Weekend Recap

In short, there was lots of traveling involved. I mean, 4.5 hr drive isn't something I would normally do myself. =D

The whole thing started when my friend told me last Monday that there will be a soccer tournament between the various HKSA around the Midwest region. He was hoping to get a ride from local UW's HKSA to go down and meet his UMich friends (he graduated from there), but it turned out that the UW actually asked him to help with the car-pool. And since he will be driving down, I tagged along to visit W. Lafayette.

The soccer tournament didn't interest me much - mostly because most people that I knew already graduated last year, and i would need a miracle to find Ronald. XD Just introduced myself to this year's P and have some brief chats. I believed i actually talked more to the UMich undergrads than Purdue's. XD

Since I didn't stay to watch the tournament, I took off and walk around campus. There are new buildings and constructions everywhere. However, i think it still manage to retain the same ol' atmosphere (which is a good thing). On a side note, I still think the new Discovery Park is "too modern" to blend with the rest of the campus. The Union definitely underwent some major remodeling. There are now multiple restaurants replacing the old "food vendor" (well, image you walk into the union from the south entrance close to Heavilon...once you get it, you used to get food from the place on your left...that area's what got axed and replaced). I kinda missed my standard "Quarter dark chicken with 2 sides" lunch (especially since one of the newer vendor is Mexican food). There's also a StarBucks in the Union now - fortunately there wasn't one when I was at Purdue - Can't imagine what much my lunch would cost each day. XD

I did a lot of walking as well. Basically back and forth between the soccer field outside of the Purdue Airport (so basically a bit further than Purdue West) and Chauncey. And i did that twice since the soccer tournament took forever with 7 teams participating (they were supposed to have 8 teams, but ND didn't make it). Even lounge a bit at Vienna on the 2nd trip. Good old times...

OK now, I remember someone told me that Harry's and Village Coffee shop both went out of business? Both seems to be opened yesterday. My friend and I actually drove around the campus on Friday night before we went back to the motel. There was this huge crowd outside Harry's. Though i don't go to bars, I am still happy to see it "re-open" (can anyone confirmed whether it really went out of business?) I do know that Boiler Room is out though - that spot is now occupied by a tattoo shop.

Here's the Flickr photo set from my trip. Let see if I can try to get people to go back in the fall for football games. =)

Long Day

but quite fun just walking around the campus. Too tired to write up anything now, but I'll part you with my newest wallpaper on my desktop:



Let me know if you want the full 2.5M version.

An unexpected trip

Location:
2030 Northgate Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47906

The HKSA is having a soccer tournament tomorrow (today). One of firneds at work is going down to cheer for his UMich friends, so I decided to tag along. So here I am in one of the motels in West Lafayette.

It's also funny that the UMich and IU teams are also in the same motel. The U-Wisc (two of their members rode with us) team actually is staying on the east side close to Meijer. There are a few more schools participating, but just don't know where they're staying.

We drove past Lafayette/West Lafayette/campus a bit (since we didn't arrive till like midnight). I couldn't imagine how many things have changed. There are new buildings everywhere, and a lot of places where we used to go closed down.

I probably will be a fun day tomorrow - ain't planning to stay at the tourney at all, but kinda walk around instead. Borrowed King Snort's camera for the purpose, so let see if I can get some photos. :)