not the only person who took the bus to the "summit". There were two other persons. One is the lady who was on the same bus as me. The other one was a young fellow. The reason I took the bus is that I don't own a car. The reason that the lady took the bus is that her health condition doesn't allow her to drive. And the reason the young fellow took the bus is that he is blind. He even had to take the bus to the terminal first, and then take the bus back, because there is no cross-walk, and he couldn't cross the street. At the end, three of us were picked up by David, a pedestrian advocate, back to downtown Seattle.

My new year’s wish: get a boyfriend

My new year’s wish is to get a boyfriend.

I’ll turn 27 on January 29 this year. I’m getting “old”. My mother started telling me I should start thinking about “my personal life” ever since I handed in my thesis in August 2004. One of my cousins, who is three years younger than me, and I’m very close with, sent me a new year card saying that what he and a lot of our relatives wish to see most is that I’ll have a boyfriend in 2006. One of my labmates, who is like my big brother, started to tell me I should find a boyfriend last December when he was upgraded to be a father.

I think I’m getting old. I should start thinking about “my personal life” as my mother said. I have some guy friends here in the states, but somehow they never attract to me. At least, they never express their interests. Wait, most of my guy friends are either married, or with long-term girlfriends.

As a person never has a boyfriend, I think I need to take a course or some sort of certificate program to learn how to get a boyfriend. So I asked tips from my guy friends and girl friends on how to get a boyfriend. One guy friend told me I should join different clubs/associations, like hiking, climbing, something like that to make new friends. Another guy friend told me I can go to café/tea shop to meet people. He also told me I should be confident, as guys like girls to have confidence. In 2006, I’ll go to café/tea shop more often then. As for different clubs/associations, I’ll look into that. All my girl friends, who have boyfriends, are very feminine. So I think I should be more feminine. I’ll wear feminine clothing, and some makeup more often.

My friends, more suggestions/advise are welcome.^_^.