titanic and spring cleaning

went to the titanic exhibition at art and science museum with some 7G pple a few days ago. the last time i watched the movie, i ended up looking up on titanic and reading the stories. as a result, my emotion was completely down for the entire period and i stopped listening to my heart will go on in order to pull myself out from that state -.- thankfully the exhibition didnt really affect my emotion much, probably because there were so many pple there…

everyone who went was given a boarding pass with an identity of a real passenger on board titanic and at the end of the journey, you get to find out whether u and your family survived or not.

i ended up being Mrs Rhoda Mary ‘Rosa’ Abbott who survived the sinking but both my sons died T.T the exhibits were quite interesting, especially the “iceberg” which made people really understand why the passengers really couldnt survive for long in the sea. seconds after i put my hand on the ice, my fingers went numb…

i did some spring cleaning today, mostly because my cupboard was going explode soon so i decided to see whether i should throw away some things. listened to CN Blue’s songs as i went through the stuff. i have been listening to CN Blue everyday for about one to two weeks now. i didnt listen to kpop at all before CN Blue but after hearing some of their songs in We Got Married, i realised their genre is sort of different from the typical kpop i hear around. some on youtube said theirs was more like indie rock. i really love both their rock and slow songs. the next time they come singapore, i’ll probably go and see them haha!

anw as i went through the things i collected over the years, its really interesting because i had almost forgotten the existence of some.

found this box with paper pasted at the bottom. i cant belive my writing was like that o.0

some magazines bought during 2007-2009

and i cant believe i actually have a feilunhai poster -.-

a random photoframe which i couldnt rmb where i got it from

some stars folded during the trip to genting at the end of sec2

a CD from jasmine which i totally didnt rmb having haha

memorable bears collected. carebear from miss chee during ny green club farewell in sec4, blue bear with really pretty eyes from 7g for bday, hwachong bear and ny bear from graduation, and a small graduation bear from ny green club junior during farewell as well

soemthing that works like a musical box, even though its not a box, from my primary sch best friend once the thing at the bottom is twisted, happy bday will start playing (sounds like guitar) and the penguins will start turning like a dance

a chilli crab from one of the ny green club events. the tag contains chilli crab recipe haha

hwachong yearbook

nanyang 90th anniversary coffetable book (?) and graduation magazine

hwachong graduation book and mr ng’s gift to 7g

some of the gifts from friends. the blue leaf!!!

collection of collarpins from pri sch activities (those that u fulfil 15 stars or something to get the badge… i rmb going to botanic gardens to collect leaves o.0)

more collarpins from the singa award and the anti-durg campaign (the ribbon used to be made of cloth then it changed to collarpin )

my chain is still intact for the hc collar pin woohoo

nametag from ny days

letters and poly-A tail from mrs sim in j2

my first primary sch (for p1 and p2) which is no longer existent cos it combined with another sch

SMP project in sec3 which subsequently went on to ssef (which caused us to miss sec4 lifeskills camp haha)

snow globe from genting i love this! going to start collecting them for the different places i go to in future

hc prom and graduation stuff

iec lanyard

ny graduation booklet.. i was so surprised when i found this haha

homemade windchime from eyu and bear which brings back alot of memories p.s. if you two see this, its still kept safely haha! nothing broken yet xD

some photos on the windchime
during graces formal dinner

and during sec2 choral and drama night

so there concludes my mini spring cleaning
and its the new year already (omg so fast!)
2011 had been a fulfilling year. made new friends from iras, had a go at a job at call centre (which i think is quite unforgettable, for the good and for the bad…) and started uni and made more new friends hopefully 2012 will be another great year as well! i really dont believe its the end of the world…

 

national museum

met up with jiaying, vanessa and sengyew for lunch a few days ago at orchard. jiaying ended up being late so there were only 3 of us for lunch at sakae. their xmas logcakes looked so cute!!! but their price not very cute haha! sy told us about his time in tw, which made me so jealous zzzz TW TW TW TW TW TW TW!!!!!! next holiday!!!

sy left a while after jiaying came. the three of us wanted to go kbox at first but it turned out to be very ex ’cause nessy didnt bring her student card. so in the end, we decided to walk to the national museum. i went to the museum around a month ago with my mum for her experiential tour during which i realised its free for students haha! and the exhibits were quite interesting!

thsi year’s xmas deco in orchard is one of my favourite cos of its colour theme: BLUE!!! and white! and its the shade of blue that i like haha! saw some interestingly-dressed people along orchard xD

with nessy

with jiaying

we saw this pair of escalators with no one so went to play on it xD the escalators were in opp directions (in case cannot tell from the pics -.-) tried several times before we got some nice ones.

national museum!!

love this photo!

went to the singapore hsitory gallery

love this too! this is so cute xD

after the tour

going to go back someday to visit other galleries

half of the holiday is over already. received my allocated timetable weeks ago but its so screwed that i am probably going to end up add/drop-ing almost all the classes. if everything goes well, i will end up with a 3day week even though each day is going to be quite packed. the courses next sem seem very heavy, each having its own difficulties:
accounting II -which i heard is going to be a lot harder than accounting I
marketing
statistics
econs -AGAIN -.- which i didnt choose to be exempted cos of actuarial science
organisational behaviour -which everyone who took it disliked in sem1
communication fundamentals which involves endless presentations

and results will be out soon on 22nd… i totally have no idea what to expect from it -.-

i think i am going to clear my space in the cupboard soon… the one holding all my momentos and gifts etc. thinking of doing a post on that so that i can look back one day even if i lost some of the stuff

 

freedom :D

exams is finally over and for some reason, i felt myself looking forward to the holiday more than how i felt during A levels… one more month before the entire process repeats itself again lectures-tutorials-seminars-PROJECTS-exams. time really passes very fast. to think that 1/8 of uni life is already over -.-

went kbox with xianjin yenyee shijia and shiyao after FM paper on thursday. its quite fun to sing with a new group of friends haha saw this 5 level playground thing for kids at jurong safra and we wanted to go play heh… ticket price for adults is around $5, which is quite worth it watched na xie nian on friday for a second time at jurong point and its still as funny and touching as ever i dont mind watching it for a third time haha! its quite amazing that until now the shows are still full house and still alot of pple left without waiting for the last part after the credits xD

i am now catching up on the dramas and variety shows. its so shuang to just slack without thinking of anything else woohoo!!! cant wait to catch up with different groups of friends

 

2 more weeks!

two more weeks to exams!! i have just printed a few sems worth of past papers to complete by 16nov woohoo… a few things have happened since i last posted.

went to TODAI@MBS for dinner some nights ago with my family cos my dad recommended the place after having been there for a wedding reception. its international seafood and sushi buffet and around 68 per person, but the price is totally worth it!! i wanted to blog on that together with photos but there was no time -.- photos are on fb! in the end we received $40 voucher so we decided we shall go there again during cny

selina got married on 31st oct! not that thats got anything to do with me but its so touching!! spent some time looking at the photos and videos on monday when i was supposed to study for accounting quiz (on tues) but good thing the quiz wasnt that bad haha! managed to finish ahead of time

went to jurong regional library to study with jiaying and nessy today. it was a very productive day managed to finish accounting and fm tutorials, read and make notes for 2 chapters for IT and completed one past year paper for fm woohoo!! i feel so accomplished but theres so much more to do. one week plus to chiong finish 8-10 exam papers and theres IT quiz next week -.- looking forward to the singing session at teoheng on sunday with ex-colleagues and watching 那些年. that will be the only two outings before the end of exams sigh!

going to the airport to send my sis off to shanghai on saturday night/midnight… how wish i am the one flying off…

 

泪奔ING

watched this the first thing i on my com this morning and couldnt stop crying after that T.T

 

where has the year gone??

i am starting to see graduation photos of juniors on facebook and its like a sudden realisation that i have graduated for a year o.0 it seems like the year has passed without really doing anything much… i have for many times now, wished to be back in jc again. really miss the life in hc cos of several different reasons which i may or may not have mentioned to some close friends. i know alot of people miss jc life too cos i have been seeing some nostalgic status updates on fb as well sigh…

i am currently drowning in projects even though its near the end of the term. i think i prefer doing tutorials than projects cos time is more easily managed. one good thing is contract law is finally over for biz law, so moving on to business organisations now. tutorials seem to be slightly easier but then again, i should not assume anything for biz law cos it always turns out to be the opposite of what i thought -.-

nanyang’s eoy programme is here again so my sis will be flying to shanghai soon. how i wish i am the one flying off… so many places i want to go!! like taiwan!!!! (envy sengyew cos he is going taiwan soon, even though its only for ns haha) and i want go hk again too! didnt get to play much the last time round -.- cant wait for december to be here even though i know the one month break will zoom pass like crazy. KBOX! DRAMAS! MOVIES! (i want to watch 那些年我们一起追的女孩 )

27 days to finals~
2 more presentations, 3 more reports, 3 more quizzes left to go…

 

recess week

wow my last post was nearly a month ago…

life has been REALLY hectic, almost like blindly following a routine over and over again… i was quite looking forward to recess week before i realised how much work there was to complete -.- thank god i didnt have any backlog, if not it would be far worse phew!

some updates here:
quite a few friends flew off to uk already but i only sent one of them off >< i blame the flight time and the amount of work i have zzz but still wishing them all the best

my desk looks like how it looked like during a level again… just that it used to be one whole stack of files and now its one stack of textbooks. the only reason why the files are still on the other table in the living room is because my desk got no space sigh… i had a total of two quizzes so far for all my courses, which is quite few i guess! but mid-terms coming up for accounting and fm and i can really feel the pressure building up -.- whoever saying that a lvl is the worst is WRONG!!!

had my second driving test last tuesday and i passed woohoo!! with a total of 12 demerit points but i am still very happy haha!! i will forever remember the car number is 77 (lucky seven!) and whats more, vanessa drove that car on fri and she passed also!! waiting for the license to be posted now… its so shuang just to think about no more lessons to attend and no more money flowing out

finally went to cut my hair today cos there is a discount going on … the last haircut was probably a year ago haha! not really used to shorter hair now but definitely a lot easier to manage. i think i look weird though -.-

so thats about all for now… today is the last day of recess week. i cant believe it is ending already, when it didnt even feel like it started -.- its going to be full speed going on (with almost at least a test or major presentation every week) until the end of final exams. cant wait for december to be here!

 

7G, naat and pottermore :D

had dinner with 7G at crystal jade xiaolongbao buffet at holland v last tuesday. its my first time eating at crystal jade D: the whole class plus mr ng turned up and we occupied 3 tables there (and i think we were the noisiest there haha). the XLBs were really nice!! i will definitely go there again went to chill and talk after dinner and mr ng treated us to icecream it was an enjoyable night cos it has been a long time since the entire class gathered together. looking forward to maf this saturday!

went to sentosa for naat orientation on saturday. i think this would be my first visit to sentosa since stj in j1?? spent quite a long time waiting at vivo and the group of us were quite excited talking about the old huanzhugege haha! our group name was “pong-ah” like mahjong and it eventually became “pongah” or something lol! and there were 7 hwachong pple in the grp, which made it seem like a sch gathering or something xD played some icebreakers at sentosa and the slippers game. nasi lemak for lunch and some sort of amazing race after lunch. its not actually amazing race lar, just stations with tasks to complete. overall, it was quite a fun orientation but i think mainly its cos the group is good cant wait to see how the audit assignments are like.

and i FINALLY received my pottermore email yesterday so i spent around half the day completing book1. i think its quite smart of them to launch this thing cos it gives fans something to hang on to for another few more years but at the same time, i think its going to be quite boring waiting for the next book to come out (which i think will be sometime nextyear according to someone on the forum??) also there seems to be some problem with the dueling thing on the site cos its undergoing maintenance so things you can do on the site are sort of limited to brewing potions and practising spells. anyway, i am sorted into ravenclaw, which was the house i most wanted to go before my fav changed to slytherin so its not too disappointing i guess. and the pages looked so pretty with the blue theme got a phoenix core for my wand though its quite short haha. hwo i wish i am in the harry potter world where magic is real. then i will be learning potions and charms instead of business law and operations -.-

 

i love my friends :D

met up with vanessa jiaying and wenxuan for dinner after sch today. it has been a long time since i looked forward to something with such excitement (even though its only a dinner) walked around ntu and went to vanessa’s room for a while. it felt really good to be able to talk about anything and have a great laugh over small things because i cannot really do such stuff with the new pple i have met in uni yet. dinner was at jurong point pizza hut. once again, we marvelled over how it felt like we have known each other for a really long time when its not even a full year yet (more like slightly over half a year) its really a blessing to have known this group of friends from a 3-month job. to think that if i didnt apply for the job (or if i applied later or earlier resulting in being in a different batch of intake) i wouldnt have known them… especially cos we are always alble to have lots of fun just talking alone. and thats really important for me because when pple ask me what i look out for in relationships (including friendship) i will always say being able to talk about just anything under the sun. so i am really thankful for fate

uni life is becoming a routine. i more or less enjoy the classes (some more than the others). the social part is more tiring because i have almost totally different classmates for each course cos of the fact that i am taking double degree. usually single degree pple will be assigned to a fixed tutorial group but in this case double degree pple are more like floaters. sometimes i really envy those pple with fixed tutorial groups like bearbear… its true to say that i may end up knowing alot more pple at the end of uni, but i think most of them are going to end up as acquaintance, not close friends.

driving is coming to a close (hopefully) cos my test is coming up next fri. praying hard i will pass so i dont need to spend more money and time on it. looking forward to dinner with 7G next tues and going to go to the airport next fri to send off a friend

 

start of uni life

it still hasnt set in yet… like what i told vanessa, i dont feel like a full time student yet. more like taking on a random sabbatical, a sabbatical with more loads of work to complete than a usual one haha! actually the feeling resembles what it was like during the training period in iras: attending lessons but not studying if u get what i mean.

my first day in uni was a tiring one. lessons from 9.30am to 9pm! of course hopefully this will be a once-off thing but i seriously dont think so sigh… i sort of enjoyed the lessons (2 seminars and 1 lecture) but it was really draining by the end of the day. everything’s so fast paced e.g. i already have a group presentation coming up 2 weeks later -.- and also one whole list of work to complete by the end of this week. i totally can imagine how things are going to accumulate and pile up if i slack off or how lost i am going to be if i happen to fall asleep in class zzz besides that, it was psychologically draining as well because i couldnt seem to relax in a new environment, which i have not experienced since sec 1. i miss having several friends in the same class T.T i can already see that tutorials or seminars in uni will not be like tutorials with 7G… I MISS JC SO MUCH!!!!

anw i hope i can pass the settling in phase soon! meanwhile i am looking forward to accessing pottermore! its going to be around late aug so cant wait!!