this sat the 30th....

so.. hehe oops my 8 minute study break just turned into a 50min study break >.>
how did that happen..

i woke up at 1PM!! 0___0
wondered into the kitchen and wheeeeeee thank you to the Koreans for cooking up an awesome lunch..well breakfast for me to taste. dumplings, rice cakes, pancake thingy, ice cream... mmmmmmmmmmmm....... if only i could speak korean and participate in your lively conversations.

the queens/dutch/orange party was last night, which was loads of fun. Sadly i cannot upload photos due to the ridiculously funny embarrassing poses and random snaps i took of people. but here are a few.

the pre-party, where they played slap cut. a drinking game
and got beer slashed in my face -.-"
i wasn't even near the table, was catching up with people sitting on the couches *sigh*

ORANGE!

why does my hand/arms always look so weird in photos

i forget the origin of queens day , but its a very dutch thing. and for a whole 24hours + everyone dress from head to toe in orange, as the queen's surname sounds like the word orange commemorating the bday of the queen. . or something like that.

*copy paste from net*
"On April 30, the Dutch celebrate Koninginnedag ("Queen's Day"), a national holiday to commemorate the birthday of the country's (former) Queen. It is by far the most widely celebrated holiday in the Netherlands. Amsterdam festivities in particular rival those of Mardi Gras in New Orleans or New Year's Eve in New York City. As such, Amsterdam is packed to the gills on April 30, welcoming up to two million party-going visitors."


OH! went on a hike, for the randomness of it, as the idea popped up due to the fact it was still bright outside 7.45pm.
didn't leave til 8.30pm...but totally worth it!!! Stumbled up and slipped down the hills behind ihouse for tour hours 0____0

met some rumblings in the bushes, saw incredible views, discovered the SWING! and conversed with an intellectual traveler. Randomly out of now where in the hills, Emmanuel comes across Travis and his girlfriend, tent pitched and camp fire going. WOW. so interesting.
heard his story and his eternal connection with the universe. very friendly person.

that tall structure is sather tower on campus. 64 bells up there that play three times a day i think. =] its 93.6meters tall!!

my lovely friends, justin, susie, tomas, emannuel

=]

belated ihouse boat party post

ALRIGHTY! so it was a semi end of year (yes end of academic year for US people, weird) and we had a party on a boat in the waters of San Francisco.

it was an incredible view and the closest I've got to the Golden Gate Bridge (i am one of the few international students that hasn't cycled across it yet =.=)

lets see everyone was dressed extremely pretty and i had no idea who they were. especially the girls. the added vertical dimensions of the heels and uncanny effect of make up didn't help either. But i eventually got used to it.

The first few hours were great. the last one, not so much. drunkness and things that we never be uploaded as they are too embarrassing for others.
But i did manage to strike up a conversation regarding Christ, church, Catholic traditions, fasting between three different people that night. rather interesting...amongst the racket of music that wasn't so nice to my ears.

still daylight n sunny when we boarded at 7pm.
the lovely larisa on the bottom left speaks so many languages! english, french, russian, italian and something else. oops. spanish?
say hello to my favourite swiss tennis player =P

SUNSET!! WOOT

heh. i was the only one looking at my camera. i must look really silly,
in whoever took the other photo from the opposite angle. =P

bridge!

i dunno who drank all that. because it wasn't us =P

my friend mr. stephen hollywood, who happened to be in an accident with the concrete curb and needs surgery =/ he has an awesome surname.

they said "look enthusiastic" i tried

my favourite photo of the night. a professional camera man was taking a shot of them and let a massive flash of light, for my camera to capture the laughs and tones of the atmosphere.

SF lights at night!

at this point i was getting real bored. and people were not able to stand up straight
partly because of the rocky boat =P
outside wasn't as cold as i expected.

the two people that didn't drink + me =]

belated post about ski trip

skiing > snowboarding for me

i have a sore ass and am bring a pillow around me where ever i go Y_Y

Bus trip to Las Vegas on Saturday, not exactly looking forward to it

lewl i took no photos really because a) first time skiing /snowboarding, not a good idea to have a camera in my pocket whilst falling a zillion times b) events that occur aren't appropriate to be photographed and uploaded >.>
c) when there was cool scenery i didn't have my camera and it was in the middle of the night -.-"

so here are the few i took_

in the car driving past random cabins

our awesome driver drove myself and a few others to study at maccas lewl
to avoid the crazy loud music parties of course =P

i saw snow! and snow fall! and the first thing that i did,
was stuck out my tongue to taste it ^^

they played many drinking games, if ya throw it in the other team's cups, they take that drink. all the cups are filled with beer

snapped a shot before the 57 people arrived ^^

that's the fireplace some of us gathered around to play fun non-alcoholic games
- charades and an epic round of pictionary which finished at 1am.

The midnight trip down to the pier/dock was amazing!! lol did i freak out the people when i turned on the lights ^^
sadly i had no photos, but these were the closest I could find on the net that resembled what we
saw.

like this but at night

we got there by wondering through someone's backyard that above

slippery! and icy!

sooo pretttyyyy,

just like a korean movie proposal scene lewl

JUNGLE PARTAYYY!!! + video from the week

yay =]

its starting,,

wheee partayy

some australians!! guy in green = smashing dancer!

this group performs every monday in the plaza area, amazing! every sound is coming from them!! no back up music whatsoever, from the beats, to the drum noises, to the oh-ahs, ITS ALL THEM!!!

on the side_

i got a new laptop =]

first frat + dorm PARTAAAY!!

well.. after wondering around and not being able to find the christian bbq party in unit 3, i met up with Herman, Justin and Joseph at a Christian Frat Party get-together.

wow. they get free laundry, printing and all this neat stuff for 2.8k.. geez.. Ihouse is triple the costs and we don't get those benefits. The guys were really nice. We got a house tour of all three floors, ya THREE FLOORS!! I'm impressed as to how many rooms they can squish into a house. And we got to see the DUCK! Hahaha... Andrew has a random pet duck. It was a tad weird being the only girl but it was nice to know there is a Christ-centred-fraternity with fun gatherings and have a blast without alcohol =P

alalalla... next stop.. some really far away walk to get alcohol apparently. Well, not me, I got Häagen-Dazs® icecream ^^ oh which some people where jealous of, of course =P but anyways, for some reason drinks in the US are cheap. 2L of smirnoff for $25... or something like that. I wasn't paying attention but was too busy deciding icecream flavours.

the next thing you know,, you walk into a corridor full of people with music cranking and party-ing it UP. well... we knew the party was on the fourth floor, so a few non-drinkers decided to check it out before we fall asleep LOL.. our nose lead the way. Dang, didn't realise beer leaves such a strong smell.

sigh. how to these people keep it up. i seriously want to sleep my bags away.. they are horrible =.=""