Thursday, September 14, 2006
I PASSED ALL OF THEM..
(*note: passing mark is 70)
big deal hor...
;P
well...
i got
77 for applied semiotics (pass is pass okie...)
88 for intercultural comms
91 for spanish (haha..i also cant believe... :P)
And… *drum roll*
100 for international nego..(yes its upon 100...but then it was a group report..haha..)
okie lah not to bad for the 1st test..
now can justify slacking off...
haha
:P
anyway, this wk was quite slack...getting results...checking results...not much
homework (yay!!).
spent most of the time planning with debz our trip to guadalajara for mexico
independence wkend.. :D
besides that, we had Alfonso and his family over for dinner.
debz prepared fried rice, stir fried beef, teriyaki chicken, stir fried veg and sayar lode (its prob spelt wrongly...adi help!.. :P)
well, the family (Iris-Alfonso's wife, Pricilla-daughter, and Luiz-nephew) seemed to like the food, espcially mom's chilli... :P
(was quite interesting to see Alfonso's OVER-reaction when he ate the sambal...haha..he quite the actor... :P)
after dinner, we were talking abit...and i pester...erm...persuaded Alfonso to teach me some mexcian songs...e.g. the song he used to woo Iris...hehe..
(really didnt take much effort on my part...he quite the showman... ;P).
must say i was impressed...(of course i couldnt understand what he was singing most of the time but still... :P)
after Afonso, it was Pricilla's turn to perform for us..(background info: Pricilla is studying music, majoring in classical guitar...only cos the school didnt have electric guitar! also she is currently in 2 bands, 1 performing in mexico and the other (a 3-piece all-girl band called that includes her sister) doing the club/pub circuit in texes,US... power sia.. haha :D)
anyway, after a few classical pieces, she performed some of the stuff she does in her bands...
(fyi, her bands do really heavy stuff....lets just say they consider light!!!!...hahah certainly non-jetlaxx stuff..hahah :P). i was blown away... didnt know classical guitar can sound like that..hahah
well, after that i must admit that i was torn between feeling quite lousy cos my guitar so 'lan' (as debz put it "you got owned"....think she watching too much american tv liao...haha :P) and feeling motivated to practise harder....
will let talk abt it when i decide... :P
haha
anyway, we got invited to their place for lunch the following sunday (yay! more mexican hospitality..and food..hehe :D )
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met a missionary on tues...
interesting fellow...
cant really say much except that his ministry is with the students here...
just thot i'd mention him so that ppl can pray for the work done here
:D
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Now, HIGHLIGHT OF THE WK!!!
this sun we went to GUDALAJARA for independence wkend!
it was fantastic...
the weather was great...
the ppl nice..
and the attractions brilliant!
:D
1st up we went on a tour to the town of tequila (yes...this is the birthplace of the alcohol used in making many a margaritas) to see the process of how tequila is made...
really interesting tour...
enjoyed it lots even though i dont really drink the stuff...(but i did try a shot that was 55% alcohol!! all i can say is that it was damn power!!! it evaporated even before it reached my stomach...haha)
after the tour (which took place from 930 in the morning till abt 6pm) we went back to the hostel/hotel/inn freshen up. at 7pm we went walking in the downtown area and joined the festivities as the ppl waited for the customary shouting (otherwise know as "los gritos")
it was really a sight to behold as the entire town square was turned into a pasar malam!
haha...
nice
:D
so debz and i went walking and shopping and bought a few suvinors and stuff...
unfortunately the photos taken that night are unavilable....
debz camera got stolen.... :(
yah...it was stolen in a town called
:(
thankfully there is nothing a bout of retail therapy cant help...(at least for girls lah...i still prefer to spend my day playing RPGs and Winning 11...haha :P)...and that was exactly what we did the next day (shopping lah...not winning 11...).
we went to a town called
:D
well, i did most of my souvenir shopping there...
so that settles that...
(now can concentrate on enjoying myself... hahaha...like i wasnt already doing that... :P)
debz bought lots of stuff too...infact we bought so much stuff in gudalajara that we couldnt squeeze everything into our bags… (although it must be said that we were using only our carry on bags… not check in luggage… :P)
in the end we packed what we could into the bags and the rest we placed in plastic bags and attempted to just calmly bring it on board with us… (we had 2 carry on pieces + 2 big plastic bags!...:P)
guess what....
we got thru!
Whoohoo!!!
Haha....try doing that on SIA and see what happen....
:P
its the 1st time I been allowed to bring so many things as carry on...
then I realised the locals got even more
piangz....even saw one carry stereo box on board..
(chey..and here I thot it was my charm that got my stuff onboard..turns out the airlines here arent that strict abt such thing...bah)
oh well....
at least we got back safe and sound.
:D
Talk to me people!
