My computer is fixed!

Finally, my computer is fixed after much hardship, time and money. Anyway, nothing much has been happening here- my aunt, uncle and cousin left on Sunday, the day after my mom's birthday. Me and my dad had stayed up way, way late into the night preparing her gifts, until 2am to be precise, and she didn't even like them! We spent hours and hours writing 'Happy Birthday Hil' on these little pasteries she likes, and she said she didn't like the icing and that we ruined the stupid pasteries! Grr! She did however say she liked my birthday card (which I spent 1 1/2 hours on) which is good, because it took a lot of effort. It was 3-d and homemade, and it had colours and borders! Which doesn't sound like a very big deal but it was. I was very proud of it :) I think she was being sarcastic, though, when she said she liked it, which is really not funny when you spend so much time on something! :P I am quite pleased today because I finally finished my maths book- all 121 pages of it- so now I'm onto Latin and Cantonese! No time for rest, lol. I also have been exercising, but unfortunately I'm down to 2 laps because for some reason by the end of the first lap I usually have stomach cramps, and by the end of the second they're really intense. I don't know why. It's weird. I hope they go away. Tomorrow we're going into NY to wander around a little bit, and then we're going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art which is also nice :) I bought some new stuff recently too, but haven't spent as much as my brother! Bought a nice Ralph Lauren jacket yesterday for $20, suggested retail $176. Bargain, and I love it! My brother says it looks like a straitjacket, but I love it. So I am happy. Forgot to mention I also bought some of my favourite chinese candy- mung cookies! They taste like sawdust :) but I love them. We also bought some green cake, my custard bao baos and these enormous soft yellow sponges, as well as DURIAN CANDY and, amazingly, PHOSPHORUS WATER!! I tried the durian candy and now I realize what the big deal is. We got the whole family to try it :) and now I realize...well, I'm not going to write about it here because some of the people who I want to try it read this blog. Just assume it's either mind-bogglingly good or mind-bogglingly bad. You'll find out! Anyway, about the phosphorus water, it's lime green and iridescent and I love it. Well, the look anyway. I hate the taste. I just bought it because I wanted to display it. I'll put some pics up later just because I'm so happy I bought it :D Anyway, that's basically what I've been doing recently. I probably left out some stuff because I'm too tired to think of it. Oh, I've been researching Confucianism and Taoism too, and reading a bunch. Just finished Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov. Really, really, really good. Just brilliant. Incidentally, my brother wants to name his future son Vladmir. Isn't that weird?