Went to Chicago over the weekend. The trip was really a blast. million of thanx to kelvin for taking me there and slept in the car with me. MUAHAH... the two of us just wonder around the streets of chicago. ate some really good deep dish pizza from the famous Uno and had dim sum in chinatown for breakfast. Chicago is amazing. really. love the architecture. it was really cold on saturday nite. the coldest nite so far since fall (or should i say winter?!) but i was so busy and awed by the things around me that i really dun feel tat cold. yes. it was that good. esp after all the shit i had before the trip. spent alot of money. but it was worth it.
actually we had the car since friday afternoon. but kelvin's computer screw up on him (us) and he had to retype his paper again. so friday was spent with me driving around. yesh... my first driving lesson. lotsa stuns, lotsa sweat but nth is broken except some macro breaks in the neck area due to horrible brakings from yours truly. MUAHAH... but it was good. drove for like 4-5 hours? it was good... hope to get the chance to drive more. we'll see.
so other than the driving lessons on friday, we oso went to makan around. went to zingerman's for sandwich. i tell you. the place serve fantastic food. can't help but keep thinking how much my mom is gonna love this place. freshly baked cake and break. loaves and loaves of them just stack behind the counter. it was heavenly. ordered a eggplant cheese sandwich. totally yummy. the bread tat was used is really good. not some mass produced stuff. or maybe it is to some extend but it was good, very satisfied with the 10 dollar odd spent on it. and i oso bought a cake. sourcream coffee cake for 10 bucks. it is good. love the way the cake is baked. and the combi of taste is marvellous. i think it was the best ang mo food experience i've had in recent times. yeah... i think the dinner with jeff at palio's was kinda crappy as compare to this had we not ordered tat saute mushroom dish. my lagsania was just terribly not worth the 13 bucks.
for dinner we went to this Thai restaurant. ok. cute and sweet thai waitress is serving you meal is always a plus and makes the dish good. again spent about 10 bucks on the dinner. kelvin insisted on eating vegetarian with me. think he kinda regret it. coz the tofu we ordered is really tofu. and tat's it. got sauce and stuff which was pretty nicely done, but i think we paid for like 3 cubes of tofu tat is cute into slices for 10 bucks... dun think it is worth leh... but yeah... cute sweet thai waitress... heehee
ok... i am trying my best to sound relax and stuff but to tell you the truth, i ain't. was in such high spirit when i reached ann arbor. totally fresh and stuff. but after the nice dinner with tien huei, i got back to my room and the first thing i heard was that two malaysian girls were killed a few moments ago. Teh and Nanim. met both before and chatted with one of them oso. They are good friend of farrah and other malaysian girls. hmm... it is neva good when something bad happen to ppl you noe. i am just troubled and sadden by this whole affair. yeah, i dun noe these two girls. but hearing Deera's totally troubled voice when i was trying to find out what happened and imaging Farrah in the situation of havin to identify both body is just... too emotionally disturbing is probably the way to describe it. I mean even though at times like these we can seek comfort from the religious pt of view in tat they pass away during the month of Ramadan and somemore it was right after their break fast prayers. so they probably pass away in the best possible way and oso since it was instant death coz the lorry hit them full impact. but still, you can feel sad and feel that perhaps it is just a little too early for them? that perhaps their presence in this world is needed just a little longer? and perhaps it could have been in a different way? rationality tells us that death is inevitable and it comes one day. but still... the girls are loved and will definitely be missed. we are humans after all. really dun dare to go over to Baits I and see the guys n gers. i was on an emotional stirred high after the trip and i knew that if i see the gerz like farrah and ayun, the emotion is going all the way to the opposite end and i will have difficulty restraining it. no, i dun think i need to let the girls see it when they are not having it easy and i probably shouldn't be displaying so much emotion over it. get wat i mean? probably should be like everyone else tat dunnoe the girls personally so i should just display "normal" level of sorrow since someone passed away. but me, being way too freaking emotional for anyone to understand, and already emotionally stirred... dun intend to find out wat silly things i could have done had i not stopped myself (actually it was the -11 deg temp outside tat paused me on my way of running to Baits I in my tshirt and shorts...) from going over last nite. will go over tonite and see what i can help with. the malay malaysians are pretty close, must all be pretty sad and overcomed to sort things out. hopefully i am a little more cleaer headed and give a hand in whicheva way i possibly can. Al Fatihah. may their soul rest in peace and find happiness in where they may be right now.
posted by David at 11/10/2003 05:14:00 PM