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in between shots

January 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

san francisco lovin'

i love train rides

UCD MSG

rockclimbing at the ARC

after the climb

puppies for adoption at the farmer's market (:

chicken apple hotdog!! this is chelsea snow my EAP buddy (:

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we’re not homeless, just far away from home.

January 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

i had my first midterm today.. can you believe it. shanny’s only just reached france, kim hasn’t even left for milan, and i’ve had my first midterm. bollocks!!!! anyway, i shouldn’t get too stressed out, but there is tons to do. i will NOT have 4 early morning classes a week next quarter, i will not! so anyway, today was the astronomy midterm and we had to buy our own scantron (which is like the bubble shading form in singapore) from the bookstore for 15 cents each.. funny. i bought a “good luck test uc davis pencil” to go along..hope it worked. and when i handed in my paper, he actually remembered my name! full name some more. i heard him call others by name too.. this crazy person actually remembered everyone’s name. he passed a camera and paper around the lecture hall one day and told everyone to take a picture of themselves and write their names on the paper indicating a distinguishing characteristic (e.g. pink hair) so he could match the names to the faces and learn everyone’s names. and during the review session late last night, he gave everyone cookies. i saw him at the crepe place today in silo.. he’s the jolliest!

so i haven’t blogged for so long again because i’ve been caught up with school and going to san francisco where we crashed at manu’s and spent 3 glorious un-touristy days doing everything from watching stand-up comedy to going to fisherman’s wharf (i could never get tired of that place) to watching a foreign film (waltz with bashir) to eating late night pizza and talking into morning over moscato. we made a friend in a famous yogi master on the train ride back. he was headed to davis too, after some book tour in san francisco. name’s duncan wong and he says he’s taught in singapore before.. mister wong with the falafel and prada wallet.

i’ve got a bike! a reddish mongoose that i found n craigs list for $50 (: it came with both front and back lights and he was nice enough to meet up with me the day after i collected the bike to put in a basket for me! very nice man eric with braces, who works downtown and doesn’t speak very good english. i wonder where he’s from.. i’ll take a picture of it soon! cycling to school is splendid when the weather’s nice.. if its too cold you get frozen face + mucusy nose when you stop cycling. the hot spell has officially passed in davis and now its back to around 10 degrees c on average, and rainy

watched slumdog millionaire at the varsity theatre last night, and it is absolutely my favourite film as of this moment. i hihihighly recommend everyone to watch it! the next film showing at the varsity is revolutionary road and i’m definitely catching that. was looking at their website.. there’s going to be a davis film festival sometime in may around my birthday woopeee!

i’m just thinking up random incidents that happened over the past week or so that i might have forgotten about.. there was yesterday when i had pie twice at baker’s square (it was free pie day you see), once after drama with mike, julio and jaz (pecan pie and coffee) and the second time i met weifen and jeremy there before going to catch slumdog millionaire (cup of italian wedding soup and lemon meringue).

oh i love free pie wednesdays.
also i bought 6 reese’s chocolate bars because it was buy 3 get 3 free. HAHA!

O-KAY! picture time.. more to come soon! *flying kiss*