Mid Term

Most Thursday nights post pin up I feel like a lost sheep mainly because I’m finally out of the studio but that itself is very…weird; I constantly feel like I have to be doing something, everyone does. And that’s kinda sad.

Anywho, Term 4 has finally reached the halfway mark and the past 6 weeks in ASD has been very challenging but rewarding and I’d say I wouldn’t have it any other way. For one my section has been a very interesting combination of different personalities that makes studio time a lot more fun and I’m so glad to have grown a lot closer to them! Half the time we’re whining to each other, convincing each other that supper is a want and not a need, having mental breakdowns and helping each other out and I think its safe to say that I feel comforted knowing I have them around for the rest of the term 🙂 Also, our prof is really chill about everything which we haven’t figured out if that’s a good thing or not…but at least we don’t get wrecked too badly if we fail to deliver, hehe.

Submitted my first project and am currently in the second week of our second project. Basically the whole cohort is just damn annoyed that the theme for the whole damn term is on plant textures and that we have to stick to the same plant but despite all the struggles of being a complete newbie to archi drawings, laser cutting and rhino, I guess I could say my first submission turned out quite alright, yay.

(Definitely wish I could be saying the same for my progress of second one though)

Coding has unfortunately been a living nightmare that’s back to haunt me again and as usual, I have no idea what’s going on and the first project has been an utter mess with late submissions and me being a heck of a huge burden but I’ll hope things will…get better…

Also, every year I tell myself that I’ll stop playing for sunig but same old stuff just happens hur. Taking consolation in the fact that we’ve made huge ass improvements since last year, this year’s was much more enjoyable than the previous one and the familiar heart racing feeling of scoring points that was once a distance memory came back from time to time + witnessing the guys team winning their first set ever too was gr888 🙂

And am v v v v thankful for friends that would listen to me rant on and on about my lack of sleep and endless pile of work!!!!

Half the time I’m just replying my messages hours late with one liners and sometimes I’d spend the entire week complaining to Mel about work without actually having a proper conversation with her only to realise it in the weekend when I get home and boy do I feel bad. Mom has also been the cutest thing and dropping me messages from time to time I’m just so heartened to know that she’s so supportive despite the fact that some weekends I barely get to see her and overall I just wished my improved time management for my workload could be transferred to relationships too

But we’ll get there, soon. Hopefully.

Meanwhile recess week is coming up in a few days and plans are looking quite exciting so yep looking forward to that (also can’t wait to be back home sleeping on my own bed and showering in my own bathroom too lololol)!

Year 2

Last night I have at home before Year 2 begins bright and early tomorrow morning and I’m just lying in bed having given up on trying to clear storage space in my hard drive to make way for new softwares and let’s just say I’m not really progressing haha so yes I’ve finally decided to blog about Korea after procrastinating for quite a while.

The first 3d2n were spent in Busan and man, it’s reaaaally lovely; kinda like how much slower the pace of the people there is compared to all the hustle and bustle in Seoul. Didn’t do much shopping which was totally cool cos we planned for it to be full on sight seeing and dayum, spending one full day on the plane/train to take us there was totally worth it.

(also, learnt that jajjangmyeon tastes blander than it looks in general so that was pretty meh)

Headed to Igidae after solving the crisis of a lost luggage key (thank god our airbnb hosts were soooo nice and resourceful srsly) and we were literally thrilled to see the sea hahaha it’s like we were taking pictures every few steps/new angle we turned.

(Retirement life goals)

Gamcheon was cute, spent more time and enjoyed ourselves more than we thought we would which was a plus ++++++

Then came Haeundae which I personally really enjoyed cos of the super carefree vibes the people there gave off. Just felt a little weird cos there were like buildings and all and then a beach out of nowhere but because of that it was kinda fresh to see people walking around the area topless, cycling on the road without a care in the world (so many people were cycling without holding onto the handle bars to the extent I felt the urge to just go over and push them over lololol), blasting music or just chilling in general.

Fresh morning faces before Taejongdae killed us and knocked us out on the 3h ride back to Seoul

Every meal we had in Korea was soooooo satisfying! Covered almost all the places we looked up prior to the trip which fortunately for us, didn’t disappoint 🙂 AND, the dumplings in Myeongdong was just amazeballs god I need to head back for another meal.

(this was totally candid haha still kinda amuses me)

Skinfood cafe at Garosugil was pretty interesting, 10/10 aesthetics but also 10/10 diabetes from the sweetest green tea latte I’ve ever had.

Toseokcheon Samgyetang was also gr8888910 there was like a hella intimidating queue under the sun and for a moment I was like…….no way. But the queue moved surprisingly fast cos the inside of the restaurant is h u g e and yeah, rewarding food was rewarding. There were even news reporters who were filming that day so that was pretty cool.

Didn’t really care much about Namdaemun tbh cos sun was unforgiving but cute smoothie guy and seeing Jackson made up for it wew ^^

Don’t really know how 4 months flew by -just- like that. Met up with friends, tried several jobs that I don’t think I’ll take up ever again, worked with the sensationalised handsome doctor back at the clinic lul and although I didn’t exactly do anything fulfilling compared to my peers I’d say I kinda enjoyed it nevertheless and am still tryna grasp the fact that this is probably gonna be my last full fledged, no commitment, summer break.

For now it’s back to waking up for 9am lessons (how am I gonna do this I have no idea), supper social life, and just tryna get accustomed to staying in hostel all over again. Am actually incredibly nervous and anxious now that pillar year is starting but also excited cos yes, I’m finally able to start studying what I came here for in the first place so yeah, hopefully Year 2 treats me well! 🙂

SUMMER

After a month of self doubt (because fk coding and physics), all nighters and wondering if I would ever be done with Freshmore year, I’m so damn glad to say that SUMMER IS FINALLY HERE. Really never thought this day would actually come after a year of struggling with all them equations and such as seen on the board that goes on in class every single day and especially with finals being 4 papers crammed in 2 days, I never felt more relieved to be done.

Plus, guess who’s not!! going!! for bootcamp!! and is heading straight for architorture next term woohoo. Not sure if I’ll still be this enthusiastic 4 months later and actually super excited albeit nervous but yeah we’ll see.

^ Here’s the bugger that entertained and also sometimes pissed the hell out of me this term hahaha

Holi was actually really really fun although a littleeee awkward at first cos ya why would I pour colored water on strangers right but okay it was the night after math quiz. Good time to go crazy. Supper after with an unusual combination of people from our hugeass clique also turned out pretty interesting. Was talking to Rachel recently and it’s such a waste that only when the term is ending when we both feel like we should’ve gotten to know some of them earlier ahwell 😐

Also, met yingsquarez for lunch and I just really love how we’re so bitter about uni LOL and can spend hours just talking and talking about our pathetic social circle, how we can’t wear certain type of clothes cos we fat lul, reminisce the vj days and then make plans to go back and play ball but never actually carry them out.

(still waiting for the rest of the freshnomore photos Cresswell took tho)

And most importantly pulled through all them torturous weeks thanks to impromptu dessert dates with the ultimate bestie at Ah Chew’s at ungodly hours which more often then not resulted in us walking from Bugis all the way to Somerset at 3am in the morning and then cabbing back home haha sigh all that money. The fact that I refuse to drive when I’m unfamiliar with the road is really…….expensive.

Went back to NLB just like the A level days to study and oh boy it was so painful I didn’t know how I did that everyday in the past. Then again it worked cos it forced us to be productive the weekend before finals week until our stomachs were growling like crazy and we escaped to macs for emergency feeding time HAHA. Funniest part of the day had to be when the queue for Yoogane that night was so fricken long and we both just silently looked at each other and thought the same thing – yes, travelling all the damn way to Hillview just to satisfy our stew cravings.

Anywho. Almost a week into summer and I gotta say I’m already hella bored especially when MP doctors are forever on MC and leaving me jobless ugh but hopefully getting scheduled soon + carousell to kill these 4 months off and earn me some moolah for Korea in July will go as planned!! Trip planning is going alright so far and let’s just say I nailed the part about food wew what’s new haha but that being said…PLANE TICKETS ARE SO EXPENSIVE and taking up half the trip’s budget ugh so annoying.

A’ight!! Hoping for a fruitful 4 month break ahead and hopefully till the next time I’ll have more interesting stories to tell 🙂

Hello WordPress

Alright the cleanness of WordPress themes has won me over and so I’m moving! About time anyways considering how I’ve been using blogger since 2009 (lol omg that’s a really long) and the archives are getting so clogged up. Besides, I do still cringe every time I go back and read them foetus posts from time to time haha so I guess some change will do some good! 🙂

Time is currently 405am and it’s already the last day of the long weekend sigh but okay it’s okay just gotta tell myself every Sunday I get closer to summer break hahaha so horrible how we’re all just counting down to our holiday because really, Freshmore year needs to end soon before it burns all of us out. Just 4!! more!! weeks!! to go!! 

Anywho. Figured I’ll just continue from where I left off on blogger so yeah!

Christmas gathering turned out to be pretty epic with all the mutual secret santas and as usual, bringing more food than we could finish but I’m glad nothing much has changed since the last time, except with better stories to tell 🙂

Skate boarding with Mel and Denise sometime back was also interesting hahaha I’d never imagine myself covering that much of a distance under that weather it was like 3pm in the afternoon and we carried on all the way till 8pm cos yes…they skated in the mall ohgod. Reached a whole level of stickiness from all the sweat which I probably never want to experience ever again but yeah it was really fun 10/10 would do it again!!

V v v cute sutd friends also made a pact with Mel despite me remembering that we had a mutual agreement to have the chillest birthday ever sleeping over at her hall and doing nothing else without any surprises but that obviously didn’t happen and they hunted me down till NTU isit they quite cute.

Aaaand this is me desperately trying to use filters to save wp’s skin tone in the night but evidently failing

Photos from Surf N Sweat also turned out really nice and everyone looks so happy!!!!

Went for Surf N Sweat and got unlucky losing out due to point differences, watched Yingz’s dance production and surprised Claire for her birthday. All in all spent a lot of time, more than the usual amount, with vjvb in sucha short span of time which makes me really happy cos my timetable/curriculum is so different from everyone else’s and half the time it’s so hard to have a decent meet up so YAY to playing ball and squeezing into cars and suppers.

Also, went for a compulsory 3 day first aid course which starts everyday with me wondering if Jordan is even awake cos I’m always late and even then he isn’t there yet haha and looking ridiculous in bandages. Raced on the highway of which mom shall never find out, nearly got into a serious car accident (tbh still quite shocked omg driving when you’re tired is really bad and dangerous) while dropping yingz’s off at some ungodly hour, scratched mom’s new car rim at the bus stop, almost got caught by a speed camera, fainted from bleeding after a staff at the ear piercing shop pulled the whole ear stud out as one piece from one side of the ear hole (??!?!!?!), went back to work to 30 grumpy patients in queue and an aunty venting her annoyance because of the long wait on me and to sum it all up recess week was really quite eventful though I’m starting to feel the wrath and stresses of all the undone work and catching up my class/schoolmates have probably already done but I regret nothing so it’s all good.

Deal with the consequences later, right? Sigh but this is honestly so bad.

Looking forward to a smooth sailing 5 weeks which hopefully passes by super quickly without any major hiccups and hopefully when summer break comes I’ll be able to enjoy it thoroughly!!!!! 🙂