Unpolished Gem

Ah! Photos are always well-received! I should try to put up more next time right! Found out how to do it fast ... finally! Right, i'm trying to be reflective now. It's been a month since i left sunny singapore behind. So much has happened, but essentially nothing has changed. Just joined the hoardes of international students here.. student migration. I would think London has been kind to me so far, the weather hasn't been that very bad (YET), i have a room mate who eats rice and chinese food and we get along, i live 10 minutes away from school, 10 minutes away from covent garden, 15 minutes away from chinatown and leicester square, oxford street . They've got fantastic fashion boutiques in covent garden.... imagine.. zara, marks and spencer, miss sixty etc etc are just 5 to 10 min walk away. Endles endless eateries etc etc. In short, if i have the money, boy would i go bonkers down here! That's just to give you a general feel of the area i'm living in. So far, l...

Oh man, it's been almost 2 hours and i can barely get any of those International relations jargon into my puny head that's stuffed full of so many other thoughts. Just had to VENT. What have i gotten myself into man... choosing IR as option! There are so damn bloody many readings... i'm dying even before classes have officially started. And the math is pretty tough, and the econs is different from what we did. And stats.. my gosh. Boohoohoo. It's so tough! I want to join societies like Volunteering or something, but i think of all the readings and work... how to find time? Doesn't help that i get distracted easily... this sucks! I want to go back to JC when all the notes were nicely printed and organised, when you can afford to not pay full attention in lecture yada yada. There is so much to do but yet i feel constrained by school work... i've got to find a way to work round this man. Stress...

 

I've given up on the idea of sending photos via email. So next time, photos will be available via here again! Cos, emails bounce sometime and i dont' really have an up to date list of everyone's email. (Sorry huimin! It wasnt intentional!) Same idea, i will choose the nicest, momentest pics to put up. Today, we went to Canterbury! It's a nice little town, the cathedral was super nice! Like, we kept going.. take picture take picture. And because it's a coastal town, we managed to catch the "beach". A pebble beach with no sand. Here are some pics :

 

 

 

 

 

hello! i apologise for the lack of updates! Just that everytime i want to update, something crops up... eg looking for answers online for math etc etc or chatting on msn. Anyway, it's been almost a week since mummy left, and guess what, i'm really adapting to life here now... like fish to water.. okae or maybe... like toddlers to walking (bad analogy but you get the idea! taking baby footsteps, tripping sometimes but that's fine). Yesterday, i went up to Birmingham with uncle and Allison(my newfound friend) Along the way, we went to Oxford which was nice. Wouldnt say i was overawed by the place but it was very pretty... away from the hustle and bustle of London alas. We kind of saw where Harry Potter was filmed ( u know in episode 1 when they were learning how to fly QUidditch). And we caught the Oxians rowing down Thames... that was interesting! They have so much space gosh while we're so squeezed in London! And we went to Uni of Birmingham as well.. uncle was so excit...