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Ok I'm not really sure if anyone still comes up here, but thank you very much for your concern I am quite well and quite happy back home in Singapore! Life has been seriously undramatic, which is something I am sincerely grateful for given the stories I have heard these past couple of months, and I must say I am very thankful to whoever's up there who must be taking special care of me and my family and friends because everything's been going well.

Sorry for being so unspecific, but I suspect if you read this blog you should already know what I have been doing, and if you don't then you are really kaypoh - why are you here?!?! Stop being a stalker and ask me in person if you really care.

I'll be leaving in a week's time to go back to Brown. Yes I will remember and savor those last precious moments of student life and irresponsibility (in the no-responsibilities sense). It's scary and yet exhilarating to think that I have no idea where I'll be in a year's time. I'm not the sort who needs to plan every step of the way, and it seems like that's a good attitude to have in times of uncertainty such as this. But yes we shall see, we shall see.

LA

Ok so sorry I totally skipped like 2-3 months due to laziness. Sorry to anyone who actually still comes down!

Kinda busy with work right now, but I promise I will be back shortly!!!

Take care everyone!

About a month...

About a month before I return to Les Êtats-Unis, and then home. I do miss Brown - her classes, her people, her greens. And I do miss home. But I have also fallen in love with France. It's such a beau pays after all. Everything's just so pretty here - the language, the trees, the old European buildings, the food. I'd be happy to go back, but I'm not looking forward to leaving either. Maybe I just find things worth loving everywhere I go :D

My friends and parents, ahem, remark that I don't seem to be studying here. Well I am not. I even regret registering with a school here. There's so much happening out there, outside, I feel silly staying in the classroom, listening to the teacher drone on for four hours about grammar rules and other boring matters.

I'm in France, in Europe, I have one more month, and I'm going to make the best of it. And that, generally, does not involve teachers or classrooms.

1:32

It's 1.32am, I intended to go to bed at 11, but ended up watching TVB dramas till late, hee hee. Jessica Hester Hsuan, I guess probably better known as Xuan Xuan, one of my favorite TVB actresses and Imperial alumnus. Catching up on her old stuff, my childhood and really, wasting time. And to think I'd be doing tons of reading here, haha!

So sorry that I've been lazy with photos, I haven't taken a single photo in Lyon. It's embarrassing taking photos like a tourist when I'm trying to blend in and pretend I totally belong here. The city is intoxicatingly beautiful, perhaps not at first sight, but I grow to like it more and more everyday. But frustration also grows when a different school means a different pace, different habits and rules. Like no eating in class? Seriously...Clearly a rule meant to be broken.

Also trying to get used to storeowners taking long, 2 hour lunch breaks, when banks take Mondays off, when restaurants close at 2pm, when Sundays means NOTHING is open, when sending documents overnight to the US costs 56 Euros and when faxing 5 sheets of paper costs 30 Euros. A different pace of life, different costs too.

I think I still prefer having everything available immediately and readily heehee.

Happy Chinese New Year by the way, I really miss nian gaos!