Unpolished Gem

One and a half weeks to end of term! I got to start writing essay, it's a rather simple title i chose " Is globalization a good or bad thing?" which reminds me of GP. A very long GP essay. Hey.. i need my GP notes... ! Who can furnish me with all the generous info that Gary Lim fed us? ASAP? Booo. Everytime essay writing period comes... will be so sian... can't wait to get it over and done with and hopefully improve on the first one which i didnt' do well in! Can't wait to go Italy! Ahh! Hope it'll be lots of fun! And then i was thinking... hey, i want to go to the US sometime in my 3 years, Florida USA Disneyland! New York, Niagara falls, all the touristy things lah... But then, i need to think of how to get the money to go there. So perhaps, i should go for the Work and Travel USA thing, thing is, they want people in summer. Hmm... thinking too much! Just suddenly feel like being a kid all over again. Loads of people are flying home soon! Not me... boo, ...

Heya guys! I'm so sleepy but i will persevere and update! The reason i'm so sleepy is because we woke up at the unearthly hour of 4 30am on sat morning to catch the bus to Nottingham. I enjoyed it alot for several reasons, firstly and foremostly, the spirit of the netball team was fantastic! Inspite of the cold, I mean severe cold, we were so badly abused by the weather for 5 hours till our joints ached. Yes, it was very bad! I love how we all played our hearts out, cheered for each other, it's a very heartwarming feeling(perhaps the only thing that could have kept us warm). Even though i didn't play much, but woah, that team spirit, that drive is just fantastic. And there are so many people to thank for making this possible. Thank you from the bottom of my heart (i know it sounds cheesy, but i mean it ! :) I am so grateful to be part of this wonderful team. Secondly, i was reminded of the Hwachong days, those crazy days when we shouted ourselves hoarse cheering for the...

Eyes open this time! KAWAii!! blowing smoke.. looks weird but nmind! Singaporean platter of kueh lapis and durian kueh( i know it looks like something else... but it's durian kueh okae ! ) look what i'm holding!! Kueh lapis.. all the way from singapore thanks to aaron! So happy i couldnt breathe!

Heya!! Oh man!! It's freeezing down here! -2 degrees early in the morning, it's so blooody cold! Now, the face is like super cold when the wind blows, need to wear that kinda terrorist mask.. or gardener's mask or whatever you call it. Boohoohoo. It's not even December yet, arhhh.. ! No good no good! Anw.. yeah, i went to zone 3 early in the morning today to check out the rowin scene, walked a good 20 min to waterloo station, cos it was like 8 something on a sunday morning, it was pretty quiet and dodgy, there was this strange man limping around looking damn suspicious, i was so scared practically sprinted pass him. Finally got to zone 3... nice neighbourhood, but God, it was Freezing! Worse than central london. The fog was so thick... as illustrated in the pictures below, and there was some kinda hailstones! There was frost on the rooves( or roofs?) of the houses, looked truly like winter wonderland! balding trees and all. But... the river was so foggy... couldnt even ...

Super yummy icecream!! More ! More! Cool freaky blueman after the show! He dragged us to take the photo! damn funny! Kahmei and me and shakespear's HEAD More fireworks! More More! Burning the BIG BEN! Hey guys! I'm too tired to blog! Just a few pictures for your viewing pleasure( I hope! ) ha! Enjoy! :)

I guess i should get over it.. i was pickpocketed at Leicester square while watching the Harry Potter premiere. Never happened before my entire life... feeling so crappy now. Not alot of cash lost, just all the cards, had my first experience of reporting a case to the police,wouldnt ever want to go there again. Less than 2 months here and i get pickpocketed, please let this be the last. Totally spoilt my mood... the Harry Potter premiere would have been fun, Florrine and Winnie saw draco malfoy and neville longbottom and claudia schiffer and kate Beckinsale... and i missed it all. Upsetting... my wallet's gone. Argh... why why why. Bad Bad day. Now i have to make a new debit card, student id, take ic photos, get over the loss of my bi4 shen1 fu3, neoprints, photocopy card, calling cards, cash etc etc. Upset... Finally managed to more or less finish a crappy IR essay, took so long to finish it, i'm spending more time on IR than anything else and it's my option?!?! Just hopin...

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...