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Shang ge xingqiliu, wo qu kan le liang ge dianying – Casablanca he World Trade Center. Liang ge dou hen haokan. Wo zai Stanford de theater kan le Casablanca, keshi zai Steven’s Creek Cinema 22 kan le World Trade Center. Diyi, wo yi ge ren qu; dier, wo gen Matt yiqi qu.

Casablanca was a fun movie. I liked the story and the setting, I could understand the characters, and the end wasn’t entirely predictable (I sort of knew what was coming, but I kept flipping options, and it was nice to see it all played out). As an added bonus, the movie has good music, the humor is not too oppressive, and there were a lot of famous actors in it.

World Trade Center, on the other hand, is not a movie I’d recommend to people who are looking to go to a movie to be entertained. I think it could probably have been entertaining if it hadn’t actually happened. As it is, I felt like the director did a good job just telling the story of these two men. It was certainly a view that I had never heard/seen of 9/11, and I’m glad I went. If you go, just take it in and appreciate it as something to remember. Perhaps this is how WWII vets feel about Pearl Harbor films – I don’t know; this is just the first movie I’ve seen that relates to a significant event that I can really remember actually happening.

On Sunday, I didn’t actually do much. I mostly stayed in the apartment and slept or talked to people. I did get some work done on my website, though, which is good. Now the photo map will automatically set the correct length of time to display, and the map index page looks a lot better and does input validation. The last thing I did before going to bed last night was to submit my resume on Google’s job page.

This afternoon, I got two emails and a call from people at Google looking to hear more about me and possibly get together before I leave for the school year again for an interview or something. I’m not really sure yet, since they were a little vague, but I’m still excited. I think this is a really good time for me to check them out, since I’m Silicon Valley for another few weeks. Oh, one other thing sort of related is that I signed up to go to the Churchill Club Startup Success 2006 seminar this Thursday. FindLaw even offered to pay my way, which is awesome. I’m hoping to learn a lot and possibly meet some interesting people there.

Finally, I had an interesting day today outside of the Google stuff. Work was a little frustrating, but at least I learned a lot more about NetKernel – I’ve heard so much about it that I’m happy we finally had a chance to see what it is and a little bit of how it helps the company. I’m not sure I really understand why NetKernel is FindLaw’s environment of choice, but I can see how it’s useful.

Finally, I tried to sell my car to Steven’s Creek Mitsubishi after work. Dad called them and talked to the used car manager there who said he was interested, but he really wasn’t. I could tell that he thought I was just wasting his time today. He also tried to insinuate that I was just trying to hide an accident and get rid of the car. I don’t get it; there are no accidents on this car’s history report. I kind of feel like he was just wasting my time today, and I don’t know why he wanted me to go over if he wasn’t interested.

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Edit: Sorry about the weird toneless Chinese pinyin at the beginning of this entry. I’m not sure why I did that, it just came out when I sat down to write…