Time 1 Human 0. Once again, time had the upper hand: I wasn't able to catch it and only to have it flew by.

Unknowingly, it's been over a month since I have updated this blog and over two months since I have actually posted something more meaningful. I wish I could have written about all these events earlier, however I was unable to do so due to the many time constraints caused by various school related assignments as well as numerous college and scholarship applications which I have to complete.

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Given the level of the stress which I have faced (and hair-pulling) over the past two months, one might mistaken me as impostor of Albert Einstein.

Enough with my complains, I shall now present you with a list of interesting events that I have attended/participated in the past few months chronologically.

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photo by Christina

Homecoming!
On the night of October 11th I attended my first (and possibly last) high school homecoming. Like previous years, I had absolutely no intention of going this time around either. However, I finally gave in when *cough* that someone asked if I would like to go as her date.

It's been a while so I am not sure if I had fun there. Let's just say that I did (and I probably did).

Detroit: Math Competition
If you have been reading this blog for a year or so you should be able to recall that I went to Madison, Wisconsin last year for a math competition in which my team placed third. This year's competition was held in Detroit, Michigan during NSBE's 2008 Region IV Fall Conference from November 21-23.

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I suppose that this is good enough.

This year my team is more experienced and that our readiness level is OVER 9000, we have won the competition by a rather huge margin. As arrogant as this may sound, I said to one of the opponent teams (jokingly, we already befriended with each other before the competition) that, "You guys did great, but we did better."

Next stop: National Competition at Las Vegas in late March, 2009.

And ... that's all. I thought there would be much more to share but in the end there are only two major things worth writing about (there was a few other things, like the senior breakfast, but they are not really major).

P.S. If you would like to see the photos from the above events, feel free to ask.