It is almost amazing how quickly nearly half of a year has gone by. I clearly recall celebrating the new year and imagining, looking ahead, at how 2008 will be like.

We are already nearly halfway through 2008.

To me, May is more than just a prelude to the halfway point of the year. Year after year, May has been a culmination. A culmination of efforts, of struggle through hard times, a time of celebration and reflection. However, this year, May is especially significant. This year, May is the culmination of the last twelve years combined. This year, May is the beginning of a new life for me.

At the end of this month, I will end my high school career, Valedictorian as my class, and embark on an exciting new chapter of my life. The last few months have been extraordinarily exciting, especially as the replies from the admissions offices have returned. I am proud to say that this fall, I will be joining the Yale University Class of 2012 in New Haven. I am very excited by the prospect of the new opportunities that will open to me in the next four years. In the meantime, I will make every minute from now until then memorable and worthwhile. To my reader-base, I thank you greatly for your support, and God Bless.

Esta poema es actualmente mi segunda poema en español. Es una oda a la estrella que simboliza la esperanza y la destina en la vida.

Solo he escrito dos poemas en español porque ahora estoy estudiando el español y todavía estoy un gringo.

Estrella del sueño
el resplandor eterno
de esperanza, de amor
de inspiración
de la corazón, siempre
adelante en algún lugar allá
iluminando mi destino.

It’s that time of the year again when we change the time…this time setting our clocks back an hour. Daylight Savings Time ended today. I welcome this change much more than its half-brother, when DST begins, as setting my clocks back an hour means theoretically staying up an hour later and sleeping in an hour later. This is perfect because I am both a hardcore insomniac and an anti-morning person.

~DC

First of all, Happy Halloween! Due to various factors, I am again before (somebody else’s) computer screen in lieu of going out trick-or-treating.

Secondly, as another new month approaches (and another month passes permanently :\), I have ruminated about what’s coming up in the near future that I can look forward to. Here goes:

• November 1: Tomorrow, ZenPhoto 1.1 will be released (hopefully)! Finally, the subalbum-supported release is stable. I really can’t wait to set up a new gallery and not have to worry about any end-user problems, such as those that the bloated Gallery2 tends to have.
• November 3: WEEKEND!!! And especially the weekend after the completion of the (I will not go into details) heavy workload of this week. Even more so, I will finally be able to return the power supply and hopefully finally fix my computer.
• November 13: The second-generation Zune lineup is released. Although I am not getting a new Zune, I will have the highly-anticipated firmware update that gives my Zune 30 all the new features (as well as the sleek new UI).
• November late-20-ish: Turkey Day! I am still compiling the list of stuff I am thankful for (and believe me when I say the list is pretty damn long :D)…and there’s also the day-after-Turkey-Day shopping sprees (for me, its all the heavily- discounted geek stuff :]).

Anyway, just laying out what’s ahead.

~DC