hav run out of things to do at the yellow resort... =P but am not complaining though cos i dun really hav anything in particular i hav to do anyway...and would probably hav bummed around at home had i stayed in berkeley.. finally watched crouching tiger hidden dragon yesterday on jing's laptop, thanks to the green library... was pretty good but cannot really understand how it managed to get itself nominated for so many academy awards... and michelle yeoh and sometimes chow yun fatt's chinese occasionally sent the two of us into peals of laughter... cos they just sounded so odd at times. well not that i can speak chinese really fluently, but it's just somewhat amusing.. the strange pronunciation sometimes. then attempted to watch another chinese movie titled 'yi yi' but then we were unsuccessful and got really sleepy halfway so decided to turn in...

i think i still prefer berkeley... though the campus is so much smaller i kind of like the compactness and the proximity of all the buildings. it's a lot more convenient and nice to have a campus u can just walk around in. feels less distant too... and also the luxury of having chinese food and other restaurants and shops just a street away from the main campus, bart station and SF just about 30 min BART ride away... also felt that jing's dorm is pretty different from mine; think every dorm has their own dining hall, and there's like so much less students in a single dorm, as compared to the units... her dorm is also much quieter, unlike mine, where there will never be a day when no one comes into my room to talk to my roommates.. somehow i think i have gotten so used to that that i have grown to like that somehow... though i am always AS and hardly ever talk to the people who come into my room. i dun really understand why too.. maybe i am a little strange. like i think i would never have expected myself so comfortable and enjoying my life in berkeley one year ago, when i was all ready to go to SMU to study econs... everything just seems like a dream sometimes. i must say that i REALLY wanted to go home when i first stepped into my dorm room like 10 months ago and thought is this where i will be staying for the rest of the year? not knowing anyone and not knowing what lay ahead of me?? but everything has turned out pretty ok and i'm really glad i made the decision to come here... though i still always feel that everyone around me is so much better and zai-er...

feel like going to hawaii after summer sch! but it's expensive though... =(