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其实8月才能拿到文凭。提前参加了毕业典礼，因为人多才好玩吗！

现在人在纽约，准备回到去年实习的地方继续实习。就是换个地方而已，在这家公司干了快一年（远程地）。

经济不好加上甲流，看着办吧。

搬了新地方后就有很多杂七杂八的事情弄，慢慢来吧。

毕业典礼的相片在此:

http://picasaweb.google.com/cowpokelee/GraduationWeek2009?feat=directlink

Hello, everyone. Beginning from this post, I will ONLY write in English. Sorry for this inconvenience. The reason I do so, because I found out it is very inefficient to organized, translate, and then rewrite my post in Chinese since I do keep a English journal for the purpose of daily writing practice.

(大家好，从这个帖子开始，我会用英文书写。如有不便之处，非常抱歉。之所以这样做的原因，是我每天会用英文写一点东西，我觉得组织，翻译，然后用中文重写帖子没有什么效率。)

So on this blog, I will post something essential, refined, most-important, most-interesting from my ridiculous practical and long-winded daily logs.

Right now, taking a Christmas and New Year break in Long Island, New York, away from BYU, Provo, Utah, I am just glad that I have time to clean up all the clutters piled up in previous four months from school and really slow down, sit down, to think, think deep of something by the end of 2008.

First thing first, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009 from NY :-)

Sincerely speaking, I didn't want to go back to school after such a fantabulicious summer time in NY, but Fall 2008 semester actually ended up very good which was beyond my expectation. It ended beautifully just like the sunset (Provo) below:

As I have announced before, I won this year's IDSA scholarship (http://www.dexigner.com/product/news-g16182.html ). I am still holding the title until Summer 2009, until it is inherited by someone from BYU. I hope BYU could be third year in a row. From some conversations between me and Janna (Ms. Ziba!), I feel we do need some PR work to blast out our names from the middle of "no where." Not everyone knows that we had inters in Astro, Addidas, Ziba, Continuum, Smart, HP, Tupperware, Kyocera, GM... and interests from Microsoft, Whirlpool...

Holding the title isn't an easy thing, you automatically got expectation from people. It is a pressure that reminds you and keeps you producing good work. Well, it would be more sucky when you suck, lol!

The studio class in Fall 2008 was very interesting. The sponsor for the project was Logitech (previously WILIFE.) It was the first time I experienced a face-to-face collaboration of a corporation client in a class setting which is somewhat a much "looser" design environment. The corporate "buy-in" requirement in the curriculum was "a breeze of fresh air" for us. As a senior, I wasn't completely new to the design process, it was a great opportunity for me to practice what I have learned and what I knew.

The end result of the project? I won the biggest trophy and some $ bonus. Thanks for that, I flew first class first time in my life and had a crazy after-Christmas shopping in NYC.

Last semester, I finished a class called History of Interior Design. Gosh! I think the amount of architecture and furnishing pictures I have seen in that class were a way more than previous 20 years in my life. I have memorized loads of names of design, designers, styles, and features. They are pretty much all gone after the final. Test me next time to see if I still remember... Well, I do remember some of the expensive and too-famous pieces. :-D

I also finished my senior project. So in the Winter 2009, I will be a "freshman" again. What I really have to do is to finish 11 credit General Education, then I am done!

Oh, I got a bit "upgrades" during Fall 2008, such as from SONY Cybershot T7 to T700 (I love it!) and Sony Ericsson K750 to HTC G1 (Life is easier with it!)

Just like I said in the post exactly a year ago: "2008 - Opportunity." It is true.

2009, Surpass!

荒废了这里很久啦。终于有时间把纽约的东西整理一下上传。

相片都在这：http://picasaweb.google.com/cowpokelee/NewYorkSummer2008#

这个夏天都在长岛做实习。长岛是个环境不错的地方。住和工作的地方离纽约市中心大概1个多小时。要玩也挺方便的。

实习的生活比学校的生活要轻松。在学校的时候事情比较多。实习的时候有时间干该干和想干的事情，也有时间什么都不干。

室友很好人，喜欢下厨，晚餐很多时候都是他弄，连东西也是他去买。我每月就付点买东西的钱。

房东也很好人，家里的卫生都是他弄的，还有些生活杂物也是他买。当然我每月付700大刀租一个房间。

实习经历让人学到很多学校里没有的东西，工作上，生活上都有收获。

Life is up and down. Learn and grow. Prepare but don't concern too much about tomorrow, live today.

有个好消息随便在这里发布一下：http://byunews.byu.edu/archive08-OCT-designaward.aspx

分享一下荣耀！

上星期六一大早的飞机从 Portland（波特兰）飞回 Provo （普罗沃）。4天的考察结束。

系组织到外面一窥设计界到底是怎么回事。

拜访了Adidas，Nike，Microsoft, Ziba，Carbon，Cascade，Soma 和 FuseID。

我挺受启发的。有兴趣的电我详谈，哈哈～

P.S. 相片在 http://picasaweb.google.com/cowpokelee/IDFieldTrip2008

Nike的总部：

我们在 Portland （波特兰）：

我们在 Seattle （西雅图）：

谢谢爸爸妈妈叔叔阿姨阿朋阿友，过了个愉快的生日。

昨天Provo（普罗沃）下大雪，

差点就把去Salt Lake（盐湖城）的行程取消了。不过很奇怪，出了Provo（普罗沃），天就放晴了。

（感谢上图中的车主：Jordan Simpson, Thank you!）

幸亏没有取消行程，去了一个叫 Crazy Buffet （疯狂自助餐）吃午饭，便宜，还不错。

看我和老美们多么 Funny（好笑）！

晚上到“四季”跟中国朋友们吃第二轮。

（感谢王叔和阿姨（“四季”老板和老板娘）送的蛋糕。）

因为分两边，所以就唱了两次生日歌，许了两次同一个愿，吹了两次蜡烛，切了和吃了两次蛋糕，兴奋了两次。

有点遗憾的是，有的朋友还没回来，有的朋友赶不回来（飞机），有的朋友突然不来！不过生日照过，蛋糕刚好分完。哈哈！

惊喜的是收到朋友从ATL（亚特兰大）寄来的礼物。虽然之前知道，不过奇怪的是完全忘了，我还琢磨到底是谁送的。

还有，感谢从Facebook留言，短信和电话上送来的祝福。Sweet！

收拾心情，明天就开学啦。

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