Saturday, August 25, 2007
i'm hanging out with the wrong type of people these days ...
1. i'm watching movies with my tuition kids
2. i'm lunching/hanging out with my mother friends and they are sooooooo eager to have their kids meet me (kids ranging from 25 yrs old to 10 yrs old)
3. i'm going to the housewife church gathering instead of the youth one ...
oh dear!
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Sunday, August 19, 2007
the days just past very unknowingly. been a long time since i blog huh? i cant really rmb what i do on a day to day basis ...
probably more yoga, belly dancing, combat classes. which are super enjoyable. after weeks of no one asking me out (boo-hoo! i'm so unlove, no one bothers to find me) hahaha joking! (i do spend considerable time with my mother, each day to yoga class and lunch together plus shopping trips too ... lovely~)
so on monday i went for iceskating with yawen sis! heh~ the rink was pretty empty ... so i can freely 'try' to improve my skating skills ... like trying to move backwards (the secret is through moving your bum from side to side!) it was really enjoyable catching up with her! :D we promised to go do some healthy activities every week. hopefully i can bring her to one of the yoga classes this week :D
on tuesday, NUSAF (northwestern university singaporeans and friends!) had a get-together dinner. i get to know fellow NU-goers and seniors and alumnus! the seniors tell us a lot about all the nitty-gritty of NU like:
1. is a 6 months winter school. frm november to april is freezing cold (sometimes colder than artic) at -29degree celcius!
2. school food is okay till the end of the first week. cuz they repeat every week. it becomes really grosss
3. NU has no fashion sense. being the winter school, everyone donned the same down jacket for the entire fall/spring period (4 years of school) and cover every exposed skin (except the eye area) with scarfes and muffs ... so everyone recognised each other from their jackets?!
4. engin school is one of the biggest low storey building in the world. it has many basements, windowless. so the point is that, once you enter class in the morning at 7am and leave school at 5pm. you wont see DAYLIGHT AT ALL!!! cuz is just dark dark dark ... 5pm and is midnight dark
so my dorm mentor is also a singaporean, psc scholar. and my international mentor also live at my dorm. everyone just converts at ISRC! cuz is the BEST DORM EVER!!!! WOO~~
i seriously cant wait to go!!!
rika came back! and me, sui, den and lele went dinner together with her :D it was sort of farewell to me too! i 'snobbishly' declare that i'm not going to miss any of them when i go to the states. (well it was my plan! to feel 'detached' and adapt faster to the states and not affect my moral from missing things back home ....) it was a nice dinner to catch up with things etc ... small 2c3/4c2 gathering! ha! we planning to visit crescent this coming week too! i cant wait to eat the lor mee and vegetarian stall bee hoon :/
this afternoon, perk initiated a 'farewell lunch' for me. very small group of us. fred, chunjek, neo turned up at essential brew holland v. not a bad lunch! the dessert, apple crumble is amazingly delicious! the guys even wanted to pay for my meal (but i decline heh! you all have to treat me when i come back to visit singapore! not now ...) so we talk quite a lot of stuff. army, school, medicine, overseas, fellow classmates etc ... i think we stayed there for 3 hours? they even started betting whether i will get 'laid' first / job first / married first / children first / divorce first / plastic surgery VERSUS other class girls! -.-""" but it was a good fun. appreciates the intention to give me a 'farewell lunch' hah .. thanks guys :D hopefully can meet up with the rest of S17 *ahem!* bfr i leave.
so i was telling everyone (family and friends) ... if circumstances allow, i dont want to come back to singapore for holidays. maybe drop by for 3-5 days but not for long stay. i rather spend my holidays doing summer studies at japan or france or even china OR go travelling around the states/europe. and i also thought that it will be good to start my work/career there at the states. plenty of experiences. everyone said that i will sure miss my family, singapore food etc ... haha! i'm praying hard that my family will visit me often at america or else, come join me for my holidays. (my engin course is a 3 years course ...) what is home really to a 'settler' like me? i have officially 3 bedrooms at singapore, jakarta and batam. soon enough, another bedroom at evanston, northwestern univeristy ... i'm fated to be a traveller? i didnt even stay a decade at singapore...
of course friends and families are important. i definitely dont want to lose touch or contacts of all the dear people who have came into my life at one point or another (MSN! SKYPE! EMAIL! SNAIL MAILS! DONT LIE THAT SUCH TECHNOLOGY CANT HELP YOU KEEP IN TOUCH WITH ME!). but i shall treat this as an adventure? 3-5 years adventure?
i will come back to a home where i'm definitely most comfortable at ...
oh yeah ... my roommate has been the most enthusiastic of all ... she has been msg-ing me pretty often. with long long long long mails! :D she got us a fridge already! and even promised to give me an international call this coming week to chit-chat and all ... woo~ plus, i think our personality is very identical! no wonder NU put us together! haha :D hopefully we can be great roomies!!!!! yipee ...
hmmm what shall i talk to her about over the phone? colour coordination of our room? or more of our home background? or things to buy and not to buy? what you ppl think?!
i finished my maths / chem / school-rules tests .. didnt do well for chem .. poof! oh well ... i hope it doesnt affect that much, "i got merit for chem 's'?!" now back to full trottle shopping!!! i still havent get my bedsheets after people telling me that R H L aint a good brand.
now .. toodleS!!!
princess stephanie ordered the kingdom to date her everyday!
p.s: i'm crashing N U S tmr!!!! cant wait! 8am lecture~ waaaaaahhhhhhh hurrah! :P
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Sunday, August 12, 2007
guess uni life has started for me alr. gotta face up to reality and stop living in denial. maybe the reason for self denial is the realisation that i'm growing older...
first wk of sch is not so bad. wldnt exactly call it school as the whole wk was spent on orientation. non-stop games, fun and cheering, day after day. first day did seem a bit awkward though it gradually improved as we started warming up to each other. i was grouped into astroboy under machines. qiao qi thankfully was in the same og as me. oh & there was mirna too! ex-mgsian. & yan ling, my new found friend from nj. orientation in uni is a whole new experience for me. most of the cheers are in hokkien and chinese. argh ... dont understand. yet that didnt stop me from enjoying myself.
lol, i think 1 thing i cant forget abt the orientation was this really weird game. secret partner. we're blind folded and made to talk to a person of the opp gender. literally blind dating. after a few interactions, we get to see for ourselves how our partner looks like. weirdest thing was that i had 2 sps! didnt get to find out who the first one is though. he was super crappy, that's all i can say for sure. as for my 2nd one, we were made to play games together that involved alot of unthinkable interactions. eww... esp the mouth to mouth passing of items. i stood in between two super TALL guys that made it really difficult to pass items :( that nite was really funny! coz my friends and i came up with code names to identify ourselves yet not givin away our names to our sp. i was called apple -.-" haha ..so act cute. as a result, my friends' partners & mine followed suit. my sp was called durian ..a D24 (i tink) from thailand ..dotssss .. haha! while my friends' were chicken farm & starfruit. the whole episode was real hilarious la. now i cant get rid of that stupid 'name' apple. bleah ..
war games were messy & beach games were HOT!!!! haha .. i got ultra sun burns la! now i'm super dark & my burnt skin ached like hell :( my skin colour is really gross now as i'm startin to peel... ewww. hope those tonnes of whitenin cream applied work their magic!!!
fri was fright nite. they purposely made us go in guy-girl pairs only la ... damn scary!!! i think i practically clawed my partner .. haha. fright nite ended only ard 2am then. guys were hungry so we did away with the idea of sleeping. mann .. wrong move. i was so tired! my contacts were so dry that it felt as though they were stuck onto my eye balls .. gosh it really hurt! in the end, we left for homes ard 6am in the morning to sleep. meeting again ard 1pm for lunch followed by rag. it was super packed & the weather was disastrous! it practically felt like a sauna. in the end, we cld take the heat no longer. headed off to marina sq & played pool. okkk .. guess i did improve a bit but i still suck great time .. haha. considerin it's only my 2nd time playin! at least i only air ball once this time :) my og mates were kind enuf to pretend not to notice! haha. lame ...
orientation wk is over. exhausted & lookin horribly dark! lessons are starting tomorrow ... sigh. cant help feeling excited or nervous. up till now i still dont noe my classmates, my way ard campus clearly, my tutorials, etc ... mann! i'm a sotong. at least i dont feel so lonely anymore. made really good friends at orientation! engineering doesnt seem that bad after all :) however, i still got to say this: my timetable sux!!! so does my modules... argh
all the best to my uni life mann .. hope it rawks :)
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Monday, August 06, 2007
watched this with my dad and bro. fantastic.
i'm soooooo into SHAWN YUE! hurrrrrrrrrr ..
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Friday, August 03, 2007
finally i got my room assignment...
is
WEST FAIRCHILD INTERNATIONAL STUDIES RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE for the win!! woo~
got to know my roommate too!
her name is ramachandran lakshmi! she's a gymnast, and she loves italian food (that's much i know ... heh)
i think she looks like a mixture of jaya and samyu! haha (: is going to be great.
i got good vibes about it. plus my neighbours, cindy teng (she's a taiwanese-american?) and shannon ... is going to be suit style .. so 8 ppl in a suite, 4 rooms, shared bathroom and common area and large kitchen. nice~
now i got the 'things to put in my dorm' worries
i need to purchase:
table lamp
clip on small fan
bed sheets
towels
pillows
clothes hanger
clothes dryer
refrigerator
hook-on walls hanger
bolster
blanket
and many more ... how to lug all those to and fro?!
thinking of sending it off by shipping. :/
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