Hah, yx's getting bothered by my nocturnal habits. I sleep at 1am, and wake by 6am. In fact, it's 4am now. How can anyone sleep that much? OK, maybe later I'll try to get some sleep. Probably just hungry, that's all. Thinking of walking 4 blocks down to get to the convenience store for a sandwich or something, but the wind's probably brutal, so forget about that. Had a jolly good time packing the luggage last night, it'll be nice and cleared after I reach Wisconsin, since the stupid food items actually take up 1 of the small luggages. Had some fun shopping for presents too!
Anyway, hotel reception was funny last night. I requested for a morning call for 10am this morning, apparently the poor man didn't quite catch me, so he called back.
Man: "Sorry sir, this is Reception calling. Did you want your morning call to be 10am or 10pm?"
Stunned silence ...
Me: "Oh, it's 10am"
Man (in an embarrassed voice, if that's possible): "Right. Of course!"
OK, that was weird, haha! Damn ... last day in Chicago. Will miss this place, it's really lovely, minus the wind. It gets even worse near Lake Michigan. If you walk at Navy Pier (one of those full-of-rot tourist attractions) or by Lakeshore street, there are actually icicles forming from roofs and there's still quite a bit of snow. And it's really, really windy there. Clothing is actually more than enough, I can manage with a single t-shirt plus a regular sweater (the one I wear to school), and it's really cosy like this already. The trouble is the face. My nose and ears get soooo nipped by the wind!
Yx walked around looking like Ali Baba's wife; she had an Indian scarf around her neck, a woollen scarf covering her mouth and nose, and her hood drawn up. Looks like she's wearing a funky sort of tudung. And yet there are CRAZY people on the streets. Let me describe. It's like -4C here *without* the wind, and late at night the wind is really unforgiving. Yet you see women wearing mini-skirts and stockings strolling around - no, they are not pattering and scampering for the nearest shelter - they were STROLLING. With some silkly-looking low-cut dress and just a powersuit. That's all!! Are they fat or what?
Oh, but a lot of people here are REALLY FAT. And I mean REALLY fat. I'm guessing a butt diameter twice my chest size? They sit at restaurants and literally overflow the seats. THe black women here are usually the hugest, but you get quite a lot of whites who look like they can naturally float in a freshwater bath tub too. And the way they eat ... remember I was struggling with my gigantic breakfast on Fri morning? Well, the elderly couple (I'm guessing in their 70s) apparently had no difficulty with theirs, which was if anything even more than what I was eating. They must be cows ... 4 stomachs.
Anyway, hotel reception was funny last night. I requested for a morning call for 10am this morning, apparently the poor man didn't quite catch me, so he called back.
Man: "Sorry sir, this is Reception calling. Did you want your morning call to be 10am or 10pm?"
Stunned silence ...
Me: "Oh, it's 10am"
Man (in an embarrassed voice, if that's possible): "Right. Of course!"
OK, that was weird, haha! Damn ... last day in Chicago. Will miss this place, it's really lovely, minus the wind. It gets even worse near Lake Michigan. If you walk at Navy Pier (one of those full-of-rot tourist attractions) or by Lakeshore street, there are actually icicles forming from roofs and there's still quite a bit of snow. And it's really, really windy there. Clothing is actually more than enough, I can manage with a single t-shirt plus a regular sweater (the one I wear to school), and it's really cosy like this already. The trouble is the face. My nose and ears get soooo nipped by the wind!
Yx walked around looking like Ali Baba's wife; she had an Indian scarf around her neck, a woollen scarf covering her mouth and nose, and her hood drawn up. Looks like she's wearing a funky sort of tudung. And yet there are CRAZY people on the streets. Let me describe. It's like -4C here *without* the wind, and late at night the wind is really unforgiving. Yet you see women wearing mini-skirts and stockings strolling around - no, they are not pattering and scampering for the nearest shelter - they were STROLLING. With some silkly-looking low-cut dress and just a powersuit. That's all!! Are they fat or what?
Oh, but a lot of people here are REALLY FAT. And I mean REALLY fat. I'm guessing a butt diameter twice my chest size? They sit at restaurants and literally overflow the seats. THe black women here are usually the hugest, but you get quite a lot of whites who look like they can naturally float in a freshwater bath tub too. And the way they eat ... remember I was struggling with my gigantic breakfast on Fri morning? Well, the elderly couple (I'm guessing in their 70s) apparently had no difficulty with theirs, which was if anything even more than what I was eating. They must be cows ... 4 stomachs.
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