Monday, August 28, 2006 @ 10:08 AM
hello everybody! I am blogging about life in New York! NY is so fun! There's always things to do! I've been here for exactly one week and we've had splendid orientation! There aren't OGs, or OGLs..we do everything sort of as a whole big group of freshies, and if we have competitions, it's by floors (so your entire floor in your dorm is your group). There are 2 RAs (Resident Assistants) per floor and they are the people you go to when you have any qns (sort of like an OGL lah). My 2 RAs are the coolest people around! HAHA! every floor has a theme, and ours is the 'Models floor'. When you step out of the lift, there's this big poster with lots of ads of big brands like Gucci, Prada, CK etc with models on it..and somewhere on the poster it says '2006's hottest fashion designers' followed by all the names of the people on our floor! COOL HUH?? and outside each of our doors, they put up one ad with our names on it..my room's brand is BCBG..HAHAHA! one of our RAs is gay (and proud of it but he's really nice!) and he decided that NY is like fashion heaven so our floor must be the models floor..
Orientation has been really fun..we went on a free cruise with free FOOD along the river, and passed by the statue of liberty at night! it was nice! but my friend said it's nicer in the day when you can see the scenery around it..on our first night, we had an ice-cream social in the lounge of our dorm, with a special performance by some jazz students who call themselves the Sliq Soul brothers and they're really really really good! I was so impressed! the brass players beat Singapore brass players hands down man! there were people dancing and eating ice-cream! haha! 2 nights ago it was Movie Night and they played MI3 in the lounge and tonight its Movie Night again! this time its V for Vendetta...we had a scavenger hunt which took us all over NY today..and my floor won! yay! the gay RA told us 'i'm like really competitive, and i want to win!' he made us like run to all the destinations! ZZZ last night we went for a local restaurant tour, where they brought us to see all the good food around our area, and we finally ate at this Italian restaurant and food was quite good! we've also been to see the Lion King and Stomp, and tomoro we're going to this jazz club in Soho (i think) called the Village Vanguard and supposedly many students go there..but i think i won't go cos its quite late...other than that, we've had meetings and stuff and placement tests! bleaugh..i have like 3 placement tests tomoro..so retarded..i wanna test out of those, then i can do other courses..like learn FRENCH! haha!
the people here are very nice and friendly too..but like Wai May said, i don't want to make too many casual acquaintances...I have made some friends who i think will be close friends though..my 2 closest friends (one is my rommate) here are christians and that's such a blessing! we go church-hopping together till we've found a nice one which we like..we went to this church today and it was so solemn! and the pastor was very boring =pp haha he was speaking in a monotone and not really focusing on the topic..i was like falling asleep and i felt so bad for sleeping in front of him =S
lastly, SHOPPING! the shopping here is WOWOWOWOWOWOW! there are of course superduper high end stuff along 5th Avenue, but sometimes some places have discount racks because they want to bring in the new designs, and these discounted items are really discounted! and if you go into shopping centres like Macy's (the world's largest department store!) they ALSO have discount racks..like you can get a pair of Cole Haan capris for 30US! they have lots of stuff like that..i can't wait to go visit other good shopping places! food here is expensive though, plus you have to give TIPS! and sometimes the service is not very good so you don't feel like giving them tips but you have to....
ok i have to go now! blog more girls!=) take care and God bless you all!
love, shang
