This has been a while ago. I arrived at freezing Chicago at the beginning of spring. The temperature was one degree celsius. Never heard of such a temperature back home. It was a scenic landing. The plane went over downtown chicago, nearly missed crashing into Sears Towers (I'm exaggerating) and then flew free, with Lake Michigan (which looks like the sea) stretching out underneath. The hotel we stayed at, too was lovely. It resembled a postmodernist bullshit article about religion. It was very embellished, with articles of technological, chic furniture. It also had a big painting, of pikachu's sitting on a tree and the room overlooked the Chicago skyline, being some distance away, it only occupied a tiny portion of the view. It also had an alarm clock with an Ipod dock. You might be wondering why I compare it to post-modernism, the kind I have been exposed to. Well, the skyline, representing truth is faaaar away. It has got somewhat minimalist furniture, which makes it seem succinct, but far too many articles, which defeats the purpose. To me, pikachus sitting on a tree is pretty random and meaningless, but still pretty. Overall, the impression is still good though, comfortable, classy and boast-able. Kind of like Paris Hilton.



The next day, we checked out the Greek Pride Parade (my sis thinks it was the Greek Independance Day). To commemorate, we ate at a nice greek restaurant (which had lots of Math on the walls), checking out a music store (which had math on the CD covers). And finally the parade. There were many floats which looked like blue and white cream cakes =P. We couldn't read anything cos it was all in Math. The only slogan we could read said "All Hail Alexander the Great". Which was cool but a little old fashioned. Alexander the Great was a looong time ago. Even Mao the great was a looong time ago. Now Hannah Montana is the in thing. The environment was cool. Like a freezer. It even raied hailstones, it was liked unflavoured solero shots dropping out of the sky. I think my sis has an embarassing picture of me trying to collect them in my cap. The thing about weather so cold that affects us from the tropics is this. Here, you walk out of a cold mall out into the sweltering singapore sun, over there, you walk out of the warmth into the cold. It's like who the hell turned on the aircon? It took a couple of days to get over that feeling but I think I made it.

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