Haha, I had quite an interesting day today.
After my usual lecture which ended at 3pm and then my first PAL program for Maths 1 today, I was supposed to be getting dinner for some friends as I had planned. I had not seen them for some time and we thus decided to have dinner together at an arranged venue.
I had everything planned out beforehand. I would rush off after I was done with school for the day and take a bus a few stops down to a food court where I would be getting dinner for the guys. Unfortunately, some unexpected issues cropped up. Firstly, my hand phone started running low on battery towards the end of lecture. Knowing that I still needed to use my phone to contact my friends later in the evening, I tried to find some way to charge my phone a little hoping that whatever little battery my phone had would be enough to last for me to pick up dinner and to make the delivery. Moreover, the PAL session ended off half an hour later than it was supposed to, which I didn't plan for. Thus, I was really rushing after class finally ended.
For one, I didn't want to arrive at my destination too late cuz obviously it wouldn't be very nice to delay their dinner. Also, there was the problem of my almost "dead" phone and I still had not taken their orders for dinner. On top of that I still needed to make a trip to the bank!
Well, all my effort didn't go to waste though. I managed to get to the hawker centre just after 1830 with around 15% of my phone battery left. I made the call quickly and got their orders. There was even a request to pick up one of the guys' dinner as his mum works there so his dinner was somewhat already prepared. By the time the call ended, I had orders for two packets of fried carrot cake with lots of chilli, one bowl of fishball soup noodles, two packets of western chicken cutlet rice and to pick up the bowl of "bak ku teh" from my friend's mum's shop.
Haha... I am sure I had never taken so many food orders all at once before! From finding the correct food stalls to get the food from, to remembering what to order, to finally collecting all the food and making sure I got everything, it sure was loads of fun hahaha!!
I made the "bak ku teh" my last stop as I intended to just pick it up and leave. However, I certainly needed another three arms to carry all that food as well as my belongings. Thus, I stopped by my friend's mum's char kuey teow stall and place all my stuff on the benches to rearrange the items so that I could carry them better. Thankfully, my friend's mum saw that and offered me two much larger plastic bags so that I could place every thing in and carry them with my two hands. I also got myself some dinner too which was char kuey teow of course! Much to my surprise, my friend's mum fried a really huge packet of char kuey teow and refused to accept my money, saying that it was for me to share with the other guys. Wow... thanks! Hahaha...
After thanking her profusely for all her help, I left, my arms laden down with the food. After meeting up with the guys, we had dinner together and talked. It was only 1945 then! Efficiency much... hahaha! We had lots to talk about and I was too excited to sit down while eating... They saw that and commented that I was the same as before, always standing up when eating. Hahaha, such memories.
After hanging around for about half an hour, I then got up to leave. We were definitely going to meet up again soon.
The story doesn't end here though. It was only when I got all the way home and sat down to do some studying that I realised, much to my horror, that my whole folder was not with me!! Yes, I left it at the hawker centre! I had been so focused on getting the food and feeling so ecstatic about meeting my friends that I had totally forgotten that I was supposed to be carrying my folder. While the shock of my blunder and loss was still coursing through me, I had a brainwave! I quickly sent a few messages to my friend and got his mum to hold on to my file for me. That set my mind at ease. I would go over to pick it up tomorrow. It was a lost and found after all.
I am so shagged and tired right now. It sure had been a really long day.
Nights!
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Mid autumn festival 2014
As said in my previous post, I went out with JL after the Stats 2 workshop today. Well, the main reason why we went out today was to visit the Gardens By the Bay and view the lanterns on exhibit there which were for the Mid Autumn Festival. But that was later in the evening. Before that, we had the Beef Samurai Burger as a late lunch/ early dinner at Marina Square Mac's which we had wanted to try since couple of weeks back. Once again, it was just a mess of a burger with lots of sauce overflowing and hardly impressive really. Lately, this has been quite common for Mac's new burgers - too much overwhelming sauces on the burger, not to say all are bad though. Anyways, we left after eating and made our way to Gardens By the Bay for the event there. We walked there via MBS though which really caught me by surprise. I had no idea there was a bridge connecting MBS with GBTB.
We got to GBTB just as the sun was setting, just in time for the lanterns to be lit. We planned to follow the loop around the garden and see if there was anything interesting along the way. As we walked, I realised that there wasn't too big a crowd which was a relief. Then again, it might have been due to the large crowd being spread out over the huge garden. Once again, we were walking through rows and rows of LED-lighted structures and figures with absolutely no sight of any traditional paper lanterns, whether on display or being carried on sticks by the visitors. This was quite a dismay to both of us as we had been hoping to see some traditional elements at the event. Thus, it was pretty much the same as last year when we went to the Mid Autumn Festival event at Chinese Garden.
Having said that, I felt that this year's event at GBTB was slightly better than the one we went to last year. This is due to the few points as listed below,
- Firstly, we did not have to pay an entrance fee for this event at GBTB which was not the case for Chinese Gardens where we had to purchase tickets.
- As I had mentioned earlier, it was also not too cramped due to the huge size of GBTB which sure made the walk more relaxing
- There was some traditional element in the event at GBTB in the form of guessing of lantern riddles (灯谜) which was usually played during Mid Autumn Festival as people gathered around their lanterns, hence the name.
- There were also several other booths set up which featured some beautiful handmade lanterns which were winning pieces for a lantern making competition and some other games or talks.
We soon grew bored and tired of walking and left about two hours after we got there. We then settled down at a Starbucks to have a drink and rest our legs before heading home. Thinking back, I feel that the first Mid Autumn Festival I had with JL was still the most fun and memorable which we celebrated at East Coast Park and was totally planned by the both of us, from lanterns to mooncakes and the venue. Think we should plan the next one on our own again ya?
We got to GBTB just as the sun was setting, just in time for the lanterns to be lit. We planned to follow the loop around the garden and see if there was anything interesting along the way. As we walked, I realised that there wasn't too big a crowd which was a relief. Then again, it might have been due to the large crowd being spread out over the huge garden. Once again, we were walking through rows and rows of LED-lighted structures and figures with absolutely no sight of any traditional paper lanterns, whether on display or being carried on sticks by the visitors. This was quite a dismay to both of us as we had been hoping to see some traditional elements at the event. Thus, it was pretty much the same as last year when we went to the Mid Autumn Festival event at Chinese Garden.
Having said that, I felt that this year's event at GBTB was slightly better than the one we went to last year. This is due to the few points as listed below,
- Firstly, we did not have to pay an entrance fee for this event at GBTB which was not the case for Chinese Gardens where we had to purchase tickets.
- As I had mentioned earlier, it was also not too cramped due to the huge size of GBTB which sure made the walk more relaxing
- There was some traditional element in the event at GBTB in the form of guessing of lantern riddles (灯谜) which was usually played during Mid Autumn Festival as people gathered around their lanterns, hence the name.
- There were also several other booths set up which featured some beautiful handmade lanterns which were winning pieces for a lantern making competition and some other games or talks.
We soon grew bored and tired of walking and left about two hours after we got there. We then settled down at a Starbucks to have a drink and rest our legs before heading home. Thinking back, I feel that the first Mid Autumn Festival I had with JL was still the most fun and memorable which we celebrated at East Coast Park and was totally planned by the both of us, from lanterns to mooncakes and the venue. Think we should plan the next one on our own again ya?
Friday, September 12, 2014
Clueless about Stats
As I had posted earlier this week, I went for a Stats workshop today which was meant to prepare us for Stats 2 lecturers later this year. Although I had already missed quite a few sessions of this workshop, I was attending today's session mainly for two reasons. Firstly, I have heard quite alot on how Stats 2 was of "out of this world" level of difficulty and that I would not understand what was being taught anyways so there was no point in attending the workshops. Thus, having done Statistics in JC, I just wanted to have a glimpse of how difficult Stats 2 really was and if there were going to be lots of new content being taught so I could prepare myself for them. Secondly, I was also hoping that since Uni lectures were known for going much more in depth than what we learnt in JC, I might gain some new perspectives which may help me understand what I'm learning.
Unfortunately, as I was sitting in the lecture theatre an hour after the lecturer started speaking, I was trying really hard to make sense of what he was saying, while the other half of my mind was already dozing off. My mind barely jolted awake at some familiar words like "Binomial" and "Poisson" but was otherwise unable to make sense of much else.
When break came one an half hours into the lecture, I was so glad to have an opportunity to get out of the LT that I actually thought it was the end of the session. I had no intention of sitting through the next session so I started to pack. I then realised the lecture was not over... Lol! Lucky I had not stood up with my bag over my shoulder yet or I would have looked really stupid.
It was also around this time that two guys behind me started a conversation with me asking how well I was following the lecture so far. I just told them that I could not understand anything at all. They then replied " You are not the only one." Indeed, I could see many clueless faces during the second part of the session and the guy to my right was already dozing off...
By the time the session ended, I came to the conclusion that I needed to put in a lot of effort to prepare for my Statistics lectures before they start November. Moreover, I am sure I would have no problems making new friends in my Stats lectures given that most of us would have something in common. Haha!
Unfortunately, as I was sitting in the lecture theatre an hour after the lecturer started speaking, I was trying really hard to make sense of what he was saying, while the other half of my mind was already dozing off. My mind barely jolted awake at some familiar words like "Binomial" and "Poisson" but was otherwise unable to make sense of much else.
When break came one an half hours into the lecture, I was so glad to have an opportunity to get out of the LT that I actually thought it was the end of the session. I had no intention of sitting through the next session so I started to pack. I then realised the lecture was not over... Lol! Lucky I had not stood up with my bag over my shoulder yet or I would have looked really stupid.
It was also around this time that two guys behind me started a conversation with me asking how well I was following the lecture so far. I just told them that I could not understand anything at all. They then replied " You are not the only one." Indeed, I could see many clueless faces during the second part of the session and the guy to my right was already dozing off...
By the time the session ended, I came to the conclusion that I needed to put in a lot of effort to prepare for my Statistics lectures before they start November. Moreover, I am sure I would have no problems making new friends in my Stats lectures given that most of us would have something in common. Haha!
Stats 2 Workshops
Hi all. So I finally logged in to my school's student portal today and was met with a really cramped schedule for this week! Haha.... I know, it's already almost the end of the week right? Yupp, I missed quite a sessions of the Stats 2 workshop as a result. I had been procrastinating my logging in to the student portal to check on my timetable for this week, even though I knew there were several Stats 2 workshops going on this week. I guess I was just lazy...
I've heard that Stats 2 is on a whole new level from the usual stats that we did in JC. Whole new level meaning skywards... haha! Worse still, it is built on the foundation of stats we did in JC, which I never really got the hang of anyways. As such, now that I know the dates and venues for the few remaining Stats 2 workshop session left for tomorrow and Saturday, I am planning to attend the sessions tomorrow, as a last attempt to get a glimpse of Stats 2 before lectures begin. I haven't had time to read through the lecture slides for tomorrow's lecture though.
Well, and I'm heading out with JL tomorrow after the lectures. It's really late now, feeling really sleepy. ciaos!
I've heard that Stats 2 is on a whole new level from the usual stats that we did in JC. Whole new level meaning skywards... haha! Worse still, it is built on the foundation of stats we did in JC, which I never really got the hang of anyways. As such, now that I know the dates and venues for the few remaining Stats 2 workshop session left for tomorrow and Saturday, I am planning to attend the sessions tomorrow, as a last attempt to get a glimpse of Stats 2 before lectures begin. I haven't had time to read through the lecture slides for tomorrow's lecture though.
Well, and I'm heading out with JL tomorrow after the lectures. It's really late now, feeling really sleepy. ciaos!
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Hitting the gym once again
Hi guys! I'm just back from the gym and I'm feeling so awesome! It's been a long time since a gym session went so well that I ended off perspiring. Hmm... in fact, this is perhaps the first time I perspired after a gym session, without doing any jogging. On most other gym sessions, I would leave the gym with my muscles aching but not perspiring, unless I spent some time on the treadmill. Somehow, that is not as satisfying a gym session.
It is most likely that I will be going for another workout or two later this week and hopefully I can keep this as a weekly routine haha! I'm also trying to add jogging and swimming into my weekly routine amidst all my studying. Hope the bright sunny skies keep up until I make time to head to the pool. Most likely will do so next week!
It is most likely that I will be going for another workout or two later this week and hopefully I can keep this as a weekly routine haha! I'm also trying to add jogging and swimming into my weekly routine amidst all my studying. Hope the bright sunny skies keep up until I make time to head to the pool. Most likely will do so next week!
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