sooooooo this trip recap has been months in the making, but i am finally knuckling down and banging it out, mostly because the memories are fading fast and also i've sat on this so long that i now have other trips to post about that my anal nature won't let me get to before this one's done, yay! this trip was a dream in some ways and nightmarish in ( Read more... )

so life has been a little up and down this year, but if nothing else, saigon was a resounding success!!1 mostly. i pulled an itinerary out of my ass two days before we left, so i'm just pleased it wasn't a total suckfest. the hotel was maybe a little bit of a suckfest for my parents with the traffic noise and the construction work going on at 2 in ( Read more... )

i'm resolving to be better at documenting things, especially the weird and bizarre, so! my labour day weekend! it was all kinds of fun and strange and exciting! i got to go to minnesota (for likely the first and last time, and to be honest i wouldn't have gone at all anna hadn't just moved back and was willing and able to put me up). i had a ( Read more... )

mostly i'm doing this because i'm trying to stave off the start of a panic attack by procrastinating thinking about school at all, but also i'd really like for there to be some kind of record about the amazing time i had when i got to go home for the first time in a year, holy crap. plus i got to spend my birthday at home, which--how awesome was ( Read more... )

crazy wonderful amazing whirlwind of a week, and i can finally talk about it without fear of ruining the surprise for anyone!

sunday:

• make it through 14 hours of flying (5 eps of friends, 5 movies, and a 2-hour nap), a two hour layover in dubai, 7 more hours of flying (3/4 a movie and 4.5 hours of on and off napping)
  
• TOUCHDOWN IN SINGAPORE!
  
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it has been a ridiculous (and ridiculously awesome) couple of weeks. new york was so much fun, even after the disaster that was my first evening. forty minute wait for a shuttle compounded with a two hour ride to a hotel on ten hours with no food is no one's idea of a good time, i'm sure. and the i wandered the neighbourhood hoping to find a place ( Read more... )

totally crazy couple of weeks, but i can safely say this spring break has been a pretty successful one. lots of productive time spent in disneyworld, universal studios, and then traipsing the south on my first ever road trip! all of this done in the company of smileynic, so i've also gotten to use my singlish again. yay ( Read more... )

it's been a crazy couple of weeks! going for my first diagnostics session (which was a nightmare and a half despite the exact that my grades don't reflect how much i suck at it), and then still killing that language science exam (although i'm pretty sure i didn't kick as much ass as i thought i did), and then spending the rest of the time skyping ( Read more... )

chicken rice party with new friends tonight! i was convinced i wouldn't make any when i got here, and i still don't think many (if any) of them are people i'm going to consistently stay in touch with once we're out of school, but they're people i can comfortably spend a couple of months with, if not years, and that's really nice. it helps to fill ( Read more... )

so loving on ice hockey was pretty much the perfect mentality to leave montreal with, considering the fact that we were flying to seattle via chicago the next morning, and there were huge posters of all the blackhawks at ord. :D :D :D there isn't a better way to start a trip, let's be honest. even the crappy airport sandwich i had for lunch, and ( Read more... )