finally touched down this morning at 8am! A380 was awesome, really spacious, comfy n nice, except for the stewards n stewardess who tend to pretend to be more frenly to foreigners than to singaporeans.. typical!
it feels so surreal to be home, cant believe that i left home for 9 mths alr.. everything seems to be pretty alright, upgrading going on at my block, dad n mum seem to have aged, prices of almost everything gone up! and singapore is hot!!! have to start getting used to the weather again! nonetheless, i love the sun! =)
waiting for results.. the feeling is urgh!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
end of year 1
alright i know this is a pretty late entry.. but anw an update is an update...
exam ended on 11th june, went london the next day, was busy on 13th with bop, 14th had Buddhist soc garden party and preparation for the cumsa garden party, 15th garden party and new hall garden party. went back, packed my ass out, and left at 3am the next day for my hols! sounds pretty packed.. wad was i thinking.... =S
anyway, 11th june 2008 marks the end of my 1st year in Cambridge. A year with mixed feelings, where i learnt more about myself, taught myself to be independent and exposed myself to this big huge world! Nonetheless, this a remarkable moment and memorable academic year thus far. No more, will i be a Nat Sci. No longer do i have sat lectures, no longer do i have 30 hrs week, no longer do i have to write crazy cells essays and meet crazy deadlines and so on n so forth.. you get the drift. But grass is always greener on the other side of the pasture, hopefully Chem Engine will be filled with lovely surprises and many interesting people. Finally get to have a department to call home, and a small class.. 60 pple i think!
1st year out in the uk. was pretty intimidating for a start. It's like getting plunged into this big big world where i have to learn to take care of myself. no longer will there be parents acting as support, and i have to start looking for new frens, frens close to heart. It's practically like resettling yourself in a whole new world, where your room is your own home! was pretty tiring for a start and i think i lost my direction for a brief moment at the beginning. studying abroad is fun yet intimidating. fun coz you have all the time in ur hands, no one's there to nag at you and you can do wadever you want. intimidating coz you got to learn to make your own decisions, manage your finance and try to get a life!
one thing i learnt most during this short 1 year (9 mths actually) is to cook. coming up with dishes i have never tried before, trying to emulate home-cooked food.. it's fun! and of coz cookouts are the best! you get to share home cooked food with your frens, mingle, feels like home! strangely, singaporeans only gel when they are not in sing.. exclude those el. at. though... and what i hate most is to do laundry! it's such a chore and really takes up lotsa time and effort.. sometimes the machine decides to go on strike and there goes my money and time... and i still cant iron properly! it's appalling yet annoying... i must learn how to iron or or or.. ask my to iron my clothes!! haha MY get the hint??
i think i am going to miss my 1st year.. where i dunno where my time went to, where i mug like there's no tomorrow, where i can do dumb things n get away with it.. this is life! camb has manage to bring out the best and worst in people. and it's amazing! during term time, it's like 8 weeks of hell.. the heavy workloads and activities and formals.. tt can definitely kill.. just y cant they extend term time and cut short our hols? n if onli if.. changing the start of the week from thursdays to mondays will help to avoid alot of trouble... but oh well... traditions are hard to change especially in a place like this...
alright.. 12 hrs to my flight home.. i cant wait to get back home!
shall update on my trip soon!
exam ended on 11th june, went london the next day, was busy on 13th with bop, 14th had Buddhist soc garden party and preparation for the cumsa garden party, 15th garden party and new hall garden party. went back, packed my ass out, and left at 3am the next day for my hols! sounds pretty packed.. wad was i thinking.... =S
anyway, 11th june 2008 marks the end of my 1st year in Cambridge. A year with mixed feelings, where i learnt more about myself, taught myself to be independent and exposed myself to this big huge world! Nonetheless, this a remarkable moment and memorable academic year thus far. No more, will i be a Nat Sci. No longer do i have sat lectures, no longer do i have 30 hrs week, no longer do i have to write crazy cells essays and meet crazy deadlines and so on n so forth.. you get the drift. But grass is always greener on the other side of the pasture, hopefully Chem Engine will be filled with lovely surprises and many interesting people. Finally get to have a department to call home, and a small class.. 60 pple i think!
1st year out in the uk. was pretty intimidating for a start. It's like getting plunged into this big big world where i have to learn to take care of myself. no longer will there be parents acting as support, and i have to start looking for new frens, frens close to heart. It's practically like resettling yourself in a whole new world, where your room is your own home! was pretty tiring for a start and i think i lost my direction for a brief moment at the beginning. studying abroad is fun yet intimidating. fun coz you have all the time in ur hands, no one's there to nag at you and you can do wadever you want. intimidating coz you got to learn to make your own decisions, manage your finance and try to get a life!
one thing i learnt most during this short 1 year (9 mths actually) is to cook. coming up with dishes i have never tried before, trying to emulate home-cooked food.. it's fun! and of coz cookouts are the best! you get to share home cooked food with your frens, mingle, feels like home! strangely, singaporeans only gel when they are not in sing.. exclude those el. at. though... and what i hate most is to do laundry! it's such a chore and really takes up lotsa time and effort.. sometimes the machine decides to go on strike and there goes my money and time... and i still cant iron properly! it's appalling yet annoying... i must learn how to iron or or or.. ask my to iron my clothes!! haha MY get the hint??
i think i am going to miss my 1st year.. where i dunno where my time went to, where i mug like there's no tomorrow, where i can do dumb things n get away with it.. this is life! camb has manage to bring out the best and worst in people. and it's amazing! during term time, it's like 8 weeks of hell.. the heavy workloads and activities and formals.. tt can definitely kill.. just y cant they extend term time and cut short our hols? n if onli if.. changing the start of the week from thursdays to mondays will help to avoid alot of trouble... but oh well... traditions are hard to change especially in a place like this...
alright.. 12 hrs to my flight home.. i cant wait to get back home!
shall update on my trip soon!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
who am i today..
today i started off being a gene.. looking at how i can be replicated using dna techniques. and i begin look for my close siblings, RNAs, how we are being spied on by machines, microarrays, southern blot, zoo blot n what not..
then i became a no., matrices in particular.. i journeyed through transformation, identifying and learning myself..
after a mini break, i decided to take on the identity of waves/particles. i learnt how to express my inner particulate nature and to hide under the disguise of being good old wave. i got to know my fave buddy, the hydrogen atom, where ride waves of quantum mechanic vibrations, tunnelled thru to out galaxies..
and soon i will become small particulate molecules... what will i become tomorrow?
then i became a no., matrices in particular.. i journeyed through transformation, identifying and learning myself..
after a mini break, i decided to take on the identity of waves/particles. i learnt how to express my inner particulate nature and to hide under the disguise of being good old wave. i got to know my fave buddy, the hydrogen atom, where ride waves of quantum mechanic vibrations, tunnelled thru to out galaxies..
and soon i will become small particulate molecules... what will i become tomorrow?
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
a less than normal day
alright.. 7 days to exams! yay!! not like i am well prepared or anything, but it's killing me! just cant wait for it to be over..
went to this camb overseas trust reception. supposed to be welcome ceremony for pple like me.. under bursary! it's like am here for nearly a year alr.. duh! anw it turns out to be a eat n talk cock session. met up with a no. of sing, malaysian n hk peepz.. talk cock, eat aimlessly for ard 2 hrs.. untill GOH finally turned up. prince of wales.. yes prince charles.. he's in his usual attire n coat/shirt combi.. and the funny thing was that i just watch The Queen yesterday! the way the media portrayed him n the real series of events behind the whole hoohaa.. it's questionable.. but anw it's not like he has tt much *ahem* of a reputation anwa... and he is like some cAMP secretory gene.. he beats dictyostelium for sure! anw everyone tried to take his photo, shake his hand n wad not.. but i didnt.. too troublesome! so here's his pic!!
n this is wad i do when i am bored!
okie time to make up for the lost time!!! boohoo
went to this camb overseas trust reception. supposed to be welcome ceremony for pple like me.. under bursary! it's like am here for nearly a year alr.. duh! anw it turns out to be a eat n talk cock session. met up with a no. of sing, malaysian n hk peepz.. talk cock, eat aimlessly for ard 2 hrs.. untill GOH finally turned up. prince of wales.. yes prince charles.. he's in his usual attire n coat/shirt combi.. and the funny thing was that i just watch The Queen yesterday! the way the media portrayed him n the real series of events behind the whole hoohaa.. it's questionable.. but anw it's not like he has tt much *ahem* of a reputation anwa... and he is like some cAMP secretory gene.. he beats dictyostelium for sure! anw everyone tried to take his photo, shake his hand n wad not.. but i didnt.. too troublesome! so here's his pic!!
n this is wad i do when i am bored!
okie time to make up for the lost time!!! boohoo
Sunday, May 25, 2008
when studying gets u cranky..
i think this is the only period when i am most active blogging..
exams in 8 days' time!!! n i am still mugging my ass off.. oh well.. tt's not a surprise anyway!
i realised i have never been so hardworking in my entire life!! in the past, i will nua abit, mug abit.. but now here in uni.. there's this compelling factor.. to keep me mugging, in hope that i can do well.. n probably it may be due to the fact that there's no much entertainment here other than my laptop.. the only thing i can do is to watch movies.. but there arent that many movies out there tt's nice to watch! looking back this past 9 mths.. it's been kinds terrifying i guess.. cant really run/do much sports, no tv to watch/have no watched tv, no games to play, not that many place to walk walk.. sounds like i am in some ulu place rite? but nah.. nono! brits usually hang out in the bar.. but i see no point in getting myself tipsy every night.. cant drink that much anyway..
and i start to have weird dreams! i dream about going back almost everyday!!! not that i dont like here.. but it's kinda strange.. the anticipation of going back home outweighs the scary motion of the impending exams! hmm.. i am not well prepared.. but nonetheless, who will say he/she is 100% prepared. i've got a point to prove, n i need to show what i am capable of..
i suddenly have this weird longing.. longing for food even after i have had my dinner. it's a weird n strange feeling.. and it makes me miserable! sains closed, hall closed n i am left with chocs which i dun feel like eating.. help me!
blogger/mugger..
exams in 8 days' time!!! n i am still mugging my ass off.. oh well.. tt's not a surprise anyway!
i realised i have never been so hardworking in my entire life!! in the past, i will nua abit, mug abit.. but now here in uni.. there's this compelling factor.. to keep me mugging, in hope that i can do well.. n probably it may be due to the fact that there's no much entertainment here other than my laptop.. the only thing i can do is to watch movies.. but there arent that many movies out there tt's nice to watch! looking back this past 9 mths.. it's been kinds terrifying i guess.. cant really run/do much sports, no tv to watch/have no watched tv, no games to play, not that many place to walk walk.. sounds like i am in some ulu place rite? but nah.. nono! brits usually hang out in the bar.. but i see no point in getting myself tipsy every night.. cant drink that much anyway..
and i start to have weird dreams! i dream about going back almost everyday!!! not that i dont like here.. but it's kinda strange.. the anticipation of going back home outweighs the scary motion of the impending exams! hmm.. i am not well prepared.. but nonetheless, who will say he/she is 100% prepared. i've got a point to prove, n i need to show what i am capable of..
i suddenly have this weird longing.. longing for food even after i have had my dinner. it's a weird n strange feeling.. and it makes me miserable! sains closed, hall closed n i am left with chocs which i dun feel like eating.. help me!
blogger/mugger..
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