day five



pic: yale aki school's temporary building while the actual school is under renovation.

yesterday i went to sit in cheng's aki theory lecture after a brunch of eggs benedict then when he went off to class i went to walk about yale by myself. i ended up just browsing in the shops, mainly urban outfitters and jcrew and the other miscellaneous boutiques along broadway and chapel street, for two and a half hours. i can be in student mode anytime. i really enjoyed the one and a half hours lecture about 'character' and 'type'. i bought annie dillard's 'pilgrim at tinker creek' book at the yale barnes and nobles bookshop but i'll return it when i get back to nyc because i realised that chin ee has it in albany so i can read it. the weather was very nice for walking - i didn't have to bundle up and just went around in one layer - i guess that was because i was mainly in the shops. sometimes i run my fingers along the old stone walls and marvel at the ancient-ness of the places - and the sharp yellow of the sun piercing through the picturesque foliage makes everything look like a rousseau painting. rousseau for the countryside - and nyc feels like an edward hopper painting.

at four thirty i went back to rest and got a call saying chin ee was in albany at five. so we all went for a nice dinner at a small nearby restaurant - ee jie and i shared grilled ahi tuna with herb sauce and clam chowder and cheng had a burger - and we walked to buy some groceries before we headed off in the car. it was a long three hour drive back to albany from new haven - we got lost a bit but asked for directions at the petrol station along the way. finally arrived home at about eleven. ee jie stays in an upstairs apartment of a two storey house - there is a direct stairs going up so she doesn't have to pass through the front door of the first storey. her pad is very comfortable and spacious for the both of us.

i spoke to mingyao via skpe in the morning. yay! can't wait to walk the streets of nyc with him - the Moma and the Met too. later i'm going to cook lunch and ee jie will come home from school to eat. i'll probably head out with her to take a look around albany while she goes off for classes at four.

she's got lotsa books and stuff to watch when i laze about the house. but i won't laze for very much. i hope to take a run sometime later in the afternoon. and we'll be headed off to quebec tomorrow morning with her friend tish and tish's cousin who's arriving from singapore today. it will be really wonderful to see quebec in the fall. the last time wynnie and i went it was beautiful but too cold to stay for long. a little bit of the county is nice for the trip - afterall mingyao and i will be in the city for two weeks when he arrives - which i don't mind cos i think i'm really a city girl at heart anyways. uniqlo and the other shops await me in nyc.

update: ee jie is back. she's cooking lunch instead. i'm going to do my laundry