Home is where the Heart is

Nope. Didnt go shopping or tour Singapore. Was just a day out from my small room in PGP.

Chat with Winnie and Ying Zheng in the morning and I realise 3/4 of the class actually skip school today. Really disappointing. But at least I know that Yz manage to meet the promotional criteria. He's a smart student with the potential to excel if he put his heart to it. Winnie didn't quite made it but there's still hope. She have yet to get back her chem overall marks. Wish her all the best. S31, you all really need to work harder.

Had lunch together with Jinfeng and Leo at Biz Canteen. I had Chinese Mixed rice. It was not bad. Can consider that next time:P Leo was late coz he had something to do. So I met Jinfeng first. I was super unlucky. It started to rain just as I board the bus. Luckily, I alighted at the Business School and walk to the canteen instead. So there's shelter all the way:D

Leo joined us at about 12+ or 1pm. He was carrying super a lot of things. Like he just went shopping..haha..anyway after lunch we all went to Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library. Studied a bit. Play a lot. Sleep too. Haha..how we manage to do all that? Jinfeng went down to book the meeting room. So we practically have the whole room to ourselves.

Went back to Biz canteen for dinner. Jinfeng didnt manage to get his favourite grilled fish with lemon. So he didnt have anything there. Leo bought dried Yong Tou Foo for me. That's the first time I eat dried beehoon and yong tou foo. But it was not bad la. Quite nice:P Like the seaweed soup the most. Haha.

Took the shuttle bus to YIH then walk to MPSH 4. Jinfeng went to get his dinner (something from Old Chang Kee?) so walk to MPSH with Leo. Played a game with Bridge player. During midgame, Jinfeng asked me how I could win the game 64-0. Really tough but I manage to figure it out in the end. Had a game with Jinfeng, lost to him 53-11 due to a stoner trap. I must remember this!! Played another few games with Leo. Lost all of them:S

Oh Anthony was teaching this girl from Arts and they were all telling him to teach her the basics first or he'll just scare her away. Haha..really funny.

It started to rain very heavily when I decide maybe it's time to go back so stayed longer in MPSH 4. Played Tic-Tac-Toe with Leo. Haha..manage to trick him a few rounds but he trick me too.

Left MPSH at about 10pm. Still raining heavily and worse thing is, there's a lot of people at the bus stop. Luckily Ke Sin shared her umbrella with me so we manage to get on the bus and grab a seat. Was really lucky. Reach back PGP about 10.45pm. Shower. Online:D

Tomorrow's going to be another free day. But I think I have to use it to revise.=(

Since I played so much othello today, some Othello boards picture I had from JC.

Hearts

My initial - FS

TPJC =P

First and only lesson of the day - Organic Chemistry. Although most of the things taught seems to be from the A level syllabus, there's a lot that need further reading and explanation. We studied about benzene today. The ring structure that we used to draw is no longer considered the best structure here in uni. They prefer the double bond alkene like structure (or the kekule structure?). Can't really remember. Anyway, I think I have to revise all the mechanisms again. Some are really confusing.

Had lunch together with Gerard, Zhi Sheng, and Iris. We decided to go for western food. The queues at other stalls are just too long. Oh yes, throughout lunch we were talking about the F1 race last night. Haha..really exciting race. Gerard also told us about the accident he had before the recess week. Luckily it wasn't a bad accident. After lunch, went to YIH to meet Kim Hung to collect the photographs for archiving but the VPC room was lock so I have to come back and transfer the photos in PGP.

Browse through the photos for IFG and I found some interesting ones. Our othello team in action.

Yes. I finally get to watch F1 race. Nope. Not on the live circuit. Just on television. I haven't really got the chance to watch F1 races since I came to Singapore. It was really an exciting race especially when Massa was leading the race when Piquet crashes bringing the safety car. What was worse than losing the lead? Pit problem. Massa drove off with the fuel hose still attached to his car thus resulting in him having need to stop at the end of the pit lane for the mechanics to remove the hose. He really lost a lot of time there. Kimi was queuing behind Massa so he lost a bit of time there too. It was really a disastrous race for Ferrari. And what made it worse was Kimi crashing out with 5 more laps to go. So disappointing. Anyway, Alonso won the race eventually. He benefited from the safety car incident having pitted before his teammate crash.

I had lunch at Jade's place. She cooked noodles for me:P so nice. Then went over to her room and pack some stuff. Came back to collect my laundry and did some studying. I wonder why time flies when I most enjoyed it. Cooked porridge for dinner and watch F1. Called my mum after that.

Yeap. I attended the event under VPC. Went out to meet Guo Qi at YIH. He practically camp there most of the time.Chris had a test till about 5.45pm. So we took a bus to Clementi and met him there. The bus journey to Orchard Hotel wasn't as long as I expected. Only about 30mins if I'm not wrong. But anyway we were a bit late. Sook Zhen and David are already there.

We went on to register and realise that they actually didn't allocate a table for us (so sad). But anyway we manage to find a seat for the 5 of us. Dilesh our photographer was there too. Really enthu. He was there even before we reach. Well done.

Ate. Took photographs. Chat. There were prize presentation, the highlight of the day, in between our meal. SAVE and PRU also performed a song. Oh they actually served the wrong dish yesterday. It was suppose to be a dish for the next door's function (if my guess is correct) but the accidentally serve it to us. And the 3 of us had a prawn each. Taste good:P.

Yeap we were hanging around after the dinner. Taking photos and getting to know the new committee. Get to know the new NUSSU president as well. He's actually interested in photography too.

Left Orchard hotel at about 11.30pm. Waited for the bus 143 until midnight before we decided that we actually missed the last bus so we had better take another bus to Buona Vista. Took 105 instead. Reach Buona Vista at about 12.40am. We realise that there's no more bus for us to go back to PGP so we decided to walk. Quite tiring to walk in heels and the night breeze was so cold. Eventually we manage to reach PGP at about 1.20pm. Super tiring. Lucky there's Guo Qi and Chris to walk along, if not it'll be a never ending journey to walk alone. Went back to the room. Rest. Shower. Sleep.

Me in the dress my senior borrowed me for the night

How I spent my mid semester break? my initial plan was to catch up with all my studies and complete the assignments but I have yet to finish half of what I wanted to do and the break is almost over - tomorrow's the last day.

Saturday (20/9/2008)
Today's the finale for Inter-Faculty Games and I'm in the Science Reversi team. Reached MPSH 4 at about 9.30am. Didn't have a good start, I lost my first match to Ke Sin but it's okay she's really a good player. Carried on with another 3 games before we went for lunch. Had lunch with Leo, Jinfeng, Alex, Anthony, Mei Zhen, Ke Sin and Kai Chuan (i'm not really sure if I got their name right, I hope I did:P). More refresh after the break and I manage to win the 2 remaining games but the last game didn't start after some dispute from the medicine faculty. So there was quite a long delay but anyway, team science emerge as the champion - really happy for us (although I didn't contribute much).




Our medal for IFG - Reversi







After the prize presentation, we (Alex, Ke Sin, Leo and me) went for dinner at Clementi. We had Japanese meal, it's relatively cheaper and nicer than our school's. Left the place at about 7.20pm (Leo's late for his tuition!!). I went back to YIH to do archiving until about 10pm.

Sunday (21/9/2008)
Woke up quite early in the morning to do laundry. Really don't feel like doing anything after a tiring day. Anyway, I finish my laundry and ironed all my clothes. Studied a bit of biochemistry. Sleep. Went to YIH again at night to do archiving with Guo Qi and Sherly.

Monday (22/9/2008)
Today's my first outing with Video and Photographic Committee. The response wasn't that good. There were only 7 of us going for it. Met at PGP foyer at 1pm then we walked to Kent Ridge Park. It was quite a nice walk, the weather was nice - so it wasn't that tiring. But after that we have to climb the hill. That was really tiring. We were all sweating when we reach the top.

We continue our walk and photographing along the way. Oh and I forgotten to charge my camera so had to share the school's camera with Guo Qi. We continue our journey at Southern Ridges - Hortpark, Alexandra Arch, Forest Walk, Henderson Waves, Marang Trail and finally reaching Harbour Front. Took a bus back to PGP. Shower. Eat. Rest.

Some of the pictures I took before my camera died:P

Henderson Waves

Kent Ridge Park

Hortpark