junk boats and english boys.

week one in hong kong complete.

its been so full of delicious food, its kinda ridiculous. no joke. i weighed myself within a few days of coming home and i had gained five pounds. disgusting, right?

so, from the beginning. left boston on dec. 22nd. got to newark and before finding out my connecting flight to hk had been delayed for 11 hours. all because of a clogged toilet. no, seriously. first we got delayed until 6pm, from 3:30pm, so that they could figure out which toilet was messed up and fix it. then, according to regulation, if a long-haul flight is delayed by more than two hours, the airline is obligated to allow the crew to go home and sleep for eight hours. and this flight didn't have a back up crew. hence, passengers were stuck at the gate until the crew had gotten their rest. :P lame. and i would've killed time by blogging this while i was stuck curled up at the terminal, but my dumbass packed all of my chargers and powercords and chargers in my checked baggage, which the airline wasn't about to give us access to. ass.

i guess, at least we weren't caught in this blizzard business. that would've sucked. more.

at 2:15am, the flight finally got their act together and got the hell out of newark. i immediately jump on the personal tv system, play a couple of games, and then what do i find??..

 

yaaaaaaayyyyyy!!!!!! :D

so i finally get in to hk at 7:15am on christmas eve. get home. shower. and get an early christmas present!!! it's an ipad!!!!!!! then jess got me despicable me + a leather ladybug penholder. its super cute and made from recycled leather. yaaaayyyyy!!!

my christmas presents from 2010!!! :D

nomnoms!!!

25th ::

christmas day + grandma's birthday! more delicious noms. big family dinner. the whole shindig.

there really isn't anything quite like hk cakes...mmm...

g-ma and the grandkids sans one. :)

then, other than eating dimsum everyday for the first few days [read: DELICIOUS.], we had hotpot. more deliciousness! jess and i are slowly checking all the various foods we wanted to have when we came back off our lists.

27th-28th ::

we and the extended family spent a couple days wandering around macau.

one week into the trip back to hk, we're finally having some chillaxing time. :)

i still need to find some time to head out for a site visit. but i still have time. 

one more week to go. :D

<3

it's the best that i've ever had.

I'M FINALLY DONE!!!!


just had my one and only final for Issues of Practice today.  after the ridiculous document submission deadline we had just yesterday, I am done.  sadly, I had to pull my third official CMU all-nighter sunday night to get shit done.  in my opinion, it wouldn't have been necessary, had everyone just done what they were supposed to.  i'm angry.  but it's done.  whatever.  compared to that, this final was an f-ing walk in the park.

3 hours.
71 questions.
all multiple-choice.
answer options? A-U.


just a few examples of answer options that came up:
a) true
b) false
c) bunnies

c) whiskey distributors, whiskey distillers and catholic altar boys

f) definitely f
g) f and g
h) f,g and h

d) definitely k [NOTE: this question only went up to d)]

a) true
b) false
c) none of the above

a) everything is forced -- FOLAN!

#71. If you could be anyone for a day, who would you rather be?
a) Dick Butkus
b) Tinkerbell
c) Justin Bieber

a mystery box could be anything! even a bunny!

i am officially done with f10, and into my last semester of architecture undergrad. holy shit.

:D

<3

where in the world is carmen sandiego?

went to go see ROCKAPELLA last night with smingle and arlie!!! :D it was AWESOME.  the show got opened by pittsburgh's own DoubleShot, who's got some serious talent of their own. crazy.

and, of course, the encore of "where in the world is carmen sandiego??". it was a must-have.

so glad that poster in the UC caught my eye. worth it.

could've done without the trip of 16-year-old school choir girls, but hey. still worth it.

:) what a great end-of-year treat.

topped off the night with a trip to the 24hr IHOP. haven't quite decided if the post-IHOP nausea made that trip quite as worth it, but all-in-all, definitely a good night.

DO IT, ROCKAPELLA!!!

finally.

an epically accurate fortune i got out of a cookie yesterday with dinner. boomtown.

i am officially done with my final studio of my undergraduate career at cmu.

sure, next year i'll have thesis, but that's different. at least it seems different. it's different. this semester was definitely hell, but its finally over.

now to finish off issues, udm and modern architecture & theory with a bang. and hopefully, somewhere in there, i'll have time to add to and resubmit my thesis proposal before dec. 15th. it's just for the grade, but still. it's actually something i want to do, not just for the grade, but for the project. i think i can do it. i'm hoping i'm right.

for now, a chill night of laundry, a bunny, a kitty, some tv, some B, and most of all, some sleep.

:)

<3

about life and love and music and stuff.

this is something that's here for things i feel like ranting about for anyone who cares to hear.

i'm strangely conflicted with a strong urge to rant about something. but have managed to get writer's block about my own thoughts.
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