10 September, 2007

*457 - Day #2 and PREPARE

Work hard, play hard. Simple philosophy, but so hard to go by! The very fact that I'm blogging at this moment is a very clear reflection of my downward spiral into doom.

The past week was kind of rough. I stayed up until 4 am once, and 5 am once. But it was all in good fun, and I'm still alive today so (: Gotta get ready for church in a while, then it's off to the library to mug till the day is over. Friday was spent in someone's apartment eating pizza and drinking margaritas with the dancers, and then meeting the FCS peeps for a quick worship session etc, and then off to Chairman Mao's place again to play Settlers WHICH I WON, and then having heart palpitations into the wee hours of the night as I debated how much money to risk in my latest business venture.

Slept and woke up 5 hours later for lunch (strictly speaking, breakfast) with Ju, who then ran with me in the rain carrying my printer and stack of plain paper back to Balch, and then I dried myself off and hopped into Henry's car and we went on our adventure to Elmira, stopping on the way to prance in the cornfields, and getting VERY lost on the way back, but we made it back in less than 2 hours I guess (before midnight!)

The days before were something like study in library with Gary, have dinner with Gary, study again with Gary :P And other random things like having donuts for Snow's morning class, running back to my dorm and back to school in my heels because I left something in my room, randomly studying in the library between classes usually with Katie and Inchywinchy (not on purpose but we generally end up meeting by chance), lunches in the same place everyday with Raina (good lunches though), too many buffet dinners with Katie, working on too many assignments, doing way too much online shopping, and I need to end this sentence because I'm going to be late for church.

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Well I typed that yesterday morning, and I was about 2 minutes late to meet Joseph/Joshua in the carpark but the others were later sooooo ...

Haha! Well I do hope that this won't make me late this morning because being even 1 minute late for Snow's 8.40 class is not a good idea at all.

Now for a few photos from New Jersey to PREPARE at Cornell.

Egyptian statues at Princeton


They're called the IVY league for a reason


Funny pictures: In the first one, I pose gleefully for the photo.
However you may observe that the next step I take will cause me to fall off the edge.
Hence the embarrassed laughter in the 2nd photo.


Headless statues


Bibimbap (at the restaurant which said "Crap stick" on the menu, ie. Crab stick)






In Cornell, attending PREPARE:

My trolley-load of shopping


Imagine my horror when I walked in to my room


Going with the whole antique feel


It's good that I have a sink, but ...


Guess what this is? Not a prison - it's the elevator!!
It's like titanic; You open the door, open the gate, slam both shut, and press the button.


My "family" <3 Big brother Henry and siblings Nicholas Inshita Katie.


The most touristy photo ever, in Collegetown.


Libe slope


I LOVE THIS SQUIRREL


In the male bathroom together with Yeung and Nicholas HAHA
Check out the water pump thing, no faucet!


Clock tower. I love the chimes.


At one of the parks






Yeung! (She's from HK and Korea!)


6 degree water, no wonder he's hesitating


TOO MANY PHOTOS AND I NEED TO GO