Montreal

Some pictures of the fall break trip to Montreal. Twas fun except I don't remember some parts very well because I was running a high fever. Was probably sharing my virus with the Canadians too. A few days ago, I walked around the dorms and realized that they had fliers up that basically asked people with fever>100.2F to stay in their rooms. I was walking around Montreal with 102F.

That's Old Montreal @ Vieux Montreal on a cold, gloomy morning. Our little hostel above a Mexican restaurant was awesome. They probably had one of the best Mariachi bands too.

We put our $40k per year education to good use by wrongly identifying those columns. LOL. doric. ionic.

At Mont Royal. We developed an healthy addiction to the boulangerie. Went there 2 days in a row for lunch. Awesome pastries, coffee and hot chocolate.

What's Montreal without the French restaurants????? First French dinner of the trip.

MMMMmmmm.......poutine. After a long night out. La Banquise. A local Montreal institution. A must.





Another French dinner with lots of cheap wine and Never Have I Ever. Note : F.O.B.s are really good at Never Have I Ever.

The Canadians are more gruesome than skanky when it comes to Halloween. In NYC, it's the other way around.



Awesome view along the way from NYC to Montreal on the 11 hour Amtrak ride.

More awesome view from Montreal back to NYC.



Montreal's so French.

I just ate an entire bag of pop chips - 12g of FAT at 330am. OH GOD!

Uncle Sam

Today, I realized how much I love NYC. O.o. America!

It might as well have been...

The bubonic plague. Yes, whatever I had might as well have been the plague.

Today, I woke up late aka 20 minutes before class because I couldn't sleep last night. Anyway, story starts with me rushing to class, getting there on time but ended up coughing like a mad ass. So, my Chinese teacher asked if I wanted to leave and go back to my room. Nope. I stayed.

Econ class. I went. Coughed. Not too many happy campers.

Thus, I skipped the rest of the day to avoid angry people.

Went to the doctor, she immediately put on a face mask when she saw me. LOL. Good news. She doesn't think I will infect anyone else anymore but she thinks I might have had the flu while in Canada but there's no way of knowing now if it was the regular flu or H1N1.

Thanks to the cough that's still here, I will be sitting for a midterm on Saturday afternoon instead of tomorrow. >.<

Somehow, I don't think this will be the end of the winter-season sickness paranoia because I fell sick right up till January last year. gah. That can't happen because that would mean I won't be able to go to class without scaring people. Oh well.

Don't Play Play!

I made a joke with my swine flu and flu-certified friends last week that it would be so funny if someone fell sick on Friday(first unofficial day of Fall Break). As PCK says, "Don't Play Play". I suei-ed myself. Got real sick on Halloween night when I was in Montreal with no access to cheap doctors (North America has some ridiculously expensive health care for non-insurance payees). I don't remember the last time I ran a fever of 38.8C, close to 102F, coughed my guts out and my throat was super inflamed till you couldn't see much of the two arches at the back of the throat. Being the kiasu kid I was, I decided that I just had to pop tylenol, avoid all forms of alcohol and still troop out for some fun with the gang. I must as well have been drunk because I was so out of it, I couldn't remember much of the night except for the horribly, painful and cold walk from La Banquise in the Montreal cold. Back in NYC, coughed the entire 12 hour train ride back. I think the old couple behind me must have been real scared. Yes, the people in my group were slightly paranoid too. Let's just hope no one else falls sick. Right now, the fever has gone down, leaving Sungai Rajang and a floaty mind and a sore throat. One more day of Fall Break left!

My room is currently a "VISIT AT YOUR OWN RISK" zone.

Random. Canadian Customs, Immigration and Border Protection officers made the American officers look like angels. Yes, they were that mean.

H1N1

And so I thought the peak of the H1N1 paranoia was when I was back home for summer. lol. Seems like this little bugger is starting to make its presence felt on campus. Rumors/news of people confined to their rooms because of the swine or suspected to have the swine. Seems like the school has been generous enough to send personnel carrying green sealed foil bags with food/stuff to their rooms. And Obama, declares a H1N1 emergency.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/24/h1n1.obama/index.html

Oh the joy! Nah. Don't be paranoid.

On a side note, I'm gonna make sure I don't contract any form of the flu because I was too lazy to join the 1.5 hours wait for a flu shot during the flu shot "carnival".

HI :)

I know it seems like I've disappeared from blogger. It's college! Too many things to do. In any case, this is turning into a form a procrastination for me whenever I don't want to think about writing my Art Humanities papers. LOL. 7 page midterm paper due tomorrow, but I have yet to complete one paragraph. O.o. 11 hours till submission deadline. Looks like a long night ahead with Jstor, Raphael, Bernini and Rembrandt. Short break tomorrow night before the madness resumes with preparation for 2 major midterms next week.