weifen and i experienced out first lucky day with the local bus service on saturday. for once, we didn’t miss any buses, got all the stops right and found what we were looking for (: good times. that was pretty much an adventure on its own.. but other than that, i got my comforter (at last!) from ikea and we had a mini shopping spree.. worth 2 hours in forever 21. hahaaa! came halfway around the world to shop at a store that’s in singapore. no but it was a manifestation of the 2 week long deprivation of malls, i guess. not that we shop every fortnight in singapore, but just the lack of any sign of mall-dom did something to our system. HOW PATHETIC we are!!!! perhaps malls are evil after all. take that TAKASHIMAYA! i will try to seek refuge in the farmer’s market instead! *tightens belt*
speaking of which, the davis farmer’s market is absolutely darling. i didn’t take any pictures of it partly because my hands had to be in my pockets because of the cold, and also because i was busy sampling food and petting puppies. they sold everything from gigantic, gleaming strawberries to organic cotton baby onesies to freshly-squeezed, raw AWESOME apple juice, to veggies and sweet potatoes and nuts and CRAZY good baked goods and bread and PUPPIES (: (: i would’ve bought a whole lot of groceries to experiment cooking with if not for the fact that we had to bus to sacramento after that so i didnt want to lug everything around town with me. i’ll go back next week.. and perhaps take some photos. (: can’t wait for spring when they’ll have it every wednesday too..
i tried making baked sweet potato/yam fries last night, inspired by new year’s dinner at owen’s. but it turned out a little too soggy i think because i added too much olive oil.. but still tasty! will buy a piece of salmon from the farmer’s market on saturday to try out mother aggie’s recipe! i realise.. that i actually LIKE to cook. actually i sort of knew that before but we didnt have an oven at home and i always felt so sluggish at home..haha. maybe davis will make a cooktress out of me hmmm.
saturday was sure packed.. the minute we came home from a long day of farmer’s marketing and sacramento shopping, lauren, rochelle and annie invited us to a house party that they were going to so being tired but forever never too tired in america, we went! it was eye opening fun, as all parties have been this year for me, and i can’t help but feel as if i’ve been transported into a scene in a movie from time to time. surrreaaal. okay but enough about parties, looking forward for more to come! (: (:
our first assignment for acting class… is to observe a stranger for at least half an hour. and writing a paper on our observation… it could be anything from how we felt when we were observing them, to what we observed about them, to what we imagined their lives were like. as some say here, i’m STOKED. hahaha. who knew assignments could actually be fun. gives me HOPE! (hope is actually the acting teacher’s name.)
i’m going to learn korean from this girl called marie park, for free! some international thingamabob. so far im her only student, she says.. but i hope more people join us. korean tuition. hee hee.
i’m so full from the chicken and steak burrito i just ate at chipotle’s with rochelle and weifen. so yummy though. ohh the weather today was the warmest its ever been since we arrived.. i think it was 17 degrees celcius! though my skin has lost its sensory memory of what singapore weather REALLY feels like, it sure FELT like singapore on a cool day. (although i know singapore is NEVER 17 degrees c.) i didnt even wear a jacket/coat around all day. PLEASE let tomorrow be like this too… i’m going to bring my camera out and snap pictures of people laying out and playing frisbee in the quad (:
psssst.. i MAY be going to hawaii for spring break!!! 
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