an escape

Oh no!! The undergrads are coming back. We term them as the 'locust'. When they come back, they just take over the entire campus, the town and the city. Everywhere you go, there's tons of people. The roads are packed with cars and people who don't stop for you to cross the road. The restaurants are packed with people lining up all the way towards the entrance. The check-out lines are so long that it's no longer worth it to buy a box of paper clips. The bars are so pack that it starts to reek with beer and smoke.

This weekend is the welcoming weekend and there's lots of activity going on around the campus. Even as Ping is typing this, Ping can hear the fireworks from the campus...and that's 5 miles away. Ping and Fan decided to take Friday night off and go check out the new eateries at the Union. But little did we know there was going to be so many 'games', it was packed that Ping started to feel claustrophobic. Even the free Fuze, Jones and O didn't seem appealing anymore. However, Ping did manage to snag a free bottle of mandarin orange flavored O. It was just so-so. Prefer Fruit-2-O. They were also giving out free Sobe energy drinks but Ping never did acquire the funny taste of energy drinks so opt out on that. There were also lots of free stuff if you wanna hang around and fill up some forms but Ping wasn't really into all that at that time. Furthermore, Ping was eager to get out of that packed-like-sardin building. After getting past all the people, we went down to the Dairy Store to get 75cents ice-cream.

It was still pretty early after that and Ping didn't feel like going home and facing the lonely apartment. Ping also didn't wanna go anywhere with tons of people. Then Ping felt like playing pool so we went to Pinball Pete. Ping likes that place 'coz no alcohol is allowed, which also makes it popular. The only thing that's not too fun with the place is that sometimes there are shady people loitering in there smoking stuff. But it was fine last night. There was only 4 other people besides us. Played 2 games before Ping reluctantly brought Fan home and came back.

Think Ping made that ball?