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.Sunday, August 12, 2007 ' 9:52 PM Y

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All right! よっしゃ！And so the story goes: I've changed my blog skin. How'd you guys like it? I thought it's pretty nice and sweet. I was going to give up on finding a likeable and suitable blog skin, then I stumbled upon this. Not going to say how this is love at first sight and all those "shiitake" (to borrow the word from Guy Kawasaki) -sidenote: haha, all right, I'm going to use the word "mushroom" from now on; hahaha! Shiitake mushroom! Banzai!- I just thought this skin is pretty reasonable; it's decent. Oh, all right, it's nice. And somehow I felt French-y, and thus all the traces of French you see around here. でもいいですね。Oh, and, I forgot to mention, Japanese.

So, it's the summer holidays. For those of you in Singapore, it's probably when all the hectic schedule starts pouring in like rivers meeting the seas (or oceans, for that matter). It's pretty nostalgic: all those cramming sessions during the end of June holidays, trying to finish all the holiday homework, trying to (pretend to) study for the Term 3 tests (ah! I remember those tests all lined up in Term 3 Week 7, except a few random ones in Week 4 and probably 6 or something like that). Oh well, for those of you experiencing all these hectic-ness, good luck and take care. I have nothing else to offer you except words of condolences (which I refuse to shower you with). Meh! Just kidding.

For those of you enjoying Summer holidays (like me, kind of), YAY! for us! Did you guys go to the beach? Haha, quintessential Summer experience. So far, I think it has rained about 3 days here since end June. So it's pretty much sunny out. Sometimes the breeze is really nice, yet sometimes it's pretty hot, like Singapore, though I doubt it's as scorching and blistering... Hahah. Oh but that day, I think it's Friday actually, yeah I'm pretty sure it's Friday, it was raining and it was so cold out! Like it was fall-winter season. I think it's the whole wind chill thing (we never got wind chill in Singapore -.- even the winds were hot -.-). But in general, いい天気だなぁ！Well, I have been working (yes, I got that Yale internship :D) since end of June officially, but I only really started work in mid-July because my lab person was away on meetings/holidays/whatever and thus the delay in the start. Which kind of enabled me to slack around (even more) in the frat house I am living in (yes, I live in a frat house FOR THE MOMENT) as well as explore the city of New Haven (no, I'm not with the EXPLO kids -it seems the town people don't really like them, well at least there's a Facebook group against them; wow.). But during my stay here at New Haven, I've made new friends and opened up a bit more, or a lot more, depending on how you view this whole perspective. But all's good. So I'm happy (and you should be too, don't ask me why).

It is only recently that I found a few gems in New Haven though. Having a Yale ID is so much fun; seriously, you get discounts from half the stores here (i.e. I went to JCrew and they had this discount off some of their items and I still got further discount - it was amazing; you could imagine how happy I was). Oh and even though the air conditioning isn't on and it's pretty hot in the practice rooms, Hendrie Hall is a pretty amazing place. I love the sense of community I get. While it was quite empty when I was there to play the piano and everything, but as I walk around the place and to go up to the third floor of practice rooms, I went by a few bulletin boards. And there were just so many postings on it: piano competition, glee club news, rental information, etc. It might not seem much, but I feel a sense of community and belonging, that people are willing to help one another out, that people are all friendly to one another, that people are not afraid to ask for help, that people are people, in essense.

Talking about Yale, I haven't even gone for the tour -.- albeit being here for about 2 months already. Oh well, I'll go on Tuesday or something (I hope) -my lab person is in Arizona so I don't have work till Wednesday! Yay!. I love my lab. Not because of the holidays and such, because I assure you, sometimes we work pretty long hours (not 9-5 though haha), although I'm pretty sure my professor will disagree with me on that point.

Oooh! And last month (actually about 2 weeks ago), I went to NYC! To watch CALLE 13 (and go see NYU)! And there, I saw Lindsay Lohan (at CALLE 13's concert, duh, not NYU - By the way sidenote: somebody actually asked where the Olsen twins live during the NYU tour; that was so funny. Oh but apparently MK left NYU or something like that, or both of them did; I don't quite remember; but it seems they are quite "low profile" at NYU, as in not many people actually know where they are at the moment. Haha! Oh and I don't know if it's MK or Ashley, but apparently one of them skipped French class! Haha!)! Hahaha. Not that that should actually make any difference, but... Haha. I have some pictures which I took with my phone (Oh yeah! I got a new phone while I was in Singapore!! - totally excited!!) but somehow after I have uploaded them to Shutterfly.com I can't seem to "right click, save picture to desktop". I mean, some of them are "retrievable" but others are just "un-retrievable"; sorry for the lack of vocabulary. But in any case, yeah. The ones that are "retriveable" aren't that good of a picture, and so I don't think I'll be uploading them here. Oh that reminds me! They were shooting Indiana Jones here, like right in front of the street where I am living. It was pretty amazing: they blocked the roads, changed the road signs, redecorated the street shops and clothed them in the 1960s style, old vintage cars that apparantly were from people's private collections (!!! Must have worth a ton!!!), actors and actresses all donned in the 1960s fashion (the make-up artists were brilliant - their make-up was so flawless: smooth and "glowing" brown (as opposed to being dull) and just simply amazing, it was as if they were fake!)! Seriously! (Haha, Grey's Anatomy) They changed Starbucks to a pub called 20 cents Draft if I don't remember wrongly. They even had these Guiness posters on the windows! It was amazing. Oh except that we the roadtakers have to wait a super long time just to cross the roads or walk the streets. It actually took me about 2 hours to get to my dinner which is just about 2-3 blocks away from where I live. I was so hungry.

Oh, by the way, I cut my hair. Now it looks like Rukia from Bleach/花ざかりの君たちへ's 芦屋瑞稀. Haha, it's pretty amazing.

c'est moiY

Corinna Kasiman
Eighteen
Cheshire, Connecticut
Northampton, Massachusetts

Oh oui, j'adore la France!Y

les choses que je veux:
+?
les classes que je veux prendre:
+Music
+Neuroscience
+Japanese
+French
Smith
:: English
:: Calculus
:: Biology
:: French
:: Ballet
la musique que je veux jouer:
+Mozart Piano Sonata in A Minor
ceux pour qui je veux travailler:
+Ghibli Studio!
+piano? a concert pianist? perhaps? perhaps?
mes intérêts:
+Piano
+Music
+TV dramas
(mainly Japanese and Korean ones)
+Surfing random websites
+identifying puns
(and other literary wits)
+lenguajes (haha!)
+LINGUISTIKOS!
+singing
+囲碁
+storieesss:D
mon veut:
+Finish my play!
+make a Flash video out of my play/story and drawing the scenes and composing the music for them
je veux être comme:
+梅沢由香里 for her 囲碁 awesomeness
+新海元 from "Good Luck" for
remembering himself in spite of
everything
+Vitus from "Vitus" for being a brilliant
genius
+カイ from "ピアノの森”

projets en cours
+Cell Division (Yale Med Ob/Gyn)
06/07~08/07
+Project "Angelic Layer"
on hold
+Play/Story
05/08~current

parler de tout et de reinY

les créditsY

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