a short summary of an eventful 2 weeks

The past 2 weeks have been kinda crazy. I'm just going to write briefly about what happened, with more detailed updates to come as and when i find the time to post photos up here. I still have to upload photos on facebook, and the backlog stretches to about 3 weeks back.

Ok so far, we've been to the White Mountains Range, which is actually in New Hampshire. I was the one driving this time round, and lets just say its not pleasant to drive for 7 hours in total in a car that accelerates like a toyota, handles like a nissan, and has an uncomfortable seating position. What about the Range then? its kinda pretty seeing the foilage, but i guess the girls were more excited than the guys. As Kox said "Pretty gets boring real quickly". At some point we almost wanted to abandon the girls for taking a photo with another tree with yellow leaves for the umpteenth time.

I've also been to Harvard, and specifically its law school. The architecture is really very pretty, which is a huge contrast with BU's brutalist style of architechture. The only complaint would be that the campus is so spread out, that it must be a bitch to walk to classes in winter.

We had a BU LLM gathering at some seafood place, where we all had lobsters. the lobsters were real good, and i developed a massive craving for clam "chowdah" after that. However, clam chowder is definitely something you wouldn't want to cook yourself. A mere glance at the receipe and you would be horrified as to the amount of fat that goes into it. As they always say, ignorance is bliss. And while we left the gathering bringing with us a sense of satisfaction, some of us brought home more stuff than others - specifically Kox brought home rashes in his mouth from having an allergy to lobsters, one which he didnt know he had until that day.

With Halloween approaching, we decided to head down to the town of Salem last weekend. For those who didn't already know, Salem is famous (or rather, infamous) for the witch trials of 1692, where 100 over people were accused of being witches and about 20 were later sentenced to hang. The whole town now gives off a commercialised spooky and campy vibe, and you need to buy into the campiness in order to enjoy yourself. The amazing thing about Salem is that lots of people will play dressup and nobody will give a 2nd glance at them, as if they had dressed like that their whole lives.

And of course, Halloween isnt complete with a halloween party, and the one organised by the SGA rocked! It was amazing how the Americans really put effort into making their costumes, and I heard of people spending hundreds of dollars buying them. I think its a waste of money, seeing how you wear them only once a year, but then i guess thats part of the American culture. Another weird thing about Boston clubbing is that the event ended at 2am, and when they say it ends at 2am, it doesnt mean the music goes off at 2am. it means that you have to get out of the club by 2am, and hence the music stopped at around 1.30am. Thats way too early and it didn't helped that most of us were just starting to get into the mood. But thats Boston for you.