I really haven't blogged in a while.
Don't know what to say. Don't remember how to blog even. Don't know where to begin.
Well i think I'll just make random statements of whatever comes to mind right now.
Haha. they will be very random.
- the flight was loooooooong.
- the pacific ocean is vast.
- i've been in a plane for more than 24 hours
- lost my ability to tell night from day
- talked to the girl seated next to me in my last connecting flight to austin and she turned out to be a UT student too! Her name's meredith and she's a Spanish major and she's from north carolina.
- kelly and wanda picked me up at the airport. I could recognise kelly straightaway (cos of his beard). But he recognised me first (because of my t-shirt that says 'Friends don't let friends talk to ugly guys).
- I was walking on campus one day and a guy pointed at my shirt and laughed, "Hey you're shirt's funny!!"
- texas is really like it is in the movies. (the buildings esp, i'll post pictures soon)
- no one says 'howdy' here.
- on the other hand, ppl say 'YA'LL' a lot. 'How ya'll doing?!'
- every texan is proud to be a texan. If you meet a texan anywhere else and you ask him where he's from, he'll never say "I'm from the USofA", they'll say "I'm from TEXAS".
- so far every longhorn (that's what UT students call themselves) i know are proud to be longhorns.
- everyone wears burnt orange and white shamelessly. everyday everywhere.
- college football (and i don't mean soccer) is HUGE. it's pretty much the most important thing here i think.
- i've been eating pizza for at least 3-4 times a week. and buritos too.
- I've discovered jalapeno ranch. It's the most amazing sauce in the world next to honey mustard i must say.
- Chinatown here is run by vietnamese ppl.
- The bus system is horrible (compared to singapore at least).
- Lots of weird ppl on the bus (hence the saying 'Keep Austin Weird' i guess).
- Actually no, 'Keep Austin Weird' kinda has a hippie connotation to it.
- But yea, there are definitely weird ppl on the bus. A homeless old lady was sitting next to me on the bus and she shouted stuff like 'Perssia is coming the day is here blah blah blah'. She had a huge hole in her t-shirt and her boobs were showing. :/
- I, the tai kar jie, has a great 'tai kar jie' here myself. Her name's shinsan and she tells me everything i need to know/ i never thought i needed to know, bout life here.
- I've met ppl from turkey, taiwan, hongkong, s.korea (they're everywhere), india (they're everywhere too), china (duh), indonesia, germany, brazil, denmark, france, spain and even Tunisia!
- I have 3 roommates. One's from fortworth, one's from elpaso, one's from san antonio (they're all places in texas). I love them. very interesting ppl.
- I'm taking 4 classes this semester. Multivariable calculus, Psychology, Philosophy and Reading and writing about culture. I dropped intro to western music after the first class. I got into 'history of rock music' but am going to drop it soon. (gonna take it in another semester instead.
- Going to try and get cheap tickets for the game later tonight. So I'll be off now.
- to be continued....
