toys & shutter shades

last nite maggie & i went to see KANYE WEST!! he was here in singapore. i have a maaaad crush on kanye. i never realized it till now, even though i've heard he's kinda douchey. we had A LOT of fun and he is a great performer. the place where the concert was wasn't that big & it wasn't crazy packed or anything. we had quite the adventure after the show when it was nearly impossible to get a taxi and we really wanted to get to the club. we ended up getting a ride from a flower truck delivery person. using "it's singapore, what could happen?!" as justification, we jumped in & didn't have to pay for a taxi! sweet. we were hoping to run into Kanye at the clubs but dat foo' didn't come out i guess. lame. 

last friday i decided to have some "me" time & i went to MINT- Moment of Imagination and Nostalgia with Toys... aka a museum of toys! they had collections of vintage toys from all over the world. there were some really old (like mid-19th century) toys and some of them were worth a lot of freakin money. some little tin robot guy was worth $15,000 U.S. dollars!! geeeez. & they had one of the big wind-up peacocks that was in that movie 'TOYS'. & the very first issue of 'The Avengers.' and just a bunch of really neat stuff. old school disney tunes were playing in the background. i think i was one of 4 people in the entire place. it was a nice little outing.

i've been thinking of all the awesome things i am going to do when i get back to the states. here's what i have so far-

eat:

a block of cheese

in-n-out

burrito bol from chipotle

all forms of mexican food

grilled cheese

pinkberry

real breakfast

(i understand that this is a lot of food, but i'm not going to eat it all at once)

do:

catch up on television & movies for about 5 days straight

use as many paper towels & toilet seat covers as possible

maybe re-learn how to drive

wash all my clothes & put them in the DRYER

if anyone wants to join me, that would be just grrreeat. i won't have school, or a job, for a while so i'm probably going to be pretty useless for about a month. & i will gladly take any offers to help me accomplish any of these things haha

i'm going to miss my daily lunch of naan, tofu, & potatoes from the indian place tho. and endless amounts of cheap fresh fruit. and my Nokia cell phone with snake. actually, i'm probably not going to miss using this phone, it sucks. 

classes for me are done. one presentation to do on tuesday but thats it. after that i have A WHOLE LOT of studying for 3 tests. wowowow. finals here are really intense. & i still have a lot of stuff i want to do here in Singapore! it seems like i have so much time and no time all at once. strange. i have some serious ADD again lately. & a little bit of insomnia for the past 3 weeks. always thinking thinking thinking... what i still wanna do, what i need to do, what i didn't do, what do i wanna buy, what am i going to do when i get home, when do classes at sdsu even start, what was that crazy dream all about, where am i gonna get a job, what am i going to do for new years, am i really graduating from college in may, what's going to happen with Jim & Pam, what is the meaning of life, why is the internet so freakin awesome... you know, nothing important :)  

PiCTURES!!

HERE'S SOME LiNKS :) 

bangkok whoooo hooo

more thailand

bunch of pictures of alll the wonderful people i get to hang out with

more stuff about my life

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we had school off yesterday because of Diwali (celebration of lights). It's a Hindu holiday celebrating the triumph of good over evil in humans. pretty cool. i celebrated by doing homework all day since i was pretty much useless for 4 days before that. 

school is going to start getting hectic. it's pretty much the last week of classes, and all of november is reserved for finals. my last final is nov. 18. not too bad (some people have one on the 28th!). i only have 3 but one of them just might make me cry... i don't want a repeat of finance 323. i CANNOT believe the the semester is almost over. for those of you who are waiting for me to come home- i officially fly into Los Angeles International Airport on December 2nd at 8:52am. can't believe it.

hope everyone is having a great halloween week !!!

"hey what's going on over there"

last nite was the "halloween underground rave" that was organized by this studentpartyplannerguy and it was AWESOME. the name is quite deceiving though.... as it was not underground nor was it a rave. oh but HalloweeN it was!! basically, it was a house party. but a legit one with 700 people in costumes. it was like a scene out of a movie & can say that i had an sufficient amount of fun. maggie & i dressed up like little girls. or a pedophile's dream. (that's not a very funny subject.... i probably shouldn't joke about it...) maggie has all the pictures on her camera so i'll probably put some up later! 

i guess i've been keeping pretty busy since getting back from thailand. i'll just go in the order of the pictures in my camera:

went to the Singapore Art Museum & saw some super cool art. One of the exhibitions was by an artist named Masriadi from Bali, & he had some amazing paintings. i was able to snap a pic before the security guard caught me. I wish i could've captured more of the exhibit cause it was really cool...

this was one of the paintings by Masriadi... in person, the paint colors are so vibrant it literally looks like the picture is popping out at you

hmm.... i wonder who this reminds me of?? :)

mural on a wall 

Boys Noize, a dj from germany was here last weekend at one of the clubs. being the lover of electro music that i am, i had been excited to see him. for those of you not familiar, he's a pretty popular dj i guess & plays all over the globe. he had a unibrow. & the lighting was extremely visually appealing, i was the happiest kid- dancing all nite long & chasing the lights haha. 

mad sexy unibrow

wonderful happy place

on our way out to Clark Quay the other nite we found these cool little statue guys that i never noticed before. we proceeded to have a photoshoot with these faceless sillybills. oh, and the nite before, Tommy Lee was at the bar we always go to!! Yes, that Tommy Lee-Pam Anderson's lover. & of course he was there the like one thursday nite we didn't go out. booo. what he was doing in Singapore, i have no idea. plus, he's from Covina so would've had something to talk to him about.... dangggg it. 

in the mall there's this american diner type place & these life-size cardboard cutouts of Obama & McCain are their promotion. haha. i mailed my absentee ballot last week!!! pretty exciting i think! VOTE. it doesn't just matter for our country, it matters for the world. not kidding, i know i said it before, but the entire freakin globe is following this election. & they let you (me) know. we were eating at mcdonalds at 430 in the morning after a nite out, chatting with someone from i don't remember where, & his goodbye went like this: "byebye, it was nice meeting and eating with you! vote for Obama.... please... do it for the rest of us." uhh, that topic didn't come up once during our conversation, he just decided to throw it in as he was walking away lol.

and for all you californians, 

vote NO on 8... don't hate :)

i miss everyone a lot!! I CAN'T BELIEVE I ONLY HAVE 7 WEEKS LEFT HERE. it's sooo crazy. i can't wait to go home but i don't want to leave either. i love everyone here & i get really sad & bummed that i won't ever see any of them ever again :( i'm already planning on going to North Carolina/Pennsylvania, Miami, and SWEDEN!! haha. it's gone by so fast... there's still so much i want to do. it's going to be really strange being back in California... i left in the middle of summer & when i get back it's almost gonna be christmas! it's going to be a long plane ride home. but, for now, i'm going to try & not think about having to leave this place :)

thailand- part ll

after Bangkok we flew down to Phuket, & already from the plane you could see the gorgeous water in all shades of blue & green. This was the 'spring break in the fall' we were looking for. our plans were nothing more than get tan & have fun. we didn't have any idea where we were really going to stay but luckily our taxi driver had a good recommendation. got there late in the afternoon so we checked out the beach, walked around town, & got ready for the nightly festivities.

sunset when we first got there

this place reminded me a lot of Rosarito, Mexico. lots of people trying to sell you the same things. cheap food. cheap booze. soo kinda like Rosarito... but different cause this was Thailand. We made an amazing discovery. one of the little restaurants right by our hotel was a mexican restaurant- kinda. It was called Thai Taco. they didn't have much to offer, but it was yuuumyy & satisfied my want for non-asian food. we ate here everyday. 

there was a lot of the same stuff being sold here as in Bangkok. and they all want you to stop & look. there was the 'main street' i guess you can call that during the day looked normal, but during the nite turned into a huge party & the host invited a ton of hookers & ladyboys. there were so many bars & clubs though so it was guaranteed fun. the first nite there we met a huge group of australians who by that point were so tipsy they were ordering drinks faster than people could drink them. they were a lot of fun and bought me, maggie, & khaleedah a bunch of unnecessary stuff from street vendors. one of them was on 'so you think you can dance' in australia so he was dancing in the street & keeping everyone entertained. 

the next few days were full of Thai Taco, shopping, beach, drinking, thai massages, & other spring/fall break goodies. the water was so nice & warm, but the waves were pretty strong so it was a little scaries. on the beach there was a restaurant with these super delicious drinks. & they were only 90 baht!! that's like... $2.50. then we got massages rite on the beach too, with our delicious drinks. drink + massage = very very cheap. & nice. we've heard stories of people who went there on holiday & never came back. now i know why :)

that's what i call a mai thai... mmm

had to have a lot! who knows the next time we'll find fresh, cheap, delicious drinks like these

we wanted to see a Muay Thai fight but it was expensive. it wasn't so much in US dollars, but compared to all our other thailand expenses it was a lot. there were kind of a lot of australians there too. besides the huge group we met from the first nite, we met another couple of friends who were Aussies and then some Brazilians who were living in Australia (the brazilians, fyi- wore HUGE fanny packs! i looove fannys!!). guess this was a popular holiday spot? even the Thais selling things spoke with australian accents- but only to lure you into their shops or to try & get your attention. but then they would find out we weren't australian & magically they had an american accent. it went from "ay mate ow are yew" to "what's up man." one of our days there we went to Phi Phi Island. This is where they filmed that Leo DiCaprio movie "the beach." it was really pretty. but personally, i thought that Tioman in Malaysia was way more gorgeous. Phi Phi would've been a lot better if there weren't so many tourists. it was still nice tho. 

(i don't know why the color on these pictures looks like this? i uploaded them to my blog & the colors are all off? i swear phi phi was a lot prettier!)

i felt like mermaids were gonna come out 

it was low tide & the water was soo so shallow

all in all, i couldn't have asked for a more wonderful time. Thailand was beautiful & i wouldn't mind having to travel there again in the future. the 'land of smiles' lived up to its name and was probably the best 'spring break in the fall' i've ever had!!

 all the Thais make this gesture. not sure if it means hi/bye/respect...