Thursday, January 04, 2007
Chapter 162 - I *Heart* New York!
I better start writing about my NY trip before I forget all about it... hehe... :) And I think I shall skip all the boring day-by-day accounts for this bit, cos I spent most of my time (and money) visiting friends in their respective Unis.
quite an unglam shot i must say... this photo was taken at this kopitiam called "Yankee Doodle", where we had breakfast.
So this is the Pierre you hear me mention sporadically in my blog (refer to last 2 entries). We first worked with each other for Madama Butterfly, and for some reason, there's a looooooooong story to tell most times I work with Pierre... (hmm. Cabaret? haha) I wonder why. :)
Interesting Fact about Pierre: Other than sharing a passion for theatre, Pierre also takes an interest in Pebble(s), unlike rocks for me. ;p
Corrie showing her collage of photos on her wall. I told her it's gonna hell removing all of them. ;p I only managed to keep mine on the wall for one term as well. But yes, we met while working for Madama Butterfly. (Apr '05)
Anyway, by some freak chance, I met up with Shouyi in Brown, who's like a long-lost friend - we knew each other in Pri.6 (ie.since 1996) and didn't quite keep in contact since then.
Interesting Fact about Corrie:oh no, can't think of any... maybe she's not interesting? *gasp* haha. Corrie is gonna be a journalist, and in fact wrote some articles in Life! a few months back, if anyone remembers reading article by her....
Host #3:
The trouble with getting people to take pictures for you is that most of the time, it doesn't turn out the way you want it to and it's too hard to explain.... ;p
This photo taken with one of the supposed landmarks at Harvard. By visiting Harvard, I've also made the visit to the other Cambridge in the US. (hurray!) This trip was somewhat a prelude to the Hawai'i trip, since we were to rendezvous there again.
Interesting Fact about Xiayi: She's an excellent cook and also a vegan. As a meat-lover, i'm not sure how that works out. But meat... yummy...
Host #4:
The first and only MOE scholar in the US - that must mean something. Again, this is the typical shot to be taken when visiting JHU. It's of the something tower, a name which I cannot remember right now.
Interesting Fact about Laura: Laura's also a fellow anime fan, except I think she's a bigger one at that than me, even reading some of the manga. We watched Ghost in the Shell, which i found to be quite cheem, while I was visiting.
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my next post, hopefully soon, will be highlights of my trip to New York (which actually is a summary for saying that I visited about 6 states in 9 days). stay tuned!
Victim Host #1:
Pierre-Andre Salim
Yale University (Yale School of Drama)
Pierre-Andre Salim
Yale University (Yale School of Drama)
quite an unglam shot i must say... this photo was taken at this kopitiam called "Yankee Doodle", where we had breakfast.So this is the Pierre you hear me mention sporadically in my blog (refer to last 2 entries). We first worked with each other for Madama Butterfly, and for some reason, there's a looooooooong story to tell most times I work with Pierre... (hmm. Cabaret? haha) I wonder why. :)
Interesting Fact about Pierre: Other than sharing a passion for theatre, Pierre also takes an interest in Pebble(s), unlike rocks for me. ;p
Host #2:
Corrie Tan
Brown University
Corrie Tan
Brown University
Corrie showing her collage of photos on her wall. I told her it's gonna hell removing all of them. ;p I only managed to keep mine on the wall for one term as well. But yes, we met while working for Madama Butterfly. (Apr '05)Anyway, by some freak chance, I met up with Shouyi in Brown, who's like a long-lost friend - we knew each other in Pri.6 (ie.since 1996) and didn't quite keep in contact since then.
Interesting Fact about Corrie:
Host #3:
Xiayi
Harvard University
The trouble with getting people to take pictures for you is that most of the time, it doesn't turn out the way you want it to and it's too hard to explain.... ;p This photo taken with one of the supposed landmarks at Harvard. By visiting Harvard, I've also made the visit to the other Cambridge in the US. (hurray!) This trip was somewhat a prelude to the Hawai'i trip, since we were to rendezvous there again.
Interesting Fact about Xiayi: She's an excellent cook and also a vegan. As a meat-lover, i'm not sure how that works out. But meat... yummy...
Host #4:
Laura Tsang
Johns Hopkins University
The first and only MOE scholar in the US - that must mean something. Again, this is the typical shot to be taken when visiting JHU. It's of the something tower, a name which I cannot remember right now. Interesting Fact about Laura: Laura's also a fellow anime fan, except I think she's a bigger one at that than me, even reading some of the manga. We watched Ghost in the Shell, which i found to be quite cheem, while I was visiting.
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my next post, hopefully soon, will be highlights of my trip to New York (which actually is a summary for saying that I visited about 6 states in 9 days). stay tuned!
Monday, December 04, 2006
Chapter 157 - The Big Apple
Yippee!!! The US of America! :)
So I flew off yesterday afternoon to New York. And of course, making sure this time that I didn't miss the flight as I did when I went to Singapore for the summer break. But there are other adventures this time...
1. At the check-in counter, the lady asked me if I have a US Visa, and I gave her the what-you-mean-i-need-a-Visa look and I said, I believe Singapore's on the Visa waiver program. And of course, not trusting me (and probably still thinking that Singapore is somewhere in the middle of China), she goes on to ask her colleague next to her, who promptly asks her to check the list, which was in front of her, and of course, finding out that we ARE on the Visa waiver program. :)
2. We were stuck at stupid Heathrow waiting for planes to land for about 45 minutes. What a waste of time.
3. And as if that wasn't enough, we took the longest possible route to "avoid bad weather" and ended up taking a route that had HEAD winds that were 120mph, when we were flying at 550 +/- 20 mph. Hmm. As the chinese saying goes: "Yi Lu Shun Feng" (translated to be Bon Voyage - but in the sense that your journey will be smooth like the wind). I think my journey was more like "Yi Lu Xiang(4) Feng", i.e. journey always against the wind.
But of course, the delays meant that I had more time to enjoy the inflight entertainment (on Virgin Atlantic) which I never thought I'd be getting, considering how little i paid for my flight... hehe... So I watched Mission Impossible 3 (amazing. loved it. so fast paced and so much action), Always Sanchome no Yuhi... [Sunset on the 3rd street] (this jap movie, which was quite random, but not too bad nonetheless) and finally The Devil Wears Prada, which I thought was really good. Not to mention, I can think of a couple of people i know who actually fit the "Devil"'s character in the movie, about how everything she says IS the law and has to be obeyed. (No names mentioned - i'm not supposed to be a bitch here.. =X )
So anyway, I arrive in New York, take another 1.5 hours on the subway/airtrain to get to my hostel, which I didn't book (forgot to.. haha.. realised that the day i was supposed to fly off), but managed to get a bed nonetheless. And then I'm off to New Haven to visit Pierre in this town of Yale people... ;p (ie. i haven't got to see the sights of NYC yet, except the glimpses of some skyscrapers.. but I will, next week...)
In the meantime, I'm off to have dinner and catch this show called "Black Snow" which Pierre was one of the builders for the set and he's gotten tix for me. Tata for now!
So I flew off yesterday afternoon to New York. And of course, making sure this time that I didn't miss the flight as I did when I went to Singapore for the summer break. But there are other adventures this time...
1. At the check-in counter, the lady asked me if I have a US Visa, and I gave her the what-you-mean-i-need-a-Visa look and I said, I believe Singapore's on the Visa waiver program. And of course, not trusting me (and probably still thinking that Singapore is somewhere in the middle of China), she goes on to ask her colleague next to her, who promptly asks her to check the list, which was in front of her, and of course, finding out that we ARE on the Visa waiver program. :)
2. We were stuck at stupid Heathrow waiting for planes to land for about 45 minutes. What a waste of time.
3. And as if that wasn't enough, we took the longest possible route to "avoid bad weather" and ended up taking a route that had HEAD winds that were 120mph, when we were flying at 550 +/- 20 mph. Hmm. As the chinese saying goes: "Yi Lu Shun Feng" (translated to be Bon Voyage - but in the sense that your journey will be smooth like the wind). I think my journey was more like "Yi Lu Xiang(4) Feng", i.e. journey always against the wind.
But of course, the delays meant that I had more time to enjoy the inflight entertainment (on Virgin Atlantic) which I never thought I'd be getting, considering how little i paid for my flight... hehe... So I watched Mission Impossible 3 (amazing. loved it. so fast paced and so much action), Always Sanchome no Yuhi... [Sunset on the 3rd street] (this jap movie, which was quite random, but not too bad nonetheless) and finally The Devil Wears Prada, which I thought was really good. Not to mention, I can think of a couple of people i know who actually fit the "Devil"'s character in the movie, about how everything she says IS the law and has to be obeyed. (No names mentioned - i'm not supposed to be a bitch here.. =X )
So anyway, I arrive in New York, take another 1.5 hours on the subway/airtrain to get to my hostel, which I didn't book (forgot to.. haha.. realised that the day i was supposed to fly off), but managed to get a bed nonetheless. And then I'm off to New Haven to visit Pierre in this town of Yale people... ;p (ie. i haven't got to see the sights of NYC yet, except the glimpses of some skyscrapers.. but I will, next week...)
In the meantime, I'm off to have dinner and catch this show called "Black Snow" which Pierre was one of the builders for the set and he's gotten tix for me. Tata for now!
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