June Holiday!!

This blog has been dormant since the horrible Mercy Relief narcissism/paranoia incident, more because of psychological trauma dealt to me than any real fear of future discovery. However, after I friendslocked this blog and after the wonderfully therapeutic June Hols, the wounds on my soul have scabbed over enough for me to resume picking at them. Besides this, a good friend of mine also expressed interest in this blog, and since I told her that I would resume in Term 3, well, here I am.

The June holidays were a splendid time for me. Firstly, I took the SMO Senior and Open sections, and found them fun. Unfortunately, my spirits were dampened by the fact that so many other people had answered more questions than me in the Senior 1st round ( I only answered 17, and probably got 16 right ). Naturally, my everpresent self-confidence caused my spirits to swiftly rebound, which was just as well, really, since just 5 days after the SMO, I was to suffer an ordeal of epic proportions.

DUN-DUN-DUNNNNN

A 27 hour plane flight! In economy class! On united airways ( which has no individual tvs )!

Well, no, not 27 hours all at once. First we flew to Hong Kong (7-8hrs), then to Chicago (12-13hrs), then finally to Boston (2~hrs). Whats that I hear you cry? 8 + 13 + 2 = 23, not 27? Well, of course I had to wait during transit. Speaking of waiting, Chicago's O'Hare airport really made us wait. We would've missed the next flight waiting in the immigrations line had there not been a crazy freak tailwind of 160km/h (like one sixth of the plane's supposed cruising speed) that shaved like 2 hours off our HK Chicago flight.

Well, when we landed in Boston, my family and I had a great surprise. The weather there was just like Singapore, albeit with slightly colder air. The familiar sun, the familiar humidity, the familiar friendliness of the locals... No, wait, sorry. Bostonians are far friendlier than Singaporeans.

Wait, I better back up a bit. My family was in the US of A in order to:

1. Visit several top US Universities (In chronological order, Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Caltech.)

2. Visit relatives we haven't seen in 8 years.

Well, in and around Boston and Cambridge we saw Harvard, MIT, and BU.

To be continued on thursday~~~~~~~~~