anwar's daughter 27 who recently got elected as a member of parliament graduated from hopkins SAIS (wat is that) in ' 07 (same as me)
and brody is retiring, he must've earned enough money already and decided to call it quits.

met makibi jon and isaac in ny last weekend and it was nice hanging out and chatting over tea. it's been let's see about 6 months? no 10 months! since i left and well, people are pretty much the same
i can't stop bickering with jon about ridiculous things just cos he is childish like that and meh so am i i guess
and makibi was his usual warm self that always made me feel at home
isaac was the same too, with his formidable air of efficiency
i missed my friends even more after ny somehow and the goodbye hugs were painful

after some drama at JFK with ANA not being able to issue my boarding pass for my IAD-NRT flight and United not being able to check my luggage all the way to SIN, and loris having to check my luggage for me so I only had to run from terminal to terminal in the 30 min connection time I had (which was too short and therefore ANA refused to issue me the ticket- they said by issuing the ticket they are committing themselves to having me board the plane (but their bets were on that I would miss it))
anyway yeah, despite all that, i got home as scheduled, ~midnight yday
and here i am today at work, am i hardworking or what

hai, i woulda slept in if i could, but there is lab meeting today, plus i have to start an expt
plus lab meetings are the best times to break out the yummies and i brought back a box of brownie cookies from trader joes' for the lab

so sleepy now. yawns.