Oh. my. god. the most fucked up thing happened today. It goes like this:
After class a few of us ran for the bus as it was about to leave the bus stop and then after us this lady came on. The bus driver told her to step off as there was a yellow line near the door and the bus was pretty packed with people, but she refused because clearly, we could snuggle up towards the back. & so after that, she drove off and the woman was still rather pissed that the driver kept asking her to get off the bus. She was like "she can kiss my black ass.. that's why I'm at cornell so I don't have to be a bus driver".. ouch! The driver was also having one time big menopause and sped through all the turns and was like "if you're over the yellow line I'm gonna lose my fucking license". Anyway the bitching didn't stop even when there was more space and the lady was sitting down. When we got to the stop that almost everyone had to alight, the driver called the police and held us hostage and refused to open the doors. Like one guy said, "it's like in the movie speed". After like 10 mins, the driver finally gave up the stand off and get this-- she walked out of the bus. I think she quit. So everyone had to alight and the driver was walking damn far away while the police cars that she called arrived. Then there were people copying her bus number and calling the bus service to complain. Maybe she got arrested for abandoning her bus. I was so happy I caught the bus.

Jia lat. My grades are so bad, I think I'm gonna get a warning letter at the end of the semester. Maybe I'll blame it on 2 years of ns and say that I got stupid. I'm sure everyone's complaining about the same things, that they're very stressed and they can barely keep up and they have no life besides mugging in the library and in the room, so there's no point adding to the complaints. However, I'm doubly screwed this week-- I'm supposed to be reading a novel for class but the store was out of stock so I don't have it and my prof agrees that I am in big trouble.. and I mixed up the bill payment date and I'm now late for payment. Note to self- do not procrastinate! Do not do work on the bed and oversleep the next morning! Do not spend your friday night watching desperate housewives! Do better for the next prelim. Drink more frappucino. Call home. Make more friends. Perhaps the opposite is true-- that I have been spending too much time slacking away, as these photos will attest to.


Doing a road trip is very fun unless you have to travel across several states in a span of four days and have unreliable and confusing map directions that make you go on endless highways and then take forever to find an exit to u-turn.

Salem sucked. Do not go there. The witch musuem was crap too.

Wrentham's factory outlets were retail therapy heaven. I love the calvin klein clothes. And a ralph lauren polo for 19 US dollars? Now I regret not buying more stuff..but it's ok, I'll make it to woodbury one day.


<-- Frank Gehry rocks! I was driving so I couldn't take better pictures of the building. Driving rocks larh.. can hit 85 miles per hour on the interstate.. but a few of us got either pulled over by the police or a warning, so I didn't dare speed so much. Boston was wet and cloudy and downright depressing. Didn't go into the city center cuz we didn't plan for it. MIT was ugly and sad looking. Harvard looked nicer and harvard square had a good asian restaurant-- the psuedo authentic chinese rice with garlic chilli and char kway teow made the 7 hour drive worth it.

Besides the first night when we played poker, we went back to the hotel everynight and everyone took out their laptops or textbooks and started doing work for the next few hours. It was misery.

Ben and Jerry's ice cream factory. Not too much to see.. definitely not like charlie and the chocolate factory. It only came with 2 small cups of free ice cream.

Got lost in this bloody corn maze for 3 hours. See the indian head? There was only like one way in and out but we thought we were on the right track so we spent lots of time inside. Two times we went back to the start point. But after we came out there was a mini golf course and we used the sticks to play hockey/floorball instead. That was fun, but because it was cold I had a runny nose within a few minutes of running around.

Kim!! haha.

++Let me contribute to the madonna hype. I've been listening to the new single 'hung up' and it's indeed fun and infectous. Get ready for the media onslaught.

zhenjn [ brownie factory ] says:
post photo !

I know it looks like I'm living a very decadent life and travelling more than studying but I am really behind on my work now and I am rather stressed. I screwed up one of my prelims. I am spending a lot of money. But then all the road trips were totally worth it. I miss new york city-- there is no other place I would rather be. I swear after the 6 years I'm going to find work here and buy a cool bachelor loft overlooking manhattan.



After dinner at a japanese restaurant we were given stuff to make our own cotton candy. We ended up having candy all over our faces.





I'll never be sick of times square-- the neon billboards, the traffic, the roadside artists, the people on the streets. Central Park was a bit disappointing though, no affordable cafes to hang around, eat breakfast and watch people.. and not enough cute dog walking people.



Members of the falungong.


These are not the coolest group photos heh.

Brilliance! I was laughing out of control at some parts. The whole production was top notch. There were too many showstopping moments to note. I wanna I wanna I wanna go broadway again..

Next week- boston.