Egads! These are turning into terse weekly updates with bullet points. Bad! Well, things have been pretty busy here in the past week or so. Between preparing for and hanging out with my parents who visited this past weekend and realizing and dealing with the fact that I've been very lax at schoolwork up till now, and must pay the price between now and the end of exams, I've been diligently trying to get things done, and to push the less important stuff (like this :( ) to the back-burner.

Anyways, this past weekend's weather was absolutely beautiful (which considering that it SNOWED the previous monday is quite amazing). Some highlights of my parent's stay:

Excellent Seafood at Johnny's Half-Shell

Viewing cherry blossoms, more viewing cherry blossoms, and more viewing cherry blossoms.

Cherry Blossoms

The Cherry Blossom festival parade

The Sakura Matsui (translation: Cherry Blossom street fair)
Noticing a pattern?

Watching John's play at GULC

Eating Chinese food

Eating Crab
eating was the other theme of the visit
While we were busy the whole time they were here, when they left, I felt regretful that I didn't do more with them - wierd feeling. I guess it's an indication that I should make attempts to see them more and to communicate with them more often.

Anyways, Sunday evening was also delightful. My friend Mark who I had met in Burma almost a year ago dropped me an email letting me know he was in town. Amy and I then had him over for a leftover crab feast. Afterwards, Mark had to leave, but Amy and I settled down on the couch with a bottle of wine and watched one of my favorite HK movies, Tian Mi Mi.

This week otherwise has been a blur... lots of work, not enough sleep. Finally got to work out this morning, which was good - I'm going to try to work out much much more often, as according to my sister, it helps battle fatigue...

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