Wow, that post was made about 6 months ago. And here, 6 months later, here I am, back at Carleton, in the middle of nowhere, ready to start school. And here, 6 months later, I'm in my junior year, the year touted to be the most challenging academically. halfway through college and almost to the point where one has to start standing on one's two feet.

It's time t grow up Lynn. Soon. soon.

Alaas, so it is the last day here in the UK for me now and tmr, early in the morning, I head to La France. It's been a good past week here in the UK, meeting up with people I haven't seen in a long time and getting used to being in Europe and being a tourist and taking photos and all that. Complacency has taken ahold of me again and I am a little more than reluctant to move, once again, to another country and to another 'home'. BUT it's been fun ehre and it will be fun over there à Paris.

I shall try my very best to keep this blog alive, to update all you faithful ones who've been checking to see if Lynn has decided to not be lazy.

à bientôt!

I think I've lost a great deal of interest in blogging because I find that I don't type about anything more than trivial, physical happenings here in Carleton. It's probably not the omst surprising thing as well, especially at this time of term because you get so consumed by the work that just keeps on coming. You've got no time to sit and think and anout whimsical matters that come to mind. It becomes a 'waste of time', time that could be spent somewhere else, doing something more productive. Even when you've got free time, you've got to spend it 'productively' and 'with meaning'; people expect you to do something 'fun'. But sometimes, there's nothing more you really want to do but curl up beside the people who matter most to you and talk. Another reason I don't blog like before: there's alot more fulfillment in talking to someone who can respond. Then again, there's a sense of fulfillment to be had in seeing people comment on what you typed. Sometimes blogging can be such a performance - you type and you secretly and obsessively check your tagboard to see if anyone's responded to what you've typed. Oh perverse narcissistic desires.

Anyway, it was beautiful and warm the past week - but God has decided to shower us with a ton of snow this weekend. So now it's a snow blizzard outside; tomorrow I wake up to a blanked-out world.

Choosing Psychology as a major has been an interesting experience. I think I'm just adapting to the fact that I'm not doing something as artsy as I thought I was predestined to do. And that I'm adapting to changing priorities, interests and all that jazz. Because there's this little part of me that wondering what happened to theatre lynn have you abandoned your theatrical ideals from your youth. And there's another little part of me that really wants to double major in studio art and psych. But I suppose it'll all come back to me and if I'm meant to do theatre, it will come back into my life again, by His will. Psychology is fascinating, learning about the inner workings of people is useful useful useful.

I leave for Europe in 2 and a half weeks - it is a rather scary thought. I guess I am excited for the term, I really want to improve my french and eat french food and traverse the land! But at the same time, it means leaving something that's become so familiar to me, leaving people I don't particularly want ot leave just as yet and finding a new niche for myself. Oh bugger darnit. Change = stepping out of comfort box. Just a tinge of reluctance.
But for the meantime, photos from the past few weeks!

Winter!!! Pretty pretty.

First taste of raw fish. Interesting.

Part of CNY celebration - mahjong!! Not the best hand!

Fab four! ahhaha.

OH my goodness, so I realise that I've lost all motivation to blog about anything and really this space has become something like a white elephant that Lynn updates every once in awhile. And posts pictures of her life here.

It's crazy to think about the fact that it's ALREADY 7th week here. It feels like yesterday I stepped onto campus, dead tired and jetlagged from 30 hours in the plane and now I'm swamped up to my neck with work and potentially, a REALLY busy end of term. oh why does time go by so quickly in Carleton????

I think I"m pretty sick of the winter right now and I'm ready for the sun, warmth or anything tropical. Snow's pretty and all and when it warms up (now warmth becomes relative when you live in MN) it's rahter pleasant - BUT I WANT FLIPFLOPS and ONE layer of clothing on my body, not ten million plus a green down coat. Oh phuket oh thailand oh asian paradise beaches.

In the meantime, I prepare myself for my european experience - perhaps I'll come back speaking like a hoity-toity briTish lass so there want a cuppa. PARIS JE VIENDRAI!

A cold cold cold weekend, oh dear me. I have not ventured out of my house unless absolutely necessary. Windchill reaching lows of negative 40 (F and C) - ridiculous. What a cold cold mid term break.

Here comes the crunchy part of term. Wish me luck!

I had a wonderful WONDERFUL 20th birthday - many thanks to everyone for birthday wishes from Singapore and other places.

What can I say, this birthday has been one of the BEST ever.
It all started out at midnight on the 10th of January.

A botched surprise operation - because Lynn saw Angie's head along with random flashes right outside my house. So in came a dish of chocolate chip bars with 20 candles. Phase 1 - the decoy!

A rather unattractive photo of me with other people involved at midnight. The day was filled with many many surprises, including 20 plastic eggs, random messages and photos pasted on walls while I tutored Chinese. I feel extremely blessed.

Before dinner at Hogan brothers' to get my free hoagie! Wearing Angie's glasses and pretending to look more intelligent than I really am!

Dinner at Hogan brothers. It was such a party. And surprise visitor - PAMMY WAMMY!

The icing on top of the cake - just when I thought the day's festivities were over, I get kidnapped from the bathroom just when I'm about to take a shower, blindfolded and dragged to Parish. And that was just amazing. I have wonderful friends.

Party at Parish!

And since Angie's birthday was so close to mine, we had a joint dinner celebration for an intimate circle of friends. That was a fantastic evening. Here's our chicken.

A photo of the girls - absolutely wacky!!!

And here's everyone eating away. Or actually no, it's after dinner and we're just hanging out.

Oh what a fantabulous birthday.

My my my complacency has indeed gotten the best of me the past few months especially with this blog. But my life has been really mundane thus far, the same old. I'm back at school, sub-zero temperatures but unfortunately, without snow. I feel like the cold would be slightly easier to bear if there was pretty snow around, instead of dreary frozen dead ground.

Spent the New Year's here after a gruelling 26 hour flight that spaned 3 continents. Oh the sacrifices one makes for the sake of convenience. It was not eventful and I was very thankful that I got wheelchair assistance at every stop I made. Especially in Paris, I would NOT have been able to figure the terminals out on my own. The flights themselves were relatively comfortable and I've found out that KLM has really good inflight food! :) So good for me. One hour drive back to campus in the snow with an old taxi driver who kept heaving the entire ride and looked like he was going to keel over and die any moment of a heart attack. Thank God I got back safe. It was wonderful seeing Angie again after 6 months. I STILL can't believe that she's back on campus - it's such a blessing to have her here again.

Went to the MOA over the past weekend and bought myself a gorgeous scarf from United Colours of Benetton - green with colourful tassels. Happy birthday to myself right there! :) Oh I love scarves!! Woohooo! Walked around the mall with Angie, Esther and Cindy, being really asian, trying on stuff and taking a million and one photos.

Esther and I at Express with our policewomen shades. Sizzlin!! :)

Angie, Esther and I at Old Navy with our animal skin things. HAha absolutely hilarious.

Also had Navigator's brunch at Anne's place and that was really nice. Kaisa and Luke are SO CUTE!

Erica and I.

Luke, Kaisa and I with a funky hat thing that really is Kaísa's skirt.

The Ladies at Brunch! :)

It's been good being back. Apart from the perpetual inertia I feel because of the cold. Classes are intriguing, mostly rather fun. This term is going ot be a good one. But busy too. Ten weeks really isn't the longest time available.

WOOHOOOO.