one week of vacation, and now i can't bring myself to do any work! i can't understand why, but my engines just refuse to start and what's worse, my work is just piling up like crazy. just spent like 3 hours trying to upload my florida pictures (in vain) and another 2 hours trying to look for yang yang's birthday present. thanks goodness i found something! :)

ladida.... florida was cool. what's really cool about the trip though was the people i saw or met during the short 5 days there. number one on the list: CAB DRIVERS!!!! every single cab driver we met was like a caricature himself. there was Rachid the cab-fee-squabbler; Love the perpetual smiling machine from Haiti who laughed at our chinese conversation even though he had no clue at all; !!Bachiri!! the drama driver with his characteristic "New York Chinese Buffeee" and "satisfee", his conmannish schemes, his half-hour lecture on Islam and his terrible hair; and the two chinese drivers who, well, just drove.

in fact, orlando with its jungle of theme parks and fantasy worlds was more or less an entire universe of caricature -- all bright and sunny and smiley and obsessively colourful. and now cornell seems like the dullest place on earth.

wanna go home!