Monday, August 11, 2014

1 more month

In about a month’s time, I’ll no longer be in Singapore!!!! Time passes really fast!!!

Just went for a camp (like finally! everyone’s been posting pics about their uni camps) glad that the games were fun and not like NUS/NTU’s wild games :O  I love how chill my OG is hahaha They are a really fun bunch ^^

okay gonna recap in order:


forgot the date: went for Singapore 2014 Night Festival’s media preview w Aud (thanks aud!) and I’ve got to say that the program line-up this year seems quite interesting! There will be international collaborations with various artists such as William Close (USA), 7 Sopranos, Zingo, Art Fission Company (Singapore), works by SUTD students, Clement Briend (France) and many more! Clement Briend was invited to the media preview and he told us a little about his works and his special projector. He’s a photographer and will be displaying “Divine Trees” during the Night Fesitval. Go google him and this series of works and you’ll know what to expect ^^ He brought his special projector, which he made from scratch, and showed us a preview of the projection. The effect’s really…. grand. Because he uses buddhist symbols such as faces of Buddha and other divine beings, it feels kinda zen (okay i guess you can feel either end of the spectrum, comfortable or not. I felt really comfortable with the images) Imagine seeing around 7 of these images around you!!


Depending on which angle you are at, the experience is different. It’s amazing how it feels like a 3D sculpture made using natural materials, but when you observe the work up close, you realize it’s just a normal tree with a projection of amazing quality an resolution. It’s like the eyes cave in and protrude out according to the human anatomy but in fact its mostly a flat plane of leaves. Also, as the wind blows, the leaves rustle and the image moves gently in the breeze, as if its alive. I’m not really good with words so I don’t know how to explain it so do go down for the Night Festival to experience it yourself! For all the foodies out there, there’s a food section too! Oh oh, there’s a after party too! 
Visit http://www.brasbasahbugis.sg/SNFPortal/index.jsp for more details about the Singapore 2014 Night Festival. 
Venue: Bras Basah, Bugis Precint 
(around Singapore National Museum and Peranakan Museum)
Time: 7pm-2am
Date: Fri & Sat, 22&23 Aug, 29&30 Aug 
(happens on 2 weekends, majority of the stuff will be the same but presentation of the main attraction (earth harp) will be different, such as the visual aspect as well as the collaborators (if I’m not mistaken))



26 July: Pre-departure talk made me all excited about going to the UK!!! Will definitely travel whenever I have time on my hands (hopefully I’ll have a decent amount of spare time!!) Gonna learn how to scrimp and save hahaha woes of being a poor student without a scholarship :(  This year there’s loads of law and econs students, but well, its kinda expected

On a side note, lemme digress. MY FB FEED IS FILLED WITH RAGGGG and pics of white coat ceremony. sigh. And some of my friends have even started uni alr!!! i has no rag but i has club! haha (more on that later) so many doctors around me sigh. why is that there are so many lawyers and doctors around but there is somehow always a shortage of them and they get paid much more while there are so little architects around and they get paid …. really badly

Met up with my batch mates (theres 5 of us in total and 1 doing real estates, so 6 of us in the same department) It kinda stresses yet excites me knowing that I’ll be working w talents. Thankful to be accepted into such a great uni^^ okay after that, I met up with the hwachies that were also there during the pre-departure talk and headed back to our alma mater for a ‘orientation’ played some games made some friends (so many going LSE), went back for a BBQ and thats about it

1-3 Aug: CAMPPPPP!!!!!!!! overall, camp was really chill with loads of slack time (good in a way) which resulted in many games with forfeit penalty (nooooooo) Blue OG was reeaaaaalllllyyy chill and somehow we emerged as one of the top OG’s after the second day games. but the third day, we slid all the way down to one of the last hahaha but wtv we enjoyed ourselves and that’s all that matters. we were damn fail w the cheers hahaha couldn’t remember the cheer till the very last day and were always relying on this piece of paper which we scribbled our cheer. its too complicated!! but it sounds nice like a poem but a little too complex and long for a cheer haha camp was great nonetheless


6 Aug: Butter Factory! My virgin clubbing experience haha tho i didn’t really club. Met OG for a chill dinner then pre drinks (didn’t really drink, only during my forfeit and a little in the club) then entered butter. really should have drank more before entering.. I realized that if you enter with a super clear mind, you’ll just think everyone around you is retarded and won’t dare to dance and get high cos you’ll be judged. soooo this was one part i regretted. Next time, if there’s a next time, i’ll drink a little more. but then again, i scared i’ll get drunk hahaha Butter’s really strict about dress code.. wore slip ons and only got 2 free drinks. whaaatttttt. if you wear heels/wedges you’ll get 5 free drinks. besides that, it was a cool experience ^^

9 Aug: National day!!! Didn’t manage to get fix T_T and its the last time NDP’s gonna be at the float… Met with aep class and guess what we did…
we painted a banner
HAHAHAHA quite lame right but we’re an art class soooooo we did something arty LOL nah we were just helping aaron with his banner for army/navy not sure. ta-baoed starbucks cos they were having the national day promo then played some card games, made a failed matcha cake (which we still ate) all in all a great catch-up with them. It’s prob my last time seeing them as a class :( aaron’s gonna sail soon and when he’s back we’ll be gone :/ Thanks for the past 2+ years!! lets all Skype or sth haha when the few of us are overseas! 
group selfie w aaron’s new phone. welcome to the world of smart phones!!! couldn’t find the blur selfie taken by aaron this was taken by aud (the rest left early)


andddd failed matcha cake using the rice cooker. DONT USE PANCAKE MIXXXXX use HOTCAKE mix instead!!

k thats all. gonna settle visa tmr, hopefully everything’s okay and
 I NEED TO STOP FALLING SICK !!!!!@$^%&@##$(