Snickers pie

Guess what? Snickers can be made into snickers pie!

Tada! Yummy.

They serve this in Peabody Dining Hall every wednesday. I'm currently working in the dining halls to get some extra cash. Am doing dinner shifts from monday to thursday. The time slots are really weird. Dinner is from 4.45pm to 7pm. I thought people started eating dinner at 7pm.

Ice Hockey

Hi! Just a random photo I found in my phone, taken during an Illinois Women's Ice Hockey training I went for.

Hahahha. Way cool. I like! But I didnt join the club, beacuse they're collecting dues of 200USD per sem. And I don't have so much time on hand to commit anyway. So that was probably the one and only hockey practice for me over here. Gotta do intense secret training when I get back to Singapore.

But it was fun while it lasted.

Illinois vs Eastern Illinois

American football! Just like what you've always watched but never understood in chick flicks - except it's live this time! And in America! Yes, there's the all famous quarterback that the entire female population in the college is dying to date. And of course, the cheerleading squad.

Friendly match:

Illinois (orange and blue) vs Eastern Illinois (white)

This is the huge Memorial Stadium in UIUC, where the game was held. It's bigger than the Indoor Stadium.

I suddenly remembered I read somewhere that people like to look at faces, so from now onwards I will take more photos with faces! There, that's awyong and I.

The Eastern Illinois team doing their warm ups.

The Illinois team running in, with the entire stadium of people screaming and cheering like mad people. The team looks huge right! That's because there are 99 players in a team! But only 11 of them play in a match. It's a very intense game, so they have to keep switching players.

The marching band enters.

They make pretty formations! It's amazing!

The word ILLINI. The athletic teams in UIUC are called fighting Illini.

A mass of orange fans. "Wear orange" was printed on the ticket. The entire stadium was filled with orange people. The Eastern Illinois team must have felt so overwhelmed.

The match begins!

A touchdown for Illinois!

Illinois wins 47 - 21!

Yay! My school rocks!

Ye olde spirits

The cemetry in UIUC is called:

Ironic or apt?

I found a tombstone of a baby. Baby Moore was probably still-born, that's why it doesn't have a name. Or maybe the mum died pregnant and they decided to remove the foetus and bury it separately.

The entire Hall clan.

The surname Eng is so Singaporean.

This guy here, he died while serving the army in World War II.

Kinley! One of the halls where my classes are conducted in is called David Kinley hall.

True enough, the bodies of David Kinley and his wife lie inside.

What is a cemetery without trees?

Some figures outside the mausoleum.

The mausoleum.

It's prettier than the cemetery!

I see that Frances Hesselschwerdt has already reserved a place for herself.

Saw this lying on the road on the way back from the cemetery.

Death is in the air.

Concrete shrubbery

Because Clara requested, I'm posting up pictures of the buildings in UIUC. =)

Sherman Hall, where I'm staying in.

A tree outside Sherman Hall. It's my favourite tree in the entire school becuase it's split so symmetrically.

This is the library. I frequent this place because I bought the wrong book for my macroecons module and refuse to buy the correct but ridiculously expensive one. Therefore I have to keep going back to the library to borrow the correct textbook.

 

Altgeld Hall. Looks like something out of Harry Potter.

Business building #1: David Kinley Hall

Business building #2: Wohlers Hall

Business Building #3: BIF

Sweet Corn Festival

Urbana's annual Sweet Corn Festival!

It wasn't as crowded as I had expected it to be.

All the better! More space for me!

There was a car showcase of antique cars. I love this pretty yellow one!

Me, behind a retarded cardboard photo of a corn.

Yummy buttery corn! I like!

We bought a gigantic bag of popcorn. It was a never ending supply which lasted us a whole week. We put it beside a bunch of bananas, and by the end of the week, banana molecules had diffused into the bag of popcorn and we had banana flavoured popcorn! Ingenious!

1st day in UIUC

This is one of the first things we laid our eyes upon - moonstruck cafe! It's a chocolate cafe. Imagine sitting inside, drinking hot chocalate and reading a good book in winter. Bliss.

This is me at the bank. The money does not belong to me, unfortunately.

My room in FAR, our temporary housing before we left for our first holiday. Don't ask me what FAR stands for; I have no idea.