Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills my mind.
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summer pictures Monday, July 27, 2009 i dont know why the pictures are in reverse order but at least there are pictures here to entertain after infinite boring posts. my cheap buys :) i dont know why i just took pictures of the price tags. lol. but i love clearance sales.    i believe this was half price. you cant get better than this. 3 bucks. seriously now? and 4 bucks? no wonder stores are going out of business. lol. dont say i dont support the economy. lunch at the airport before leaving vegas. love fish and chips. give me fried stuff anytime. or junk. my astronut icecream. didnt really like it. give me the real deal please. guess i wont be an astronut anytime now.  korean bbq at chinatown. yums. korean food must be my second favourite cuisine after japanese. dessert at the sushi buffet at the premiun outlet center. love the strawberries. we took a stack of cookies before we left for bro to snack on in the plane strawberry banana pancakes from IHOP. love it! morton steak house. sorry for the ugly display of food. i had a little bit of everything. view from the plane. almost there now. spot the strip. :) extraordinary. i love gazing out of the windows, looking at the amazing scenery. more photos later. off to play the wii with cuz now. :) just when i had the moood to blog. lol. continued... (Continued from previous post…. What did I say, I knew I was going to get lazy.) So, we went outlet shopping for the entire day. I didn’t get much but bro got loads of stuff. I think he got a whole new closet. He probably spent close to 600 bucks! I kept worrying about money matters and school fees so I was hesitant, looking at all the prices before I took it to mom’s hands. She was the credit card of the day. Wanted to get this really cute pair of converse shoes- it had fish around it, light faded blue color, but they didn’t have my size. Even though it was kind of overpriced, I didn’t mind but it doesn’t matter since my size wasn’t available. They had size 6, 8 and 9 but not 7! So I was disappointed. Still, I manage to steal some good deals in the end. Got 5 dollars converse shirts, 10 dollars converse jacket, some other less than 10 bucks shirts. Oh, we went into coach too and mom and dad went crazy. The clearance section was 50 % off and they gave us 20% off coupons as well. So as you can imagine, there were hoards of people. Dad got a couple of small stuff for his colleagues and mom got a hand bag. I got my eyes on this handbag that was really pretty but it was too expensive. Now, I still do regret not getting it. And I saw it again the next day too. But now I know can resist temptation quite well. Haha. We got really tired at the end of the day. We walked the entire center. Good thing we were in the mall and not outside though otherwise we would seriously have melted. There weren’t a lot of shops that I like but it was still a day well spent. By the time we finished shopping, it was dinner time so we had to decide on where to eat. You cannot have gone to Vegas without having a buffet. And we wanted to go to a good one where they don’t serve crappy cafeteria food so we went to the most expensive one at the Wynn. Mom’s idea… the food was good. Alaskan king crab legs were heavenly with shrimp cocktails= delicious. Didn’t have much sushi but that was compensated for the next day. I might have said this before but the dessert corners are always my favorite. Overall, it was a good round of food. Headed back to the hotel since I was so dead but parents scooted off to the casinos and didn’t get back until 3am again. Oh, while we were waiting in line, dad didn’t want to wait so he went off to play. Dad really acts like a child sometimes. But that’s what makes him dad. The next day, bro was going to leave first since he couldn’t skip summer school on Monday unlike me. >.< decided to go to the premium outlet center that uncle Jackson told us to go. Thought it was about a 40 minute drive looking at the map, but it turned out to be only 10 minutes at the other end of the strip. So glad we went there. There were many more shops that I was interested in. but before the shopping, we went to a sushi buffet that was recommended by my uncle. It has to be the best sushi buffet around in the United States. I have to say United States because you definitely cannot compare to the ones in Japan. There were loads of different kinds of rolls. The most common California roll to spider rolls, spicy tuna roll, caterpillar rolls and lots more. It was authentic too. Didn’t have sashimi but that was understandable considering the price we were paying and the amount of people there was. They had other Japanese cuisine too, miso soup, udon, soba and the like. The dessert bar drove me nuts. There was a chocolate fountain and the strawberries were so good, I think that was the most strawberries I ever ate in a single meal. Skewer after skewer, my plate was literally splattered with chocolate. I must have gone on a sugar high after. That meal certainly satisfied my sushi craving for the time being and considering the price which was I think less than 15 dollars per person, it was well worth it. Then, with a full stomach, it was off shopping again. I think until we reached the legal age to gamble, Las Vegas would be out shopping paradise. This outlet center was in the open though, not like a mall so we had to walk outside unless we wanted to go into a store. The weather was unforgiving. It was so hot, my skin really felt like it was burning. Good thing it was dry and not humid or I would have stayed in one store and never get out. So even when I didn’t want to go into a certain store, I had to in order to get away from the heat and cool off. It was that bad. Aside from the heat, shopping was good. They had gap, my all time favorite in terms of reasonable quality and price so we went crazy. They had good steals too. I got a pair of shorts since I had to change out of my jeans, one sweatshirt and one jacket and some tees. Dad, mom and bro got stuff too and the total only came up to about slightly more than a hundred. I think that was the best shopping deal we had while we were there. Yay gap! There was a coach outlet too and that’s where I say the bag I wanted again. It was 199 but I still thought it was pricy. It really wasn’t considering that it was coach and the size. But I figured I couldn’t bear to use it often and the number of occasions where I would really use it was limited. I was holding it around while mom and dad were still shopping so I was that close to getting it but put it down in the end. L Then another temptation had to come along when we went into Burberry. I’m in love with their jackets and watches. Talking about it makes me want it so much more so I should stop. We sent bro off to the airport so we didn’t exactly walk through all the shops. It was unbearably hot and I was getting grumpy. After, we went back to the hotel room to rest since we were all tired and had to cool off. Yay for air conditioning! Went out to Chinatown for dinner after the tiny nap. Got bubble tea before dinner. Dad’s idea. He’s really like a child. Then we had Korean barbeque for dinner. Good food. I think Korean cuisine if my second favorite after Japanese. Okay, I’m getting tired from all these typing. But basically the next day, we went back to the premium outlet to grab more deals, had crappy Chinese food then headed off to the airport. Landed and I got worried about my research and dragged dad to drive me to find more snails. He was grumpy about it at first but once I saw one snail, he got into it and wouldn’t leave. I wanted to go back already but he was like, there should be more. I seriously think I got the whole population. Went for dinner and we only ordered two dishes but barely finished one. The portion was huge. Went back to the hotel and slept. escargot Wednesday, July 15, 2009 currently in the library waiting for time to pass. dont want to go to lab that early. there's always no one there since everyone gets there only in the afternoon. plus, i dont have that much to do today. just swabbing bacteria onto nutrient agar plates. hopefully the bacteria are dead so i have proven that the mantle and/or mucus have antibacterial properties. so far, nothing has been giving me great positive results. even the absorbance values were mediocre. i need something to work out right otherwise i dont know what im going to do. i know being scientist means being wrong all the time. after all, we were just testing our hypothesis. in other words, a guess. so in the mean time, escargot anyone? i dont think i'll ever eat that. never tried it before but thinking about what i've done and how i've murdered them, deters me from eating them more than ever. they're sadly ugly looking creatures that are slimy and gross. and the misconception that they are slow moving is such a misconception. they are pretty fast once they get moving. of course, not as fast as a dog but fast enough for their size. anyways, havent been doing much these few days. watching videos after videos and trying to churn out an abstract which i just sent 10 minutes ago to be edited. still have the background to do. (why do i always go back to talking about school?) going to watch harry potter tomorrow!! excited. its not in 3D yet but i just cant wait to see the movie. so yes, im going to be watching it twice. watch the crappy one first then the great one. cathy already got tickets online just in case its sold out which i doubt so. i really do want to watch the midnight showing but its too late especially since its on a weekday and i have to get my butt up early the next day. the movie's two and a half hours so by the time i get home, it'll be almost 3. 4 hours of sleep will do me no good. i'll probably blow up the lab and get bacteria everywhere and they'll grow and rule the world. (i went a lil crazy, just a lil) then going for sushi buffet with angie on friday in san mateo. yay for sushi! i finally have an exciting week. the past few weeks since parents have gone have been sad. its school, home, teevee, sleep,school. the weekends were worse. everyone was out so i was left alone. blasted the radio but it was still lonely. im so jealous my evil lil brother is going back to singapore this saturday. i dont get to see my lil boy. i did see him on webcam yesterday though but of course its not the same. he's still the same in personality. and we're almost close to calling him roast pig. he is a fat lazy dog. he's eating way too much. but who can restrain from giving him food with those puppy eyes. i have to wait 5 months now. :( oh yes, birthday. my facebook page has never been that flooded. but a big thank you for all those wishes. people that i didnt expect to remember or even send a wish surprised me. nothing happened much that day. just went out for dinner.. wanted elephant bar but the wait was 2 hours which was ridiculous. so we went to some restaurant in a hotel recommended by aunt suzanna who was with us. but when we got there, the restaurant that she wanted wasnt there. the company just changed ownership 4 days ago. lol. so we just settled there. the menu was tiny, small selection and pricy. it was in a hotel after all. food was alright. my chicken was a lil dry. dessert was good though. new york cheesecake, lava chocolate cake, banana nut cake. desserts always satisfy me. berkeley is driving me crazy. i cant waive the insurance, mom didnt tell me why so now, i have to pay the 700 bucks per semester. i havent even seen a doctor since i got here. touch wood i never have to but thats some crazy expensive insurance. school fees are due soon on aug 15 and i dont know how my parents are going to come up with the money. its 16000 bucks (S $ 24000) . we are going to be sooo broke by the time i get out. i know i have enough in my bank account now which we took 2 years to build so i could get by this semester but i m thinking about the 3 more semesters i have. i need to get a job and pay taxes so hopefully they'll consider that and my tution can drop to 4000 and we can breathe. but im pretty sure they'll come up with some stupid excuse then. i still need to get my fafsa worked out. :S yay i churned out a long post. think i'll go to the lab at 11. now, vegas! left on a friday and by the time we got there it was night time. that means dinner! hotel restaurants didnt look too appetising. (oh we stayed at the hilton since my dad had points to use. ) thought the hotel was pricy too for the kind of food it was serving. the buffet looked good but the line was insane and we were hungry. when we were driving to the hotel, saw a couple of steakhouse and for some reason, dad was either craving steak or something else cos all he mentioned was steak. ended up at morton's steakhouse. we were definitely underdressed so it was a lil awkward. at least i felt awkward, guess they were too hungry to even care. got our drinks. and the waiter presented us the menu. they had a cart with real food on it and told us about the different kinds of cuts and stuff. it did feel like royalty for a minute. i got the salmon and they got the different kinds of steak. food was excellent. lived up to its name i thought. also ordered a chocolate lava cake for dessert.we had to order it like 30 minutes before. so it was fresh out of the oven when we got it. even though i couldnt really finish my salmon, i licked the plate of chocolate cake and icecream clean. of course, the bill came up to a few hundred bucks. thatbottle of water cost ten bucks by itself. and each main course was above or close to 50. plus side dishes and all. but i thought the meal was worth the price. next stop was circus circus. didnt play any carnival games though. just walked around. good for digestion. haha. went back to the hotel since it was already pretty late. not late for parents of course. they didnt get back till 3am. we were in vegas so they no doubt went to the casinos. i would have gone too if i want underaged. because of that, i like macau more. lol. next day, woke up pretty late. we are sleep in-ners. lol. went for breakfast at ihop near the outlet center. yay pancakes. i had the strawberry banana pancake which was the bomb. oops, its 11 now. should get going. blog later when i get home. (haha. i doubt it. i always get so lazy) happy birthday Friday, July 10, 2009 to me in about 15 mins from the time i started this post. oh i wish i was in singapore right now. i cant believe how im going to spend my day tomorrow. probably lazing around at home and being miserable. okay, i've just lost the mood to do a proper update. continue tomorrow. (dont i say that all the time?) but, aside from the misery, thanks for all the messages whether on facebook or messenger or sms. i am missing all you guys! |
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