It’s amazing when you’ve been a blogger or journal-person long enough you can look back and read the things you wrote one year ago on the exact same date.

April 25, 2006 (one year ago)
May 4 is the official last day of the Spring semester for me, and Fall semester starts sometime end of August. In between that I’m taking a one week intensive summer course on Development and administration of special education programs. I’ll also have to intensively work on my qualifier project. I can’t believe I procrastinated so much on that and to make matters worse, someone else published an article that almost answered all of my research questions. I sort of had to reproposed my proposal and I WILL get it done before summer is over.

April 25, 2007 (now)
May 3 is the official last day of the Spring semester for me this year. I guess my “I WILL get it (qualifier project) done before summer is over” did not work out, since I only finally completed it February of this year. I won’t be taking any summer classes this year. Instead I’ll be concentrating “intensively” on (a) writing up my qualifying paper for publication, (b) studying for my comprehensive exam that’s in september, and (c) revising my dissertation proposal. And I WILL get all these done before summer is over…hahahaha.

(One year ago)
It’s spring now and flowers are blooming everywhere. Pink and white all over.

(Now)
It’s spring now but not all the flowers are blooming everywhere. Most trees are still bare with some visible buds. Some pink and white somewhere. The weather has been crazy this year.

(One year ago)
The deadline for Operation Summer Car (June 21, 2006) may have to be pushed back around 2 months. All the conferences expenses and reimbursement procedures is messing up my finances at the moment.

(Now)
Surprisingly, the deadline for Operation Summer Car was not pushed back too far and I finally got my car on June 30, 2006. And now, due to the rising gas prices, the warmer weather and the broken a/c, I’ve decided to reduce driving and increase bus-taking. So currently, the car is parked in a nicely shaded prime spot and won’t be moving much.

(One year ago)
Today I attended a session by this Apple senior support personnel who gave what he calls a presale presentation. Bootcamp, Rosetta, parallel-something.. it’s amazing how user-friendly some of the applications are. I’m thinking of making a photo presentation with background music and commentaries and then burn it on a DVD and send it back to Malaysia and mom and dad can just pop that into the DVD-player or maybe just podcast it. And if I really have time to spare I can even have a version in Cantonese for my aunt. I’m even thinking of working on some sort of video-modeling intervention for my dissertation. But first I’ll have to get both the hardware and software. And that may be another reason why Operation Summer Car will be extended another 2 months.

(Now)
I now own both the hardware and software required to do all those amazing stuff but I have yet to do any of those things that I proposed. No photo presentation with background music and commentaries burnt on a DVD. No cantonese version of the same DVD. No podcast. But I am currently working on my some-sort-of-video-modeling-intervention dissertation proposal.

(One year ago)
Oh..the Apple presenter even gave away free iPod Nano magnets!

(Now)
Oh..I now have a free and real iPod Nano