Pictures at last

WOOT~~! Management assignment completed~! Accounting test next week, Economics test and marketing assignment due the week after. That is not THAT bad is that? Haha... But the hardest assignment is cleared... What a relief!

I am getting used to school so i will be getting a job soon. Hopefully it pays well. Ok... now with my 6GB internet, lets show u some picture!!!(finally huh?)

My housing: "Kurrajong Village"

My Bedroom

Living/Dinning room

Traffic Lights in School

Me and a random patch of flowers~!

Flat 16's Birthday party.

Apologies! I had been a week since I have blogged. Many things had happened last week, inclusive of a house mate’s birthday, quite a “few” readings, assignments and research to be done.

Management project had not and will not be easy. I had been doing research on expansion of an Australian company to India (And why India of ALL places? I don’t know either. It seems like my lecturer chose it on a whim.). I had to research on their taxes, laws and stuff like that and this report is dued in a week. Marketing and economics had required a LOT of reading. I had to read like 3 reports, journals and articles on those. It seriously took a long time.

Me and my 2 other house mate decided to make an Ice-cream cake for my house mate’s birthday, while Kai (Our housing assistant) make 2 types of pasta. It was really funny when the ice cream kept melting as soon as it took it out from the fridge. In the end, we had to work with the freezer’s door opened in the middle of the night. It was really fun and we watch “Babylon AD” (What a horribly, senseless show).

Week 1 over and done with

Lol! It had been a week since I had blogged. Week 1 of school is finally over. Assignments had been given out and dued soon. (Managing report is dued on March)

My Economics tutor was pretty fun. When we went to the class, to our surprise, he said, “Welcome to physiotherapy class 1! I hope you are in the right class!” At this point, a few people started packing up. “Oh! What class are you suppose to be taking?”, “Erm, econs?”, “Oh well, I guess we can do that too…”

My managing lecturer was interesting too! On the other hand… my tutor was…lets see… boring is a little of an understatement… Though there was this guy who is SO obviously a playboy in my class. I was talking to these 2 pretty girls who were seated next to me when he hurried to the front and started talking to them. When my other friend and I were talking to him or asking stuff, he kinds of ignores us and only talks to those girls. Somehow, this situation half annoyed and at the same time amused me.

As for accounting lecture, the only thing I remember is desperately trying to copy the notes before the slides were changed. Marketing lecturer was a facts person… I would wait a few more lessons before commenting.

Anyway, Gwen and I finally gotten a Laser printer at $65. It was sold out so fast that we had to go to the shopping mall 3 days in arrow before getting it. I was on the verge of giving up on it and getting a multi function ink one for $59.

Still Bored

Yesterday, we had a kind of like ECA orientation thing. There were some pretty weird booths around including the gay/lesbian club, some bank thing that is giving out bee hair band… FREE Hotdog and some one was attempting to give me “Orange & Chilli” canned drink. Surprisingly, there is a Kendo club here too. But I don’t think I will join. Later, there was another Bbq in one of the housing. Then my housing assistant was supposed to take us to the tavern but we ended up in Flat 44 as the tavern was too crowded. We played a bit of drinking games (I still hate beer) and then went back home.

Today we had a bit of a lecture on saving money and stuff then had this housing meeting for all new residence. Well… The pizza and prawns were good….

Free food!

Today, we had a long overdue dinner from our housing assistant! He had promised it quite a while ago. It was pretty good. There was chicken(expensive things), potato salad and some vegetables. We were helping him to make some brownies after that. He actually wanted to make some cake... but he bought flour instead of rising flour...

Nothing much to do back here. Had been reading my marketing textbook. There are so much words and it took me so long to reach page 17(the text were very small and plentiful OK?! Hmph!). Although I had wanted to complete the chapter. I decided to stop and continue another day... Pizza here cost $5 every Tuesday(Medium size in Singapore standard). So I had one with Gwen.

Do you know MacDonald here are very interesting. A regular meal will only give you a small drink and fries... We were so surprised when we saw the cup.

The student guild here is CRAZY! I mean $99.95 for 1year of guild membership?!? SIAO LA!

Orientation: Day 6

I was kind of tired yesterday after watching Interview with the Vampire (It is a damn gay show), thus let me give you a summary about the tour now.

At first, we went to the winery and tasted some red and white wine. I think it was a mistake to try the 18% one first, because I felt the rest were too blend later. The wine’s prices were pretty reasonable like $14 to $35 for the average on ones. Next we went to the chocolate factory. We did not get to really see the making of chocolates but still the chocolates were really nice. We then realize it was Valentines Day. We bought some chocolate and then headed off to the next stop. The wildlife park. We saw and fed kangaroos, petted koalas and wombats and more. Then we went to the Hillary Harbour and went to the aquarium. I think Singapore’s Underwater world is better other than the fact that this had an outdoor area. We then went for some fish and chips which tasted horrible! After rushing to so many places, we were rather drained.

Anyway, I might sign up for this internet plan that does not belong to school. It is a 2 year plan costing $39 per month, giving you 6GB every month. Further more, it uses an internet key, thus wireless! The flaw with this plan? 10cents charge with every MB exceeded.

Orientation: Day 5

Today was an extremely fun but long and tiring day. Well let’s start from the morning when we took a bus to town. Bus here run on schedules and you will need your bus timetable or you might have a long wait. They will arrive before allocated time and leave EXACTLY on the dot. Anyway, we boarded the bus and the bus seemed keep moving around private estates and we spotted some of the bus stops were simply these sticks with numbers telling you the what buses arrive here on the ground!! We then had lunch at Chinatown. There was a rather well-known little shop that was selling Hong Kong Duck Rice. It was very delicious.

I think throughout the whole trip to the city, the most fascinating thing was a random, high-tech TOILET just by the road. The door had a side panel which open as you touch it and the door itself was like a lift’s door. It was pretty clean and there is even MUSIC when you enter it. I think there was a button to put the toilet seat down too! The funniest thing was that there was a sign that says that there was a 10 minute time limit per use… I wonder what will happen if you over exceed the time… LOL! Anyway, while this bunch of “swau-ku” Singaporeans were fascinated by the toilet, the Australians were pretty much staring at us….

Next we went to a factory outlet where they sell Adias, Nike, Billabongs and more a cheap prices. I had gotten myself a pretty decent Roxy windbreaker for $69. Then we went to one of my friend’s house to exchange some movies and drama. Though his rent was much more expensive, it was a really beautiful apartment. We also met his mum, auntie and room mate.

Later at night, we had a housing party for people staying at Kurrajong Village. We met many international friends, which I unfortunately don’t remember half the names. I had fun playing beach volleyball which I am really bad at since I keep missing the ball and sinking into the sand. And I also chat with many people including people from Germany, U.S, Australians, and more. Oh well, of course there some people (mainly Australians) who keep “tao-ing” us… but mostly they are pretty friendly.