Monday, October 03, 2005
helllloooo chicago! - 9:55 PM
Weekend in Chicago was great..I mean, how bad can it get?! ONLY confirm, guarantee, chop 100 times betta than Lansing ONLYYYY mah... Oh, in case u don't know me well, good = didn't do much except nua, sleep, eat and shop. Good, to me doesn't = clubbing pubbing etc. HOLD YOUR ROLLING EYES!
Ride there was alright. I was initially worried that Matt and I would have nothing to say for the 4++hr ride.. but heng we found stuff to talk about.. and when we didn't, I slept lor! ok..confession: cos he had the windows down, the wind was damn noisy.. so actually half the things he said, I didn't hear so I just went 'oh yeah.. yah... uh huh..' -haha-. He's got a Cherokee Jeep.. so it was big and comfortable. He dropped me off at the Bartlett (this northwest suburb of chicago) train station and I caught the Metra down to the Union Station in the financial district of Chicago. More about Bartlett... it looked really... quaint. U know, its like Sweet Valley comes to life. Lansing is a suburb, Bartlett is a suburb, but Bartlett somehow manages to look so much neater, more pleasant and welcoming. There aren't alot of pedastrian crossing lights there so this ah mah have to hold up the 'STOP' sign while letting people cross. Quite ke lian liddat cos some motorists were like shouting 'WE GOTTA STOP AGAIN?!' outta their windows. hahahaha.
Met Peishan and we went to Chinatown for dinner. hur hur. chinese food....very long nv eat rice already u know? Saturday saw us lazing around and watching Harry Potter, Prisoner of Azkaban DVD in the morning. Then we went SHOPPING!!!! She lives right in downtown Chicago, so we could walk (in very nice weather) to the main shopping belt. She reckoned we must have spent like close to 2hrs in Nordstrom Rack. Thats my favourite place to shop. Nordstrom is this quite up-scale departmental store.. Nordstrom Rack is the place where they dump their last season stuff and sell them for much, much less. Its abit messy there though, but HELL I love good buys! Even Peishan, who doesn't like to shop cos she doesn't want to fuss about her clothes in the morning cos its MAH FAN (she says that like 10 000 times/day) bought stuff! Then we went down Michigan Avenue. So, I bought a Puma zip hoodie, a long sleeved striped shirt, a pair of jeans, a belt and a long sleeve tee... total damage? about $100 cos ALL OF THEM WERE ON DESPERATE SALE... HEY, before you judge me... I'm quite a smart shopper. Only buy sale stuff...plus I nv shop at all when I'm in Lansing lor!... except for the hoodies that's classified under NECESSITIES. cos its so cold u see...
So we decided to watch a movie. Oliver Twist, directed by the guy who directed The Pianist. So you guessed it, quite dark and slow. But its not bad. But seeing Oliver ask for more grub while I was stuffing myself with chips and chocolate made me feel quite bad leh.. haha. Then we decided to be cheap and eat at home cos we're on this save-money-on-food-campaign... So we had... OH, the very well-received indomee. HAHHAA with egg and hot dog! and then we watched Harry Potter, Chamber of Secrets.
Sunday afternoon, I MISSED THE FREAKING TRAIN BACK TO BARTLETT! arghhh somehow the Metra decided that they were gonna be very super efficient this ONE TIME and leave BEFORE the scheduled time.. so we had to go back and Peishan had to send me to this ulu place where we met up with Matt.
On the journey back, WAHHH an impending thunderstorm awaited. OH wait, it was already raining mao and gou in Chicago. WAHH the lightning was very scary.. Nearly blinded my eyes. Looked like something outta the National Geographic magazine. and it didn't stop for like, 1hr. oh man... Heng Matt's a good driver.. if it was me who had driven back, you all can collect my body on the I-94 already. *choi*
So, it was a good choice to leave last weekend, cos MSU LOST THE FOOTBALL GAME TO THE UNI OF MICH. DAMMIT. Ok u see usually I don't care about football, but I was so hao lian... my roommate's bf is from UOM u see, so last weekend I told him to 'bring his kleenex' cos he's gonna cry when they lose... den wah lau, we lost instead. So diu lian. :(
So during the weekend, someone, some numbskull, don't ask me who cos I don't know...took the fire extinguisher on our floor and used it... so I wasn't around for the floor meeting but they said they're gonna give us (pple on the 5th floor) a FINE if no one pleads guilty. or they will fingerprint all of us.. TMD. I wasn't even around! fingerprint fingerprint lor. Quite exciting wad. State News reported 36 students were locked up during the weekend.. so few hah?
OHHHh remmeber how I told you all I'm gonna ace the social science test? So I got like 43/50 but i was really aiming for a 45 cos you get an A only when you get 90%. BUTTT apparently everyone sucked so the Prof has decided to give us 2 extra points! YAY and only 7 people got an A after the bonus points. I'm one of them! And then he read out our names.. reminded me of those days when Mrs Tan (bee chok, cedar, sec 2, form teacher, general sci) would call us up one by one, by the highest sci test score to the LOWEST. my name was always among the bottom 5 to be called. :S
Yikes those bad memories... Oh well, its all in the past. Time to get some work done! toodles.
*7 more weeks to Thanksgiving!*