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Saturday, April 22, 2006

Touched!

A surprise video made for me by the BS gang back in NTU...thanks a lot you guys! I miss you all too! Because stupid Acacia Court blocked access to youtube, I had to watch the video in school and I ended up bursting into fits of laughter and earning disturbed stares from the people around me! =P

Just a few things to say -
Jo and Yanling: Unfortunately I cannot pluck the flowers from campus because the Americans are a civic-minded lot and I would get a scolding if I touch them. Haha. But I can try to take more pictures (although my camera's been malfunctioning lately, so we'll have to see if it works out).
And tsk tsk to Xinying and Siew Kee for always being late for lab. (Hehe just joking.)
Xiling: Klaus has been teaching in..German?!

This exchange experience has been a rather fruitful one for me; it has opened my eyes up to the world and at the same time it has helped me realise how much I treasure my family and friends.

Thanks everyone, for always being there for me! (And special thanks to Jo for doing this video in the midst of her exams.)

In The Fairyland On|5:11 AM|

Friday, April 07, 2006

Cooking Party!

Was invited by Charlene, whom I met at FIUTS lunch, to her new house for a cooking party today. Menu of the day: cornbread with chili! (A supposedly authentic American dish.) The chili isn't spicy at all, although Kim claims that it is, and it's actually more of a stew consisting of beef, beans, capsicum and tomato. The cornbread was quite tasty and easy to make too. I had a great time there, just chatting, eating and getting to know everybody. It was a good mix of graduate students, ESL students, exchange students (us) and working people. It just seemed pretty easy to talk to everyone there, and I spent most of dinner time talking to Lisa and Jasmin, who are both Koreans.

(L-R) Me, Sabine (from Bavaria!), Yuki, Peiwen, Masako, Jan (from Taiwan), Hillary (Taiwan too) and Huishan.

Was quite tempted to try talking to Sabine in German but didn't have the courage to. Haha. Will attempt to next time.

Lisa and Elly (both Koreans - there are so many Koreans in Seattle!)

With Jan.

With Jasmin - a really fun person to talk to.

With Masako, who was quite surprised when I said my favourite japanese food was agedashi tofu, gyoza and salmon teriyaki (apparently most people say sushi). Another fun person to talk to.

Hehe I know my t-shirt looks kind of crummy and all but I didn't want to dirty my nice tops. =P

In The Fairyland On|9:38 PM|

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

The trip was utterly DISAPPOINTING. Instead of seeing vast expanses of tulips all across the fields, all we saw was this:

One vast expanse of daffodils. (Hey I paid to see TULIPS, not daffodils!)

We went too early and most of the tulips weren't blooming yet! Argh! Worst of all, it rained the whole time we were there and the sun only came out when we returned to Acacia Court. -_- (Is it a sign that I shouldn't be enjoying myself so much?)

In the end we had to pay $2 to get into Roozengarde so that we could see some tulips. There weren't many varieties but they were quite pretty. My camera failed me again - the pictures taken were all too bright with barely any colour, but the videos were fine. Stupid camera. And Olympus is supposed to be a reputable camera brand, eh?

Freezing cold!

Well one good thing that came out from the trip was that we befriended two friendly Taiwanese girls, Flora and Yaowen. Flora's from Taipei and Yaowen's from Kaohsiung. Pretty amiable and fun to talk to, though most of the time it was Huishan doing the talking. Haha.

In The Fairyland On|6:06 PM|