On a chipper note

Does anyone know who this is?

They are as abundant as squirrels here, yet they are smaller, cuter and faster.

:(

Can't really post what I found out today.
So,
I'll post a quote from MAUS by Art Spiegelman just for... I'm not really sure why, I just need something to remind me of ...

"Samuel Beckett once said: Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence & nothingness"
"Yes"

...

(silence)

...

"On the other hand he said it"

YAY :D Enviromentalist geeknes

Some tips here on how to be "green" gamer.

I'm getting one of the bags of tip #2

Chemistry geekness

Saw something funny today, not entirely biogeeknes, but since it was a biochemistry thing, I might as well blog about it. Specially since I have not post much about biogeeks.

It reads:
"If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the PRECIPITATE" =))

Apparently it is on every chemistry department, but I just saw it today on a bag.

Where is W... Juan?

at the opening of LCC

At first I was kind of bother about the US flag in the middle, but after all it shows how it is going.
Everywhere you look in the USA, there are latinamericans. (Phase one completed)
Now, if only we had better representation.

Peace and Harmony ... IN WAR >:)

So, anyone wondering in what student organizations I ended up?

Nope?, no one?

Well, since you are still reading I'm going to tell you anyway.

I finally joined OFFICIALLY, the Helping Paw organization.
Actually I'm a little disappointed they don't do as much as I expected.
All I've been doing is to go on Saturdays morning, just for 2 hours, and clean some cat cages and take dogs for a walk on a nearby kennel.

And every time I'm relaxing and playing with some dog, they decide to go.
And there is not going to be anything this week :(

On another organization which kicked the ballroom's ass and even beat up anime club, is the Chinese Calligraphy club.
I already know how to make the horizontal stroke, relatively well, the vertical one is tricky, and any diagonal one is just a different mess anytime I tried.

But I'm getting better, here, let me show you how I write "Peace/harmony"

My peace/harmony is surrounded by the Chinese chess pieces, which I LEARNED HOW TO PLAY :D
But only in this set, there is another set with more complicated symbols for the pieces, so I keep confusing my cannon for and elephant and so :P

It is quite challenging but I enjoy it a lot.
overall Chinese Calligraphy has been the best experience so far here at Purdue.

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cause tango wants me to pay them $35!!!!!!!.
I wanted free. X-(

Do I fall in the cheaters or don't ?? Hmm

According to this 49 percent of medical and health-care students admited to cheat (admited, what about the rest).
Thing is... for now I am in basic medical sciences, but I'm more molecular biology, I would consider me a little bit different from just health-care.
But alas, my first internship was at a clinic, then at NIH. And my parents would still encourage me to go M.D.

I'm trapped

AAAAAAAAA

Indiana Dunes

Hawkins hall (the graduate dorm I live) organized a trip to lake Michigan.
it was a 2.5 hour ride there and it was looong, specially since they tried some bad unsuccessful Icebreaker games.

But anyway I was able to arrive to Lake Michigan


It was incredibly windy so it was kind of cold, but make a cool effect on seagulls, which started "floating" on top of us without moving winds whatsoever.

Some people went to the water, some just took pictures of themselves in their swimsuits, and some went to play volleyball.
I had not played it since high school, but it turn out that was more than qualify this time.
This is a bad picture of the Volley ball team 8th floor.

For unknown reasons we were reluctant to leave the water a side, and no one threw the ball when they were supposed to.

Before heading back we saw some cool frogs that camouflaged pretty well, and not only that, they burrow themselves on the sand and disappear.


It was a nice trip, I met some nice people, and learned that Bogotaá has twice the population of Singapur.
I checked on wiki, it is true.

The reception... Finally

OK, so lets try to wrap up.

We arrive at the reception, time to hit the buffet, drinks and try to dance with full stomachs.
First thing to get the attention, was the Sofreh Aghd, which we can see in the following picture, and the explanation here


Since I'm writing this almost 2 weeks after the event, I'm forgetting the order of things, so I will move to mention the toast of my cousin Charles III a.k.a. Charlito

His speech was so nice and funny, no one dare to follow him. At every single moment people were laughing and he took some of the spotlight from the couple.

After that it was dinner time, and what I would like to mention here is, how the tables had those ... Forgot how you call them... But you can make soap bubbles from it. It was really fun, and made for a pretty magical moment, as Pamela and Jill are showing.


Now then something which I had objected, was announced.
Since Gelareh would only used that dress once, I think it was her uncle, who came with the idea that the dress could be signed by everyone at the reception.
According to my bro who saw the faces of everyone when it was announced, more than one look to each other in disbelief. But as soon as some people started signing, it was non-stop signing all night.
The idea was so appealing to me in the end, that I signed three times, one in english, farsi, and Espanich.
Gelareh somehow manage to start dancing while there was still people signing her dress. It was a lot of fun.

Now I hope you guys remember that one of the things I was supposed to do, was the turn off the music and kick everyone out. However, someone did that for me. I really didn't wanted the reception to end... and so did a bunch of my brothers friends.
Since the music wasn't coming back up, and the ...uhm... older generation, decided to head back home. A group of people, lead by Ricardo, went to continue the party until 4:00 a.m at his house.
At some point the party had a hint of baccalaureate party, but all that is worth mentioning is that women don't tip that well.

It was a nice way to end this amazing weekend. I wish it could be repeated, but Alvaro didn't threw the band to see who was going to marry next.

Oh well, good luck to you guys, seems you are prepared for what comes next right?

Intermedio for the cool pic I mentioned.

MADNESS

The Wedding! :')

It was the day, September 2nd, the wedding was approaching.
I woke up to the sound of waltz, my brother and my soon to be sis-in-law were training for their dance showdown at the wedding. I do have a picture of that, but unfortunately I've been censored :( . I have a few pictures as I was having so much fun that I forgot to take them, and the only ones I have, they decide it is not good.

Anyways, after breakfast and waltz training, we went to do boring errands. The only thing worth mentioning is that it was raining a lot where I was, and there was the continuous worry that the rain might hit the wedding... I was proven wrong as the wedding went on during a very sunny afternoon.
Oh, and that I found the perfect T-shirt for my brother. No picture :(, but I hope soon my brother will use it and send me a pic of it :P.

OK, so Time for the wedding, I got in my fancy dress, and the cool Tie Gelareh bought me, it had Pepe Le Pew in it. Coolest most original Tie in the wedding, thanks to Gel, and we started receiving people at the chapell. Family first, a bunch of friends later, and time for the main event.
My brother walk towards the altar, followed by my parents, and then the bridesmaid and me...Aa lot of flashes through the process. And finally the bride herself. She walk down theaile with her mom, and I got to say, when he reached my brother I saw water in her eyes.
We had a few readings from the bible and the most "peculiar" one was from theapocalypses >:) My brother chose it, but he gave it to Pamela, our cousin,theoreticallyy to read it inSpanishh, but oh surprise! Inn the wedding it was in english.
After a few looks between her and the Father, and a "oops" from the later, my brave cousin decided she could read it in english.
And she did perfectly.
Now it was time to go closer to the altar were the rings were going to be blessed, and the "I do"s perform.
Time for my screwup, that apparently no one noticed :D

At some point Gelareh was giving the maid of honor her bouquet, and the Father made a "sign", which I took as come closer give me the rings
...
which I did,but just before I gave the rings, the ceremony continue and I realized "oops"
so after a gentle step backwards and pretend I was just stretching my legs, apparently no one saw it :D
I guess the attention was to the bride and groom and my ego is to large.

But that was it, at another time, I did gave the rings, the Father blessed them and they said the "I do"s.
BOOM, kiss, and now we are legally family .
MUSIC.

Whew, this is getting long again, I will have to leave the reception for the next blog.

My Bro's wedding Part I

On September 1st at 5:45 am I was woke up by my alarm.
It was the first of three days of Uberly-fun-extravaganza that was my bro's wedding... but of course at 5:45 am, I was not in the mood for anything.
Given a quick shower, I took my bag's (which I thought I had made full last night, but I was proved wrong later) and headed to the bus stop were they would pick me up to go to the airport, I look really strong carrying 2 big suitcases (which were completely empty) but none had to know that.
The journey to the airport and following flight to BWI was pretty uneventfully, though I must point out I got into those planes only 3 seats in a row, and are REALLY REALLY SMALL. I had to walk either with head completely tilt 90 degrees.

finally I arrived at Baltimore, apparently early cause my brother was going to kindly pick me up, but when I called he seemed surprised. But after 1 hour wait he arrived with my cousin Pamela who had come all the way from Colombia for my brother's wedding.

After the "hellos" and catching up on Pamela's adventures in France, we went to the place were the reception was going to be held.
This was at the Golf course of UMD. That given the "Ernesto" storm, was not too sunny, and it was a big worry for the Wedding tomorrow.
My brother and my new sister-in-law checked on a lot of things which I already forgot :( All I DO remember is that it was MY responsibility to turn OFF the music when I wanted everyone o leave... which I will talk more later... but anyhow a bunch of last day arrangements were done, and we headed to the church at UMD. It was REHEARSAL time. At this time I thought to rehearse was kind of unnecessary, I never thought that indeed I would messed up at the wedding :P, but we went ahead and rehearse our entrance, stands etc. That went pretty quick, and father Jon, left us to rehearse by ourselves.
I our rehearsal, we took most things as a joke and just had a good time.

Afterwards we had to split up, this was my bro's last day as a bachelor so we had to go, go to the bachelor party, right?
And so we did :P and we went and met all the members of our father's side that were in Washington at the time... It was WILD, we went to our aunt's house, and we ate lasgna with some icecream afterwards... Oh yeah.
Sarcasm a side, we spend some nice time, and I got the coolest photo out of a cousin's camera that take pictures in infrared ... I'm waiting him for me to send it so I can post it here.

And by the time we were back at home it was already the day of the wedding, so some little sleep before the big day

To be continue