Monday, March 13, 2006

What a day! It was a cold, windy, rainy day, but was also full of surprise and coincidence. It could even be called a 'classic' day, in line with Japan's controversial loss to USA in the second round of World Baseball Classic.

In the morning, I ran into a colleague at a bus stop beside Yuanshan MRT station. While we were chatting on a bus heading to our office, the bus came into a sudden stop -- it had crashed into a taxi from behind. Fortunately, it's only a fender-bender and there was no passenger standing. In such rush hour, passengers usually choose to get on a bus even when there is no seat and they need to remain standing.

The colleague who experienced the accident with me also told me that a former colleague, Linda, was seeking my MSN Messenger account. I am a great admirer of Linda, who maintains an admirable blog. In the afternoon, we were already chatting on MSN Messenger for the first time. Toward the end of the chatting, while having to leave her seat for a meeting, she said "Have a nice day." and I replied "Have a nice meeting." It was indeed a nice day for me, probably one of my best days.

In the evening, when I got home a little late then usual. My sister showed me an UPS Express Envelope, which I looked up later to find the progress below. The package contains a letter saying that I have been accepted by the Master of Software Engineering (MSE) Program of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Package from Carnegie Mellon University

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

First of all, surprised that I have the honor to appear on this nice blog. Secondly and most important of all, CONGRATULATIONS! Am so proud and happy for you.

Allen Hsu said...

The honor is all mine.

I was too excited to sleep well that night, and consequently felt lightheaded in the following days. It was like a slow process of wakening, from a dream too good to be ture.

Anonymous said...

ha ha, I like you how describe the good feeling, I rarely get that kind of feeling these days, but recently, after I played at blue note, I did experience it, felt great.