二十二歳の誕生日

19.5.2015

Both digits of my age point to 2, but I am still a single man hahaha. Surprisingly I had a rather peaceful birthday and I loved it! Without too many people wishing me for the sake of wishing me, but receiving well wishes from those who bothered to remember. Even though it was nothing interesting, but it was still a great day!

Woke up slightly early than needed to visit 博多一幸舎@CHIJMES for member's birthday free ramen and side dish. Somehow it didn't taste as nice as the last time I went there with Adi, Jack and Evelyn, but still the peaceful lunch was just awesome! :3

黒豚骨＠博多一幸舎

After that I went to work. Today was a special day so I told my boss that I could only work for a short day. Short being short, to me it still felt like a millennium. Somehow the time passed really really slow while I was working. Everytime I checked the time, only 2 minutes or so passed. It was one hell of a torture at that point in time sigh. It would be really good if good times pass as slowly as well! Then as usual, had a bowl of free ramen before I knocked off at 1730.

Meeting my sis after that for dinner. Had a small bowl of Penang laksa at some Penang restaurant @ Aljunied plus a two bowls of rice WITH a huge plate of cereal prawns! HAHA I wondered how could I have eaten so much! By the time I was finally done, I felt so bloated.

Guess what's next? Dessert time! We went to Paya Lebar Square for froyo @glacier frozen yogurt cafe. It was quite nice but the yogurt melted too fast. It would be better if it didn't melt so fast. Well still enjoyed the good food :d :3 And by the time I was done with the froyo too, I really felt like vomiting already hahaahha too much good food in my stomach my stomach was complaining.

yum :d :3 @glacierfrozenyogurtcafe

That went my peaceful 22nd birthday! :D

一風堂でバイトの初日

11.5.15

People have started their internship and I have finally started my part time @Ippudo (Mandarin Gallery). Depending on the schedule given and how much I can earn from this part time, I might have to look for other jobs as well! T^T

Anyway, first day was to train me in familiarising myself with the culture at Ippudo (especially it is a Japanese restaurant). When we see each other greet each other おはようございます, to me it means "good morning" but to them it seems like a greeting in general. As long as you come for work, you greet everybody. Then passing through certain area, shout out 通ります so that people know that you are passing by, reducing the risk of crashing into each other. Asking people for help, say __________ お願いします (actually a lot of things also say that, so in doubt, say that and reply はいよ). Bringing side dish/drinks from the back, while walking past the ramen counter, shout out "Table xx drinks/side ok!". When you are logging out, greet each other again お疲れ様です, thanking everybody for their hard work. Haha, my tongue got tied up quite often and I am gonna be shouting in a language that I am not so comfortable with zzz. Well will sooner or later get used to it. Actually it was quite fun.

Being a waiter also need a lot of knowledge in handling stuff, like how to stack the bowls together, how to clean the table, how to arrange the utensils, how to make drinks etc etc. And more importantly, SMILEEEEEE! Haha being a waiter isn't really as easy as what I thought.

Hope I will have fun at work! :)

SUTD Official Opening Ceremony

8.5.2015

Today was SUTD East Coast Campus Official Opening Ceremony! (If the school was just officially opened, what were we doing for the past one term?) And for this ceremony, the school's dance clubs were asked to perform for the opening ceremony (opening ceremony of the official opening ceremony hur hur hur). This is the first collaboration between all the dance clubs in SUTD where all dance clubs come together to perform one item. It was great! Have to thank Mel for making the transitions between clubs and also the finale of the item which involved all dance clubs.

DDz danced to this song that is quite popular recently - Uptown Funk, and I really had a hard time cleaning the item. Being new to the role, I really didn't know how should I start cleaning at first, but then slowly I seemed to get used to it. Like Hui Shan said, I seemed to get more and more comfortable to be a dance captain! Mmm, not entirely, but getting there. Because of the responsibility that I have and the worry of not being able to match Edward's pro-ness in cleaning, I kinda had a few sleepless night, thinking of how I should go about cleaning the item given that there wasn't much time we had till the performance. There was especially one part (pre-chorus) that was really hard to clean because the steps were so fast. End up a few days before the performance I had to clean them HALF beat by half beat. "Let's do 1 and 2 ... ok not bad now let's do 1 and 2 and ..." And have to make them repeat a few times of the same steps. Oh well .. But I was glad that the cleaning was effective :)

All dance clubs ready for performance!

To see the video, click here. Sequence of performance: DDz, Indian Dance, Ballroom, Contemp, Livfesync, Finale (all dance clubs).

Guess who visited our school?

JACKIE CHAN!!!!

Haha ok la I'm not very into this kind of thing so didn't really go near. I can't even if I want to anyway.

Tough week over! Holidays start! :D [or part time starts :(]

第五學期——終了

2.5.15

一整個學期，部落格一點都沒更新，就連原本想要每個月寫一篇的散文也繼續不下去。第一是因爲沒有題材，第二是因爲這個學期真的是他媽的太忙了！雖然跟建築學的同學相比之下還差得遠，但也有好幾天從早到晚再到早忙著趕projects！雖然一方面覺得小有成就感，但另一方面絕不想再有這麽忙的學期。因爲後遺症就是在最後一個考試過後特別閑，直到真的不知要做些甚麽的地步。

説真的，這個學期可説是我在新科大裏最糟糕、最落魄、最不順心的一個學期（也可以説是自從農曆新年過後吧）。嚴重程度可説是達到（對我來説）空前的地步，讓我不禁爲自己的將來操心。雖然不至於淪落成憂鬱，但好像也快到門檻了。從農曆新年到現在，發生了好多好多事（糟糕事）：跟一個女同學走在一起不到一個月就自主分手了（對此倍感内疚，看來我對這種事還是不夠心理準備。或許就如別人所説的，我沒去努力嘗試，但我真的沒找到我要的那種感覺）；當上了DD的dance captain，結果第一堂課就被掛了（沒辦法，我完全沒有音樂背景，大學還是我第一次正式學跳舞。。。好心想幫忙，結果好心沒好報，被別人當成態度惡劣zzzzz）；申請internship，一個都沒被錄取（第一輪，自己拒絕了一個，其他兩個拒絕了我——其中一個還真給了我希望，然後把它滅掉zzzzz原本說可能會錄取我和另一位同學的，結果一個星期後衹有他被錄取了，我被抛棄了:'(；接下來的第二輪，衹申請了一個，完全石沉大海沒回復，sianzzzz怕是自己太挑剔了；第三輪，沒興趣）；期間還傷了腰、傷了腿（腰好了，腿好像好不了了，到現在都不能跑了哭），還衰到同一天相隔三小時造訪同一家診所……真想問一下今年屬鷄的是否犯太嵗zzzzz

唯一一件還算是值得高興的，是自己的coding爲自己的組拿到了Systems和30.007 2D - line following robot racing的第一名。code是自己寫的，完全沒用到PID之類的東西（當時還不瞭解PID是啥鬼東西，自己還因爲沒用到學到的東西而擔心了一下下），結果robot出奇地穩定，還在比賽當天陰差陽錯地拿了第一，贏得了F1的入場券！（話説回來，到現在我們組還沒拿到門票嘞zzzzz）自己爲自己運氣高興了一個半天。

説到沒拿到internship，我決定去臨時打工了。因爲九月初要跟同學去日本，同學連機票都幫我付了，現在想説“不”都不行，必須打工賺去旅行的錢。有時候，臨時打工會比internship賺更多錢。希望我不會衰到連打工的機會都沒有zzzzz。

好吧，這個學期衰是衰到了底，但學期還是以一些較溫馨的事作爲結束:)。之前不是説考完了試太閑嗎？那天建築學的同學還在趕他們最後的project，要用一些木料做出實際的結構來。由於實在是需要很多人力來把結構做出來，所以我們這些考完試了的人就自然而然地被叫去幫忙了。爲甚麽我説時間溫馨的事呢？因爲我們雖然來自不同的pillars，但朋友有需要的時候，我們都一起去幫他們，不分你我、不分pillars，結果看起來就像是個junior capstone一樣，讓不同pillars的人——因爲學習的東西不同而有可能以後都不會有交集的人——相聚在一起。有人説已經想要去建築學的人，爲甚麽還要浪費一年的時間去學foundation，反正以後都不會用到啊！我不是建築學的所以我不懂是否一點用處都沒有，但我覺得即使學的東西沒有用，還是得到了一些更珍貴的東西啊！就是因爲foundation year，我們才會認識不同pillars的人，把可能沒有關係的人連接在一起，使新科大成爲“一個學校”，而不是“四個專科”。我認爲這種態度才是新科大特有的、應有的文化。#onlyinsutd

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