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Wednesday, May 30, 2012 | 7:30 AM | 0 comments
After 9 months of struggling, studying and adapting to the new life in the UK, i'm finally going back home for the summer holidays before coming back to UK to continue my final year. In this 9 months, so many things happen from meeting new friends to visiting the clubs for the first time, saying goodbyes to friends etc. I have to say staying alone in a place so far from home makes me a more independent and calculative person. First time i have to look after my own daily food and washing. Having to find my own way around a totally new place and travelling around different part of the country. I had become a more calculative person as given a limited amount of money per month i have to calculate carefully the prices for the items. University life to be honest is no much like back in the Diploma days where the class bonds together really well. Maybe it is because there is huge amount of various culture and skin color people so in the end people will usually mixed with groups that they feel more comfortable with and also as i'm a direct 3rd year entry student thus alot of the student already have their own clique. But oh well at least i met alot of great people on the way as well. Overall i still think is a wonderful experience although sometimes tough. But is all worthwhile. And on a final im so looking forward to going home.Tuesday, March 27, 2012 | 12:48 AM | 0 comments
Bored so i decided to do a little blogging. I can't believe what is happening. I have 6 reports, 1 project and 1 proposal to be completed how torturous of the lecturers. Haven being able to go visit any other places. Last visit was to Edinburgh, so happy because finally i get to meet a friend from Singapore since i came here. Had a great dim sum lunch in Edinburgh. Awesome much haha. I was hoping i can spend this coming sat at fort william. Normally it costed about 20plus pounds to get a train but then i was given a voucher by a friend of mine to get the return train for 19pounds. But when i tried booking it online, it was not valid so im not sure if it is fine to use. Probably if it is confirm that my friend and i decided to go, i will try going down to the ticket office to buy to see if it is possible to use the voucher. It just turned spring yesterday, temperature rising in Scotland. The angmohs sure loved the sun, i walked back home today and and saw so many people sitting on the grass sun tanning and just enjoying the sun. I guess im just too used to the sun in Singapore that i dont feel any differences haha. However, i do have some headache of what to wear for this spring weather. I thought its going to be really cold here so i have like so many thick clothing. Probably i might try buying some clothes online because im changing my wardrobe style anyway. Hunting for a lot of cheap cheap clothes. Tuesday, February 07, 2012 | 7:12 AM | 0 comments
I'm suppose to be doing my assignment now but i seriously don't know how to do leh and so many project also damn sian already. Tomorrow need to show part 1 of the marine design project but I have not finish yet. I'm starting to feel like I really got a wrong partner for my project. I mean is not like he is bad is just that he don't know how to lead people and also quite no initiative to start things so I have to be the one doing all this leadership things which I totally hate. I could say i'm a follower not a leader. I assigned him to learn the maxsurf software which we will use in the second part of the project because both of us were exempted 2 years from the degree so basically we did not learn the maxsurf program before. Which leaves me now doing the calculations myself. So sian is like everything is due this week so many things to do. Why does the lecturers have to torture us like that?Smile always
Saturday, January 28, 2012 | 9:13 AM | 0 comments
One week gone since sch reopen. I was super happy today because apparently the morning class i had today was placed wrongly in the timetable so basically no lesson from 9-10am then came our professional development whereby we did a short introduction about our 4th year project then our lecturer said there will be no lessons until she tell us there is. For the afternoon class we had to either choose tues or fri slot so lucky me got the tues slot. So woohoo it means fri no lessons at all awesome!!! Had quite a nice CNY because me and May cooked up alot of dishes for our own CNY dinner on mon. Ana went home on sun and Maria moved out so we had like new flatmates. One was from Hong Kong and the other from France. In the afternoon after I came back from class had a nice long nap from 2pm to about 5pm and Maria messaged me about her mirror left in my room. I helped her to bring it to her flat and went Aldi for a little shopping. Came back for dinner and had a great nice long chat with May as usual, we just went on and on chatting non-stop. The long chat really brings me to think about how amazing it is for 2 girls from 2 totally different country at both ends of the world to be so similar yet so different at the same time. We had like very similar ways of thinking about things and solving various situations but yet we have totally opposite personality. May admits that she is a super pessimistic person with all the things she faced at home and having some situations similar to her I am yet a really optimistic person. May will think on bad sides of things and tend to smile less while i always look at brighter side of things and smile all the time. She told me today that her sister who visit our flat quite often is curious as to why am I always so smiley and would like to know how i will look like when i'm down. May also admitted to me that she is really envy (on the good side) of me for being able to smile all the time despite so many things in life. I guess its one of my philosophy to smile and laugh more in your life because life's short, you never know whats going to happen every minute of your life so why let all those miserable things stop you from enjoying your life to the fullest. When you keep thinking about the bad stuff it means victory is on the bad side, why should we let the bad side win. In movies the good guys always win so why not make it the same in reality by not letting the bad side win over and cause misery in our life. And also i kinda like the way me and May depicts our story by having our character have no name just 2 little girls. I think its going to make a great novel to read. Haha well shall stop here. NEW YEAR
Sunday, January 01, 2012 | 11:54 PM | 0 comments
Today is the first day of year 2012 and what am i doing? I'm studying in the hostel in the morning. Its a new year so well i guess my blog needs a new outlook so I will be finding a new skin for my blog after this post. Well 2011 has ended and i really hope that 2012 will be a better year for everyone including myself. 2011 has been a rather exciting year for me. From our big final year project presentation in SP to graduating from SP with a diploma to coming over to Glasgow to further my studies. Wow, to me is a whole lot of things happening. This is also my first time having christmas and new year in a foreign place. It wasn't as exciting as previous years because my friends are all in SG and although i have flatmates but all of them actually went home for christmas and new year. But oh well who cares is a different experience and thinking on the bright side not everyone will have such a chance so must count my blessings. Many people will write a whole long list of resolutions but for me is just 3 simple things: for me to pass all my subjects well in uni and maybe find a nice boyfriend haha and lastly for all my family and friends be happy and healthy always. Oh and just had a surprise from my flatmates May's mum. May came back to the hostel today and her mum got me a chinese dish she made herself so nice. Not bad of a new year after all hehe. In the new year i might try somethings new. I'm thinking of trying to dye my hair dark purple haha, mum will kill me but my hair is black so the purple will not be as obvious as people with lighter hair. Well shall stop here happy new year again to everyone and may we all have a good year ahead. Saturday, October 01, 2011 | 9:56 PM | 0 comments
Oh my finally i get a chance to actually sit down and write a nice long post for my holiday at Holland and starting school in Glasgow. Holiday at Holland has been fun visited some nice place of interest, took lots of photos. Oh and i also went back to the farm which i visited 6 years back. I wonder if any of the little goats are still there haha. But surprisingly this time round there are only big goats and a few baby goats around. The last time i went to that farm it was filled with 10-20 over baby goats. Awwwww they are so cute. Fly to Glasgow on the 13th Sept. Lived with mum and uncle in an apartment while sorting out my staff.Went to get keys for hostel on 17th Sept. Nice room although quite small but i feel comfortable. Mum went back to SG on 26 Sept, going to miss her. School started on 27th Sept. My class has so many chinese. A class of 85 and 24 of them are from China. Not that bad I mean at least u get to see some chinese. Met a SG guy in my class been hanging around together for some time. Glad to have at least someone u know in the class. Most lessons have not start officially but there is one module, omg I think I'm going to die in it. Its a mechanics module and as known by my friends i sucked at mechanics which was proven in that class. The first 2 lessons we had was only a review of the past year topics and I only know the simple questions. Need to go get the past year notes to revise liao if not i'm going to die. Will have many project work and I seriously am scared because I don't know if i could find good members. Oh well cross my fingers then. Pray hard that I can survive university life. May God Bless Me. Monday, August 29, 2011 | 8:46 PM | 0 comments
Omg my blog is super dead, last post june 14. Anyway life has been ok, really busy these few weeks in preparation for university life in glasgow. Having a major headache trying to pack my bags because i don't know what i need to bring and wish i could bring all my stuff over (which i can't obviously). Counting down to the date i will be leaving, 7th Sept 2011. Also been counting down for my TP which will fall on 2nd of Sept, lol 5 days before flying. I'm so so so scared i will fail. Today just received a message from Esther, she failed her TP because of her parking exceeding the 3 minutes limit. I seriously think I'm also CMI already, she is so good yet she fail then what about me. I'm dead.
Left TTSH on the 19th Aug, miss all my colleagues. They are all wonderful people, gave me lots of gifts on my last day, so touched. Met up with clique on the 20th of aug for makan. I hope i can see them on my departure date. A few of them started university already. |