After a fun-filled month of starringSMU, bondue Camp and FTB, I was definitely not looking forward to starting school.
Stepping into my first class in the seminar rooms with trepidation - boy was I glad that Chris and JJ was with me.
Looking back at this entire week, it has no doubt been very crazy indeed.
Monday
Stats Class.
My prof was this really nice gentle lady, always smiling. Her lesson was fun, and she made class participation less intimidating than usual. I got to comment in the 1st half of the lesson, and I was glad to sit back to let the rest of the class get their class participation points.
Tuesday
Rest Day.
I spent a good half of the day doing up the Stats tutorial, and I was only halfway through at 11pm. I gave up and decided to relax by going back to my usual routine of Japanese comedies, but for some odd reason, they didn't seem so appealing to me anymore.
Wednesday
Leadership and Teambuilding
This is supposedly SMU's flagship course. This was my first lesson not knowing anyone in the class, and since I was early I felt certain I was destined to wait outside the classroom alone like an idiot.
And Steffi showed up because she had a class on the same floor at the same time :) Was I glad! I talked to her for a while before going in. All of us were split into groups the moment we stepped in, and then the prof started telling us what LTB was all about.
This mod is going to take up a LOT of time. I just know it.
Thursday
Biz Law
I don't like Biz Law :( The people in my class were intimidating, and the prof was talking on subjects that were totally alien to me! I met the first Mr. Know-it-all student in this class.
This was the only class of the week I didn't even bother to speak up. Not because I didnt want to, but I couldn't. Some of the students seriously talk too much.
Friday
AS/CT
Gosh. It feels good to be with people you know. The prof was so obvious in taking down our names after we spoke up, and the entire class became a battlefield where everyone just fought to raise their hands to answer. :(
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I'm totally not enjoying this weekend. I have yet to finish my stats tutorial even after having worked on it for the past 6 hours, and I'm starting to regret coming to SMU.
No idea how I am going to last for 4 more years here. :(
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
StarringSMU 08
StarringSMU 2008's over.
Whether you enjoy something or not depends entirely on the people in your group, whether you get along with them well or not, and not so much on what the camp/event was about.
I guess I wasn't very happy with a few of my group mates, but it was my maiden SMU event so I really wanted it to be enjoyable. It wasn't that my group mates were not nice people, but they were more of "not-the-kind-of-people-i-would-hang-out-with".
Luckily there were people like Gladys, Kenken, Steffi, Clarensia I could get along pretty well with.
Brief run-through of the program :
1st day : Icebreaker games
This was pure shit la. Damn waste time. Play games also can get CIP hours. No wonder starringSMU has such a bad name outside this event. First time I got to play uni games like "tiu tiu tiu" though, equipped me well for the next 2 camps haha.
2nd day : Samba and Drums Practise
The practises were practically pointless, like we never actually executed what we learnt eventually.
3rd day : Pledges
Going around Singapore to collect pledges from Singaporeans. This was where I slowly got to know Steffi, Cynthia, Satoshi, ShuangHan and Clarensia better :)
4th day : Car wash part 1
Washing cars for the public to raise $ for the aged. The only thing I actually found meaningful. But we slacked for half of the time talking nonsense, and we washed damn little cars.
5th day : Car wash part 2
Got our act up and I actually started enjoying myself. We washed like what, 50 cars?? I still vividly remember our lunch, the most awesome XO fish slice bee hoon. SONG BOH! $5 and its damn little. But it was seriously damn good.
This pretty girl here is the awesome painist that played the piano solo during our convocation!!
Make up day :
Accost foreign students to join starringSMU on their mat day. I only chose to go because a few of my groupmates were going. Else it would have been damn boring la!
6th day : Rehersal for Samba at the field
A damn hot day at commonwealth. Gathered to run through the entire event.
7th day : Actual Samba event
It was actually fun, after getting to know the rest of my group mates better after 6 long days. We broke the record for most people dancing simulteanously for 5 mins, although thats bullshit cos everyone was just like randomly shaking their butts and not actually dancing.
8th day : Closing ceremony
Came late because I just finished Bondue camp. And i immediately tio sabo-ed by some random op comm member to represent my grp in the paegant. My partner was ms asoc 2008, qian hui. Got the chance during the paegant's QnA to tell the president's girlfriend that i thought she was pretty in front of everyone. WOOHOO!
Did I enjoy myself? No doubt I did, but I only did entirely because of the few people I could "click" with.
Thanks Gladys, Kenken, Steffi & Clarensia- if you ever come across this. :)
Whether you enjoy something or not depends entirely on the people in your group, whether you get along with them well or not, and not so much on what the camp/event was about.
I guess I wasn't very happy with a few of my group mates, but it was my maiden SMU event so I really wanted it to be enjoyable. It wasn't that my group mates were not nice people, but they were more of "not-the-kind-of-people-i-would-hang-out-with".
Luckily there were people like Gladys, Kenken, Steffi, Clarensia I could get along pretty well with.
Brief run-through of the program :
1st day : Icebreaker games
This was pure shit la. Damn waste time. Play games also can get CIP hours. No wonder starringSMU has such a bad name outside this event. First time I got to play uni games like "tiu tiu tiu" though, equipped me well for the next 2 camps haha.
2nd day : Samba and Drums Practise
The practises were practically pointless, like we never actually executed what we learnt eventually.
3rd day : Pledges
Going around Singapore to collect pledges from Singaporeans. This was where I slowly got to know Steffi, Cynthia, Satoshi, ShuangHan and Clarensia better :)
4th day : Car wash part 1
Washing cars for the public to raise $ for the aged. The only thing I actually found meaningful. But we slacked for half of the time talking nonsense, and we washed damn little cars.
5th day : Car wash part 2
Got our act up and I actually started enjoying myself. We washed like what, 50 cars?? I still vividly remember our lunch, the most awesome XO fish slice bee hoon. SONG BOH! $5 and its damn little. But it was seriously damn good.
This pretty girl here is the awesome painist that played the piano solo during our convocation!!
Make up day :
Accost foreign students to join starringSMU on their mat day. I only chose to go because a few of my groupmates were going. Else it would have been damn boring la!
6th day : Rehersal for Samba at the field
A damn hot day at commonwealth. Gathered to run through the entire event.
7th day : Actual Samba event
It was actually fun, after getting to know the rest of my group mates better after 6 long days. We broke the record for most people dancing simulteanously for 5 mins, although thats bullshit cos everyone was just like randomly shaking their butts and not actually dancing.
8th day : Closing ceremony
Came late because I just finished Bondue camp. And i immediately tio sabo-ed by some random op comm member to represent my grp in the paegant. My partner was ms asoc 2008, qian hui. Got the chance during the paegant's QnA to tell the president's girlfriend that i thought she was pretty in front of everyone. WOOHOO!
Did I enjoy myself? No doubt I did, but I only did entirely because of the few people I could "click" with.
Thanks Gladys, Kenken, Steffi & Clarensia- if you ever come across this. :)
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Kitchen Diary #2
Been visiting the supermarket frequently nowadays, in search of elusive ingredients.
Made a few more dishes, but no peektures.
1. Baked chicken with mixed spices.
Spices included crushed fennel, cumin, black pepper, salt, basil leaves, masterfoods' italian herbs.
This turned out pretty sub-standard, and I have to attribute this to the poor quality of the chicken and the fact it has been sitting in the freezer for pretty long.
3/10
2. Fried chicken with mixed spices and chicken stock.
This was the same thing as the previous one, but I let it marinate overnight in the mixed spices. After that I toss fried the chopped up pieces of chicken with more salt, more pepper, and some chicken stock.
This turned out pretty good.
5/10
3. Omu style Egg
Emulating the pro chefs at the "tak-tak" method of folding the egg on the side of the pan is really dam tough. Mine more or less ended up like the macdonalds breakfast scrambled eggs, only much better. [and i didn't even have to use the butter technique!]
7/10
4. Fried Rice
Shit man. This was the best dish I have ever made. I swear this can make the menu on any restaurant. I probably got the perfect proportion of salt and pepper. Once I can combine this with the technique of perfect egg coating on the rice this will be a winner :)
And I mastered the technique of flipping food on the pan without any spills. song boh!
8/10
On a sidenote, I just restocked my kitchen with new stuff. Yay!
EV Olive Oil, Olives, Canned tomatoes, Waffles, Lots of random herbs, lots of pork, lots of sutchi fillets, Chicken Stock, Onions, Potatoes, Chillies....
Made a few more dishes, but no peektures.
1. Baked chicken with mixed spices.
Spices included crushed fennel, cumin, black pepper, salt, basil leaves, masterfoods' italian herbs.
This turned out pretty sub-standard, and I have to attribute this to the poor quality of the chicken and the fact it has been sitting in the freezer for pretty long.
3/10
2. Fried chicken with mixed spices and chicken stock.
This was the same thing as the previous one, but I let it marinate overnight in the mixed spices. After that I toss fried the chopped up pieces of chicken with more salt, more pepper, and some chicken stock.
This turned out pretty good.
5/10
3. Omu style Egg
Emulating the pro chefs at the "tak-tak" method of folding the egg on the side of the pan is really dam tough. Mine more or less ended up like the macdonalds breakfast scrambled eggs, only much better. [and i didn't even have to use the butter technique!]
7/10
4. Fried Rice
Shit man. This was the best dish I have ever made. I swear this can make the menu on any restaurant. I probably got the perfect proportion of salt and pepper. Once I can combine this with the technique of perfect egg coating on the rice this will be a winner :)
And I mastered the technique of flipping food on the pan without any spills. song boh!
8/10
On a sidenote, I just restocked my kitchen with new stuff. Yay!
EV Olive Oil, Olives, Canned tomatoes, Waffles, Lots of random herbs, lots of pork, lots of sutchi fillets, Chicken Stock, Onions, Potatoes, Chillies....
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