Holiday!

How fun the holidays have been so far.


Shopping at Bugis with tyx on Monday was great though I came back really drained. We walked to a lot of places! Had a fabulous lunch at NanXiang Steamed Bun Restaurant at Bugis Junction. Since it was a weekday and afternoon, there was a 20% off for students, which we benefited. We ordered xiao long bao, superior xiao long bao and stewed pork noodles, all of which, we enjoyed. Some pictures for your eyes to feast on.

Xiao Long Bao


Superior Xiao Long Bao (in it was some crab soup with the crab roe)
*note: look at the draw. I think we were supposed to consume it that way.


Stewed Meat Noodles, we both loved this


Before exam, I went with tyx to the hair salon at Bt Batok Central as she wanted to have her hair rebonded. And if you know me well, you know I will just have to do something to my hair. This is what I did.


Wondering what it is? Well, I went to dye 4 tiny strips of hair pink. That picture is 1 strip of it. I like it so much and it only costs me $20, which means $5 each, which is cheap. She told me usually she will charge others at $8 per strand.

I have one more picture here of me in a rather awkward face. Well, this was at the new cineplex nearly rendevous hotel. Went there with my family for a while because we there wasn't any place at the restaurant at rendevous hotel so we had to wait. We saw free candy floss so mum and brother took. And my mum just had to go round taking photos of everything and everywhere, before the security guard finally told her not to. So embarrassing. So anyway, this photo was taken like more than a month ago, but I find myself cute here. (Ok, I'm thick skinned) Haha.


Guess it is time for bed. 3.34am. Wow. My usual bed time already. This is unhealthy! Ah, but if I do not play my games now, when school reopens I won't have this luxury already. Enjoy first.

Am contemplating if I should change my blogskin. Oh and talking about skin, anyone knows anywhere I can get laptop skin? Preferably not DIY. I am looking for those shops kind, so that I can customize and get them to do it for me. I don't trust myself. Hehehe.

Party time

I've been inactive for *gasp* 3 weeks! Blame it on the exams!

It is finally over! Yippie aye yeah!

Mugging every night till the wee hours of dawn. Never in my entire life (other than 'O' Levels) have I ever worked so hard for an examination. All for the sake of aiming for a good degree. Paper chase again.

AAE101 introduction to linguistics was rather alright. Credit goes to the 2 lecturers who taught us and prepared us well for the paper. Although finishing the paper was more of a task than doing the paper, I believe I should get a fairly good grade for this.

AAE202 pragmatics was a killer, even though it was open book. The text given to us for analysis was given before in our tutorial. Imagine how all of us felt. Maybe you are thinking isn't it good. Open book and a known text. Well, let's just say that the line in the text chosen for analysis was very contenous and not easy to interpret at all. We all walked out feeling very demoralized. If I can get a B for this module, I would be happy already.

AAE104 grammar. Basically, if you know your stuff, it is fairly straightforward. Grammar is like this. Either you get it, or you don't. Hope to get at least an A for this too.

AAE201 sociolinguistics was surprisingly easier than expected. It was one paper that we all detested. But the questions were ok. Hope to get a good grade too.

It's the end of one semester. How fast time flies. It is 1+am now and maybe you are thinking, what is this girl doing up at this time? Well, for the last 3 weeks, I've been sleeping so late that I can't fall asleep now.

So now that exams are gone (for now), the question is, with about 1 month of holidays, what is my plan?

1. Shopp (meeting tyx later in fact)
2. Decorate the christmas tree
3. Cleaning my room again (recently obsessed with neatness)
4. Practise my piano (wonder if I will really do that)
5. Handmake some christmas presents (cost effective, personalized and I realized I do have some creativity after teaching art in primary school)
6. Organize some meetings (with poly friends, practicum friends, picnic)
7. Exercise and lose some weight (will it work this time?)
8. Level my ingame character
9. KTV
10. Watch Korean drama

That will keep my occupied for quite some time. Probably install Theme Hospital on my laptop and play it now since there isn't much for me to do online now and my game server's down.

And it's the 25th Nov! Well, ok the 26th. 1 more month till I turn 22 (while most of my friends are turning 23, hehehe.)

Roomless

I'm currently roomless for 1 week. My parents' Filipino friends arrived yesterday and they will be staying over at my house for a week. And so, I let them have my room, and that's why I am roomless. Although sleeping in my brother's room, I still can't have a good sleep throughout because it is an unfamiliar environment. Nothing beats having my own bed. They'll be here till next Saturday. Parents are currently out with them at Sentosa. Luckily my brother went down with them too because I think my parents themselves will be tourists at Sentosa! When was the last time they have been there? Ages and ages and ages and ages ago... ... ...

Got Alvin's comments for the AAE101 assignment. Very disappointing. We only got a B-. Sigh. Lucky (or not?), the assignment is only worth 20%, I think. Gotta buck up for exams. I hope to get at least an A- for this module.

Satisfied some of my cravings. Went to Crystal Jade already for my xiao long bao. It was absolutely yummylicious! Went to Jalan Kayu for roti prata too and had my indian rojak too. Nice!

Time to get back to my books. Just about 3 weeks more and I'm done!

Countdown.