Ok, appeal for my CN2122: Fluid Mechanics failed. Sad. But it's kinda within my expectations since my mentor's pretty conservative and the pre-requisites are just too many to waive. Oh well. Back to my original plan. I will be taking 6 modules this semester:
MA1505: Mathematics I
IT1005: Introduction to Programming with Matlab
CN2121: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
WP2201H: Eating Right(s): The Politics of Food (in place of EG1413)
SSA2220: Global Economic Dimensions of Singapore
GEK1001: Place, Environment and Society
The first 4 are confirmed as they are my core, so now i need to bid for the last 2. Hope I will be able to get them, if not I will need to do special term le. Sian. And the recommended schedule for me is insane. I need to do up to 29MC's in the last semester, which is utterly disgusting. Thank goodness for the APC's to help ease my workload. All the mugging before school even starts is worth it. Haha.

Ok anyway, these couple of days are pretty fun. Tuesday went for lunch followed by ice-cream and monopoly with the relief teachers gang. Haha. Really fun. And I cannot emphasize more how good the Mao Shan Wang Ice cream is at Udder's. Haha. Love it.

Yesterday when for Zhi Xuan's very last minute 21st birthday celebration at his home. Haha. He's house's a little bit hard to get to, or rather Sebastian lead us to nowhere. Haha. Cabbed there in the end. Haha. And it's a damn nice place in Bukit Timah, and there's endless things to do at his house! Haha. Wii, mahjong and anything. Haha. Had an awesome time with the Army peeps. Haha. On a random note, I found a bus that goes directly from Bukit Timah to home. And its damn fast. Even more awesome. Haha.

Ok tomorrow's the start of Engin Oweek. Yay. Finally I get to go for some camp. Have been feeling quite sian about missing ChESS Camp already due to my LSM1401 exam. Yupz, so looking forward to it. Oh and there's contract signing on Tuesday. Awesomeness. =D

CORS

I give up trying to ask for modules to be allocated. Just give me whatever you think I should get.

SIAN...

The Life~

Good things do come one after another. Haha. Monday went out with 01 peeps. Started out with watching Inception at Shaw, It's a good movie. But it does take some form of thinking to really get what's going on. But it's really quite a scary thought that you could actually be living in someone else's dreams. Eeeks. The concept of dreams is just.. Eerie. Haha. Ok, that's NOT the highlight of the day. Next up was buffet! Ok it's not just any buffet, it's buffet at Marriott Hotel!

Buffet!

Awesomeness. The food was great, but what's even better is the company! Haha. Outings with 01 is always full of nonsense and just plain fun.

Ok I've to admit. I ate quite a bit more than usual. So I(or rather we) was really full after the dinner. So we decided to go to the Helix Bridge! Took the circle line to Promenade Station. It's my first time there anyway. Haha. But the place's really nice.

Outside..

Inside...

Roamed all around the place as well as Marina Bay Sands. It's such a posh place to be in! All the brand names dominate the shop space of the MBS.. until I saw Epi Centre. LOL. Anyway it's camwhoring as usual with them. Lovely nights out. =D

Ok Wednesday went for some series of Engineering talks. OMG it's DAMN boring. As in really boring. I couldn't take it. Felt like sleeping. And it wasn't of much help other than the CORS bidding that's important for me. Overall a waste of time.

Thursday went for GEP Bonding Day.

New GEPer's with Prof Quek and a few seniors...

It was actually quite damn fun! Haha. Yeps enjoyed it thoroughly. Haha. Spent the lunch break discussing with fellow ChBE and EVE peeps and mentors about module plans and stuff. Oh I passed all 5 of APC's! Awesomeness to the maximum. It's really nerve-wrecking calling up the Science Office to ask for the results. But yeps, everything turned out really well, way better than I expected. But the best thing was that Prof Quek said I did well for my CN1111, which is my greatest concern! Woohoo! Anyway as such, I have to change my module plan again! Haha. But this time I'm more than willing to make the change. So it's sort of confirmed that I will be starting with level 2000 modules in my first semester. Now for timetable planning. Anyway I have quite a few changes in plans for my university life these couple of days. Another of which is that I have turned down the offer to stay at PGP and subsequently Utown. This is because of the offer from Shell to provide a scholarship to go for student exchange to the University of Cambridge for 1 year! The most exciting thing is SHELL! My dream job. Yupz, so hostel will not be beneficial to me as such. I will be going all out to try to arrange for this SEP to happen coz it's just like my motivation to do ChBE - that would mean cramping more modules in my year 1 and 3. But what the heck, it's still a scholarship from SHELL! I hope they bond me and make me go intern at their refineries in Singapore. To push it further, I hope they sponsor my masters as well. Awesomeness.

Today, went for registration. Got my matriculation card at last! I am now officially a student at NUS. There's this great sense of satisfaction. Don't ask me why, but I do feel really good that I'm now transiting into a new phase of my life. It's really quite exciting and daunting at the same time. Got to make new friends, new study environment, new everything. But thanks to the APC's, I guess my transition would be smoother coz I more or less know the system in NUS. BUT before that, I had to endure queuing up for the registration. The queue could easily exceed 200m. Damn long. But thank goodness the staff was quite efficient so I waited like an hour or so only. Haha. Good thing. Went to visit the Matriculation fair and stuff. Wasn't really too determined to join a CCA or something, coz most of the time I would probably in student exchange or summer programmes. So I guess committing to all the CCA's and stuff would not be a very responsible thing to do. So yupz, was looking at doing some volunteering work and stuff like that. I guess I can do something meaningful within my 2 years at NUS only. So yupz.

Yupz, so life has been pretty kind to me these days, giving me an advanced birthday present(s). I hope that everything can continue to be as smooth-sailing as it has been. So that's all for now!

Freedom.. Just for a month=X

Yayness. All my APC's are over. Don't remind me about CN1111. It was a terrible experience. Ok whatever. At most I see Mark Saeys again in Sem 2. LOL. Now's the ever irritating wait for results! So far only Prof Quek emailed me. I PASSED EG1109. Awesome. Haha. So that's one module down, 4 more to wait for. Haha. Anyway life's been great ever since exams are over. Have been slacking my life away - searching for my laptop, going out, and just not doing anything! Shioks. Anyway, I went to meet up with CG00/10 peeps for movie today. Watched Despicable Me. ITS DAMN GOOD! Hahaha. Loved every minute of it. And the minions are just.. ADORABLE! Haha. Especially the light stick minion. Wootz! Haha. So after movie rush off to the airport to meet my family for dinner. Haha. Was there coz my bro wanted to settle some flight issues, before he fly off for his visit to Australia(again) to holiday with his girlfriend. Haha. SooO envious lah. I want to go for a holiday again!

So after settling the stuff, Dad drove us to Tampines One where I bought my laptop! Was deciding between a Sony Vaio Z, Vaio F or Macbook Pro. But I decided that Mac OS was not for me, so that leaves me with the 2 Sony ones. My Dad's pretty anal about the place where I buy my laptop. He insists that I have to get it from Sony Style and no other dealers. Haha. So ended up in Sony Style at Tampines One. Ok as for the laptops, Vaio F and Z have roughly around the same specs, except that Z has a much longer battery life and smaller screen that F. So it's a trade-off. Haha. But the Vaio F's battery life was way to short. So I bought Vaio Z in the end!

Haha. Very satisfied with my purchase. Haha. It's super duper fast. Haha. Awesomeness. I manage to transfer 10GB in less than 5 minutes! And I can run lots of stuff simultaneously without lagging. Wootz!=D

Attended Jocelyn's 21st on Saturday. Haha. It's not a birthday celebration lah. It's more like a wedding celebration! Hahaha. But having said that, everything went on pretty smoothly and the video was so sweet lah. Haha. And it's like 01/06 surrounded by hordes of doctors-to-be. Haha. But it's ok, due to 01/06's never failing self-entertainment. Haha.

Love these 21st birthdays! Haha. Coz they are all like mini-class gatherings. And with the 01 peeps, life's never boring! =D

Ok looking forward to more exciting days ahead before Uni semester starts. Oh and I must start looking for games. Haha. Haven't been playing much mainly because my old com can't support anything more that iTunes! LOL. Command and Conquer 3 here I come!=D

3 down, 2 more to go!

Ok 3 down, 2 more to go. Yesterday's Organic chemistry paper was awesome! Haha. I manage to finish the paper in 25 minutes! Made a little bit of mistakes coz I never read my notes properly, but overall it was good. Then came Physical chemistry today. Awesomeness. But in the exact opposite meaning of it. It's was damn disgusting. Quite a number of students just left like 30 minutes into the paper! Coz it was so awesome! Gosh think this is the worst paper so far, and i put in so much effort for it. Haiz. What to do? Life's unfair. Nvm, semester 2 can take again. Hahaha. Damn now I'm totally not in the mood for camp. SIAN.

Biochem and chem engine left. =D

Oh and Saturday was the last official CG00/10 dinner at Velu's Curry! Haha. The Yr 3 guys are in NS now, and yupz, the Yr5 guys and Yr3 gals are entering uni soon. Haha. Time flies right? Wasn't it almost 5 months ago that CG00/10 started? Hmm.. and now everyone's almost gone! Haiz.. But do keep in touch!=D

Life's sad, isn't it?

One paper down! Ok it wasn't that smooth sailing. For the first time, I did not have time to finish my paper! I left 14 marks BLANK! Ok actually I planned to leave friction out anyway. Haha. But I made quite a few stupid mistakes here and there. Anyway it's my elective, plus there's no grade to it. So I just hope to pass it (which according to Prof Quek should be ~60 or so).. Prays damn hard! But actually it doesn't really matter, if I really fail (CHOY!), I will just take it again during term time. No difference actually. Haha. So with the end of EG1109, that leaves me with 4 x chemistry modules to study for. GG! 28th and 29th June will be worst 2 days of my life. Organic chem on 28th followed Physical chem on 29th. After that I will slack a bit - CAMP! Hahaha. Before going back to mug for Biochem on 5th July and ending it off is none other than CN1111 on 9 July! Then I get to slack a couple of weeks before school starts on 10 August.

Ahhhhhh! It's kinda mind-boggling to just look at how much I have to study. Damn.

Life's been pretty bad these days. I really need to go out and relax sometime soon. I used to adore chemistry coz it's so interesting! But now, I kinda regret that I ever said that. I'm currently self-studying 5 modules to be exempted from them:
CN1111: Chemical Engineering Principles
CM1121: Basic Organic Chemistry
CM1131: Basic Physical Chemistry
LSM1401: Fundamentals of Biochemistry
EG1109: Statics and Mechanics of Materials

4 core modules and 1 elective. There are lessons for CN and EG coz they are engineering modules, and hence, I'm running to and fro NUS many times a week. LOL.

Anyway please do not be fooled by the word "basic" coz it's sooo not basic. Haha. Organic chem and biochemistry is the most manageable of them all(but I didn't say they are easy), coz most of the stuff's familiar. It's really chemistry overload. But CN1111 is THE BOMB. Haha. It's one hell of a module to be classified as a level 1000 module. It deals with very basic chemistry concepts, but a hell lot of Math involved. Haha. There could be like 11 equations for a single question. Gosh. And I never felt so dumb in my life before. I read the tutorials and I don't even know where to start, especially the Mark Saeys part. Woohoo. For those taking chem engine, be warned. Haha.

I think JC physics has insufficient emphasis on mechanics. That's why I'm suffering so much doing mechanics. Haha. But at least I can get most of the stuff now! Haha. Oh and Prof Quek's a great teacher! Haha. Exam for EG's next tuesday and I will need all the luck I need! Hahaha.

Anyway haven't been feeling all that great these couple of days. I think I ate something wrong so I'm having diarrhoea. Plus the CN tutorials and adding to my headache and I think this combo has led me to have a fever. Sianz. Panadol's I best friend now. 

Anyway I'm taking time now to type this coz I really need to relax after studying the entire day, and getting not a lot done. Haha. Last EG lesson tmr before the test. Need to read through my notes again and clarify all my doubts by tmr.

SIAN.