Department of Communication Graduate Award Ceremony '08
Basically these are the people in my life now. They are my cohort at school and we are tight-- counting on each other to make it through to the finish line. These pictures were taken at the Graduate Award Ceremony held at the Graduate Director's home. The first thing that the admin staff told us during our orientation was, "If a professor asks you to go to their home, you go... even if you felt like dying." I was so tired after weeks of paper writing and exams and not enough sleep but as the staff said, "When they call, you go. No question asked!" I was dead on my feet that day.... although I look gorgeous as usual ;) .
From left to right: Kylene Baker, Moi, Laura Brown and Katy Head. Kylene is one of my best friends here.. She has me over to her place all the time and we just hang out and watch TV at her place. She doesn't want me to get cable because she said, "If you have cable, you won't come over to our place anymore because you can watch cable at home! No you are not allowed to get cable.." hahahah...
I call Laura "Lown" the abbreviation of her name Laura Brown. I came up with that because in the first weeks of school, she decided to call me "Nisie" and now she doesn't call me anything but that. And I think that she's the only one who calls me that and I think that Lown is catching up with a lot of people now... Yay me! Giving people names...
The cleverest and nicest and kindest and prettiest girl I've seen in my life. She just turned 21 and is in the graduate program with me. We call her "Skorn" Such a badass name for such a sweet girl. I just finished writing a paper literally an hour before these pictures were taken. Notice the shadows and the bags under the eyes. I've routinely woken up at 5AM and gone to bed at 2 or 3 in the morning. Summer is here and I'm SO going to sleep for a month. I'm not taking any summer classes this summer, well, at least not in Summer I (May), perhaps Summer II (July) if I get too bored:D.
A sweet sweet Texas girl with the real Texas accent:D. "Y'all are fixin' to go home now?"... In Texas-speak, at least in College Station, when you're going to do something, you are fixin' to do something. "I'm fixin' to write that Dorsey's dratted rhetoric paper tonite." Like that:) She promised me that she'd take me to Jewett, her hometown about an hour north of College Station so that I can ride her horse. She was the valedictorian in her undergrad class... Very, very smart!
My Bollywood moment... courtesy of my training at TESL. By the time we graduated, we TESLians KNOW how to pose for a picture. I don't wear make up nowadays... what you see is what you get and a lot of people back home commented how dark I've become. Well, yeah, of course I get dark because I'm out in the sun a lot. Walking to class for ten minutes, at least, one way. When I was in Malaysia, it was... walk twenty steps to the car from my apartment, drive over to school, walk another twenty steps to the office building, not seeing the sun until I leave home in the evening. My friends here kept saying that I look a lot lighter in Malaysia too, that they can't believe it's me in my Malaysian pictures.. so the consensus is: living in the US has darkened my skin. That's Texas sun for ya...
From left to right: Kylene Baker, Moi, Laura Brown and Katy Head. Kylene is one of my best friends here.. She has me over to her place all the time and we just hang out and watch TV at her place. She doesn't want me to get cable because she said, "If you have cable, you won't come over to our place anymore because you can watch cable at home! No you are not allowed to get cable.." hahahah...
I call Laura "Lown" the abbreviation of her name Laura Brown. I came up with that because in the first weeks of school, she decided to call me "Nisie" and now she doesn't call me anything but that. And I think that she's the only one who calls me that and I think that Lown is catching up with a lot of people now... Yay me! Giving people names...
The cleverest and nicest and kindest and prettiest girl I've seen in my life. She just turned 21 and is in the graduate program with me. We call her "Skorn" Such a badass name for such a sweet girl. I just finished writing a paper literally an hour before these pictures were taken. Notice the shadows and the bags under the eyes. I've routinely woken up at 5AM and gone to bed at 2 or 3 in the morning. Summer is here and I'm SO going to sleep for a month. I'm not taking any summer classes this summer, well, at least not in Summer I (May), perhaps Summer II (July) if I get too bored:D.
A sweet sweet Texas girl with the real Texas accent:D. "Y'all are fixin' to go home now?"... In Texas-speak, at least in College Station, when you're going to do something, you are fixin' to do something. "I'm fixin' to write that Dorsey's dratted rhetoric paper tonite." Like that:) She promised me that she'd take me to Jewett, her hometown about an hour north of College Station so that I can ride her horse. She was the valedictorian in her undergrad class... Very, very smart!
My Bollywood moment... courtesy of my training at TESL. By the time we graduated, we TESLians KNOW how to pose for a picture. I don't wear make up nowadays... what you see is what you get and a lot of people back home commented how dark I've become. Well, yeah, of course I get dark because I'm out in the sun a lot. Walking to class for ten minutes, at least, one way. When I was in Malaysia, it was... walk twenty steps to the car from my apartment, drive over to school, walk another twenty steps to the office building, not seeing the sun until I leave home in the evening. My friends here kept saying that I look a lot lighter in Malaysia too, that they can't believe it's me in my Malaysian pictures.. so the consensus is: living in the US has darkened my skin. That's Texas sun for ya...
posted by Joy at 12:45 PM
3 Comments:
Lovely pics, and you, my dear, look ravishing as usual.. and not to mention so fresh! The Texan air must be doing you some good.. tanned sket xper..
Good to see you moving on so well in life over there.. and it's only a matter of time before you've got people lovin your company as much as we do over here..
Love the `y'all fixin' bit! More soon ya! Kalau i pakai kat UTeM boleh tak. U rasa berapa lama baru I dpt response ;-P
Please do use the "y'alls" and the "fixin's" all you like and let me know how it goes...tee hee hee...
I've been so busy lately with school and stuff that I haven't been very good at updating the blog. I'll try to be better at it now that summer is here. Love your blog by the way, Nicky...
thanks sis, right back at cha!
drop by often k..
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