I had a busy weekend. Received some amazing gifts throughout this week! I got a bag, boots, perfume and jewelry! All were so beautiful and totally me! It fit me so well. I was completely surprised. The perfume is lovely…and it smells so good.

I have been thinking a lot about 2005 and what I want from 2006.

Happy Holidays!

I bought this reef from this little guy that came to the door. He was so cute that I couldn't resist.

Yikes-another amazing book!

Great Book! [Radical Careering by Sally Hogshead]
What a cute little amazing book! 100 truths to jumpstart your job, your career, and your life. I loved all the advices and also the pictures in the book. The pictures are from: getty images. This totally made me want to take more pictures.

Group Work/ television vs reading/ no electricity!

I had a wonderful day today. Got to school early to finish talking to various people and meet my biology group for our project. We were working on how caffeine intake affects our blood pressure. Our hypothesis was that caffeine intake will increase our blood pressure as other researches shows. So we all met, seven of us, at 9 a.m. to measure our blood pressure. Then we all dashed to a nearby coffee place to drink down 16 oz. of coffee. It was great to see all of us nonstop talking about various things and mostly about our future. I am sure the crowd in the coffee shop thought we all have been friends for such a long time even though we have only known each other for the past month! It was just great conversation, ideas, team work! Beautifully done.

I was reading an article about the affects of television and reading. Some quotes that stood out were:

A defense of Reading, by Marie Winn. The Plug-In Drug: Television, computers, and Family life, Penquin Books, 2002

“Television captures the imagination but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.”

“Television images do not go through a complex symbolic transformation. The mind does not have to decode and manipulate during the television experience. Perhaps this is why the visual images received directly from a television set are strong, stronger; it appears, than the images conjured up mentally while reading. But ultimately they satisfy less.”

“The television child has fewer opportunities for learning to sustain concentration than the “book” child of the past.”

Is a little embarrassing they keep referring to children but I know many adults have trouble turning the television off...me included!

Electricity went out for about two hours today and I went crazy! How much I depend on technology to keep me company. I was having lunch and watching television. I wanted to heat my food again but nope..no microwave. I thought let’s get on the internet…NO! I felt empty without my electricity..haha. I talked on my cell for awhile and got extremely bored..so I went shopping!! Holiday shopping has began!

Memoirs of a Geisha

I loved the book. This week the movie is opening and I can't wait to see it. The preview looks...magical. I found this site with tons of pictures of the movie and the actress Zhang Ziyi. The picture is from this site too. [Click Here]

Click on the image or here for a bigger version. I been thinking about the events of this year so I made this.

What a beautiful day. It has been snowing all day. I woke up pretty early (5:30 a.m…that’s really early for me) I had plenty of time to drive to work. On the way I had time to enjoy the snow. For the past hour I have been doing some searches on NYC. I am planning to attend the Conan O’Brien show and was searching for the address to send for tickets. My professor suggested doing something creative so it would get their attention…let's wait and see what I come up with.

NYC.COM