So this morning I took the bus to school at 7:26 am (yes, I know… *sigh*) and a few stops down the road from my place, these two wild turkeys tried to board the bus.

No this isn’t the beginning to a really bad joke. This woman from Hong Kong (the accents are a dead giveaway) said the turkeys followed her from halfway down the street all the way to the bus stop. They didn’t

Shouldn’t have worn that floral ah-soh cheongsam, shoudn’t've she. And I bet the rose-scented perfume didn’t help. Who would’ve thought turkeys go crazy over roses?

Rural life is da bomb.

There’s a summer school in session this fortnight, and I just spent the day learning parallel programming using MPI. the amazing thing is that my parallel processes often acknowledge the data as being received before the data are acknowledged to have been sent in the first place. Even in asynchronous data transfer mode. Einstein must be turning over in his grave.*

I can’t wait for Thursday. I don’t know if I can survive one more day of sweltering 38°C + 80% humidity weather.
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