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For four years, we spent every day, laughing, crying, and studying together at Stanford University. Absent have many become from each other’s thoughts and lives for the past five years. For four days in October, 2002, the past of the Class of 1997 returned to the present at Stanford Reunion.…

This afternoon, four years of blue, red, and yellow faded away as white returned to my former apartment. Despite the painters’ best efforts, however, small patches of color continue to peek around edges as if to say, “Look! I was once red, blue, and yellow!” to the future tenants. I…

This weekend, I said goodbye to the calm and easy streets of Mountain View as I completed my move to nearby Cupertino. Four years living in the same place meant I accumulated a large number of possessions that I had to either (1) take to the new place or (2)…

Rae’s parents performed Saturday night with their choir at the First United Methodist Church in Palo Alto. The San Jose Chinese Choir was formed “in 1981 by parents and friends of the San Jose Chinese School.” They give regular performances in the Bay Area and have sung in the Hawaiian…

Music streamed from the phallic Harmon Kardon Soundsticks and Jello shots (red not green this time) flowed from the fridge last night at Dardy’s Bulletproof Lounge party, held in celebration of his now furnished apartment. There were a number of online personalities present, including Carol, Paul, Mike, Eric, Susan, Rae,…

Quoi d’neuf? On Saturday, the St. Lawrence String Quartet performed Tchaikovsky 1 and Bartok 3 at Eric’s in San Francisco. I’m not well versed in classical music, but I can spot excellence when I hear it — Geoff, Barry, Leslie, and Alberto, they are most impressive. On Sunday, Rae and…

Right now, Judy is on a plane headed for Japan, where she’ll be working for the next several months. On Monday night, she held a going-away party at her place in Oakland. It was nice meeting some familiar faces in Mona and Vanessa, both of whom I haven’t seen in…