Nuo Yan's Life

How time flies! It’s already July.

Sorry that I haven’t written more. I’m super good. No worries. I’ve been pretty busy working on exciting projects at work.

A lot of my friends graduated from college, and I attended my own graduation commencement on June 13th. It was really great that my parents were able to came to Seattle for my commencement. During these four years in the University of Washington, my parents and Jin gave me a lot of support. I would never be able to achieve what I have now without these support.

I also want to thank Liwei for coming, and thanks all other friends who supported me.

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Then last week I went to San Jose for conference. I learned a lot and it was great meeting new people over there.

Thank you!

Nuo

Today is the last part of my birthday, a dinner outside with some friends. We had dinner at 0/8 seafood grill. It’s my first time to try this restaurant and it’s overall ok.

It’s a great chance to get together with Kevin and Joseph. And I appreciate the gift which is a nice piece of art. I like it a lot.

This dinner concludes my 2009 birthday. Actually this is the first year I’ve celebrated my birthday for 3 consecutive days. What I want to say is, whether or not it’s birthday is not really important, what important is the wonderful memories left, which I believe will last forever. :-)

Nuo

Today is my birthday in Pacific Standard Time. And this is the day to spend exclusively with Jin.

Jin prepared a nice cake and designed and drew the cake image by herself.

She also made a very nice card to me by hand. You may not be able to imagine how much work was involved in making this card. I may show you in a later post. But this is not just drawing. It's truely a piece of art, and full of love.

That’s not all. I also had a very meaningful gift. It’s a music box. Why meaningful? Sorry, you have to figure this out by yourself.

These are the greatest gifts I received. They are not something expensive, but they’re better, and simply priceless. I had a wonderful second day of my 2009 birthday series. :-D

In Beijing standard time, today is my birthday. And I got my birthday card from Andy World Club right on time. :-)

Yesterday I attended the Japanese Student Association’s semi formal dance after work. It was a successful event and here are the pictures.

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Took the wrong bus and got to this bus stop and randomly saw this memo and liked it. Enjoy.

I’m in the middle of my two-week vacation. I can’t travel out of Seattle because Jin needs to go to school (and traveling alone does not make sense). But I did enjoy the vacation so far because I had a great relaxation by going to great nearby places and having great foods. I’m also taking the time to seriously read some books that I’ve always wanted to read. :-)

The UW is not only academically excellent, but also has a very pretty campus! :-)

谷歌（Google中国）提供了一个很棒的音乐服务(www.g.cn/music)，中国大陆用户可以在线收听、下载免费的正版音乐。如果您以前没有使用正版的原因是价格，那么现在是时候开始支持正版了。使用正版是每个人应该做的事情，当然这不只限制与音乐。我认为谷歌的音乐服务不仅允许用户获得高质量的免费音乐，更为中国大陆音乐产品的正版化做了很大的贡献。

谷歌黑板报的相关文章：http://googlechinablog.com/2009/03/blog-post_30.html。

Today we visited Snoqualmie Fall and Salish Lodge and Spa in Snoqualmie, WA. This was my second time there. Jin needed to take some pictures for one of her computer art / digital media classes, so we decided to go there.

I uploaded some of the pictures we took in the photo album.

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Have a nice day!

Nuo Yan