Reporting from the asian house.

I've stayed over countless times at the Asian house.

So, it's no surprise that I am writing one from this place.

This week Halloween!! aka all hallows eve.

The week leading up to the ISA Halloween dance was erm... kinda normal.

Classes, assignments, quizzes, etc, etc.

Then there were the practice sessions for THRILLER!!

Those were always fun.

At the last possible moment we got 2 more people Ramya and Becca, to join in with the dance. 

So the end line up for the dance was Me, Cat, Jerome, Ramya and Becca.

Guiding our path was our fearless leader Acha Yeshi who couldn't be the dance.

And then there was the preparation for the dance decorations.

We painted a huge piece of cloth as a background for people at the dance to take pictures which turned out pretty good.

We set up the venue for the dance on friday and all was good.

Then it was time for the costume which I hadn't really given much thought to. 

I bought some face paint a day earlier, but was thinking somewhere along the lines of a mafia theme.

In the end I turned out to be some scary variation of joker or beetle juice with the help Khidir's hat.

Here's my alternate costume for the performance complete with the awesome iron maiden T.

The dance was awesome, had fun, met a lot of friends. Failed to reorganize some because of their awesome costumes while some friends showed up without costumes.

Here's some pictures from the dance.

Korean trio, Hyesu, Serena and So Mang.

Musical chairs by HLSU.

The cha cha slide dance.

Fox (Codye) and Cat.

The thriller dance.

The scary bunch: me, Yujin, Jerome and Aung.

Yujin, Erii, Shang and Kazuki.

Polina, Codye and me.

Ladies.

Me and Shefei with our usual madness.

Then after that I helped clear out the decorations and clean up after everyone left.

Then we Me, Cat, Nat and Shefei went to Perkin's for a midnight meal.

Thats it for Friday's Halloween party.

Then came Saturday. Wasn't much of an exciting day. Got up half day, did some studying, went to work.

Then found out Khoon injured himself while playing racket ball.

So I went to the Asian house, finished up my homework and watched Pocahontas.haha.

Then the other guys from the asian house came back so we started playing cards and talking nonsense.

Watched some youtube videos and ended up going to bed at 5 in the morning. 

Then woke up freezing in the living room at 12. and started writing the blog at 1 30 and finishing it at 3 30.

So until next time. Shockyab out \m/

homecoming weekend continued....

The last post was really long so I decided to divide homecoming weekend into 2 halves. This one's the second.

We continue from Friday night. So again I end up at the Asian house. 

That night we played cards and just hung out. 

I got to meet Corkey, Larry's moms pup. He's six but I still think he's a puppy because he's so tiny.

I just realized I don't have a picture of him.

He kinda reminds me of Brownie my dog back home, who compared to Corkey looks huge, hehe.

I miss brownie. No picture of him either :(

I forgot to bring my contact lens case that night, so had to take my contacts out in a glass of water.

Well my contacts survived that. So all's well.

The other night I walked like 5 hours so I had some major bruises on my sole. and was pretty tired but still went to work.

Then there was the UNI "panthers" vs the Illinois state University "Red birds" homecoming football game.

This was a total obliteration of the redbirds. 

Our panthers ended up chewing the red birds with a awesome score of 42 to 14. 

At one point of the game we were leading 35 to 7, thats like 4 more touchdowns. haha.

Before the game my friend Shang lost his cam on the way to the dome, so we went back to look for it. 

We missed a bit of the game.

To my surprise we found it just lying there on the grass near his house. 

Right there I realized how safe cedar falls is.

Then after that I went to the Asian house yet once again and carved pumpkins for Halloween. 

My good friend Khidir got a pumpkin as rotten as his luck last night. 

If I remember correctly one of his friends quoted "Your pumpkin smells like ass."

Any way all of us accept for Khoon who chose to carve Garfield finished our carving.

I found out there were some real artists hiding amongst us :D

Mine had a scary face, a Nepal flag, and a thunderbolt (just for ventilation for the candle)

Then comes Sunday.

Sunday usually is not that special so, today was good. 

I studied the whole day until 4 when I had dance practice. 

We figured out all the steps we wanted to put in the dance but there's always room for improvement.

Then after that had dinner with the guys from my floor.

Then My friend Abu called me to check out a new soccer ball he got. So I played soccer, after almost 2 months. Really felt exhilarating.

  

Thats about it. A nice weekend all in all. 

Now I'm looking forward to next weekend, which is Halloween weekend.

And also the day of reckoning for our dance skills.

So until next time, Shockyab out \m/

This past week was UNI homecoming.

Time to unleash the Panther within? 

Yeah right, had 2 awesomely life-force draining tests till Thursday, sleepless nights and all that too.

But after that everything was rainbows and butterflies. 

Hehe, kidding. After Thursday everything really was fun. Had my tourism class canceled on Friday, our IR professor let us out fairly early, and my ex roommate Jon drove up to town, well actually he was here from Wednesday but just got to hang out with him on friday.

  

This is Jon with mini.

Well, me and Jon are going to Nepal this winter together. So, on Friday we went to the mall to find something he could get for my parents.

Got some UNI stuff for pala and thought of getting an Iowan cook book for aamla.

Then after that I had a dance practice. 

We are doing MJ's Thriller at a Halloween dance event. 

The practice was good and I was quite impressed by the amount of dance steps we figured out without the video and also within little more than an hour.

Then after that me and Khoon decided to go get Cold stone. We ended up going to a bunch of places and spending about 5 hours walking around. WTH?!!

Then came back to UNI and went to see the homecoming fireworks.

This one kindda freaked me out.

I was like "is that suppose to be happening?" 

Turns out they call it the fire ball and thats the exact reaction they are looking for from first timers :)

Well after that there was Campaniling. 

This is just a homecoming tradition where couples gather around the clock tower(called Campanil) in the middle of college and kiss at midnight. 

Well we go there every year with a bunch of friends and just hang out.

After that I went and hung out at the Asian house again.

All this was just the one day experience of friday. 

Will post about the rest of the weekend since this one's too long already

So until next time(which might be in a couple of minutes), 

Shockyab out \m/

I'd like to start today's blog with a quote from great(insert sarcasm) Kanye West.

Here goes :" Now that that don't kill me, Can only make me stronger"

My week was something like that. 

The whole week I got 12 hours of sleep, an average of 2 hours per day, but that calculation fails to explain 2 nights without sleep.

Well the cause of my insane insomnia was 1 midterm and 2 other tests, one of which was postponed at the last moment.

Apart from that there were 3 meetings and I missed 3 lunches :S

Well sure glad that's over. But I still have 1 final and the postponed test next week so can't fully rest this weekend.

Another big thing happening next week is it's home coming week at UNI.

So we did some mural painting on the theme "Let the good times ROAR!!" for home coming

Here's some pics from the preparation to finish.

Yes that dude with the hat is your's truly. 

And this home coming I have decided to color my hair purple. In honor of UNI's theme color.

I'm betting I't gonna look something like this.

I know this one's blue, mine'll just be purple.hehe.

And speaking of celebrations, right now is Dasain in Nepal. So happy Vijaya Dasami to anyone who celebrates :)

That's all from me right now, maybe will have more stuff to talk about at the end of the weekend.

Until next time Shockyab out.

Week load of fun :)

Well well we have ourselves a third one.

This one's gonna be a week load of crap about my life. So if you have to go the bathroom, you might as well do it now.

OK we begin from where we left off, Sunday.

Sunday was a fun-day(too cheesy?)

I cooked at the Asian house for their house warming. I made momos by myself for the first time.(mom's proud of me). 

Those who don't know what momo is, here a link to enlighten you about this MAGNIFIKANT delicacy: momo wikipedia :)

And here the pictures of what I made. Some of them were designed by well known artists like cat and nat. 

Of course the momos weren't the highlights of the day there were the awesome spaghetti and potato salad by Khoon (raccoon)

And then there was the juicy burgers by Khidir (just realized need to get him a nick name)

oops that's not him, although I don't see a lot of difference, here's the real Khidir.

 Alright enough about sunday.

Then comes tuesday.

Well technically this happened at the midnight between tuesday and wednesday, but whatever. It was Acha Yeshi's birthday.

This is her

Some of our friends got together, made a gargantuan card, got her a cake, invaded her house and surprised her at midnight. The reaction on her face was priceless.

Here's a group picture from that night, erm morning, whatever.

After some cake eating, birthday wishing, ear to ear smiling and not to forget cake smearing, the whatever was finally over.

Then comes wednesday. 

Unfortunately this event did not include the camera trigger happy cat so I don't have any pictures :(

Anyways on this day I found myself again at the Asian house. This time not cooking but eating some awesome crepes by Jerome and watching the new episode of South park. I suppose everybody knows what crepes are.

This is Jerome.

Then come friday.

So it's friday and friday's are always good :) well this one was good too.There was a BBQ party for acha Yeshi's birthday celebration combined with the celebrations for the birthday of Umaru. 

This is Umaru

There was meat, there was pop, there was a cake and I was late, by like more than 2 hours :( But I still had fun, got my cam hog on and got myself into many memorable pictures.

for instance:

me and Shefei, who when not abnormal like me looks like this.

Then we finally get to the present, Saturday!!

Today was WRC (wellness recreation center) day for ISP(an UNI organization I'm involved in).

But before that I had work and finally got to work at the ice cream place with Shang, the guy who can get as ridiculous as me.hehe.

This is him.

Back to WRC day. Though we didn't get a lot of people to come, we had loads of fun. We played ping pong, volleyball, racquetball and some people were dancing, hehe.

Then photo opp struck again outside the WRC.

Then went to eat at a sports bar Beck's.

That's all I have on what was a tiring but fun week. Next time I'll try not to cramp in so much at once. Even though I don't think I will have much to write about since I have 2 humongous tests this week :( 

So until next time, Shockyab out.