19 October, 2007

*469 - new york city

The weekend's here, again! It's hard to believe how quickly time's flying by. I've been totally slacking off since the Tuesday before fall break (ie. the day of my last prelim), and I seem to have spectacularly extended my 4-day fall break into a 3-week break.

Awesome. I'm not quite sure what I've been doing, actually, but it's been great and totally relaxing.

Getting back prelim results was fun (sometimes in a masochistic way);

As is dancing 3 times a week for Pandora, once a week for a salsa class, twice a week for a Christian dance group (that makes 6 times a week), and a couple of times over the past 2 weeks for our little performance for Makanmania tomorrow;

And talking to my academic advisor about purchasing silk underwear together online after we were done with the mandatory "How's HA141" "Good" "Ok, how about HA115" "Good" "Ok, HA165?" "Good" etc conversation;

Eating three toasted sandwiches and two cupcakes in a row (amongst many other things) at the Hotelie tailgate party;

Going apple picking after church (I learned that I had been drawing apple trees wrong my whole life - they're more like bushes than trees, really);

And doing various other random things like watching movies on Sergio's plasma TV with an amazing surround sound system, shopping online like crazy heehee, randomly popping by the Dairy Bar and eating the creamiest icecream in the world (produced by Cornell cows) on the coldest day ever, just chillin' with friends, etc etc etc.

The only time I remember studying in the midst of all that was yesterday, when Ryen called me up to study for Snow's 2nd prelim for about an hour (after which I went to sleep and woke up just in time for the prelim at 7.30 pm). And maybe one problem set, some group work, and a couple of readings for Snow's classes.

Unrelatedly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR. (: I was incredibly shocked that I actually managed to get through to you on the phone yesterday! Hope you're having a blast, and everyone in Singapore please give Justin a hug for me, ok? Hehe!

So, I don't even know what I'm writing about anymore, and this is where Professor Snow would write "Coherence? See Coursepack p 181-184" (or something like that). Extremely poor document design as well. This blog entry is clearly a communication failure.

To compensate for my incredibly poor writing skills, here are some of the NYC photos! Gotta love my "siblings", they make the best travel buddies ever (:

In Nicholas' room having a pre-departure snack


After a torturous 5 hour bus ride,
Miserably waiting for a cab when we realized we got off at the wrong stop omg.


In our hotel room!
Funny story: we nearly didn't have a room because they just couldn't find any records of "Evelyn Chan" or even "Chan" on their system. I made a million phonecalls trying to solve that problem and was extremely edgy and ready to punch somebody.
In the end, I found out that the problem was that someone misspelled my name as ...
ISLAM EHAN.
No kidding. Hahahaha.





We shopped till we dropped.
For the entire first day. Hahaha.
(I love how there are cute boxers in the background of this photo.)


The next day!
Our "let's dress up" day!
(Spot who's trying to intrude in this photograph)


Nicholas, Katie, Inchy, Evelyn <3


Me on the phone, going "er, hi, we can't find the bus stop"


Finally on the bus


Subway station




This encapsulates our main problem in NYC:
Getting pathetically lost.


The city!


Metropolitan Art Museum
(Spot the Evelyn)




Having a nice dinner together (:


No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane!!
Does anyone know where that comes from?
MARY POPPINS!!! (: (: (:


The Broadway show was the most amazing thing ever.
Plus, I've been in love with Mary Poppins ever since I was 4.


A dismal attempt at taking a photograph with Mary Poppins.
I LOVE MARY POPPINS SO MUCH squealll. Broadway is awesome.


Times Square by night
(Full of lights, crowded, polluted)


It seems that I regularly ruin otherwise perfectly nice photographs


I think it's funny how Inshita's so happy
while I'm all GET ME OUTTA HERE ...


Dancing in the sub, because we can


Chinatown!


The har gow I've been dreaming about


I looooove dim sum :D


Me: primitive fan ):
Nicholas: battery-operated automatic fan (:


Battery park


Our hilarious view of the statue of liberty
(Too lazy to queue for the boat!)


Empire state building


To end off the deluge of photographs:
This one is supposed to exemplify my main activity in NYC -
Way too much shopping


And then there was a very funny incident the night before we came back, and we've sworn each other to secrecy so I can't say what happened. But it was completely hilarious, and at one point everyone started acting kind of intoxicated (on donuts, I believe) and loony and I felt myself slowly going insane and ohh it just cracks me up thinking about it.

Hehehe.

Love you guys :D