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Name: Jeff
Birthday: 8/19/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: Getting out of my cube, which means hanging out with friends, snowboarding, bike riding on trails, dancing, singing, playing the guitar, driving to new places, eating at fine restaurants, and sleeping in my nice bed
Expertise: Being cheesy and geeky, and everything else in between. =D
Occupation: Marketing
Industry: Computers (Hardware)
Message: message me
AIM:  juc00
Member Since:
10/31/2002
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| Best wishes on a healthy and smooth 2007!
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| What do marching on Dragon Day, reveling on Slope Day, and
screaming at midnight on the first day of finals have in common? As any Cornellian will proudly tell, those
are all Cornell traditions. Now, ask what
Night Market, eCsTASy, and CTAS-BBQ are?
Only the die-hard CTAS alumni
will pause, reminisce and smile to some memorable traditions of CTAS.
Between 2000 and 2004, CTAS evolved from a small and modest
sized group of friends, who just wanted to get together and escape Ithaca life and
enjoy Taiwanese flavors to remind themselves of home, into a large social
organization with impact on the community.
Night Market was always just another excuse for members to hang
out and eat home cooked Taiwanese food. Cornell
Dining may be nationally ranked, but it can’t beat good ole’ Taiwanese home
cooking. Every semester, we’d all gather
in members’ kitchens across Collegetown, making popular Taiwan night market
dishes such as oyster noodle soup, scallion pancake, ground pork over
rice. It wasn’t just the food that made
the event so fun; it was the camaraderie that we had as we toiled for hours
chopping up garlic, breading chicken, or slow cooking pork. Sometimes we didn’t even have food left over
for us to enjoy ourselves, but that was okay.
Seeing other people gobble and slurp up the food and having a great time
playing games and singing karaoke was worth it.
By far, the most memorable of all Night Markets was when CTAS held it in
the Memorial Room in WSH.
eCsTASy! Nowadays
when Cornellians shout out, “Hey, when is eCsTASy coming?” you know they’re
referring to the annual CTAS culture show.
Believe it or not, there was a time when people would only raise an eye
brow and associate that word with the illegal drug. This was especially embarrassing when it came
time to reserving the room at Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell’s religious
center. In 2002, CTAS wanted it to give
the annual culture show a face lift. We
wanted it to be edgy, cool, hip, and something that people looked forward to
each year—almost an addiction. “eCsTASy“
was born. Ribbon dance, Chinese puppet
show combined with kung fu, skits, singing, music videos, and hip hop dance
helped cultivate eCsTASy into what it is today.
Sure, it was tiring and burdensome with the three months of planning,
hundreds of hours of rehearsal, and sleepless nights of video editing, but as
soon as the curtain came up to a thunderous applause, it was all worth it.
In typical Taiwanese fashion, the party is never really
over. Slope Day gone and passed? Not to worry, CTAS BBQ always picks up the
celebration of the end of the academic year with a hearty Taiwanese barbeque at
Robert Treman State Park. After a little
bit of pork and beef tepanyaki, spring rolls, and watermelon, it was always
time to jump in the water, or be thrown in, whichever you prefer.
Night Market, eCsTASy and BBQ are all signature events in
CTAS’s brief history at Cornell. However
in 2004, CTAS wanted to start a new tradition by making an impact on the
community. It led a joint effort between
CSA and HKSA to host a Mid-Winter Banquet and Auction. This was the first time CTAS was able to hire catering for a food event in
the Memorial Room with entertainment provided by the Chinese Yo-Yo Club and Base
Productions. We were even able to use
plates and utensils from Cornell Dining!
The evening wrapped up with a climactic charity auction where members of
the audience bid on donated services that included a dinner date, hot pot
dinner, house cleaning, rides to New York City and even a small sight seeing
flight over Ithaca. All together, CTAS
raised $1100 for the Tzu Chi Charity Foundation to aid people in need and it
was recognized by the Cornell Daily Sun for demonstrating Asian American
activism on campus.
For many of you this may be the end of your first semester
at Cornell and CTAS. For others, you’re
about to embark on your last. Enjoy the
CTAS traditions that have been with us for years, and don’t hesitate to start new
ones of your own. After all, when your
four years of Cornell pass by in a flash, the only memories that go with you won’t
be your scores; they will be of the times you laughed and did something
memorable with your friends.
Thank you for keeping the CTAS spirit alive and well.
Best Wishes from the Class of 2004.
Jeff Chen, ’04 BS ECE
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| Summer just flew by. I can't believe it's already mid-October. Where did my summer go? I didn't even get to chill at a beach and alas it is too late to touch the water without inducing hypothermia.
Anyway, recap of the summer and a little bit of fall.
From right to left: Antony, Euell, Alan and I in Marin headlands on Fourth of July weekend. Alan, you know you want to move to California. Stop being complacent with Boston! You know it's better out here!
Hello Xi'An China! Here I am leaning against the ledge of the city wall facing the inner city. If you want 50 years of history, go to Shanghai; for 500 years go to Beijing; for 5000 years, go to Xi'An.
Standing in front of the Xi'An drum tower. I don't look too happy because I haven't eaten any meat due to my fear of contracting Hepatitis B. I just had the Hepatitis A shot, but my immunologist recommended against it citing that only sexually active people are at risk for Hep B. However, as soon as Bryan told me about being able to contract it via saliva and food, I stopped eating. xP
The legendary Terra Cotta Soldiers, the 8the Wonder of the World. I'm just stunned--simply stunned.
Everyone, say "hi" to Rei-son. I suppose I shall give him the English name Jason before the other kids start to call him "Raisin" and pick on him. He's such an adorable kid.
While visiting LA before Tzui's wedding, I found out that Jesse was in town! Jesse made a rare appearance--almost as rare as the Loch Ness Monster! Good to see J-yu alive and kickin it. Come out to Nor Cal for B-school. East coast schools are overrated. 
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| Woa, it's been more than two months since my last post! Of course there has been plenty that has been going on, otherwise why else have I ignored the one or two subscribers out there that still bother to click on my page once in a while? Not much to share in terms of pictures really--pictures that wouldn't corroborate my already "tarnished" reputation.
Anyways, here's an articles for you ladies out there before I forget. This article comes courtesy of the Wungist.
http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001135.cfm
The Cost of Delaying MarriageBy Danielle Crittenden
A few interesting exerpts from the rather well written article:
"[We] lead lives that are exactly the inverse of our grandmothers’. If previous
generations of women were raised to believe that they could only realize
themselves within the roles of wife and mother, now the opposite is thought
true: It’s only outside these roles that we are able to realize our full
potential and worth as human beings. A 20-year-old bride is considered as
pitiable as a 30-year-old spinster used to be. Once a husband and children were
thought to be essential to a woman’s identity, the source of purpose in her
life; today, they are seen as peripherals, accessories that we attach only after
our full identities are up and running. "
"For the truth is, once you have ceased being single, you suddenly discover that
all that energy you spent propelling yourself toward an independent existence
was only going to be useful if you were planning to spend the rest of your life
as a nun or a philosopher on a mountaintop or maybe a Hollywood-style
adventuress who winds up staring into her empty bourbon glass four years later
wondering if it was all d--- worth it. "
"By waiting and waiting and waiting to commit to someone, our capacity for love
shrinks and withers. This doesn’t mean that women or men should marry the first
reasonable person to come along, or someone with whom they are not in love. But
we should, at a much earlier age than we do now, take a serious attitude toward
dating and begin preparing ourselves to settle down."
"When a woman is young and reasonably attractive, men will pass through her life
with the regularity of subway trains; even when the platform is empty, she’ll
expect another to be coming along soon. No woman in her right mind would want to
commit herself to marriage so early. Time stretches luxuriously out before her.
Her body is still silent on the question of children. She’ll be aware, too, of
the risk of divorce today, and may tell herself how important it is to be
exposed to a wide variety of men before deciding upon just one. When dating a
man, she’ll be constantly alert to the possibilities of others. Even if she
falls in love with someone, she may ultimately put him off because she feels
just "too young" for anything "serious." Mentally, she has postponed all these
critical questions to some arbitrary, older age. "
"The fear of losing oneself [in marriage] can, in the end, simply become an excuse for not
giving any of oneself away. Generations of women may have had no choice but to
commit themselves to marriage early and then to feel imprisoned by their
lifelong domesticity. So many of our generation have decided to put it off until
it is too late, not foreseeing that lifelong independence can be its own kind of
prison, too."
Comments? I'd like to hear what you girls think about this article.
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| Check it out, Cornell ECE in Doonesbury!
I once knew what Norton and Thevenin Equivalents were 4 years ago and now I've been reminded through a comic strip! Who said comic strips weren't educational?! | | |
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