The good lord will take you away

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Finally i am gonna fly back to LA tmr. Cant bloody wait. Indiana is totally killing me. This place is boring with a capital B. I guess i am not a country girl after all huh? Or maybe its just my lack of friends here, thats why i am feeling so bored. Cant wait to go back to my life in LA, where i will actually have more than 1 pathetic friend. Phew.

Was bugging him on the phone today, complaining and complaining and he kept repeating "see, told you not to go to indiana already, yet you didnt believe me."Bleah. Finefine. Sometimes wisdom may really come with age. Sometimes only though. Not all the time! haha. Anyways, he told me to not take things for granted over here. Afterall, i am well taken care of, experiencing the country side life, and if i make the best of it, may even be on a road to self exploration. These months in L.A had been so totally hectic, i hit the bed everynight so tired out, no time to think about the things i've done. So i guess these five days in indiana, i did use some good time into thinking and reflecting about the past months. But oh gosh, now what am i gonna do on my 20hr flight back home to singapore?! My plan was to reflect on my months here, but now....how?! haha

Anyways, just wanna say a big thank you to YQ, who has very kindly agreed to help me do my VERY STRESSFUL subject registration for next sem! Woohoo. I will prob be at yosemite on the 30th May, so i am freaking thankful that the first person i asked for help agreed! :) Thanks YQ!
BUT! i need someone to help me on the 31st May for my GE registration! Anyone who can help please email or tag me! I will be eternally grateful! haha.

Alright, should actually try to hit the bed early tonight, waking up at four cause my flight's at 715am and we have to leave for the airport at 430am! Cant wait to see cynthia, who's picking me up at the airport! :) Love love love. Thank you! Jamba is on me!

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Around the "world" ________________________________________________________________

Ok, this feels kinda weird, blogging in indiana. Listening to Andy Lau on winamp. In the room of the first guy i ever fell in love with. In a land so far away from the place were we first met.

Been travelling for two weeks now. Flew from LA to Washington D.C then to Philadelphia then to New York and here i am in Indiana. Just drove up to Chicago yesterday. It's feels like a long time away from home. Adding more ticks to my own personal "places in the world i've been to"list.

Washington was an ok place, as expected, alot of monuments, all the important buildings, the white house, many other tall whitish important structures too. Not a very exciting place but as i walk through the city, i recognise buildings i've seen on cnn and all the other news channels. I travelled with three other girls during this trip till indiana. And thanks to my resourceful friends who have friends all over the world, we actually had guides in both D.C and Philly to bring us around. See..so blessed! :) The two guys who brought us around were really nice. what did we do to deserve meeting them? Willie, our guide in D.C, C's JC classmate even treated us to a 250USD meal. Yes, he refused to accept our money. Joe, S's friend in philly drove us all over the place, and now he and i are close friends. We sms all the time when i am bored and chat online with him on speakers and me on webcam. haha. retards.

Oh yah! Before i forget. Our trip was an exciting one. Alot of screwing ups. It started off on an exciting note when we missed our flight to D.C. Yes, u heard me right. We missed our flight. The first time i ever missed a flight. Was so excitingly scary. Haha. The shuttle bus we booked to bring us to the airport actually broke down along the way. Yes, and i thought that only happens in lame chinese movie when the female lead is trying to go the airport while the male lead chase behind and then they somehow miss each other. haha. Got to the airport line at 115, when our flight is at 135pm. We were all still so relaxed and fooling around till the airport guy told us, "nope, u guys missed it. the plane's already on the runway." You should have seen our faces when we heard that. All our jaws dropped. Then me and C suddenly both blurted out "you must be kidding right?!""and apparently the guy wasnt kidding. Thank God, we managed to catch the next flight two hours later. Phew. And since we have more time now, we decided to go BK for lunch. By then, the effects of my airsick pill was already taking its toll. Yes, i took the pill while we were rushing to airport on the cab. And so throughout lunch, i was feeling so sleepy. falling asleep while i was muching on my salad. Suddenly. C checked her boarding pass and realised that we missed our boarding time by 5 mins! Shit-ke-nathan. We fly out of BK and rushed all the way to our gate in our heavy bags, making a scene as the seven of us run like mad asians in an american airport. Phew. Thankfully we didnt miss the plane, like again.

Had to transit at kansas city. We decided to get off the plane for a walk. Was walking on the plane platform and A said "hey what time must we cant back on again? better take note, or else we have to stay in kansas and pluck berries for the rest of our lives." we all burst into laughter and then shit-ke-nathan. This big white with a big bunch of fiery red hair turned around and said "You guys are in missouri. and Kansas city is my hometown, dont insult it." Sigh. What a shitty day right. Anyways, managed to get to D.C safely but had to rush the last train to our horrible hotel. Only to realised that the location is so freaking bad. We were all starving and decided to call for pizza since there aint any civilisation around the place. Pizza place called. Flipped through the dusty yellowpages to find chinese takeout and everywhere else is closed too. We all decided to go to bed with an empty stomach and hope for the best the next day.

Yep..see that was only the first day and i have so much to write. I dont think i will continue since it will be too tiring to write and boring to read. Anyways, new york was great. The energy of the place, the air, the atmosphere, time square...gosh. It's an amazing place to be. Words can never be used to describe the place. We just walked aroud, visited the tourist places, saw libby (statue of liberty), wall trade center, or rather whats left, central park, watched broadway...sat in cafes and ate late at night. Played tons of bridge in starbucks....took the subway, got lost, got back on track again, visited brooklyn, toook tons of pictures, played more bridge, ate perusian food. It was a really really nice experience. And now, i am in boring indiana with an ex feeling kinda weird. 200 bucks left in my bank account, 150 spent on credit card, just found out i got bad grades thanks to my "wonderful"class attendance and missed presentations. Woohoo. Life of an exchange student. This, i am definately gonna miss. But oh no, NTU is gonna screw me cause i didnt do well. How how how?!

Haiyo...ok lar. super tired and lazy to type more. Will update again and prob only be able to upload pics when i get back to singapore. Oh yah, reaching singapore on 8th june. woohoo. Two more weeks and bye bye america!

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Moving out... ________________________________________________________________

Waiting for him to come move my stuff now. Four months just flew by like that. The image of my first night here in this apartment is still so vivid in my mind. But as i look at my luggages now, it just seems like 4 mths aint enough. I am not prepared to bid this place farewell yet. Empty beds, empty cupboards, empty desks, feels too empty for comfort. I am missing my housemates' crazy pizza/american idol nights already. And E and A's company every night at one of our apartments. Memoriesssssssssss.....haiya.

On a brighter note, am leaving for the east coast tmr! :) hotels still on its way. Making some progress i heard. Gonna stay in hilton for a night. haha.

Alright, my apartment number will no longer be working in a few hours time. I wont be online for the next two weeks. Will try to update from the east coast if i can though.

C u guys soon!

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Sidewalk or hairdryer? ________________________________________________________________

Shoots. Me and my three other friends are on the brink of sleeping on sidewalks in new york. Till now, we haven booked our hotels and we are leaving in 2 days! M is using some bidding system, and she insists that we will "beat the system" and manage to book super cheap 4 star hotels with hairdryers (Me and S requested for that. hoho) if we book super last minute. But she's been saying that since two weeks ago, and we've been bidding till 140USD, and still no sheraton, or hilton or holiday inn wants us. haha. Right. So C tells me, we're gonna end up sleeping on sidewalks and have a total complete feel of how it feels like being a back packer. But her theory and logic is wrong in the first place because i am gonna bring his duffel bag. Yes..and S thinks that we should save the money on rooms, sleep on the sidewalks, and then eat at gorgeous restaurants everynight.

For me, i suggest sleeping at hairdryer hotels, and eat at gorgeous restaurants everynight. So how?

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want some?

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TOOTY!

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Lunch with baobei!

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SUNNY DAY at Malibu!

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Team beamer.

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Team corolla!

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Me in action. Beach volley!

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What u looking at!

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Err...never seen a flyer this big.

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Wah! trying to act tough.

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the very decently clad girls...cause it was kinda cold!

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Errrr

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Err...looks kinda obscene

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Let's kiss!

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Let's make out!

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From me to You!

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The waves! run!

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The girls!

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