I always find breaks so unproductive. You think you will be great and do everything, but nothing ever ends the way you want it to. I had made a to-do list, and how much have I actually accomplished yet? Well, I still have about a week left. Oh joy, I get to fit everything in the last week. It really wouldn’t be that bad if I just actually spend the entire day doing work–I can actually get many tasks accomplished in one day. It’s just that wasting time bad habit I have.
This year didn’t feel that festive to me. No one on my street decorated for Christmas. How disappointing is that? My family never decorates for the holidays, but other families should…it lightens the mood and allows people driving in a car while going past the little red and yellow lights to feel all warm and fuzzy. The neighbor across the street from me didn’t set up their giant inflatable Santa this year. One of the only families I saw with a few decorations had one Santa lying horizontally, as if defeated, on the snow.
That reminds me. This winter break, there was a great big snow storm in the first few days. Then, the rain washed everything away.
Yesterday, my family also had a “party.” A Chinese gathering. I watched Transformers (I finally watched the full movie), relearned how to play Texas Hold’em and managed to win two rounds–yeah, give me all your Life money, and karaoked until my voice was hoarse.
Tomorrow, I’m going to participate in Harvard’s first annual global networking event. I’m pretty excited to see how it will be. I also get to go to the doctor’s tomorrow.
This Saturday, I also have to go to a Chinese school alumni gathering. HAH! That actually made me laugh the first time I got the notice. Then I got the notice four more times. But the first time, I just giggled because it was funny to think that Chinese School would try to create something like that. Quite a few people I know are going though, but it’s mainly because of the parents or peer pressure. It goes like this–a lot of notices are sent out to parents and students. The parents manage to force a few of their kids to register for the event, and then those kids facebook or email all their friends to register so they won’t be alone at the gathering. Then other parents find out and ask their kids to go to the gathering, and then more and more people just start registering. Ah…what freedom.
I hear there’s going to be a DJ (a parent) who’s going to play music so that the kids coming back from the universities will dance. Hm…I wonder how that would go.
