iced cooly (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} icedcooly) wrote,@ 2008-01-12 02:48:00 |
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chinese night
wow...after a week here, i can say that this is the life i wish i'd been living all along! it's a great feeling when you feel like you've found something that's right for you but that you never knew existed...i love life overseas, and studying overseas! everything is so incredibly different from singapore and though there are parts of sg i do love, most others i would much rather change and have changed.
anyway, classes here have been alright so far...the study system and workload is pretty much similar to singapore so it doesn't differ that much really. people are very friendly though, and i've made friends even in my classes...which isn't that common in sg really. or maybe cos i'm in a foreign country and feel like i have to put myself out there and get to know people while i have the chance... i made a lot of friends in orientation and everyone is amazing and enthusiastic and really cool to hang out with.
on thursday night (pub night in toronto apparently) i went out with a russian guy named moshe and his friends, and it was sooo fun even though it was just a short chill night. we had a beer at a pub basically in the middle of nowhere and then hung out at moshe's house for a bit before he sent us home. the guy next to me in the car was completely stoned and he couldn't stop touching the faux fur on my hood half the time...super funny!
and tonight, we were supposed to have a brazilian night where our brazilian friends would take us to a brazilian restaurant and everything, but in the end things didn't go as planned and it became chinese night. we went to chinatown, had some chinese food (not bad and cheap for the amount!) and then karaoke-d for an hour before we had to leave to catch the last train back. on the way back i realized i'd left my camera at the karaoke place and guga and suhaymath were super nice to accompany me all the way back there.
some important lessons i've learned in the past week...first impressions really aren't accurate and one should always withhold judgement and bias before one really gets to know a person because the most unseeming people can be the nicest and coolest. also, music is truly a language that unites all cultures :)
do check my facebook for pics if you're keen...i'm too lazy to resize them! ^^
wow...after a week here, i can say that this is the life i wish i'd been living all along! it's a great feeling when you feel like you've found something that's right for you but that you never knew existed...i love life overseas, and studying overseas! everything is so incredibly different from singapore and though there are parts of sg i do love, most others i would much rather change and have changed.
anyway, classes here have been alright so far...the study system and workload is pretty much similar to singapore so it doesn't differ that much really. people are very friendly though, and i've made friends even in my classes...which isn't that common in sg really. or maybe cos i'm in a foreign country and feel like i have to put myself out there and get to know people while i have the chance... i made a lot of friends in orientation and everyone is amazing and enthusiastic and really cool to hang out with.
on thursday night (pub night in toronto apparently) i went out with a russian guy named moshe and his friends, and it was sooo fun even though it was just a short chill night. we had a beer at a pub basically in the middle of nowhere and then hung out at moshe's house for a bit before he sent us home. the guy next to me in the car was completely stoned and he couldn't stop touching the faux fur on my hood half the time...super funny!
and tonight, we were supposed to have a brazilian night where our brazilian friends would take us to a brazilian restaurant and everything, but in the end things didn't go as planned and it became chinese night. we went to chinatown, had some chinese food (not bad and cheap for the amount!) and then karaoke-d for an hour before we had to leave to catch the last train back. on the way back i realized i'd left my camera at the karaoke place and guga and suhaymath were super nice to accompany me all the way back there.
some important lessons i've learned in the past week...first impressions really aren't accurate and one should always withhold judgement and bias before one really gets to know a person because the most unseeming people can be the nicest and coolest. also, music is truly a language that unites all cultures :)
do check my facebook for pics if you're keen...i'm too lazy to resize them! ^^
