ah...

i'm dying. will write something tomorrow.

just all drained and beaten up and terribly in need of sleep.

and it's only the 2nd week of the semester...

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back in town

finally after much journeying and the dreadful bus ride from chicago to champaign, i'm "home"! unpacked all the luggage and goodies that i have picked up along the way, mostly gifts from other people. feel kinda guilty. why is everyone so nice to me?

the flight from boston to chicago in the morning was nothing short of delightful. for a plane with a capacity of 100+ passengers, the manifest totalled 15. so everyone literally had their own aisle, and the stewardesses didn't even bother serving us with the cart. it was all personalized, they took your order brought it to you individually. and the plane felt so light and agile, and it was about 9 am when i flew into chicago and it was bright and sunny. the view was SPECTACULAR from the air. the endless blocks of houses and buildings, the downtown skyscrapers, and the frosted lake michigan. i held my breath.

a new beginning. the sky is the limit.


+listening to: last train out by blues saraceno

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sunshine, baby

zomg it's been a week, a wonderfully week spent lime-ing as they would say it in T&T, that's trinidad and tobago for you. you know after all these while being in the cold, it feels amazing to be in the tropics again. enjoying the sunshine and the hassle free dress code.


first stop: key west, the southern most point on the continental USA. it was beeaaautiful, the sun, the breeze, the island, everything. it really made me feel so alive.

the seven mile long bridge!

sebago - the catamaran we went sailing on

returning from the kayaking expedition

next up: south beach, miami. home to the famous/notorious ocean ave and some of the best beaches. it is every bit as flash as you'd seen on tv, except this is for real. and when the sun sets, the place buzzes with crazy crowds, great food and awesome music.







final stop: the everglades. i don't know how to describe it. it's vastness is just mind blowing. and the eco system that persists in this inhospitable environment is startling. you'd never imagine that so many specie could co-exist in this (seemingly) nothingness.

and oh, there are gators everywhere, you see them more often than you get to see other human beings on the biking trail.

gator

more gator

there's a gator burrow

gator again

the airboat brought us to places that would otherwise have been inaccessible.
doesn't this look amazing?

anyways on a completely unrelated note, i was just eating a couple of croissants in the afternoon, and some really random thoughts/emotions overcame me. so i asked myself, what would the world have become if france never existed?

the answer is that it would have been a nightmare: we'd be eating globs of raw dough instead of the soft, moist and oh-so-delicious croissants; rather than having your sumptious fillets of cod or salmon, you'd be picking the flesh off fishbones; and what would have become of the french fry? probably renamed the american fries, or potato strips or something; casual sex would never have been invented, and the french kiss would have been seen as an abomination by us normal folks. i mean who the hell would have thought putting your tongue into someone else's mouth could be so much fun?

what else can we say, other than viva la france!



+listening to: cochise by radiohead

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cambridge, boston, salem and whatnot

phew... it seems like a month since i last wrote something, mostly coz i've been eating, sleeping and sightseeing non-stop. while it has been all very stimulating visually, and possibly spiritually, i doubt it had been very mentally challenging, well maybe except at times i have struggled to find words to replace such platitudes as "zomg" and "wtfbbq".

here are some of the pics. pardon the multiple appearances by me, not really my style usually.

harvard!

the statue

u.s.s. constitution

fenway park, the red socks!

abercrombie

guinness

er... donald duck

river charles

new england aquarium

mr turtle, yes he's 10 times bigger than ur HEAD

salem witch hunt

witch museum

ur mummy

that's a monet, say it like how u say "gimme my moNEY"

like wtfbbq

+listening to: sex on fire by kings of leon

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