things i did over the weekend:

- staffed for a mock Enron committee for a model UN conference. that took up most of the weekend but it was mucho fun! i was a Republican National Committee representative (gasp). then i was the MD of Corporate Restructuring for Bank of America. then i was a cop who arrested half the board. then i was the attorney for Ken Lay. i was also Hu Jintao for a bit, but most of the time i just sat around eating cookies in the crisis room.

- crashed an early halloween party with the glorious malaysian ID that alloweth underage scoundrels entrance into any party because it stateth not thy birthyear. said halloween party was a very good gauge of what halloween costumes NOT to buy! too many ladybugs, bumblebees and nurses…

- discovered the heavenly deliciousness of ‘Pan-fried Noodle’. essentially yee mee, which i already know and love, but whatever, chinese food in america is a whole new and different world. Pan Fried Noodle ftw! with shrimp!!

- witnessed an indian guy from Bombay saying “tiu lei tiu lei pokai pokai!”

- a floormate asked if Singapore was Malaysia’s capital!!!!!! YES. i knew this day would one day come. but my excitement was quickly dashed when another floormate piped up and said – and i quote this verbatim – “Singapore is an independent city-state that used to be part of Malaysia and then seceded in the 1960’s. Culturally, and to an extent, historically, it may as well be still part of Malaysia.” this is the same guy who writes the most excellent facebook notes on the 2008 presidential race. i am not kidding; that stuff is New York Times material. i am a little bit scared of this guy now. i think he’s way too smart.

- trawled around the upper west side at 4 in the morning looking for pancakes. ended up not finding any, but a McDonalds instead, which serves up a cheeseburger with ketchup that looks so sloppy and gross that you will first wrinkle your nose at it, but then you will later decide that it is actually pretty good after you take a bite or two. i trawled with Marc, a guy from a country so small, you cant even see it on the map. no, he’s not Singaporean. if you can guess which country he’s from, i’ll give you one buck! clue: it’s in Europe and is not Vatican City.

- woke up with a burning headache from caffeine overdose three days in a row. for two out of those three days, i had a red bull hangover that was so bad, i would spout rubbish when the situation required me to talk. an example: “su ann, what’s the dining hall serving for lunch?”, to which i answered after a 5-second pause, “Herodotus would not be pleased because there’s not enough meat”. i swear to god. i’m so lucky this only happened after i took my midterms. sigh. no more red bull or vietnamese coffee for me. midterms week is teh louseh. i dread finals week.

- speaking of midterms, it is 4 down and 1 more to go. i totally tanked for my Lit Hum midterm because (as usual) i spent too long on one essay and didnt have time for the other, but i think i kicked enough butt in the other two. Frontiers of Science allows for a cheat sheet during midterm, and i put together the most awesome cheat sheet ever!!!!!, if i may so myself :D i am crossing my fingers for an A.

- camwhored with two delectable Mile High Club attendants at a college party. to my surprise, one of them is a senior from college, who at first glance, is a super cute and super innocent looking girl. i was scandalized! i mean, she brings to our meetings cookies that she baked herself!! (she later reveals that she did this while she was sloshed in the wee hours of the morning):

- put myself on a bubble tea quota because i think my bubble tea consumption is reaching dangerous levels. at the rate i am going, i could die of starch poisoning. or malnutrition, seeing how i always forego spending money on meals just so i can spend that $2.95 on bubble tea. so now, i am on a strict thrice-a-week bubble tea allotment. no more than that. no more.

- slowly read through a whole bunch of application essays from this year’s applicants. lots are applying to columbia, which i think is good, and some of them have written excellent essays. i am very proud! :) but the other day, someone sent me her teacher recommendation letter and asked me how she can improve it, and i was extremely annoyed to find that her letter was practically a carbon copy of my own teacher recommendation. the only possible cause of this is that my teacher sent HER teacher the letter he wrote for me, because no one else has seen this letter except for me and him. i am annoyed because i tried telling her that, and she just dismissed it like it was no big deal (”oh haha i guess our teachers just know each other then”). wtf. i’m also annoyed that there are applicants who got hold of essay topics that successful Malaysian ivy league applicants wrote about, and have no qualms about copying these ideas. see, this is precisely the reason why i didnt want to write the Essay section of my guide. i am disappointed.

- i sloshed wine into my eye :( it still hurts.

- learned how to say ‘Zut alors!!!!’ in perfect intonation and accompanying facial expression. you also kinda have to hold your palm up vigorously. ZUT ALORS!!!! ZUT ALOOOORRRSS!

- got cool stuff in the mail :)

- discovered that Cookie Monster has no nose

- a funny sign in the pantry of a suite that i found while traipsing through some residence halls one cold night:

and then above the sink, there was the most hilarious sign scolding fellow suitemates for not clearing food from their plates when they put them in the sink. it’s so true okay… the sink in the pantry on my floor is the most disgusting sight ever. there are remnants of chow mein take-out in the sink drain, ambiguous gray stains all over the counter, used teabags and containers just lying around.. and microwaveable pasta sauce stalactite all over the microwave oven. ew. not that any of these things should stop you from applying to my wonderful college…

- and lastly, i have not been studying enough for econs midterm on monday. which is why i should get my butt offline now and into the library. byeeee, all!

p/s : severe lack of pictures because a) i keep forgetting to take my camera out with me and b) macbooks dont have inbuilt cardreaders, and it’s such a pain to keep turning on my barely-alive former laptop to transfer photos. bah :(