Our first dinner tog!

My first dish in Philly-- Egg with onions!!

Hey all! Yup, I'm finally in Philadelphia, Philly for short... it's freezing cold, like 4 degrees and below all the time... It's like only my 3rd day here but I've been to quite a few places like Macy's, City Hall, Upenn itself and those places on Chestnut and Walnut street... Philly isn't what you call a tourist attraction I guess since the university city where I live pretty much centres around the Universities-- Upenn, Drexel and Temple University. Only been to the centre city once and did some shopping, mostly groceries I guess. We had hell of a time trying to shop for food and household stuff, one thing cos we dunno where to begin and the other, the stuff are damn heavy to lug around! Tried to shop for groceries and shop at the same time yest and it was so damn tiring la.. hahah I've been to VS and Nine west and those branded shops but I can't say it's really that cheap... I need a trip down to the warehouse man! to satisfy my shopping craves!

oh, just some advice for those going US:
-Use pfingo.com to call anyone for free back home! it's free for the first 3 months and really cool... no lagging and stuff, but the voice sounds a bit funny though
-weather.com for the weather forecasts anywhere...

Yea... other than that i'm really a newbie in US.. still feeling my way around... I jus hope it will snow soon and everywhere gonna be cover in a lovely white!! hate the freezing feeling in my fingers though =( the piercingly cold wind man... damn sian... hahah guess pictures speak a thousand words so here are the stuff!

Photos of City Hall in Philly

The interior

Within the four walls of City Hall

The exterior

I'm here at Chinatown! Home away from home...

There is foodcourt over there! surprising man..but the food they serve are all western food haha sianz

You can get neutrogena from a vending machine!

Me posing in front of the beautiful paintings along the path to our transit lounge

weiwei and I at the airport of Minneapolis St paul airport

Happy belated Hari Raya Haji, Belated Merry Xmas and Happy New Year! It's been a long time since I blogged but so many things had happened, good or bad...of course the good one is my results, having achieved second upper finally. hope it's to stay, now that I officially have a year of school left in Singapore. But I won't worry about results for a year, cos I'll be going Upenn Wharton school of Business to study for a year! yea! The sad thing about? I gonna miss my family, Zj and my friends so much... And I've been really touched by the things they've done for me recently. Like my uncles and aunt who gave me money and my jc friends who are so eager to organise a get-together b4 I go. And not forgetting Zj who whipped up a sumptuous lunch and wowed m with a diamond necklace (however small the carat)

Yea, and almost everything has worked out well in the end for me, for that I am really very grateful. Like the DS documents that arrive just in time before the christmas break, how my parents suddenly had enough money to tide me over the 1st month in US. I'm so lucky! Yea and I gonna leave on 12 Jan 0600..


Maybe the not so nice part is that I had to work. I wouldn't say it is tough approaching people to buy the products but try asking at least 50 a day before you get like 3 to demonstrate your product to and finally left with 1 who is interested to buy your product. It's damn tiring... of course miracles do happen, like the aunt who bought 600 plus for her nieces and the grandma who bought 1340 plus for her grandchildren... these children are so blessed!
After this gruelling week at suntec, I proceed on to work at Tangs... It's not that tiring in comparison and I finally hit my sales target-- first ever in Tangs haha... yea but I'm afraid I'll spend more than I earned yesterday at Isetan sale later... Watch out for more Updates!