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Andorians!

Posted on October 31, 2018

For Halloween this year, we were Andorians. We did not take part in the Ushaan, however we did drink Andorian Ale (Mountain Dew Voltage).

Tuba Christmas is a national annual concert originally organized by Dr. Harvey Phillips, a legendary tuba player, composer, advocate, and professor, as a tribute to his teacher, William Bell. The first Tuba Christmas concert took place at Rockefeller Center in 1974. Since then concerts have taken place all over the United States (and elsewhere), locally […]

Light Up UCF

Posted on November 17, 2017

For 10 years now, UCF has put on small winter wonderland during the holidays. The attractions include lights, mucis, ice skating, ice slide, feris wheel, train ride, carriage rides, fake snow, etc. They sell tickets for various attractions, and there are student discounts available. It is currently located near the CFE Arena, and parking is […]

Pumpktris Project

Posted on October 31, 2017

This year for Halloween, a few of us attempted the popular Pumpktris instructable. Pumpktris is a version of Tetris playable in a pumpkin 🙂 Nathan Pryor (HaHaBird) created it. Here is his version in all its glory. It got a lot of interest, from other instructables to local news coverage to BoingBoing. Nathan also made […]

Halloween 2017: FF WHM

Posted on October 31, 2017

For Halloween this year, I donned a Final Fantasy White Mage costume, one that I crafted myself. FYI a WHM looks like this. As a longtime fan of the series, and devout WHM, this was something I’ve always wanted to do. The colored water bottles are potions, and the feathers are phoenix downs. My former […]

Thankful for Lake Eola

Posted on November 24, 2016

Walking around Lake Eola, downtown Orlando, FL on Thanksgiving, 2016

International Week 2016 Chinese Soirée

Posted on November 13, 2016

For International Week this year, my family hosted a house party for Full Sail’s Chinese and Taiwanese student developers. Anyone was welcome, but the intention was to connect these young people to one another and strengthen relations between China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. I attended many of these soirées as an exchange student in Japan. […]

Jack-o’-lanterns 2016

Posted on November 1, 2016

Here are the jack-o’-lanterns we carved this Halloween 2016 – Jack Skellington, a Minion, smiley face, 5-eyed monster, and the Chinese hansi for ghost.