i'm somewhat mentally unprepared for the end of summer... cannot really believe that i hav 2 finals next week, and that in just one week's' time i will be flying off to boston to meet up with shu and yy... though i definitely look forward to seein dear shu again i just feel that everything's happening so quickly i cannot really catch my breath. slightly rueful that i wun get to meet the incoming freshmen at all, including those coming to stay at my place, since their expected arrival times happen to be just after my flight has departed. nor will i get to meet any during the orientation week.... but guess it's alright, since i have 3 more years to meet them =P did a series of rather random stuff today; wrote a letter in chinese to my mum; wrote a reply letter to ming lee about one month after receiving it... went for dinner at d&a with some seniors, then went albertsons to get groceries..... and was offered a 'point of information' by my dear housemate who claimed that i did not utter a single word at dinner... hmm... i guess many ppl are getting used to to me being seen and not heard?! then watched 3 episodes of mei li jia ting and here i am, rambling aimlessly away on my blog before i replenish my sleep for the week....
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Friday, August 08, 2003
Wednesday, August 06, 2003
watched a movie on the poor and landless in bangladesh for my econ devt class.... and somehow just so struck by how so many people hav to survive on like a few pennies everyday.... and one lady was so proud that she earned a few pennies from making bamboo chairs everyday... just made me feel so unworthy.. that i get upset over little things. when ppl in so many parts of the world are barely surviving, yet delighting in the few happy things that come their way sometimes. like i think it takes so much for me to be satisfied.... and i worry excessively... such that it gets on ppl's nerves even i think. i'ts not intentional, but sometimes i just can't help it though. i really wonder, why am i like that?? is there anyone in the world so sillly like me... and i guess also when i feel like doing things, i'm sometimes afraid of rejections and i end up not asking ppl =P oh well.
Tuesday, August 05, 2003
my yosemite trip
reached home yesterday evening with bag full of dirty clothes, oily face and aching muscles, but i had a fun 2 days at yosemite! =) it was kinda refreshing, 'cos i did so many new things.... had a vastly different weekend from all my other weekends... dun really know how to describe my whole trip though. =P maybe i'll just write in point form....
ten memorable things about the trip:
1) it rained when we got there, causing me to feel extremely uneasy about my bad luck week... but luckily clouds eventually cleared but sadly the view wasn't as good as it would hav been had there been good weather
2) embarked on a 4-mile, 3200 ft, 3.5- 4 hr long hike up to glacier point; it was kinda random... we stopped at the starting point and decided to give it a try and we ended up climbing higher and higher... in wind, sand and stars, antoine de saint-exupery said 'self discovery comes when man measures himself against an obstacle' and i guess for me i realized that i REALLY needed more regular exercise cos towards the end i was really dying while the others were still going strong. amazed. haha... but i hope i did burn some calories... and we managed to take some nice pics from different heights from the mountain
3) yingping mentioned at least 5 times that his car was the chioest around
4) saw chipmunks for the first time! little creatures scurrying around.. really cute
5) barbequed my own bread. cos edward and yingping were both scouts so edward had this idea to make our own bread so we brought dough along and twisted the dough around aluminium-foiled branches and had bread twists.. quite cool and fun =)
6) hitchhiked for the first time. to our horror (or more so my horror) we discovered that the shuttle bus that brings ppl down the mountain stopped at 3 something pm and we only reached the top at around 530pm.... and the idea of hiking all the way back down wasn't exactly that palatable. so the most logical thing to do was to flag down a car to hitch a ride down. and luckily we met this really nice couple who agreed to take us in their rental car... =)
7) feeling really dirty for 1.5 days. cos the toilet was REALLY stinky and we didnt get to brush teeth at the campsite which was quite ulu, deep in the 'forest'... and though i showered, we showered at this public shower which was pretty dirty... of course i can't complain.. this is camping =)
8) the starry sky at night. it was so beautiful... if only i wasn't so tired and if only our tent had a 'moonroof' then i could hav gazed at the stars all night.
9) brought along my econ tb to read but ended up only reading one pg
10) of course not forgetting all the nice ppl that made this trip possible and enjoyable.... and my sleeping bag "loaner" =)
here are some pics i took... hope this link works!
reached home yesterday evening with bag full of dirty clothes, oily face and aching muscles, but i had a fun 2 days at yosemite! =) it was kinda refreshing, 'cos i did so many new things.... had a vastly different weekend from all my other weekends... dun really know how to describe my whole trip though. =P maybe i'll just write in point form....
ten memorable things about the trip:
1) it rained when we got there, causing me to feel extremely uneasy about my bad luck week... but luckily clouds eventually cleared but sadly the view wasn't as good as it would hav been had there been good weather
2) embarked on a 4-mile, 3200 ft, 3.5- 4 hr long hike up to glacier point; it was kinda random... we stopped at the starting point and decided to give it a try and we ended up climbing higher and higher... in wind, sand and stars, antoine de saint-exupery said 'self discovery comes when man measures himself against an obstacle' and i guess for me i realized that i REALLY needed more regular exercise cos towards the end i was really dying while the others were still going strong. amazed. haha... but i hope i did burn some calories... and we managed to take some nice pics from different heights from the mountain
3) yingping mentioned at least 5 times that his car was the chioest around
4) saw chipmunks for the first time! little creatures scurrying around.. really cute
5) barbequed my own bread. cos edward and yingping were both scouts so edward had this idea to make our own bread so we brought dough along and twisted the dough around aluminium-foiled branches and had bread twists.. quite cool and fun =)
6) hitchhiked for the first time. to our horror (or more so my horror) we discovered that the shuttle bus that brings ppl down the mountain stopped at 3 something pm and we only reached the top at around 530pm.... and the idea of hiking all the way back down wasn't exactly that palatable. so the most logical thing to do was to flag down a car to hitch a ride down. and luckily we met this really nice couple who agreed to take us in their rental car... =)
7) feeling really dirty for 1.5 days. cos the toilet was REALLY stinky and we didnt get to brush teeth at the campsite which was quite ulu, deep in the 'forest'... and though i showered, we showered at this public shower which was pretty dirty... of course i can't complain.. this is camping =)
8) the starry sky at night. it was so beautiful... if only i wasn't so tired and if only our tent had a 'moonroof' then i could hav gazed at the stars all night.
9) brought along my econ tb to read but ended up only reading one pg
10) of course not forgetting all the nice ppl that made this trip possible and enjoyable.... and my sleeping bag "loaner" =)
here are some pics i took... hope this link works!
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