recollections

went back to RJ to play floorball today.

but before that, i met liangsi for tea @ J8. it's been ages since i last talked to her, but it's really nice to see her still the same. she must be a really tough girl. i've always admired pple who actually dare to go to france to study, all alone, having to fit into a culture so immensely different. i hope she gets to move to paris...

while meeting hanyan to go play floorball, i also met audry, siewjin (again! and in the same clothes as last night somemore! :) and sarah, whom i havent seen since JC. heh. oh and christine ong walked past too. happening right.

finally dragged myself to RJ at like 6, cos i was so scared i can no longer take the intensity of the game anymore, and I won't enjoy myself.

it was nice to see sir, renji, ywee ern, ivan, yixin etc again! our batch actually had enough pple to form our own line. we played. like the old times, but slower, thanx to all the extra weight and lack of exercise. heh. it was fun, i haven't touched the stick since last year... haha hanyan and i actually scored a goal, againt the almighty teachers! ok, actually hyan scored the goal la. i merely crossed the ball in. heh. reminds me of what velda and i used to *try* to do last time, firmly believing and insisting that there was chemistry between us. haha

was talking to hyan on the way back to the mrt station, and we were talking about all the old times. our wonderful team full of newbies. our first suicide run on the first trng in J1, how slack we were in J1, and how that changed totally in J2. how fit we were in j2 - the fittest we ever were our entire lives. the surprise NAPFA test on the 1st trng after the christmas holidays. the crazy 4 x 800m runs. how we used to pace each other during the 'fat-burning' hour-long runs. playing on the netball court till it was dark and we couldn't even see the ball. the crazy but fun hockey training camps. how we fought for our place on the team, then for the starting 11. how that 1 horrible ball went past the both of us into the goal on that last fateful day making us take the silver. but through it all, it was the process - 1 sensational coach who was willing to give us his all in training us from complete hockey idiots to a team of hockey players; a united and extremely committed team of 12 who literally breathed and walked hockey; all the countless hours we spent on hockey such that a large majority of my memories of JC was just that... ...

in short, i miss hockey. i miss what we were, and will never be again.


raffles hockey.

Boston - MIT and Harvard

today was our 2nd full day in boston, massachusetts. continuing on our whirlwind tour of the ivy leagues, we entered genius world one more time, this time onto the town of cambridge - home of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

started off the day with a bottle of supercharged natural drink. 2 for $5. quite ex. but we were determined to live on biscuits for lunch.

arrived @ MIT in time for the 10.45 am campus tour. it's a pretty neat school. learnt a lot of useful (and useless) stuff abt MIT.

of cos, we had to be true to SMU.
these MIT geniuses are really engine freaks. but i love american college traditions. at MIT, there's the MIT hacks, where they do stupid things without getting caught. once, some pple climbed up to that dome and decorated it as the R2D2 when the 1st episode of starwars came out.
another time, they broughts parts and assembled a car up there, painted it to look like a policecar, put a dummy in, with a pistol and half eaten box of donuts beside him, and a parking fine on the windscreen for parking on top of the great dome. hahaha. the next day they had to call in a helicoptor to remove it, and CNN was there to record the whole thing. another time, some pple brought a working telephone up there that wouldn't stop ringing until someone went up there to pick it up. it's hilarious, and they've actually published a whole book on it, pictures and all.

walked by this room while going through one of the corridors. apparently, only 3 unis are recognised for exchange credits within a major. one of them is cambridge, the other being NUS. I dunno what the 3rd is. but... why NUS?!?! heh.


saw this in the coop.

we spent like 3 - 4 hours there i think. 2nd stop: harvard

stopped @ the famous statue of 3 lies to rub the shoe of 'john harvard' for good luck. haha, yeah right.

walked to harvard business school.

once again, we had to leave our SMU mark there, a pity there was construction going on.. we tried taking these pics so many times that ambrose no longer needs to use the multi-shot mode (:

when i saw harvard law school, i couldn't stop thinking of legally blond. heh.

it's a nice place, generally. cant believe leslie will be studying here soon.

saw a few geeks here and there. didn't find harvard as pretty as i had expected it to be, but maybe that's cos i was in princeton just a few days ago, the school which is said to have the most beautiful campus in the country... owellz. but they do have a rich history and many interesting stories to boast about.

was supposed to meet up with serene lee today, but she's out of town escaping the heat wave, which has thankfully seemed to have gone away slightly. the wind is actually cool and not hot now. maybe i won't be drenched in sweat tonight as i sleep, tho i am still sweating now.

darn YMCA hostel room. no air-con OR fan.

we're leaving boston first thing in the morning tomm, taking the chinatown bus to new york - the last league of the great united states adventure. for the 1st time in a while, we wont be driving across the states, dunno how we're gonna handle our luggage also.

not sure if there'll be wireless there. if not, i'll be home real soon. 4 more days.

after 11 states, and the heat, i wanna go home.