Planet Shakers - Burn

Well it's been more than a month since I've blogged. It's partly cuz I've been busy lately, and when I'm not busy I wasn't in the mood to blog, or I was too tired. Excuses you might say, but yea, I don't blog unless I REALLY feel like it.

For those of you who are still 'ketinggalan', I'm back in Cauliflowernia (as the Governator pronounces it), and moved in to my dorm in UC Berkeley. One thing I can say is, that I LOOOOOVE my dorm, and I LOOOOOOOOOOVEEEE the UCB campus even more! Of course, I love my darling Julia the most and I miss her everyday =( Kinda hard to have spent one and a half months together with someone you love and then having to part again for another few months.

Well my dorm's called Bowles Hall. It's an all-male dorm, up on a hill, and definitely a sight for Harry Potter enthusiasts. Also known as the 'castle', from the outside it looks like, well, a castle. Or as some people say, Hogwarts. Bowles is also the first residence hall to be built in UCB, around the 1880s I think. Next to Bowles is a hockey field, and the football stadium. The hockey field's visible from my room window (free views of games) but the stadium walls' pretty high and, unfortunately, no free 'tix' to football games :P Another reason I love my dorm is the view. Yea, situated on a hill, and you can see downtown San Francisco in the distance. The Bay bridge is visible too (provided there's no fog) though the Golden Gate Bridge's blocked off. My dorm, seriously, rocks :P

Classes began Monday, and so far, it's pretty okay I can say. Well, it's only the first week. Though from my Geo class and my CS classes I can tell that the next few weeks, and months, will be hell. Welcome to UC Berkeley =\ I'm taking Econ 1(Intro to Economics), CS61A (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs), CS61C (Machine Structures), GEO 10 (World Regional Geography). What sucks is that I'm still on the waiting list for my Geography class. I really do hope I get into the class because I already bought 2 readers for that class, that cost total 90 bucks. I still have yet to get the Geography textbook, which will cost another 100 bucks. If you're thinking books are expensive here, well, maybe expensive's an understatement. I've spent about 350$ on books(excluding Geo and Econs textbook, both which I havent bought yet). If I do get into Geo 10, I'll very very likely drop my Econs class, since I don't really need to take that class.

As far as my social life goes, I've made quite a lot of friends. My dorm unit-mates have been pretty good. Currently I'm in the Christians on Campus group, and also the ABSK (Asian Baptist Student Koinonia). Then this Saturday there'll be a SMSA (Singaporean Malaysian Student Association) welcome dinner/social event which I'll probably attend. There's also a UCB Rotaract, which I wanna join, but have yet to gathered info on. Well, hopefully as the semester progresses I'll have time for all these extra-curricular activities. Speaking of which, tomorow the Christians on Campus's having a welcome night dinner/social at 7pm, and the ABSK's having one tomorow too at 7.30pm. Grrrrrrrr why have both of them be on the same day??? I'll probably go for the ABSK one though, but I might decide otherwise 5 minutes before 7pm :P

As for other things, well, there's not much off the top of my head that I wanna blog about, other than I miss my angel. =( And everytime I'm online she's not, and when I'm sleeping or in classes, she'll message me and I wont be able to reply and when I get back online I feel bad cuz I didn't reply and wasn't there when she wanted to talk =\ Time zone differences suck. *Sigh* It's not like there's anything much I can do about it, and well she doesn't have her own PC yet so it's kinda hard for her to get online too. So many times and moments during the past 1.5 months when I was back, both good and bad, that I reflect and remember everyday, and I realize how I miss having her physically close by my side, going through ups and downs together. I love you baby. =x

Arghhhhhh I can feel my sanity drifting apart. And I'd better go read up on tomorow's CS61C Lab.

Until I get the mood to blog again, I bid adieu.