*503 - first week in VP

I'm not really that emo actually. I think it must have been the combined effect of sleepiness, boredom, and Norah Jone's crooning. My mind runs wild sometimes.

So.

I can't believe 1 week of winter break is over. What I've accomplished? Nothing much, and it's great :D I love this feeling of knowing that I have nothing important to do, no deadlines to meet, and nothing to be stressed out about. Plus, the weather has been really decent despite the snowstorm forecasts: just a little below zero, a bit of sun now and then, light snow occasionally, not too much wind - just lovely.

Some old pictures before they get even older and expire like the milk in Kenneth's fridge:

Katie's birthday! (: I love Katie to bits; I don't know how I would have got through the semester without her! Awww Katie <3 Can't wait for Cancun.

Squished in the car


The mandatory wish-making


PREPARE family reunited once again (:


Girls (:


Pimpin' in the cold


And one week ago, Nicholas and Alison left for good :'( So sad! But it's not that bad because Singapore is so near to HK anyway, and I fully intend to drop by over summer next year. Let's hope my internship plans won't take up my entire summer.

Nicholas' claws ROARRR


So glad he performed for me before he left - phenomenal, really


I <3 Nicholas!!


Alrighty.

So to sum up what I've been doing over the past week or so in the ghost town of Ithaca: making earrings and settling Elisa and Evelyn stuff, eating broccoli, talking to the family & the boy, photo excursions, dancing in the snow, eating broccoli, preparing and sending out Christmas gifts ($50 postage costs omg craziness), dealing with resumes and internships (shudder), emailing and MSNing and facebooking (duh), going for a jog outside in sub-zero temperatures, talking to Wentong for hours and hours :D, watching movies, online shopping (oops), and eating a lot of broccoli.

Well, according to Maddy, broccoli is a Super Food, so all's good. Wentong and I are on limited resources because we're both leaving in a few days (her: tomorrow, me: Monday), and we can't buy too much food or we'll have to throw everything out. So all our meals have mostly been permutations of (a lot of) broccoli, carrot sticks, tomatoes, lettuce, ham, and eggs. (Except for that glorious evening when I ordered in a greasy 8" honey barbeque cheesesteak, drool.) Less shabby than it sounds, actually!

Now we're heading off to the Farmer's Market. I love our little excursions around Ithaca (: