Hi people who may or may not care about the existence of this blog or rather the existence of everything outside their immediate sphere,

Finally i am pretty much getting into the life at NYC. And as usual i shall not be going into what bloody nitty details of life: rather more opaque observations thru the lens of a coloured individual who has pretty much been there and not done anything.

fast observations:

contrary to what many “expert” kopitiam analysts, not every ang moh woman has breasts the size of two compressed basketball, in fact, if the rack is huge, probably it can be said for the rest of the body.

new yorkers are quite friendly. ask them one questions and they are generally helpful. though it must be said that the blacks are less friendly (usually). The striking thing is that strangers (service staff, bus dude, pizza guy) can relate in the most off-the-cuff manner. they talk a lot of things between them but if you take out the “yeah” “you bet” “absolutely” “pretty much” “you got to be kidding”: phrases of absolute worthlessness, the repartee could have been over in 3 sentences. (stop your goddamn talking!)

the birds and squirrels here seem to have assimilated perfectly into the new york psyche, they are about the most indulgently nonchantlent bunch i have seen. you can walk by the birds and they happily chirp around you about their business (bathing, chit chatting, whatever), with no fear that a mischeivious hand might be lurking around. the squirrels too, they are bold and daring, zipping around, stealing food and kinck knacks.. (in rome, do what the romans do?)

i have no idea how big (as in status) NYU is until i ventured into the NYU library today. it is absolutely tamadely magni-fucking-cent. the thought that went into the design has to be bloody forward. And you know that your school is something when her library is as big as the singapore national library.

trains here are crappy, dirty but incredibly efficient. they are on time, complete and the trains are usually not full. SMRT?

totally love skype, they have this unlimited call home plan for 6usd/mth, i can call anyone in sg (mobile or land line) for, technically, 10,000mins per month. and since NYU is completely drenched in wireless network, calling home has never been so easy. thanks cs.

will like to finally watch some american tv (damn my temporary but very nice landlord) as my place is tv-less at the moment.

soon…