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Currently in New York! Last day here after spending a week here chilling around, getting fat from awesome muffins and visiting companies. It has been a number of days so I shall just give a brief recap. Exams ended on 19th April in the morning. Rushed to do my ID and clear some administrative maters such as changing foreign currency and meeting up with old friends. Had a good time walking around with JX, which was followed by a karaoke session with some people in Flare. Mainly a mess of packing and worrying about all the little things such as my court shoes and attire. I must admit that I was superbly excited about the trip and really lookig forward to it. The days passed by in a blur, and on 21st April, I woke up wondering what I would have to pay for being able to go to New York on such a fantastic programme. And boy is the price high...

Parents took half a day off to have breakfast with me and send me to the airport, something which I really appreciate. Had a nice breakfast with loads of kaya, yes I adore kaya, and just took it slow. They drove me to the airport, and met Kaen and SD there! Thank you guys for showing up! I love you! And I miss you loads... How will I survive another two weeks without seeing you guys? Sigh, too reliant on you guys. Queued to check in, went in, took some more kaya bread, boarded the airplane and I was on my way to Taiwan's Tayuan to transit. A short 4hour flight and I managed to get about an hour of sleep. By Eva Air and it was pretty decent? The flight stewardess was really pretty, and they had this really annoying high pitched and fake-girly voice? Nice service in the very typical Taiwanese girl style though I must admit? So I arrived in Taiwan feeling really energetic and happy... And then there was the second leg of the flight to Newark.

Oh my goodness it was awful. Cold, unable to fall asleep due to this annoying Taiwanese woman who kept the light on to write random stuff and the space was too cramped for me to have sufficient leg room. Did I mention that there was an irritating Taiwanese woman on the flight who kept the light on throughout the flight? I happen to be very sensitive to light so I could not sleep at all. Wanted to slap her. With my shoe. Or something else hard and hopefully made of metal. Like a hammer. So I clocked about 2hours of sleep on a 14hour flight. Crazy torturous expereince that I never want to replicate again. Anyway we arrived in Newark at about 9pm, my prof had some drama with customs in Newark, which is a joke as he was based in USA for about 10 years? In the end we made it through, took a chartered shuttle to the hostel and unpacked, went for some supper nextdoor at the deli, and went to bed. And that is Day1.

Had a really good sleep as I was superbly tired (hello 4hours of sleep ONLY?) and woke up when the sun was nice and up at 730am. To think positively, the lack of sleep made me non jetlagged? Because I was so exhausted from the lack of sleep? Hopefully the flight to taiwan won't be as painful and I won't have too bad a case of jetlag. I really want to go around in Taiwan. Anyway I will not go into the nitty gritty details of what I did as there are really too many things to type? Just that in the first free and easy 3 days, we went to Stanten Island, took photos at the Brooklyn Bridge, explored Times Square (as my hostel is just off Times Square), went to the Metroplitian Museum, Coney Island... Its about there? If you want details, go ahead and ask me, I will tell you everything and all the drama that surfaced. A lot of things, tried a lot of food and just had a good time seeing the different things in the city. New York is a place that is rather different from Singapore? Like obviously? HAHA. Took the subway everywhere, which is a pretty fun? You get to see the 'normal' people in New York, you get to learn a different system, you get to be 'one' of the crowd. There were a lot of buskers in the Subway and I assure you its totally different from home. The buskers are super good and super talented. Not always my thing, but I can definitely appreciate talent when I see and hear it.

The first three days were a blur of acclimatising and exploring and wandering. Good, but there were things that had started to crop up, and many things would just degenerate over the next few days. Lull before the storm that isn't really a lull nor a storm, if you get what I mean?

Okies, I need to go to bed. Need to wake super early tomorrow and the freezing night weather is making me most uncomfortable. Goodnight!

"With you, things would be infinitely better."