A mixture of feelings, like the rainbow colours when spinned together become a total whiteness

I woke up today, reluctantly getting off my bed to my study table to switch on my laptop. Laptop, yes, the only thing that will keeps me wide awake. So, as usual, as I log on to my Nus account, the first thing I always check is my NUSmail and IVLE. Well, guess what? I got selected to be part of the NUS choir family! And what more, a soprano singer. I was jovial and my heart really leaped when the news sinked into my mind. But this moment of happiness only lasted for a short while. I had to go to NUS sports complex along with a few of my friends to check the booking session for the courts. Not going to elaborate about it, because it will just bore you. It is just for the upcoming sports day event with NTU. After that, I went to the library and did some chemistry revision. Due to the fact that I did not revise even once after this week's lecture, I had to start my revision no matter what, or else, it will never begin. >.< Later on, I had Biodiversity practical, a field trip to Kent Ridge Park to learn the features and specificities of plants and some animals in order to be able to classify them in the future. It was a pretty long walk, but the trip was overall, a fun and beneficial one. Now, I will be able to tell my friends about plants in depth! Hope this statement will not shoo you guys away. Haha! After the field trip, I rushed to the piano ensemble, but it came to a disappointment. The room was not spacious, and there were so many people! I almost suffocated in the midst of the crowd. Me and Joan left before it even ended as we could not stand the crowd. We ended up heading back to PGP and had our dinner at the old canteen with Wai Chien and others who we bumped into. All in all, I felt happy, exhausted, hyper, bleary, disappointed, sleepy, etc, and these feelings lead to point zero, numb. Now as I'm typing this, I really want to ditch everything away and dive into a seaside and have a good swim. But, I don't think I have the energy left to swim anyway. Anyway care to throw me a float? =)

It begins!

It has entered the third week since I started staying here in NUS. So, Im already adapted to the lifestyle here =). Yesterday (Tuesday), I had my first lecture at 8am for "Samurai, Geisha & Yakuza", followed by another lecture at 4pm for Biodiversity. Each lasted almost 2 hours. The schedule is not hectic yet because the tutorials are only starting on the 3rd week of the academic timetable. So far, the lecturers are good. They are pretty humorous which at least will prevent me from dozing off. The coursemates I got to know are really cool and intelligent people. I hope I can keep up as more practicals and assignments will be thrown flat to us. (lol) Moving on to today's lesson, I had japanese language lecture. Name of the lecturer, Saito Yukiko sensei =). As for japanese, the tutorials which Im gonna have in the near future are strenous as I will have 5hours of tutorial weekly, which is divided into 3 tutorial classes per week. sigh~ While I am typing this blog, a man came to repair my study light! So, now I have my table light back. No more straining my eyes to do my reading. Hence, in my opinion, embarking the education in NUS is really fascinating and exhilarating. Eventhough at times it can be really exhausting however, in the end, taking this huge, courageous step into this competitive community, is indeed, a worthy decision.

Conformation of oneself to a new community

Today is already Saturday. The first day I checked in was on 27th of July, which was a Monday. The day I stepped into the campus as a student. From long queues for registration to showroom by ambassadors. Everything was pretty much a hassle on the first day. However, I got to settle down few days later. Eventhough, I know that more are going to come in the near future such as lab practicals, tutorials, activities, etc, which pretty much will take up most of my time. I think the only day I can allocate time for myself is Sunday, or maybe not. Organisational and well-structured planning will be vital at this point. I have to learn to grasp it as soon as possible. >.< All in all, the people here are mostly friendly and sociable considering the different backgrounds we all have. Apart from that, the university has a huge, condusive central library and reading areas. I will upload some photoes pertaining to the surroundings of NUS and my hostel later.

Modules I have to take for this semester:

1) Biodiversity (my bio classmates, look at what I have to study again...)

2) General physiology

3) Chemistry for life sciences

4) #English for academic purposes (failed qet..thats why I have to take T.T)

there are other two more which are elective modules. Will update it after I received the confirmation of modules. =)

*lots of love to my family and friends*