so much has happened and changed since the last blog post!
i haven’t had the time or motivation to blog properly cause i’ve been pretty caught up in all sorts of things.
the chinese new year dinner at cornell… was boring. zzz a bunch of people i didn’t know, and the few people i knew were busy catching up with other people. :P left early cause my ride – this sg girl at grad sch in IC – was leaving early. her cousin’s at cornell doing masters. he was from ntu mae. and he stayed in hall 9 blk 47. like O.O (if you don’t know, that’s my block back home)
i went boston last weekend with jianmin and sheryl. (thus the quote above, it’s by Thomas Gold Appleton. i don’t exactly know what it means.) it was quite a last min decision. stupidly left my memory stick in hall, so pictures’ll have to wait till jianmin and sheryl give them to me. it was quite fun lah, but i think there’s not THAT much to do in boston cept eat. on the first day, we 3 walked the freedom trail, it was nice seeing the stuff, but we were historically clueless – and boston’s a historical city. so it seemed like quite pointless. we were damn tired from all the walking though. :P then we had cny dinner at MIT :D cos wenxian (jianmin’s friend who sort of hosted us while we were there. and he is also the friend of many of my other friends :P) is the sing soc cochair there, so he invited us to the cny dinner. we had to pick sheryl’s friend though, so we missed the good food :P and we walked the same route there and back like 3 times. once to get there, once to pick sheryl’s friends up, and once to get back. :P (so that’s 4 times of the same hallway – although i distinctly remember 6. i can’t remember why 2 more times though).
i went to stay at layhoon’s place for the night! and it was a nice place :D
second day we had lunch at legals with wenxian and justin (sheryl’s friend). which was fantasically yummy. i ordered the same thing as jianmin and the whole table decided ours was definitely the best :D loads of good stuffs man. i was STUFFED full. so yummy!! then we toured MIT, and MIT has geek pranks. google MIT hacks for more :P
boston was fun cos of the company. when i go back during summer (no one i know will be around i think…), i’ll check the stuff out before i go so i know what the historical thingys mean. otherwise i think 2 days to explore boston was actually quite ok. we just didn’t have time for harvard – but harvard places are apparently hard/expensive to get into without harvard friends. kudos to jianmin who had to drive us all the way to boston and back (that’s 6 hours each way) cause his two driver friends backed out on him, and sheryl can’t drive. i didn’t have my license – otherwise i can drive in ny state :P oh and jianmin also got his first parking ticket – not for not paying parking fees, but for parking next to a hydrant no one saw :X
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Fred Allen
then the last week was spent catching up on what i didn’t do over the fun weekend. bleah.
i went target on thursday to pick up stuff for my theatre design module, and i bought a small kettle! it’s so cute! will take pictures of it later. it’s too late now, i just wanna finish blogging :P and i also bought a whole ton of stuff that will probably make me happy for the next few weeks or so. had a hell of a problem carrying everything back. luckily the bus here (while long) stops everywhere so i hardly had to walk :P
on friday, i went for an indian buffet lunch with jianmin and dawn (who were nice enough to ask me along). jianmin got scared and paid for parking. LOLS :D the lunch was yummy. then cause dawn’s learning driving (and here you don’t have lessons, you learn from someone else who has a license :P), she drove us to wegman’s then walmart. i picked up packets of stuff i could make hot drinks with – green tea, english tea and cocoa – but i haven’t tried them yet.
then we went to the mall, and i went target again. dawn wanted a standing lamp. i wanted the $5 pillow i saw the day before but couldn’t carry back cos’ no car. :P i ended up getting a slightly more expensive pillow that was much higher so i won’t need to stack pillows up. and it IS comfy and nice. i feel happy getting it. it is a good investment lah. i’m glad i paid a bit more. was going to get 2 pillow cases for $5 so i can use the other pillow when i read or something but i decided on green sheets that were $10 instead. then i have an extra pillow case and pretty sheets! so now i have pink and green sheets, both of which i probably intend to bring home and use in hall cos plain sheets are so pretty lah. and the green’s super sweet. will post up pictures of my room tmr!
today was fairly antisocial. i think excluding thankyous and excusemes at the dining hall, i said only like 1 line to a proper person today. i hung around in my room and my roommate’s home for the weekend. thank goodness for online chatmates :D
oh and the white glue here is fantastic. i can paste like edges of cardboard to another surface. i haven’t tried in singapore – but i don’t think the white glue i had there was that good. i remember having other incidents where my white glue didn’t work. i’ll post up a picture of the funky white glue (or rather, what it can do) tmr too. i am, to say the least, impressed.
okay photos tomorrow. it’s late now!! going to sleep (:
