Goals for Fall 2007

As usual, I probably bit of a lot more than I can chew. I'll do my best to accomplish these tasks and finish the year strong.

1. Niiler Lab (SIO)
-Finish the South China Sea Calibrations so that Luca can begin his analysis.
-Design a testing regiment for the thinner cable and reduced drag effects on buoys.
-Begin design of packaged t-chains and moored time-release drifters.

2. Wang Lab (ECE)
-Continue growth experiments and cataloging data so that we can find a proper direction for a possible paper or patent
-Begin work on electrode design.
-Begin work on electrical and optical properties of ZnO NR Arrays.

3. Arovas (Physics)
-Identify problems with the paper under review and work with Dan to resolve any kinks in the traffic model arguments so that we can get that paper published.

4. School
-Understand the subject materials to the best of my ability and review all the crap that you didn't learn these past four years.
-This involves auditing Physics 110A and ECE 288.

5. Taiko
-Ensure that Asayake will have a strong infrastructure to rely on next year. There will be a lot of people leaving this year and it wouldn't be good to leave next years seniors and juniors on shaky ground.
-Write hurry up and write shichi before the year is over.
-Do well in Bachi sales
-Keep in contact with all my taiko colleagues
-Process those photos and send them out to their relative parties.

6. Family
-Help my father take care of the back rooms
-Process the France photos and get them printed, album'd and sent by Christmas damnit... it's been nearly a year and you have little to no excuse no matter how many life/death/home related situations and inconveniences have fallen on you this year.
-Visit your parents and grandmother more often
-Provide any necessary support for your cousins, related by blood or not.

7. Friends
-Provide any necessary support for those that may or may not need it. You know who you are... if you don't... well you don't need to know, I'll be there to the best of my capacity regardless. Just give me a call.
-Help Larry beta test his game.

8. Wing Chun
-Finish learning the system.
-Sifu is finishing up his year here in San Diego with an uncertain future looming ahead. This falls under the Friends goal, but you should try to attend as many classes as you can. There aren't many students left, so we should finish our training together strong and ready to take on the world.

9. Qin
-I have no idea how I'm going to fit this into my schedule... but it will have to... somehow.

10. Japan
-I don't know how this topic didn't make it into the top five considering I was thinking about it in the bathroom 10 minutes ago... but it should be much higher on this list because the deadlines are fast approaching
-Get through the application process.
-Apply for those scholarships.
-Talk to Tohoku and any students to get an idea of how next Spring is going to work.

11. Me
-Continue my meditation sessions with Michelle. Hopefully TK will join us this quarter. This will hopefully deepend my understanding of the world, myself, and the larger, all encompassing picture that our existence is painting.
-Continue my Japanese without losing sight of my Cantonese. Being multi-lingual is very important to me despite the fact that I have zero talent in it.
-Continue to get to know more people. They provide a network that I can rely on for myself, and any that I might be associated with. This will also help me remember names more readily and who people are more readily. This will be useful in the very near future.
-Organize my finances and find prospective employers.
-Lastly... and most importantly. Keep a bright outlook for the future. There's a lot to do, and a lot to think about. Problems will always rear their ugly heads, but getting bent out of shape about it isn't going to benefit anything or anyone. Don't burn out. The chance of this happening is very high, so hopefully body and mind will remain balanced and healthy.

12. A Girlfriend
-heh... With the other 11 goals, this one falls even below qin. If this love thing somehow miraculously happens, I'm betting she's going to be a keeper because she's going to have to be extremely patient and understanding... Here's to hoping tremendous luck will fall upon me while wrapping up this year. The time I have for a relationship will be incredibly tight up until I leave for Japan.

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