Monday, March 9, 2009
Napoleonic Fusilier-Grenadier Officer
Over the past two weeks, I painted up the Officer for the Fusilier-Grenadier. Here are two pictures.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Napoleonic Fusilier-Grenadier
A while back, I thought the figures of Armies in Plastic Inc. might be too toy like. So, I never bought any of their products until last year, by chance, I purchased a box of their 2nd Foreign Regiment-Infantry Regiment d'Isenbourg Voltigeur - 1812. Here is my interpetation or painting conversion of one of its figures to a Fusilier-Grenadier. The job is not completed yet, but I want to see how it looks in picture. I think it turns out better than expected.
Some statistics on foreign students in the U.S.
According to the October-December 2008 General Summary Quarterly Review of the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) managed by the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), South Korea is the country with the highest number (110,083) of active students in the U.S. This is followed by India and then China and Japan.
The leading major for foreign students is Business (with 145,873 foreign students studying in this area). Engineering comes second place and Computer & Information Science & Support Services is only the fourth popular area of studies. Health Professions & Related Clinical Services is in the fifth place with less than 40,000 foreign students.
California (122,156), New York (91,820), Texas (54,144), Massachusetts (36,553), Illinois (32,022) and Flordia (32,612) have the highest number of active foreign students, making up 51% of all active students in the U.S.
Of all the active foreign students in the U.S., 69% of them are enrolled in post secondary academic programs, with over 200,000 foreign students in Bachelor's programs, about 175,000 in Master's programs, and about 110,000 in Doctorate programs.
As of December 31, 2008, there were 9,609 DHS (ICE) approved schools and 1,434 J-1 (Academic Student) Exchange Visitor programs. Of ICE approved schools, there were 690 in New York State and 1,203 in California.
Cornell University (3,627), Houston Community College System (2,976), Santa Monica College (2,924), are the top three F-1 and M-1 approved schools with the most number of active foreign students.
The City University of New York (11,621), University of Southern California (6,549), Purdue University (5,770), and Columbia University (5,605) are the top four F-1 approved schools with the highest number of active foreign students.
The leading major for foreign students is Business (with 145,873 foreign students studying in this area). Engineering comes second place and Computer & Information Science & Support Services is only the fourth popular area of studies. Health Professions & Related Clinical Services is in the fifth place with less than 40,000 foreign students.
California (122,156), New York (91,820), Texas (54,144), Massachusetts (36,553), Illinois (32,022) and Flordia (32,612) have the highest number of active foreign students, making up 51% of all active students in the U.S.
Of all the active foreign students in the U.S., 69% of them are enrolled in post secondary academic programs, with over 200,000 foreign students in Bachelor's programs, about 175,000 in Master's programs, and about 110,000 in Doctorate programs.
As of December 31, 2008, there were 9,609 DHS (ICE) approved schools and 1,434 J-1 (Academic Student) Exchange Visitor programs. Of ICE approved schools, there were 690 in New York State and 1,203 in California.
Cornell University (3,627), Houston Community College System (2,976), Santa Monica College (2,924), are the top three F-1 and M-1 approved schools with the most number of active foreign students.
The City University of New York (11,621), University of Southern California (6,549), Purdue University (5,770), and Columbia University (5,605) are the top four F-1 approved schools with the highest number of active foreign students.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
新年快樂
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
A New Beginning
It's a new beginning and a historical moment. OK, now that we have finished with the cheering, when do we start making changes? The honeymoon will soon be over, let's make the best of it and do some real work.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
A New Year
Yes, it is a new year and people kept asking me about my new year resolutions. I thought for 2 seconds and declared that I want health, peace and tranquility. What more can one ask for?
I have been down with a nasty cold for the past two weeks. On the morning of first dayof being sick, I thought I could tough it out and insisted on getting back to work. I regretted my decision the moment I got in onto the subway train. I was lucky enough to get a seat, but no matter which way I sat, my body was aching all over. I couldn't keep my eyes open and dozed off on my ride to work. Back in the office, I couldn't concentrate on my work and had to put my head down on my desk. I was having a fever and burning up inside. I sent out the few emails that I must sent, made the necessary telephone calls and decided that I should head back home when I still have the strength to do it.
Back home, I downed a few pills, dranked plenty of water and orange juice, put on three layers of clothing and buried myself under three layers of blanket and went to sleep. I had nightmares, came in and out of sleeps and 2 hours later found myself dranged in sweat. I pulled myself out of bed and stripped down to towel off. I changed my clothes and again put on three layers, drank two glasses of water and went back to bed. An hour later, again I found myself in sweat. I got up, stripped down, toweled off, changed clothes, and went back to bed again. After three rounds of sleep, I noticed that my body temperature had dropped and my fever had gone. Other than the sore from lying in bed for hours, the pain had also gone. This technique has never failed to get rid of a fever.
With the fever gone, I still had to battle the coughing and running nose for the next week and a half. The off the counter medicines do not seem to be too effective. A friend suggested that I should visit the doctor, but an appointment is a month away. Typical Manhatthan doctor. When I told the receptionist that I have been sick and should be examined soon, I was told to contact the hospital emergency room if it was a real emergency. Otherwise, I was informed that I should take the off counter medicines.
Well, I have been a bit better now. My nose does not run that much and I cough less, except when I am working at the office facing that big window that has a wide gap.
So, last week I attempted to paint a few figures. I wanted to paint the French Hussars from Strelets. The figures are nice even though the horse furnitures are wrong. I didn't mind too much.
I was hoping to paint them to depict the Second Hussars. I like the trumpeter figure very much and selected it to be the first figure to be painted. I used the Andre Jouineau French Hussars book as reference and the figure below was my almost finished product.
It was only then that I checked with a color reference on a web site and my Ospray book, and realized that the blue should be a sky blue and not a royal or dark blue. You can imagine how frustrated I was. So, after a few coughing fits and cursings, I decided to repaint the blue into a sky blue. Below is the result after the correction. The figure is not done yet. I still need to add in and touch up on a few details.
I have been down with a nasty cold for the past two weeks. On the morning of first dayof being sick, I thought I could tough it out and insisted on getting back to work. I regretted my decision the moment I got in onto the subway train. I was lucky enough to get a seat, but no matter which way I sat, my body was aching all over. I couldn't keep my eyes open and dozed off on my ride to work. Back in the office, I couldn't concentrate on my work and had to put my head down on my desk. I was having a fever and burning up inside. I sent out the few emails that I must sent, made the necessary telephone calls and decided that I should head back home when I still have the strength to do it.
Back home, I downed a few pills, dranked plenty of water and orange juice, put on three layers of clothing and buried myself under three layers of blanket and went to sleep. I had nightmares, came in and out of sleeps and 2 hours later found myself dranged in sweat. I pulled myself out of bed and stripped down to towel off. I changed my clothes and again put on three layers, drank two glasses of water and went back to bed. An hour later, again I found myself in sweat. I got up, stripped down, toweled off, changed clothes, and went back to bed again. After three rounds of sleep, I noticed that my body temperature had dropped and my fever had gone. Other than the sore from lying in bed for hours, the pain had also gone. This technique has never failed to get rid of a fever.
With the fever gone, I still had to battle the coughing and running nose for the next week and a half. The off the counter medicines do not seem to be too effective. A friend suggested that I should visit the doctor, but an appointment is a month away. Typical Manhatthan doctor. When I told the receptionist that I have been sick and should be examined soon, I was told to contact the hospital emergency room if it was a real emergency. Otherwise, I was informed that I should take the off counter medicines.
Well, I have been a bit better now. My nose does not run that much and I cough less, except when I am working at the office facing that big window that has a wide gap.
So, last week I attempted to paint a few figures. I wanted to paint the French Hussars from Strelets. The figures are nice even though the horse furnitures are wrong. I didn't mind too much.
I was hoping to paint them to depict the Second Hussars. I like the trumpeter figure very much and selected it to be the first figure to be painted. I used the Andre Jouineau French Hussars book as reference and the figure below was my almost finished product.
It was only then that I checked with a color reference on a web site and my Ospray book, and realized that the blue should be a sky blue and not a royal or dark blue. You can imagine how frustrated I was. So, after a few coughing fits and cursings, I decided to repaint the blue into a sky blue. Below is the result after the correction. The figure is not done yet. I still need to add in and touch up on a few details.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
做冬
Yesterday, for the first time, I replaced the screen on the screen door on my own. I followed the instructions on the screen package and, after a few attempts, I managed to get the screen and the plastic tube into the tiny gap. The finished work was far from perfect, but I think it was a good first try.
A friend reminded me that today is the first day of Winter and is 做冬 for the Chinese. It's happens to be my niece Victoria's birthday too. Happy birthday Victoria.
Oh, I didn't have a chance to 吃湯圓 and I like the ones that are sweet inside. But I did make Cantonese soup myself. It turned out better than I expected.
A friend reminded me that today is the first day of Winter and is 做冬 for the Chinese. It's happens to be my niece Victoria's birthday too. Happy birthday Victoria.
Oh, I didn't have a chance to 吃湯圓 and I like the ones that are sweet inside. But I did make Cantonese soup myself. It turned out better than I expected.
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