I really think that the expedition is such a failure. I did my best to think of ways to make it better, but I can’t seem to think of any. All I get in is just more problems. There are so many faults in this whole expedition organisation. Not that I’m pessimistic or what, but that’s a fact.
The expedition makes me feel like I’m such a failure a planning things and I’ve lost all my skills in planning.
Here are some of the problems and I really hope no one will ever commit again:
[to be continued]
It felt so different to go back to SP for lessons. The crowd was just unbelievable. There were so many people everywhere and it was kind of difficult to squeeze through the crowd in the morning. Anyway, Jericho and I bought the recommended textbook for Anatomy and Physiology. It cost 48 bucks! :X
We walked around the campus like 3 rounds! That was so super tiring. >< I was feeling so damn tired and sleepy even before the lessons start at 15:30.
The 1st lesson was Math. The Math lecturer (Mrs Linda Tan) is very nice and quite humourous. Hahaha. And the next lesson, Basic Immunology, was cool too. 
Well, I’m really looking forward to more lessons!
Anyway, there’s something that I’m upset about. I can’t go on cruise anymore. ): The inital date (7 – 10 June) was fully booked and the only one available was 31st May to 3rd June. >< My holiday starts on 5th June! ))): So, my family and relatives will be away on cruise while I stay alone in Singapore. Like, I was REALLY REALLY looking forward to the vacation!! *Sigh* That’s really sad. I can’t afford to miss lessons and going on cruise isn’t a good reason to apply for Leave of Absence. Oh wells. It’ll take some time for me to get over this. I hate it when I can’t go for vacations, especially when it’s such RARE chances. :/
All right, first, I got to take a look at the calendar and see which were the dates that had interesting events. The last time I blogged was on 1 March 2009. Okay, I’ll start blogging about days whereby interesting happened from 2 March 2009 onwards.
Okay, I’ve selected these dates to blog about: 28 March 2009, 3 April 2009, 7 April 2009, 13 April 2009, 14 April 2009 and 16 April 2009. (:
I guess I forgot most of the things I did in March. :X
28 March 2009
This was the last day of our DPA PPP. Hmm… What else happened? Oh yeah, I didn’t go for the BBQ. In fact, in the end, no one from Cluster 3 attended the DPA BBQ party! Haha. Nevermind, I still love Cluster 3 people. 
I guess that’s all? Not very interesting, but yeah, it was the last day. The first and last day of something are sometimes worth remembering. Hehe.
3 April 2009
This was the Pei Hwa 4th Speech Day and Prize-giving Ceremony 2009. I shall just post the pictures up. A picture speaks a thousand words.
So, that’s for the Speech Day. Also, I received my DPA PPP results:
Innovation, Design & Enterprise in Action – A
Essentials of Marketing – Distinction
Understanding Data – Distinction
Effective Speaking Skills – B+
I think my ESS sucks big time. But well, I shan’t care. I shall transfer credit.
7 April 2009
DPA Cluster 3 Sentosa Outing! Woohoo! It was a totally enjoyable day man! We had lots of fun! Especially those who stayed till the very end of the outing. Once again, I shall post photos.
Well, I totally enjoyed myself and I really will miss them when the school semester starts and we’re no longer in the same class. ><
13 April 2009
First day of the orientation! Was really excited to see who are my classmates! And well, they were pretty cool and the first person that I spoke a lot to was Gayathree! And anyway, I volunteered to be the class rep. Haha! Well, no one volunteered for awhile, so, I did. Hahaha. 
Anyway, there are lots of fun stuff for DBS students and I’m just looking forward to them!
14 April 2009
Mom’s birthday! I’ve got some photos, but I have yet to upload them. Give me some time. :X
16 April 2009
It was the SP Flag Day 2009 and all the freshmen had to collect donations at designated MRT stations. My class was assigned to Commonwealth MRT station. When we arrived at Commonwealth, we realised that we weren’t the only class there. Haha. Anyway, we worked hard and took a break at a coffee shop nearby. Suddenly, I was really random and just mentioned, “Let’s catch a movie.” haha. Who knows, many were excited about that and we went for it! hahaha. We watched ‘Taken’ at Cineleisure. Then we made a trip back to school to return the tins. I just love my class man! We only got to know each other for barely 2 – 3 days and we already started planning for future outings. Anyway, here are some photos.
There you go. A bunch of fun people, eh? hahaha. Looking forward to future outings with them!
I’ve been so busy and tired that I don’t feel like blogging nowadays. >< I have a lot to share, but… *sigh*
So many things happened again. I met some Japaneses, and made the decision to learn Japanese (on my own) because most of the exchange students are Japaneses.
As for projects, good and bad things happen but well, the final product was not bad, that’s the point.
Anyway, I’m just making this super short update to revive my blog for awhile.
Hope that I won’t feel so tired soon.
OMG! I haven’t blogged for such a long time! :X So sorry to all my regular readers (if any!). hahaha.
Anyway, many things have happened over this period of time! haha. The main things will be, I have my own laptop now and also, I have cable tv!
Totally rocks man! Anyway, got to go. I’ll TRY to update asap. Heheh.
Understanding data today was more challenging than last week. It requires more thinking and more work. Today’s topic was about bar charts, pie charts, histograms and scatter plots. In addition, we had 2 activities to complete and many graphs to plot using Microsoft Excel. So, time was an issue. But well, I’d like to say that my group did a great job! Jericho contributed a lot for the discussion, Shi Min contributed a lot too and Gavin did a great presentation for some questions that he presented!
Here’s a photo of my group for all the projects currently:
From left to right, Me (of course. haha), Jericho, Gavin and Shi Min (:
I love fridays because I get to go to Megan’s place! Megan and Alyssa are my nieces and they’re both so cute!! It’s always nice to see them. ((: And, their place is very condusive for studying.
Anyway, today, Huiling joined me at their house for the first time and she really liked it! It’s nice to know that she is not thinking about certain things for the time she’s there. And Megan’s hair became so long! Hahah. As for Alyssa, she grew a lot too! She isn’t that afraid of strangers anymore and gets used to you after some time. She can walk and run around as well! She laugh and smile a lot more too!
Anyway, I’ve taken some photos:
Megan, me and Huiling. (: Megan was too tired to smile. :X
Huiling and Megan
Me. Taken by Huiling.
Huiling.
Megan! So pretty.
Alyssa!! It was really difficult to capture a shot like this!
Alyssa again! She loves to do the ‘E.T. pointing’ ((:
The sisters! Megan and Alyssa. So nice!
That’s all. Looking forward to next Friday!
The first retard I met at SP
This morning, Jericho, Joevin and I reached SP at 08:30 as usual. We’re always early. But somebody sat outside T612 alone and he was earlier than us. From far, I guessed it was the guy that I encountered last week. Last week, he saw me (and I didn’t know him) and repeated word for word what was posted up on the SP website regarding an interview about DPA. And I asked him “So?” and he said nothing. But this morning, he said “hi” to him and he repeated that again!
Basically, this was what was posted on the SP website: ‘I used DPA as a safety net as the cut-off point for this course (Biomedical Science) is too low. Also, SP has the best facilities for this course.’ So, he repeated that twice to me this morning! Can you imagine how annoying it was? So, I just said patiently to him, “Can you just stop repeating it?”
Then he started lecturing me in his monotone, “Do you know you shouldn’t use DPA as a safety net? You should choose DPA BECAUSE you have the PASSION and INTEREST. How can you say that you’re using it as a safety net?? I mean even if you’re using it as a safety net, don’t mention it in the interview. You know how RUDE that is?” When he said those, I was like blowing up already. How dare he lecture me on all that.
I was like, “Wait, I mentioned OTHER THINGS other than safety net during the interview. They just chose not to include it.”
He was like, “Then why didn’t they include it??” Like, how would I know right? Come on man, what’s your problem. :/
I didn’t want to attend to him anymore after. Such a retard. One of the few questions he asked was, “Do you have Wen Jie’s number??” Actually, I have it, but I just didn’t want to give him. So, I said I didn’t have it. I asked him why he wanted her number and he gave me a stupid answer. “Obviously it’s to contact her.” Come one man, I know that too. :/ And he asked what time she usually reaches school and Jericho said she’s usually late.
So, I was being sarcastic but I surpressed part of the sarcasm, “Well, she’s usually 5 to 10 minutes late for class. So, it’s either you wait for her and be late for your class or you be on time for your class and not get her number for a long time.” After some time, he left.
You know when he left, Jericho was also damn pissed can. And well, I rarely use vulgarities, but after Jericho whispered f*** off, I was like… what a f***ing retard. If you were there, you’ll know what I mean. And if you know me, it must be extremely superduperuber bad when I use the ‘f’ word.
Later on, we figured that Com knows that guy and said he was from his school and he’s damn weird. So, I told him what he lectured me about and his first reaction was, “But isn’t DPA a safety net??” Woah. I totally love that answer man! It is! If not why do they have it in the first place?? Anyway, that guy better not let Jericho or me see him again. If not I’m so going to tell him exactly what Com said. Oh wells.
The movie — The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Huiling and I rushed to watch this movie at Vivo City from our schools. I was told that it’s a good movie. I guess maybe I heard it wrongly. Not saying that it’s not a good movie, but it’s not that good. The beginning of the movie is too boring. The interesting parts only started from the battle. In addition, there were too many scenes showing them making love. Actually my favourite scenes weren’t the ones that were very important. My favourite will be the old man always saying, “Have I told you that I got struck by the lightning seven times? Once I was… (mentions one of the 7 times).” And the other scenes were when Benjamin’s appearance was like a kid (not a teenager). Anyway, it’s definitely not my favourite movie.
Boarding the bus and in the bus
I waited rather long for bus 72 to arrive at the bus stop and there were many people. Unfortunately, the bus that came was a single-decker. While boarding the bus, people were pushing and squeezing, all wanting to get on the bus. Well, nothing wrong with trying to get on the bus, but pushing and squeezing? It’s going way too far. You know, I was right in front of the first step waiting for the guy in front of me to move up. When I was about to move up to the first step, I was being pushed from the side by a girl that’s about 7 to 8 years’ old. Her mom was next to her. I almost fell! Like, I almost fell because of a kid?? Then she didn’t apologise. She looked at me and continued, not giving a damn. Her mom didn’t even bother to say a word, as though she’s so proud that her daughter managed to get to the bus. Oh my gosh. That’s so irritating. I mean, I know you want to get on the bus, but can’t you wait for your turn? And getting almost pushed down sucks. If you apologise, I’ll smile at you. But oh wells. Some people just think that there’s nothing wrong. So, too bad. ><
The 3rd week of the Polytechnic Preparatory Programme (PPP) and the 1st week of official lessons has finally ended. I’ll say that I enjoyed all the lessons except for Marketing. The other modules – Innovation, Design & Enterprise in Action (IDEA), Effective Speaking Skills and Understanding Data – are fun and interesting. For IDEA, we have to think of products that we can modify to make it better and present it with a good project title, description and marketing strategies. So, basically, my group for all the projects consists of Shi Min, Jericho and Gavin.
For IDEA on Monday, we came up with an idea to improve the wheelchairs and make it more convenient for the elderly and disabled. I think it’s a great idea. Great job for my group! We were given a project whereby we were asked to do the same thing but we have to think of a new product, then we got to present it the coming Monday. This time, the presentation will be graded and added to our overall grade. Currently, my group has decided on an awesome product and we’re left with doing the powerpoint. I’ll do my best to make it great! I hope we’ll ace this one. Anyway, our lecture ended early before lunch. So, including our lunch break, we had 2 hours and 45 minutes of break! Hahah. So, Jericho, Raudhah, Joevin and I went to play pool at Moberly.
On Tuesday, we had the boring and dry Essentials of Marketing. I think the lecturer didn’t know that it was the General Elective Modules (GEMs) that she was teaching and not the actual module in the business course. But still, how can she not know? :O Anyway, the powerpoint slides were just lots of terms and she talked about many concepts that were too abstract for us to understand. Actually, I think that all the clusters that had this module for their GEMs dislike it and couldn’t understand it. We were given a project to do but it wasn’t well-explained at all. She gave us a handout that included the instructions. But firstly, the instructions on the handout wasn’t very clear. Secondly, she instructed us to do something that isn’t what’s stated on the paper. :O Marketing is so scary. Hahaha. Difficult or not, I just need to ace it too.
Wednesday was our ‘off day’. So, we didn’t have to go to school. That evening, I attended Caspar’s birthday party at his house. There were just a few of us with some people from the zoo and some from Caspar’s school. We ate and joked then played taboo. It was quite a fun party and it was really nice to meet up again with the zoo people, especially those that I usually hang out with! Caspar’s younger brother is also damn cute!! Hahaha. Below is a photo taken at Caspar’s place. We always hang out together at work, including Joyce. From left to right: Benji, Caspar, me. (:
Then it comes Thursday! We had Effective Speaking Skills and the lecturer was Melinda. It’s a very fun lesson because it’s very lively! We don’t sit there and listen to lectures. Basically, it’ls like English lessons and you get to talk A LOT! My cluster-mates (and myself. haha. ) made the lessons totally awesome! So, we learned a few things about English pronunciations, breathing, loudness, etc. The tests will be pretty much like an oral examination. The first test, you have to read a passage then tell a story. The second test, you’ll have to talk in your groups like a normal conversation. And the last test, you’ll have something like an interview.
Friday! The last lesson of the week — Understanding data. It’s another fun module and guess what we learned? Mean, Median and Mode!!! OMG! They’re so simple! Hahaha. Then we had tutorial whereby we had to complete a worksheet. And after that, we had to present everything to the class. My group did an awesome job! Great job Jericho, Shi Min and Gavin! ((: After lessons, I went to watch Outlander with Joevin, and his friends. Outlander is not bad but the dragon is kind of fake, especially when it gives out light. Anyway, this photo was taken on the MRT train when were heading to our respective destinations. They’re the people I usually hang out with at SP. From left to right: Gavin (hiding behind the laptop), Joevin, Jericho, Raudhah and me!
Today, I went to study with Huiling, Bu Fan, Tuan Anh and Huiling’s friend (Mark) at National Library. I was studying marketing and making notes. After lunch, we intended to watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. But there weren’t any suitable timings and the other movies weren’t very nice. So, we continued studying at Esplanade and then took some photos.
Anyway, hope that the next week will be even better!
For those who are interested how I look like in my new hairstyle… here are some photos taken today:
There. haha. I think it looks weird on me. :X
Anyway, HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
Off-day + 3rd day of Chinese New Year!
I spent my day with my work colleagues — Joyce and Benji. Haha.
I met up with Benji and we went to walk around. He’s like super funny but I don’t know why. :X It’s like half the time when he’s around, I’m laughing. hahaha. We walked to Marina Square and tried to decide what to have for lunch while we waited for Joyce to arrive.
The final decision for lunch was Changing Appetites (CA). It’s my first time dining at CA and the lunch deal that we had was pretty reasonable. S$8.90 (excluding GST) covers main course, soup of the day, free flow of soft drinks and dessert of the day. I ordered roasted chicken pasta with mushroom cream sauce for the main course. I got to say that the pasta was nice. The mushroom cream sauce wasn’t too creamy and the serving was just right. In addition, there was some spices added to the roasted chicken, adding a bit more taste to the cream sauce. Yummy.
After lunch, Benji had to meet his friend. So, we walked him to the National Library and we left. Joyce and I then headed to MANY places. hahaha. Here’s the list, in order of the places we went to:
1. Cheers >> ask directions to NTUC Income
2. An office building >> ask for some more directions to NTUC Income
3. Outside POSBank at SMU >> ask for FURTHER directions to NTUC Income
4. NTUC Income >> settle Joyce’s insurance
5. Bras Basah Popular >> Joyce bought some stationery
6. National Library >> I borrowed a book
7. Plaza Singapura >> We bought some stuff from Daiso and I bought something from Times
8. F.O.S near the Istana >> check out some clothes
9. Some shops near F.O.S >> I bought some postcards
10. OG @ Orchard >> We bought some clothes
Yup. We went to all these places by foot. hahah. So tired. After all that, Joyce went off by MRT while I brisk walked to Wheelock Place to repair my phone. In the end, I was told that my phone is not exactly spoiled in a way. And it’ll cost S$80 – S$120 to repair it. >< So, I didn’t repair my phone. Oh wells.
Tomorrow I’ll be working at SBE for the first time! Hope it’ll be fine.
