feels good to have internet once again.. haha am at moffitt library now.. the past few days have been so different from the rest of spring semester that i feel somewhat overwhelmed, but i do look forward to my new 'life'!! moving out has made me think about so many things, and i can't help but marvel at the resourcefulness and helpfulness of the fellow freshmen and i just feel really touched and glad that everything went well...

i have half an hour to do this... so if everything sounds really disorganized.. pardon me... =P everyone has been really nice and i'm really amazed by all of them... ziyang for driving the u-haul all day, for kopping all the household stuff.. for finding cheap deals for the house, for being the only one in the house to do up his room by staying up throughout the night and shaming the girls the morning after by showing off his neat and nicely decorated room... shiyun for being so dear and motherly, who kept worrying about me having nothing to do the whole week i will be alone in the house and who kept worrying that i'll have no food and thus suggested we get more food when we went grocery shopping before she left for her road trip yesterday morning; yingping and clarice for driving me to get my mattress... clarice for having to bend down all the while i was in the u-haul for fear that we get caught for having 3 ppl seated in the front of the u-hual; chester for helping us to ban jia and amusing and amazing me by choosing to sepnd most of the night cleaning up his new apartment before he left for Europe over sleep; yingping and shiying for picking up my cannot-make-it-going-to-fall-apart from UC village in the middle of the night; sumei for being so sweet to offer to stay with her and for driving me around to get stuff... (however i have been somewhat stubborn in staying alone at my new place; perhaps baffling those who have offered their house... i just dun mind staying alone and i like my room =) ) jacqui, chin tah and shi-hua for inviting me over to their new place to have an egg-meal yesterday afternoon....

i never really expected myself to be so 'at peace' and happy doing nothing here in berkeley... it just feels comfortable and nice to explore the place with no stress.... no time constraints... eg. this morning i decided to try to take 52L to sch.. .but to my horror, though 52L was at the bus-stop... the driver told me he will only start work 40 min later.. as a result i decided to walk up Solano.. and made some interesting discoveries...
1) Hair cuts seem to get cheaper as u walk up solano... the first shop i visited quoted me 40 bucks for a haircut... there after, $20 and $18
2) there is a nice little nursery that sells pretty flowers... will try to get some soon...
3) many nice restaurants, cafes and speciality shops along solano
4) saw this bookstore that was closing down.. and was gonna sell its shelves... thinking of getting one ($20) and then lugging it back all the way back home.. haha but thought that was not really advisable...

also found out that it's so different to have ur own house.. to not live in the dorms... like had to go get things like toilet paper, shower cleaner, hand soap, rice etc from safeway and ranch... had to call pac bell for phone line and DSL and comcast for cable tv... there's so many things that I am now doing and i definitely feel that i have to be even more independent than before... which i guess it's a good hting which will make me grow and mature more? and yes, cooking! had the first home cooked meal yest at our house.. with chintah as the chef... ate mushrooms with cai xin.. and the ranch unagi... haha. i expect more to come, and whatever is in store.. i look forward to them with enthusiasm and mild excitement.... ok have to go... .till my next internet access session then! =)