chronological updates...

what does it take to prod me into updating? a sudden cold spell of -10 after a week long of 10degree weather. considering tt i've been sleeping with the windows wide open for the past 4 days... today's really dreadful. like honestly. =/

so i'm in the union, facing the lake and watching the foam on the waves as the choppy sea crashes onto shore. come to think abt it, perhaps that's actually ice. wouldn't be surprised. there's like ice everywhere, thanks to the snow from yesterday, some of which melted. so now we have ice. great.

just finished a paper at 9am this morning. kinda dead now. desperately wanting sleep. waking at 4 everyday isn't a good idea, even if u shift your bedtime from 2am to 1am. i should be going for my lab session soon, since i dun want to do it tmr. but yeah. shall wait for the food stores to open at 11 and grab pad thai or pizza or sth. oh wait, it's 11.03am. hmm haha

lots of things since my last update.
first things first, in chronological order, the birthday party. had an exam on friday itself, but my housemate was really sweet... at around 12-ish she came home (usually she's over at our friends' place doing work, so i was pretty surprised tt she came back so early) my door was kinda semi-closed, so i pretty much just yelled out 'back so early?' and no answer. so i said it again, and peeked out and lo and behold, like maybe 10 were trying to squeeze their way into my kitchen/living room. tt was kinda funny. haha. i was reaaaaally shocked. so yeah
there was an ice cream cake from babcock hall and 2 pints of ben and jerry's ice cream, my favourite flavours too! (half-baked and mint!) more pple came in later and it was really really touching to have everyone juz to give me a surprise.

had the exam the next day. pretty much thought i got slaughtered. turned out i did pretty well, so thank God. guess that was my birthday present =)

left in the afternoon for minnesota - Campus Crusade's Women Retreat. got caught in the snow storm tt day, which made a 4 hour ride almost 6. it was great. quite a unique concept of worship... wasn't like a worship leader leading, but anyone could just sing a song or read a passage etc. i guess the best part was just taking time off from sch, away from work and solely concentrating on Him. it was great.
and i got to step into minnesota. and we visited eau claire on the way back =)

thanksgiving last week. headed up to toronto, visited chinatown, a couple of places, ate great food (korean bbq, some asian fusion thing and this singaporean-malaysian restaurant. even had TEOCHEW DUCK. like man i havn't seen that in forever! haha) best part was going to niagara falls, from both the canadian and the US side, so now i can say tt i've stepped into NY state. another one down! :)

love the falls. how can u stand there and not be amazed? and somehow, just kept feeling God's presence... the grand masterpiece of the Great Creator who charts and plans the changes too. how cool is that?

so now i'm back home. the pressing need to search for houses. feeling like i should just leave it to next year when i get back. not. enough. time. argh.

so yes.

lunch. :)