the true cost of cotton

In my UGBA "Colloquium on the Social, Political, and Ethical Environment of Business"(yes, this is the actual title) class today, a speaker informs us that how Uzbekistan governement and big businesses used child labors to collect cotton by hands in the corrupted government of Uzbekistan. They closed the school and send the children to the hot cotton field by schoolbuses.

It's extremly cruel and inhuman to exploiting little children like that. The love of money blinds those people consciences, if they have any. It's so sad that the pleasures of a few cause pains of so many.

In the video, I remember a 8-years old girl were asked "how long have you pick cotton?" She slowly responded with an innocent look and sad voice, "A VERY LONG TIME..." =(

How many times can I turn my head and pretend that I don't see? How many ears must I have before I can hear other people's cry?

internship hunting

I went to the career fair yesterday. I planed for two hours but I ended up spending four hours talking to recruiters. I can't believe that many employers are looking for CS students. Their eyes just lit up after I revealed my EECS major.

Hehe. Life is great. Praise the Lord!

tennis and swimming

Yesterday is a nice and warm day. I couldn't resist the blue blue sky. So I went to play tennis with Paul Daubenmire.

Afterward I went to swimming at the Hearst Gym on my own. The Greek style swimming pool is so pretty and classy. I like walking on the white marble floor bare foot. O man that feels so good. =) Then I swam for about thirty minutes.

Anyway, the crazy thing is while I was taking a shower in the locker room, the warm water suddenly turned ice cold!?!? =< I get out of the shower quickly. There is another guy who just applied shampoo and soap before the cold water came. So he has to rinse them off in ice cold water. hehe. Hope he doesn't get sick.

Tomorrow I need to go to the job fair to sell myself for summer internship. Gotta do what I need to do...

Valentine's Day

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Senator Mike Gravel in our class

Senator Gravel: "I can solve the energy problem in five years. If I am the president, I will install five million windmills across the country in five years. I will install one million each year. That will solve our oil dependence once for all."



Senator Gravel: "Here is a young man that has a question." (He points to student A)

Prof. Ross: "No. Let's have another student ask the question." (He points to student B far away)

Senator Gravel: "Hey, Professor Ross! Sure he can ask the question. I AM THE SENATOR! Go, you ask the question." (He points to student A)
Laughters....

random

Everybody wants to be different, but nobody wants to change.

election 2008

A current presidential candidate will come to our poli sci 179 class next Wednesday. Yah! The professor wouldn't disclose the name. All we know is that it's not Hillary. Hopefully he is not a loser.

I guess it's mostly like be Ron Paul. Haha. Although it wouldn't hurt if Obama shows up. =)