And I finally sat down long enough at the computer

It has been the craziest of weeks that classes (hmmmm..... is that important or what?) seemed rather anti-climatic.


And here's something you guys are dying to see...

My room! I love the duvet cover. And the desk further confirms my mother's hypotheses that flat surfaces are mess magnets in Yihui's space.

And this is the view from my room.



It isn't Charles River and Boston view (which btw is gorgeous) but Simmons Hall make a good substitute I would say. In addition to that there is another view




Footballers in very tight clothing. Quote someone I can't remember 'It's like rugby except they just ram into each other. It's dumb."



And I put that all up because I just had to show my incredibly cute duvet cover.



If there's any time to visit MIT, Orientation and Rush week would be the best time ever. Where else can you ride on stuff like these:

That's a hovercraft. I went on that and levitated like a buddha for 2min.


And THAT is an East Campus roller coaster! Didn't go on this one despite many reassurances that it is perfectly safe by an East Campus resident. The cart flew into the air during the test run and they added mattresses at the end to stop that. But it is still the coolest thing ever! There was water flowing down the side that drips according to the rhythm of the music played for the dance floor. It's a pure gravity ride by the way, no hydraulics or anything. :D

This sign contributed to my not going on the ride too.

No one died this year either.


To add to that, free food was everywhere for about 2 weeks. And I tried liquid nitrogen ice cream for the first time! (Home made ice cream where they pour liquid nitrogen into flavoured creamy milk and this mist would surround the ice cream like in a potions lesson at Hogwarts. Awesome) There were many other firsts: toilet paper dodgeball (haha the whole lounge was covered in toilet paper when we were done), midnight tours (email me if you want the details to that event.. That's a secret :D), watched an improv, involved in making a short film that's on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuirS-yFD1A), watched the best talent show I've ever seen in the Freshman Arts Program, ate 17 scoops of ice cream in 13min with 4 others, race go karting at 45 miles/hour, dance party on a boat cruise...

The last three were rush events where fraternities hold awesome events like that to get the best guys to attend and join their frats as well as girls to attract more guys to come. Which is where I get to go. :D They spend about 1/2 a million within a week and there were so many incredible events that it was so hard to pick and choose. Six Flags (theme park), or Go Kart or Paintball? Steak & Lobster dinner or BBQ? Red Sox Game? Incredibly difficult questions usually answered by 'how near are we to this frat house?'.

It's coming to an end now though. As the frat parties got more private, the roller coaster taken down piece by piece, upperclassmen filed onto campus, we're moving on.

Welcome to Hell! (It really is written on the ground halfway to MIT from Harvard Bridge: Halfway to Hell.) There's a story too for why Harvard Bridge is named Harvard despite it's vicinity to MIT. But that'd have to wait. :D

Yihui out!

Adieu Yihui.

Yihui left for MIT last Thursday night. Needless to say, we'll miss her. It hasn't quite sunk in yet that we won't be hanging out at Starbucks or catching a movie as a gang; at least, not for awhile.

But of course, we couldn't just send her off without a decent hangout. So the Sunday prior to her departure, we (namely Roy, Hazel, Yihui and myself) took the LRT down to KLCC. It was an adventurous change from our overvisited hangouts at Sunway pyramid.

Upon arrival, we met up with Sarah and proceeded to the main attraction of any Malaysian shopping centre: the food court. It had just drizzled and we were torn between picnicking by the lake and risking wet bottoms, or just pigging it out right there in the food court.

Being the indecisive individuals we are, we couldn't come to any conclusions and settled on a coin toss. Head, we stay in; tails, lakeside picnic.

We got heads, indoors..



Ten minutes later, we found ourselves walking out the double doors that head towards the KLCC gardens equipt with sushi, McDonalds and Subway sandwiches. We sat on the steps by the huge pool and hung out/camwhored for a bit. Pleasantly, it was cloudy and hardly wet; great picnicking weather.

Yihui's planning on going to the US to claim that she's from a native tribe that lives on trees. Home sweet tree.

And her neighbour Roy-zan.

Peek-a-boo!

We then proceeded in for desert(!) and later Kino.
Gelato..

Sadly, all good things inevitably end and we left soon after.

We'll miss you Yihui. We love ya lots and look forward to future hangouts! Good luck math genius! Hugs.

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If you hadn't the chance to wish her off, leave a comment for Yihui.

One month to go!

Look what I found!'very frizzy, coarse, and untamable hair'

Whoops sorry! picture taken with phone camera as you can see. Is that manufactured for me or what? :D

On a completely unrelated note - unless you put it under the category of 'what Yihui came across this month' - Spring Airlines in China is considering having standing-room only flights to increase flight capacity. Now we're talking a true bus in the Air. No food, no water, no luggage consignment, now no seat! Somehow I forsee a long queue for the washrooms unless they cut that seat too. That'd be interesting. :)

And and if you've been travelling on Federal Highway recently from Klang to KL, you might have noticed this sign. Unfortunately I haven't got a picture of it but it's something like that:

Not sure about you, but erm I think I'll stick to traditional non-pakar hospitals.

Sweet Stuff.. Very Lightly Salted

Today a few of us hung out for a bit: Lily, Yihui, Sarah and myself.
Destination: Secret Recipe! Well.. initially at least..


Durian cheese cake.. Not as terrifying as it sounds.. Kudos to Secret Recipe for pulling that one off!

And later..


Starbucks!

Where we..


had childhood flashbacks.. Lily won btw.





Lily then got a little excited and morphed into Batman. XD

So I've been thinking...

about my name and how I'd be called in the states. Yihui seems like it's gonna be a 'mouth'ful for the western tongue to handle if my sister's friend was to be a judge. He called me 'nee ha' and 'nee way'.

I'm imagining a situation like in Harry Potter where Hermione teaches Viktor Krum the pronounciation to her name : Her-my-on-nee.

Hmm let's see:

Yee-hoo-ei
Yee-who-ay

hmm let's try again, without the yi.

Who-a-ee

say it reeaaallly fast. :D

Now with the yi......

That might have been 5 mintues already.

It doesn't really help either that my last name is also the name of a film full of gore, blood and severed limbs. There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of them the last time i counted which rendered the film imprinted into eveyone's mind.

When I was in London, my uncle introduced me to his colleagues in an all-too-cool way as 'H' like Horatio in CSI Miami. And I get to sign my name as "Haitch".

About 10 minutes ago, I had a new idea... hence the post whoops
What about combining my first and last names to get something like Sawyer? But it sounds quite boyish.

So what say you? :)