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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

hey,

yesterday was the time and day of the week when I had to practically lock my doors and hide in my room. Every monday nights, my floor government has a floor meeting. I attended one. And it was a complete waste of time. None of my suite mates attend the floor meeting as well. Plus, my bed time (after the daylight savings adjustment) coincides with the time of the floor meeting. So too bad. But it's really irritating how they will go from door to door, knock on each door, and shout 'floor meeting'. We will all make sure to not play any music and be really really quiet to prevent detection. Once, one of my suite mate forgot and was still blasting music when they came and the door knocker (yes, they actually have an official door knocker in the floor government) shouted, "i can hear your music. I know you are in there. Come out for floor meeting now."

It's really irritating. At times, I really feel as if I'm being persecuted, just like how the Jews were persecuted during WWII. And to think that I'm in the US, the supposedly most democratic country in the world and thus, I have the freedom to choose what I want to do. On my 4th day here, they had some early dinner gathering thing that I couldn't attend cos I was travelling with my friends around downtown LA. And because we couldn't attend the gathering we couldn't have dinner that day because they cancelled our right to swipe for dinner that day simply cos we didn't attend the gathering. And we were soo annoyed and we got more annoyed because we were hungry.

But luckily, not too long ago, we found the perfect way to deter these irritating people from knocking on our doors. Because there is another door separating the other rooms and the hallway leading to our rooms, we have been consistently closing that door and so all that we can hear is a muffled knock and a muffled 'floor meeting'. Goodness. But apparently the floor meetings' attendance isn't very good. Not surprising.

haha..end of my whining session. take care! and see everyone soon!

cheers,
kx



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Sunday, November 23, 2008

hello!! guess who! haha :)

kx! thanks for keeping the blog active with ur interesting entries from LA! :) i wanna be out of singapore too! sighs! staying too long in singapore and smu makes me so tired n drained :( nowadays i just feel so sluggish (with a very high level off inertia haha) and i cant wait to go exchange too! kx, do take more photos before u fly back in 4 weeks time! lets have steamboat at ur place again (if its convenient for u n ur family) so u can tell us more abt ur trip ya! :)

all the best for exams everyone! lets have gathering again after exams! (i think yimin is keen on organising haha thanks yimin!!)

love, jy



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Thursday, November 20, 2008

hey, I guess everyone is busy preparing for exams. So jiayou and good luck!! I just had my last midterm today! yay!:)

so what happened between the last time I wrote sth here and now? I went to Disneyland. And it was so so so fun. It's really a place that you will forget all your misery and just indulge in a day of fun. My favourite ride is this ride called Space Mountain and it was an exhilarating ride and there were times during the ride when I could feel myself moving against gravity. Another ride was based on Pirates of the Carribean - which wasn't exhilarating but very very enjoyable. We sat in this wooden boat and we cruised through replicas of the movie set and in one particular segment, we were 'caught' in crossfire. Had a really enjoyable time. We spent the entire day at Disneyland before we went to California Adventure Park, which is just beside Disneyland.

California Adventure Park is very similar to Disneyland in the sense that it was based on Disney animated movies. However, the focus is more on rides. There is this super huge rollercoaster - California Screaming - as the name suggests, its a super long and super exhilarating rollercoaster. Obviously I didn't go for it...I doubt my heart can take it. We took this 4D Toystory ride. It was soo fun. We had to sit on this revolving mini car-like thing and we brought to different segments where we had to shoot at the targets and accumulate points. It's very fun although my arm was hurting at the end.

Then, last saturday, my family friend brought us for dim sum!! yum yum. And they brought us to this place called Huntington Library, which used to be the private residence of this super rich railroads tycoon. Now that he has passed away, his estate is opened to the public. It was a huge place but a totally amazing place. There are a number of gardens within 1 single estate - A rose garden with lots of huge roses, a Japanese garden which is totally authentic Japanese - we felt we entered the set of the Memoirs of a Geisha - , a Shakespeare garden, a huge conservatory where they had a mini rainforest and a temperate rainforest and many others, a Desert garden, a Zen garden, a Chinese garden and a library housing many sculptures and famous paintings. It's a really amazing place! And to think that all these belongs to one person. Wow. For nice pictures, go to my facebook. Lazy to upload a few photos here! haha.

Going to another famous museum here this saturday - Getty Museum. And during the upcoming thanksgiving holiday we will be going to Universal Studios. really excited about that!:)

anyways, enough from me. Take care and jiayou! I'll see all of you soon! Really excited about going home! Less than 4 weeks now!!:)

cheers,
kx



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