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ski trip and crazy parties!

2008-01-27T15:40:00.001-08:00

that was one crazyyyy party. everyone was suppose to show up in just their knickers. of course the EXTREMELY cold weather didn't allow us to do that. well even if it was warm, stripping aint my thing. haha.

ok prior to that, was the long-anticipated ski tripppp!! :) cabin C. the best cabin. ski buddies jamie and courtney. jager-bombs, flip cup, apple bottom jeans.

back from the dead!

2007-11-05T23:06:00.000-08:00

corn maze with fellow theta tau pledges: katie, lily, stephen, federico and michael
kbox session at berkeley with bruce, vicky, ching and jon
the first picture is evidence that i do know how to ice a cake and bake a cake too! :)

ignite your bones

2007-09-25T14:56:00.000-07:00

tuning into "fix you" by coldplay. i love this song :) everytime i hear it, i remember that sunday night at wala wala. me woon naifen and the greatest live band in sg! their version of this song was really amazing. but the best part of the night was chilling with bigboobs and delicioushunk! yeah my three months back home was the best ever. there was always something to do everyday: a friend to meet, an exotic place to check out, scrumptous food to taste, a party to crash, a concert to attend, a kbox session to goof out at. oooh not to mention the free weight loss programme! haha on my first week home, just walking a mere 100 metres caused me to perspire PROFUSELY. okay in other words, i looked as though i just finished a 2.4km run. thank god for air-conditioning.

well now i'm back in the States. finally found the time to sit at my ikea desk (which i did build by myself, with assistance from keith yamada) and share the hectic week i had unpacking.

my trusty housemate keith brought his MASSIVE ford truck and drove us down to elk grove to grab the stuff that i had left behind. rode cathy's BMW convertible to the automall and checked out the Nissan cars. now a proud owner of a NIssan versa! haha just like Hiro from Heroes :) daddy took time out of his business meetings, driving up to davis to help me get furniture from ikea. keith and i spent the whole of thursday afternoon assembling them. ugh so tiring. oooh my soft comfy bed finally showed up on wednesday......sooooo big and comfy!!
believe it or not, i DID cook okaay. i aint exactly the best cook around, but yeah i can still whip up something. there look at the pictures for PROOF! we even baked a cake!!

ok so there's the update. more pictures later, blogger is acting up. school is starting in two days! it feels different now that i'm going back to school as a sophomore. hmmm hopefully the quarter passes quickly.

last party of freshman year!!

2007-06-10T20:49:00.001-07:00

hurray hurray!! i know my first final is in less than 15 hours time, but you know there's no harm in taking a break and writing down the exciting party i went to on my last weekend here in the states!! jenny and jo are going back to australia and england respectively!!! NOOO!!! farewell party on saturday :) lots of pple came to see our two darling girls!! munched on yummy yummy food and then it was time to bring out the liquid gold!! hahaha ok the boooze. beer, sake, wine and absolut mandarin. nice!! alan drove me and cathy back. when we got back to the dorm, we realised we aint the only ones partying!! hahaha...ooooh pics!

haha i punched noah right in his beer belly. explains the victory stance :D

BALLIN!!!!

packing up my room again

2007-05-31T17:47:00.000-07:00

it's that time of the year again. scraping for time to mug for upcoming finals, time to complete any last minute assignments, time to go to the gym and attempt to work off my flabs so i can avoid humiliation when i get home, time to pack up my belongings and store them over the summer, time to part with new friends here.

i don't know how i'm going to find the TIME to do all the above man.

party at The Grad

2007-05-03T23:51:00.000-07:00

yesterday night, me rita apple cathy jon richard megan and jeff all headed down to the Grad to dance the night away :) ok granted the deejay wasn't as good as the ones in zouk but we still had lots of fun. wait. until some creepy guy was trying to freak with all of us girls one by one...he would just attack from ur behind!! hahaha madness....ok pictures!!
p.s. i know i look bad!!!! booos!!! hahaha but the focus is on the gorgeous girls from my dorm!

random link

2007-04-19T22:08:00.001-07:00

Wong Yuru --

[noun]:

A person who laughs at anything (even this entry)

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

confirmation.

2007-04-09T14:23:00.000-07:00

YAY! i just confirmed my flight back to singapore. hurray! arriving in singapore at 1am, June 16. crossing over the timeline does weird things. i leave san fran on 14 june, the flight is less than 24 hours, but yet i lose one whole day. hahaha oh well point is i'm coming home sooon. oh man i can't wait to raid all the hawker food and shopping centres!!

oooh yeah please go watch blades of glory if you need some cheering up or you are just bored. it's soooooo funny! i LOVE will ferrell!! oh the other leading actor in this movie, jon heder, also starred in napolean dynamite. another really lame and funny american classic. was watching napolean dynamite before desperate housewives started...i think my IQ went down by at least 20 points after sitting through that movie....

okok have to get back to my religious studies quiz!

BLADES OF GLORY!!

parties over the weekend!

2007-04-02T21:26:00.000-07:00

beer pong battle!! pictures are needed to depict this battle that led to a very drunk yuru....

mei megan and me are geared up to kick some ass!

our opponents discussing their battle strategy: jon stephen and marcus

haha mei is searching for our ping-pong ball, megan is already high and i just finished my 5th cup of beer!!

i try soooo hard to concentrate while jon attempts to distract me from the side!!

mei megan and me!! :)

spring is here!

2007-03-31T15:34:00.000-07:00

The last two weeks of march have been a rollercoaster ride! First I was stressing out for finals and then I was slacking in Fremont.

Oh man finals week was so exhausting! The final English paper (1750words MIN) was due on Thursday afternoon and I procrastinated to the extent that I started writing on Wednesday night 9pm. I dragged stephen to the library with me, in hopes that I can get some substantial writing done. Haha well we spent 3 hours there and I only managed to churn out 6 lines. Clearly, it was going to be a really long night. Ok I’ll admit it. I pulled an all-nighter! Slogged through the wee hours of the morning and actually managed to finish my essay by 6.30am! hahaha thankfully stephen was nice enough to wake up at 6.30am to have breakfast with me! After I sent my essay to my prof, I slept all through the afternoon!! ☺ and you know what? This essay scored 94/100. Oooh man I can’t believe my last-minute work can be that good. Haha

Ok anyway the rest of the week I was buried in books and review sessions. Thank goodness for study buddies: pansy, renee, jon, stephen and mat! The night before my English finals, mugging hard in the study lounge with jon and stephen. We were soooo bored and drained that me and stephen decided to have a showdown on “who is taller??”. jon was soooo uncooperative. jon is like 1.84m and he wouldn’t stand up to help us judge. ARGH. luckily sarah came along and proclaimed that I was the taller one! yay for me! But stephen could not concede defeat so he vented his frustrations by kicking me in the shins. Oh my gosh I even have the bruises as solid proof!! Boos..

Whew! After sitting through all 4 papers, spring break was FINALLY here!! Boared the Amtrak train, 2 hour ride to Fremont where Stephen agreed to play host to me during my stay in his hometown ☺ hurray!! Got off the train at Fremont and was surprised to see jon there too!! Well that idiot kept complaining that he’s missing grey’s and ugly betty to come pick me up. Lame…as if I even forced him to come! Haha anyway the guys brought me to chipotle for dinner. The burrito was pretty good but the serving was soooooo big that I had to waste ¼ of it. Oooh bubble tea was the next stop! Wait. It’s called babao here…man sometimes I don’t get their lingo. Checked into my hotel…erm which was a little shady….so I begged Stephen to stay with me on the first night (DON'T WORRY there were two separate beds!! Ahaha) talked talked till 3am then he left, leaving me to fight off any “scary monsters” in the room!!

Next morning, my darling host Stephen drove me to various places in fremont. Sight-see sight-see. Asian market, jap food, borders, cool sunglasses. I’ll let the pictures do the talking…

Okok so the next day me jon and Stephen took a 20 minute drive up to san jose to pick up pansy and the whole gang of us went to watch TMNT in the MORNING!! Haha yeah in hopes to save some moolah. Morning shows are cheaper. Oh man in my opinion, it aint any cheaper….USD7 = SGD 12 for one movie. Good thing is the theatre is pretty EMPTY. The weird thing was that we were the only 4 pple there who weren’t between ages 6-12…..yeah…haha anyway I thought it was a pretty funny show ☺
More shopping!!! Valley fair and Santana row! Wooon and fel!! I have to drag you guys here to shop someday!! Oooh dinner at cheesecake factory!!!! The food was sooooooooooo scrumptious. The cheesecake I had: white chocolate and raspberry truffle, was OMG!!! the rest of the night was followed by delirious pple drinking themselves silly in my hotel room. Haha good times good times.

Next day Stephen was relieved of his “taking care of yuru” duties and I was passed on to the next host: jon. Man I spent the entire day at his house, cos he didn’t have any car. But it was cool!! Played pool, reviewed his entire book collection, ooooh and aaahh over his baby pics, watched ugly betty online…and stayed soooo long that his mom asked me to stay for dinner. Oops :P

Final shopping trip, followed by dinner at Vietnamese restaurant, more bubble tea and then packed our bags, headed back to davis. Yeah it’s the start of a new quarter and I’m already exhausted. Darn.

my mom is more hip than me!

2007-03-08T18:38:00.000-08:00

ok no lie. my mom, yeah my MOM, went to st. james powerhouse over last weekend. apparently she had a girls' night out with all her close friends, at St. james powerhouse! oh man....i haven't even stepped foot into that club and she's beaten me to it!! and the funniest thing is, she went to a CLUB (where there is an abundant supply of alcohol) and ordered a raspberry soda. you pay exorbitant cover charge in exchange for a drink and she orders a raspberry soda.

haha i've been "out-clubbed" by my own mother.

crack me up!

2007-03-08T01:23:00.000-08:00

my friends here are really interesting, especially the guys. seriously the stuff they say are soooo ridiculous, just listening to them lowers ur IQ.
here are some classic moments,
"if my children turn out ugly, i KNOW that my wife cheated on me"
this quote demostrates the cockiness in some men.

"yuru you have to understand that we will have beautiful children together, but that doesn't mean that i must bind myself to you. you shall remain in singapore and raise them, while i visit my other wives in asia."
i personally would consider this guy as a backup plan, in case i never run into THE ONE.

ooooh watching 300 on friday!! am really excited!! :)

meeting deadlines

2007-02-26T16:35:00.000-08:00

oh man my last post was eons ago!!! okok here's the gist of my weekend :) pictures will come later!!
T.G.I. friday! super slack day of the week. woke up to utada hikaru's "flavour of life", heard keith murmuring over the phone, "do you want to go san fran? yes no? get ready in 10 minutes!". well those who know me well enough would understand why i declined this enticing offer to go san fran and play. i clearly could not get dressed and look decent in under 10 minutes!
drifted back to slumberland. cut short by another phone call! this time by stephen, who needed a bed to sleep in since jon and renee wrecked his own. changed the sheets and gave up my bed :(
frat party: heaven and hell. decided to watch pan's labyrinth instead. excellent movie!! though stephen and i were initally surprised that the movie was in spanish.....crashed back to pansy's room, which has turned into a place where people congregate at to sober up. yeah jon came back from the party, insisting he wasn't drunk. well i personally think he was high cos he was spouting a LOT of nonsense. his hair was hella cool that night. hair wax plus hair spray, really do wonders.

saturday: yummy pancakes at iHop. there was this formal (kindof like prom, US style) at freeborn hall. tickets were sold out. so i hung out at the dorm instead. watched the departed. BEST PICTURE! though the script is a rip-off from infernal affairs. got bored so renee stephen and i decided to dress up as though we were heading to the formal as well. yeah that's how bored we really were.....

sunday: janice stopped over the dorm to drop off some corona and captain morgan's. cant believe the legal drinking age here is 21. thank goodness i have the necessary connections :)

oooh k here's one picture that was taken 3 weeks ago. we headed to a friend's apartment to chill out :) fun times!

'come live with me and be my love'

2007-02-04T16:25:00.000-08:00

alright my Tuesday and Thursday mornings are spent soaking up all the wisdom from my English professor. seriously I never thought that learning about prose and poetry could be this interesting. Some new literary terms I’ve learnt:
iamb
trochee
spondee
phyrric
annapest
dactyl
it does sound like a really technical literature course huh. well I managed to learn a new way to dissect poems. Remember back in secondary school, we would have to analyse each stanza and try to interpret it. Haha for this class, the first lesson on poetry was learning how to read a poem in a really technical manner, in other words working out the ‘stressed’ and ‘unstressed’ syllables present and figuring out if the poem is trimeter or quadmeter etc.

oooh I learnt another new thing today!
Adidas actually stands for something!
All Day I Dream About Soccer!
Cool huh! ☺ ok I think that’s about all I have to say for now. Will rack my brains for more interesting things to post here.

assume

2007-01-24T13:49:00.000-08:00

man i have such lame friends here.

yuru: well i just assume that he likes her!
jon: DUDE, you can't assume.
yuru: what?! why not??
jon: dude don't you know....if you assume, you are making an "ass" out of "u" and "me".
yuru: ............

haha i think some pple may have heard this lame joke from their other friends, i'm just surprised that i heard this story the american way. i was really amused.

during english class....

prof: empathise canine?
students: what??? *exchange blank stares
prof: ok what does empathise mean?
students: to feel for....
prof: canine?
students: dog
prof: so empathise canine simply means...."you feeling me, dawg?"

OH MAN......that was soooooo lame.

i'm sure this surge of lame-ness will not end here.

catching my breath

2007-01-16T14:38:00.000-08:00

The weather here in California is getting way too freaky. Apparently it actually snowed at some guy’s backyard in san diego!!! Oh gosh no wonder it’s so darn cold in Davis. This morning I woke up for my 10am class, the temperature dropped below ZERO degrees Celsius!! I need to go to san fran and get warm fuzzy gloves. Taking the Amtrak down to Berkeley to visit jo this Friday ☺ woohoo we’re going to party and shop hard in san fran!

I love my Tuesdays. One morning class and then I’m done for the day. munched on some delicious pastry that my friend brought from LA and looked through the photo collection wooon made for me before I left for USA last year! Haha wooon if you’re reading this, THANK YOU lots for giving me this photo collection. It’s hilarious looking back at ourselves. I cant believe a person can look so different after 2 years man! How caveman eyebrows can be turned into model eyebrows under the skilful hand of Mary :) haha yes wooon I’m revealing our shared beauty secret. It’s ok. every girl needs to visit mary once in her life. Hahahaha. Looking through old unglam photos never fails to put a smile on my face. Oh yeah I have this picture of woon French KISSING macdonald!!! Haha that picture is bitchin!

Oooh NorCal slang: Bitchin = awesome, cool, etc.
Imagine my surprise when my friends said that their professor was bitchin. I seriously thought they were talking bad about the prof. haha oh well turns out it was the exact opposite.

hmmm ok now I shall proceed to tell you about how I attempt to add some “spice” into my monotonous college life.
Oooh yeah I finally went to sing karaoke! Friday night, keith drove me and cathy to sacramento for dinner and kbox. Ok keith parked his car under this tree, which seemed to attract a lot of birds, because his car was COVERED in bird shit. When I say covered, I mean COVERED. Haha I couldn’t stop laughing at his car when I saw it. But I must say that the sound system and various gadgets he installed in the car are pretty impressive. traffic was really bad. Poor keith. He had to keep changing gears cos everytime he sped up, he had to slow down in the next second. So we had to endure his complaints about having leg cramps. Haha I even offered to get him a brand new AUTO car (when I’m rich enough) so he would be relieved from bothersome leg cramps.

Dinner at this Korean bbq restaurant. Expensive but totally worth it. SOOOOO yummy!! Korean cuisine just entices me to spend a week in korea! after filling our bellys, headed down to RuruLala for karaoke. And no, the name is not made up by yours truly. THE place to sing ur heart out is RuruLala. Suddenly I realised that maybe K-ster and K-box aint bad names after all. This place was set up by a Korean family so when you ask for asian songs, you’re going to get extensive Korean and Japanese song library. As for the Chinese songs, I think I was looking through songlists from the 80s. I couldn’t find any familiar Chinese artists in the 20 page song library. Thankfully I could fall back on English songs. Tried to harmonise, but failed miserably. Miss karaoke-ing with choir pple and naifen! When it comes to singing Mariah carey songs, I definitely need choy & chye.

Saturday evening was spent in the gym. Janice and I ran around the track for 40 minutes. Woohoo! Enduring 40 minutes of non-stop running is no easy feat for me ok! so cool it. Haha after the run we headed down to jamba juice for a quick booster. Temperature then was subzero again and what was I wearing? SHORTS, a shirt and a sweater. Thank god for friends with cars. Once we stepped out of jamba juice, it was a mad run to the car!! FREEZING cold.

Sunday afternoon splurged on sushi buffet at fuji’s. oh man this buffet matches up to the Kushin-bo buffet in Singapore. Just that the portions here are way bigger. Naturally. Haha man I wish I can ship the class guys here for the buffet. No charge for leftover food!

Well, Monday was pretty lazy. Next thing I know, it’s Tuesday! Hurray!! Hopefully everyday goes by this quickly!! :)

Oh man I cant wait for Friday to come! Vacation in san fran!! Yay!

excuse me where did you get this gorgeous coat?

2007-01-08T12:27:00.000-08:00

shopping in singapore has been amazing. the fact that we import brands from ALL over the world, leaves shopaholics (like me) spoilt for choice :) so flying back to america and realising that Topshop and Warehouse no longer exists in this part of the world, has left me in a dismal state!

thankfully...janice dragged me along for a much needed shopping trip at vackaville outlet (oops hope i spelt it correctly!). yes one treatment for homesick-ness is definitely retail therapy! i love outlet shops!! everything there is sooo much cheaper than the stuff sold at the malls!!

ooh yeah! levi's outlet...jeans for 40 sing bucks!! AHHH!! imagine my delight!!! :)
nine west shoes for 30sing bucks!! and the best thing about having huge feet in america, is that during clearance sale...all the sizes left are usually 8,9,10!!! wooohoo!! :) I LOVE shopping for shoes here! hahahaha!

i wore my green spanish coat that i bought from vivocity (yes yumin..the coat that YOU picked out when i wasn't in singapore yet!!) was browsing through calvin klein when this woman approached me and asked, "omg i love ur coat! where did you get it?" haha yay! ego booster!! :) i felt bad telling her that i got it in singapore...but secretly gloating over the fact that i'm probably the ONLY person with this coat!!!

sudden craving for kaya toast! must buy a carton of yakun kaya!!

chocolates?? oooh...yes please!

2006-12-06T00:35:00.000-08:00

ok this is a very random post. bear with me! :)
i was surfing around levin's blog and clicked on the link Supernice Chocolate. to my surprise, i stumbled upon a website that actually sells HOMEMADE truffles!! oh gosh someone PLEASE treat me to summer assortment or classic assortment!! i'm craving for orange, peppermint, rum, raspberry, turkish delight and mocha truffles!!!

yes, allow me to indulge in delicious truffles.
all i want for xmas.....

counting down!

2006-11-29T12:59:00.000-08:00

in another 18 days, i'll be squashed into a small green seat and watch old movies until i arrive in singapore! i am SO psyched!!!i've been thinking about THE DAY ever since i realised that november was nearly over. ohoh i am going to wear my thick warm UGG boots onto the plane! haha i know i'll regret it when i step out of changi airport!! boots and the tropics don't make a loving couple.
just to let you know, it's awfully cold here in davis!! the temperature now is slightly above 0degrees Celsius and the wind here is uber strong. okok i know i shouldn't be complaining here...the east coast pple are probably dying to come over to californial to enjoy our "warm" weather. but seriously, cycling AGAINST the chilling wind is no laughing matter. i'm going to get frostbite soon. donate to Buy-a-Glove-for-Yuru fund! due to an intensive shopping spree on Black Friday, i no longer have any spare money to spend on clothes.

the amount of stuff i bought in one day. now you understand why i'm broke :(

the yummy treats we had at the jap restaurant!! plus my chocolate therapy b-day cake from ben & jerry's. SOOOOO sinful!!! :)

caixiu emily and ming I LOVE YOU BABES!!!! :)

oh yeah! thanksgiving! haha the plus point about choosing to hang out with an asian family during thanksgiving is the FOOD!! i had vietnamese food for three days and i loved every meal!! soooooo good!! thanksgiving dinner was really interesting. the only american dishes were just the turkey and mashed potatoes. the remaining space on the dining table was taken up by various vietnemese food! BAGUS!! while munching on my food, cathy's aunts came up to me and bombarded me with questions about singapore. apparently their entire family stayed in singapore, specifically sembawang, for 3months. some refugee thing. anyway, they spoke really highly about singapore and her people :) haha it was really nice to talk about home once in a while. although....i don't understand why some of my friends here (especially my dorm pple) like to harp on the fact that the sale of gum is prohibited. "what no gum?? but how??" what do you mean how? no one needs to chew gum to survive right? haha oh yeah, i have problems answering this question, "so yooru, what do you speak in singapore?singaporenish??" hahahaha that question cracks me up everytime!!

oh i've got to hand in my anthropology essay!!! aaahhh!!!

thank you!!

2006-11-25T19:47:00.000-08:00

yup so my birthday came and went away. just want to use this opportunity to thank all those you remembered it :) kudos to those back home who called and wrote birthday wishes on my blog!!

yuru loves.....
mr chye nyit fhen for singing that beautiful michael buble song to me over the phone. you nearly made me bawl over in tears while walking to my next lecture.

ms choy siew woon for playing the piano and sending me the first birthday wish!! i love you babe!!

ms chin qinyou for being the only one from singapore to send me a birthday package! i was really really elated when i opened my mail box :)

ms loo xiaorui and ms kwek jialing for scribbling on my facebook!!

kane, jonathan, tong tong, jinyang and zhiwen for texting me online happy birthday!

ben ben, aravin, chekhui, cynthia, peiwen, TEH, yumin and jiayan. you guys are so smart!! posted ur wishes on my blog!!

:) all of you will be blessed!!!!

kudos to my friends here in california! thanks for surprising me with a celebration in the lounge! i loved the strawberry and white chocolate mousse cake! kudos to tess, ming, emily and perlin for treating me to a scrumptous jap meal and chocolate therapy cake!!

:)

oops i did it again!

2006-11-22T01:00:00.000-08:00

oh gosh i just did the stupidest thing ever! i locked myself out of my room AGAIN!!!
so how did i accomplish such a feat. i grabbed my toothbrush and toothpaste, opened the door and closed it. after which, i realised i left my keys inside! :( boos...thank goodness cathy was there to help me find the RA in charge to get my key back. when i signed the card to acknowledge that i received the copy key, i found out a very embarrassing thing.
number of times miss wong yuru has left her keys in the room...a GRAND TOTAL of 3 times. you only get 3 chances throughout the year, the 4th time onwards, you have to pay 40bucks just to get the copy key!!

the first time i locked myself out was the VERY FIRST DAY!!! i just stepped out to talk to my friend and this gush of wind closed my door! great. GREAT! i don't even remember how i locked myself out the second time. this is very frustrating. i have to put up an enormous sign on my wall, reminding me to bring my key out!!!

of birthday dinners and lazy days

2006-11-18T17:09:00.000-08:00

"i'm so far down. away from the sun again!" haha i love that song (away from the sun) by 3 doors down :) yes woon, you are the brilliant person who sent me that song!! kudos to you! oh i finally ran away from the DC food on tuesday and friday night!! the menu is starting to repeat itself!! ARGH....

on tuesday night, we took the cab down to a really good italian restaurant, Cafe Italia, to celebrate apple's birthday!! haha ohoh i must add that i recommended the restaurant :) and apple liked the food in the end!! hurray!!!
didn't bring my camera to take pictures :( but never mind i ripped these off from my friend mari :)

the guy opposite me is tim!! he's this really funny korean boy!! haha he spent the entire dinner trying to teach me korean!! oh well i'm not a very good student..i forgot everything he taught me that night!! oops!!

oh look!! there's all of us at the restaurant!! haha lots of fun!!

friday night, cathy pansy keith and i went to davis noodle city to have good chinese food :) and after that.....was ben and jerry's dessert!! oh gosh the guy working at B&J is so cute!! ohoh when he scoops the ice cream, he'll toss it up in the air!! some cool acrobatic thing...haha i should just film him next time :) oooh ben and jerry's came out with a lot of new flavours!!! AAAHHH!!!

http://www.benandjerrys.com/our_products/flavorWorld.cfm

pls visit this website and check out all their cool new flavours!!! oh and i get to try all these scrumptous flavours!!! hurray!!

cobwebs

2006-11-15T15:29:00.000-08:00

argh i don't understand why spiders bother spinning a web overnight when it will ultimately be destroyed in the morning by the wind! now everytime i cycle pass trees, i can feel my entire face being covered with cobwebs! eeeewww!!!

i met a really helpful math professor today! he gave me credit for a math course that i'm taking next quarter. i was so happy because i though i could finally drop a course and move on to a more advanced one! BUT....i realised that the schedule for the new advanced math course clashes with my chemistry lab!!! like wth. ARGH. i hate registering for classes.

fresh linen!

2006-11-15T00:40:00.000-08:00

everyone who has walked into my room have made this single common comment:
WOW!! YOUR ROOM SMELLS GREAT!!
haha i should win an award!! :)

rain, rain, go away

2006-11-13T16:21:00.000-08:00

i finally wore the coat that woon and naifen bought for me!! haha all the girls in the dorm were swoooning over it! hahaha kudos to woon and naifen for having such good taste. ok wait, actually I picked out the coat!! i still remember naifen trying to convince me that coats in US are way cheaper (absolute rubbish!) so i wouldn't buy that Zara coat. anyway the weather is getting colder!!! unfotch, it would never snow here in California. maybe i should go Lake Tahoe in January to go skiing!! woohoo!! that will be so awesome!! :)

retail therapy

2006-11-12T21:06:00.000-08:00

went to san fran again!! this time i crashed at jen's house with alejandra. oh gosh once we put down our luggage at jen's house, we headed down to powell street and took a bus to haight street and started our much needed retail therapy! bought a lovely coat from GAP for just USD30 at a used-clothes store! yes! there were some really nice stuff there! a lot of branded stuff which pple used to own, now sold at least 50% off its original price.

travelled back to downtown and shopped at forever 21!! this Forever 21 outlet is 3 storeys tall!!! the interior design is gorgeous but it's really messy inside! anyway we spent one whole hour there trying out clothes. i bought 3 funky tops!! hopped down to urban outfitters and got a vintage jacket! then we walked to Jillians' and had dinner there! ohoh the dessert was SO GOOD!!! yummy banana booze!! as soon as we got home, we changed into warmer jackets and drove to the theatres! argh, luck wasn't on our side, the movies were CLOSED! so we grabbed bubble tea, chips & salsa and went back to jen's place to watch Charlie's Angels!

the next day was spent SHOPPING again. haha what else could i do? i certainly didn't have time to go sight-seeing!!!! oh you know i did see quite a few homeless people on the roads. very sad :( i really wonder how they got themselves to that state. and then i wonder, where did singapore hide all our homeless people??? ok a little off topic. i'm totally wiped out now. till next time!

yummy korean treats!

2006-11-04T13:01:00.000-08:00

ooooh nothing beats leaving the dining commons in search for some REAL food! we decided to ditch dinner at the DC and head out downtown for some korean food!

rosni, alejandra and me! haha they were the only two hispanics in the whole restaurant! hahaha alejandra was like, "we are surrounded by asians!!"

keith, cathy and pansy! ABJ, ABV, ABC :)

i love how all the sushi rolls have such nice names! i tried the spider roll! it was HUGE!! i stuffed the sushi into my mouth with much difficulty....keith resorted to breaking the sushi into two...haha that's so lady-like!

hahaha this picture is uber funny!!

ooooh my kimchi fried rice. hmmm actually it wasn't that good. i should have stuck to bbq beef!

rosni and alejandra are stuck in the halloween mood!!! hahah!!

the dinner was topped off with delicious honey cake that ming got for me from san jose!!! wooohooo!! i wish i could FedEx the honey cakes to everyone back home in singapore! it's SO GOOOOOD!!!!!
by the time we finished dinner, it was only 9.30pm! uber early! pansy, eddie, stephen and i dashed down to the ARC to play badminton! yeah i'm going to play every night!! so i'll lose weight and not fall into the freshman 15 trap!!!!!! after the game, i went to hang out at apple's room!! haha soon her room become a gathering point of random pple: me, tim, rita, apple, jon, stephen, pansy and craig chilled at apple's room till 4am!!!! cindy came into the room halfway and i asked her SO many questions about sororities and fratenities!

cindy is currently pledging for her sorority and apparently it's really some tough work to join a sorority! they call it, Greek life. basically the first two weeks of school, you attend the RUSH events (i.e. showing up for events hosted by the sorority you are interested in)...and then you get interviewed by 50 girls (depending on the size of ur sorority)...they will decided whether they want you. if they do, you are invited to more events!! then comes the PLEDGING process...haha which is (according to dear cindy) really some tough shit. ok so you will CROSS OVER at the end of the quarter and become an official sorority sister :) it's hella complicated...but apparently the benefits outweigh all the crap you went through during pledging...

that's just the tip of the iceberg of this entire Greek life thing. haha i learn a new thing everyday! :) maybe i'll rush for a sorority next spring...hmmmmm....wonder if this sorority/fratenity system would thrive in singapore unis.
ok have to start on my work! woke up horribly late today!!!

gloomy day

2006-11-02T14:48:00.002-08:00

it's 1.40pm here and it's raining cats and dogs! the sky is very dark and gloomy :( oooh i just bought this gorgeous red jacket from Zara in san fran and it's keeping me warm for now. to naifen and woon: i'm going to unveil ur coat soon!! right after the rainy week stops, i'm pulling out that fabulous coat from its bag (yes, it is still in that zara bag!!) oh gosh i'll try to put up pictures of my nice winter clothes!! this stupid rain is ruining everything!

argh my bicycle seat is probably soaked in rain water...i'll have to walk to chemistry lab later, wearing my sneakers! i have to get boots uber soon! next friday is going to be a holiday for me!! it's called Veteran's day, to honour all the soldiers who sacrificed their lives in some war...can't remember which one though. we are driving down to san fran to shop more!!! wohoo!! to all forever 21 lovers: there is a 3-storey forever 21 shop in san fran! :) oh which reminds me....ms jo lam and i saw this drop dead gorgeous male model posing in front of the abercombie & fitch shop!! his rippling muscles were displayed for our lusty eyes to feast on!! :P ARGH if only we took a picture with him!! i know a picture speaks 1000000000000 words!!!

UGGS boots in violet! i know ray is getting one in mink! :)

damn. i hope the rain stops NOW! or else i'll be really tempted to skip my econs discussion later.

halloween!!

2006-11-01T16:40:00.000-08:00

ok i'm rushing off to classes NOW!!! so i can't compose an entry!! i'll just post the pictures first :)

fun fun fun!!

2006-10-21T21:56:00.000-07:00

Oh gosh i had so much fun last night! Yup shouma invited me to an event which JASS (Japanese American student society) organised. Yeah yeah I know I’m joining clubs that have no relation to my nationality. Haha but you can’t blame me! There aint any Singaporean society here in davis and I’m lazy to set up one :P
Ok anyway, I asked jenny along as well so three of us set out to the ARC and waited for transport to the corn maze! Here transport to any place is not by a bus, but by CARS. Jackie, the president of JASS, was such an angel! She invited jenny and I to hitch a ride with her!! When we reached the corn maze, I immediately whipped out my camera and started taking countless pictures. Yup I was acting like a stereotyped asian tourist, happily snapping pictures away :)

Me and jenny!! She’s an aussie!! Her accent is really cool!! Haha she’s very pretty right??? A lot of guys keep hitting on her!!

jenny and shouma!! Oh yeah shouma is actually kane too!! Shouma is his jap name, kane is his Hawaiian name. haha this guy is so funny!! he kept hiding in the corn fields and pounced out everything I walked past!! I screamed my head off ok!!!

me asuka and jenny! Asuka is a 2nd generation ABJ ☺

jenny me and Jackie!! jackie’s the president of JASS. Haha though she’s the president, she can’t speak jap at all! She’s hella cool!!!

Anyway after trudging through the normal corn trail, we headed straight for the haunted trail! Basically, you walk through this corn trail and pple wearing really hideous masks will jump out and scare the living daylights out of you. I tell you arh. I was screaming my head off the whole time!!! the scarers creep up behind you and after you run they still keep following you!! i yelled and screamed and ran!!!! Haha while running away, I stomped on shouma’s foot 5 times, I accidentally pushed jenny down to the floor and nearly cut off asuka’s blood circulation in her arm!! It was uber scary!! But when we reached the end of the trail we actually took a pic with our scarer!!!

headed down to Sonic, which is like this fast food restaurant. The unique thing is their drive-in. they actually skate out and pass you your food. Haha reminds me of the flinstones!!! Ok. nvm.

The next day was homecoming football game at tooney field!! Me, alejandra and jen (dorm mates) rushed down to catch a glimpse of this American sport. Haha alejandra and jen, though they were raised here in the states, have never been to a football game. Unfotch, we woke up late and by the time we got to the field all the good seats were taken!!! Boos…
Oh well I got to stand at the sidelines and take some pics!!

Ok have to go and start on my anthro essay!! Next weekend I’m heading to Berkeley!!! Woohoo!!

in the midst of midterms

2006-10-18T10:38:00.000-07:00

this is my third week of school. emphasis placed on two words, "THIRD WEEK", and i am burning midnight oil for my mid-terms. so to answer your question mr kane chin, yes i am very busy. i know it's very sian when you enter "http://whyyouareyou.blogspot.com to find that ms wong yuru has yet to post a new entry. just to let you know i haven't replied anyone's email :( and i'm updating this blog because i am so sick of trying to figure out what Genetic Drift means.

ok let's see. what did i do over the this weekend? oh yes! i went to my friend's friend birthday party. ok so in other words i don't even know who the birthday girls are....haha oh but at least i went with jenny! yeah both of us didn't know the birthday girls too, we just knew the good friend of these two girls! so the party was held in South Davis, which has a reputation of being a Party Party place. well i was afraid that this party was going to end up like another "get drunk and get dirty" party. but thankfully it was very PG friendly :) haha ok i boozed a little! the good thing about US parties is probably the free booze :) stella was an angel! she made us Sangria (red wine, sugar and some other ingredient) and some other drink that was really refreshing. you all should just come over and try all these drinks. i guarantee they are 1000000 times better than the shots you have at Zouk. ok so to prevent myself from getting a terrible hangover the next day, i hydrated myself with 2 bottles of water :) yeah too much alcohol aint good for the liver.

anyway the party was filled with lots of interesting pple! met this guy who hails from Guam! he is half jap, quarter portugese, quarter hawaiian. oh he has the most amusing name: KANE. AH HUH! i know mr chin you are thinking, "WHAT?! this guy has the same name as ME??!?!" but no no...his name is pronounced as KAR NEH. seriously. i didn't think that KAR NEH actually stood for anything but apparently it means "boy" in hawaiian. i learn a new thing everyday :) oh after we left the party, jenny asked me if i realised anything out of the blue in the party. i pondered over her question....hmmm aside from girls giving EACH other lap dances and lots of girls dressed very erm masculine, no i don't think there's anything strange.
Jenny: well, you do know that most of them were gay right?
Me: really meh?? wait. oh.....yah hor!!!
haha so yeah. the party was filled with bi-sexual pple :) and no, i didn't get hit on. thank you very much. sheesh.....
no wonder all the pple i talked to were such great conversationist! :)

okok i have to get back to my anthro assignment!! will churn out more entries soon!!!

my dorm room!

2006-10-08T22:19:00.000-07:00

i had a good chat with ms felyna lee on sunday morning (singapore time!) and promised her to post some photos of my dorm room. haha i'm living in a single room. it's a little small but still a nice cosy space :)

these three pictures were taken the very day i moved to the dorm. i was wearing a blouse from Michael Kors, bought it at Vackerville Outlet Mall. in other words, it was a discounted item! :) ok veering back to the right track. you can see how messy my room was on the first day. i think i took 3 hours to unpack! after that, my mom and i headed to Target to buy more drawers and other stuff.

hurray today i finished my laundry, wiped my desk, swept the floor, ironed my clothes, studied, cycled to Rite Aid, hung out with friends, showered and DECIDED TO FINALLY TAKE PICTURES OF MY DORM :) i bought the nice comforter yesterday. it kept me really warm throughout the night! ok i hope you are good at visualising. the chest of drawers i placed between my door and bed. it is so wide that i can't open the door fully without whamming it into the drawers. my messy desk is located just right in front of my bed. it's very small :( oh well. oh oh!! my closet! as you can see, it is like a shoebox. i have filled up the whole metal rod with hangers! HELP!! and my sleeping quarters! on the wall i pasted felyna's and woon's presents! if you are physically here in my dorm, the tour of my room will be completed in 5 seconds. haha emphasising the puny space i'm living in!

oh!! i bought this vintage shirt from Target at USD$3.50(around S$6). i checked the label! it's the exact same brand of shirts that newurbanmale imports from USA, except that they are charging you S$49. haha yay!!! i get cute vintage tees for amazingly LOW prices!!! oh yeah! i wear those funky orange socks to sleep. keeps my toes from freezing!
ok i'll try to take pictures around my school. though it would be weird walking around with a camera in my hand. have to complete chemistry assignment. wouldn't want to fall behind my work!

i'm still swooning over my japan trip

2006-10-06T16:03:00.000-07:00

i just came back from math lecture (i slept through half the lecture), nearly crashed into two innocent people, before making my way safely back into my room. after which i realised that my closet door has broken. thankfully, james dropped by and performed a miracle! haha he fixed my closet door in two minutes! hurray for him! after that, i switched on my Mac and waited patiently for ms choy siew woon to log in to Skype. while waiting, i browsed through my old pictures and i found the album i took during my trip to japan! yes yumin, including the photos i stole from you! haha i know this is a very very outdated entry, considering the fact that i went to japan in june! but nonetheless, it's a trip worth talking about! :)

Tokyo! we arrived in Roppongi, where lots of bars are located, mainly to attract the ang mohs. our room was SO nice! even though the front door was this heavy metal prison looking door, the interior was huge!

here's yuling posing with her tiny suitcase! this yuling is so "mafan". yumin and i had to do most of the dragging (her suitcase) while she skipped merrily in front of us. argh. ANYWAY...the first day was spent in DISNEYLAND. tokyo disneyland is extremely clean!! i seriously think you could sleep on the floor because there isn't any trash on it at all. the jap women are amazing. i knew i was going to do a lot of walking so i decided to sacrifice fashion for comfort, chose to wear my sneakers. i thought my footwear was going to blend in....little did i know ALL THE JAP WOMEN were walking around in stilettos. i'm not exaggerating here. they are amazing. everywhere they go, they will be strutting in their stilettos. i think that accounts for their slim figure :)

ok here are some goofy pictures we took at disneyland :) we visited minnie mouse's house (where i attempted to push my cousin nicky down the well :P) and took a lovely picture of mickey mouse's house. yes these disney characters have good furnishings in ther home. haha the final picture is very random. nicholas and yuling goofing out, i think they were just super high that day because they were in DISNEYLAND! who wouldn't be high?

the next day we went to mount fuji! took a really long bus ride up the mountain. we were SO bored we started photo-whoring again...haha yuling was sleeping like a pig while we took this picture!

the scenery was breathtaking! unfotch, i didn't take any picture then. haha i'm lazy.

the gastronomical part of the trip is coming! we took the Shinkansen to Kyoto! this bullet train travels at 350km/h! while we were waiting for our train, another one zoomed past us. being singaporean tourists, we screamed and jumped and attempted to take photos of this AMAZING sight. haha by the time i whisked out my camera, the train was gone. oh well. anyway kyoto was SO PRETTY!!! we stayed in this traditional japanese inn where we ate traditional japanese breakfast and dinner!! there was nice hot tub in our room. we even dressed in traditional robes to really immerse ourselves in their culture.everything was so "memoirs of a geisha" and the food was BAGUS!!!!! i shall entice you all with these well-taken pictures by yumin!

after we finished our trip around the "old" part of japan, it was time to head back to tokyo! we went to shinjuku (where i spent a bomb!!), harajuku and ginza. saw the huge Prada building. i was so estatic when i saw this building, it was like a shrine built in the honour of Prada! haha but i didn't dare walk inside the shop, so settled for a nice picture OUTSIDE the buildling.

well that wraps up my long outdated entry :) i really love this japan trip! i shall drag more friends to go with me next time! ok have to dash to my friend's housewarming party! haha her neighbours are going to bring their own gin, martini and tequilla.

cleaning the cobwebs formed in this blog

2006-09-30T22:53:00.000-07:00

“the properties of a limit is MORE important than the definition itself”

this is what I learnt today at math lecture. Haha and I am fortunate enough to have this really good-looking Russian as my math professor! ok I’m digressing here…

the weather here in davis is awfully cold now! This morning when I woke up it was 17degrees Celsius! Boos. Imagine cycling across a long distance with chilly wind blowing right into your face. UGH. My fingers are still cold even though I’m composing this entry in my toasty dorm room. Ok my room aint that toasty. In fact they haven’t even turned on the heating system!!! :( so I’ll just pile myself with layers of clothes and wrap my toes in warm wooly socks!

Haha ok! let me update you about my previous week! Well I spent the first three days cleaning up my room, buying more supplies (water, laundry bags, more warm clothes etc.) and making friends! Yeah the people in my dorm are friendly :) though I stay in a single room, they still make the effort to knock on my door just to say hi!

On Friday night, we went to the HUGE field in the middle of the school to attend this event called the BUZZ. Haha it was like a carnival! Some frats and sororities set up games booth…hmmm there was a corndog stand (eewww) OH!! There was this gigantic rock-climbing wall and a casino! Haha I don’t know how they did it but it was impressive. Had loads of fun prancing around, taking in the “davis” culture. Bumped into Josephine and jenny!!! met these two girls from international orientation!! Unfotch, they stay off-campus!! Or else, all of us will be hanging out together in school all the time!! Hahaha! Anyway we got invited to this frat party …so after the Buzz we decided to call this Barclay guy to fetch us to this party place. Haha he’s a nice chap!! Boarded his car with these two girls from korea…I tell you arh..they were SHAMELESSLY flirting with him!! I was super amused!! Couldn’t stop laughing! Well the frat party was just BOOZE, DIRTY-DANCING….the usual clubbing stuff just that it is held in a sleazy house. Boos I’d rather go party at the posh clubs back home!!

Saturday was uber fun! Went to six flags amusement park at Vallejo!! Oh gosh the first ride I sat on was the SCARIEST one!! argh I was so woozy after that ride I couldn’t sit on another one!! OH YESH!! There was ben & jerrys ice cream and when I saw it, I was like BEN & JERRYS!!!! AAAAAHHHH!!!! The regular serving was SO HUGE!!! I was extremely happy and guilty at the same time for pigging out on ice cream :P ok!!

Ok!! I have to go have a heavy lunch!! My lessons end at 8pm today ☹

quirky chinese things....

2006-09-23T22:18:00.000-07:00

i went to this chinese restaurant and found this. hmmm a simple manual teaching you HOW TO USE YOUR CHOPSTICKS PROPERLY!! i have to admit that i never held my chopsticks in the "correct" way. i think it was because back home we didn't have THE chopstick manual written down for us. haha you can imagine how amused i was when i found that piece of paper (picture above) sitting on my table :)

okay. another really amusing thing they do at chinese restaurants here in USA is this: the practice of giving out FORTUNE COOKIES at the end of your meal. the movies did not conjure this practice up. it does exist. haha!! every fortune i had went like this: you will experience a windfall OR your strong determination will bring you far. i was SO disappointed...i was expecting this generic message to appear when i crack open my cookie: CONFUCIUS say.....*insert appropriate phrase here* haha oh well....

oh to anyone who wants to open a restaurant in california, make sure you can whip up EXCELLENT singapore cuisine. you will DEFINITELY become UBER RICH! let me prove to you why. i went to a restaurant that specialises in singapore/malaysian/indonesian cuisine today for lunch. the food was good, the price...uh huh....EXORBITANT!! ok let me break it down for you.

dish one: roti prata USD$3 >>>> SING$4.50
dish two: mee goreng USD$8 >>>SING$12
dish three: ice kachang USD$3 >>>>SING$4.50

yes my friends back home in singapore, be thankful that our favourite local cuisines are SO BLOODY CHEAP!!! despite its steep prices, this restaurant is really popular. you know why? because customers are oblivious to that fact that the restaurant is in fact, over-charging them. haha oh well...it doesn't matter. we're in california, can't expect singapore food to be cheap cheap here right?

oh yah! i found this market at Cupertino which is STOCKED WITH CHINESE PRODUCTS! haha i was so delighted when i found out that they sold mooncakes!! yay! maybe i can still experience the mooncake festival here! anyway the more important food item i found was.......*drumroll please*...my sorely-missed dumplings (JIAO ZI!!) i was jumping up and down when i saw those dumplings on display! i bought 4 pieces and gobbled them down. hmmmm ok so the meat aint that fragrant, the skin was way too thick but WHO CARES?? it's something i'll definitely NOT get to eat in another 3 months! when i come home in december, i'm going to buy 3098439028420938 jiao zi and xiaolongbao from crystal jade! so pls! don't bother going to eat at crystal jade in december, i would have eaten ALL their jiao zi :D hahahahahaha!!!

ok i'm done sharing my interesting observations!! haha i'm moving into my dorm tmr! i shall take pics and show u how tiny my room is! :)

changing of template design

2006-09-21T18:03:00.000-07:00

a quote from an email sent to me by my dear friend Chew Zhi Wen:
"yeah i've checked out ur blog LOL wahahahaz what's up with the lion design...~?! lyk, seriously. ahahaz. din noe u lyk lions. i tink u seriously need lyk, an xtreme blog makeover! hahaz...okok...enuf said."

so after reading his mail, i set out on a search for nice blogskins...hahah and i stumbled upon this one :) haha wen if you are reading this, yesh this particular entry is dedicated to you :)

sight-seeing!!!

2006-09-19T22:45:00.000-07:00

ok so what have i been doing since i left smalltown davis?? simple!! i went sight-seeing!!! :)

yup my dad and i drove to san francisco and visited her famous landmark: Golden Gate Bridge!! oh gosh...it's SO beautiful! then we went to Fisherman's Wharf and had fantastic seafood dishes there!! WOON!! i tell you arh...if we visited all the super classy restaurants here, we will swoon over EVERY DISH!!! yesh. some cuisine here is really damn good. italian food here is BAGUS!!!
anyway i went SHOPPING at san fran!! woohoo!! there are SO MANY shops here!! really spoilt for choice! BUT they aren't that cheap...so i didn't exactly have a truly satisfying shopping trip...boos...nvm i shall turn to ONLINE SHOPPING instead :)

next day we drove up to Carmel. ok this is like the place where a lot of super rich pple build their retirement homes at. the town area is very quaint and uppity high class!! oh you must take the 17 mile drive because you will get to drive through GORGEOUS scenery.

imagine waking up to this coastline and fresh sea breeze! and their houses, wait i should use the word MANSIONS, are soooo beautiful!! argh we just dashed past them so i didn't get to take pictures :( oh but i took pics of wildlife!!! haha none of the animals ran away from me!! woohoo!!!

next stop was the Monterey Bay Aquarium. it's a VERY GOOD aquarium ok? come california must visit this place! i took a pic of this baby sea bass (which was HUGE!!!!!!!! it's longer than ur laptop k!). anyway it had really cloudy eyes and we found out that it had CATARACTS!! boos...thank goodness it will never be released to the wild or else it wouldn't stand a chance against all its predators! there's the sea bass picture on the bottom :( very sad....

oh the best fun i had was on this train ride through the redwood forest at Roaring Camp!! haha i took lots of really dumb pics!! hmmm and the funniest thing was trying to get my mother to understand why i do stupid poses while taking pictures..well i should have showed her my collection of WOON's UNGLAM pictures :)

ANYWAY let me share with you what i learned during the train ride!! our guide, chris, was SUPER funny!! he's probably the FIRST guide i've ever listen to...seriously...when i go for other tours i usually never pay attention to the speaker cos they are always SO boring....argh....but i listened to chris!! so i did learn something at the end of the tour!!!
REDWOODS are really awesome trees!! during the 1976 forest fire, every tree was destroyed EXCEPT for the redwoods!! they were engulfed in flames for 12 hours yet only TWO redwoods were destroyed. apparently redwoods secrete some kind of acid that act as Nature's fire extinguisher so they are EXTREMELY resistant to fire. ok end of lesson one. i'll put up more facts when i erm...can recall them :)

ok so that's how i spent the past 3 days! quite okae lah huh....haha must relax like a tourist before i start school!! argh i just received an email from my chem prof regarding lab work.

this is what it states:
Students must read the laboratory experiment, complete the pre-laboratory assignment, and complete the online pre-laboratory quiz at least 1 hour before coming to class. If you have any questions about the experiment to be performed, be prepared to ask your TA during your pre-lab introduction.

uh huh......i remember mr pang's chem lab class NOT being so complicated. oh well uni life is VERY DIFFERENT. ok now i have to wonder how i'm going to heave my luggage up a flight of stairs without spraining my back! till next time!

haha add-on!

2006-09-14T20:29:00.000-07:00

ahahaha ok this is a really dumb pic!! me and imran look so retarded lah....what were we doing dear?? oh i know!! we were taking stupid funny pictures!! haha i guess i uploaded this picture because i miss taking lots of stupid pics with my friends back home!! boos...

i can't think of a title for this post.

2006-09-14T18:49:00.000-07:00

hello!!!! yes i should be punished for not updating this blog...BUT i have valid reasons!!! my dad and i drove for 2plus hours from san jose to davis! haha we got lost halfway but no matter...we stayed real calm and went back onto the highway...oh in the usa..everywhere you go, you definitely have to take the highway!!! this country is SO HUGE!!!!!!!!!! and the weather here is SO weird....i'm serious!!!! yesterday it was sweltering hot (minus the sweat part lah....haha) and today, it's SOOOOOOO cold!!!

ok so after we reached the hotel, i went down to the university to check-in as an international student. okae the word check-in just simply means getting my passport photocopied...argh wasted my time!!!! :( boos...
haha oh tuesday was a fun day!! i signed up for this tour to downtown davis, hoping to meet nice pple and i did!!! haha oh my gosh!! i even found a bunch of singaporeans k!!! ok most of them are here for exchange! but i managed to find caixiu!!! hahaha yay a fellow ex-hwachongian...what are the chances of THAT in davis lah!! close to ZERO!!! ok so when we saw each other, we were like, "OMG!! what are you doing here?? i though i was the only singaporean!!!" hahaha!! k so i got introduced to her group of friends :) correction: group of international friends! i'm serious. i've met pple from ENGLAND (beckham's country!!!), australia, korea, brazil, italy, taiwan, hongkong, japan and of course, china!

haha and everytime i introduce myself, i don't bother telling them how to pronounce my name properly! i say, "oh my name! just call me YOOOOOROOOOO yup!" the way christy, a korean born in brazil (damn cool right? she can speak english korean and portugese!!), pronounces my name makes pple think i'm a true-blue japanese!! yeah and everyone seems to speak with an american accent despite the fact that most of us have never lived in the US....hmmm....
haha anyway the bottomline is...they are a super nice bunch of pple!! and thankfully some of them are living in apartments...which means they can cook...which means.....I CAN GO OVER FOR DINNER :D:D:D woohoo!!!

walking around downtown davis was erm...not very exciting lah!!! argh their downtown is like our.....heartlands. not that i have anything against our heartland area, it's just that i was hoping to find a place similar to orchard road!! :( boos....well on the bright side, i won't be able to go shopping that often, which means i will study more often!!! hey hey HEY!!! i WILL STUDY ONE!!!!!

ohoh!! my university campus is really gigantic!!! argh i thought NTU was huge..when i came here i was proven WRONG!! i think walking across the entire campus is like walking from wheelock to raffles city!!! this is a walking/cycling university...oooh and i tried the hostel food today... boos..it aint good!! oh my gosh, everything is so so so sweet. i know i have a major sweet tooth, but the food here is really way too sweeeeeeet k!!!

ok i'll try to post pictures here soon!!! now i want to get back to my TV! haha there's over 60 channels here!!! AHHH!!! i must NOT get a tv in my dorm...or else i'll just flunk my first quarter :( which reminds me....my friend told me that a hostel blk located near mine, housed a girl who committed SUICIDE!!! omg..........i'm super freaked out can!!! okokok as long as i don't think too much, i'm sure i'll be fine. i hope!!!! i'll let you know how tiny my single room is...hopefully there is enough closet space :)

in foreign soil.

2006-09-09T22:30:00.000-07:00

hey everyone!! haha yesh i just arrived at my nice hotel in san jose after ONE hour drive from san fran airport!! omg and i took the business class seat from singapore all the way to san fran...and i tell you arh..the experience was BAGUS!!!

pls pls pls everyone, we must earn lots of money next time, so can afford to relax in a LARGE comfy seat (which can recline to nearly 180degrees) during really long flights!! and the food is SOOO good...instead of food given to you on a plastic tray (where main course dessert bread salad are all-in-one tray), the business class food is served one course after another...on nice China instead of plastic!!!

woohoo i really had a blast on the plane!!! kudos to my dad for being such an angel :D haha he had to squash himself in the tiny seat at economy while i sat on large sofa, oh WAIT i forgot to mention this, the business class floor located on the 2nd level of the plane....yesh!!

oh the weather here is quite chilly...thank goodness i have my gorgeous zara coat!! haha so woon and naifen, if you're reading this..here's a BIG HUG to both of you!! everytime i wear this coat, i'll be reminded of you two :) :) :)

ohoh i must use this opportunity to thank everyone for coming to see me off at the airport :D:D:D
yesh this entry is dedicated to you all!!!
so to: naifen, zhiwen, woon, kane, felyna, qinyou, lippy, charmaine, cynthia, wenjia, erntheng, clement, alvin, suzy, sohee, huixian, rebecca, zhiqi, benben, aravin, louis, weekuan, wenjie, kangkang, milton, xiaohui, jinyang, jocelyn....

i'm very happy that you all took the trouble to travel to changi :) and thank you for the parting gifts!!! i read the letters while the plane took off...and i just kept crying and laughing at the same time...boos like same crazy girl...
the point is...i know i'm very very very extremely incredibly lucky to have all of you as my friends :D

and to my family....thank you for coming down too!!! yumin!! you must help thank matthew and qibin they all k?? :D:D:D

ok i shall sign out now. miss you all already.
boos...

registering for classes...ARGH!!!!!

2006-08-31T19:36:00.000-07:00

argh...i hate the fact that california is 15 hours BEHIND singapore!! this means that if i want to call anyone back home at...let's say 930pm singapore time...i have to drag myself out of bed by 630am california time :( there is no way i can wake up that early!! so.....to all my dearest friends, we might have to rely heavily on email to stay in contact...so PLS check ur inbox regularly okae!! :)

i'm feeling really groggy now. i still look like a puffer fish, my jaw still hurts everytime i open WIDE and....my eyes can't stay open. thanks to the fact that i stayed up till 3am trying to register for my classes at uc davis!!! speaking of classes, guess what!! haha i signed up for anthropology classes!! wanted to take up japanese but all the classes were taken up...nvm shall try again next semester!! NOW my class schedule is more packed. lessons start at 9am for me EVERYDAY. ok ok ok shall not bore you with the details of my schedule :)

oh!! this vintage shirt is quite nice right? i remember buying something similar from newurban male...50 bucks!! i saw this tee online and it was selling in the US for 20sing bucks!!! OMG!!! i am going to raid their vintage tee dept!! and yes, i'll buy some back for everyone here in singapore :)

all this shirt talk reminds me of this interesting convo i had with this guy (super cute :P) working at newurbanmale...
GUY: with ur new card, you can purchase our products online for a discounted rate!
ME: oh that's great!! but wait, i'm flying to the US so if i purchase anything online, you'll ship them over right?
GUY: yes, that's right!
ME: which means i have to pay for shipping fees???
GUY: correct!
ME: oh but all ur shirts are imported from the US right? so......u'll be shipping US goods from singapore back to US.....
GUY: er..yah...
ME: erm................okae.....

so at the end of that conversation (which left me very puzzled), i concluded that i am just going to send all my purchases to my house in singapore and collect them all when i get back during the holidays!!!

AAHH!! ok i have to stop now or else i'll be late for lunch with my favourite aunt!!

happy balloon!

2006-08-30T20:22:00.000-07:00

haha i love this picture!! this balloon was filled with helium and we released it on august 19 (heh woon and naifen should have very fond memories of this day :P) i want colourful marble helium balloons too!!!

swollen jaw & lazy afternoons

2006-08-30T09:13:00.000-07:00

hokay!! only 9 days left in my super comfy home..and how did i spend my past few days?? lazing at home watching KOREAN dramas...haha specifically 'my lovely samsoon'...

my jaw is killing me...had to extract 5 teeth!! 5!!! usually you only have 4 wisdom teeth right? but i am an anomaly....i have 5....the fifth one was buried deep in my gums!! which meant that the dentist had to dig much deeper into my gums to get the last one out...boos....it was SOOOOOO painful :( i took 12 painkillers right after my operation...my pain threshold is so tiny....next time when i give birth, i think i have to consume 20948329492385329843294089 painkillers!!!!!!!

my jaw is getting more swollen...i look like a puffer fish....boos....woon you are going to laugh at me on friday!!!! and if my jaw still hurts, i'll end up ordering soup for dinner......

and to all my j3 choir pals....no cameras are allowed on saturday....i cannot have anyone of you taking a pic of my puffy face!!!

okae my virgin post shall end now. till next time!!! :D