700F

I had to find out about my summer registration today. I am going to be registering for POLS 700F which is an extension of thesis writing. I'll be giving the first draft of my thesis to my committee before I leave for DC this summer and work on their feedback whilst in DC and forward my thesis to them .

I emailed John Stanley (the PolSci Dept. specialist) and he sent me the CRN for POLS 700F. I then went to the Graduate Office to find out about the process and filled a form for them to cross-check against my records and allow me to register. I came back and worked in my room. In the evening I went down to grab a take-out of seasonal veges and beef. I met Tara and his wife (Louisa) and Tara told me about the Pacific Island journalists who are coming. I guess they'll be transiting via Honolulu for DC for the Pacific Island Leaders meeting with the State Department. We might be having a kava mix tomorrow afternoon. I met Tutii on my way back from the restaurant and the two of us walked back to Hale Manoa.

Another Sunday

This is the second last Sunday of the semester. The summer break will be after next week. I woke up today around 1pm and decided to go to Safeway (Manoa Valley). When I went out there was a light drizzle so I thought it won't be a good idea at all to get wet going up to Manoa Valley so I went to the Sinclair Circle to catch the "A" Bus to Ala Moana. Dammit! I waited there for about an hour before the bus finally arrived, and when it arrived there was this "No Service" sign on it. It dropped off a few passangers and when the driver responded to a commuter that there's "no service" I began to walk back to Hale Manoa turning away the idea of going to Ala Manoa as I might have to wait for another freakin hour for another bus. I was about 50meters away when I looked back and saw people getting on the bus, so I ran back and got on the bus to Ala Moana.

When I arrived there I went to Wal Mart. I spent a few minutes there eye shopping and decided against buying anything. I then left and went into KFC to grab myself some lunch of chicken and biscuits. After I had lunch I went back to catch the bus to UH and as soon as I arrived at the bus stop the "A" Bus arrived so I got on gave my transfer pass to the driver and realized that Peter Larmour was at my back. Peter and I chatted in the bus on the way to UH.

I am now back in my room doing some work. At about 10.40pm I went down to the Korean shop at King St. and got myself an ice cream and a bottle of Pepsi to keep me going working through the night. I also have to prepare for a presentation in Nevi's class on Tuesday. I'll see how that goes tomorrow. But for now, I am getting back into writing my paper...

Taro at Indian Shop

I slept later in the morning around 3.30am. Woke up around 1pm, put my clothes in the washing machine, had my shower and went down to the Indian Shop at King St. and bought a small plastic bag of taro. It's been a while since I last had taro and when I woke up this morning, then only food I was thinking of was taro. I still have a lot of meat (chicken and fish) in my fridge and have to finish them before I leave for DC. I have 1 week left to complete my thesis as well as finish the remaining food stored in my kitchen drawer and fridge.

Long Live Wailers!

I went to Peter Larmour's brown bag talk at the EWC at 12.00pm. When it ended it left as soon as possible to return to my room. Ponipate is flying to Fiji tonight. He is going to visit his family and spend a week in Fiji.

I went to the Wailer's concert at the Campus Center this afternoon. They are the legends! An opportunity of a lifetime to see Bob Marley's bass guitarist Aston "Family Man" Barrett, lead guitarist Al Anderson and Earl "Wya" Lindo. The "family man" or fam for short was considered by Bob Marley as the person who held the band together. He was the man who introduced the reggae genre and one of the finest bassist in the world. They played all the Bob Marley numbers. A local Hawaiian band and Fiji played before the Wailers. It was the end of Spring semester bash I believe organized by the UH SRC.

Ticket to Washington DC

Yes, things are progressing. I got my Ticket to Washington DC today. I am leaving Honolulu to Los Angeles, Denver and Washington Regan Airport. I also saw Cynthia and signed my ACN form. I then saw Gene and he told me that he was having problems contacting Unitech to have the University send them one of the new student's academic transcript. Unfortunately, it was really weird that he couldn't get thru by phone. I emailed the secretary to the Registrar and she provided me the contact for someone at Student Records. I sent the info to Gene.

Ponipate is leaving for Fiji tomorrow (Friday). I don't think I'll be drinking kava or having any alcohol tomorrow. Gotta finish my thesis. I'll try and do some work tomorrow.

Appointment to PolSci Dept - UPNG

Yes, guess what! I received a confirmation email from Dr. Orovu Sepoe from the PolSci Dept at UPNG about my appointment. Unfortunately, I won't be going home soon as I will be doing an internship at the PNG Embassy in Washington DC.

Rodney also sent my Beno's email address today. Bendix left KKKingston and is now the warehouse supervisor for BOC (I don't know what the heck this acronym means). Rodney requested a T-Shirt from DC so I will be looking around for one when I get there.

I saw Prof. Nevi to discuss my paper and have confirmed that I'll be submitting him my draft when school ends before I leave for DC. The last class for Prof. Nevi's "Seminar: International Relations" class is next Tuesday so I have decided to give a presentation of my paper in his class. I am hoping to get a grade for POLS699 for this semester.

Enid Money

I woke up around 1.30pm today. Went to Star Market and sent $100 (K284.62) to Enid. This is the last time I am sending money to them as I will have to budget to send my books home and buy a mobile phone to take home and a suit for work in DC.

Bored

I woke up around midday today as I stayed up doing nothing till 5.00am.

Did some work during day. Cooked noodles and had it with a tin of sausages.

Went down to the King St. to get a phone card to call Israel in Vanimo and Enid and baby Essie in POM. I checked the western union online and saw that the money I sent to Israel was already picked up. I called later in the night and spoke to Israel. He went to BSP and me Stalin Sakei who now works there and Stalin helped him to fill out the papers and he got the money. He also picked up the K50 Dorris sent him at the Post Office. He said he bought his medicine with the K50 and was going to get a trousers at the Border with the money I sent him. Wawo Helmut met him at the bank and got his share. Wawo Daniel said he bought a phone card for his mobile with his share of the money. I am glad Israel is happy as I owe him a lot. More than money could ever repay, for looking after my brother Michael when he was at Boram Hospital.

I called Dorris at Tokara after talking to Israel to let her know that Israel picked up his money and really appreciates it. I then called Enid and Essie and spoke to them and told them that I will be sending them some money tomorrow for food in the house and also Michaelyn and Kathleen's busfare. Enid said she met Johnson Pundari. Johns asked for me. He's probably working in Enga.

Will do some work tonite.

Nothing interesting today.

Called Israel in Vanimo

Last weekend I called Michaelyn and Kathleen at Tokara and got Israel's number from Mickie. Israel was trying to contact Sammy at Tabubil to send him some money as he was trying to get a ship ticket to go back to WWK. Israel is staying with Damien Navara in Vanimo. Mickie gave me Daniel's number 6926083. I called and reached Daniel who was driving home. I called again 20mins later and talked to Israel. I'll be calling them tonight again to talk to Wawo Helmut. Helmut is now the Supervisor at the Vanimo Timbers. I sent Israel $100 (K284.62) to help him with getting his bicycle which was locked up by the police and also for his ship ticket back home.

*I owe Israel a lot coz he took care of Michael at Boram Hospital until Michael's passing. I'll be putting him into school may be at Don Bosco Tech in POM when I get back to POM in August. The folks in Vanimo wants me go and visit them. I might probably go for a week when I get back to POM. Might also bring Enid and Essie with me to WWK and then to Vanimo. May be spend the x-mas there. I know my uncles would be happy. I owe them a lot and I miss them too.

Ponipate Drinking

Today was my first time to dine at the C&J Restaurant. It's close to the Chinese Dynasty Restaurant--one of my favorite places. Takuya and I went out this evening to dine there. It was my treat.

Last night was a long night. I was at Tara's place. We were having a small gathering there for Boboi. Boboi was going to Philipines with his family for 4 months. Ponipate, Ronnie and Mike were also there. It was the first time I saw Ponipate drinking alcohol. Poni is like my best Fijian friend. He's a cool guy and is a very nice person. In most of our gatherings like kava secessions we used to have Poni mixing us kava and he sits there and doesn't drink. He was very different last night. I guess that was probably because he was happy that he and Tara won a consultancy job doing something on Fiji and he got paid the first half this week ($3000). He settled his dorm rentals this week. He's a great guy.

When I came back after being at Tara's place, Tutii, Ross and some other folks were still outside Hale Halawai drinking . I joined them for a couple of minutes and then left.

I got bored today and was watching Casino Royale (James Bond). Takuya called me at 6.30pm and we went for dinner. I might probably be watching a movie again tonight. I just doesn't feel like doing any work usually after a previous night of drinking.

Takuya Back!

(L-Takuya, R-Solo @ Mt. Vermont)

Yes! Takuya Murata, my Japanese friend gave me a shock we I saw him today. He arrived from Kergistan (former Russian federation) today, don't know if the spelling is correct.

Takuya and I arrived together at the EWC in August 2005. He is enrolled in the PoliSci Alternative Futures program. I didn't know him quite well then until we took the same class (Futures of Political Systems with Prof. Jim Dator) in Spring 2006. I got to know him well when the two of us were assigned a group presentation project. After the semester ended I was surprised to see him in DC when I did my internship there in Summer of 2006. We hung out and he use to visit me at the International Student House. He also came with us (the intern group with Gene) to Mount Vermont and also to a BBQ when we finished our internship in DC. He took off to Kergistan after that and I went home for my community service. We have been corresponding through email since then until I was surprised to see him today back at the EWC-Hale Manoa. Well, the two of us will be going for dinner tomorrow evening.

Tara and Boboi (Filipino friend) will be having a small 'sindaun' at Tara's place and Tara has invited me to go. I am doing some work, just completed a draft of my 2nd chapter and will be waiting for 'Illusive' Michael's call. I hope I don't drink too much alcohol so that I can do some work tonight.

2nd Chapter Done

Hooray! I completed my 2nd Chapter today and will work on the remaining over the weekend and the subsequent days. Spent most of the day in my room working on my paper. Chatted with Pwapei. Put some fish in the oven and had it with rice.

Small Axe

Small Axe is a Solomon Islands reggae band. Ronnie from SI gave me the songs yesterday and since then I didn't do any work. It must have been their first album. I had my head phone on and the volume at full blast. My favorite song is "Darlin mi no misem u".

Solomon Islands music is really heating the air waves in PNG. They have been for the past 3-4 years dominated the radio stations with Sharzy being the most popular. There are others now such as Kekene and Saba coming into the music scene in PNG. Their music is cool and has a vibe the really stucks with the listeners in PNG. It's a unique kind of flavor that goes with the music. Most of their artists have recently been touring Port Moresby and Lae. PNG has about 5.5 million listeners and is a huge market for the SI artists. SI has a population of about 500,000 people.
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I assisted Nene from East Timor with his Political Philosophy & Theory assignment today. He was discussing the difference between Rousseau's philosophy of "general will" with the concept of majority vote. I think the concept of "general will" is intangible and cannot be measured whereas a "majority vote" can be given a numerical value. For instance, on any issue where people are required to vote e.g. elections, there'll always be a majority and minority. Say in a situation where the people are required to vote for the legalization of guns and from those who voted the majority of 70% voted against whilst 30% voted for. Now, we have already given a numerical value to the opinion of people on the issue. General Will, however, cannot be measured. It is impossible to give a numeric value to a 'will' as it is an intangible variable.

Vigil for Virginia Tech University

The reality of coming to grasp with the Virginia shooting is still trying to sink in for most people. Flags in the US have been ordered by the President George W. Bush to fly half mask. It is really a sad and tragic incident which occured on Monday. In lectures today at UH Manoa the first topic of discussion was the shooting at Viriginia Tech and avenues for counselling for students if they are distressed.

The topic on the control of guns has also resurfaced in the US. Hawaii has been categorized last year as the second most safest state. Gun laws in Hawaii is relatively very strict.

More on the topic--I think it's an interesting juxtapostion when the Dateline NBC reporter asked his collegue who just returned from Iraq about how he felt about the dealths there and the recent massacre at Vtec. Although his response was not quite satisfactory to me, I think lives regardless of where we are from and our nationality, human beings should be more concerned in the protection of lives. The perspective of the American public to the loss of lives in the States might be different from the daily loss of lives in places such as Iraq, I am talking about civilian lives, the US government should do more to protect human lives as it does with its citizens. I sympathize with everyone who lost loved ones. And the recent incident at Vtec is something for the US government to seriously mull over the use of firearms either it be within the country or in terms of the military whose effect on ordinary lives is inexplicable.

Virginia Tragedy

I woke up this morning and read Henry's email from Belgium saying that he has been following the shooting in Virginia. Today is one of the darkest days in US history. A gunman apparently a senior at Vtec originally from South Korea, in two separate shootings, two hours apart, killed 32 people. 30 of them in the second shooting. It is the worst college shooting in US history. The assailant's name is Cho Seung-hui. He was a loner. Never said a word even if people greet him. A very distressed kid. Below is Cho's photo.

I woke up in the morning and was going to go grab coffee when I met Tutii at the lobby chatting with Miguel. Tutii and I went to Aloha Cafe and got breakfast. I had pancake with scrambled eggs, beef, a sandwich and french vanilla coffee. I came back and worked a little in my room.

Time is really catching up on me and I am hoping to at least get the first draft of my thesis done by this week.

In PNG Peter Tsiamalili, the Bougainville Administrator and former Secretary for the Department of Personel Management passed away in his sleep in Bougainville whilst spending the weekend in his village. His body has been flown to Port Moresby for postmoterm.

May all those who lost their lives during the massacre at Vtec rest in eternal peace. My sincere condolences to the families who lost their loved ones.

There's a lot of things to think about but nothing to worry about

My favorite TV show every Sunday is ABC's Extreme Home makeover episodes. You can visit this link to learn about the previous episodes and about the program: http://abc.go.com/primetime/xtremehome/. I put away every thing I am doing and switch to TV when that show comes on.

This week's show was the Koepke family. The Koepke family lived in an old house built by Matt Koepke's grandfather. The family also have an old Mill. Matt unfortunately was diagnosed with Cancer and died 4 months later. Ty Pennington (show's host) promised Matt while he was still in hospital that they would help the family build a new home. However, he never got to meet Matt. But Ty fulfilled his promise after Matt passed away. They built a new home for the family and renovated the old Mill with a new turbine.

Matt was loved very much by many people which was evident in the number of people turning up to welcome the family into their new home. There were about 17,000 people in the small town at Wisconsin who turned up. Matt's inspirational words were engraved in a stone memorial which is now at the family's backyard.

"There's a lot of things to think about but nothing to worry about - Matt Koepke"

East-West Fest

Yep. Today will be the day that the East and the West will be showcasing their cultures. I stayed up late with my panpacific folks, drinking kava, eating roasted chicken with scones and 'wash-down' with Heineken - yeh my favorite beer since I came to Hawaii--the closest I can get to SP (South Pacific lager). Our group is called the 'kavaologists'. Now you might wonder what the heck is this. Well, the terminology is derived from the popular Melanesian traditional drink - Kava. It has been a tradition since the Spring Semester began that we gather every Friday evening, usually around 8 pm, outside Hale Halawai for tok stories. 'Hale' is hawaiian for house. Believe it or not, we are the only group at the EWC, the pacific islanders, that keep this place alive with our usual disturbances of laughing and singing. Last week the Housing people had to call the security on us 3 times. Well last night we stayed up until 4.00am. Geez, and now my eyes are sore red coz I only had two hours of sleep. Steve and Kuhio (my Hawaiian friends) joined us later in the night. Steve was drunk as hell. They were working at Steve's place and had two bottles of wine before coming over. Savada, my Afro-American friend came by as we were about to leave. Savada and I stayed for about 30 minutes after everyone had left. I still have a 6 pack of Heineken in my fridge.

Well, unfortunately I am not participating at the East-West Fest. My personal reason was that Ronnie (Solomon Islands' friend) and I were the only ones from the pacific manning our stall during the last Fest so I decided that I won't participate in this one. Well, my other more important reason was that I am really busy as this is my final semester and can't really find time to help out or participate in any cultural performances. Too bad! I'll see how the day goes. I wanted to do some work but my eyes are really aching. May be I'll take an hour or two of sleep and see if it helps...

I only managed to take an hours sleep. Went to the Festivities place and got myself a take-out of Indian curry chicken for lunch. At around 6.30pm I went down to the Chinese Dynasty restaurant and got a take-out of seasonal vegetables with beef. And as usual, dropped by the ice cream parlour and got a small cup of vanilla ice cream. Called Enid and Essie tonight. Enid arrived back from Motupore on Friday. They went up to Dr. Moiya's place at 9 mile to pick up his daughters coz I think Dr. Moiya and his wife were out of the country (PNG). Enid reminded me of Essie's birthday, which is on June 16th and Enid's is on June 7th. I do really have a bad memory.

Black Friday

I woke up around 12 midday. Had my shower and went to the cafeteria (Paradise Palm) to grab breakfast/lunch. I really wanted to have a blueberry muffin but everything was finished, even the ones at the Starbucks section. So I only got a small cup of coffee, and picked up some coffee mate packets to go with my Goroka coffee in the room. Tutii arrived back from Palau so I guess I'll have to finish my Goroka coffee and return his coffee maker. I was really craving for a blueburry muffin or a pound cake to go with my coffee in the room so I went to the Campus Center and Manoa Gardens checking all the vending machines for a pound cake. Couldn't find any so I returned to Hale Manoa. The vending machine at HH also doesn't have any so I guess I'll just have to put up with my coffee for the moment and wait for dinner.

So what is the significance of Friday the 13th or the Black Friday?

A Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in English, German, Polish and Portuguese-speaking cultures around the globe. Similar superstitions exist in some other traditions. In Greece or Spain, for example, Tuesday the 13th takes the same role. In Russia, the unlucky day is Monday. The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia (a word that is derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Παρασκευή, δεκατρείς, and φοβία, meaning Friday, thirteen, and phobia respectively; alternate spellings include paraskevodekatriaphobia or paraskevidekatriaphobia) or friggatriskaidekaphobia, and is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a phobia (fear) of the number thirteen.

"Who Killed the Electric Car"

"Who killed the electric car" is one of the most moving documentaries of the future that I've seen about the onset of a pollution free world with the creation of "electric cars" but its production was hijacked by the alleged suspects: the oil industry, the US Government, General Motors, the C.A.R.B. and the consumers - as most consumers never knew or did little to save it and its immense benefits. It is not a "dream". We were already in the future, until...

The documentary directed by Chris Paines and is 91 minutes long is a must see..

It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert? “Who Killed the Electric car” chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business. An official 2006 Sundance Festival Selection.

You can read more about the documentary by visiting: http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/

Quite productive but not so...

Woke up around 11.30am coz I slept around 3.30am in the morning. Had a shower and as usual went to Paradise Palm to grab lunch. Got some fries with tender chicken and a cup of coffee and returned to the room. Did some work until around 6.00pm and decided to go get dinner down at King Street. Steve and Keanu drove by and stopped so I hopped into the car with them and we went to Manoa Gardens. Kuhio was already there, in line to get some drinks. Kuhio got me a Newcastle beer. We were sitting outside and talking. Ross (the bloke from Minnessota) and Jose (East Timorese) were already there with a couple of folks from the PolSci Dept having a few drinks. We finished early around 8pm and I left to grab a take-out of seasonal vegetables and beef at my favorite Chinese restaurant (Chinese Dynasty). After I got my dinner I went to the ice cream parlour and got a small cup of vanilla ice cream. Came back to Hale Manoa and met Clarance at the lobby. Got a bottle of Pepsi and came up to my room.

I didn't do much today and will have to work twice as hard over the remaining weeks. I don't think I'll do a lot of work tonite bcoz of the beer I had. Usually I don't do any work when I have alcohol coz ma brain just can't stay focused. I didn't have much liquour though, but just that my body doesn't really work, or I should say my brain. I think I'll have a shower and see if it helps.

Another day of procrastination...

I didn't do any work yesterday. It's now 2 wasted days. I woke up at midday today. Just washed my face and then went to Paradise Palm, the campus cafeteria next to Hamilton Library to get lunch. I also got a mocha shake. It seems to be my favorite the first thing I get out of bed.

Well, guess what! I was reading through my article which appeared in yesterday's paper and discovered more mistakes. FUCK! You know, I am now so mad. Some scum bag editor who just don't know how to do their job. I sent this article like 6 months ago. It infuriates me, honestly. Well, I just don't wanna brood over this lousy article, otherwise it'll take another wasted day. Well, I'll honestly do some school work now and will give an update later today.

I called baby Essie last night and talked to her. It was the first time that we talked for quite a while, about 20mins. I asked her questions about school (said they are on Easter holiday), what she did (was playing with her parcel, went to the market and store), and what they were going to have for dinner (chicken, kaukau, vegetables and rice). She seems happy and is not really worried about her mum not being there (Enid was at Motupore). I asked her what she wanted me to buy her and she seems to be very adamant about her hair band/pins and drawing and coloring books. I'll get them when I am in Washington.

It's now 6.40pm and I haven't done any work yet. I just went down to the shops to get a cup of ice cream and returned to my room. I hope to get some work done before I sleep tonight.

Finding the urge to write my paper...

Woke up this morning around 10.30am. Had a shower and went to the Campus Center ATM to withdraw some money. Bought a mocha shake. Went down to University Shop and got a phone card. Returned to my room and am trying to get myself into doing some writing...started off with my journal.

You know what distracted me the most today? It was this article that I wrote for The National which appeared in today's paper (04/11/07). I don't know if you write commentaries or articles for newspapers but sometimes I kinda feel awkward when you realize mistakes in an article you wrote and was published. Oooh! I really don't like to imagine what people would be wondering about my competency when or if they are able to spot errors in my articles. But what is really irritating is that the editors or sub-editors, whoever that's responsible for editing, doesn't edit an article properly or in certain situations changes the sentence structure or words. I got really mad once, no actually twice, and almost gave up writing, when this was done to few of my articles. It is important to realize that once you change a sentence structure, that would entirely change the substance of the article or message which the author wishes to emphasize or deliver. What's worse is that the mistakes are of the editor's own making and not the original article I sent article...wooo!

Anyways, these are some of my writing ordeals or experiences. But essentially, I feel that I have a civic responsibility as a learned citizen, in whatever capacity I am in to highlight issues which I believe affect Papua New Guinea's national wellbeing.

I've wasted a whole day yesterday without doing any work. There's 3 weeks left before I submit my paper and I have 4 chapters to complete. Well, I guess working under pressure does get things done but the caveat is that the "quality" of the work is important and not the lenght.

SI Tsunami fundraiser Meeting

I went to the PIDP office today to meet with Tara and the PIDP staff. We were meeting on having a fundraiser for the tsunami victims in Honiara. We talked about most of the long-term benefits of things that we thought would assist the SI wantoks.

While I thought the brainstorming we did on the possible programs/projects that will have long-term benefits are good, a caveat which I pointed out was that I think it is important to have someone on the ground to do a reconaisance or ground work by talking with the affected communities, government institutions and NGOs and find out what are the most pressing issues that need to be addressed which aren't looked into yet. That is so that we (EWC) do not duplicate what other organizations are doing.

Latest updates of the tsunami in Solomon Islands (news and pictures) can be found by visiting www.tutuvatu.com - a Guadacanal website managed by Solomon Islanders at the East-West Center.

I came back to my room and tried to do some work but find myself into the usual distraction of listening to music and web surfing. Gosh! I wish I don't have an internet connection in my room...but the good thing is that I created a new blog which I thought I'll start keeping an online journal before I leave for DC.

Back in POM, Enid left on Monday (April 09, 2007) for a meeting or training of some sort at Motupore Island Resort. I'll be giving my baby Essie B. a call on Wednesday (PNG Time) to check on her.

Creating a journal for DC

Hi, I will be doing an internship at the PNG Embassy in Washington DC and as part of the routine to keep track of the days and events while I am in DC, I am required to keep a record of all the highlights every single day that I am there.

In the summer of 2006 I was working as a research assistant with the United States Asia-Pacific Council (USAPC) in DC. As part of my job I was assisting Dr. Mark Borthwick on the 3rd edition of his book. I also visited Capitol Hill regularly to observe congressional hearings and write reports. During my short stint I was able to meet some very prominent people, including the ambassadors of the Pacific Islands countries in the US. I also represented the USAPC as an observer at the Pacific Island ambassadors meeting at the National Geographic Society. I am hoping that in my upcoming stint with the PNG Embassy I would like to meet some of US prominent political leaders.

At first, it was kinda hectic and boring you know, to write down what I did each day. But after reading through my last summer's journal, which I did on a notepad on my PC, I find it an interesting reading, you know, to go back and reminisce on what I did and so forth.

So I thought, wot da heck! now I'll do a blog and keep my journal. I am a little bit behind time and perhaps technology too, mind you. So, there it goes. I am getting prepared well ahead of time and maybe start keeping track of the events now.

Oh gosh, I gotta get back to writing. I have to complete my thesis before looking forward to DC.

Until then...