San Francisco looks beautiful from the sky, and provides the most exhilarating landing experience I've ever had. Thanks to air traffic control issues at SFO, only one runway was open and our flight got delayed by 2h, but it was awesome - the city is a gorgeous golden glow, and our little plane was practically skimming water for ages before we could ( Read more... )

First, briefly: Vancouver has been loads of fun. It's amazing how much is happening in British Columbia. Hung out with Gua Khee and her friends, almost got to meet Hui Xian but she was camping all weekend :( But at MEC I got a backpack so maybe next time we could go camping tgt HAHA. I really must come back to this lovely place. Met Katherine, a ( Read more... )

Niagara Falls (US side), 9.7.12, 5.57pm

When a seagull almost crashes into another seagull, it is literally a brush with death. Either of them could have fallen from 20m above the ground, not enough altitude to catch the wind again, and injured themselves. Instead, all that happens is a flurry of feathers, both rear back in an attempt to avoid one ( Read more... )

We're in Boston for a full day cos the bus comes in the evening, so we ate at Chinatown (rofl don't ask me, it's the boys) and are making our way to Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox. All I know about Red Sox is that it was the name of a Shetland pony I used to be fond of (although my favourite was Black Star). But the Smiths (lovely people!) got my ( Read more... )

NYC is a crazy place. It's dirty and smelly. It's so racially diverse, yet there are still kids (who look like they're 6) who will grab their crotches and call you 'ching chong fuckers'. Then again, I live in Harlem, and random guys mess with me in the streets, and I mess with them back, it's all good fun. We encountered a man in a doorway and ( Read more... )

Ants on a cemetery plot: miniscule black spider-like ones, tiny brown ones, larger shiny gold-brown ones, skinny sleek black ones, very big black-grey ones with bulbous butts. The shiny gold-brown ones are laying eggs? or eating? some black blobs on the stems of weeds.

Ten minutes, time's up! Got nicked by thorns on weeds on the way out. But it's ( Read more... )

Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird

Zzz.

Many, many frustrations during this period... but I already spent all evening trying to deal.

There are small moments of cheer, yes. But they are hardly comfort.

What makes this experience exponentially frustrating is that I have absolutely no one to confide in. No One! ...and there's So Much to say!!

And of ( Read more... )

This morning I was in a hurry and tapau-ed 5 chicken nuggets from the Malay stall, despite not approving of processed food and not wanting fried stuff in the morning. I regretted it when I realized the Asian stall (which I had assumed served rubbish as usual) had red bean pau and siew mai. HAIZ. Been thinking of pau all the way to Raffles Place... ( Read more... )

Do insects get carsick and throw up? The poor orange insect I left on the bus window ledge seems as though it's holding on for dear life. Moving backwards must be traumatizing!

I don't really know how to use LJ these days. I've wanted to blog several times this month, but somehow never got around to it. And you'd think having an app would make it ( Read more... )

So I just had a chalet and now I'm going for a camp. Lulz. I dislike these social activities but I guess I see the need/reason for them x.x

Watched Dutchman last night (film by LeRoi Jones). A really interesting movie. Although I still don't understand how the black guy (Clay) could have still flirted with the white girl (Lula) despite her racist, ( Read more... )