Archive for April, 2011
Holy Crap! I had a blog, that’s right!
Hmm… the last entry was in February eh? Well, just some physical updates this time. I just finished undergrad, and there is a very high possibility that I’ve passed all my courses. When I confirm that, I can start wearing my Iron Ring with 100% certainty that I qualify for it.
In a few days I’ll be going back to China with my parents. We’ll be staying three weeks there, both to visit family and to tour around a bit. Our tourism destinations this time will be Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Beijing. I’ve always liked the idea of visiting Hangzhou, as it was the capital of the coolest dynasty China ever had (Southern Song, where the social aspects were very ahead of its time, with widespread trade and serious explosion of technology, and paper books, and royal examinations actually making vertical social mobility possible…). Plus, Hangzhou was the world’s biggest city back during that time. The funny thing is that I’m excited because of these random history trivia, and I have no idea what the city really has to offer to tourists today.
And food, excellent Chinese food awaits. I particularly want to have the cold noodles of my hometown. That is one particular Chinese delicacy I have never encountered here in North America.
After returning from the China trip, I’ll be selling most of my stuff and planning my relocation to the San Francisco Bay Area, and I will be starting my one-year residency position with Pixar at the beginning of July. This will be interesting. I’m doing software testing again, but this time it’s not a utility software like AMD’s Catalyst Control Center. This time it’ll be a full-sized 3D animation software, the scale would be something similar to 3DMax or Maya, although it’s in-house and runs on Linux. The platform is PyQt, which means I need to start getting familiar with Python.
