spoiling salmon

i’m envious of the college kids here because they HAVE CARS. not that i’ve ever felt the slightest urge to drive in singapore. being here doesn’t necessarily compel me to learn how to drive when i go back to singapore, but it does make me kind of wish that singapore was more like america (ONLY) in the sense of the driving culture (not in the cities, but in places like california where there are sprawling fields and amazing crazy beautiful horizons of sunrise/sunset for people to drive by with their favorite music playing, that’s what playlists are for!) and how CHEAP the cars are here. you can get a good second hand car for 2000 dollars!!! and the gas is cheap too. and apparently volkswagon beetles are not more expensive than the average car, everyone seems to be driving one. well not everyone, but alot of college students. the cars that are considered luxury cars here seem to be mercedes and rolce royce. not even BMW!

rochelle just made me stirfried veges and rice. so much for planning to bake salmon! i’m stuffed! when am i going to make it then!? tomorrow we’re meeting stephanie for lunch at rajah’s for indian buffet, then i have rehearsals with daniella..then class.. then i’ll come back to do my chores (haha!) and then… dinner with the neighbours and birdstrike theatre improv performance!! maybe we’ll sit around eating milk and cookies and watching land before time at night too (:

THEN, saturday morning’s pig market and i want to go to crepeville for breakfast again!! it’s the goodest breakfast on a saturday morning i tell you. if ben and manu manage to drive up somehow for the pigfest we can bring them there! then i dont know what the real plan is, but there’s a chance ben might drive us to his place in milpitas and we’ll take a little roadtrip down the coastal highway thing which i imagine to be bee-yoo-tiful, to santa cruz over the weekend!!

SEE!? NO TIME FOR SALMON!! i hope it doesn’t spoil!

i miss you mother aggie!!! sometimes i wish i can just sit here and not move and someone will cook something hot and soupy for me. and however much i hate it when i come back home in singapore and my room’s always SUPER CLEAN and unlike how i left it, i sometimes wish that would happen to my room here. hahaha.

okay… back to doing my stupid animal science paper. UGHHH. i’m on my second page and wishing to get it Over and Done With!!!!! *strangles myself*

i want to watch heroooooes.

foggy bus stops

UP-DATES!!!!! star star flower flower.

okay so… my bathroom is starting to get mildew stains i think because I take SUPER hot showers with scalding hot water and the steam is… incredible. i have NO TIME to clean it but i will this weekend. i promise. i will get down on all fours (actually, up on my tippy toes because its on the ceiling) and scrubadubdub. i will wash all my sheets and clean the ENTIRE ROOM upside down.

yes. this weekend. actually… this friday. crazy week this has been, is still. rehearsals for final scene for drama class, paper due today, paper due friday (which i haven’t yet started on), astronomy test tomorrow!!! i have half the mind not to go for it thanks to the amazing thing they do here…drop the lowest score out of all the tests.. well most professors do it anyway. i did pretty well on the previous 2 astronomy tests..so i could technically afford to not sit for this one. but then again.. i’d have to study this stuff for the final anyway! and don’t get me started on the paper due friday… ugh.

okay on to the good stuff. today was naaice.. i didn’t SNOOZE!! i.e. i got up at 6am sharp. okay i think i lazed in bed for like 5 minutes.. but then i jumped up and hopped into the shower, reciting my lines while shampooing my hair. (i do that alot nowadays in the shower.) made myself a yummy breakfast and took the early bus to school so i had time to grab coffee with daniella my scene partner (also coffee cups for props for our scene that we were supposed to show in class today) and go to the library to print out my journal assignment. forgot my wallet in my rush to catch the early bus… but wei fen brought it for me. in the end we didnt get to our scene because we ran out of time in class, so monday. coffee got cold anyway. wei fen and i went to ciocolat for breakfast..on the porch in the semi-sun, so cheeky always playing hide and seek. sitting diagonally opposite a just-woke-up couple with bed hair and sunday morning breakfast attitude (: although, it was a wednesday late morning, haha. i had a hot mocha (sweet and warm, very delicious) and cranberry & white chocolate scone. wei fen had some scrambled egg thingamajig with bacon and sauteed apples, or something. and then we headed to the griffin lounge where we bumped into none other than avani, naturally (:

so from then on…the day wasn’t so great anymore. although one good thing, no, great thing, was that i managed to escape the rain once more! it somehow always rains when im in class and when i get out the sun will be out again. *touch wood* i need to get a raincoat. cannot tahan fighting the wind in my lousy $3.99 umbrella from san francisco juggling my laptop bag full of everything but my laptop, PLUS my laptop, and my bag and coffee sometimes.

i made a huge lunch because i was so hungry at 3.30 when i got home. tempura!!! which i love. i have it with japanese mayo and hot cock sauce, as ben puts it. hahahaha. its basically a type of thai chilli sauce that has a picture of a male chicken on the bottle. so i made tempura and fried noodles with bakchoy and tofu and golden mushrooms! ended up so full i skipped dinner. well not really, i had a little snack in astronomy review, he always gives out cookies. very very delicious gourmet cookies that cost quite a bit, actually! and today so few people came that we each got 2!! (: and i bought a carton of milk too so i was happy, very.

while standing at the bus stop waiting for the W tonight it occured to me that (through chattering teeth and trembling lips) one of the things i’d probably miss is the foggy bus stop in winter, the one called cowell and valdora in the bus schedule where i spent a good part of my davis life waiting for the W. and i looked up and there was the sky and all the stars. no W in sight, it is late by 6 minutes.

i don’t feel like doing ANY WORK AT ALL. i feel like throwing away half my things and packing everything else up into my suitcase and hopping onto the train to wherever and ever.

but there is a pig festival at the farmer’s market this saturday, i shall stay for that, at least. well not really a pig festival, but we all must dress up in pig outfits and there will be pigs for us to pet and pork things to eat (morbid but true).

when oh when is my period arriving. arrive, arrive, why won’t you arrive.

met a beautiful girl called Solesne Blosse in astronomy class, and it occured to me just that her name is kind of like… Sun Flower in french.