Implosion

Song of the day: Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna – Title Song
Looking out over Queens, I can see the cars pulsing through the veins of the borough. I wonder how many drivers are on their cellphones and eating Chinese food, simultaneously. I’ve seen it being done before.
I’m just taking a little break from my internship work. […]

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Never Ending

I have no idea why, but this semester seems never ending to me. I don’t know what to say. I have never felt this way before though. This semester just goes on and on, days after days, weeks after weeks, midterms after midterms, and we have more to go. Am I the only one who […]

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AAPICS history lecture

This is a little late notice but I just wanted to encourage everyone to attend a lecture sponsored by the Asian/American Center at Queens College. This event is part of the AAPICS (Asian American Pacific Islander Community Studies) program’s lecture series on Asian American history. The talk will be given by Dr. John Kuo Wei […]

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Courses for Cultural Enrichment

On Wednesday I went with a few other students from Professor McCoy’s English Honors Seminar to watch a production of  ”Love is My Sin” at the Duke Theater on 42nd Street. It was an interesting, if not riveting, performance based on an adaptation of Shakespeare’s sonnets. I especially enjoyed the sequence on the theme of […]

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2010 Regional Mellon Conference

Today I attended the 2010 Regional Mellon Conference at Hunter College along with the other QC fellows. We all had a chance to present research and received some valuable feedback about how to further develop our studies and some new possible directions we can take. Although we were all pretty nervous I think that in […]

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scary lamb photo and tasty beer

As promised, an especially entertaining photo (a lamb on a spit no longer disturbs me…actually I am not sure that it ever did).   Strangely, I feel obligated to learn how to do the entire “properly roasting a lamb” thing. I guess that this solidifies my raging Greek-ness. Tonight I went t the “new” beergarden in Astoria to […]

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Spring Break Is Over

It was pretty long – more than a week long. But now it’s over. On Tuesday students will once again rush to their classes continuing on wherever they left off the last day before the break, as if there was never any breaks in the first place. There is something magical about th time. It’s […]

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