I have so much to blog!! But I have no idea where to start. OKay. Let's start from the beginning.
Basically, it has barely been ten days here, yet I've grown pretty fond of the people here and life in America. Not good. I'm supposed to nurture a home-sickness so I wouldn't feel like this is an escape from Singapore!
Sunset pinks from my window. Sun sets at 8+ here..
Anyway, I've made really close friends with the Thais here in the dorm, and truly, this is the one time I feel thankful of a module I've studied in NUS!! Basic Thai 1 is really the most useful mod I've ever taken man! The Thai people were all surprised I could speak, and very happy too, cos someone not Thai can speak their language. We made fast friends, and I've of course, made a few favourites, and a few I can laugh the days away with; conversations I will really miss having. Of course, that made me stand out abit with the Singaporeans, who bunch up usually in predictably Singaporean style, but thank goodness the lot of them are pretty amicable too, so it's not too bad..
Me n YH, Som(Thai), Weibin and Jialing (NUS)
Roomies n YH in kitchen!:)
Sadly, the Thais are leaving in a week or two; I really really will miss them!! They are the most friendly nationality here in the dorm already, readily making friends with everyone with their half-bucket English; even the Singaporeans have slight politics here and there within cliques, something I really don't relish very much.
Dang. I'm supp to start from e top, meanign Day 1 of work. Okay here goes. :)
Day 1 of work was exhausting; today was Day 2, and all I can say of the work I've done here so far is that I'm doing Bangla work for a fee of 7.25USD, emptying huge trash bins on the first day and lining them again today, and also wiping down dozens of sunchairs in the hugeass waterpark with rags. KD is proud of its literally squeaky clean floors and facilities, and I must admit, they do put quite a pinch of passion in their cleaning!
On the first day, Monday, I worked with Goi and Ying, two really friendly thai girls whom I got really really close with, especially Goi. They taught me the ropes around most of the work that day, which, I realised later, usually given to guys. :S
Anyway, it's been unimaginably hot, and chilly sometimes too, when the wind blows. Hardly the best combination. I love it when it rains! Most of the Asians here I know hate the cold though. I seem to be the only one who really love it when it's cold! They all like the sun cos it's e only source of heat, but I really hate it beating down on us especially in the afternoons; this is one of the reasons why I was looking forward to leave spore! I'm really like one of e few who's always in shorts. The rest wear jeans and long stuff to work! Well. Anyways, it means everytime I've got work so far I almost always toast my eyes in the UV rays and end up with stinging cheeks and eyes. My lips too, have gotten it bad, and they're really smiting now too! :(
Oh yes, then on Tuesday, there was this trip down to Walmart and VCC:Virginia Centre Commons, which was really much anticipated because it meant we would all get fresh groceries. People like me n YH barely had any fresh food the entire weekend cos we just arrived on Thursday, and had been surviving on bought stuff or cupnoodles. Ergh.
The places are HUGE btw!! Barely enough time to finish looking through stuff in both places! Hopefully I'll go back again!
Then Wednesday we had the NYC trip, and me n YH travelled the a small part of NYC tog; our little sightseeing adventure! I was so tired halfway I kinda zombied out for a bit, and thank God YH was there or else I'd have collapsed on the street halfway! NYC's awesome! I really really adore the skyscrapers and humongous billboards, the uncountable electronic ads and broadways in Times Sq and Broadway St, the way carved walls and entire, reflective buildings can merge so uniquely in the city that never sleeps. Me n YH had a tiny adventure, insisting on walking instead of transport; we had famous cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery, my fav Bubba Gump, Krispy Kreme, pissed off a Black guy who tried to sell me a bag for 20USbucks, and most exciting of all, got conned into this "15min movie" by one of the pamphlet givers on the Broadway, which we later found out was a cult trying to promote Scientology!!
THank goodness we had the mind to leave halfway. We were brought to this "Museum of Scientology", where we were taken to a dark room with a screen. There was only the two of us, then they started to screen this movie abt a guy who got paralysed hip down and was like introduced to scientology apparently. We were so paranoid- I thought we would get chlorofoamed halfway from behind, I kept looking around in the dark room, and we took pictures so we could get evidence. Couldn't take it after 5 mins and we left. Haha! Damn scary can. dunno wad shit we got ourselves into. But it was an experience lah. bwaha. heng nth happen.
Empire State Building! Under reconstruction.
The cakes n cookies along the strip of NY!
Me n Roadside coffee @ Times Square!
M&M world!
Poseing with M&M tablemats!
Really wanna buy these baby suits for ZMgor n Agnes jie! How ah.
Basically, it has barely been ten days here, yet I've grown pretty fond of the people here and life in America. Not good. I'm supposed to nurture a home-sickness so I wouldn't feel like this is an escape from Singapore!
Sunset pinks from my window. Sun sets at 8+ here..Anyway, I've made really close friends with the Thais here in the dorm, and truly, this is the one time I feel thankful of a module I've studied in NUS!! Basic Thai 1 is really the most useful mod I've ever taken man! The Thai people were all surprised I could speak, and very happy too, cos someone not Thai can speak their language. We made fast friends, and I've of course, made a few favourites, and a few I can laugh the days away with; conversations I will really miss having. Of course, that made me stand out abit with the Singaporeans, who bunch up usually in predictably Singaporean style, but thank goodness the lot of them are pretty amicable too, so it's not too bad..
Me n YH, Som(Thai), Weibin and Jialing (NUS)
Roomies n YH in kitchen!:)Sadly, the Thais are leaving in a week or two; I really really will miss them!! They are the most friendly nationality here in the dorm already, readily making friends with everyone with their half-bucket English; even the Singaporeans have slight politics here and there within cliques, something I really don't relish very much.
Dang. I'm supp to start from e top, meanign Day 1 of work. Okay here goes. :)
Day 1 of work was exhausting; today was Day 2, and all I can say of the work I've done here so far is that I'm doing Bangla work for a fee of 7.25USD, emptying huge trash bins on the first day and lining them again today, and also wiping down dozens of sunchairs in the hugeass waterpark with rags. KD is proud of its literally squeaky clean floors and facilities, and I must admit, they do put quite a pinch of passion in their cleaning!
On the first day, Monday, I worked with Goi and Ying, two really friendly thai girls whom I got really really close with, especially Goi. They taught me the ropes around most of the work that day, which, I realised later, usually given to guys. :S
Anyway, it's been unimaginably hot, and chilly sometimes too, when the wind blows. Hardly the best combination. I love it when it rains! Most of the Asians here I know hate the cold though. I seem to be the only one who really love it when it's cold! They all like the sun cos it's e only source of heat, but I really hate it beating down on us especially in the afternoons; this is one of the reasons why I was looking forward to leave spore! I'm really like one of e few who's always in shorts. The rest wear jeans and long stuff to work! Well. Anyways, it means everytime I've got work so far I almost always toast my eyes in the UV rays and end up with stinging cheeks and eyes. My lips too, have gotten it bad, and they're really smiting now too! :(
Oh yes, then on Tuesday, there was this trip down to Walmart and VCC:Virginia Centre Commons, which was really much anticipated because it meant we would all get fresh groceries. People like me n YH barely had any fresh food the entire weekend cos we just arrived on Thursday, and had been surviving on bought stuff or cupnoodles. Ergh.
The places are HUGE btw!! Barely enough time to finish looking through stuff in both places! Hopefully I'll go back again!
Then Wednesday we had the NYC trip, and me n YH travelled the a small part of NYC tog; our little sightseeing adventure! I was so tired halfway I kinda zombied out for a bit, and thank God YH was there or else I'd have collapsed on the street halfway! NYC's awesome! I really really adore the skyscrapers and humongous billboards, the uncountable electronic ads and broadways in Times Sq and Broadway St, the way carved walls and entire, reflective buildings can merge so uniquely in the city that never sleeps. Me n YH had a tiny adventure, insisting on walking instead of transport; we had famous cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery, my fav Bubba Gump, Krispy Kreme, pissed off a Black guy who tried to sell me a bag for 20USbucks, and most exciting of all, got conned into this "15min movie" by one of the pamphlet givers on the Broadway, which we later found out was a cult trying to promote Scientology!!
THank goodness we had the mind to leave halfway. We were brought to this "Museum of Scientology", where we were taken to a dark room with a screen. There was only the two of us, then they started to screen this movie abt a guy who got paralysed hip down and was like introduced to scientology apparently. We were so paranoid- I thought we would get chlorofoamed halfway from behind, I kept looking around in the dark room, and we took pictures so we could get evidence. Couldn't take it after 5 mins and we left. Haha! Damn scary can. dunno wad shit we got ourselves into. But it was an experience lah. bwaha. heng nth happen.
Empire State Building! Under reconstruction.
The cakes n cookies along the strip of NY!
Me n Roadside coffee @ Times Square!
M&M world!
Poseing with M&M tablemats!
Really wanna buy these baby suits for ZMgor n Agnes jie! How ah.
And Last night, Thursday, after we got rest from the 8hr trip back, the Thais had a farewell party in the BBQ area because they were leaving soon. They cooked so much food; like naam tok muu: Waterfall pig in direct translation, tomyam soup, tomyam noodles, fries and burgers even! Took so much care and effort in cooking it! It was really heartwarming, and they invited some of the closer people in the dorm to join in. REally awesome. They totally know how to party man. There was Thai music, and even a balloon stepping game, which ended with a beer-chugging competition btw e winners. Super funny! I hung out alot with Goi and Thong, this super funny guy with a secret. :) will super miss them when they're gone man. Life in the dorm will be so different!
The rest of us, stood in a half-circle laughing and being amazed at how TOMMMY (yes tommy, my KR friends), went from girl to girl, flirting and touching, and basically being a playboy. It was really jawdroppingly, goosebumpily gross. Me n YH tried to save her hot ukrainian roommate from him, and like dragged her away at one point, but he seems to not get it at all, and went to HOLD HER HANDS for the balloon game. So thick! Se dao siao! We were all pretty disgusted.
Ooh my two roomies just came in and we danced to Nobody from wondergirls! haha they are so cute! Cos they all know I can dance and they wanted to learn. I'm so glad they're my roomies!
Kk anyway down to today, Friday, Day 2 of work. Not much, just lining the trashbins, and I made good friends with this cute Mesadonian, Murat, who's super friendly, and maybe a tad flirty. Yes okay i admit he flirted with me the entire day in the park, but well u don't get such treatment in Spore right. haha! His English isn't so good, so I helped out abit, just like I did with the Thais. I think I've got to know so much more about cultures I barely know about; met people from countries I've barely heard of and would never in my life imagine I'd meet; and learnt so much about getting to know people from other cultures better! It's amazing, and I'm really enjoying this trip!
I realise now I'm much better on my own and that I really love getting to know new things. I hope though, that I don't lose my roots and my patriotism but instead find something about it to be really proud of. :)
Will insert pics soon! I'm damn tired! STarting tml it's fullsteam ahead, opening to closing! Die leew!!
The rest of us, stood in a half-circle laughing and being amazed at how TOMMMY (yes tommy, my KR friends), went from girl to girl, flirting and touching, and basically being a playboy. It was really jawdroppingly, goosebumpily gross. Me n YH tried to save her hot ukrainian roommate from him, and like dragged her away at one point, but he seems to not get it at all, and went to HOLD HER HANDS for the balloon game. So thick! Se dao siao! We were all pretty disgusted.
Ooh my two roomies just came in and we danced to Nobody from wondergirls! haha they are so cute! Cos they all know I can dance and they wanted to learn. I'm so glad they're my roomies!
Kk anyway down to today, Friday, Day 2 of work. Not much, just lining the trashbins, and I made good friends with this cute Mesadonian, Murat, who's super friendly, and maybe a tad flirty. Yes okay i admit he flirted with me the entire day in the park, but well u don't get such treatment in Spore right. haha! His English isn't so good, so I helped out abit, just like I did with the Thais. I think I've got to know so much more about cultures I barely know about; met people from countries I've barely heard of and would never in my life imagine I'd meet; and learnt so much about getting to know people from other cultures better! It's amazing, and I'm really enjoying this trip!
I realise now I'm much better on my own and that I really love getting to know new things. I hope though, that I don't lose my roots and my patriotism but instead find something about it to be really proud of. :)
Will insert pics soon! I'm damn tired! STarting tml it's fullsteam ahead, opening to closing! Die leew!!
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1 comment:
hey tyu! i'm really lagging but looks like u're having a blast in america!! haha i just wanted to say that the m&m's baby clothes are SO CUTE!! hahaha i also feel like buying it just so i can keep and let my kid wear next time!! hope u're doing well babe! meet up with the rest when u're back!!
-joncley
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