Oct to Dec 13 Diaries -- Penang Trip, Hallevent, Birthday

Oh gosh.....there goes my blog...

frozen for another 2 months 

I know this sounds like an excuse, but, there really isn't much time to blog!

Can't believe i'm saying this but, I spent most of my weekends studying for quizzes, midterms and finals :(

giasu mode on haha...

anyways, I'll try to blog from where I'd left...

So, during our recess week, went to Penang with ma UTAR GE gang!

best trip ever!

will have a separate post about our awesome getaway soon!

I had loads of fun with these people, so much laughter, so much drama (YES DRAMA).

Just wanna say thanks to them, especially the ones who drove a lot haha...

After coming back from recess week, started my task as an Hall Coordinator. We made barley, green bean soup and curry fishballs! Just wanna say many many thanks to my dear Hall Mags, for helping out throughout the night, walk around the halls to deliver the supper. Love you all!!

Just one week later, my second task. Hall Event!! It's an event prepared by the hall co-s and hall mags for the MSA members to have fun. Well it's my first time organizing such event, well I must say it's not a very successful one, but still, the event still ended smoothly. Throughout the process, learnt so much, and experienced a lot as well. Especially the power of teamwork. Once again, wanna say thanks to my hall mags and MC, who put in so much effort to make this event a success.

 Thanks to all the participants!! haha had loads of fun with you people! You guys rocked!

The Hall Mags :D

Too bad KahHoe and YueBei wasn't with us. 

 每当我需要帮忙，向你们说声“拜托”，你们即刻的一声“好！”，我都觉得很感动！

Random photo haha

it's a Movie Sharing session held in NTU

Joined by the cast and director of  听见下雨的声音 Rhythm of the Rain

yesh you are looking at 方文山 Vincent Fang (the awesome lyricist of most JayChou songs) and also Queen 魏如云 and the very hot Alan 柯有伦。

November

the first day of the month

certainly, a memorable one. 

It's my first birthday away from home!

So glad to say that I have a bunch of awesome friends with me despite being in a different country. 

To be pretty honest, I really thought my birthday was gonna be just another simple day, thought of treating myself to some nice food, and spend the rest of the night watching my fave dramas hehe. 

Then these people came into my room while i'm still wearing my "Inmate Look" LOL totally caught me off guard. And they came in with a cake, a cake!!! God knows how much I love cakes haha...

anyways, really wanna thank their warm wishes. Truly appreciate it. 

Just when I was replying all the FB wishes, thinking that the day is going to end. The OG members knocked the door yo! Total shock again, shocked that they actually appeared, shocked that so many of them are willing to come celebrate my birthday despite it's exam period. Gamdong die me! Seriously felt so grateful to have them (although i dont like the fact that they facejacked me 3 TIMES!), miss all the moments we had during camp. After having cake, we even went supper! Great to have a catch up with them :D

right after my birthday, met up with da dearest buddy!

had good food and visit around the city area...will have a separate post soon. 

@CHIJMES

And the following day, my cousins came to visit me!!!!!! OMGOMG haha

it was a really sudden one, can't tell how happy I was when Vince say that they are coming.

I have a quiz on the following day, but I know it's more important to spend quality time with family, just to release stress and motivate myself further!

visited Gardens by the Bay, will have another post soon (OMG I have so much to post haha)

Time to prepare for the exams, go to my FB and you'll see plenty of photos of me studying with my 4 in Love girls haha...though studying is no fun, but with the girls, everything seems to be less suffering. Love em'.

Hehe, one of the cool things about NTU culture : Exam Welfare pack

loaded with goodies

And here comes exam period, studying (actually, worrying most of the time), squeezing brain juice, hoping to make sense of things...

Sometimes, you wish time pass quickly, so that you can enjoy the holidays

But sometimes, you hope time can stop or wish time can multiple itself, so that, you dont have to face the fear of exams, the fear of sitting in a freezing exam hall, the fear of not knowing what to write on the answer book. 

Anyways, it's over yo! Though I tend to be rather sad and hopeless whenever I stepped out of the exam hall, but I guess I did my best to cover them up. More importantly, good things happened after that!

Theodora and Cristina

my friends from Romania and Italy

so proud and glad to know them during my first semester in NTU

this girls are really sweet and friendly

I truly hope that we'll still meet very very soon!

yeap, another awesome thing about NTU, meet people from around the world!

so far, I've met people from Spain, Norway, HongKong, Netherlands, German and much more!

 My awesome marketing presentation groupmates!

Really wanna say thanks and sorry to them, coz they have a super forgetful groupmate like me who needs reminder all the time.  

Zzang Zzang!!! This is our 4 in Love hehe :D
Really wanna thank thess 3 girls, for being the best companions I have in NTU

thanks for always making me laugh, eating lunch with me, listening to all my complaints and rants, and even sometimes, have to bear my bad attitude.

I cannot imagine how life in Pulau NTU will be without you girls. Love you guys much!!

May we continue to fight for the next 3 years!! 

A Little Bit Of Thought After First Semester in NTU

To be pretty honest, these 4 months in NTU, I have so much thoughts, it seems I learned a little bit more about myself. 

During the first two weeks, it felt like the most helpless days in my life. Staying in a dimly lit room, with a small window panel, with a roommate that comes from a totally different background as me. Without parents, without friends. First few days, I went to lectures, not knowing many people, in fact, I meet totally different people, it felt like there's no one who will stay with me, unlike my highschool years, where I have the same bunch of classmates.  

But slowly, you realize, the right people will come to you. 

Singapore, sometimes I feel very grateful it's Singapore. In fact, most of the time, I don't really feel like I'm in a foreign country. I can still eat Wanton noodles here, speak Mandarin here, drink Milo and speak broken English here. It may seem to be a very different place at first, fast paced, competitive, everything is expensive(in Msian terms). 

But slowly, you realize, life still goes on, even your seems-like-unbearably-long weekends will still be fine, you probably end up spending time on studying, or watching dramas.

I wish I know better English or Chinese to describe how i felt throughout the first four months.
In simple words, what I've really learned is that TIME NEVER STOPS, you can feel happy, sad or boring, you can be stressed over something, you can spend your whole day crying but TIME will never give a damn about what you're doing and how you're feeling.
So, even if you're facing the worst situation, never forget life goes on... 

BeeZ

I guess I shouldn't complain about being bz since most of my friends here are a lot more busier than I am haha...anyways, I'm having fun so far :D Thanks to lot of people...but of course, the pressure is building up as week 14 gets nearer...okay doesn't sound like me, to worry about week 14 while it's just week 5 haha...but yea, really do feel the competition over here...not that i giasu, but...if i dun giasu my 3.5 confirm gone...thanks to the bell curve thingy...

anyways, cut those complaints hehe, time to share some photos
Just wanna say thanks to all the friends and seniors here, who put in a lot of effort to keep us happy :D

So where to continue? After mortal instruments hmm....*glancesatweeklyplanner*
Let the photos speak for themselves....

31st of August : Merdeka Night by Malaysian Students Association
another bonding event for Malaysians to gather up (not really celebrating merdeka tho haha)
Good food, awesome company, and interesting performances and programmes.

Credits to Chong Kok Chan

 Lots of Kacha Kacha moments

Credits to Lam Bo Xiang

 Fave photo of the night
Credits to Lam Bo Xiang

It's also MSA Main Committee's installation as well...
Credits to Chong Kok Chan

so many pretty babes hehe

The following day, OG Lunch at IKEA, Queenstown!

weeeeee, my meatballs omg!!
IKEA Food here has more variety i guess, but the place is much more crowded and limited. Love the IKEA back home, with super large tables and wide windows, spacious, and cozy.
Anyways, enjoyed the food and also the free flow coffee.  

Credits to CengYew

Must show this photo, thats how we ordered our food LOL
two trolleys!

Credits to Ceng Yew

6th of Sept : Rotaract Installation Night

yeap, can't believe I still get to continue my Interactor journey over here. 

hope it will be a very fun journey :D
basically everyone suit-up hehe...

 Act-Pro Shot

Credits to Rotaract Club of NTU

 Amethystttt

Credits to Rotaract Club of NTU

with my dear coursemates

Credits to Limin

After installation, went to the AWEZOMME Mid Autumn Festival
organized by the Chinese Society of NTU
one of the best things that happened ever since I started uni-life
Love the atmosphere of the event. Is like going back into the past, where you play with lanterns and the people you play with are your closest friends. Thumbs up!

 My favorite photo @ Yunnan Garden

a place with all the ancient Chinese monuments and sculptures

Credits to Limin

 photo with the Fictional Characters

Credits to Limin

Placed a wish at the "Wishing Pond"

Credits to Limin

 LOL Photobooth with ancient costumes

Credits to Limin

 Amethyst again :D

Credits to Wenfang

More Amethysssttttt hahahahaha

Credits to Wenfang

met the Seaparkian :D

Credits to Wenfang

Craziest Supper Session, which ended at 4 in the morning omg...

Credits to Wenfang

Following Day, Assignment Day and also dinner with da friends...and a walk at Singapore's Pasar Malam @ Pioneer

Love the Claypot Rice!

Credits to Yvonne

Covered Pasar Malam, kinda diff from the dark pasar malam back home
I heard that pasar malam here is seasonal. We were lucky.

Quite a variety of snacks!! But too bad I was already full.

Sunday, OG Steamboat with the Amethyst-ian
Awesome time to battle for enjoy good food and funny jokes with the friends...

Watched Inception and Russell Peters

Credits to Joseph Thong

Our famous All-In photo :D

Credits to Michell

wow time passes really quickly, 2 more weeks till the recess week, and half semester is gone! Just Like That! Well for now, I think it's quite good that I'm busy, at least I won't feel lifeless hehe...
A Big Shoutout to people who were with me throughout these few weeks, especially these two girls :

Thanks for always being my lunchdate, dinnerdate. and even going back to JB with me just to withdraw money. And also thanks for listening to all my nonsense, crap and sometimes stupid words...I really appreciate what you guys did for me. Will try my best to do more for you all. :D
Love you two!! :D

Quiz and midterms coming up. Hope I'll be able to do well. :D

Movie Review : The Mortal Instruments : City of Bones

Weeeeeee first time watching a movie in Singapore's Cinema

excited? yes LOL
not because it's d first time, but more because of the movie that I was gonna watch...
I heard the books are awesome. Considering the fact that for the past few years, all the books you find in Popular or MPH are so twilight-ish...(house of night, vampirediaries) it's so hard to tell what books are nice...so yea, this book must have it's charm to be so popular among all the vampire-werewolf-immortal-fantasy books galore. I downloaded an e-book of City of Bones, but totally forgot to read it and before I realize it, it's already showing in theaters haha....So yeap, since I know how reading the books will actually destroy my opinion of the movie, so I might as well watch the movie first and decide whether to read the books.

Watching the trailer, it does show a lot of similarity with recent popular teen fantasy movies like twilight, beautiful creatures and etc.  But the movie certainly is much better than expected. 

The Mortal Instruments : City of Bones

Synopsis:

Basically, it's a story about Clary, discovering the truth about herself and also her mother who was kidnapped in the beginning of the movie. She realized she's actually a Half-angel, Half-human, aka Shadowhunter who hunts demons down. Trying to save her mother, she gets help from Jace, also a Shadowhunter and was brought to the headquarters of Shadowhunters called the Institute. From there, she realize her mom's disappearance is related to a mortal cup, one of the mortal instruments given by Angel Raziel. So yea, the movie tells the journey of her finding the cup and saving her mother from villain Valentine.

Cast: (left to right)

Lili Collins, Robert Sheehan, Jamie Campbell Bower, Kevin Zegers, Jemima West

Loving the cast, probably because I haven't read the book haha...

so far, I really like Lili Collins, so pretty. Looks somehow fragile but yet untouchable.

Review:

I think this movie is quite good, and interesting. Well it has a bit of everything. Fantasy, myths, action, romance, friendship, adventure and comedy. Trust me, some of the lines are damn funny...I kinda agree that it sort of like compiles all the best things from other teen movies, it has Harry Potter's magical world (The Institute looks like Hogwarts, the mortal cup with special powers, the villain),  Twilight's romance and supernatural creatures, things like that. But I guess the main character Clary is the special one, a half angel, fighting evil, finding her own destiny, independent, brave, smart. But again, I haven't read the book, maybe there's more to her and other characters as well. Jace was also quite cool, loves himself too much i guess, but still very powerful and attractive. Certainly the storyline is kind of cliche, but it has a lot of interesting elements larr, the rather modern yet dangerous underworld, with all the werewolves, demons and vampires, witches and warlocks. The weapons, the mortal cup, the stele and runes. It's also packed with action scenes, lots of fighting, vampire smashing and demon slaughter haha...making every moment of the movie worth watching. I was texting my friend in the cinema, and I end up missing out lots of things haha...And not to forget, romance! Erm, when it comes to romance I'm certain that the book will be better, but from the movie, it's quite sweet larr...not too cheesy. I like how Jace looks at Clary.  

anyways, despite the movie keeps you on the edge of your seat, there are a lot of details that I didn't really understand. Probably need to read the book to find out. You might not fully understand the whole story. 

Smoking hot casts :D

Anyways, it's still a nice movie larr...anticipating the second movie!

meanwhile, I should go read the books haha...
anyways, erm, to me, you can't really compare this to Twilight larr...
It's rather different, this one is more of an adventure. Twilight is still awesome to me haha...
But if you have can, do watch this movie, very interesting and unique. Funny as well!!

Ratings : 7/10

Movie with dear Limin, Theodora and Cristina. 

"ma, I went for a movie with two exchange students, one from Romania and one from Italy."

and there comes my mom's shocked face haha
yeap, one of the best things from NTU, get to know people from all over the world. :)