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Posted Friday, June 28, 2013 // 11:58 PM
As promised, the photos from our BKK trip in May with the uni coursemates Jenzi, Jodi, Tim, Ridz and Yvonne! It was a really enjoyable one although the weather was sweltering blistering hot (and by hot I mean 37 degrees Celsius). I mean, how can travelling with friends ever be boring?!
Our group photo at Suvarnabhumi airport! Kelvin took the same flight as us to meet up with the other group of coursemates!
 At the Grand Palace. it's my second time here! Strict dress code so I had to pull on a jacket despite the humid and burning weather.   Scrambling to hide under a shade whenever there's one to avoid the sun's merciless rays.  I've got swag picture. LOL  The three Js!      At pattaya's Coral island on the third day!  We all had our go at the jetski on the huge waves!  Ridz's cap  Grabbing ice cream and food at the nearby shopping mall!  Dinner at MK steamboat restaurant   At 8pm, all the waiter/waitresses just suddenly started doing a MK dance thing. Pretty cute!  The next day at chinatown for seafood after shopping for the entire day at platinum shopping mall. Bad choice to choose a random restaurant by the main street because we saw many pple there. Turns out that the food didnt taste really nice and was damn pricey.  Bangkok Jam. A common sight.  Our movie experience in BKK! Interesting adverts and they love their country so much they actually sing the national anthem before movies!   Posted Saturday, May 18, 2013 // 12:56 AM
So here marks the end of Year 2, Sophomore Year in NTU.I know everyone is probably sick of the phrase 'time flies' but no other phrase is more apt at describing how I feel! Each academic year in poly back then felt so much longer than that in NTU! Probably cause we have a shorter semester and longer summer break now in uni as compared to poly. As much as I dislike studying, I'm really not counting down to my convocation in 2015. How much I abhor work! How I wish I could stay forever young and study forever :( Can't imagine how my working life would be in a few years. To sum up the last semester, I would say it's definitely not as horrid and hectic as the semester before that. Without the much feared HW0202 (Research Writing), I had more time to focus on my studies! But like any other semesters, the start of each is always filled with table tennis trainings and competitions. Sad to say, I wasn't good enough to make it to the IVP team this year cause I haven't been training much and I think I've reached this stagnant phase where I can't improve any further but instead have huge room to deteriorate. Oh well, knowing that I won't be in the team playing for my school but rather just sitting on the bench really affected me quite badly. It just meant I wasn't good enough. That I was of lower standard. And what makes me most disappointed was because I've actually been in this sport for 13 years. Yeah sure, I can just make excuses for myself like 'I'm a slow learner' and 'It doesn't mean that the longer you play, the better you are' but it's hard for me to forgive myself for playing so lousily during the internal match. Devastating. Anyway, it's over. Actually it wasn't as bad as I thought. I mean sitting on the bench. I'm really proud of my teammates for helping to secure our champion title at IVP this year again (: and the men's team did us proud too so we had double champs for IVP just like SuniG. I was appointed as vice captain at the end of the whole IVP; thanks for my team for having faith in me. Although I wont be around for the whole of next sem, I'll do a good job in everything I do (: And then trainings stopped after IVP ended. Boy, was I more than happy to be able to dedicate all my time to studying. I'm not sure I'm really confident of this semester's exams though..I have to admit I was quite slack as compared to other sems. I guess I really need to be under stress to perform well. Shall leave all the 'Oh shucks I should have studied harder and watched less shows' to 31st May when the results are out. And right now I have URECA (continuation from last holidays), which is the abbreviation for undergraduate research experience on campus. Just like fyp, except I chose to receive stipends instead of clearing it as a module. The stipends can help me lighten the financial burden for the korea exchange. Oh yes, DID I MENTION I'M GOING TO KOREA NEXT SEMESTER FOR EXCHANGE?! At Dong-A University. Sounds fun right. But I'm kinda afraid. Don't give me the weird look but although I appear to be strong, I'm the kind of person that is afraid of rapidly changing environment. I hate changes and I have a hard time adapting to them. Which explains why I'm ordering the same food and mixing around with the same people all the time. I hope I will enjoy myself there instead of getting homesick ( which I think I most probably will)! I'm really glad I have Jodi going with me (: But Jenz is going to linkoping uni in sweden so we won't see each other for a sem :( I just came back from the BKK trip with coursemates a few days ago! Will upload pictures in the next blog post (: Till then, goodbye for now. 2013
Posted Tuesday, January 1, 2013 // 7:45 PM
It's the first day of 2013.Pretty fast, eh? I remembered it wasnt too long ago when i started my first year in NTU in 2011! And I havent really had the time to blog (havent had the time to bloghop, let alone blog), so I decided that it should become a half-yearly blog, haha. Wonder how I should really start updating my life for the past half year. There are simply too many events to be written down! hmm alright mayb i'll start from the team!  Trainings kinda took up about half of my time spent in NTU. Three times of trainings a week , each lasting about 4 hours when SUniG was round the corner. It was really crazy, really exhausting. I didnt have as much time to catch up on schoolwork and was lagging pretty much behind. That semester's modules were really quite bad I thought. Particularly biochemistry. With the lecturer's hypnotizing voice and endless reactions to memorize, biochemistry really made it's way up to one of my most hated modules. Yet biochem wasnt the mod i fared most badly for this sem but it was the mod I was most interested in: Mol and Cell Bio II. Oh well. I am still quite satisfied for this sem results except for squash %$@*^%*@! Expected an A for it but got B+ which totally pulled my GPA down! It's the hols now but not hols at all for me :( Signed up for URECA which will take up the entire hols from 10 to 6pm everyday except weekends. I believed taking up ureca will be a good experience for me and make my portfolio look good. Besides, if I ever drop out of first class, I wont get such an opportunity in future. Yep, so I shall just treat it as work during the hols? Roomie asked me about my new year resolutions but I said I had none. I thought that if you really are set out to do something or achieve something, you wouldnt have to wait till the new year to do so. But as part of the tradition, I shall just state my new year resolutions! 1. Maintain my GPA 2. Gain more weight 3. Make the effort to remember things (Like dates with friends and their birthdays) 4. Go for exchange! 5. Go to bangkok at least once this year with friends! Alright, till then (: it's bye for another 5 months! Posted Friday, May 11, 2012 // 2:20 AM
Just realised my last post was when I first started my freshman year in NTU. And here I am, stepping into the second year of my uni life already. Well, many events have taken place within these 9 months. Happy ones, sad ones. Through which I've seen certain sides of people I haven't seen before, which made me realise how untrustworthy and weird humans can be. I was reading my old posts one day and I saw how much I've grown these few years. My thinking, my perception of others, my face... To the extent that sometimes, I don't even understand myself. I feel that I'm losing myself in this process of growing up, something undesirable for me. I find myself being less trusting in others after seeing the ugly side of others, I find myself building higher walls to keep people out, and only open up my heart to those who bother to climb over those walls. I find myself hating this world more and more. You know what, I really wish the whole '2012 marks the end of the world' thing is true. I'm cool with it since I've nothing to lose. I know it's unappreciative and ignorant of me to wish for death when at this moment, millions of people in the world are struggling and fighting against death. I'm always choosing the easy way out, isn't that so? Alright, I'll cut the emo nemo talk. So semester 1 in NTU was overwhelming-adapting to the uni life, meeting new friends, staying in hall, mugging like a no-life and juggling with table tennis at the same time. I must say being in the NTU table tennis team is really quite different. In the past, the teams I've been in were really small, but just nice to form a team and play for comps. I never really had to sit on the bench since we were shorthanded. The NTU ivp team is quite different, being a university team. Filled with talents-national players, china players and not forgetting those from those top-notch schools previously and are renowned in the table tennis circle in Singapore. So I am one of those lousy players at the bottom in the NTU team, struggling when it comes to the mini-competition within our team to decide who gets into the IVP team (which is damn helpful if you want to stay in hall). And the trainings are seriously tiring, the most tiring trainings I've ever experienced. It's a good thing though. Trains our stamina. But it's really bad when all the lab report deadlines and tests and trainings all cramp up together in a week. I guess I was pretty stressed out, having to cope with trainings and studying hard (reading my notes or doing tutorials almost every day) to achieve my goal but all the hard work was worth it because I did much better than I expected. Then I kinda started slacking in sem 2. With three core mods exemptions, I took up 3 electives, brought forward a year 2 mod and had a year 1 core mod, but I just somehow lost the energy and zest I had in sem 1. Oh well, shall leave the worrying to 24 May when the results are out. Good news: I'm going for a thailand trip with my NTU table tennis team mates next week for a couple of days (: A second team trip after the last one with chung cheng team mates! Looking forward to it ! Some pictures:                             |
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