May 3, 2003

In order to escape away from course projects for one day, we drove to Lake Moomaw. It's in Appalachi mountains, near the border of Virginia and West Virginia. Fishing, hunting, and boats, all kinds of things that we can do. But..., a little bit unlucky. Well, still got another page of landscape photos.

April 5, 2003

We went to the Shenandoah National Park to enjoy this great Saturday, no homeworks, no exams, no need to think about projects. Driving in the famous skyline drive is a good experience, although the trees are still in the winter mood. The weather is cool. We got a rain in the morning and then got a great sunshine after 11am. The blue ridge mountains look like paintings in such weather. When we came back, we went along highway 231. Wow, this road is really fantastic with the typical while beautiful countryside landscape of Virginia. Got some photos. ¡¡

A picture from NPS

April 3, 2003

Watched Michael Moore's Oscar-winner "Bowling For Columbine". A nice documentary with many facts and insights about American gun issues. Michael Moore had this impressive anti-war speech on the Oscar ceremony:

Whoa. On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to ¡ª they're here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much.