Cornell

Ok, this is my new blog.

Well after a 5 hr drive through customs from Toronto to Ithaca, NY I finally made it to Cornell University. It was pretty harrowing at Customs, i had almost every stereotypical customs issue, a Mexican, an Iranian and some out of status Japanese VISA student in the examination room with me.

The Ithaca speeding and parking rules are extremely confusing, apparently u need a degree to know how to park here. Cornell University itself is quite beautiful and very modern. Yet, I would assume so considering the amount of money ppl (including myself) spend to come here.

Wowthe kids sure are rich here, lotta rich kids, sporting nice cars. Enough said.

Damn, since lotta forests around, crazy bugs here too :( There's these 2 HUGE spiders in my house, sooo scary :( Omg, ridiculous, they are almost the size of the outdoor TW spiders. Ridiculously huge. I promplty scared one of em away using some Windex, but i had to go out to the convenience store and buy some RAID, which cost $6.15~!!! ya, $6.15 for a bottle of RAID, and thats U.S. dollars too, insane, talk about insane markup, but I guess if u need it, u need it :(

Dang.... well i;m posting this blog from Carpenter library, because too scary to go home, nice they dont close till 2 a.m. :)

Moving into my apartment was strenuous, no internet and the place was a bit messy at least the floor. I bought a mop, but it broke in a few minutes after use, which sucked, cause i didnt get a chance to mop and clean my bedroom. Luckily the fridge is big cause I stockpiled a ton of food, I got a gas stove which is neat because I've never used a gas stove before, it cooks food really quickly so you dont need to spend so much time waiting for the stove to warm up.

I signed up for Internet through a local Bestbuy store, but i've had so much headaches, from TimeWarner RoadRunner(the internet company) not having any record of the order to them not honouring the BestBuy store stated price. Not sure what to do now, I just been calling BestBuy customer service who are working on it with the TimeWarner ppl. I must say its absolutely ridiculous customer service, the local BestBuy store couldnt help me out either and were totally useless.

Hopefully I get internet soon, as its a must for my classes.

Regards,

p.s. classes seem like a blast so far, but seems pretty hard, tons of intense readings and only had 1 class so far.

Byebye Taiwan

Sorry for not updating sooner, but last week I left Taiwan, perhaps permanently, not sure yet, but nevertheless, I am now at Cornell.

Plz check my other blog.

Intense heat, beautiful beaches and disgusting roaches

OMG, what a crazy weekend. The cockroaches are out in full force in July/August. I actually found one in the bathroom, MY bathroom :'( This roach was smart, after I went to get the RAID and came back, he was gone, couldnt find him anywhere, although he was previously right on the counter wall next to my toothbrush and shaver. After carefully removing everything serially, I finally found him hiding UNDER my shaver , the empty pocket area where my blades reside. Amazing, he found such a clever hiding spot, really, these are some fairly intelligent creatures. I noted that while I took him down in a hideous gas of chem warfare. Unfortunately this necessitated me to throw out everything in da bathroom and buy new stuff. New toothbrush, new tooth paste, new shaver DEFENITELY, etc. Unfortunately, I had a severe headache from breathing the fumes from an entire can of RAID and than bleach from cleaning the pesticide from my bathroom. Also surprised sometimes how these critters even get into my house, its literally locked down airtight, although I think they may come out of the drain or even from under the door where in lies some small cracks.

Spend all of yesterday (Monday) outdoors at the beach, it was incredible, FRESH CLEAN AIR!! wow....I also saw ocean roaches, they are a fairly different species from the normal roach as they live on the beach, but nevertheless an ugly bug. What made the beach so special was that it was completely empty, taking a day off work I lose 1 vacation day, having a clean beach to myself is literally PRICELESS. Especially considering how crowded Taiwan is.

The heat is really intense now, from 7 am to 6 p.m. its not really feasible to travel outside as the sun will scorch u.