ok.. have absolutely no idea though how to make all my photos smaller.. haha so i'll just leave them as that. once again highly satisfied with dinner cos shiyun and i made yummy steamed egg with prawns and ham. it was so good i wonder if we would be able to replicate the dish next time.... tried broccoli with bean sauce which didn't turn out that great though... we are seriously having broccoli overdose since we dun happen to have any other vege in our fridge.... sumei brought us to TARGET just now and we bought so many household 'appliances' it seems that we are going to permanently stay here... a wok, slow cooker, big bin for the kitchen, mop, bucket etc etc... the thought of having to clean my own toilet puts me off a little... but i guess i will have to do it and be responsible for my 'dirt'... =P
yay... jing is going to come pick me up to go stanford tmr... so i'll finally have a little 'adventure' after 2 weeks of 'homestay'.. though haha many hav given me somewhat strange looks when i said yes, i'm going to do something next week... i'm going to stanford! well of course jing promised to bring me to the great mall.... and i'm sure we will have things to amuse ourselves and hav fun and just hang out tog... =) and talked to shu today!! after she somewhat disappeared for so long... haha think our skirt discussion was pretty interesting. =P
sometimes i really wonder, how do u ever know the one is THE ONE.

yay... hmm that was strangely hassle free! haha random try though. ok now i can put up a picture of my chair!

shall attempt to put up a picture of my bed.. =P

our cable works!! but sadly the router can only connect two computers, so prob have to get an ethernet hub... unless ziyang's wireless card works. had an amazingly sumptuous dinner just now.... haha mostly thanks to ziyang who just came back and impressed the girls with his cooking skills.... he whipped up fancy dishes after one week of supposedly intensive training in Singapore under his mum... had this herbal chicken with the mix he brought back from sg, this fried tofu and prawns with the shrimp paste he brought back, potato and carrot soup and broccoli with button mushrooms.... haha it was amazingly A LOT of food for just 3 of us, but we somehow managed to finish 5/6 of it.... had a pretty good meal at chin tah's place yesterday too.... which made me amazed with my batch cos we seemed to be coping pretty well with our new lifestyles, what with budding chefs and potential gourmet experts amongst us. though i also wonder if we will sustain this 'trend' for long, esp after sch starts and everyone gets really busy.... it seriously takes pretty long to whip up a meal. plus the washing up... and cleaning the kitchen! but it's worth it... yummy home cooked food =)
my mum sent me a box from singapore and i got it yesterday... quite happy and touched by all the things she packed for me... including this really funny bright purple bedroom slippers... though i think it's not THAT nice, i'll def wear it cos it's just so sweet =) i think i do miss my parents, yet i have gotten so used to being alone abroad without family and all.... that i dun exactly think about them actively... i'm pretty worried that i'll get totally out of touch with things back home, but i guess there's nothing much i can do right now...
i think i am getting to know su mei a little better in the past one week here... i'ts kinda strange considering that i have known her for almost ten months? haha but i feel nice... though it's a little delayed. but still, i feel that i am not really close to any of the seniors, like when ppl mix around and all, i somehow am just pretty detached? or i am just not really able to join in and talk crap and hav fun which sometimes makes people who dun really know me think that i am quite AS? sigh.. dunno.. i always worry that i am AS....ok which to a certain degree is true i guess.

living alone for one week has made me somewhat content and used to living alone that i felt a little strange when shiyun returned from her road trip. not that i dun like ppl in the house, just that i have become somewhat accustomed to the idea of being alone in the house and doing whatever i want to do at my whim and fancy and not having to care about 'externalities' haha. well, but it's good to have more 'life' in the house i guess. cooked jap chicken curry with rice noodles for sumei and i for lunch just now! quite happy that it turned out pretty fine... shall cook curry next time! yay. shiyun cooked her noodle soup which was so healthy with nutritious mushrooms and carrots and lettuce and tofu that i felt somehwat guilty with my high-calorie, relatively non-veggy lunch. nmind, shall strive to be healthier next time round...
the internet startup kit and modem arrived at my door today! but cable will only be activated on thursday though. though it seems somewhat daunting to set up the computers and router and stuff, i feel somewhat proud that i will be responsible for setting up my stuff and the independent lifestyle i'm leading rite now... the pace of life is just so comfortable that i am beginning to really love my lifestyle rite now and hope that sch doenst start. haha... but i still have many things to do.... haven't thought of a proper design for the SMSA t-shirt.. oops. and watching finding nemo later at emeryville.... i'd better stay in tmr or on thurs to design something decent... seriously hope i can think of something nice though...
wanted to pick up SEVIS yesterday when i took 52L down to berkeley.. but terrible me ended up in this fabric store at shattuck browsing till 3.45 and i figured i couldn't possibly walk all the way up to I-House in 15 min so in the end i went to telegraph ave to look at posters instead... bought a little one by marc chagall... and i saw his 'Autumn In THe Village' which was totally awesome.. but it cost 25 bucks... so i really xin tong bu she de mai... maybe next time, next time when i feel richer i'll go get it, else i'll really burn a huge hole in my pocket if i buy all the posters i want at one go.... if only i owned the shop haha. nice little prince ones cost 18 bucks =( so ex...

embarked on another self-adventure to San Francisco yesterday... somehow i was pretty contented with being alone; maybe i haven't done that for a long time, the chance to just go out shopping alone with no time constraints, no worries about having not done this homework etc..
dug out my 'fun places to visit on bart' guide and saw this 'cartoon museum' and so i decided to try to get to that place.. supposedly at 3rd street and new montgomery... after 30 min of fruitlesss searching i couldn't find the place.. till some kind lady on the streets told me those two streets were actually parallel... and i finally found my cartoon museum (some tiny museum) tucked neatly in the middle of two buildings... in the end i didn't go in 'cos admission was 4 bucks.. so just browsed through the various books in the shop.. then decided to go to SF MOMA (Museum of modern art) which was just around the corner to get posters for my room... but i ended up with an unexpected find... a chair! it was a kid's paint-it-yourself chair kit on discount.. which got me really excited... the only problem being that i had to lug it all the way back home taking BART and bus. eventually i did go back to the museum shop in the evening to get it, and now it sits in my living room. unpainted still though; might not paint it in the end cos i think it looks fine as it is. haha. sometimes i am really amused by 'crazy' things i do when i really want something.

then chanced upon I-HOP (restaurant with famous yummy pancakes?) so decided to try it out for lunch. it felt a little weird, sitting in a restaurant all alone, but i guess i have a different sense of joy and satisfaction.. they had various syrups for the pancakes.. blueberry,strawberry, butter pecan but i still preferred the good old maple syrup... they were pretty good, but not fabulous i guess. i sometimes think i am a somewhat lukewarm person when it comes to things, i seldom think like this this food is REALLY good and things like that. but sometiems i do get very passionate about stuff. haha like my sudden impulse in my buying the chair.

then visited the METREON, some zai entertainment centre with many movie theatres just around the area too. shall try to watch a movie there some day. they had a "Where the Wild Things Are" themed restaurant cum kids activitiy/recreation centre on the top floor! thought it was very cute, almost bought a puzzle.. but decided i have been spending too much money... sigh. so i didn't. later walked to powell station area to do window shopping... cos everything was too expensive and i really bu she de buy and i didn't really see anything i really liked either.. it was quite funny; cos when i stepped into Abercrombie and Fitch, there was this 'hunk' baring his chest, posing right beside his poster at the entrance... and i got a mild shock when he said hello or welcome or something, cos i didn't even realize his presence. haha oops. i think that was a bit sad... maybe i am just blind. but he did look good; wonder how much it helps towards boosting sales though. haha... so that was just snippets into my AS day yesterday... =P