inside aebrahim’s head

你好，今天我去医院因为我要给我的大学一个 health certificate . 然后我来家吃饭.正在我用 Firefox 谢这个 post . 现在我没有很多的朋友为我美上课.

I purchased a new router on Sunday. As luck would have it, the router interface was also in Chinese as well! Luckily I’ve tinkered around with routers enough that this didn’t really set me back during initial setup. However, at the end of the day I got tired of trying to decipher (guess) the Chinese eqivalents of IPSec, PPTP, UPnP, and log messages, so I caved in and flashed it with firmware from the D-Link UK website (my DI-604 is a hardware revision D1 model, which only D-Link Europe and China support). Now my router is happily operating in English mode. I would have preferred a Linksys BEFSR41, but it was a good 65% more expensive than the DI-604, which was only CN¥480.

A friend sent me a link to another friend’s post about protesters at the RNC who are being arrested by the NYPD for doing pretty much nothing. It’s worth a look, since none of the major news outlets are picking up on it. I know I’m in China and the police here are known for being somewhat totalitarian, but it’s not like the American police are much better.

My first class at BLCU is tomorrow at 9:30am in Building Number 1. Looking forward to it. Right now I’m about to head over to the hospital to get my ‘alien health certificate’ that says I’m not a mental patient and don’t have any nasty diseases. Then, at some point in the next few days I’ll need to get my ‘alien residence permit’.