91/365
04012014
Docked at Nassau, Bahamas today! Went to Love Beach, one of the further but secluded beaches and it was so nice! The sand was so fine and the water so clear! We went swimming and looking for stingrays and actually saw a mini one! Tanned on the beach for quite and while but I don't think I got that much darker. Also tried front flips and it's so much harder on sand, and landing hurts too. Afterwards we hung out in downtown and went to a row of local stores. Got conch salad it was delicious! Made it back to the ship in time for dinner and went to a Love and Marriage show it was hilarious! Pretty much the host invites 3 couples up, and have the wives leave the stage. Then he asks the husbands a series of questions and records the answers, and then when the wives return he asks the wives the questions to see if the couple's answers match. After that we chilled for the rest of the night since we had to wake up early for Coco Cay!
92/365
04022014
Got off the ship before 9 to go on small boats that took us to Coco Cay. The weather was beeeeautiful today and the island was so nice! It's Royal Caribbean's private island so everything was pretty much included - food and drinks. We went parasailing! And it was so fun, not as scary as I had imagined. I paired up with Steve since we're around the same size. For the rest of the afternoon we just ate, swam in the clear blue water, and played volleyball. Sally and I collected so many seashells cause they were so pretty. So soothing collecting seashells actually. Now my shoulders and legs are slightly sunburned lol. At night we went to play basketball and soccer at 1 am lol. It was a fun midnight exercise working off all that we've been eating all week.
93/365
04032014
Day at Sea! Didn't do much during the day, played cards and kept ordering drinks until the waiter knew who we were haha. Then the fun begins... Went to the pool and Steve, Sally and I were all pretty drunk playing in the water and jumping around. Went to the kiddie pool and played on the water slides, just the three of us.. Lol. And then Sally drunkenly slipped on the floor and banged her head on the floor and we just laughed for a good ten minutes. She then went to the hot tub, and leaned back and fell out of the hot tub. The other people there were probably judging at how drunk and retarded we were. At night we just played more cards and chilled at multiple bars.
94/365
04042014
I kinda lost track of which photos were from which day, but here's the second formal night! The food on the cruise was sooo delicious and all of us order 2 appetizers and 2 main courses. And our waiters Ronald and Rebello were the perfect duo. They're so nice and joke around with us every day after dinner. Rebello gave us these puzzles, and when we couldn't get it he has this evil troll laugh. Clearly he's a goofer in this picture. lol. So sad leaving them both, but we all friended Ronald on Facebook! Haha, now we just gotta find Rebello. Today was second Day at Sea! We got lunch and then we hung out by the sports area. Watched basketball for a while and then went inline skating, I was better than I thought! Then we played volleyball with a group of friendly individuals it was so fun! Managed to keep the ball on the ship heh. Before dinner we made our waiters Ronald and Rebello a card that said 'Thank you for feeding us Yummy Yummies and enlarging our Tummy Tummies!' They're so great and we're gonna miss them. :( We're probably known as the fatass alcoholics haha, but at least we're memorable. For the rest of the night we played cards and hung out. Donezo with cruise and spring break D:
95/365
04052014
Woke up at 6 to get ready to leave the ship. We all stayed up late playing cards and ended up getting less than 4 hours of sleep. I went upstairs to see if we docked yet and this is the view I see of New York City and New Jersey, with the Statue of Liberty on the left side so tiny. I went back to New York City to pick up Tiffany, ChuChu, Sisi and Andrew and then we headed for Ithaca! It took forever to leave the city cause of traffic, and we also stopped by Mitsuwa for green tea ice cream. After that I just kept going until Binghamton, actually surprised I wasn't that tired. We went straight to Walmart to pick up CSA supplies and had dinner at Panera! It was then that I started crashing. Watched a movie with Tiffany but I kinda fell asleep towards the last 20 minutes.
96/365
04062014
Woke up this morning and made omelettes for me and Tiffany. I haven't been self-sufficient in so long that I forgot how to cook and kept spilling stuff everywhere. Sigh.. In the afternoon I did my huge load of laundry from the cruise and went for a looong jog. A much needed exercise after all the eating and drinking. The weather was pretty nice so it was a pleasant jog to the vet school and then around Beebe Lake. Can't wait till Ithaca gets even warmer! The rest of the day I organized my room and went through all the stuff I unpacked. I got my shot glass from Coco Cay and the Miami shot glass from Tiffany. Shot glasses are actually good ways to keep track of where you've been. Doesn't feel like spring break is over I still feel like I'm on break...
97/365
04072014
First day of classes! I literally did nothing productive all day. Looked into Nikon cameras all day and settled for the D3200. I plan on selling my D40 so getting the D3200 won't be that much more expensive. It has such better specs than the D40 and it has video! Always wanted to get into filming now I can start! And plus, it's time I upgraded my camera... Didn't know it was gonna rain today so had to walk around in the rain. At night I went to play intramural volleyball and we won! The other team wasn't that good... and all 4 people on our team can serve decently well, so we didn't actually pass or hit that much. Haha. I like the team, it's Brandon, Allie, and Rachel. So excited for next weeks' match! Oh, and Nancy, Steven, Alex, and Eric played in the earlier match.
98/365
04082014
Woke up very groggy and tired. In gymnastics I was able to do handstands so well! I walked halfway across the mat before falling, that's the farthest I've ever done a handstand walk. But then my wrist got really sore and I couldn't do it anymore. Also did drills to prepare a back tuck. In no time I will be able to do back and front tucks! Human Bonding the usual, actually pretty boring today and I spent the whole lecture looking at camera lenses to get. Gonna get the 18-55 mm instead of fancy expensive ones because this seems most practical. For dinner I wen to Chiptole with Bryan and Lauren since Bryan's visiting. So embarrassing around them they do such shameful things :P. But the Chiptole was good, and so was the sample Froyo after. :)
99/365
04092014
Saw a bunch of police cars, ambulances and firetrucks as I was leaving Casc. It seemed pretty serious and someone was in the ambulance, but that's about all I saw. Shall read up on the news tomorrow to see. Other than that, today was a long day and I fell asleep in every class. Not used to this school nonsense yet.. After wines and meetings, I stopped by the CSA prop-making thing for a bit and made a cage? Not as fun as I had imagined and my hand hurts from cutting the poster board. Tiffany and I got dinner at Koko's and then just spent the rest of the night in Casc doing work and random stuff. Happy hump day!
100/365
04102014
My day was pretty average today. I need to start doing more exciting things because every day is the same. In Human Bonding we learned about jealousy and infidelity, which was pretty interesting actually. Hehe next lecture is about break ups, shall be interesting as well! I went to the lab to prepare the sub for an outreach event at Caroline Elementary School. It was their STEM Night and a lot of different groups went to promote STEM. It's always great to talk to other people about the team and see how amazed they are by it. Makes us feel good and it's nice to see young kids so interested by robotics and so curious about what it does. One kid asked if the torpedoes shoot 'bad animals,' and when we asked what kind of bad animals he said a shark. Sooo cute hehe. It was pretty tiring, but was a good experience. Found Kevin and Lucy at Duffield afterwards, so ate there and bummed with them before getting bubble tea.
101/365
04112014
CSA China Night tonight! It was actually not bad and all the groups came together pretty well. The promo video was based off the song Selfie, so throughout the show Richard and Eric kept taking selfies everywhere. And this is part of the casts taking selfies after the show... Before China Night, I woke up early to go jog and gym. It was so nice out and jogging to Sunset Park felt really refreshing. In the afternoon I was busy with TBP's Engineering Fair in Duffield, talking to prospective freshmen and chilling with other CUAUV members. Pretty busy day actually, doing random things around campus and being active.
102/365
04122014
Quite an exciting day. Started so early with the Boy Scouts Robotics Workshop in Upson and it was a success! 17 scouts showed up and build their submarines and although we had some trouble getting the controllers to work, we were able to fix it and test the subs in the pool. And plus, the weather was beeeeeeautiful outside! I walked around in the pool and it felt so nice! Felt like summer! This year went a lot smoother than the previous 2 years so it was good, but I was still so exhausted from it. Did some jogging around the football field and then met up with Tiffany after her outreach event with Expand Your Horizons. We sat outside for a bit cause it was so nice, and then got Slurpees at 7-11. Then I got Sangria with Mui and Ankai at CTB, and bumped into Rachel, Shirley and Kat so we just all chilled there. Everyone left for various reasons, and left me and Kat with almost a full pitcher of Sangria. We slowly finished it and left CTB prettttty drunk... Came back for a nap and then went to Hsia's 22nd birthday party! T'was a pretty magnificent day. :)
103/365
04132014
Got my new D3200 yesterday and it's soooooo nice! The quality is so much better and it's so much more powerful than the old D40. I'm so excited to use it more and use the video function on it too! Anyway, today's weather was beeeeeeeeautiful! In the 80s! This made everything so much better and happier. CUAUV team meeting was wonderful, we sat outside at the picnic tables and everyone was in such a good mood. Afterwards I ran around the football stadium and did half a stadium. It felt so good to be able to run out in the nice weather. Chilled around campus for a bit and joined a bunch of people at CTB drinking Sangria. I only had a glass since I had so much last night. Before dinner I saw the sunset from Libe Slope and it felt like summer, with so many people just chilling on the slope. Ate dinner at Maxie's Supper Club with Tiffany! The food was not bad, and the portions were so big we couldn't finish.
104/365
04142014
Finally got to wear flip flops to class today! It was really warm, but not very sunny and it was also pretty humid. So warm but kinda stuffy. Nothing to special about today. After work I met up with Tiffany in Cocktail, but it's sooo hot inside so I decided to study outside. Went to the top of Olin by the musical tiles and found a bench and dangled my feet off the ledge. It was so windy though, I was so scared my notes would get blown away and scatter across the Arts Quad. I did a bit of people watching there as well since I got a perfect view of the quad. Intramural volleyball at night and we won! Because our opponents didn't show up... Still fun! We just played against each other for an hour or so. And now the weather is starting to get cold again dropping to the teens tomorrow...
105/365
04152014
Weather was so crappy today. I think this photo wasn't actually from today but it's on my camera.. Woke up and it's raining pretty hard outside. The usual morning and gymnastics. I worked on backflips and it's not too bad, I think I'll be able to get it on Thursday. Also did front handsprings on the tumbling track! It's so fun! And I also flew off the mat onto the hardwood floor. Kinda hurt but I was fine. I left Teagle and it was hailing... What. In Human Bonding learned about the stages of breakups, quite interesting. Chilled at Olin with Tiffany for a bit before heading home. At night, had a spontaneous Wegman's run and restocked on veges and fruits. :)
106/365
04162014
Random duck on Ho Plaza quacking and talking to people. Watched the duck quack for a good 5 minutes while waiting for someone. Haha. Today it was snowing when I woke up.... and it was freezing. Eventually the weather got better though, up to the 30's! I can't believe we were just wearing shorts 2 days ago and now it's back to winter gears. Anyway, after classes and meetings, met up with Tiffany and we got Saigon. Delicious as usual. Went for a quick run to Walmart to get some stuff, and it's always fun roaming around Walmart. We went to East Campus and Tiffany practiced driving. Gonna become a pro because of me :D. We even drove on the streets for a little bit! Aaaand that's about it.
107/365
04172014
Pretty exciting day. At work today I was playing with Photoshop to make a banner for Tiffany's Krispy Kreme fundraiser. Pretty fun to be creative with Photoshop. In gymnastics, the TA said I can try doing a front layout? It's like a front handspring without the hands. So I tried it.... and pretty much did a front headspring. Didn't hurt but it was weird hitting the mat with my head lol. Tried some more backflips but still no getting it! Almost forgot about my Human Bonding prelim today, and it went okay. I left as soon as possible cause I didn't want to stay haha. Weather was pretty nice today, so I took the long way home to walk down Dryden instead of cutting the shortcut. Went to BASE show and it was not bad, but gotta say previous years were better. Then went to Wegman's to get some food and derped around there. Now I'm so excited to sleep.
108/365
04182014
Nothing too special about my Friday. Spent the entire afternoon in Rhodes working on Spreadsheets group assignment. Made some progress but was still stuck on a few parts. Then went to Miyake's to surprise ChuChu for her birthday! A lot of us were there and we sake bombed too. I think she liked all her gifts! The camera lens, the sloth book and mason jar shot glasses. Afterwards we came back to my apartment to play games and drink. And then went to Bhangra house and somewhere else. And the rest of the night... Haha. But it was a good night though!
109/365
04192014
Had a CUAUV team social on the arts quad today playing soccer and random sports. I scored a goal! We all sucked at soccer haha, but it was nice running around and being active. And on the way there I saw the cat that's always by Pixel alley. When I tried to get close it ran away. haha. After soccer I worked on Spreadsheets assignment the whole afternoon until Yamatai at 7. It was pretty good, but after 2 hours it all sounds the same. We stopped by Nastie's at RPCC after and got soooo much food. 3 bear samplers and 3 bo burgers for 7 people. I felt gross. Came home and bummed with Steve and Sally until I finally got up to return to my room. Haha.
110/365
04202014
Went on a hike today at Taughannock Falls! The weather was sooo nice, and it was nice being active bonding with nature. The hike was more like a nature walk, it wasn't too challenging, but still nice. The waterfall was pretty big, but we didn't stay long because there was no sun there and it was sooo cold. We went on another more challenging hike that's mostly stairs, and that got us working a bit but exercise is good! Afterwards, we played lacrosse at the Children Garden, or something like that. It's actually pretty fun I wanna play more. Then came back home and then got dinner at CTB. Such a lovely day today and tomorrow's gonna be even nicer! I wish the weather can be like this everyday.
111/365
04212014
The weather was even nicer today than yesterday! It was shorts and flip flops weather, but in my lecture it's always freezing so I was so cold for the entire time. In the afternoon I hung out with Tiffany and Christine while they tabled for an event in Statler. Then Sally, Mui, Matt and I decided to play lacrosse on the arts quad for like 2 hours. Haha. It was really fun! And Mui also knocked someone's coffee over, she was just sitting on the arts quad and now her coffee's gone. lol. After studying Tiffany joined us for a bit before heading to dinner. At night there was volleyball! The team we played was pretty good but we put up a good fight. Won the first game, barely, and then lost the next two. I think if our team played together more we can definitely win. Regardless, we made playoffs! :D
112/365
04222014
I had such a horrible sleep last night. Didn't know if I was dreaming or it was real, but it felt like my blanket kept vibrating and it felt so weird. Woke up in the middle of the night thought I was going crazy, but eventually fell back asleep. Nothing exciting happened during the day, just the usual. Weather was very gray today so made me feel lethargic and bummed out. After class I went to meet for Spreadsheets group assignment till dinner time. Then I just chilled at home for the rest of the night. Made myself some yummy pasta, and then did some homework and random stuff. And finally got a mason jar for my Coco Cay seashells. Thought it'd be nice to make it more memorable and include whatever I have from the spring break trip, but I think the Royal Caribbean room card is all I have LOL. Took forever to thread the string through the seashells, and even lost the needle on my carpet and took 10 minutes to find it. Yay for impromptu crafty projects! :D
113/365
04232014
Caught the sunset on North Campus on my way to Target. Ugh but I'm so frustrated right now. Just realized that the refurbished 18-55mm lens is damaged because all the photos come out fuzzy, including this one. Compared it with Toshi's and my other lens and it's the lens problem. Emailed the seller to complain and hopefully they'll mail me another one to exchange. Poops. Such a hassle. Other than that, my day was alright.. The weather was so nasty today, gray and cold and rainy and almost snowed? Didn't do too much during the day besides classes and meetings, and then made curry for dinner! Now I have dinner for a couple of days haha. Perhaps I will sleep early tonight. :D
114/365
04242014
Such a long day today. I did a backflip in gymnastics! Into the foam pit though because I'm still very inconsistent. Sometimes do face plants lol. But I have one more class left to practice and hopefully get it so I can do it on the floor. I also did a handstand walk halfway across the mat. I was so confused myself I was like what's going on how come I'm not falling. But it was allll goood! Had CUAUV meetings and we decided that we're going to Saigon for Lunner (lunch + dinner) next week to celebrate the end of the semester. I really like the team this year it's so much more than just getting work done for the project team, but we actually enjoy hanging out with each other and it's fun! Then worked on Spreadsheets assignment for a couple of hours which seemed like forever. And headed over to Patty's for game night. It was a good way to end the day and just chill with a bunch of people. :) The photo is the card I made for Tiffany. Tried something new by not using glue to hold the two pieces of paper together. Used string instead to tie knots and it worked pretty well! And then also carved this cool butterfly 3D design on the card. :D
115/365
04252014
Pretty good day! Sort of slept in so it felt pretty good to catch up on sleep. And met up with Christine on campus and bumped into Tiffany on Ho Plaza at the Block Party. We got free frisbees, played games, and ate ice cream and bubble tea. That was pretty much my lunch because I didn't eat anything until dinner haha. Hung out with Christine for a few hours and them met up with Sally and Steve. We were gonna play squash, but the mean lady said we have to pay, so ended up playing some basketball with Toshi and Jasper and Co. Too much running. Came home and just bummed in bed until dinner at Panera! Not too much exciting stuff but in a pretty good mood today. :) Picture is of the final product of Tiffany' birthday video! Took many edits and many hours to get it to the way I wanted, but it was worth it. I'm glad I was able to film everyone and put together the video. :D
116/365
04262014
Happy birthday Tiffany!! Today was a looong day. Got brunch on West with Sisi, Kevin, and Ming before the 5K: Destination Haiti run. The 5k was at the Cornell Plantation and it was so tiring cause there were so many hills. Also, I ate way too much for breakfast and my stomach was burning the entire time, but I did place 8th! And got a $15 giftcard, the last giftcard haha. I was exhausted after and took a while to catch my breath, but it was a good experience! Breakfree showcase in the afternoon, and then after that was Tiffany's surprise! Tricked her (or I hope I did) to go back to my apartment where everyone was waiting, and surprised her and showed her the video. I was pretty happy everything worked out with the video and projector because that was the part I was most worried about. Then she opened her gifts and then we went to Four Seasons! The waiter didn't even care most of us weren't 21 and gave us sake bombs. Dinner was good, and we had cake! Tiffany got frosting all over her hair hehe, and then afterwards we just came back to my apartment and drank and played games. Typical night. Happy birthday Tiffany! :) <3
117/365
04272014
Today was a pretty slow day and I didn't really do anything productive. Went to the gym and stopped by the track meet in Barton and saw Linnea do pole vaulting. It's so cool actually and it looked so fun to fall on the bouncy mats. CUAUV meeting as usual, and then I bummed in Duffield till like 5 until I got really tired. Was gonna take a nap when I got home, but got sidetracked and watched some TV instead haha. After dinner I watched some more TV and watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It was so good! The title didn't seem that attractive at first but the movie was so good. Went to Patty's for a bit and drank some beer, but didn't feel like playing games or socializing so came back to bum in bed. There goes my day!
118/365
04282014
Tiffany studying anatomy! Today was a pretty okay day. It's the last full week of class! The last full week of classes at Cornell! D: Such a scary thought, time flew by so quickly and spring semesters about to end. Anyways, nothing exciting in the morning. All afternoon I stayed in Duffield with Tiffany and I don't even know what I did with my time.. Didn't do work, was probably reading random articles online. I made dumplings and fish tofu and ate it with Tiffany in Duffield. Haha. Everyone walking by was probably like what the heck, but it was delicious! Then volleyball playoffs! And we did horrible :( Just a bad day for everyone, but the other team did so well! They made it to the next round after playing 3 very close and intense games. Wooh!
119/365
04292014
Last day of gymnastics today! :( So sad, I wish I took this class much earlier, then I would've enrolled in it every semester. Tried to take advantage of all the bouncy and soft mats in gymnastics today. I hung out with Tiffany and Christine at the Krispy Kreme table at Statler for a bit. They're so delicious, but my mouth always feels so gross after eating them cause they're so sweet. After Human Bonding I met up to do the Spreadsheets final project and it's actually a lot of work. :( And we're not even sure if we're doing the right things. Surprisingly, our meeting was fairly short, only 2 hours, and I went home to eat, shower, and change! Then ventured back out to Duffield and watched TV and did some work with Tiffany. On my way back to campus took this picture of the bridge I cross pretty much every day!
120/365
04302014
Why is the weather in Ithaca still so cold and nasty when April's already over? In wines today the Professor's entire family - children and grandchildren - came to visit and sit in on the lecture and he invited them on stage. The little ones were soooo cute! They sat on stage while he talked, and they just kept crawling around until their dad eventually took them away. Hehe. Then I fell asleep... But today was champagne and sparkling wine which was pretty delicious. After wines I went with Matt and Paul to Chiptole and Northside to get some of the wines we had today. Then went to Winli's to get bok choy.. but they didn't have!! I was so sad, that was the main reason I went with them! :( Oh well, vegetables on hold I guess. At night went to Patty's to play Settlers of Catan and that was pretty much it. Sleep early today!
