Peace Shall Prevail

So the story goes like this (I think): After years of war and sacrifice, King Philippe finally secured the peace of his ancient enemy. As a young man, the glory of battle drove the King, but as the day approaches when his son will inherit the crown, the good King longs for only peace. On a mission for his father the King, Prince Tristan must leave his bride in the King’s care and ride to Leone. With hope for peace in the realm, he travels to sign a treaty that will free the two kingdoms from the harness of war. On the other hand, Princess Leonore longs for the return of her husband, the Prince.

Then, I don't know why, the knights started to fight for victory. I'm pretty sure they didn't explain that part well enough.

Anyhow, essentially, at Medieval Times, you have dinner while you watch people fight, jostle and perform in front of you!

Both Qian Hui and I were really excited to take our seats as the story began. As we stepped into the building, we couldn't help it but to "Ohhhhhhh and Ahhhhhh" as we

inched our way nearer to the performance arena.

Needless to say, we couldn't resist taking pictures of the waitresses in medieval outfits =p

Given that dinner was at the Medieval Times, you obviously eat without any cutlery. So we drank the soup like those mighty warriors from the olden days...... gulp it all down in one breath!

Now the story really begins... Knights gathered in the arena in front of us :)

They gave us half a chicken as the main course. MY GOD. We really ate like those people from the olden days.

Migs looking really famished. He gobbled up the chicken within minutes.

Knights getting ready to fight. Charge comrades!

The knights riling up the crowd!

And this is us at the end of the show. Yeay!
The royal family reunited :)

Oh, and not to forget, the knight's flower! He tossed it towards the audience and we caught it!

And this is me fantasizing about the handsome knights. Duh. haha.

Shoutout!

Dear Amy and Maura,

If you're ever gonna read this, this post is specially for you! :)

Thanks for being the first two people from my MGT class to read my awesome bloggie!

Just so you know, I'm not a creeper, though I took this picture from Amy's facebook profile.

I heart this two lovely ladies here because they heart me a lot as well :)

Chopsticks

So it was Carmen's bday like 2 weeks ago. We decided to have a downtown dinner at Chinatown this weekend to give her a surprise belated bday gift! :)

I was really excited for this downtown trip coz i finally get to go SOMEWHERE with my pink scarf. While waiting for the train, which took ages to come, we took pictures of ourselves again! We were loud, but no one cared coz we couldn't care less. Bleh =p

Waiting for the train...

Me and bro migs! :)


Me and roomie Grace Grace.

Girls Time. Oh yeah! Apparently, Amanda was trying to be really serious when I said, "OK, Serious Time. Everyone Smile!" She didn't hear the last two words -_-

Girls Time, take 2!
The bday girl was trying really hard to reach into Nate's back. That's Nate looking really ticklish.

Guys:"Vi, that's not right of you to pimp." Seriously guys?

I know what you're thinking. Nope, I'm not crazy, not insane, not trying to seduce Amanda either =p

So when we arrived at Banana Leaf, a Malaysian Restaurant, I don't know why my American friends were really excited to see chopsticks. My friend Jacky even offered to buy the chopsticks from the waiter. I know it's cool, but why would u want to buy an old pair of chopsticks from a restaurant?

See what I mean? I can't even take a proper picture without chopsticks in the picture. Lol.

Chopsticks again.

Now enough of chopsticks. Here comes the yummy part! Real GREASY stuff.

I chose PadThai. Not exactly Malaysian, but something Asian! :D

Karl just can't eat properly with chopsticks, can he?

Now that's me, really pro with chopsticks!

Yeay! Hell yeah! I can eat with chopsticks!

Then the guys tried to be funny and started to spoonfeed each other.

I do it with style, with grace. I don't need spoons, nor chopsticks!

Last feeding couple of the night. Amanda looks like she's feeding a kid. I like how she has her mouth wide wide open. Haha.

The beginning of a long long journey...

History was made yesterday. The outcome of the presidential election, for sure, was far from anticlimatic. History seldom is anyway.

As far as I can recall, Obama was announced as the unofficial winner yesterday at 11pm as the counts kept coming in. It was really exciting watching the results rolling in every minute on TV. I was over at the boys' apartment (when I say the boys', I mean Karl, Migs, Nate, Dan, Jeff and Rob's place!) This being my first American presidential election, I had a really tough time understanding how the voting system works (I still don't really understand today! haha).

So through my conversation with my friends, and through reading the newspapers today, I suddenly felt really emotional about this whole election. It's not like I'm an American, so why should I feel that way? Well, Obama's historical victory really forces us to reexamine our attitudes about race. And intolerance.

Having an African American as the President of a predominatly white country for the first time in history is profound. I'm really happy for my American friends. In the past, African Americans weren't allowed to be close with the whites, but yesterday, Americans saw a glimpse of the promised land.

I'm proud of my friends who voted, though some were really torn.

One of my friends, who is a white, said that she wasn't sure whether she COULD vote for Obama because he's black. But she disliked McCain. So who did she vote for? I don't know. Don't ask me. lol.

Then there were some other really passionate college students who were very much disillusioned by the the state of economy that America is in right now. You know their choice :)

Seriously, I didn't think I would live to see an African American become the president of United States. I'm so proud to witness history being made yesterday!

But there remains a serious question to be addressed. Would Obama's victory signify the end of racism in America? Most optimistic supporters say maybe. I beg to differ though. I say America is far from it. Not everything in the realm of race relations changes with Obama's victory. It's really too early to gauge the impact.

Take the incident that happened in my school last week (yes, u read that right, my school, Saint Joseph's University).

Excerpt from The Hawk Newspaper:

The depiction of a black person being lynched in a McShain classroom is intimidating and threatening. It is convenient that Public Safety and Security gets the blame with this one. This incident is only the needle that burst the bubble of frustration surrounding the multitude of discriminatory acts that take place at all levels of Saint Joseph's University.

Since my freshman year here, I have had student organizations skip my table while handing out fliers in the cafeteria to all of the surrounding tables. I have been in Campion's 3rd floor computer lab, in conversation with another student of color avidly discussing the next semester's class registration when a Caucasian female student had the audacity to ask whether we actually attended the university.

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Having talked to some African American friends on campus, many have expressed their frustration about the discrimination issue here in college. When I first came here last year, I thought discrimination against Asians were bad enough. But the recent case?? That is worse. Unnacceptable.

That's why I say, America has a long way more to go. Americans have to grasp the idea that diversity covers more than race. Diversity also includes differences in gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, political philosophy, etc. If people can accept gays or people with really diversed political views, why can't they accept African Americans? We have to realize that white is also a racial group, and like the others, contains great ethnic diversity (e.g. Irish American, Italian American).

So, let's not get too excited with Obama's victory. There's more work to be done, and as members of a Jesuit University in United States, let's start small from school and make this a better society to be in for all. Perhaps 10 years down the road, things might change. Let's keep our fingers crossed! :)

A quickie post

I'm so excited to share this with everyone, especially my mummy who's gonna read this post anytime from now to the near future! I'm not making up my grades, ok? Hehe..

My Finance test : 26/25 =p. I'm such a nerd! Who cares... Bleh.

Haha. my prof is so cute. He actually wrote that down: Sorry, max possible points 26.... Perhaps he wanted to say: Sorry I can't give u anymore extra points? Heh.

~ End of my post! ~

Pumpkins for Halloween anyone?

As compared to last year, I heart this Halloween so much more than the last one. I didn't get to dress up last year because I was such a boring and nerdy kid, but I've decided to join in the festive mood this year!

This was me last year....

This year!.... cowgirl without the hat =p

Halloween is special this year with the Phillies winning the World Series in baseball at the same time! My exam was cancelled on Friday because some kid in my class emailed the professor asking for the favour to attend the parade downtown. Americans professors are simply toooooooooo lovable! How can they refuse this awesome favor? =p

I started off with a pre-celebration at Farrales's place with fellow ASA members! :)

Stacy the handygirl? I like her teeth.

Julius Ceasar trying to kill the father? Oh god.

My fav phillipino...Migs as one of the Jonas Brother.

Charlie and the angels.

Asa's future e-board members. Hell yeah!

I can't believe they walked on the streets like this. I would be scared =/

And then I decided to end Halloween by coming together with the gang. I love, love, love them so much! They make me cry, make me laugh and they make me smile all the time :)

Introducing Mary Sarajean Black as Cher! Sweeeeeeeeet.

Nathan Hart as the other Jonas Brother.

Teresa the sexy lifeguard.

Dan as Dan. lol.

Dan and Miguel.... Expressing their roomie's love for each other =p

The gods and Emo kid, Karl.

And finally, Moi, the cowgirl!

So Miguel got a new board game , and we decided to try it out!

Tada!!! Sexual Trivia. Coolest game on earth... Points are calculated in orgasms... U get 10 orgasms for getting the right answers o_0

Yours sincerely looking really shy with the sex manual. I paiseh leh.

I have no idea what's going on. lol. Emo kid trying to feed the God grapes? Geez, that sounds really wrong.

Sex Trivia was followed by pumpkin-carving when some of the boys watched a horror movie. Mind you, I love horror shows, but The Strangers was simply toooooooo stupid. I spent my precious $10 during the summer to catch it at the theatres. It was sooo lame.I told myself I'm not gonna watch that movie again, EVER.

While Nate carved his pumpkin, a couple of us just camwhored along the way =p

Attempt no #1 to act dao.

Attempt no#2.

Karl Wicks the emo kid. What the hell?

Nate: I carve I carve I carve.

My turn to try out some of my superb carving skills!

Don't play play with me!

I have no idea what I'm doing. seriuosly.

Finally, the end product - Z Pumpkin!