Last day of 2012

Finally, time flies again!! We are already on our last day of year 2012. While this year ends, we are supposed to reach end of the world which is predicted. However, all these predictions are uttered rubbish to me, nothing actually happened and we are still living happily on earth on a small dot known as Singapore which is where i am born, raised and live my life until now.

As i look back to all the things i done in 2012 during this last day of the year, i realise i am really getting more and more lazy to blog as my blog posts reduces every year. Haha!!! Anyway, things had been quite simple for me in this long passing year i guess. Let's summarize since a lot of people like to comment that my blog post always very long. Haha!!! I trying my best liao hor!!! 

In the first 2 months of the year 2012, I started the year, with finishing and doing up my final year project where i was still a singapore polytechnic student. After that, was doing my last few exam papers in Singapore polytechnic. After that, i unofficially graduated from singapore poly liao. Immediately after that in march, i dedicated most of my time working at Universal studios singapore(USS) for a gd 6-7 months where i totally enjoyed all the times working. Therefore, to conclude half of the time in 2012, i was actually working at USS. I had lots of fun working there throughout the many months. Haha!! Anyway, I officially graduated with my diploma in food science and technology in may 2012. In the long months of working in USS, i also have graduation trip with my poly friends to taiwan, japan trip, batam trip, genting trips where i truely enjoyed all of the above overseas holidays with different groups of friends and relatives. During the course of all these things which i enjoyed, i also attended my interview for my uni studying programme which i had enrol for and successfully got accepted and i started sch in oct studying newcastle university food and human nutrition course under Singapore institute of Technology.  Tough course i thought after studying for the past 2 months and now on course to my exams in less than 3weeks. Sian thing is because, during this festive period, i still need to force myself to study lol. Haiz. However, though all the tough assignments given, i met my group of friends in university where i think i gained the most in this course of studying until now, we are the most happening group in the class and really proud of everything we had gone through together with tons and lots of fun together. Hoooo, cheers to our new found friendship!!! This sorts of sums up my long year of 2012 i guess. Haha!!!

Ok, need to prepare to go out liao. Haha. Will continue tonite or tomo nite i guess.

Merry Christmas people, finally i decided to blog

Been a long 8 months since i last blog. I guess i had been super lazy to update my blog. All these 8 long months especially after poly graduation in may, i been busy working at Universal Studios Singapore(USS) until i got accepted into a Food and human nutrition course under Singapore Institute of Technology which is conducted by Newcastle University. The abt 2years course started for me in Oct which is abt 2months ago and surprisingly i had almost finished my semester 1 of the course liao.

This is the first time in my life i will need to study for my exams which is mid january 2013 that is less than 1 month away. Very sian!!! Where gt mood to study during this festive season????? Sian to the max!!!! Although i purposely plan to study on christmas eve yesterday, i guess i managed to flip finish human nutrition notes ba although a bit half-hearted. Haha, at least i did something like studying!!!!

Christmas 2012 is just about over in less than 15mins now, this year's christmas is so different for me as i gt to know my university friends. We got together and had great fun all the time through all the lectures and tutorial while the rest of the class is seriously studying and concentrating on assignments and tests. However, the 9 of us with me formed the biggest clique in class and i am really happy to have known them and surviving through all the sch work together. They make me my studying life happening, the last time i was so happening and fun was during my ITE days. Poly days are less happening and boring to me. Anyway, i really am very happy whenever i doing sch work or out having fun together with my Uni friends!! Cheers to our friendship although still a short time we have known each other only. We will survive thru uni life together and  have all the fun in the world!!!! Hoooooo!!! Cheers!!!! Therefore, this christmas for me is the most happening, like playing hide-n-seek while celebrating one of my uni's friends birthday and also the christmas gift exchange where we decided what we cannot buy as presents, racking brains for the christmas present to be bought on the spot within hours. But this is the most awesome christmas celebration which is most memorable to me until now in my life. Thank u guys. Should put the names!!!! Haha!!! Thank u to guo wei, lester, pei yun, hui ru, ying xian, rachel, jennifer, kayam, chong yi. Really glad to have all yr companies in all the times we been together since day 1 in newcastle university!!! Hoooo, cheers to more celebrations and our everlasting friendship!!!!!

Christmas is also celebrated with some of my work friends. Although it is a simple dinner and gift exchange. It was also a good time and a good gathering for all of us to catch up!!! Haha!!!!

Now that christmas is over when i typing this last paragraph i hope, tomo is the time to resume and force myself to go back school to study for my upcoming exams. Haiz, feeling sian to the max lol. But i do not have a choice, do I!!!!!! :(

Birthday week!!!!!! Hoooo!!!!!!!!!!

Now, this post is about my birthday week for almost 5 days!! Haha!! Guess that i use this time to give out souvenirs to my major groups of friends since i came back to singapore from taiwan 1 week ago. Nevertheless,
this maybe the first time i celebrated my birthday in a few different days altogether!! Haha!!!

Anyway, birthday week started early for me i guess as it started on a sunday which is on 15 april 2012. On this date, it was celebrated by my group of friends in USS. The date is coincidence with the celebration i had with them last week which follow on the same date of 15 april.
With them, last year's birthday celebrations and presents i received was great so was it for this year's birthday celebrations. Last year celebrations was just dinner but a huge group of them came, i also rec'd a big farewell cum birthday card which is one of the first big birthday card that i had rec'd in my life. I rec'd a bag from them also. And from another group of them, i got a cap and a shirt.
For this year's celebrations, it started with cycling with lunch in between at macdonalds. We rented the bike for 3 hours and actually cycled for abt 2 hours as we had lunch in between. Although this year's celebration had lesser people than last year, it was still as great a celebration for me. Cycling had rahayu, ying fang, dai kai, amy, serene and me. Rahayu left us after cycling, we headed for marina square supposedly for bowling but it was full so we headed to playing pool first. Serene left us after playing pool. However in a funny twist of events, when we played pool for abt 30mins before bowling was available for us. After which, we headed straight for bowling where we played for abt 1 hour for only 1 game as we need to meet the rest for dinner. Most of them reach by 7.30pm where i still didn't know what to eat. Ya, forget to mentioned we met jasmine, zack, zen, tommy and posic for dinner  While deciding where to eat, we headed here and there in marina square before decided to head to citylink mall in search of a dinning place. Finally, due to hungry people like jasmine, zen and zack. I just anyhow decided to enter 'Asian kitchen' a so-called Chinese restaurant. The food was as normal as any food court i could say. Anyway, a birthday cake was bought in the process by amy, ying fang and dai kai! Although it is meant to be a surprise, i know it will not be a surprise for me as they took rather long in their 'shopping' of  the cake and with the superior observant skills that i have and possessed. It was a long dinner throughout as we chatted, catch up, eat and i gave out the souvenirs i bought from taiwan and being the first group of friends that celebrated my birthday, they got to choose first as i brought all my souvenirs. After the whole dinner, i was handed the birthday cake and also the presents they bought for me which were a wallet and a formal analog watch and not forgetting the small birthday card for this year. Of course, in this event, how can we ever forget the photos taken during dinner and of course after getting out of the restaurant. Wonderful photos as memories to capped off one more enjoyable and fun birthday celebrations with my USS friends.

Thanks for the wonderful birthday celebrations i had with u guys for the these 2 years. U guys, my USS friends are one of the best batch of friends and all the presents i rec'd with the wonderful birthday celebrations altogether will stay as fresh in my mind. Hoping for better future birthday celebrations with u guys. Love u guys!!! Hooooo!!!!!!

As sunday 15 april passed, there came 16 april which was a monday. I started the day late as i slept late and went down my grandma's as she required me to read some letter of concern regarding her. Some valuable time spent with my grandma's from afternoon to evening before i met up with my secondary school friends(azli, jeremy, saleh) in the night for dinner and chit-chat plus monopoly deal playing session. I guess i knew with them, i always end up going home late and guess what time i reach home. Haha!! This is about 1.30am when i reach home. Anyway, it was great just chilling at macdonald's toa payoh near library. Wondered how i got home? Got home on bike just like always. Thanks Saleh always for sending me home!!! Ya, i also gave out my taiwan souvenirs during this short gathering i had.  Although not exactly a birthday celebration for me, i still enjoyed the time i had with them.

For the next day which is 17 april, i didn't do much, just went back to singapore poly to pass my taiwan souvenirs to ms kelly.  I spent time in singapore poly library after that as i didn't had anything to do until my last Remedial training/ compulsory exercise in army which was in the evening.

On the actual day of my birthday which was on the18 april, a wednesday. I went to jb for my birthday trip. Anyway, met up with wee kiong, yiqi and kenny that day. It was business as usual for a JB trip, we went for sushi king where we had lunch. After lunch, we went to buy dvds where i then realised i haven came to JB since the year started. I bought a total of 18 dvds this time. Although not the most in my record, but it was 1 of the highest in my record. Starting the first JB trip this year, i guess u can say it is a good start which happens to be on my birthday.After buying dvds, we headed for KSL city for some shopping but not for the guys i guess. Just for yiqi i guess. Anyway, we managed to watch a movie there too!!We watched 'Battleship' and i feel it is quite a good action movie altogether. After movie, we went for dinner as we had seafood and i got to order as it was my birthday. Haha thanks guys!!!! Ya, i also got to give out my taiwan souvenirs.

On the 19 april, the day after my birthday, i had a singapore institute of technology interview for a degree course in food and human nutrition. I wake up early as my interview was scheduled at 10.30am and i scared i will take some time to find the place so i left home early. In the end, i got there about 10am. I actually did a bit of preparation only  for the interview as it was a first of such  interview i had. Anyway, i hope i did ok and got accepted into the university!!! May good results come!! I really want to finish my education path lol!!! Hope good news will come!!! Anyway, that afternoon met up with 1 of my poly friends staying in hougang and had lunch together with some catching up done. In the evening, met up with my army friends(Lian siah, bernard, kok tong and ah q) for dinner and also pool playing session. Thanks for the birthday treat at pizza hut. Anyway, was another great meetup cum birthday celebrations for me. I also got to give my souvenirs out. Haha!!!  

That's all about my birthday week i guess!!! And i got to meet all my major groups of friends!!! Hooo!!!! Thank you to all!!!!!

It's been a long time and i am officially not a student liao.......

It's been a long time already. My last post was about almost 2 months ago. After that, i proceeded to studying for my final round of exams and finally finished with my studies and exams end of February. Then i waited for my results of the exam which was released 1 month after my exams. In the meantime, i went back to Universal studios(USS) to work and i was also busy with my Remedial training(RT) or compulsory exercise in army. It feels good, keeping fit and also working meaning i also have a source of income to survive the aftermath of graduating soon. Haha!!!

Anyway, my exam results finally came and i did not do as well as i expected. And what was most disappointing is my final sem results actually dropped and this affected my final and cumulative GPA as i did not managed to get a final GPA of 3.5 BUT it was as close as i can get which is 3.487. Anyway, in my long education, i always did not get what i want, it was always this close!! I guess i need to get used to it so that i will not get disappointed all the time in my academic life!! Sian!!!!

The only good thing out of the disappointment is i finally going to graduate and end my poly education life. I am done with singapore polytechnic after 3 long years of travelling to dover from hougang. Graduation date is set on 22nd may on a tuesday where i will don on the graduation suit and officially be called a singapore polyechnic diploma holder and a graduate.

After my exam results released, i was on the course to celebrate with 6 of my classmates on a graduation trip to taiwan for 12 days. We left singapore on 30 march till 10 april when we came back home. It was a fun, tiring and enjoyable trip and this marks the first time i left singapore for my longest overseas holidays that i had in my lifetime up till now!! I had look forward to this grad trip ever since the 7 of us booked this trip in December last year!! It is also one of the top countries which i wish to visit lol!! Haha!! Nevertheless, I finally step foot on taiwan for the first time. It was a great place to be in with great weather, the best wind ever to me and also heart warming people around. 12 days was not long or was it short too!! Anyway, after the whole trip, i still think i have the need to go back as we did not finished walking finished taiwan yet. It was also one of the most memorable trip i spent with my poly classmates. All the joy, laughter and enjoyment we had with one another that i will nvr forget.

Tired liao!!! Will continue tomo!!!! Hooo!!!! 

Time to start my official first blog post in 2012......

Time flies, we are already in the second month of 2012. The year started out being a busy one for me i guess. Anyway, what else could it be? It is obviously about my final year project(FYP). My group and i started the year finishing up with our FYP report which was due on 18 january. It was a rush as we managed to finish up with our report during that 2 weeks when the year started off. One of my group members like to do last minute work and on the day of submission, we really finished our report and printed them out plus binding and burning of the cds at about close to 12noon which is the deadline cut off timing. A sign of relief for all of us after handing up our FYP report. Anyway, after handing up the FYP report, it is back to doing assignment report and presentatation. After the busy week, it is Chinese New Year again with what is a long weekend, what a start to the new year of 2012 for me i guess.

Chinese New Year(CNY) was not celebrated by me again for the second year as i opted to follow the traditions of the old and not celebrate CNY for 3 years since the passing of my mum. Although according to the modern days, people don't really follow the traditions and the tradition changed from3 years to only 1 year. Anyway, for me, this CNY i spent the public holidays working at universal studios for the second time again which is the same as last year. Besides the eve of CNY where i spent having dinner with the rest of my family members, i went to visit my grandma after work during the first day of CNY and as for the second day of CNY, went to have dinner with my brother and father as they came to look for me after my work in sentosa. On the third day of CNY, it was declared a holiday in my school and i spent the day resting and relaxing after working for 2 days. I also visited my mum at kong meng temple before heading for my grandma's place as i chatted with her for quite a few hours and having dinner there before going home.

Finally on the fourth day of CNY which i did not have any classes but needed to go back school to finish our FYP presentation slides as we needed to present it the very next week. Time to chiong again for our FYP as our group worked hard doing up the FYP slides and the making of the prototype that needs to be shown during the FYP presentation. Our FYP group really worked hard all the way till the end of our FYP presentation and with some luck and help from one of the lecturers in school of design, we managed to come out with the prototype to be presented.

After the whole FYP presentation, the comments given by the lecturers really warmed our hearts and let us feel that all the sacrifices made were worthwhile and a huge burden was dropped after nearly 1 year since we embarked on this FYP journey. We were overjoyed and relieved as our efforts were recognised by the panel of lecturers.

Anyway, we celebrated with some of our classmates which is yesterday where we had a delicious dinner at bugis area. It is great time spent together, one of the few times where me and my poly friends actually hang out together.

Ya, beside school, i had a major gathering with my 18 of Universal studios(USS) work friends as well just this past sunday. We had this major gathering where we celebrated 3 of my friends' birthdays(calista, ying fang and wee kiong) with a farewell as well as one of my friends, calista who is furthering her studies in australia and will be leaving soon in a few weeks time. These kind of major gathering with so many people seems rare as it comes only a few times in a year. Anyway, in this kind of major gathering, i guess i had always enjoyed the time that is being spent. I guess i always feel closer to my USS friends more than my poly friends and 1 of the reasons is because we had more gatherings where we would have fun together always. Haha!!!

Going on, my resolutions for the year 2012, after being SINGLE for so long, i longed for a breakthrough, will i get that breakthrough this year? Chances are never high i guess as i failed for so many years in my entire life up to now. One word decribes this feeling and status for being SINGLE for so long and for me, this word is SIAN!!!!!!!

Second resolution is about my studies, after so long, i finally decided on whether to continue my studies and a choice was made by me recently where i choose to study in a 2-year course for an honours degree in food and human nutrition at Singapore instutite of technology. For this, i hope to be lucky enough to get a place to study in this course in this year of 2012.

Not anymore resolutions which i can think of now. Just hope these 2 resolutions can be fulfilled in this wonderful year of the dragon!!! Hooo!!!! Cheers!!! Till my next blog post............................

My reflections for 2011

2011 ended yesterday and today is the first day of a brand new year 2012. Time to do some reflections as to what i had achieved or done for past year i guess. Haha!!!

Feels like 2011 is another year of studying for me. Anyway, the highlights of it is quite the main bulk n most happening year of my poly education i guess. I started the 6-week industrial attachment in a vegetable oil company after ending my exams n poly year 2 in mid march. Meanwhile i was also in line to go to Dalian, China to start my poly year 3 which i applied for. During the short industrial attachment, i was almost going back to sch once every week to settle admin stuffs for the trip ahead which is in mid april immediately after my industrial attachment.

Anyway, got to learn lots of things in the vegetable oil company and valuable experience gained for me even though that's bad along with the good. Haha! Anyway, during that period of time, was working part time at universal studios as well. So together with my attachment, sometimes, i work for consecutive 12 to 13 days before i actually got an off day. I guess it was very tiring during that period of time but i enjoyed the part working in universal studios once every week. Working there was more of enjoyment to me than actually working. Finally, at that period of time i know what is like holding 2 jobs and how tired it can get at times. That period of time really like no life sia!! But anyway the upcoming trip in april to Dalian, China for about 2 months push me through that tough period i guess. Haha!! I still remembered counting down the days before the trip and ending my attachments during the tough period of time.

Next up is the Dalian trip from mid april to mid june. The abt 2 months of studying experience was just too valuable and no words are enough to describe the whole experience although tons of words can be used. Anyway, despite of the different things that happened in the trip, i still think it is a great trip as i got to know more of the character of some of my poly friends. As like other trips, once you are away from home for long, you tend to miss home and that felt by most of us. But in spite of that, with the friends there with u, u also feel like a big family during the 2 months there. To sum it up, it is simply a great trip without no regrets from me although i was feeling the stress from all the assignments, presentations,tests. Hooo!!!!

Anyway for the second part of 2011, from june when we came back to singapore. It was crush course for the remaining modules that we had to take along with the 3 exams. But time really flies with me finishing my year 3, sem 1 on a high in the exams from end august to 1st week of sep when the exams results came out. It was the best results i gotten in my entire poly life. I was super elated although i thought i could had done better. Haha!! After the exams, it is all about the final year project which i will not try to talk about. It is all but one word: SIAN!!! Anyway, poly education is about done for me where the year had ended with the last round of mid sem tests, now embarking on the final few months of my whole poly life something i am really looking forward in this new year.

For 2011, it's not all about school i guess. Anyway, most of the gatherings for year to conclude came from my work friends i guess. Anyway, tons of photos were taken for the entire year of gatherings i guess. 2011 marks the year where the most photos i had taken up to date for me i guess. Besides that, gatherings with my sec friends, army friends were also seen in different parts of the 2011 i guess. Friends are something i can never leave without. Haha!!! Love all my friends out there!! Hoooooo!!!!!!!!! From my birthday celebrations to each of theirs, and to all the different gatherings we had in singapore, malaysia and china. I guess it had been quite a great 2011 spent with each and everyone my friends.

Lastly and most importantly, not forgetting all my family members, it is been great year for us all as we had been meeting most of the sundays at grandma's place in 2011. The bonding that we had been great throughout the whole year. The highlight of the 2011 was the bangkok trip that we had recently. It was a first overseas trip with family members for me. It was always be as memorable in my mind. It was a great first trip with you guys. Hope for more in the upcoming year i guess. Also not forgetting my mother, end of the year, it also marks her first death anniversary since she passed on. Although so, we celebrated by praying for her and she will forever be in my heart for everything she had done for me. Love u mum!!!!!