oh i was going to blog about the first party i went to. tonight was kinda cold, dunno why.
anyway, there was O-show. I'm rather confused about which acapella group i prefer, actually. and i thought mixed company was good cos of the recordings i heard from their website, but today they certainly didn't sound that good.. maybe i thought they were the best cos they're the oldest co-ed acapella grp, but well. hmm. guess i'll do wat tomi suggested (that's my roommate), just audition and see who takes me. maybe i won't have to make a choice as usual! rofl. don't know if that'll be gd or bad. oh well.
uh, yeah. i finally finished class enrollment. sort of. the introsem app was such a headache. like, 2.5hrs, how'd u expect me to come up with something decent? okay i probably should've started thinking before coming, but well. oops. and there was this guy blasting music a few doors down. wanted to decapitate him. i don't mind, normally, if i'm not doing anything, but hi, i'm trying to write something here.
ah. then, the party. haha. my dorm mates claim that all the party-deprived people are there. anyway, there were people talking inside, people dancing (or trying to) outside. and the dancing outside.. was like pple rubbing against each other and watever.. your typical american tv scene? watever you call it. oh well. mom called so i disappeared inside to get some peace and quiet.
yeah.. tmr's quite free, which is gd, but also bad cos i don't know what to do with myself! well done. anyway yay i'm finally going shopping on sunday, meaning i hopefully get a kettle n comforter (yes, i will have survived a week without a comforter) and a bike. although it is a pain shopping for stuff sometimes, like how to get the best deal and blah blah blah.
i like my dorm pple though.. the seniors are really nice.. i went to disturb melissa just now, and complain about the height of the bed. (we're both short, and the bed's kinda higher than is normal in spore). so she was like, in her freshman year, she lofted the bed so the drawers could go underneath, so she had to practice jumping into bed.. like high jump? run a semi circle and leap into bed. rofl.
yeah. but i kinda miss the sporeans sometimes. and wanna meet up with the seniors again! it's different when we're all here.
like my PHE (peer health educator) said, it's when you listen to the dean/provost/whoever talk, that you remember how fortunate you are to be at stanford. if not it's just so easy to forget. and in the day when i'm walking around, it's just such a nice feeling to look around and say wow, this is such a pretty campus and i belong here! haha. and all the tourists with hats and such hiking around. hah.
oh and they really have a big thing about alcohol.. like a complete briefing on it and very detailed. stanford wants you to drink responsibly! but i think they got the point across. hopefully. and last night there was this play about drinking/sex/... rather explicit as compared to wat pple wud've done in spore i think. but just as propagandistic in a way.
today larry page (google founder) came to talk to us! way cool man.. i was just sitting there gaping. haha. he's quite funny.. and there was this music prof who created his own instrument out of various things.. and with the help of an amplifier or some other music equipment, he improvised this piece of music for us. and he tapdanced while playing the piano! i have NEVER seen that before.. a one-man show. so cute. but also so difficult.
yay!!! i finally set up my own computer, thanks to shuyee who dropped off my mac mini, and to my RCC who lent me a monitor! although i kind of need an extension cord for the monitor power cord, everything's great!
i shouldn't have stayed up trying to get the internet going though, it was SO slow and today it was so fast. heh. alright gotta run for orientation stuff soon
oh, i forgot, for pictures of the famous beautiful stanford campus, look at kiat chuan's blog.. you won't regret it! go look for his name under my links. since my monitor hasn't arrived, i still can't set up my comp so no photos yet. not that i've taken many to begin with.
yeah, i'm like always rather tired just after dinner. was falling asleep today during the meet-the-authors-of-the-summer-reading-books thing.
and nothing seems to end early! sigh. like today we ended book discussion at 10pm, yesterday the band run ended at 12midnight, the day before i think was still normal, can't remember wat's happening tmr. ahh. right i need to go check out other things.
cell phone: 650 796 6107
dorm phone: 650 497 3949
mailing address (USPS):
P.O. Box 15277
Stanford, CA 94309
mailing address (courier):
436 Mayfield Avenue
Loro 301
Stanford, CA 94305
wow, it's only been a couple of days and i remember everything so well. why? multiple bank accounts and telling family and ... oh well.
okay, i finally am blogging. this is only because i'm waiting for the rescomp website to load, hoping that somehow, i'll be able to register my stupid laptop for internet connection so it'll stop hanging on me. it's actually almost 1am, normally i'd be asleep by now, but we had some late night follow-the-infamous-marching-band-and-go-disturb-all-the-freshman-dorms thing and we only got back around midnight.
it rained today! ugh. i bitterly regretted wearing flip flops. haha. and i met my roommate. she's a black from boston, MA. and i met all the other freshmen in my dorm.. i don't know why but i get this feeling they don't like asians very much. or maybe i'm just paranoid. and it's so weird, all the other asians i'm meeting have american accents (or something like it), even though they're from asia. i guess they were from international dorms.
oh right i finally got my cell phone, but when the guy emailed me the numbers he didn't tell me which was whose number (we signed up for a grp plan) so i'm rather clueless now. oh well. will figure it out sometime.
uh. yeah. i haven't gotten a bike or comforter yet so i'm quite screwed. i REALLY need that comforter. why is stuff so hard to buy here? or maybe i'm just picky.
okay this doesn't sound like a very happy entry but it's just to let off stress. all this stuff is driving me nuts.. deciding which bank account to get.. blah blah blah. there're so many things to do i kind of regret not getting my parents to come along. haha. sigh.
somehow, when you're here, (dunno how many) miles from home, you don't think about home as much. the night before leaving i woke up in the middle of the night and was suddenly gripped by the horror of not being at home for so long and wanted to cancel my flight. quite crazy right. but that's me, capable of being totally obsessed about something for a while.