NFFs: New Found Friends

It's always sad to leave friends behind when one journeys to a new place. If you think about it though leaving is not about losing friends, but gaining more instead. Here's a bunch of newly found friends whose company I'm beginning to enjoy very much.

We had a movie night yesterday and watched Angela's Ashes, a film about the juvenile life of Frank McCourt. Although the film was overwhelmingly depressing, in the end we still had fun knowing that we had spent the night with good company. We decided to take a photo just to document it, hoping it would evolve into a monthly tradition. Believe it or not, this is almost the majority of the Filipino students in SU and ESF! There's one caucasian there (obviously not a Filipino), our housemate, who has already been accustomed to Filipino company and hospitality. Yep, he's already part of the family.

Just a quick intro, we have friends doing chemistry, biology, policy, finance, and even music! This is indeed a bunch that reminds me of friends back in Singapore: smart, wacky, and just simply pinoy.


More about what we do as a group: yes, admittedly we spend a lot of time in the shopping mall ... only because we have lots of errands lately to prepare us for winter. However, we do find time to just explore and enjoy the remaining few weeks of "none-winter." About a week ago, the pinoy neighbours decided to do a picnic dinner in a park nearby. We had pasta, pizza, my tuna sandwich (haha), and watermelon in the middle of lush, breezy greenery. This is the sort of weekend I ideally would always want to spend. Hopefully I could share this with you when you visit me here in Syracuse (not in the middle of winter though!)