20090831
I want holiday!!
Over the weekend, I went to the Natas fair with some friends and I am sssssssssssooooo tempted to go on holiday!
I have already applied for GIP Prelude in China for 2 weeks in Dec. Hopefully I get it! I want to go to Taiwan in Dec too! There are some discounts for young tourists in the age range of 15 to 30!
Need to save money!!
Feathers
11:22 PM
20090824
Woohoo!!
I have passed my basic theory test for driving!! Haha now I am one step closer to becoming a driver! My first practical is starting in another 2 weeks time! That's making me nervous! I am going to drive a car in 2 weeks time!
Haha alright enough of exclaimations. Anyway, I have just handed in my research proposal for FYP and it's really a relief now. I was worried that my prof will make me re-formulate my research questions or make any major adjustments. Luckily there were only some minor adjustments. Now I have to start sourcing for dramas (haha I love this part) and respondents to interview.
Alright, share with you readers a good place to chill. It's not the usual kind of chilling place you all are imagining. No booze, no music. There's only tea. It's a place where you get to learn how to appreciate tea and the proper way of drinking tea. Want to have a feel of "chinese culture"? That's the place to go. It's hidden among the pubs and clubs near Maxwell Food Centre and its cheap, costing only around $6 for unlimited time. You can chill and chat there till they close.
Some photos of that place:
The waiter demonstrated the proper way of drinking tea to us and after that each of us tried. Chinese culture is interesting!
Feathers
2:01 PM
20090815
Oh man! Why is it so difficult to think of a topic for FYP?!
I thought I have successfully come out with a topic until I met my prof. I thought I have a direction for my FYP already but now it seems like I have to re-think it through and I have no idea where to start.
Anyway, yesterday I was watching this fund-raising show on TV for Taiwan's rescue and rebuilding efforts after the typhoon. I didn't realise that the impact of the typhoon was so great until I saw the images on the show.
Some villages were buried by the mud and what replaces them now is just a flat ground. Not much debris, just a flat ground. It does not look anything like a village existed there before. Reports had it that dozens of families were washed away and buried, together with their houses.
It was especially heart-wrenching when I heard an elderly woman in her 70s saying in a sombre voice to the empty ground ahead of her in Hokkien : "I have not eaten. Son, I am waiting for you to come back to eat together."
Hopefully Taiwan will recover soon.
Feathers
11:38 PM
20090810
Oh no I have been eating too much good food recently, putting on weight le. :(
Anyway, last Saturday I went to JB with some friends from Elders. It was a great trip!! Haha we shopped alot and ate alot too!!
The things there are really cheap! I bought shirts for less than SG $5!!!! Haha in the end we shopped for a few hours but still did not manage to finish exploring the whole shopping mall.
After shopping was dinner time! We took cabs to a hawker centre for seafood and again its....cheap!! We split into 2 tables and for mine, we ordered Stingray, herbal chicken, cereal prawns, vegetables, sotong, la-la and you tiao for only SG $10 per pax!!! The food was nice too!!
The night before, I went to Lau Pa Sat with some friends for dinner and we ordered Stingray too. Haha I am a stingray lover. It costs us $15 for a large one. Over at the hawker in JB, an equally large one costs us around that same price too, but in Ringgit!
All in all, I spent about SG$80 for transport, shopping, Secret Recipe lunch and seafood dinner!! It was a cheap and fun trip!!
Feathers
5:22 PM
20090806
Oh man! Less than one week to the start of school!! That's so fast!!!!
Next friday I have to meet my FYP prof for a discussion of my research topic and yet I still have no slightest idea what I want to do. I realise that media is a very wide research area. Argh!! I need to start thinking soon!!
Anyway, a few days back I went to Vanessa's 21st birthday celebration. Haha when I was there, I kept hearing my name and I would instinctly respond to it. But as time goes by, I started not to respond to it anymore. Is this called classical conditioning? I can't really remember the name of this psychological term.
Above and below were taken at Vanessa's birthday.
Above and below photos were taken at NBS convocation. Pei Kiat, Priscilla and I attended the convo of some of our Elders friends. Within a day, 5 of them had their convo. Pei Kiat just came back from Beijing then and hence, the 3 of us had a good catching-up session while waiting for Ailing's convo as hers was the latest in the evening.
2 days back, I met up with Agnes for some shopping before we met up with Seet and Ben for dinner. We went to Ion for dinner and the place is huge! Haha it is interesting to note how the more affordable shops are located at the basement levels while the luxury brands are located at the top few levels!
Feathers
10:48 AM
20090803
It has been 10 years!!
Last Saturday I met up with some of my primary school classmates and it was the first time I met them after so many years. We graduated from our primary school in 1999 and so it has been exactly 10 years since we graduated.
In secondary school days, I did meet up with some closer friends for visits to our primary school but after that, we just lost contact. Thankfully through Facebook I managed to get back in contact with them again. Haha the power of FB!
It was a nice gathering with 17 of us attending and included a special appearance by our science teacher. A couple of my close friends were there too but I was greedy, hoping to see a few more :p
It's nice to reminisce about the good old days and I am glad that these close friends are still the same, enabling us to click just like before.
The girls who attended!
Feathers
11:03 PM
