back to SF

June 30, 2024


  • had to actively stop myself from getting too emotional at least 5 times on the car ride to the airport
  • wanted to muster the energy to read linear algebra but i would rather jump off the plane, decided to read about ML instead
  • how have i never watched charlie brown before
  • the butterfly effect movie is crazy
  • 不会 and 不好意思到扰
  • “Success is a mountain that keeps growing as you climb it”
  • So many elderly chinese people on this plane, their children are most likely cracked engineers, and their grand children future tech founders and engineer
  • Classic American bathrooms smell at the airport, brings me back to ISU
  • Bart from SFO is at least 10 bucks to anywhere
  • Most important rule is to not make eye contact with them
  • And move away from them if possible
  • three people smoking weed right beside us, smells like char kuey teow
  • Black guy blasting drake
  • Longest train ride ever in my life
  • I want to go home lol why am I in SF again
  • the weather is soooo nice I missed this so much
  • It’s like the entire city has AC installed
  • all my memories of SF slowly flooding back
  • The pride month lights are still here
  • Never thought i’d be dragging 58 kg worth of luggages for dear life at midnight in SF
  • This motivated me to get stronger so I can handle my luggages better next time
  • got directions wrong and Hazrat our uber driver saves us, mentioned that this will be a good story so its okay if things go wrong, saying we can’t be too comfortable. I wonder what Hazrat is going through
  • Hotel des Arts is nicer that I imagined for 70 bucks a night
  • Walking to Zzan at 12:08
  • Lots of art galleries around
  • There are still normal people around at this time, it’s safer that I imagined
  • 20 dollar bibimbap and 6 dollar takoyaki
  • got spooked by a guy on a mattress all covered in a duvet on the sidewalk
  • It’s 4am and I can’t sleep, too bloated, too hungry, worried about housing, overthinking, missing home and people
  • classical music on airpods with noise cancelling to block out W’a snoring for an hour didn’t work
  • Stuck in transitory state, my body was frozen and numb but mind still awake
  • scrolling twitter at 6 am now
  • It’s already bright out