Sorry I haven't been around much! I'm back--but let's see how long that'll last...
Fall 2009 wasn't all so bad, minus the life consuming graduate physical organic class I took.
Fortunately, the one class in which +/- grading would have negatively affected me, didn't end up using plus minus grading! Yay
Over the break, I visited Singapore & Malaysia. I usually dread going there, mainly because in my middle school and high school years trips back to the motherland were at best boring. My peers were either too busy with tuition, school, or the arcade. Two of those in that list were foreign to me. But now, trips back to Singapore are quite fun. I also had the thought that one day I'd have to sever ties, so to speak, with Singapore. Someday I'll have no reason to go back there. There won't be any family here--only friends. But in all honesty, I love Singapore. It's home but instinctually so. I love the food, I like the busyness of the city, I like the quirks, and I'll never lose my Singapore accent (which just happens to pop its head up each time I go for a visit--this time it resurfaced faster than usual).
Also in Singapore, I'm sort of a giant. I'm a whole head above most people when riding the MRT. [Yeah, Dave you'd be stared at for a looooong time!] Also, I have to buy 'L' sized clothing, but the good news is everything I want is always in stock, haha.
On to Malaysia: I surprisingly connected with this place when I was in High School, studying dance there. Malaysia is a lot more laid back when it comes to schooling and thus, my peers were a lot more available and I had quite a good time every summer when I got to go up there from Singapore. However, the political situation in this country is not a good one. Aside from the fact that I wasn't detained, Malaysia didn't have too many positives for me on this particular visit. The racial tension between the Indian Hindu population and the Muslim population has precipitated hate crimes within the Indian Hindu community itself. It's just a sad situation. I even ventured up the KL tower to get a view of the Petronas Twin Towers, but the experience was nothing like the towers in Europe. The windows were unkempt, the cost was far too overpriced, and the view itself wasn't even that memorable.
Other news during the break:
My parents and I marathoned Season 1 of 24
Lauren and I worked on our huge 5000 piece puzzle (which, sadly, is still unfinished)
Trained a bit for the half-marathon I'm running on Valentine's Day
Didn't touch my thesis at all
Watched quite a few movies, caught up on TV shows, started Battlestar Galactica
Went to the National Championship Game in ATX
New discovery: I'm starting to be someone who really gets caught up in memories. Just the other day, I was reminiscing on the time in Italy during dinner when Royce tried to order chicken alfredo, at which point, the waiter attempted to bring him an entire chicken. Oh, good times. I start to get lost in these. More so than usual. I'm not sure whether this is normal. That is, whether I'm stuck in the nostalgic past and not looking truly ahead at my future, or just some new habit that I've picked up.
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