Bus ride

I went to Harvard Square yesterday and met up with a friend for lunch. We had really good ramen at a restaurant that had a 2 for 1 deal for Harvard students. Yay! Only thing was that the bowl was huge!! (I keep forgetting that I can't finish one portion of food in any restaurant- even asian ones) The other thing I learnt is that you can add baby spinach to noodle soups and it tastes great still. After lunch, we had bubble tea. It was the nicest bubble tea I've had and the most expensive too. Don't really want to talk about the price, I should bear in mind that they had to fly pearls in from Taiwan and that labour costs here are much higher... but it still doesn't seem to justify the cost for me.

Well, talking about costs, look at the parking rates here at Prudential tower. Prudential Tower can be compared to Raffles City, I guess but parking at US$9 per hour!! I think I'm going to stop complaining about parking costs back home...
The view the Charles River was taken from my bus seat on the way home. Yep, I've figured out how to take a bus and where to get off. It's actually much faster taking a bus to Harvard Square compared with the subway. That's because the subway is arranged radially, with all routes emerging from downtown, so to get to Harvard Square, the subway travels like the sides of a right angled triangle while the bus takes the hypotenuse. (I learnt these trigo stuff while studying for my GRE.. I'm not smarter that a 5th grader)

Cheesecake Factory

 

We had super yummy cheesecake at Cheesecake Factory today! They have the best cheesecakes, with more than 20 flavours to choose from and I'm sure that each slice contains too much cheese, cream and calories. After gobbling down bread, pasta and the cheesecake, Wee-Lee and I were stuffed. Our piece of advice: If you visit the US, you must eat at Cheesecake Factory but do SHARE your food, the portions are huge! We had to walk for hours before the food could digest and by dinner, the cheesecake was still sitting in our tummys. I think cheesecakes and pastas don't make mix well.

Harvard Medical School

 

We walked past Harvard Medical School today and I just had to take a picture. It's such an amazing campus, right? It really lives up to its fame, just the buildings alone are enough to inspire medical students. Looking homewards, I have a good excuse for being less inspired :)

Lots of snow!

I braved the snow yesterday to get some groceries. Since I was out, I thought I'd take a few pictures and get a video of the snowfall as well. There was a snow storm with about 5-6 inches of snow. As you can tell from the pictures, there was snow everywhere, even on the walkway. That made walking quite treacherous because it's easy to slip. It's not too bad having snow fall on your head as long as you've got a hat or a hood (kiasu me had both) because snow's quite light and it melts off almost instantly. I took the picture of the church for auntie Helen: just to let you know that there's a church pretty near by :)

Church and more

 

We visited Park Street Church on Sunday and joined the International Student's Fellowship. Someone had recommended it. Though the main service was conducted in a traditional way (think robes and hymns), we were really impressed by the warmth of the Pastor and the leaders at the fellowship. Plus, we had a time of Bible Study and worship singing familiar songs so we were quite happy. After the fellowship ended, we went for a drink at Borders with some new Singaporean friends (it's amazing how many Singaporeans there are in Boston). When we finally took pictures of the church, it was about 5pm and the sun was beginning to set, which explains the lighting. We took a short walk from the church to look for the frog pond at Boston Common because I wanted to check out the ice skating ring there. When we got there, the Zamboni had just completed its round and the ice was pristine but the crowd was huge! I don't think I'll be skating there: too many people. The day's trip ended the usual way with us taking a ride back on the reliable T. 

Where is my bus?

We were at a friend's place on Saturday and we took the Harvard bus to another friend's place for dinner. As we were waiting for the bus, I was introduced to this really cool gadget! It was a real time GPS bus-tracking system. A must-have for impatient Singaporeans: the balloons (blue or pink) tell you where your bus is exactly and it's amazing how much shorter the wait is once you know exactly where your bus is currently. It'll probably be too complicated to implement for the whole of Singapore. What a pity...

Breakfast at Sebastians!

 

This is what we had for brunch on Saturday. It's the nicest looking thing I've cooked so far which doesn't say much about my culinary skills. I was quite happy with the scrambled eggs and baked tomato, which tasted quite good. It was our attempt to replicate the yummy breakfast we used to have at Sebastians, this little restaurant at Greenwood, which has since disappeared. I've got to say something about the waffle: I was intending to make pancakes from scratch but my grandiose plans disappeared when I realised that 32 Aunt Jemima waffles were only selling for $3...