i was unexpectedly overwhelmed with lotsa wang4 wang4s yesterday... along with many other asian titbits and thoughtful gifts from my dear friends at Berkeley... and yesterday i thought i wouldn't need to buy any more snacks for the rest of my stay here... but today i hav second thoughts, cos i think i devoured like at least 5 or 6 wang wangs and the packet of prawn crackers by this morning.... =P but nice to hav my familiar hello panda and instant noodles somewhere in the apartment.... =)
this afternoon, in an attempt to do some work, i went to Teaism to try to do some reading but ended up randomly chatting with this girl doing grad sch in Georgetown and not doing any work. but this place is my favorite hang out for now! intend to go there and try the diff teas and interesting food they hav... it's a really cool place i think... cos of the selection of food and general feel of the place. only wish it were a little closer to my center. I'm beginning to really like Dupont Circle...
and this evening i went to my Prof's house tog with some SAIS (Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, where my prof teaches) students for a documentary on the Tiananmen Incident in 1989, plus dinner... having been to a prof's house last sem i expected tasteful inner deco... wasn't disappointed as i was greeted with really cool drawings on walls, nice decor and various chinese paintings and paraphernalia... her house, in a way, was like a mini musuem too! she even had a Mao painting... but of course, though delighted with our compliments, my prof reminded us that they were collected over a long period of time and from various trips to diff places round the world... sat through two hours of (mostly) footage of events that happened in 1989 and interviews of key figures then and was rather overwhelmed by all the Chinese students then who really believed in what they did... like even though i wasn't there.. i could feel their passion... their agitation... and at some point in the documentary i suddenly felt so motivated to find out more about Chinese history... about what happened then and what events led up to it.... cos i really had little idea... more ideas for summer.. embark on self-imposed discover China course haha in Sg... cos parents dun allow me to do rural China thingy... sigh dunno. i'm so aimless.