so here i am, in ADR class, where the lecturer is rambling on endlessly about nothing at all, and i'm trying to find interesting things to do online (like download anime since my freaking connection back home, while fast, is also annoyingly limited to 60 or 90gb a month) and researching for my env law essay (yes i'm actually trying to start work early for once!)

maybe it's also cos the essay topic i chose seems reasonably interesting. anyways, quick update on kingston, 1smu, 7ntus, and 2 singaporeans studying here this sem, so one would assume life would be more entertaining. but then i'm antisocial. so save for a trip to montreal with 4 of the girls and a trip to whiteface (snowboarding!) with the 2 guys studying here, i don't hang out (cos is poor). that and the fact that nobody seems willing to skip sch to travel, and nobody wants to come by kingston en route to wherever else to travel. so that means no nyc this weekend. yawns. at least it gives me time to write my essays. in total. complete. boredom.

so yes, watch this space for more updates. i sense photos of my cooking and lake ontario snowed in turning up soon.

so before i forget, and because i have ABSOLUTELY no idea what my human rights lecturer is talking about (some bona fide vague references to discrimination), i will update, with comments and random photos.

since the last time i posted, i have watched a total of 8 broadways, flown to halifax (nova scotia), and clocked approximately 2500km in 3 days driving around the coast of nova scotia (HAH to australia's ocean drive, i'm coming for you next!).

then montreal revisited in winter, where i nearly froze to death snapping shots of snowfall, and then climbed mont royal in the evening to catch a sunset and look for a cross.

and in more recent news, whiteface mountain in lake placid to try my hand at half killing myself at snowboarding

NYC again next week, i seriously doubt there'll be many photos this time round though. till next time!

it seems a lot of my time in new york has been spent waiting and queuing. queuing for bus tickets, stuck in new york jams, waiting for a seat in serendipity, getting stuck in times square on new year's eve, queuing for tkts and broadway lotteries, waiting for friends... you get the idea.

so one wonders, is the 2-3hr wait into serendipity really worth all that chocolate? or the 10 lottery tries waiting for that ticket in the cold only to end up with nothing, or maybe one ticket in the end if you're lucky? okay i wasn't bored enough to try out the times square on new year's eve part, beyond popping my head into the crowd at around 8pm to check it out, then running home to hide, but still..

but then i suppose this is all part of the new york experience, especially around this time of year, and with broadway, getting a US$25 ticket when the guy behind you paid around US$100 is kinda satisfying. not to mention being able to see all the actors up close (okay the spit spewing out of the mouth when they sing is disturbing, as is the thick makeup and the wiglines, but the feeling when they come out to take their bows and are less than 5m away is just intense)

so the rest of you can come to new york, do your touristy stuff and see all your tv series locales (friends, seinfield, even gossip girl). me, i'll stick to my broadway queues. on a side note, i don't believe i've ever been so happy to hear someone mangling up my name so badly (the guy from the wicked lottery today)

happy new year everyone!