Here are some summer updates!
1. I'm lovin' my research. Hours are long (actually it's 9-5 which in the East Coast isn't considered long at all, but for a student like me used to long lunch breaks and scattered class hours, maintaining sufficient concentration gets tricky. But basically I'm doing research in computer vision, more specifically automatic scene recognition in movies, ie developing algorithms that detect if a scene in a movie is indoor/outdoor, beach/jungle etc - so I spend tons of time looking at Lost and CSI data haha.
2. People here don't know what humidity and heat really means. Summer weather has been hot and sunny actually, but still nothing compared to the gloriousness of the Malaysian sun.
3. The downtime and rest over the summer has been absolutely amazing and refreshing. Refreshing meaning -- not constantly having the imposing burden of an upcoming assignment deadline; spending time on friendships I've neglected throughout the school year; not spending worship services or bible studies thinking about the two exams the next day; learning to sleep more than 5 hours a day; watching movies without feeling guilty about wasted time; eating for pleasure and not purely for sustenance (haha); playing basketball and soccer regularly; having late-night conversations with friends about whether you'd be willing to eat sh*t for one day and earn a billion dollars, or about the first things you notice about people, or about what you look for in the opposite sex; watching Transformers at the opening midnight show and cheering when Penn scenes would come out; cooking maggi mee with sausages, tofu, eggs, American cheese and celery; reading Christian apologetics; thinking about life and what I want to do and how I want to spend the rest of my college years and what type of girl I want to meet (haha mom I know you're reading this); studying the Bible instead of speeding through; and learning to live life in abundance.
4. I'll be coming back mid-August :) Looking forward to it!
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