another chapter closed

EXAMS ARE FINALLY FREAKING OVER! :D i guess this marks the end of being a fresher. ah i still have a stupid field trip but that's year 2 stuff, so technically speaking, OMG MY FIRST YEAR IS O-V-E-R.

amazing amazing year :D new friends, new experiences, new life.

i look back at my to do list and let's see what i've done. must keep track :b

DO

1. Appear on the Dean’s List (i'm sorry, mugger by nature :)) [got chance got chance :D hopefully]
2. Climb/hike up a mountain and camp at the top
3. Cross the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
4. Cross the Millau Viaduct in France
5. Eat at a three-star Michelin restaurant [ate at a one star in eindhoven, netherlands. one step at a time :)]
6. Go horse-riding
7. Go on a caravan trip
8. Go on a cycling tour [NEXT YEAR!]
9. Go on a hot air balloon ride [NEXT YEAR!]
10. Go on a volunteer trip [NEXT YEAR!]
11. Learn German [hahah mission aborted]
12. Make friends from at least 30 different countries [easy peasy :D]
13. Run a marathon [NEXT YEAR!]
14. Savour cheese from every country visited [doing doing :D]
15. Skydive/Hang-gliding or anything from the sky to the ground safely [NEXT YEAR!]
16. Take part in a weird quirky competition [NEXT YEAR!]
17. Travel alone [done, annnnd SOOOOON LIKE  TMMMMRRRR]
18. Try local delicacies no matter how disgusting they sound [doing doing :D]
19. Watch a famous musical [phantom, les mis, oliver, chicago, wicked]
20. Watch a soccer match [3 in fact. haha]
    

SEE

1. Baby-Jumping Colacho Festival in Spain [NEXT YEAR!]
2. Cheese Museum/Factory
3. Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling in England [NEXT YEAR!]
4. Fjords of Norway
5. Giant's Causeway in Ireland [NEXT YEAR!]
6. Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
7. Harry Potter Filming Locations
8. La Tomatina in Spain [NEXT YEAR!]
9. Land's End in Cornwall [NEXT YEAR!]
10. Leaning Tower of Pisa before it becomes the Fallen Tower [NEXT YEAR!]
11. Loch Ness
12. Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany [NEXT YEAR!]
13. Northern lights / Midnight Sun / Polar Nights [NEXT YEAR!]
14. Olympia and Ancient Greece [NEXT YEAR!]
15. Queen’s Day in Netherlands [NEXT YEAR!]
16. Real Mona Lisa painting [NEXT YEAR!]
17. Roman Bath [NEXT YEAR!]
18. Stonehenge
19. The Coliseum in Rome [NEXT YEAR!]
20. Vatican City, the Angles and Demons way [NEXT YEAR!]

hmm doesn't seem like i've done much this year. hahaha. digressed from my list too much :b ok next year a lot of things to do :b for now, savour my freedom, pack my room and my bag for my trip and wooooohoooooooooo!

and by the time i go back to singapore, i would have gone to...
1) UK - scotland, england, wales (stupid field trip)
2) Germany
3) Netherlands
4) Belgium
5) Norway
6) Austria
7) Slovakia
8) Hungary
9) Estonia
10) Latvia
11) Lithuania
12) Poland
13) Ukraine
14) UAE

AWEEEEESOOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEE :D

ok maybe when i'm free i'll come up with a list of what i've done and where i've been. sole purpose is to make you jealous. really. hahahahahaha :D sorry post-exam high.

omg i'm super duper wuper excited :D

nothing ever goes the way it's supposed to.

DECLARED HIATUS

It's coming to an end to my first year in university. Official lessons have ended. It's now the spring break. After the break, it's the exams. I want/need the first class.

I had an amazing first year.
I had an amazing birthday.
I had an amazing holiday to Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest.

time to end the year amazingly by doing well for the exams, so i'm gna be a mugger and i'm gng to ignore this blog for a while. photos are all on facebook.

kthxbye!

the past 37 days...

omg it's been so damn long since i last blogged. damn busy. but now feel like slacking. so i'm slacking. haha. one thing has been constant all this while, i've been gaining weight. shit. damn. need to lose it. freak. good thing weather turning warmer. more motivation to go run :)

oh there was scenario 3! scenario 3 was much less intense then the previous 2. because the group was like a size of 12 people. used to be 6, so they just doubled it. the workload was considerably lighter and much more manageable, but a bigger group meant more effort in teamwork, cooepration and compromising. ah well, survived through it and i think our shrimp farm is realistic enough. haha.

after scenario 3 was reading week. went to scotland :D woohoo! basically, it was a really really nice trip. the train rides were so beautiful. saw a lot of things, best was the harry potter viaduct. it was really pretty :) saw pretty things, ate good food, enjoyed myself a whole load :) photos are all on facebook and that pretty much tells the story :D haha.

after reading week, school was just hectic. had to catch up on lectures, had many many labs, autocad and a whole load of new stuff. aiya, school is like school lor. haha. major part was the uclss production - a twist of fate. i was in charge of set design. we had a really tiny budget, but had to come up with a posh peranakan house. made do with ikea and batik and flowers and kueh. omg speaking of kueh, so much time and effort. but i think it was really worth it because people appreciated it and said it was nice :D yay.

had my fair share of fun, frustration and disappointment about the production. now that it's over, i think it was a job well done and yeah, glad i was part of it and glad people enjoyed the kueh :)

and the kueh was so good, i made it again for one world week at the aeisec global village. sold out ok? hahahaha. woohoo! oh yeah, and the ura hr came down for some career fair under PSD. so we went out for a good dinner at four seasons :D woohoo! they should come down more :D hehheh.

ok, time really really flies. 2 more weeks and the 2nd sem is over. my final week of lessons and then scenario 4 and it's easter break. after that will be exams and then i'm going home. omg damn fast. can't wait for easter break :D going to budapest and vienna. exciting yo! :D :D :D

i will try to blog more often :b and i'm too lazy to post any photos so just go to facebook. i update facebook so frequently :b

updates. FINALLY :D

新年快乐 everybody! :D

i'm so sorry for the lack of updates. have been sooooo busy. school has already started. 3rd week just ended. time really really flies. started on new stuff and fluids and soils and geomatics. woah. information overload. haha. scenario 3 is next week. we're supposed to build a shrimp farm. and we're in groups of 12. like super ultra big group. hope it will turn out fine!

i've decided to drop the committee position in ewb. doesn't really seem to be for me. the comm is a fun bunch but my plate is full (and i'm getting fat) so i kinda just evaluated my priorities and ewb is not on the top. i'll be an active member though. so i'll just concentrate on singsoc and dhs (though this one really not much to do hahahaha) for now and next year no more societal stuff. i'm going to take up an overseas volunteer project for the summer and it'll be a year of prep. so hopefully things go as planned ba :D

so there's been a few bdays since. just celebrated one for my coursemate from egypt during an hour's break. no pictures though. it was rather impromptu and i didn't have my camera and i don't have an iphone to do mobile uploads (sour sour).

lujie's 22nd at azzurro with omnomnom italian food :D

yewjin's 21st. lunch, then a surprise at midnight :D

denise's 20th at koya with very good udon. she's not in the picture though. she sat at another table. haha.

fin's 19th with a surprise at his hall :D

and i watched another musical, les miserables. awesome musical. loooooooove the set and the singing and the story. can't decide which is my favourite anymore.

awesome :D

and we went to see london's ice sculpture festival. a tad disappointing cos there weren't many sculptures and we didn't go on the hands on day. we only saw a competition. so we saw the final touches and the final product.

my favourite piece :D

o.m.g the best part is we redefined hall life. this needs a section of its own :D

cooked curry and took hall food :D

omnomnomnomnom :D

must have bread with curry right? so we took from the dining hall. haha.

with a movie and a projector...

in-house cinema yo!

and it's been almost a month since i last blogged, of course there's a lot of good food that went into my stomach :D

french buffet at Le Bouchon Breton

ooooh double chocolate cake from patesserie valerie

OMG steamed mince pork with salted egg yolk, lor bak and sweet potato porridge from leong's legend

beef and fish sashim, miso soup and the best inari sushi i've ever eaten

teriyaki chicken, soft shell crab tempura and oyster tempura from ukai

the nearest to ice kacang i can find from candy cafe

chicken curry, fish curry and vegetable curry. indian food at shilpa.

and because its chinese new year, there's a lot of celebrations. firstly was the combined alumni cny carnival by hwachong, raffles, vj and dhs :D huge success :D then there was our little hall steamboat atas ttm and ytd there was uclss cny celebrations where there was not enough food but the turnout was good, with karaoke, mahjong and games. and i just came back from ura cny dinner with turkish food, exotic yo!

look at the crowd! :D i hung the lanterns leh. haha. cos dhs in charge of logistics.

steamboat for cny eve with fresh scallops, tiger prawns and 1 white promphet per person, all from billinsgate fish market where jiapei and i went at 4am in the morning. hahahaha.

uclss cny celebrations. so paiseh about the food :b

tas restaurant, serving turkish food. very full and satisfied from the dinner :D

ok cny celebrations continue tmr. for now. time to do a bit of readings. then sleep. before i lost them all next week for scenario 3. shall try to blog about the weekend if i can. tata for now :D

oops. have been feeling too lazy to blog :b

much have happened since the last time i blogged. i'm back from my netherlands trip. came back on the 28th. spent time around london with my mum. went to shop/walk along oxford street, didn't get anything. nothing to get. watched phantom of the opera. amazing set. love the set. more awesome than oliver's haha. but there was something lacking, i dunno what. something. had the dhsya(uk) party. lots of food. brian's fruit cake was amazing. counted down with zhou1gong1 cos i was sleeping in my room while my mother watch the fireworks from the window. started school work and studying. ggrr... great way to start the year :)

foooood :D

ytd, went for arsenal vs man city live @ emirates stadium. amazing experience. the atmosphere was awesome. but there were no goals, so i couldn't experience the whole ecstasy with 60,000 other people. haha. the similar reactions from the fans everytime something happens on the field is quite funny. haha. oohh i saw the referee flash the card! omgomgomg. hahahaha. yay to live matches. cross out another on my to do list, but i wanna watch another one, one with goals so i can go GOOOAAALLLL!!! hahaha.

wheeeeeeeeeee!

best thing that happened so far, I'M GOING HOME THIS SUMMER! I CAN DO MY ATTACHMENT! :D YAY! see all of you in july in SINGAPORE! DURIANS! HUGO! whee! :D but before that, term2, reading week :D, easter break :D, exams ):, summer break, wales trip dadada. busy busy term starting soon. time to gear up.

ok, so here's a belated happy new year. and i'm gng to bath/salisbury/stonehenge today :D

i love holidays :D

Happiness is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preferences, but that makes it easy to forget that sometimes happiness can be found in having what we’ve always had and everyone else is having. – Malcolm Gladwell

I’m currently reading What The Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell. It’s a really nice book. There are some parts I find hard to understand, but the main gist really makes a lot of sense.

anyway, since i last blogged, there's brighton, bricklane and half of my netherlands trip :D

Brighton

a really small town meant for summer. haha. seriously. we walked around the area, looked at the nice buildings and walked around their main shopping area. and went to look at the port, basically all the tourist attractions and finished them in a few hours. the real attractions like water sports and the orb rolling thingy cannot be done in winter. but it was nice all the same, just time for my mum and i :D had a good lunch, nice htht. wanted to catch an earlier bus back but all buses were stopped because of the heavy snow in london. so we decided to take a train back instead. more expenisve, but at least we recahed home:D

Bricklane
decided not to go back to brighton since we alrdy saw everything there is to see. so we went to bricklane with jaipei and lujie and jiapei's friends from warwick, haikal and elizabeth. good good food. yummy :D then home to pack for netherlands trip.

Day 1 to 5 of Netherlands trip
pretty good trip so far. place is covered in snow. like totally. arrived at eindhoven after an hour's flight. got a little delay, but no too much. went to visit my 1st uncle in Panningen and 2nd aunt in Sittard. and that was day 1.  

day 2 my mum and i just walked around the city centre of eindhoven. just stroll and look see look see. the highlight was the dinner at Avant-Garde, which is a 1 michelin star restaurant. OMG THAT WAS AWSOME. eating went to a whole new level. like seriously. it was an art. food was so good. and the whole process was so meticulous. amazing. one day i will have my 2 and 3 stars. hahahaha. 

day 3 we went to aachen in germany. walked around a german xmas market, ate german sausage and german potato fritters. haha. bought belgian chocolate from germany also. haha. then on to vaals where the three lands point is. went to 3 countries in 10secs. video on facebook. hilarious. haha. then we went to valkenburg cave xmas market. the market is in a cave, and its the biggest one in europe. bought a 1m tall giraffe, dunno how its gng to go back to london, but it will. haha. trying to think of a corner to put it in, my room lacks that. haha.

day 4 we went to antwerp. walked around the area, looked at the buidlings and markets. omgomgomg the chocolates there are like mmmmmmmmm. if i could, i will buy one of each flavour from every shop i see. but sorry no moolah. haha. and we saw many branches of the belgian choc we bought in germany. haha famous yo. then we headed to zierikzee where i am now. my 4th uncle restaurant. the b&b above the restaurant recently became a 1star hotel. haha. eating good food every meal :D cos my uncles are great chefs :D


day 5 nuaed around the restaurant, cos its xmas eve and everything is closed. tmr also close. sunday maybe will open. so these few days are just for us to nua around :D i like and eat good food :D i like also :D haha. and read my book. oooooh :D


ok photos all on facebook im too lazy to uplaod here. im off to eat again. Doei!