thought many thoughts this past week, but now i cannot remb them...
think on monday night was moaning and thinking about how i dun feel like i am prepared for sch at all...
tuesday was mortified that my R and C class required 30% class participation and 2 oral presentations, was disappointed that Eichengreen turned out to be pretty boring...
wed saw me busy the whole day.... helping a tiny bit in the making of pineapple jam and lotsa preparation for our steamboat 'reunion' dinner...
yest? what did i do yesterday....
but had a pretty nice day out with my mum today; we went to SF....(finally!) the past few days cos i had sch i coudln't really bring her out either... toured chinatown and i visited the fortune cookie factory for the first time... i guess it cannot be technically called a factory if there are only two workers making the cookies? but the warm 'spoilt' samples were yummy and i bought a packet of fortune cookies... then went shopping in SF... somehow there seemed to be more things than usual to buy and managed to find quite a few cheap deals yesterday!! sadly time flew and had to get to cheesecake factory around 6pm to prevent long waits of 1 hour or more.... and we ordered so much food, not knowing that the portions were REALLY huge ( think our plate of pasta could feed 3 ppl) and it ended up that our tiramisu cheeseckae didn't turn out as nice as we wanted it to be.. cos we were just too too full.
was trying to take a pic of my mum and was pleasantly surprised when an american at the next table offered to take a picture of both of us.... once again struck by the friendliness of americans... it's a nice feeling really, not that i havn'et had this kinda experience before, but somehow experiencing it all over again just makes u feel warm... kind gestures of strangers... haha and it so turned out that one of them in the group could speak chinese! seems like u never know who can speak chinese.... eg. the black guy at gelato place could speak chinese too! made my mum comment that we cannot gossip or say bad things about them in chinese anymore..... cos they might understand!
shall try to catch up on some sleep this weekend...

finally back in berkeley after 5 'grilling'days in tokyo! but it was fun though, wading through masses of people clad in smart long coats in the morning hour rush, trying not to get lost in the most confusing subway/rail system i have come across so far.... it's sch tmr! and i feel kinda lost and unprepared.... and i hav classes from 8am to 5 with only a 1/2 hour break... hope i will survive this sch-reopening 'ordeal' and start off the semester well! =)