the purdue diaries

Another (not-so)shameless self-production

2006-05-06T01:34:00.000-04:00

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pNbF29l9Zg)

A project done for my digital video class. Enjoy!

shameless self promotion

2006-04-26T11:13:00.000-04:00

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l97maUnnYB4)

Bored in the Library

2006-04-18T23:46:00.000-04:00

So here I am in the library, getting blown away by my exam chapters when I overhear this..

hey i think i'm becoming american. i'm doing stupid things without being drunk.

Hmm...

healthy living... not

2006-01-24T21:09:00.000-05:00

ok so we all got lazy about updating this blog cos the start of the school semester has been so crazybusyhectic and a little bit hellish even.

but arent we so lucky that we're having one of the warmest januarys in lafayette history? yayy!

so at first we were saying wow this semester we're gonna detox. no more binge drinking and evil stuff like that. no no no. cleanse the colon. clear the liver. stay away from bacardi and jagermeister. and we got off on a pretty good start with skiing and all... the whole health thing...

then this weekend we fell prey to the old ways again.

it was a whole bunch of fun tho, the second night more so than the first, and so much so that we had to peel derrick away from the trance party protesting and going "it's so early!!" at 3.30 am. it was a great party tho. very reminiscent of the time we were at the new york crobar, but of course on a smaller humbler scale. but hello. tired can. grrr.

we will return to the healthy ways.. soon...

eeeee | booze-y roomies |
zhuang and drew | masked

My holidays....so far

2006-01-06T08:04:00.000-05:00

Graduation was a blast! I had tons of fun and have been snapping away trying to do my best impression of yanling. Alas, I have only accumulated 592MB of pictures. I have failed you Shi Fu! Anyways...my parents thought that the ceremony was nice and formal unlike theirs when they graduated. They were shivering through all the pictures we took but it really wasn't that cold. It was a really nice day too! It even started snowing lightly as we walked out of Elliot. Very picturesque...

We had brekkie at Route 66 (What else?!) And I made sure I showed my parents around ME, my domain (the labs) and all my projects just to gloat :) Then we went to have an awesome graduation lunch of Wendy's hahhaa.. My dad loves chili so I knew he wanted to have it. I know why I love junk food so much now...my parents love it equally! We said bye to 3868 Ledyard and moved on to Ohio to visit pple who took care of my dad during his time at Ohio Uni.

We dropped my sis off at Chicago the night before so she could take a flight back to NY to finish her exchange at Mt Sinai. The next day we drove to Ohio and had a few days of visiting old folks who were really nice. On the way we stopped by a hardees (reaaaally good burgers) and there were a bunch of old pple playing bingo in the restaurant! It was hilarious! They were so excited too! We went visiting around the school where my dad was amazed at the changes they had made and that night to satisfy my mom we went to walmart to do some midnight shopping :)

Mr & Mrs. Parmer and Ms. Deppen took care of my dad while he was at OU so he's made it a point to always go visit them when he's around the Midwest. Me and Rita were bored at lunch with Ms. Deppen so we kept fooling around for the camera. She ate incredibly slow but it was cool cos it was like her first meal outta the nursing home for a while now. We drove 8 hrs back to Chicago to take a flight off to Salt Lake City. But of course on the way we decided to drop by Chinatown for some good (at least I thought it was good) Chinese food...its all relative. They get good food all day and I get Chauncey village.. go figure.

We stayed in a hotel close to the Utah university and the view from the room was spectacular. My cousins house was close by and it was a cute blue house with chickens that laid eggs everyday. It too had a nice ass view of the city. I could consider living in Utah just because of the view. We went skiing a total of 3 days I believe...all through Christmas basically. Alta, being a skiers only resort, forced me to learn to ski. But I think I picked it up pretty quick. By the end of the day we were taking runs up the blues.

On the first day my dad went to visit customers so he didn't come up the mountain with us. With him proclaiming that he skied 30 years ago, we brought him for lessons then brought up him to the blues just to see how he would do :) MAN! Big mistake boy... he was so tired from coming down the mountain... he had 2 runs and that was it. He had us all worried with the kind of spills he was taking. My cousin was like ready to get a heart attack. My two nieces were laughing at me all the way down the mountain when I went up with them too!I fell like 3 times and they would ski right past and giggle... embarrassing is not the word. Christmas dinner was terrifically cooked and everyone had their fill including the babies. The girls had gotten fairy costumes for gifts and duly changed into them and had a fairy dance.

We returned to new york where my mom and younger sis left to go home the next day. My dad, elder sis and I stayed in new york over the new year. I gave little alex aviators for Christmas and he looks so pimp now. We also visited NYU which is where my parents met and had a ball at Chinatown where we make our pilgrimage to my dad's favourite eating spot from when he used to be a student. The next day after my sis and mom left, we decided to go down to Baltimore and DC to pay my other cousin a visit. We tried to stop at an amish town in Lancaster but traffic was horrible. Along the way the map showed a town whose name I will not wish on anyone. In DC we went to the Arlington cemetery and visited the JFKs because we had already done the museum thing on a previous trip.

We also toured John Hopkins where my cousin works and it was pretty nice I must say. They love to gloat bout being #1 though. On our return to new york on NYE, we were promptly greeted with a HEAVY snow storm that lasted bout an hour or so. We took shelter at the Time Warner Center and low and behold who do we see? Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn who apparently don't live very far from there. They rushed off before I could grab my camera so you guys are just goin to have to believe me. New years went ok and the next day bright and early we set off for Boston where my sister is doing another attachment at Beth Israel. While it was still light, we decided to take a quick tour of Harvard which is still one of the best campuses I've seen (Penn is up there too). The next day we did a bit more sightseeing and went to the Aquarium and to the Frog pond and prudential center and everything. Since then its just been shopping shopping shopping for me while its been workin workin workin for my sis. I also bought a pair of shoes and got my ass out to go for runs but its been painfully tiring...hope I pass my napfa!

The last/best days

2005-12-28T22:09:00.000-05:00

I know this is obscenely late and everything but....tough. These are photos from when we went sledding down slayter hill over dead week (week before finals week). This is one of the few 'hills' we have in West Lafayette. It's also the location of an outdoor theatre where rock bands come and play once in a while. The goal of every sledder is to sled all the way down to the road upon arrival, to get the hell off of it before you get knocked down. After trying all night, most of us finally made it!You should have seen me and derrick stumbling like fools trying to get off the road before an oncoming car slammed right into us. It would have been funny if i wasnt scared shitless bout being run over. So the only two things I didn't do in my time at Purdue was to go to Harrys and to go to the annual go kart grand prix. Admidst the fun stuff occurred a really unecessary and stupid incident. While xinhui was making one of her many runs down the hill, a dog brought by other people decided to chase her down the hill and hang on to her leg with its teeth. It probably thought that it was a game...but xinhui thought otherwise. The result was a trip to the ER *cue music* to get her a jab. The owner of the dog wasn't even responsible enough to come apologize but just ran off with his gf and doggie. At least we had SOME fun waiting in the waiting room while they took the longest time to give xin hui one jab in the arm. We were all in denial with the pending finals and so sledding was a real nice break from cramming and the stinky ass library. Good times good times!

Slayter Hill/ Piling on the Layers/ Before the dog bite/ Dog bitten CHINKen/ Chunk o Chinken/ Los lonely boys/ Peanuts/ Spring Break?/ Blind Mr Planters

I decided to post pictures on stuff we did on finals week. As we all know, a ton of snow was dropped over the midwest in one night. That same night when we came out of the library, we were trying to find andrew's lost keys and searched in the trunk of derrick's car. For some weird reason we found a frozen tomato. We went back to andrew and derrick's place and found a ton of snow on top of marcus's car. So we decided to make good use of the tomato and play with marcus a little :) That tomato dropped so far into the snow it was hilarious, and i was just rolling on the ground laughing when marcus was brushing off the snow and found it there. The look on his face was priceless! I was a little down and out because by the time my exam started on thursday, everyone else had already effectively ended theirs and so it was pretty demoralizing. Specially when certain people kept asking me to go to the bars! *cough zhuang cough* Anyways we still had fun and we played right to the end. It was the best semester in purdue by far and i will treasure the memories forever! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everybody!

One frozen tomato/ One drop/ One deeeep hole/ One angry neighbour/ One pissed off half-shaven cat/ One nice ice work/ One sucky sucky 5 dollar/ One missionary/ One festive union

Bangkok!

2005-12-28T00:00:00.000-05:00

Touched down in Singapore on the 21st morning and immediately flew to Bangkok on the 22nd morning.... thanks to some careful planning by Grizly and Shao, but it was worth it! Cheap good food, massages, a kick ass hotel room... I'll let the photos say it all...

| Gerald | Grizly, Shao and Gerald| On the plane|
|Boring ppl on plane| Cocktails!|Our first meal|
|The couple| Some park near our hotel| The couple again|

| Our private Jacuzzi|Huge sofa in living room||Kitchenette|
|Living room| Floorplan| Four peas in a pod|
|Me and griz| Gerald and good food| Spastic evil twin|

|MBK| Fried Insects| We couldn't resist|
|Massage!| Shao's lovely masseuse| disappointed shao|
|Gerald enjoying 'special' services| Ready to club| Poser|

shit ran out of time.. will put up some more pics if i get round to it.. meanwhile hope you guys are having fun where ever you are, derrick call me when you get the chance too k. we go party party this weekend and get you drunk. bye!

2005-12-25T22:04:00.000-05:00

Merry Christmas Everyone!

because we loveeeee you

2005-12-18T04:09:00.000-05:00

this post is for mr tharin rhino rex tan because (please look above) we lubbbb you.

congratulations on never having to take stupid paper exams ever again or ever having to pull all nighters for finals or having to trudge to school in the slushy snow.

i would post this a little bit later after your convocation but i'm leaving for skiing in a bit and will be back only a couple of days later sooooooo here goes

we will miss you very much at our poker nights and drunken fests and roadtrips because we will miss your corniness horniness and crappiness. and i'm sure the guys will miss you very much at soccer and golf and everything else. and most of all for being a good and dependable friend. all those glorious times. mr spikey hair scrunchy/humsup face drinksofast dirtyjokes.

pay us a visit if you can and keep writing here! and if not we'll see your new botak head hairstyle back home in singapore! hehehe

from all of us to you : good luck and think of us often :) as we will often think of you.

to good times :)

for now...

... and always.

Derrick's Semester Review

2005-12-17T20:10:00.000-05:00

Fall 2005 came shortly after what can only be described as an eventful summer. The road ahead was foggy, no one knew what would happen next, anxiety filled the air.

Okok, I'm being dramatic. And perhaps corny. Cliche too.

But seriously, we had no inkling that Fall ‘05 would turn out as it did.

Fun. Insane. Spontaneous. Intoxicating.

Right to the very end. So before our depleted brains forget...here we go!

My Fall 2005 Semester Review

Ohya, guys (and girl), feel free to sprinkle pictures in here!

And so we all trudged back to the lovely town of West Lafayette. From San Francisco, Seattle, Singapore. By plane, by car...

+ Crazy ass moving day. 3 different locations. 8 people worth of stuff. 5 tired movers.

+ 24 marathons.

+ The Apartment 9 Housewarming.

+ The weekly Guys Night Out at Scotty’s/LBC.

+ Making 40 rice cups worth of porridge for the PSSA food festival. I swore never to cook porridge again.

+ Apartment 9 - The Official Pitstop.

+ The Russell Peters Infatuation.

+ Oldboy...*ahem*

+ Weekly soccer!

+ Football and BBQ at Kewinn's place! (Purdue vs Minnesota)

+ Crash.

+ Early morning Premiership games.

+ Swimming/suntanning at the clubhouse.

+ Hot dog eating contest. Down 5 asap.
- Fastest: 4 mins by Tharin.
- Slowest: 20 mins by Andrew (!!).

+ Birth of The Purdue Diaries!

+ My infamous agar agar.

+ "My Friend Zhuang (Parts I, II, III & aftermath)".

+ October Break
- Midwest, West Coast, Singapore.
- Breakfast Club Round 1. (Purdue vs Iowa). In short: merlioning, tipped over chair, hangovers.
- Birth of the Drunken Blogger.

My treat... Andrew;s treat.....

- Soccer at UIUC. Our unbeaten run. Kewinn's magnificant goal while hungover.

+ A spontaneous McCormick housewarming.

+ Kewinn “in da zone”.

+ Zhuang’s Birthday
- First Pictionary match of the semester. Tharin remains winless.
- Jaegar Bombs. Cheesecake. Jaegar Bombs. Parrot Bay. Malibu. Jaegar Bombs.
- Andrew’s “ram”. And balancing act.
- Yanling unleashed (to quote xinhui):

Blah blah fk fk fk blah blah blah fk fker fk fk fk!!! What the fk are you talking about?! I'M NOT VULGAR WHAT!!!

+ Haiku Fever.

muahahahaha
muahahahahahaha
muahahahaha.

+ Birth of the Drunken Haikyu.

wearunbg zhuang's specs now...
think my spelling shoulf be correct....
the 600 over ppl who read this blog is going to hink th i am a drunked...
only post when i am driunl
and this makes it 9/9....

+ Hae bee hiam with cream cheese.

+ Halloween at UIUC; the Birth of the RastaDrunk.

+ Tharin’s 21st
- Many shots. Many empty bottles.
- Hangovers.
- I apparently get more sober as I drink.
- RastaDrunk strikes back!

ke-winn: he woke up, wondered why he didn't have a hangover
ke-winn: then he realised he was still drunk
ke-winn: and went back to sleep
Derrick: still drunk??
Derrick: wtf?!
ke-winn: serious

+ Man Utd beats Chelsea.

+ Soccer at IU
- Midwest Asian Soccer Tournament. Left: 6am. Returned: 1am.
- Injuries galore.
- BUT, we got 2nd after losing to a very Asian African team!
- And dinner with the IU gang!

+ A spontaneous shopping/go-kart trip to Indianapolis.

+ Breakfast Club Round 2. (Purdue vs UIUC)
- More shots. More empty bottles.
- Return of the RastaDrunk!
- Enter Rasheel.

+ Purdue’s wonderful weather.

T-shirts and sun a few days back..
Tornado warning and 65km/h winds last night..
Light snow and -1 °C this morning..

+ Birth of Andie.

+ Winter Formal
- The PSSA’s sendoff for our graduating trio: Tharin, Kewinn & Zhuang.
- More shots. More empty bottles. More Rasheel.
- Interesting table games ;)
- And to end the night; our sharpest dressed poker game ever!

+ The UPenn/NYC Thanksgiving
- Pro: We know each other better! Con: We know each other better. ;)
- Birth of wickwick.
- CUPCAKE! nnbcb..
- “...we spent 120 continuous HOURS with each other and we had zero squabbling and had nothing but fun!!”
- Great Memories. What more can you ask for?

+ Thanksgiving withdrawal symptoms, project/exam stress.

+ Man Utd out of UCL. I was duly depressed.

+ Holed up in Hicks (Library) Room B853...equipped with our very own pantry! :)

+ Tharin finally wins a Pictionary game! Special thanks to his teammates; Yanling and myself :D...."Jay Leno!!"

+ I am not hooked to Bleach. I just want to know what happens next. Badly.

+ Stress-induced MSN drawings.

+ 9” of snow. (Almost) undrivable roads.

+ Friday-night-before-finals-week sledding.

+ Saturday-night-before-finals-week sledding.

+ Sunday-before-finals-week-wee-hours dogbite and ER visit.

+ A traumatic exam week.

+ The post finals hair-dyeing escapades of Derrick, Yanling and Zhuang.

+ Airport sendoffs. Ungodly hours. Missed flight.

+ Winter Break! Graduation, Skiing, West Coast, Singapore, Myanmar.

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The end of Fall ‘05 brings about the end of someone’s time at Purdue..

So Tharin, congrats, all the best, and we’ll seeya soon!!

To everyone else, happy holidays and have a fun break!

As for Spring '06,

What new surprises lie in store..

It's Official: Santa is the richest!

2005-12-11T13:29:00.000-05:00

Just in time for the holidays - The Forbes Fictional 15!

No. 1: Claus, Santa
Net worth: measured in candy canes
Source: Toys, Candy
Age: 1,651
Marital status: Married, no children.
Hometown: North Pole

The Jolly One's philanthropic work continues to outweigh accusations of elf exploitation and lax safety at his workshop. Lex Luthor and Montgomery Burns aren't so lucky.

And now, back to mugging...

And then there was more!

2005-12-09T00:18:00.000-05:00

8 hours later....

The most snow andrew's ever seen

The most snow IVE ever seen. Fun but ridiculous. I'm definitely not driving home. Not after i just perused through my wallet and found out that not only are my plates expired, I've also been driving uninsured for a whopping 4 months! :D Hope i don't get caught within the next two days or ill be having jailbird for christmas.

Let it snow let it snow let it fucking snow

2005-12-08T17:55:00.000-05:00

The weather here, like everywhere in the midwest right now is IN-FUCKING-SANE! Here's the weather forecast right now. 1 inch per hour?!

This was at 2 in the afternoon.

still not too bad

This is at 4:30, at least 3 or 4 inches sitting on the ground right now

Look at the layer of snow!!

Wish i had a snowboard to jus slide on that ledge

Union beauty

Where's the freakin pavement?!

Yes my shoe is almost completely covered. Its a good thing i decided to wear my waterproof Tims and jacket. Should have worn my ski pants then i could frolic in the snow wit reckless abandon. I wish i could go to slayter hill to go snowboard down all the way. Fresh powder...mmmmm! Stupid freaking finals! !@#$%

road trip : the final chapter.

2005-12-05T22:36:00.000-05:00

we shall open this post by helping tharin declare:

ZHUANG HAS NO GUTS TO WALK DOWN TIMES SQUARE AT NIGHT with RED LIPSTICK for USD $80!!

hum chee.

yea we dared zhuang to walk down times square in the safety of night with red lipstick on his lips for $80 (that's easy money!!) but he was cheeeeecken.

ok anyway.

our last day in new york came all too soon. bright and early we dragged our sleepy selves to chinatown to have some really good dimsum! kewinn's uncle gave us all a treat at a really yummy dimsum place! so from all of us to uncle arthur, here's a huge THANK YOU!!! :)

with only a few hours remaining, we decided to take a last leisurely stroll thru times square and also help andrew look for oakleys. and we were all kinda sad to leave but wickwick kept wanting to stay on in new york so we told him to stay on and walk back to purdue if he wanted. hahaha and we went to toys "r" us to stock up on gummies again for our long road trip back!

but our mission was not complete without THE CUPCAKES!! (andrew is convulsing with anger right now at the mention of the word cupcake)

so we drove all the way back to greenwich village and stood in line to buy the yummilicious deeeelicious cupcakes! fresh and in a zillion colors :) and sooooo superduper sweet it made everyone jumpy from a sugar high and so we expanded all our energy playing a very energetic truth or dare on the way back ;) what was said in the car stays in the car.. so all the secrets are safe.. for now.. muahaha

and 12 hours later we were home.

all good things must come to an end... and now we've to face the sad reality of college life again, and finals are next week :( and after that dear tharin tan will graduate and go back to NS, MUAHAHAHAHAHA. but we will miss him alot, so tharin tan you better miss us plenty too! (after all you will have alot of time to think about us while you stare up at the ceiling in your bunk.. heh)

amazing, isnt it, that we spent 120 continuous HOURS with each other and we had zero squabbling and had nothing but fun!!

everyone had a blast! i'm sure we'll be roadtripping again.

and now my job as trip chronicler is done.

the end.

road trip : the day after

2005-12-04T23:45:00.000-05:00

the next day we actually managed to drag ourselves out of bed (relatively) bright and early to go wander around. means of transportation : the subway!!

we headed down to union square and soho to shop, and walked very very very far to greenwich village in search of the elusive cupcakes. which, thanks to zhuang, remained elusive. so our cupcake search day 1 proved futile. GRRR. cupcakes make andrew very angry.

"andrew.. cupcake!"

"EH F*** YOU!! CUP WHAT CAKE!@#$%^&*"

now let's play spot-the-hungover-and-super-tired people!!

andrew and colin decided to go on their own solo date. so we left them to their own devices. :)

4 of us decided to head down to the rink at bryant park to go ice skating!! it was really crowded because admission was free, but we had a good time anyway. i really sucked at ice skating cos i havent skated for a zillion years. superduper ungraceful but whatever. haha and our dear gentlemen just stood there and laughed!!

ice skating at bryant park | the guys |
freezing | trying to get a glimpse of some busker

and then we staggered home tired cold happy and bruised (just me actually haha).

just another packed and productive second last day in new york!

road trip : party!

2005-12-04T05:20:00.000-05:00

so everyone had a fantastic time at oakenfold!

thankfully we beat the crowd at crobar and didnt have to wait in line.

some people had a slightly better time than others *cough* but still everyone had a really good time.

the guys had a hugeeeee amount to drink. boat races and what not. tharin and andrew probably spent more than 400 bucks altogether. that's about 2 ipods, hellooooo *faints* was really super fun to see everyone go crazyyy and jump around madly to the music!! and even funner to see the guys trying to be smooooooth...

and we only stumbled back at close to 5 in the morning.. and i must say they all make really funny drunks. we have some awfully priceless videos. muahahaha

and the cabby asked us where we were from and we said singapore and the first thing he says is, oh! singapore good education system!

so i guess now we know what we're famous for.

and derrick developed an acute sense of hearing that night.. apparently he can hear zhuang flossing... and everybody!! PLEASE NOTE! AN IF LOOP IS NOT A LOOP!! that will piss derrick off!!

we should do it more often :) if only we could! heh

road trip : part iii!!

2005-12-01T23:49:00.000-05:00

so it started turning dark in penn... and the guys were really fascinated by condom king.. a specialty shop in upenn specialising in uh. DUH.

and they had alot of fun fooling around in there...

*note : everyone is s-t-r-a-i-g-h-t. really. haha

then i got lured by the bright colors of a poster store with lovely prints. and zhuang met the babe of his dreams.. except that she's not real! hahahaha

condomania | ricky in denial |
zhuang in paris | cappers!!

and we had a really fun night having dessert at pod and playing drinking games with the penn people.. many thanks to jon and gabby, michelle and gabriel for showing us a really good time at penn! you guys are marvellous hosts :)

and we set off for new york the next morning! and it was thanksgiving too :)

andrew tharin and kewinn went to visit their relatives in NY so the rest of us set off to explore the big city!

we all trooped to tharin's cousin's apartment at colombus circle for a wonderful thanksgiving dinner with prime rib and ham.. all prepared by tharin's cousin himself! it was absolutely yummilicious.. and oh tharin's mashed potatoes were not bad too.. haha!! many many thanks to tharin's relatives for showing us a lovely thanksgiving evening!

stuffed and full from thanksgiving dinner we returned to the hotel to get some rest so that we could party all night later hehe. but the guys couldnt keep their hands of each other...

aaah... bliss... tharin with pillow zhuang| in comes andrew... |
oooopff..eeeee...aah.. oooh | guess whose ass?

coming up.. paul oakenfold spins!!

Vote For Purdue Pete!!!

2005-12-01T23:25:00.000-05:00

I interrupt the 'Road Trip' series to ask your help in showing some school spirit! C'mon guys...we all love Purdue Pete don't we? (Although I really like Rowdy more...big inflatables are always cuter :P)

Click here to vote for Purdue Pete!!!

Go Boilers!!!

P.S. You guys really do have to stop teasing me about my nyc trip okay! I had a lot of fun with my high school friends okaayyy! So there. Hmpfs. :P

road trip : part ii!!

2005-11-30T17:30:00.000-05:00

and so we finished the campus tour and took to the streets of philly.

we braved the blistering winds to explore all the cute little shops and search for the store with the 'very good pho!' - which would be our second lunch. yes we eat alot. so? food. is. good. YAY!

but along the way we nearly lost colin.. but thanks to tharin's sudden impulse to have a headcount we realized he was gone. to quote wickwick : "ohhh we forgot we got different leg lengths! he cannot keep up la..." muahaha. why colin didnt call us to rescue him it remains a mystery. maybe he liked the feeling of being a little lost boy in a big city. but for better or worse we got him back. damn. hehe.

our little lost boy | our mission : enter and leave (without colin) |
in the candy store | philly city hall

road trip : part i!!!

2005-11-30T00:14:00.000-05:00

roadtrips are always fun :)

but when ALL of us are roadtripping madly, it's superduperfun!!!

it was a long long loooong drive involving a 5 hour detour because the highways were iced over and snowy and traffic came to a complete standstill. so all in all it took us 15 hours to get to upenn!!

and then i woke up to the sound of sirens...

ARGH!!! HIGHWAY POLICE!!!

pleh. :(

COPSCOPSCOPS!!

but anyway we all got to upenn safely, albeit a little late, and promptly headed off to a full day of events... first stop philly cheesesteak (to fill those rumbly tummies) then a campus tour and bubble tea!

all this within the first 3 hours of reaching upenn. are we good at time management or what. :)

and this is just a little taste of great things to come. we were just warming up to the trip... heheh.

more updates later.. the saga unfolds...

The product of two very disturbed minds

2005-11-30T00:01:00.000-05:00

The pictures of new york are coming out even as we speak.. but in the meantime...

DISCLAIMER: If you are 18 and below please click on the X button on the top right corner of your browser now.

I drew this and sent this to Xinhui cause I just knew that she would enjoy this.

Xinhui's elegant reply:

Haven't you always wanted to do this? The thing on the left is a newspaper by the way.. xinhui couldn' t get it at first.

Xinhui's much improved version of a rolled up newspaper

It was 12am at hicks and time to go home... i tried telling Xinhui that in picture and she got it! My talents are finally being recognized...

Me and Xinhui had rubber bands and Yanling's bear to play with. She didn't really like it that much... haha thats Winnie the Pooh by the way. ha take that piglet(the gay partner according to wickwick)!!

Back!

2005-11-27T04:49:00.000-05:00

We are all bushed after the 12+ hour drive home from NYC.

It was an awesome trip and I'm sure pictures will be coming in shortly.

Knock Knock

2005-11-21T23:56:00.000-05:00

I got this from Michelle's blog and just had to try this out on my roommate:

Me: Knock knock
T (sitting at his computer): Please don't make me do this.
Me: Just humour me lah
T: *sigh* who's there?
Me: The interrupting cow
T: The interrupting c-
Me: MOOOOOOO
T (giving me the 'you idiot' look): I wanna throw my mouse at you.

dinner and (no) dance

2005-11-21T03:28:00.000-05:00

so on saturday we went to the singaporean d&d.

y'know, red carpets, dreamy ballrooms, limos, chandeliers, wine in crystal glasses, the works. *ahem*

we wish!!! hahaha

it was just a small-scale affair, but it was a good enough reason for everyone to look sharp and snazzy for the night, and we trooped there determined to make this last d&d for tharin and ke-winn a fantabulous one! (how could it not be, when all of us are there, and we have the magical equation of andrew + liquor?)

and colin and i were not late. NOT LATE, i repeat. we are officially no longer the vainest household. we have been dethroned by *koff*derrick*koff*

so i shall be the first to post my photos!

our UIUC import rasheel!! | andrew -heart- bacardi |
do-re-mi (spikey cheated his hair is like 5 cm tall) | bunch of us!

and so these are just a couple of pictures from my camera. the guys have zillions more. but i'm glad we had tonnes of fun as we always do, and for those whom this d&d will be the last in purdue, i hope it was truly memorable in the company of good friends :)

to good times... cheers!

Edit: WHAT? how am i vain??
haha..anyway, thanks to the pssa, and especially praveen and tiffany (our mcs for the night), for the really fun D&D! -derrick

one fine day.

2005-11-21T02:54:00.000-05:00

guess who stole my GIRLY jacket and PINK von dutch cap (pink shirt is model's own)

hint :

he likes trying on my shoes too...

including heels. *ahemahem*

now think hard...

think more...

think again...

oh come on, we dont really need to think that hard! hahaha

oh, look at that big grin!

sigh. like we really had to guess.

hehe.

*uh oh i think i am gonna getta hurt real bad*