To-do list

1. Finish writing and sending Christmas cards
2. Withdraw lots of money before going to east coast
3. Pack
4. Decide if I have time in June to go Europe
5. Decide on a RI and PI/ project
6. Decide on whether to change bank
7. Read about Boston+ New York City
8. Research about online Kumon
9. Decide on my timetable for next term
10. Get a job and SS
11. Get a driver's license

Been MIA-ing for a while. Moved to my aunt's place for the holidays. Huge coincidence that her family decided to move to San Diego. So I'm staying in her place here in the high-class neighbourhood. Internet connection hasn't been up till few days back, that explains my MIA. My parents just left yesterday with my 2-year-old cousin. Missing them already.

Vegas. Spectacular. That's really the word to describe it. After miles of nothingness in the desert, (it's called a desert but there isn't much sand, just lots of desert shrubs and weirdo trees), a city of bright lights appears. We arrived at around 4, the sun was setting then (it sets at 4.40pm) and the city was dyed in gold by the sun's rays. Really beautiful. Took a while to find our Aladdin hotel, park and check in. The Desert Passage (Aladdin's shopping area) was really Arabian like, with painted sky and lights that makes the place look permanently at evening time and it makes you feel that you're walking in an Arab street. The shops all had the Arab domes. Anyway, we went to look for cheap and good buffets that Vegas is so famous for.

Couldn't find any buffets which are cheap and good enough, or we were just looking in the wrong places, so we settled for a 16.99 buffet. Filled myself up with food and lots of dessert. The crepe was great. =) Then we walked up the strip to TI to watch the free pirates show. Watched the huge Bellagio fountains on the way. Walk walk walk, in the cold, ok lah, not that cold, about 2 degrees C. Went to TI and saw the place was dark and rather deserted... Checked out the sign and it said the show's dark from 10-23 Dec for maintainence. dots....

Ok nvm, let's go on to the next free show, which is at Circus Circus. Walk walk walk.. reached there, found the place, sat down, waited for the show to start. And then we saw people who sat down leaving one by one, and we wondered why. Then this security guard came over and said the last show was over 10 min ago and told us to clear out of the area. double dots....

Next morning, had brunch at a food court. Haha, too full from the previous evening. Then went to the Venetian. Woohoo, an indoor canal. Vegas really splurges on water. It's in the middle of the desert and there's water everywhere, huge fountains, a water volcano, an indoor canal.. Saw a guy in a Haagen Daaz icecream suit giving out $1 off coupons for Haagen Daaz, took one, he thinks we're Japanese. And realised that the Haagen Daaz listed the prices of all their items higher by $1. Cheaterbugs!! Anyway, we went to Caesor's Palace to take pictures of the Roman architecture and walked through their shopping area and saw all the brand names.. I wonder who shops there.. Then off to the other end of the strip to Luxor to wow at the huge pyramid, mummies and the Sphinx. Then went to Tropicana to catch the free air show. And guess what? The show's dark till Christmas. Triple dots...

Darn sian by the time, so we decided to go see a paid show. Wanted to see a Cirque de Soleil show, and guess what? shows for the night are either dark or sold out. dots again.... Sian, went to Vegas and didn't catch a single show?? Anyway we caught a glimpse of the lazy MGM lion sleeping under a rock.

So went to Rio to see the other airshow. And phew, this one's on. And it's good. Dancers and floats on the ceiling. And they were throwing out free necklaces. Very Christmasy. Then went to Circus Circus again to see the circus acts. The acts are great man, they're so professional, wonder why they're not charging people to see them. Saw the water volcano erupt on the way back.

Gambled a total of $1 and lost a total of $1. Vegas is a great place, just go at the right time. If you go the period before Christmas, hotels will be really cheap (3 of us stayed in a huge room with a huge toilet for $50/night) but beware of dark shows.

Can't believe a term's already over. Can't believe my parents are here. Can't believe I'm staying in a Del Mar apartment. Can't believe I ate prawn noodles today. Can't believe I'm going Vegas tomorrow. Soon, very soon, I'll be freezing on the east coast. And very soon, Joanne's going to come to SD. And soon school will start again and I'll have to worry about getting the perfect timetable. But now, let me relax and enjoy our roadtrip to Vegas, and be wowed by Vegas. =D Don't think I'll be taking photos cos my dad's around and he's THE pro photographer with the film camera.

Thanks peeps for the compliments on the photos. The sunset is beautiful here, that's how I manage to get beautiful pictures. And you can see sunset every day here. Almost every day.

Had a super hectic afternoon yesterday. Trying to pick 3 groups of people arriving at 3 different terminals at LAX with 1h of each other. And only 1 group had a phone. Pretty amazed at how smooth things went though. =) Really wished that LAX had a 1800-542-4422 phone thing that Changi has, where you can call and find out when the flight's arriving. So surprised that they don't have it.

Sushi on the Rock

"Sushi On The Rock defines the new era of sushi in Southern California. With its rocking scene, fresh fish and sushi masters busy creating works of art, this restaurant established itself eight years ago as THE place for sushi in La Jolla Village! Voted Best Sushi, 5 Years in a Row, La Jolla Light."


Green tea ice-cream with strawberries and raspberries and blueberries. Yum


Sake. Sweet and warm.


Waiting to eat The Don.


The Don. Totally not what I thought it would be but it was good. Very good. Some raw fish on rice and prawn, crab meat, asparagus, avocado in the seaweed. And a dip that's really weird. Some Thai sauce kind of thing, sour and slightly spicy.

Black's beach continued

This is what I went to the beach to see.


Beautiful, isn't it?

Paragliding

Pacific ocean and seaweed

Birds in the water

Just did a blog surf. Went Enping's blog, saw all his pictures with people studying in US and realise that I know so many of them. The world becomes smaller when I'm here. I didn't know Stanford has the biggest campus in US and I only learned that Tiger Woods was from Stanford when I visited Stanford in September. So strange to think of Enping as a senior, and then he meets up with guys who are in their freshmen year and I realise that those guys are his seniors. Weird. Then somehow surfed a few more blogs and ended up in Ruijie's blog. And he was talking about RI gep and DHS gep and so on.. And he had pictures of Stanford and Berkeley too. Didn't know berkley has parking lots reserved for Nobel laureates. Wonder how is it possible for everyone to travel to everywhere in the middle of the term.

My roommate has just discovered the marvels of webcam and voice conferencing, even though I Skype my parents every week and Festoon with bao and donk quite often this week. She's super excited to see her ex-crush and speak to him. He doesn't have a mic and she doesn't have a cam. Actually, among the 10 people in the suite, I'm the only one who uses a webcam and talk (really speak) to people online. Is our technology more advanced? Or is it just catalysed by us being away from home?

Black's beach

That's me

That's a desert plant, some sort of cactus.

Remember I said the nearest beach is a nude beach? Some naked people playing volleyball

Nice view

I have to climb all the way up to go back to school. Looks like a mountain. Can see tiny people climbing up and down.

There's a thin line. Very thin one between studying together and helping each other and one person studying everything and feeding the other everything.

Nvm. Here's more photos.

Making thanksgiving cards for old people in old folks homes

Card that I made. Not very artistic lah.

Another card I made.

Thanksgiving dinner with Still Thoughts Association.

Looking through the Karaoke list. They have really new songs like Jay Chou's new album. Wonder how they are so updated.

Horton Plaza

Why is this arrangement so strange today? Anyway, this is Horton Plaza, the equivalence to Taka in Singapore according to Dennis. It is a very touristsy place, like Orchard is, but there are lots of locals too.


Hot dog on a stick shop



Levi's shop



Letters hanging off from nowhere



Christmas tree



Ben and Jerry's

Torrey Pines Beach

Can't believe myself. Just lost 40 marks on O Chem cos I totally remembered this concept wrong. Bleah. I didn't even lose 40 marks with my 2 midterms combined.. Peter Vollhardt, the guy who wrote my chem textbook was here today and gave a lecture on aromatic compounds, a lot of people brought the textbook for him to autograph. "He's a very good speaker, but you might not understand what he's going to talk about." My chem prof said that. Haha.
Anyway, continuation of my photo uploading.


Sea water


Surfer dude


Cousin and me. I look short and fat.


Nice big waves + my cousin


This is a picture of the sand. You see the glittering things in the sand? I suspect they're gold. As in Au the element. So if there's a way to separate the gold from the sand, you'll be rich.

Blogger is strange. It only lets me post 5 photos a day. Will post more another day then.

Studying for finals. Yup, 10 weeks have past. A full term has passed. Have I learnt much? I don't think so. Sadly. 10 weeks is too short to go in depth, especially since the first 2 weeks is spent doing revision. Brain's not functioning well enough now to blog coherently, frontal cortex is tired. Hippocampus, amygdala, rhinal cortex, medial thalamus have been working hard today. Did I even get the structures right?

Had a discussion on politics over brunch at IHOP yesterday. We talk about the weirdest things over food. Usually it's some bio probs or some argument/ bickering over small things. Now it's politics. Learned quite a lot, about people in power and about education systems. I will want to be around to see the results of the bet between the 2 guys. =)

I think the language in Singapore will be a great topic for linguists to study. From what linguists have discovered so far, children have an innate ability to learn language, well we all know that don't we? We have already seen the Great Experiment (experiment to find out how language originated) being carried out and got results from it. A community of people without a language will develop a form of communication. 1st generation might speak a pidgin (a mixture of 2 languages), if there's some form of language input from 2 sources. Language in Singapore (I mean Singlish, but Singlish has a derogative connotation to it, so I'll just call it Language), is obviously a pidgin. Mixture of English with Malay, Chinese, Hokkien.. Linguists also found out that 2nd generation speakers, people with a pidgin as a first language will creolise the language, meaning that they will create more language rules, more grammar, make the mode of communication more like a fully functional language. Language in Singapore has been around for quite a few generations, it should have developed its own form of grammar. Is there going to be a day when Singlish will be a new language? Is it right for the govt to promote learning of "proper languages"? After all, English wasn't thought to be a proper language before, Latin was the only proper Western language. If there is a decent language environment for children with correct grammar and vocab for both languages the children are going to learn, can they learn both languages perfectly? 40 years down the road, I wonder what Singaporeans will speak..

Thanks people for the compliments on that banana thing.

Birch aquarium

lionfish

Nemo's home. Look! There's Dory.

Tuna. The fish I mean. With my uncle, aunt and cousins. Small kid is 2 years old.

Deep sea fish and plants

Tail of a gigantic grey whale. I caught it as it's flapping its tail. Haha, actually it's just a fountain outside the aquarium.

And I guess you saw the jellyfish on the page.

Been watching many concerts lately.. Pretty much out every night, mainly because I'm not in the mood to study, even though I need to, and I'm don't want to stay in the dorm.

Chamber ensembles. Some were really good, some really bad. Was talking about how easy it is for strings to go out of tune, cos some of the string players were really really out. Then watched this Tibetan music thing today, and the guy played the Tibet erhu perfectly in tune and he danced while playing. I'm impressed. There was this violinist at the chamber concert, sy's classmate's roommate, he played a Paganini piece with a guitarist and he was so fantastic, the piece is technically extremely demanding, fast, lots of grace notes everywhere, pizz, spiccato, double stops, and he did all of them perfectly. Perfect enough for me at least. Highly enjoyable watching and listening to him.

Should be studying. But really sleepy for no good reason, I'm sleeping a lot, maybe not getting enough REM, slept for 8h last night, and took a 1h nap just now, but I'm still sleepy.. Anyway, I'm changing my studying schedule, decided to stop wasting time going for lects, and study and go for office hrs instead in the day, and rest, play, sleep, eat at night. For the next 2 days at least.. haha

A series of unfortunate events

1. Zip from bag fell off
2. Thumbdrive disappeared (still missing)
3. Sandal broke
4. Specs broke

I don't remember myself being this destructive when i'm in Singapore..

Show off my banana baked rice. Haha. As usual, my style of making cooked food (can't call this cooking) is to dump everything together and hopefully it taste good. This does. More because of the bananas than because of the cheese.

I forgot to say. I saw my first wild rabbit in UCSD yesterday. in ERC. Would have taken a photo but it was too dark.

Thanksgiving day
Not an extremely exciting Thanksgiving. In fact, not exciting at all. Went to the beach at Torrey Pines. The sand there glitters, the water there glitters, there are specks of glitter in the water and sand. I suspect it's gold. People did come to California to dig for gold right? My little cousin is extremely terrified of getting dirtied by sand or sea water, wonder who taught him that. Didn't do much.. Went for lunch, then did some grocery shopping, bought crabs, went to someone's house and cooked the crabs. Oh yeah, toured the area where my aunt's family rented an apartment. Looks quite nice, good location. Played with the kid while they made food. Food was good. No turkey, no pie, but there's curry chicken, pork ribs, coconut soup (first time i tried this, it's good), veg, crabs, mantou + meat (forgot the exact name of this thing). And cake for dessert. Hee.

That's all tonight. It's only 11pm, but I'm tired. Probably from making that owl just now. Will post a picture of my owl when I'm done with it, if I'm done with it any time soon.

Haven't laughed so hard for ages. Hahahahahaha. And it's really hard to laugh while eating a huge 10 cents worth of watermelon, trying not to spurt out everything. Don't know why, but was just so tickled by Sangyu and Fong Ming and Desmond cutting and eating watermelon over the sink. Dinner with the Singaporeans are so highly entertaining. Have I said before? I feel more "at home" (I mean feel like what I feel like when I'm at home, not necessarily more familiar or more comfortable) with them than with my friends in Singapore.. I speak more Chinese Chinese now than I did with my friends in Singapore.. Maybe cos there's Sangyu and Wan yue and Kenny and other visitors, and maybe because I'm getting confused over the many different accents I'm supposed to put on when I speak to different groups of people. Anyway they're a group of people in which I can hide when I want to and not get forgotten, meaning when I have something to say, they'll listen. Actually I'm quite surprised when I say something and people pay attention to it. Haha, I don't usually make much sense.

It's cold today. supposedly 5 degrees Celcius now outside. Wasn't that cold in the day, though weather report said highest temp was 20C. That's quite low for a San Diego highest temp. Didn't feel that cold because of the big sun. Finally went to the beach to study today. See, I didn't just say it, I actually went to the beach. Walked down the paved road from La Jolla Farms road or sth like that, walked to Blacks beach and came back up from the trail at Torrey Pines Gilderport. Happy with my exercise of the day/ week. Didn't do much studying.. more like sit and enjoy the sun and scenery. The scenery is fantastic minus off the naked Ah-beis around. Had to choose a spot away from the nude men. I had my camera and took lots of nice photos. As I was leaving, this naked ah-bei walked across my path. I was aiming my camera at one of the parachutes/ gliders. And the Ah-bei started talking to me.. "They don't seem to stay up today. Even though there's wind.." Blah blah. The whole time I was giving 1 word answers and thinking, what is this Ah-bei doing? You want me to take a photo of you is it? Anyway manage to shake him off and start my climb up that trail. Alanna was right, that trail will be a mess if it rained. It was dry today and wasn't that easy a climb, I'm just glad I didn't go down from there, even though the trail is much shorter than the paved road, it's going to take me forever to get down there. Oh yeah, my sandals broke. China stuff can't be trusted. Anyway, I was on the cliff, waiting for the sun to set, the Ah-bei climbed up and smiled at me when he left.. erps.

Will post photos soon. Will blog about Thanksgiving hols soon too.

Quote of the day:
"Watermelon is made of fruit, not vegetable."

Tried making brownies in the microwave. Failed. Made too many substitutions to the original recipe. Tasted too much of butter, not enough of chocolate, and was overcooked, ie hard. Between biscuit and brownie. Will try again next week, with more modifications and substitutions haha.

Took a music theory test.. very basic theory, so basic that i don't know how to do. Questions were like those in my Grade 5 fundamentals, which I haven't touched for 3 years. Anyway, think the reason why I took the test was more for fun than getting into the musical acoustics class, cos looking at the current situation, there's almost no chance of me getting the classes I want next quarter, which means that I won't have the time to take musical acoustics next term..

Which brings me to my next point, did I say how messed up my next term schedule is? I think I did. I'm no. 340+ on the waitlist for genetics. The class size is 400. Ultimate man. Don't think there's any chance of me getting into the class. And if I try for another class, I'll have a timetable that either starts at 7.30am or end at 8pm on MWF. Haiz.. shouldn't blog about such messed up stuff.

International week fair. It was fun, though kind of hot in the sun. (All the people in other US/UK schools will be bashing me up at this point.) Temperature is still in 20+ degrees Celcius. The Italians sang opera, the Koreans took photos, the Singaporeans spoke Singlish.

烦

烦死了，每天回到家就要烦这些琐琐碎碎的事。所以我尽量不回家，尽量在外头读书，不读书也在外面泡着。烦什么呢？都是些小事，一些在短期内解决不了的事情，非要把我烦死后才能解决。学费交得乱七八糟，到现在Orientation fees 还没交，我已经不管了，就相信Astar, 相信它能在未来的4天内交了这笔债，不要再让我去跟Billing office 吵个不亦乐乎。然后还有纽约的事，令一个让人头疼的事。当初就不应该那么积极，答应去纽约，应该留在SD或者去ulu 的肯萨斯城冬眠去。现在买了张极贵的机票，住宿还是个未知数。跟我一起去的人的计划又订不下来，一会儿变一下，让我也不知所措，最要命的是这纽约的破酒店在新年时期都被订满了。怎么办？

从纽约回SD回得早也是件好事。至少让我吃饱了，睡足了，再搬家，开学。开学了，问题还是一大堆。我现在只报上了一个课，其他的不是不让我报就是满了，把我放上Waitlist。开学后还要继续搞这些烦人的 admin stuff. 不知道对我的school registration 有没有影响。要是有一天收到一封信说“You have been dropped out of the school because you have not enrolled in the minimum number of classes necessary” 我就又有好玩的了。

Did I tell you the big news? I can't find my thumbdrive. Darn. And you know what else? I dropped my camera, and it rattles now when I shake it. double darn. 烦人的事，迟早都要解决，不如早点解决。。我只想倒头大睡，希望当我睡醒后一切都解决了，我又可以当一个轻轻松松的学生，每天只需要上学，考几个A，回家睡觉。人生要是这么简单就好了。

忽然间好想回家。家又在哪里？家是在夜深人静时可以痛哭而没人理的地方，家是在当天快要塌的时候唯一的避难所，家是在当我想一个人静一静的时候第一个可去的地方，家是我想要人陪时第一个去的地方。家人是一群不管我做出什么傻事后都还会接受我的人，家人是一群当我跟他们在一起的时候，我可以舒舒服服地作自己。我的家在哪里？这里是家吗？好朋友可以算家人吗？

明天眼睛会肿，跟金鱼一样，不过我已经不管了。。

Ohana means family and family means no one gets left behind..

Changed my template, cos my old one always eats words up when I put pictures on the entries, and the comments part was unreadable.. New template.. koped it from somewhere, will personalise it more soon.

If you think I've crossed the line, any line, with my following para, please let me know..
I'm amused, very amused at the enthusiasm of a certain American girl towards the singapore/ malaysian club here. To tell the truth, I still have no idea why I'm so anti towards her.. Best explanation I can come up with is that she broke a social custom that she's unaware of and we are subconsciously following.. A custom where you have to work your way up the supposedly non-existent hierarchial ladder, a custom where you have to at least gain some respect and liking before you can start organising events and activities and expect people to support. If you don't work your way up but plunge right in, that's fine, as long as you do it appropriately. I don't know how, but I'll probably recognise it if I see it. If she wasn't that enthu, there's a much higher chance that she'll be accepted easier.. If she had waited till the next major event before she become this enthu, there's a higher chance too.. I'm waiting to see her next moves.. A very bad thing to do I know, me just sitting and watching, instead of doing sth to stop the situation from worsening..

Actually it's quite sad that she's the most on person. And, since this is an official sch org, people have the right to join and be accepted.. I don't know what the next step is or should be. I'm not the most proactive person, in fact I'm extremely passive, as I've discovered from communications class today.

Talking about communications class. The more I learn about communications, the more difficult communications seem to be. In fact the more I learn about anything, the more difficult something seems like. I am more able now to um, analyse a conversation maybe, but until I manage to use the info I've learnt naturally when I communicate, comm is not any easier.

Last point of the day. I'm really sorry I couldn't be there when people need me, ok maybe don't need me but need somebody. I'm sorry that I've been buried in my own tiny world and detached from people in the world. I'm trying.. to lower myself on my priority list, I'm still trying to find the right position.. If you need help, ask.. Someone might just be able to help. (hmm, that sounds like an advice I need) And help whenever I can.

Ok that covered pretty much what I wanted to say. One last thing. Don't get the wrong impression. My life is not happening.

Quote of the day:
"Trust the stuff you are made of"

Wild duck

Some sort of hawk

Giraffes

Feeding giraffe

Panaromic view of the plains. Beautiful place..

Deer?

Open area where the animals roam

Elephant

gazelle? goats? Sorry, half the time I don't know what animal I'm looking at

Rhino

I'm still deciding how to blog this.. whether to write everything into 1 long post or to split into a few long posts.. Actually why should I care, I'm blogging for myself right? I am the audience.

Light-hearted stuff first. Watched Corrinne May sing. She's really good. Feel quite sad for her, cos she's playing in Borders, for free, to an audience of 30, she drove 2h to get here, with all her equipment, and had to set up everything mostly by herself. The conditions reminded me of how our Yamaha demos were, it's quiter here but there are still distractions.

Remember the zpop concert when we were amazed at how big Gigi was? Well Corrinne was even bigger. We actually went to talk to her, and talked about, um, RJ. Haha. I like her lyrics. Found her voice uncannyingly similar to Tong En's voice. She is good on piano.. and she's nice. =) Glad I went.

After that went to watch Big Fish DVD with the gang. Hmm.. I guess everyone wants to be a big fish.. Including the semi-drunk people watching it. Oh, saw a star-filled sky, ok not really star-filled, but at least the same amount of stars as in East Coast Park. Don't really see that many stars around here, don't know why. But I saw that star-filled sky at 1.30am..

Wild Animal Park. Nice sunny day today. Clear blue sky with sun, not too cold. Great tourist weather. I love the tram ride. It's an hour-long ride around the whole park, the best thing is that there's an actual driver, which is the tour guide, so it's like in a safari, stop the tram when there are animals to be seen. Only thing different is that there are animals everywhere. And the guide was funny. Saw many types of rhinos (they all look alike), many types of deer/ antelope/ gazelle (they all look the same).. saw many babies, and saw attempted courtship.. Haha

Ok, tried to post pictures, but blogger won't let me. So I'll add them in a separate post. It's a beautiful place.. Would have taken more photos if the cheapo batteries I bought were not so pok. I liked it. First time seeing things like that bustard thing and the zebra/ giraffe thing. And we could get so close to the animals. The parrot in the birdshow was really really good. It's probably the best parrot I've heard, it doesn't sound like a parrot at all. Amazing.

Quotes of the day:
On a male rhino: "That's a huge reproductive organ."
In a tropical birds aviary, warm and humid: "It feels like home."

Must blog abt this exciting night. Went to eat dinner.. in the very exciting school cafeteria. Then decided it's the night before a public holiday, we should do something, so hopped onto the cityshuttle and went Tapioca express to get bubble tea, i mean boba.. Isn't as good as it can be, think they use soya milk instead of real milk, so it tastes funny, and I didn't like the consistency of the pearls.. nvm.. walked around a bit in nowhere and went back to sch.

It's 8.30pm. There was a concert at Mandeville, so we popped in. Graduate Improvisation thing. The impro at UCSD is way too new for me. I don't get it at all. They have scores, but they're improvising. I wonder what's on their scores. I wonder what happens during rehearsals. Anyway, there was a tenor sax, an accordian guy who plays elec guitar as well, a flautist, a vocalist and a pianist who doubles up as vocalist. Didn't get it. There's a thin thin line between impro and noise. And today's performance was walking unstably on that line.

Went back to Revelle. That's 9.15pm. Sian diao, then realised that there's supposed to be some Revelle event going on. So we went for the best Revelle event ever.. in my opinion at least. Because.. only 2 people went. Haha. There are more RAs than residents. Anyway, it's Microwave 101, learn to cook stuff in microwaves.. Really fun, cos we basically mash around with the food and add food colouring everywhere and because there's so few people.. So we ended up with red and blue and purple rice krispies and red mash potatoes.. Taste good though. Yup, so i'm real full now. Haha.

Oh yeah, 1 more thing to cheer me up. I haven't broken my record yet. Scored amazingly decent on my psyc test. Yay.

A perfect way to spoil a perfect day.. Will not go at night next time, or just wish that i never see that woman again.

Living on optimism, and on autogear. Roam around sch, go to classes all by reflex action.. Study by reflex, fall asleep in class/ tests by reflex. Only class I'm still enjoying is Chem. Math has always been not easy, Ling and Psyc switch from fun to boring ever so often.. 1h20min lects are too long, that's all I can conclude. Hope I did fine for Psyc midterm..

Little things brighten up my day. A single informational meeting yesterday lifted my spirits, hopefully things will work out.. actually more good things than that happened, like the Chem dept finally found my petition and is processing it..

Perrin's office is so welcoming. A comfy couch, a clean blackboard, a view of the sch (ok, not very nice view), a nice rug, small group of students seated around.. 1 thing I like about uni is that the profs can give a satisfying answer to my questions. Remember sometimes when we ask Alfie stuff, he'll say things like go ask the molecules, or it just happens.. Now i'm actually getting reasonable explanations for such things. =) Think i ask really weird questions, cos he always has this amused look on his face when he answers my questions, and i don't see that look when he answers someone else's questions, maybe it's just my imagination.

Shall stick to talking abt good happy stuff today. Oh yeah, saw baby tadpoles and baby chicks and a bunch of dead baby frogs.. =)Yeah, the eyes in tadpoles/ frogs are really obvious. Oh, after I came out of the lab, I heard singing, in Chinese, from a classroom nearby, so I stopped to listen, Christian songs, very nice. Then this girl walked past and said hi. And I decided it's time to leave, then she chased after me and asked me to join them.. erps, sorry, I'm not interested to join in any religious activities.

Then I decided to go for the study break, which was a session on safe sex, da kai yan jie. Good thing was that there were banana splits. =)

Looks appetising? My attempt to use up all the chicken in my fridge

This egg, a bit failure.. Will try again some other day.

Chinese chicken minestrone soup

Pumpkin carved by first timers.. Good right?

A pirate, prince, monster bullying me.. if you can see anything in this yellow light.