Drowing in homework today.. now I knew more about John Stuart Mills and Aristotle than I ever did in my life... haiz... Help!

...Exactly one week since my arrival in Philly...

What I have done so far:

1. Attend my classes
2. Took photos at City Hall
3. Gymmed at Upenn!
4. Cook... eggs with onions, eggs with tomatoes, Spaghetti!
5. Shopped at factory outlets and bought Gap, Coach, Guess, Nine west at unbelievable prices!
6. Washed and cleaned the toilet
7. Unpacked my luggage
8. Seen Snow!
9. Grocery shopped at Kmart, theFreshGrocer, China town shops
10. Called home free
11. Spent 500 usd already
12. Got a phoneline with 333 incoming and outgoing mins
13. Ate Dim Sum buffet
14. Travelled to the other state New Jersey
15. Had diarrhoea again but luckily just once
16. Got irritated by someone
17. Late for school cos' I got lost in School... Upenn is huge!
18. Opened two bank accounts at PNC and Commerce
19. Obtained my Upenn card and ID

yeah and list goes on hhaha... shall put photos on my blog when I'm more settled in this house since there are so much readings for the two modules I take: Engineering Entrepreneurship and Ethics and professional responsibilities for engineers! both require me to write essays after essays... haiz... used to dun mind writing but engineering modules had really make me into a number crunching and formula wrenching person... anyway, shall slog it out on sunday.. =( wanted to go new york on Sat but decided against it, in the face of so many sch and stuff to do... going Ikea instead to get household stuff =]

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...