campus tour

Originally uploaded by Raymond Yee.

I like seeing crowds of visitors taking a tour of the Berkeley campus. Imagine the thoughts and feelings going through the hearts and minds of prospective students and their parents. The scene takes me back to the first days as a 1st year student at the University of Toronto for me.

Laura and I just got back from honeymoon in Maui on Sunday night. It was a
wonderful, wonderful trip. Still, we're both happy to be back, ready to
build our new life together back in Berkeley.

Needless to say, we took a lot of pictures. The following is an obligatory we-were-in-Hawaii picture:

More pictures to come....

I used to like to park here.

Originally uploaded by Raymond Yee.

It's too bad that this parking lot is now hourly parking. Maybe it will be better and more profitable for the university, but I enjoyed not having to park in a structure.

In case you are interested in seeing where this lot is, click on the link marked I used to like to park here on the geobloggers page. (More on geoblogging later....)

Chris and Lloyd at lunch

Originally uploaded by Raymond Yee.

Lunch with Laura, Chris, and Lloyd was a blast yesterday. I especially enjoyed hearing about his presentation in NYC last week.

On May 14, Laura Shefler and I were married in Oakland, California. And we're so happy! There hasn't been much activity in our blogs or wikis leading up to and immediately following that wonderful, wonderful day. I'm sure our readers will understand Undoubtedly, Laura and I will be posting pictures. We're grateful that Lloyd and Lynn have already done so! Thank you.

It's going to take a little while for me to re-establish my public writing persona. There's the obvious reason that Laura and I have been going through one of the biggest and best events of our lives, intensely public and private moments. It's hard to know how to even talk about it with those closest to us, let alone to a public audience. There is, of course, the matter of having been insanely busy! I'm thankful for a relatively slow and relaxed day to quietly go about living a normal day, that is, a day of the new normal. Very nice.

Thai Noodles

Originally uploaded by Raymond Yee.

Yesterday was the first time I ate there. The food was really good, especially the duck. I have missed eating duck ever since Sun Hong Kong closed.

Car on fire? No: just steam

Originally uploaded by Raymond Yee.

When I pedalled to the left side of this truck, I noticed smoke that I thought was coming from the truck itself. I figured that I should turn around to figure out what was happening so that I could report it to the police. It seemed to me that smoke was pouring out of the exhaust pipe. When I called Berkeley emergency, the first question I was asked was whether the burning car was on Oxford. When I said yes, the dispatcher informed me of the steam vent beside the car.

I was a bit embarrassed with my mistake. I would have been even more embarrassed if I had not reported a burning car that exploded!

long, engaging, sad article about Iris Chang

Originally uploaded by Raymond Yee.

This morning, I read Historian Iris Chang won many battles. The war she lost raged within. Like many, I was shocked at the news of her suicide. The article provided me at least some of the answers to how a brilliant, active, vibrant woman could kill herself. Of course, many of the answers that we all want continues to elude us.