Thursday, May 29, 2008

Memorial Day Weekend with sista!

I'm back to my old traveling ways! This time round, it's Newport @ Rhode Island. lol. nah, actually I was just tagging along with my sister :)
I must say Rhode Island is simply awesome! It has beautful beaches, ports, and mansions! :) I just can't imagine living in such a big house. Perhaps having a butler would be nice eh?? But god knows how long it would someone to walk from one end of the house to the other end. Can you imagine running across the house just to use the potty? I can't. That's why I still prefer a small tiny cosy house where everything is within line of sight. Whatever I have in the house can be seen :)

So where the hell is Rhode Island?? It's a little bit above Connecticut, which is slightly above New York. Ahhh... whenever I say New York, people would be like..... "ahhhhh, new york... I know where that place is!" Like real lor... if i don't say new york, u wont even know that rhode island is at the east coast lor.

anyway, Rhode Island is the 10th state I've "conquered" here! Let me see... so far, I've visited California, Wisconsin, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. My next few stops over summer would be Indiana, Illinois and Florida!!!

So, like I said, Rhode Island is gorgeous. It's totally worth a visit :)

Me and sista! :)



Breathtaking sea view...


Last but not least, big mansions like this were in all over the place!

My first run in "N" months

So today, I looked at myself in the mirror and I was flabbergasted!!!
I guess my parents and sister were right about one thing... about 2 months ago, they visited me and the first thing they said was: Geez, you're so much fatter now.
UGGHHH.
So now you know why I was flabbergasted.
I joined my roomie, Laura for a run today. W-O-W. Friends who know me would gasp as well. Viz is running!!! I HATE RUNNING. hehe. Hate that sweaty feeling after running for soooooooo long. But oh well, I guess I can't complain since I'm not in a very good shape right now.
I felt horrible after running. Hehehe. maybe it's becoz I haven't runned for so long??
Anyway, I made a pact with my roomie. She's a health-freak. So we decided to make running a daily affair! HAHA. if only she knew. I think I won't last, but I will try! :)
My goal for now? :- To slim down before I fly home!
Right now. I've got this list on my table...
My motivation to run more regularly:
1) Exercise improves MY mood
2) Exercise combats chronic disease
3) Exercise helps ME manage MY WEIGHT (plus plus bonus!!)
4) Exercise promotes sleep (Oh yesh, beauty sleep is important)
5) Exercise can be - gasp- fun! (HAHA, hopefully :)
Please wish me luck, folks. Thank you :)

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The things we do when we get bored...


现在放大假... 真是的,在学校里人影都不见得多...快闷死了!
eh?? BUT I have my taiwanese, HK and chinese dramas to help me kill time! hehe :D It's time to brush up on my chinese and cantonese, else my dear 猪朋狗友 (you know who you are) will start laughing at my rusty chinese and canto conversational skills again... HMPPHH!
anyway, Chris Lim finally made his grand arrival in Philly last week... It's so funny how people meet and become friends. I met Chris during one of my scholarship interviews, and subsequently we kept in touch with a flurries of short emails and facebook msgs :)
True enough, I was uber excited when Chris came... It never felt so good before conversing in Singlish/ Malaysian-lish with someone from home!! :) Chris actually popped a serious question which got me thinking about my roots...
"Do you actually remember how to write/ speak Malay?"
Good question.
I tried to answer him in Malay, but failed miserably... Sigh. My Malay has gone down the drain. I've always told myself that I would read something in Malay once in a while, but erm, I think the last time I've actually read a full article in Malay was like 2-3 years ago! Geez. Time to brush up on my Malay!
So, after chit-chating for a couple of hours, we started to camera-whore ourselves... SERIOUSLY, I didn't know Chris likes to take pictures... (Chris, if you are reading this, please don't be offended!)

Cheeky little fellow, trying to shoot me eh??



Hide hide!


What the hell is he looking at??

Anyway Chris, if you're reading this post, just wanna say I had fun hanging out with ya :)


Chris' departure at the train station :)

Monday, May 19, 2008

St Mary's

Ok. So everyone's been asking me for pictures of my temporary room for the summer. Here you go lor.. Nothing special. It's a big big house with 3 floors, couple of rooms and ONE kitchen only. So cooking space and time is limited!


My side of the room...

Obviously, St Mary's is old. Look at the air-conditioner below. Needless to say, the style and model speak volumes about the age of the building =P


Actually, it's pretty exciting to live in this house. They say it's haunted! oh yesh, haunted! There are many local legends and ghost stories surrounding St. Mary's. Most know about "the ghost" through word of mouth. Thank goodness my room is right next to the entrance of the house. If anything happens, I'll be the first one out of that house. No doubt about that! bleh :P

In fact, there was an article in my school's weeklynewspaper about this house. Read on peeps... The girls who were interviewed are my close friends, and it's really freaky to hear the stories first-hand from them.

Excerpt from SJU Hawk's newspaper...

........One night at the beginning of the school year, Mary Black, '11, asked her roommate, Teresa Penetar, '08, if she believed in the ghost said to haunt the place. She replied, "no." The next morning, when the roommates woke up, there was a startling sight on the wall. Eight feet from the ground, a cross was drawn on the wall directly above Penetar's bed. The cross was in what looked like pencil and appeared to be six inches by six inches. A perfectly straight cross. It was up too high for someone to reach easily without waking Penetar. The women lock their door at night even though they are friends with most of the other residents.

Even if the door were open, it would be nearly impossible for someone to reach so high and to draw a cross with a perfect intersection. ......

(Trust me, I've seen that cross personally countless times, and I must say, it's pretty scary.)

Stories continues...

....He also recounts some stories he has heard from friends. Someone once told him that her radio randomly came on and was tuned to a religious station. Another resident described all of her furniture being moved around all the drawers of her dressers being mysteriously opened...

...Hot chocolate is the topic of the next story. Penetar was drinking hot chocolate one day in her room. She put the cup down on the bed frame while she was doing homework. Suddenly she moved slightly and the cup of hot chocolate sprung from the bed and splattered monumentally over the entirety of the bedroom. "It was a huge force even though I only tapped it," Penetar said.Black stands up on her bed across the room and points to the blinds. She said she cleaned hot chocolate off the wall on her side of the bedroom, and the shades. There were splatters where she could not reach. In addition to the hot chocolate, Black and Penetar explained that things have been falling off the walls unexpectedly and abruptly since the women moved in. Black said her wooden sculpture has fallen from the wall in the middle of the night even though it is secure...

...The stairway up to the third floor is winding, narrow, and hidden between the walls. Everything is a dark wooden color and looks as though it has not been touched for as long as the building has been around. There are also many mysteriously locked doors...

U say la, freaky or not??


糟糕,写了这么多,今晚肯定睡不着了!