"perceiving life as a perpetual film."

well i'm now sitting in a newyorkcity starbucks... yes, starbucking as a verb, something i always wanted to do in this chilly weather and my peppermint hot chocolate and sesame seed bagel with cream cheese constituting my lunch, using the unstable spilloff from someone elses' wireless account as the one starbucks provides makes you pay (poo!). am missing people like joshy and family but not much else... the weather here is perfect, not a drop of snow though.hard to believe that so much time has passed and our short stint in nyc is over (for now at least). i'm finally alone without feeling guilt from making someone else wait for me... the victoria's secret sale just started today and the queues are crazy and the clothes not really that great. went to visit fao schwarz as well, got shown an interesting display of handmade kaleidoscopes and puzzles by a nice salesgirl (who wouldn't want to work in fao?) and goggled at the real life kid-sized ferraris and mercedes (only 15,000 USD!) and that huge sort of keyboard where people can stomp on to make music... only 150,000 that one. hahaa... makes you wonder how many kids have that sort of toys in their apartments. *shudder*

we went to visit rockerfeller center, the lincoln center and the natural history museum and we went to times square for the highly overrated new year countdown (think bad music throughout the entire wait of standing 7 HOURS STRAIGHT (mom would've collapsed i bet), bad logistics and oft-not working machinery and lindsay lohan being the only live act in the entire show... dick clark not showing and some fat geezer trying to be a mediocre emcee (NOT WORKING!!!... the crowd would boooo whenever he appeared onscreen and TRUST me when i say we were in desperate need of some entertainment) yeah... the ball was teensy and i don't care what they say about it being some special event... i think sentosa would've been better, at least they'd play more contemporary music instead of lousy 50s-80s music which would totally not get the audience bopping at all. what a disappointment!

anyway. it's been a wonderful few days, without any schedule whatsoever and no stress or running about to and fro... i'm finally getting my deserved rest. hard to believe that in a few days time we'll all be plunged into studies again. it all seems rather surreal to me.. am getting paranoid thoughts that i'm gonna arrive at penn state and be chased away with a "what are you doing here? you're not meant to be here!" kinda thang i'm just over-worrying, huh. meanwhile, we've been following the news on the tsunami here in US.. i hope nobody i know has loved ones affected. well the weather outside here isn't that frightful, and we leave tonight at 230 am for pennsylvania. take care everyone and ciao till the next update... bonne annee!