Friday, December 02, 2005
On the morning of Thanksgiving...
...we woke up and saw a snowy cornell :)
Beautiful? well... imagine seeing this for the next 5 months....? hmmmz...
But of course, the excitement of seeing the first REAL snow is inevitable!
Word of the dayTraying: To smuggle food trays illegally out of dining hall, and then slide down a slope on the tray ~ FUN!!
On the night of Thanksgiving, we drove in frozen cars on icy roads in falling snow to Woodbury, and an eventful night/day began:
First, my car witnessed the other car swerved to the right, then left, then right, then spinned 180 deg to the left of the highway! :S
Then, starting from midnight, kickstarted the midnight sale by joining in the insanely long queue in sub-zero deg weather outside armani exchange.
Suffered from crazy shoving and pushing and more long queues at the cashiers at almost every shop we visited. I now appreciate the subdued form of kiasu-ism displayed by singaporeans compared to the americans and asians here.
Succumbed to the temptation of frappacino as usual everytime i see a starbucks outlet, but earned a weird stare from the guy who took our order as christina and i were the only crazy people drinking non-hot beverage in the entire shop!
Joined an even longer queue outside over-rated north face. We were counting the number of people who walked past us wearing north face jackets and bitching about the people who were already wearing north face jackets and still queued up (grrr...) in order to distract us from the cold. Honestly, i almost fainted when i finally got into the shop; yet the sale was pathetic! felt so CHEATED!! :(
After north face, everyone agreed enough was enough. no one was alert anymore after 9 hours of shopping through the night, hence both cars encountered more swervings on our way back.
conclusion? certainly a
ONCE in a lifetime experience. no more thanksgiving woodbury sale and
exhorbitant car rental for me thank you very much.
the long thanksgiving break has long ended, but no work had been done during the entire break, and my studying mood and motivation still have yet to return.
damn screwed damn screwed damn screwed damn screwed
i hate myself.
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4:45 AM
