a rundown of things

these few days have been more of a frenzied hustle than a rest period for me.. geez.. with my parents arriving and fussing over the cold, my sis currently acting like a complete retard (that she is - further confirmed today.. hehehe)　

now she's threatening to throw me out of the her room. geez.

vancouver has been absolutely bleary and miserable (despite what cody insists) with the weather varying from miserable drizzle to lin-ken type of moping downpour (not that i am least bit laughing at him. hehe). honestly, and with the sun setting at 5pm there hasn't been much fun in the sun and i haven't been able to take much shots of places like granville island and the likes.

oh wellz.. i realise the most fun part of things is meeting people, interacting with them and man.. preventing my dad from overinteracting with them. had a fabulous christmas dinner @ my sister's friend's place with much christmas caroling, silly games and comparing canada, america and singapore.. then it was meeting up with my dad's old friend who honestly has a personality that pendulum-swings between utmoust piousness and schoolboy mischeviousness.. and yeah.. he's an absolute riot and fun to be with.

so yeah whilst the location is disappointing, the company is a blast. =).. plus i get to have my 'me' time occasionally and start planning world domination next semester.. hehehe.. as i have always said before a semester, you're gonna see a new frank next semester.

lol.. let's see whether even an iota of that statement above would ring true

the fun of it all

really have had so much fun these few days, first with the rekindling of the youthful side of everyone @ disneyworld, getting overwhelmed by the fantastic fireworks and light-ups everynight, me + cheewei laughing at sheryl's photo-shots, taking silly emo shots around epcot's world showcase. then heading to NYC, chillin' at an uber-cool trendy gershwin hotel, hitting the streets around soho, east village, greenwich village, chinatown, eating delicious jap food + fusion jap food, having a blast of a shopping time with new found great shopping pals, then arguing like crazy over movies to watch and concluding that we ain't movie pals. then finally it's a complete 360 degrees change in vancouver, staying at my sis' place and enjoying the much better weather, relaxing and chillin' at her place, going for fantastic christmas eve parties and the likes..

ahh.. life.

reflections

well.. this sem is officially over, from the moment i put down my pencil in disgust over the 303 paper and laughed my way whilst handing it in. oh well. hahahaha

aniwez, things really went by way too fast this sem. was completely steeped in work and wow.. can't say i really enjoyed the sem much. geez. hopefully the next will be better.. kinda wanna do more stuff and have WAY more fun.

but yeah.. now for the hols first!

cold and miserable

it's a frigid -9 degrees out there and the snow has blanketed everything, transforming the scenery into yet another white winter wonderland. i'm honestly still in awe at the way the snow just magically makes everything so.. beautiful, so pure, so rustic and so untouched. you feel as if life itself has deserted the area somewhat.

oh wellz. though the cold is a dratted thing.

aniwez i'm in the midst of studying in the final week, and i'm currently ONE DAY BEHIND schedule. arggh. doesn't bode well for me. i'm torn behind hastening my psych studies or just plunging into them and clearing the first hurdle first. hmmz. ok, you don't need to hear me yak about this. hehe.

i'm more frustrated with just how things have turned out this sem. i'm honestly not the sentimentalist. i'm like the pathetic mimic. the guy that wants to be something yet honestly cannot fathom why he wants to be that. the guy that pulls so much psychological ploys and plays yet wonders what the heck he does that for. the guy who orchestrates schemes and plans to do this and that, yet wonders if ultimately, we are shackled by our inherent choices, behavior and nature.

i can't make things reconcile. and i'm paying for it. i just feel.. sigh. confused.

back to the slopes! (and the books)

woot! final week of this sem just ended! besides several glimpses of fun this sem has been DREARY with the capital D. but well, now it's time to regroup study hard and do well for finals! =)

played like 4 hours of settler's yesterday and hit the slopes today @ greek peak to fill my fun quota before a week of mugging.. heehee.. settlers, to me, is one of the fun-nest games ever cos there's so much psychology involved in the game and it's so much of talk. and snowboarding was pretty painful and disheartening initially, as we only attempted alpha slope (noob man!) and fell like crazy initially on the icy slopes. ouch! but well.. then the muscle memory kicked in and things became much better.

so well.. 3 finals to go! countdown starts!

photos ed

random stuff done through the semester...


our 303 class prelim 2 scores curve... amazingly low and the prof is very proud of it


dinner at banfi's.. courtesy of desmond and josh.. hehe


our school changing color


making apple pies

then today's thanksgiving dinner.. courtesy of all our master chefs.. le chomp le chomp le yum! our menu included:


my dish! - smoke salmon bruschetta with pesto sauce and tomatoes


asparagus wrapped in smoked bacon with hollandaise sauce


tur-duck-ken.. chicken stuffed in duck stuffed in turkey.. omg.. this is good


there's just too much food to name.. but there was also ribs, haddock, salmon with lemon pepper sauce, brownies, pasta and much much more..

haha.. we still have tons of food left behind.. and my two days of gym has been officially wasted.. lol.. oh wellz.. yum!

the pre-thanksgiving edition

thanksgiving dinner is the only glimmer amidst one of the bleakest thanksgiving celebrations for me yet again.. as much as i dislike travelling and get all tired out, staying at ithaca isnt exactly fun...

oh well, up to me to carve something fun for myself i guess... =) i'm gonna be doing some salmon bruschetta for thanksgiving tmr.. hopefully things pan out, then it's black friday shopping!!! woot!

last black friday was kinda a letdown because we went to jersey gardens and gq got all pukey and sick and we wasted tons of time, plus all the winter wear i wanted wasnt in the stores.. so it was kinda bummer...

this time i think im sticking to the simple pmall and seeing what i can get SLOWLY. i kinda browsed through the online store catalogues and found one ensemble that i wanna create for this winter.. lol.. and yeah, i needa find the salvation army dump place to recycle my old clothes... lol

oh.. and today was yet another ian/cherie/yk/sam etc outing to madeleine's! food was pretty good, but according to me, a bit little considering what i had at zaza's the day before (pan seared duck + creme brulee).. josh/me/yk shared a duck two-fit dish and diver scallops then splurged on the most scrumptious desserts ever - chocolate mousse cake, some fantastic three-tiered cake filled with grand mariner, baileys and whiskey and oh.. chocolate creme brulee.. which pretty much filled me with ecstasy cos it was so good.. lol.. yum!

300th post!

apple pie-mania!

snow started falling this weekend in cheery (yah rite) welcome of ian and cindy from stanford).. geez. aniwez we went applie-pie making at mike and marsha's house today and well.. it was fun + a great reunion!.. though the poking wasnt exactly fun.

rehashed in the army-favourite foosball, played some wierd trading game in which cindy kept winning, ate tons of delicious squash soup with garlic bread! yum! yeah, then was the apple pie making in which i managed to mangle several apples, roll a pretty decent dough crust and then trim the sides of the pie etc.. yeah but i couldn't do the ribbon design somehow.. -_-

the pies turned out delicious. joshie disagrees with me saying that it was too sweet but.. haha.. to me anything with cinammon = good. oh yeah.. and we also played with the absolutely friendly dog, toby. darn.. really wish i had a dog.

at nite was a hotpot celebration with hksa and ctas pple for the asia dragon's thing held last sat. i have to admit that whilst the organization wasnt exactly very good, the interaction was good la.. real fun mixing around with the hk pple and taiwan pple.. haha.. though it makes me really wanna go to hong kong!

hmm.. ok nothing much left to say.. so so glad that all my prelims are done with this sem.. can relac a bit, take a breather till the finals.. bleah..

the completely wrong time edition

this is so completely the wrong time to be blogging, considering i'm sandwiched between two horrific prelims, one that i have pretty much already tanked to the bottom of the ocean and the other still looms one day ahead.

geez. this is so sad.

aniwez, some very irrelevant trivia that I always wanted to know but never bothered to ask. (linken don't bother replying)

1. how to guys actually pull off wearing a scarf? as in.. how to fold until the seh way and not the way that marks you neck look enlarged?

2. how in the world do u pose for photos and ensure you don't look like a complete idiot/loser/fug. haha.. honestly, i think i shall shy away from photos from now on.. hehe.. it's just.. horrid. lol

arrgggh.. i'm going to sleep.


as per the pumpkin carving stint again.. this time i went for a more narcissistic and declarative pumpkin. lol

the materialistic and completely irreverant edition

hmm.. asia dragons just ended.. honestly i don't really ever want to do a food/organizing/entertainment thing for awhile.. it's.. tiring. i dunno whether its fulfilling but it's just kinda sad to be filled with stuff to do and see people eating... oh wellz.. i kinda just wanna enjoy the event once. haha

aniwez it was fun to see and chat with friends from hksa/ctas.. i kinda wanted to do this event just for this.. haha.. so oh wellz.. i'm not gonna complain anymore. =)

next week's hell week beckons. lab + ece 303 + ece 315 prelims. wheee. but well.. good news is that i'm 2 prelims and 3 finals away from orlando then vancouver! yippee

oh.. and my snowboard arrived few days ago.. i like! haha.. spent kinda quite alot this month with the phone and board.. but err.. hope it pays off and well.. i really have fun with it. =)

ok.. REALLY tired. gonna kunz.

oh. and on a side note, i'm kinda worried cos i slang way too much nowadays.. even with sgporeans.. wah.. go back sg sure kena suan.. haha

sick like a duck

typical.

the only week i'm free I go and fall sick.

maybe it's cos despite my proclamations that i was gonna sleep early every night, I inevitably wind up sleeping at 1++... stupid iphone is destroying my life with my incessant watching of youtube past sleeping hours.. lol

but i must say the iphone is an amazing distraction during class espcially if your TA insists on droning on and on about ridiculous stuff and tries to emulate the prof by saying stuff like "use intuition"... geez.

the materialistic life.. not.

haha... i've FINALLY struggled through the semester to reach a rest-stop... one week free of prelims. FINALLY. man.. i really thought i would pass out on friday after enduring YET another 3am - 4am night.

bleah. this IS really the worst semester for ECEs i think. really really hope things would get better next time. =)

aniwez, i haven't really updated but wow.. things HAVE happened. =)

makanmania came and flew by, consuming YET another few tens of hours of sleep with preparation and then slogging it out for the event itself. being the emcee was.. hmmz.. fun in a way, but it kinda sucks when your audience kinda doesn't pay attention. it kinda feels like you're whoring yourself out for attention. lol

then i lost my phone for the fall break. -_-.. and under pretty biased circumstances, i got the i-phone. which honestly i think, kinda fulfills what lik sin said about me owning gadgets that are pretty much smarter than me. haha.. it's really really cool, though the cost still hurts my pocket but.. wowz.. all the functions, the sleekness, the all-in-one entertainment and just the seh-ness in flicking buttons on the screen and so on.. wheee.. haha

what else? hmmz.. i'm gonna go get my snowboard soon.. can't wait for snow but kinda hating that it's getting cold. haha.. it's back to the preppy look of sweaters, collars and stuff. =)

oh yeah, then there was this whole turmoil with wanting to take a dual-degree in psych and ECE and me actually really nearing taking that step. but then after 3 whole hours on schedulizer trying to find a plausible schedule i gave up. thing is, psych courses are fun. and i think i like psych and am good at psych. but to ask me to take 48 upper level credits and 100 bloody arts credit just to get the psych major just ain't worth it. so i've decided that i'm just going to enroll for a surplus of psych classes and just enjoy myself. =) i kinda find that psych courses really suits people like me who tend not to be too technical, yet still wants to find out about of what like anti-aliasing and stuff mean. so yeah. =)

talking about double degree also makes me talk about how i really wanna spend my remaining years in cornell - not just studying away. it kinda really pisses me off and makes me sad the way this sem is completely going down the drain due to the appalling load from TWO courses. -_-. but well.. i dunno.. what do i want? i really do wanna mix around, know more people, hang out at starbucks (lol) and just.. really enjoy an enriching education here at cornell. watching caroline's concert today really really made me wanna do something in cornell. have an impact, and not just accelerate through 3 years and get outta here. i don't wanna do that. hmmz.. i dunno.. i'll just do my apply-for-tons of thing strategy again i think and see what God provides.. hmmz..

fall break?

pictures galore!


appelfest @ ithaca commons


caramelized apple, fry bread with apples and loads more! yum!

so then we set off for our road trip/fall break.


idyllic clayton, situated right next to the thousand islands..


dock to the thousand islands. we clarified a few things there: 1. an island is defined as any patch of rock with vegetation on it. 2. there are 18000 islands in the region of thousand islands actually 3. thousand island dressing DID come from here


fresh bread anyone?


up north, fall was indeed coming


we reached montreal @ 9+ and then headed straightaway for dinner!! here's the famous crepe suzette


our meal in full glory - crepes + fondue!


visiting montreal - notre dame cathedral


cobbled stone streets again!


inside notre dame basilica. it's kind of sad how commercialized the whole thing has become.


along the streets of montreal


pumpkins at atwater market


our days in montreal were short-lived, and somehow we all needed that dose of crappy capitalism. -_-. so we headed for vermont's famous ben and jerry's ice cream factory


peace, love and ice cream this way


ice cream graveyard - where rejected ice cream flavours lay. this ice cream met its demise because kahlua got too expensive. damn.


next up, lake placid @ adirondacks!


the required artsy shot


ruffles came along


driving round the adirondacks


these are flowers to sheryl. hehehe


nice contrast


lake placid


mirror lake.. no prized guessing how the name came about


great retirement spot here i guess..


so its back to the drudgery of deadlines and homeworks. geez

catch

is chasing my dreams that hard?

does being different entail earning less?

these clothes have feelings

today after doing laundry i had one HARD look at my closet.

sigh.. then i started counting the number of fashion missteps and wayward buys i made, and all the more I feel like calling a garage sale and selling all the crap i have amassed in just one year of frivolous shopping in the USA. and no, i'm not a shopaholic. you see, IF i were a shopaholic, then shopping alot would mean my buying skills would improve. since they still kinda stink, well.. i'm NOT. or i'm just a lousy shopaholic. which sounds worse.

aniwez, most of the errors spawned from the fateful frenzied day at woodsbury where time was so tight and I was just like crashing into stores to get like the necessary winter items.

when i say necessary, i think i meant a-bit-ugly-also-can-forgive. which on hindsight, kinda means ugly-until-i-won't-wear-it-the-next-season. -_-.

geez, let's count.

1. one ugly fcuk jacket that i was estatic at chancing upon cos it was so cheap. hmm, the hoodie is too small (makes me get headache) and the sleeves are slightly short. plus it's ugly. with a capital U.

2. a denim jacket from CK. i think the brand CK kinda sealed the deal for me at that point. yah.. and i have worn it a grand total of like.. 4 times? cos i think i cannot coordinate it with ANYTHING since most of the times i wear jeans of that tinge. -_-

3. the hideous monstrosity of a bright traffic-light red big overcoat. honestly, i think i was slightly crazy when i bought it. oh.. i remember, i started panicking cos i couldn't find a SINGLE decent jacket in woodsbury cos north face and stuff were sold out. so i settled for a "different" style, nautica orange jacket. which i dare not reveal unless I go like snowboarding and its absolutely required.

ah heck. i'm not going to like recount all these crap. it's really disappointing for one.. i think it kinda teaches me a few lessons.

1. never EVER shop on a tight schedule. even if it means you do not get a winter coat, you still can get it other ways, eg. online.

2. try, try, try. spend like 10mins in the fitting room and ensure you want to live in those clothes. -_-

3. do not think woodsbury is like the mecca of all shopping and delay buying anything till then. cos it ain't that great. for a great point, the quiksilver jeans i bought there have gotten a ripped look thanks to their poor quality. geez

oh well.. i'm supposedly going woodsbury again next saturday. THIS time round I'm going to window shop and REALLY take my time at stuff.

geez.

i'm still writing..

i kinda think i've lost my writer's inspiration.. maybe it's too much darnded essays.... but heck, i'd write whatever comes to mind. =)

i kinda realize i like teaching stuff.. ok maybe not really teaching, but explaining stuff to people and like understanding it better in the process? I kinda quite enjoy my AEW sessions already because I feel like I am actually doing something useful.. lol.. it's like some childhood desire of wanting to be the teacher, setting questions, teaching stuff and so on.. yeah.. it's kinda quite fun actually.

hmm, other musings? after reading ziyang's blog and seeing his resolutions.. yeah.. i wanna make it my own resolutions as well... get to know more non-Singaporeans, get to know more non-Asians, and yah, just be more sociable. lol..

i noe some of you all reading this must think i'm siao and think i'm already sociable and talk too much already but.. hmm i think i'm like the adapted sociable person.. like i need to feel comfortable and assured before i actually socialize and start talking. which made the first year quite frustrating and difficult, in terms of making more non-sg frens and just being more open.

it's the situation we're in also i guess. like i'm surrounded by singaporeans throughout my lesson and it leaves no gap for others to sit around, discuss questions etc.. i dunno, i somehow feel we're in like a bubble amongst ourselves.. wonder if that's what others think about us as well..

so yeah.. i think i really quite screwed my dorm living, ending up closing my door most of the times, just not socializing (partially also cos i can't stand partying till the wees hours and being crazy..) but yeah.. hopefully this sem i can like put down the wariness and just reach out, talk to more people and stuff. i mean, that's also part of uni life..

alritey.. i'm gonna kunz now.. it's soon time to study for that miserable crap called 202

poetic

waiting impatiently for Survivor:China to begin

getting really nervous about ece 303.

loving the song hosanna by hillsong united.

i take back what i said about my literature class. well, it seems like today something struck me when I read about Annie Yung and how she went crazy in trying to transform herself into a cowgirl and just adopting various cultural artifacts to mimic the stereotypes she desired.

how true. sigh. why judge others by the stuff they wear, things they say, bags they sling, attitude they try to pull off? just as we start viewing everyone in a one dimensional way, tagging them from their outward look and then assessing whether they're worth our interaction, we become one dimensional ourselves.

and we stop to seek for the true person lost amongst the cultural objects and commodities. have i become like that at times? hmmz

zaza's

today was paintball. and i didn't go. lol. yeah, part of it was cos i wanted to save money, part of it was cos i told everyone i didn't want to soil another set of clothing, and part of it was just.. inertia. lol

oh wellz, i think paintball is somewhat a once off experience liao can liao kind of thing. but wah, i spent the time agonizing over my FWS essay and having brain block. shit man. i realized that not all FWS are created equal (lol). my first FWS was a gem of a find la, with the writing style completely complementing mine. now this FWS demands me to like investigate a simple text in depth and like find itsy bitsy information to conclude something applicable to real world. -_- sheesh man, reminds me of why i hated literature. this over-analyzing and self-indulgent behavior of thinking that there's of so much worth going into some portion of text, when i could have just blabbed out utter shit because I felt like it in that exact moment

yeah, can u imagine if people tried to analyze what perspective i adopted whilst writing this blog entry. laughable man.

aniwez, i'm spat enough writer's venom. today was damn nice cos we (meaning me, josh, ian, cherie, cindy, marvin, sheryl) went to zaza's to eat!!! wah.. VERY NICE!!

the creme brulee was fluffy and just right in terms of custard sweetness
the lobster risotto was not too tomato-ey and not too thick, and the shrimp and lobster bits were just heavenly.

too bad i forgot to bring my cam. sigh. couldn't do my favourite pastime of taking pics of my food.

ahh.. great company, great food, what more to expect? =)too bad mr ian is going to stanford to study liao.. haha

career fairs mania

hmm.. seems like the whole internship/career fair thing has swept across campus.. career fairs are pretty draining affairs to me.. first you have to wear up nice nice and make a good impression, then its all the extroverted-ness you have to muster, then its standing around and waiting in line to hand in your resume, missing lunch and a couple of lessons at that. geez

aniwez its really opened my eyes wide wide. companies like abercrombie and fitch(!), microsoft, google, morgan stanley etc.. WAH.. its quite cool to pick up their brochures, ask them about their internship products and so on. it makes you really really wanna get an internship.. hehe

aniwez, i saw some really cheapo people milling around koping like millions of stuff from the booths, ranging from P&G toilet rolls (imagine that!) to tons and tons of bags and gifts from various companies. honestly.. kiasuism isn't really an sg trait lor.. all the singaporeans i saw dress nice nice, act demure and distinguished and really seriously talk to those recruiters lor..

well aniwez all this talk makes me feel like my resume sucks big time. geez.. time to pump in more effort into making my resume better. =)

henin style

watching henin win the US open was nice, especially after last year's disappointment.

and straight away watching, we headed down to hnh and played hours of badminton trying the henin style. lol. damn seh.

arrgh.. school's so bleak. =(

summertime fun!

kinda proving that ithaca ain't that boring afterall.. lol



ducks at cayuga lake


dock leading out from farmer's market


ithaca falls


applebee's food! our favourite haunt of the summer. that was the delicious bruschetta burger


homemade chicken rice!


my own cooking - teriyaki salmon, brinjal, meatballs!


the amazing maize maze!


within the maze.. not as easy as it looks!


help from above if desperate!


lost amongst the maize


coldstone creamery!


food glorious food @ cheesecake factory!

ECE courses piss me off

honestly, i'm getting real pissed with all the ECE courses i'm enrolled in. what with the sudden changes in scheduling, the inexplicably long section timings, the ridiculous shrinking and shifting of courses. EH, WE NEED TO PLAN OUR TIMETABLE U KNOW.

it's as though they think we only have one course to take this sem. -_-

well, at least my problems are LARGELY solved, thank God i got my FWS after sending a pleading letter to the A&S college. hehe. aniwez i'm back to my pondering-whether-i-should-take-psych mode, where the psych course i'm taking currently trumps all other courses in terms of interest and fun. gee. seriously, sometimes i really wonder whether i should just take the leap of faith and jump.

but then again.. haiz.. reality IS reality. and i dun dare.

the shopping bug called. and brought frens.

sheesh. what a horrid time to fall sick. can't remember the last time i've fallen ill but it's definately the first time abroad that i've fallen ill. and whoever commented that being sick overseas feels much more miserable is ABSOLUTELY correct.

i miss being fussed in bed by my mom. being hauled to the doctor's by my dad. i even miss those home-cooked sick food that my mom would prepare and I would complain. sigh. oh wellz. i guess it is part of the "growing-up" process... but still, i kinda miss the fussing.

oh wellz. so what to do? a few precious days of holidays where I would have to waste away by being trapped in bed and catching up on the past year's of sleep. maybe it's really my whole body revolting against me for ill-treatment for dunno how long. geez.

if you're wondering why my title even mentions the shopping bug. err, its cos i kinda splurge a bit on hollister and a&f again. and honestly, i'm quite pissed hearing how there's so much imitation a&f going around in business fac in NUS. eeks man. and if linken sees this he'll probably be laughing his ass off at my "teeny-booperish" or
mediocrity" as he so puts it. but heck him, he's pathetic. heehee

update

past few days have been pretty tiring, bustling around helping the new international students with buying stuff, fitting in etc. kinda feel a bit guilty that i ended up having tons of fun - more fun than the freshies i think, and also that i din actually get to noe that many sg freshies afterall... hmmz

haha.. oh wellz, it was a blast. i somehow think the volunteers benefit more from this than the freshies simply bcos we're more used to the place, more relax and hence just more open to talk to people, chill and enjoy. reflecting on last year, hmmz, yeah it was pretty scary having too fit in, make friends, get all the stuff we needed before school started and still be sociable.

oh wellz.. this kinda means sch will actually be starting soon. argggh. and winter will follow on soon. -_-

meet ruffles

some things are just cute. haha

on relationships

hmmz, it's 1.20am on the first day post-exams and i just can't go to sleep. somehow the supposedly fun and summery two weeks after the exams seems to me like an interminably long period cos yeah i've NO company!! haha.. oh wellz, joshie is still studying, GQ is caught up with his relationship, wj is going for surgery.. haiz

maybe it's some good time for me to go find some solitude, toss rocks at six mile creek, run around the area, have some quiet time. so interesting. first time in ithaca with two weeks with pretty much nothing to do. =)

bittersweet feelings bah. sometimes i honestly ache for some lasting committed friendship like those i left behind in singapore, which probably now has been supplanted by a inane urge to "eh, go look for a gf."

then i suddenly realise how immature and silly that sounds. a relationship is ultimately two way, and its not just meant to satisfy oneself or to "fill up time". and perhaps the one thing i truly learnt from my sis getting married to qiyong was the fact that she changed for the better, and REALLY the better. (err, not that she was bad to start with..hehe) it's like a real synergy thing that makes each other better individuals ultimately, more knowing of what it means to love, and hence being better able to love God.

if there's anything, that's definitely the type of relationship i want. and i guess i'll wait for it. even though sometimes the world tells you to go get a life and a gf, it's not worth making the rash decision and ending up with someone whom you poured your heart to and yet now just drifts apart. so yeah, i'll just wait and...

hee.. go exercise. -_- that's like my perpetual goal.

we're gonna need to the some cleanin'

hee, today i cooked yet again! somehow, i think its somewhat an achievement everytime i cooked without burning down the kitchen or stuff.. sigh.. haha.. and dunno, just particularly heartened to know that i very nearly managed to recreate one of my favourite dishes of spinach+box thorn+eggs dish.

even though somehow the soup turned out too greenish. but.. hmmz. it's amazing how just add chicken stock, eggs and spinach i can get good soup! =) so happy.

haha. oh wellz, summer is really zooming by. it's gonna be the last week already next week and haha, haven really accomplished much, but heyz, it's been fun. =) and yeah, the house is becoming quite dirty despite my haughty proclamations that we would keep the place sparkling clean.

hehe. this calls for some spring cleaning. hopefully it'll work. =)

skaneateles

well, woke up groggy and tired after ploughing through the entire potter finale and thoroughly enjoying it. dun feel connected with any of the characters though, so their deaths didnt quite matter, hmmz.. wellz except one.. but haha.. wun spoil the book.

we went skaneateles today! wierd spelling and wierd name for a place that's basically a crystal clear lake with a row of shops.. lol.. nice place though to rent a boat/sail and just careem off towards the center of the lake and enjoy.


pretty as a picture


the skies.. are just real pretty


sailing anyone? lol


had doug's fish fry for lunch.. where the best thing was probably the root beer float.. lol