Met up with my chess camp og today for dinner! It was the first gathering since the camp almost a month ago lol. The group is not very spontaneous so the dinner was planned rather poorly and last minute with 5 people unable to make it. But it turned out better than expected! I think maybe I happened to be in a good mood today so I was more talkative than usual. Or maybe it's just because it's a smaller group.  I can finally foresee the possibility of going to lectures with this group of people :)

Before dinner, I met up with my dear twin lx for a one-to-one afternoon tea for the first time in 19 years. So far we only meet up when our mums have some sort of gathering. Why I call her my twin is simply because we are born on the same day (and same hospital coincidentally). And believe it or not, our lives have had some common points. She's like my fated friend (?) haha. Our mums were good friends since secondary school (which is dhs haha) but they did not contact each other so frequent afterwards. Then a few days after I was born, they met each other at the hospital and realised that both their child had been born on the same day! Haha so since then they kept in touch again and since their children were of the same age group, they organised like homestays and what not during school holidays. Lx has an elder sister too who is 3 years older. So basically, my sis and I grew up playing with them. Even though now we no longer 'play' together, it always feels nice to gather together once in a while. But I always feel some kind of bond with lx no matter how long we have not met haha.

Oh yeah~ I am finally looking forward to the start of the term a little more after looking at all the unrestricted electives ^^ I have plans to take UEs on chemistry, psychology, sociology, japanese studies....... Suddenly university life seems so much brighter LOL.

Anyway I was really confused about all the bidding for modules just now after my friend informed me that the first round of bidding is on 31 July!!! So like a kiasu Singaporean, I immediately went to research on the bidding process and I ended up watching a one hour 15 minutes long video hahaha. But it was really useful and it was considerate of the school to prepare such a video :) So much clearer of how the whole thing works and now I'm prepared for WAR >) hahahaha seriously the whole bidding thing is so scary.

It's coming to the end of July, which means that 8 months have passed since A levels was over. I cannot believe it man, time just passed so fast. Last year at this point in time we would have just gotten back our JCT results. When I think back about how I stayed in school studying at the LC till 9pm before/after prelims, it does not feel that long ago at all. But really, 8 months is a long period of time and now that I think about it, I have actually done quite a lot of things. Many first experiences, stepping out of my comfort zone, knowing so many more people despite it mostly being superficial and short-termed relationships. Nonetheless, I'm grateful for these people who made my life more bearable during the period of time I was with them. I will do a summary of what I have done these past months some time later!

Y'know, it kinda sucks that none of your close friends are in the same campus as you. It means that there's no one to accompany you to join ccas and be a noob with you lol. No one to chill with during common breaks. I know, there's still the people from my og. But I seriously doubt how close we can become. Plus it's always different with people who you have known for a few more years. It's tiring to build new friendships and by this time of our lives most people cannot be bothered to do so.

This could be another reason why I'm not that looking forward to when the term starts, apart from how everyone has been telling me how tough my course is. I'm making myself seem like a kid just about to enter primary school... Oh well.

How do actors develop such huge muscles that seem like they are about to burst??

Went to catch a 10.40am show at vivo just now haha watched Hercules. Actually I felt really lazy to just home just for the show, but the big and empty cinema was just way too tempting for me to not go. It's not often that you get to catch a movie in an empty cinema and not to mention one with a big screen too. Will probably not have the chance to do so again once school starts :(

Anyway, the show was just okay... Not fantastic, just mehhh. Btw just in case any of you intends to watch this show and are hoping that it's about the Greek mythology, don't keep your hopes too high! It's more of a war kind of show I suppose..

A Dysfunctional Little Family

Time for me to finally blog about the stay-over at MBS last weekend haha. Now I will no longer use my phone to blog, lesson learnt from the previous time :(

Met up with Yuxin first on Friday for lunch since the rest were not free. Finally had SMU pasta after hearing so much about it haha. It was really not bad, except that the pasta I ordered (chicken sausage) was a little too salty, but the texture of the pasta was goooood. I generally do not like pasta, because it's usually too hard for my liking so I prefer the thin kind of pasta. But even though the pasta they used was not the super thin kind, I still liked it so yea that says something about it ;) Next time I'm going to try the creamy pasta! After lunch we went to Yuxin's house while waiting for time to pass before we could go check in at 6pm. Watched one episode each of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Who~~ I finally get what the big hoo-ha over Sherlock is all about hahaha. It's like the kind of Japanese detective dramas that I like, except that the filmography is of higher standard and of course all the UK architecture and feelssss :p Gonna continue with Season 3 when I get my new laptop and start learning how torrent works LOL. Dr Who was not too bad either, but I cannot really stand the poor CG effects hahah. Okay fine, considering how the first episode which I watched came out in 2005, maybe the later episodes are not that bad. But I quite like this genre of shows so I may give it another try when school starts, if I have the time.

We then headed over to MBS with our barang barang and a cake that we bought earlier, which we then realised that Yik had a free (atas and nice) cake from her workplace :(

In short, the stay-over was spent mostly on us deciding what to do, otherwise waiting for one another to get ready LOL. Other than that, we watched movies/shows, played bang, ate junk food and simply nua-ed around. AND PULLMAN BAKERY!!! <3 Oh we (except for sz and zq who stayed in the room to watch their game competition) went out on the second night to buy some food and chill in our sloppy outfit wearing school-based tees, shorts and slippers haha. We talked about a few random stuff, starting from the ghost stories in NS, to things like love (lol I can't believe we held a discussion on this) and the death penalty. Anyway, let me just add on to why I cannot see the point in having 3 people to activate the switch for the execution for the death penalty. According to the rest, even though 3 switch will be pressed, but only 1 switch will work and no one will know which button was the working one. So this kind of helps to make the 3 people feel better as they could have not been the one to cause the convict to die. This works I suppose, but only if they always change the 3 people for every execution. I'm imagining myself to be one of the 3 people there. If I was asked to do such a shitty job for only one time, means I have one out of three chances or 33.3% of being the one to kill the guy. Okay so I may not feel so bad because I have 66.6% of not being the one. But if I have to keep doing this for days, weeks, months, obviously the percentage will change and it is highly unlikely that I will never kill a person. Just knowing this alone is enough to make me feel guilty. Okay but of course this is assuming the 3 people are fixed for a certain period of time. No matter what, I can only say that the 3 chosen people must have done something evil in their previous lives.

Okay back to the stay-over. On the last day after checking out hastily because we woke up at 11.50am even though we were supposed to check out by 12pm HAHA, we went for lunch at Ramen Champion followed by a LAN session. It's been a long time since I last went to LAN haha it's only with this group of people. Played L4D2 which I think I kinda sucked at even though it's fun and CS. I guess it's an instinct to randomly shoot people or zombies when you are a noob, no? Hahaha. Afterwards, we went to Tom's Palette for ice-cream and hoping for a place to chill, but NO. The place was ruined by a group of people who made so much noise and were insensitive to their surroundings. Especially that one guy with the super annoying voice and yet still spoke so loud. What a way to end off the stay-over man.

Anyway, although we did not do much, it's always nice just hanging around with this bunch of peeps ^^ It really all depends on the company you have. Once again thanks nic for the MBS rooms! It's seriously a luxury lor, I felt paiseh just telling my sis where I was going to have my "sleepover". My mum even complained that she has never stayed at MBS before and yet I have already done so twice LOL. Next time we can get a chalet instead~

波のゆくさき by The Ricecookers

Love this song <3 The English version is used as the main theme song for SPEC, but I prefer the Japanese version. Somehow the lyrics it just seems to flow better..? The English lyrics seem a bit awkward lol

Went to work for Yuxin's parents/aunt today~ I realised it was my first time doing a job out of office haha I was confined to the office for my previous 2 jobs so this was a good experience despite it being a one day thing. Honestly I would rather have done such jobs rather than office jobs but when it comes to the pay... Hahaha working at a call centre is more attractive.

Anyway, we went to 3 schools (nygh, admiralty primary, rgs) to set up a stall selling chinese books by this author who was giving talks at the schools. I mainly helped out with arranging the books and a little of cashiering. Moving the books from the foyer at rgs to the allocated venue was terrible man lol even though we had the trolley. It was just slopes, slopes and no slopes :o

Yuxin and I had a quick lunch at the primary school but the food was super disappointing :( Our impression of primary school food was that it is cheap and good but NO, the food was horrible (super diluted curry, soggy veggie and tasteless fried rice) and it was not even that cheap. Perhaps primary school food always was of this standard, just that our taste buds had yet to mature then haha. We should have gone to rgs to eat la the food there seems much better!

After we ended work, we walked all the way to Taka specially for the ice-cream uncle HAHA. That's like the best ice-cream you can have please. Cheap and good. (Though the price has increased to $1.20 now.) Chocolate chip ice-cream with breaddddd <3 Hehe.

Yayay looking forward to the sleepover this weekend ^^