The Unforeseen Sharing Session
It's posting time! I know it's only been a few days since I had that super long post about lots of things that have happened since last year. Well, I'm in the mood for this, planning to make it more often so that it looks lively in here. Also due to the fact that I'm quite bored now. So basically I'm just going to be sharing about new experiences I have learnt over the holidays currently. Okay I've done all of them before but it have been quite some time since I have fully done so. These were the bits and pieces that I have previously left out and the most significant activities are cycling, reading and of course, working. By a lazy person's normal standards, it's very impressive to me. Other than just being lazy, I can never stress how I never did a lot of things back in the June holidays of 2017 just because it was so overwhelmingly negative. Anyways, since the current holidays have started, it's been very peaceful and quite happy all around so I have been able to catch up with quite a number of things which I previously could not. I needed a change where I find ways to enjoy and improve myself physically and mentally. That's right, physically as well and you definitely know what that means. I'll get to that later. There are small issues which are quite solvable but it is honestly not the time. Thinking back sometimes, I have come a long way from a road of sad and depressing days to the current times where birds sing as loud as someone fully farts. Rainy days also feel peaceful now. I'm loving it! All of it! Took quite a while to get used to the peaceful life setting that we all should have. Funny how I'm saying that cause nobody usually says, "Get used to the peaceful life". Yes, June 2017 was that bad.
1) A New Hobby? Or An Old Habit?
"Reading a book is like eating a potato chip".
"Reading a book is like eating a potato chip".
As I have said previously, or many times, I have been trying on new things which I find to be able to mentally improve myself and learn new things. One such activity is strangely, reading. Why I say strangely is because I was once a person that never read at all in the past, not even a single paragraph. The only reading I would do is definitely during the exams which was something we could never really learn anything from. We're all so rushed and tensed from finishing all the shit in time, most of us never really remember what we have revised for the exams. Well, a sharing of me. The most innocent times for me like most people, was of course primary school where things were simple, friends were friends. There never was people having enemies, almost everyone were friends. Tests and exams were somehow never really the issue. In fact, I've already forgotten that they were ever that serious besides the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE). Thankfully I made it out of primary school although I was one of the only few people in the class that were only eligible to go to the Normal Technical (NT) stream for secondary school. The rest was at least available to go to the Normal Academic (NA) stream. Well, I was happy enough because heck, I've just passed my PSLE without any failed subjects which was already really good for me.
Apart from reading from the exam papers, the closest I have ever touched a book where waiting for the assembly in the morning, we would sit down and wait for the rest of the students to come. Most of you might remember, or your school does the same thing too (if you remember), there would be a short reading time where we had to bring our own books to read. Furthermore, we would also have to read a while more when they assumed everyone have came. To be frank, I didn't really utilize that time to actually read. I just pretend to sometimes so I do not get caught just lazing around doing nothing. At times I would forget to bring a book so I just face the music, or borrow one from a friend that didn't really care for the rules. Those were really good times. Surprisingly I could still remember some of the most significant moments that happened back then. I will share it later. Fast forward to secondary school, Riverside Secondary School was where I studied. There was also, daily reading which took place every week implemented by the school. If I'm not wrong, and I'm not wrong about this at all, we had to pay for a subscription for the newspaper to come. Yes, we read newspapers every Friday. We had to sit in at the Sports Hall every Wednesday if I am not wrong, before lessons start. This time things were much more strict they what my primary school did, those talking and making noise to be punished or scolded. With the sports hall containing nothing but teachers and the whole hall empty, I had to read. Of course there were some articles which interest me a lot. There usually wouldn't be enough time for me to finish the whole newspaper and some articles were just not interesting enough.
I guess these moments from my schooling days contributed a little bit to my reading habits now. What really gave me a start for reading was actually Star Wars: Thrawn. It's a book about a Star Wars villain called Grand Admiral Thrawn. I came to know about him watching the show Star Wars: Rebels. I got interested in his character and came across the book the author, Timothy Zahn, recently published. Once I started reading the book, I did not realize this when I was younger but, I tend to think up of the scenario which corresponds to what was written in the book and that actually felt really good. With that, I ended up buying other books which I found interesting and I could read after finishing the Thrawn book (which I already have). Besides buying the Thrawn trilogy as well, I went as far as to buying some philosophy books as well. I don't know why I would but I think it's because I want to read something more in-depth. This philosophy book, "The Rights Of Man", is the first one and I would dare say it is quite interesting and in-depth as expected. I am still currently reading it now though.
2) Time to Get Physical!
"GAINS!"
As stated by the title, physical activities is also what I have been doing a bit more. Most notably they are gyming and cycling although I cycle much more as it's sort of the craze among a lot of people nowadays with services such as Ofo and such. Let me start with gyming. It can be contributed to the time I have spent in the gym at school (Ngee Ann Poly) because of Sports & Wellness every Friday. That kind of learning every week got me interested although I did more running on the thread-mill whenever I went to the gym for lessons there. However, it was not really my first time doing it though as I have gymmed various times with WY. Of course this time, I want to be healthier by going there regularly since I have the time now and not having to worry about school work. Of course I would want to go there on my own comfortable pace so I can try and get the momentum. The last time I went was last week or the week before at the Woodlands Sports Hall. It was a really good start for me. I started with the various exercises involving the dumb bells which I have been doing most of the time I was there. Despite the air-conditioning there, I actually sweated which is quite normal but a good improvement for me. After finishing with the dumb bells, I went to the machine area to pull the weights. It was a little bit scary for me as every single other guys in the area was pretty huge, like really muscular and I was the only one that was skinny. I went ahead with my plan anyways. Besides, it does not really hurt from trying. I managed to do about 3 sets of it but it was not really good once I was finishing my second set. I've gained a little bit of confidence once I noticed nobody was really paying attention to how I did my weight pulls or whatever people call it as it was not really too good after the second attempt. Afterwards, I began to do the exercises all over again and decided to stop after about two exercises.
I went to the mat and did three planks for a minute each then I went off to have a run outside at the running track located at the Woodlands Stadium. It was not surprising that I also saw students there for their lessons or CCA. Reminds me of the time where during my secondary school, there would also be runs like this for our Napfa test. The most significant one I could remember was during secondary 3 where it was held at Republic Polytechnic (RP). It feels to me that it was one of the biggest one we ever had for years held by RSS. Of course I passed but didn't really receive any forms of color from doing that well. Anyways, back to the main topic. So I went to the Woodlands Stadium and ran for two rounds on the running track but it was not very well done as I got tired really quickly as it was quite hot. I think it was also because I had only been running on the thread-mill all the time. Still, it was an overall good gym day for me and I met up with WY afterwards. I will definitely go again like I planned to, just in my own comfortable pace as I'm not really wanting to fully become a gym junkie.
Cycling have also been another form of physical activity which I have taken part in aside from gymming. I have been cycling with my friends since the holidays started. Most of the time is because we were having outings and we didn't really want to walk, but that is also because what made us want to cycle more as well. I had to ask them for help in unlocking my bike though as I did not have my own Ofo pass plus the fact that I did not have a credit or debit card to allow unlocking. It was only recently I bought the Ofo pass after talking to my mom about it, and I was able to unlock my own bikes so that I could use the bikes for convenience sake as well. This was due to largely how tiring it is to walk block from block from work and by walking back to where I was supposed to report to after finishing my work (which I will share more later on). Since I have been recently cycling more often than I have expected, I have noticed something quite different as well. My legs get tired much more quickly than they used to be when I cycled now. As compared to now, I think it's also because the bike I used back in the younger days was with training wheels. They definitely made it much easier for me to cycle when I was a little boy. It still did not explain how I actually gained the skill of cycling with just the normal bike. I remember the first time I tried the normal bike, I could instantly ride on it with no issue after about 5 minutes. It was not long to get used to it as well. I would definitely be cycling more often to get to places as it's better than waiting for public transport and at times, it is much faster as well. Food will also become much more delicious as I cycle more to those places to eat after sweating it out.
3) Short Work Life
"Don't be busy, be productive".
Working used to be something that would be in the last thoughts of my mind last time. That kind of mindset changed as I now wanted to earn the money so that I would not have to ask my mom for the allowance. Eventually, this plan worked out when my cousin let me work to distribute flyers for Thoughts Box, a tuition center which she opened up quite a while ago. I did help her before, bu not as active as recent doings. Furthermore, there were two types to this job, one is standing at a place and giving them out, and the other was to go door-to-door and place the flyers at doorsteps. Both of them have their fair share of tiring requirements which most people would gain after a while of doing this job. It was $7 per hour for the one where I was only required to stand near an MRT station and hand them out to people, while it was $5 per block for the door-to-door flyer job. People reading this might be thinking how little the pay is for $5 per block. Well, the good thing is blocks come with different floors which could speed up the process most of the time as compared to blocks with at least ten floors up. Another good thing about it is that I could take breaks whenever I require so long I get the job done which is also quite the equal to working when I'm available for the day. Of course I try my best not to take breaks as I could get the job done faster but I'd at least take a break once as standing or walking up and down is really very tiring, much like my internship at Maxi-Cash last year where standing was pretty much part of the job scope.
The easier part of the flyer job would be of course standing and just handing them out. You can learn quite a few things just by doing that. Most notably, people's expressions and/or whether they would actually accept the flyers or not. There are a lot of nice people who's willing to take the flyers from me not because they are interested in what the flyer was about, but they just take the flyer because they understood the pain of trying to clear up the flyers that was intended for them. There were people who was genuinely interested in the tuition offered to kids and they wanted to know how much each subjects cost. There was a few who just knew that I reached my hand out and try to give it to them but they just did not take it at all and still looked really straight, as if there were nothing there at all. Some also looked pretty pissed as well and it felt as if I offended some of them or I invaded the privacy of their daily lifestyles. Those was pretty turn off, but still, there was a lot of people who took the flyers so it was okay. The slightly hard part of it is the standing. Doing that for a few hours straight could be really tiring for the legs especially without moving for an hour or two and I constantly have to sit down for 5 minutes as I do my job longer and longer.
I have been handing out the flyers by standing near the MRT station for quite some time now especially at Marsiling MRT station, sometimes opposite of the station itself. It was only recently when this holiday started do I had the chance to go block-by-block to give the flyers door-to-door. This was simply called the "Block Run" to me. Well, simply put, my task was to place flyers on the doors of residents from blocks 301 to 315. I did most of the blocks on a Saturday itself before meeting my friend for dinner. Apparently, the first few blocks were quite easy to do although there were many sections to go by and the layouts were pretty confusing for the first few blocks as well. This part of the job was quite interesting as I got to see different houses and there were even some whee their doors and corridors were very well decorated. Most people have their corridor decorated with plants. It would be "littered with plants" to most people living near-by unless they got to steal the fruits or flowers. Anyways, things was easy until I reached block 307 where each block started to be at least 10 levels high with confusing layouts. The only exception was 312 but I only did that block the next day. It was really really very tiring running down after taking the lift to the very top floor a few times due to the different layouts of the building. I ended at about 07:00 pm with 310 being the last block I did for the day before I went to collect my pay. Managed to get about $70 that day so it was all worth it. I then went to meet my friend to eat dinner at Bukit Panjang Plaza (BPP). The next day, Sunday, I went on to finish distributing the flyers at the remaining blocks from 312 to 315. So it was another $15 for the job. I would say it was an overall well balanced experienced as it have been a while since I last worked like that during my school holidays. The last time I really worked was Secondary School. I did work during ITE as well but I do not count that as it was like a one-time one day event. I hope I do get more opportunities to work like this before the curent holidays end and school starts again.
4) Food Ventures! 😋
"Who doesn't love food?"
I have been implying this for quite while already, or I have not, I have been going around trying different food with my friend WY, of course with TK as well. However, I am just going to be sharing one instance of that "food hunting" I have with WY just recently. It was on Monday, 26 March 2018. We met under his house and we took a Grab to the place near AIA building where the Claypot Laksa is. The place was rather empty, or vacant I would say with a few stores open for business. Anyways, we ventured into the hawker center and it took us at least 2 rounds before we actually found the place.
Yum yum! The above shows the Claypot Laksa in its full glory! It came with the claypot (of course) and surprisingly enough, there was shredded chicken inside which is quite uncommon if it was a laksa dish. As anyone reading this would already notice, the laksa gravy is not the usual watery gravy used by most cooks nowadays. The gravy from the Claypot Laksa is thick and it's somewhat like a gooey paste on top of the Thick Rice Vermicelli. Along with the gravy is the traditional Tau-Pok and the chopped up coriander. Look at that, I forgot there's sliced fish cake as well which is also very common in all laksa dishes. We just sat there and ate. It was delicious. I like how the the paste-like gravy mixed quite well with the noodles when we slurp them down for the first time. The gravy itself became more watery the longer we ate. The spiciness of it is slightly more spicy than usual laksa and it is just nice for people who like to eat spicy food but not really too spicy for people going to that kind of life shortening spiciness. If only they added a whole hard boiled egg or even just sliced ones will make it perfect. The portion of this laksa was just nice and it wasn't too much as well. I would recommend everybody to try this if they are adventurous and want to try something new, this would be good but of course, it's laksa with a different twist. 8/10 Kai Points!
Me and WY didn't just go to this Claypot Laksa place to eat just that. This place was near the Alexandria branch of IKEA which is also near the Queentown Mall (I think that's what it's called) which we went to walk around looking at the different sports equipment they offer there. Well, yes. If anyone's looking for any sports gear, that's the place to go. There's a lot of variety there from Basketball to Swimming equipment. Apart from sports gear and equipment, this is the place where the Katong Laksa is. We've went there several times together, sometimes with our other friends as well. After walking around for some time, we just went to the first floor where the place is, sat down and ordered a bowl each of Katong Laksa.
Yes, shown above is the Katong Laksa as mentioned. There's a lot of coriander in the laksa soup along with the pork-like things which I don't really know what they're called. There's also quite a fair amount of chilli on the side which is not really spicy at all which is perfect for anyone who wants to try this. The difference between this and the previous Claypot Laksa is that for this dish, the soup have been cooked with much more coconut milk than usual so there is a slightly more sweetening coconut taste while also retaining the original laksa taste. As like all laksa found in Singapore, there was sliced fishcake as well but no hard boiled egg. It was still very good. Let's not forget to mention that since this is Katong Laksa, we eat this with a spoon instead as the rice vermicelli is cut to the point where the need for chopsticks is no more as they can be easily picked up with a spoon. This serves as a much easier way to eat laksa. Also, much more enjoyable in a way. Hooray for people who doesn't know how to use chopsticks, but who doesn't know how to use chopsticks at this particular age right? Anyways, my point is that this Katong Laksa is delicious, enough ingredients well spread around and the portion is more than enough which is very filling especially when I had the Claypot Laksa earlier. This is also highly recommended to anybody's who has a passion for trying out new food! I won't say foodie cause it feels weird saying it. 8.5/10 Kai Points! Yum!
I'm going to talk about the dinner as I want to give it a little mention as well. After finishing the Katong Laksa, we went to TK's house to chillax and watch some movies, but we do not mention what movie it was as it was literally disturbing. We did lay various games as well while TK was playing Pokemon on his desktop. Afterwards, we head down near-by for dinner as we did quite a few times before. I had myself a Char-Grill Chicken from Char-Grill.
I felt like eating chicken that night so I ordered this. I chose Potato Salad and Mac'N'Cheese for the sides as I have a thing for Potato Salad. It's just that good, almost like Mashed Potatoes but with more taste. How Char-Grill Chicken and Aston's do their Potato Salad is my favorite and it's kind of the reason why I like it. Anyways, back to the topic at hand. The chicken itself was flavorful with sufficient sauce being put on it which adds on to the taste of the chicken although it's a little bit too oily. Despite that, it was quite thick which would make anyone full which is also similar to the chicken Aston's serve. There used to be an Aston's near-by my house which is a short walk away. I remember ordering Crispy Chicken with the same sides but with fries instead. However, I remember I vomited later at night due to the fact that the chicken was extremely oily which made me really bloated and, yeah, you know the rest. I think they used too much oil back then but now, I'll tell how it is when I have the chance to eat it again some day. Now for the chicken that I had under TK's house, the portion was just nice and it made me really full. I don't know why they put lettuce under my food but I never ate them anyways plus they just added to the aesthetics to the dish. I like Char-Grill a lot behind Aston's, it's just that I don't really like the Crispy Chicken from Aston's due to the experience I had mentioned. So this gets 7.5/10 Kai Points. Just get it when you're really hungry or you don't have much choices, otherwise get something better if you want something which would make your dinner a very pleasant experience. Coffee shops do have very good food too but quite a number of them need to be found while for some, they are already known, like hawker food.
5) The Ending Break
"Even the longest day have its end".
As the title implies it, the holidays are coming to an end. School is starting really soon and I'm very sure everyone is not looking forward to that kind of stressful life again, but everything has its end and comes the new beginning. The good thing is that it is the beginning of Year 2 for everyone and unfortunately, we're all split up into different classes. I'll get into that later but now, I'll like to share how I did for the final exams before the holidays started which I have mentioned in a previous post titled "Long Stretch of Life Lessons and Enjoyments". I was really surprised at how I did, how my final results turned out to be. It was something I could have never thought of during the moments I was studying for Macroeconomics, Organisational Behavior, Business Management and lastly, the hardest out of them all, Business Statistics.
Apologies if you all have to squint a little bit to see but yes, the current results I have mentioned. What really was the biggest surprise upon seeing the results is the fact that I passed my B-Stats with a clean D+. You all might be wondering at this point, how is a D+ clean in any results (not that kind of D)? Well, it really was a difficult module to actually understand which leads to even greater difficulty in revising each of the chapters. I remember clearly I revised from chapters 1 to 7 and the chapters onward was too difficult for me to absorb, ending me in finishing the revision at chapter 9 with chapter 10 just a read-up. As mentioned before, the exams was terribly undo-able, with at least 3 pages left blank and a few questions being done last minute in hopes that there would be some "mercy" marks being given. In the end, the results turned out better than expected! Last semester, I got 3.5 for both current and cumulative. As seen, both of them are slightly higher now with my current being 2.750 and my cumulative being 2.6739. What I think contributes to this slight increase in my GPA is my Innova Toolkit module where a lot of the assignments contained sketching which I am quite good at. My designs were well done but the only problem I had was that I could not write out the explanations properly which actually helped solves the problems given to me as a sort of case study. I managed to get an A for it in the end though so it's all still good. I am very happy with this despite it being a slight increase as it is still quite an improvement to me after all the hard work I have put in for the semester. School's starting soon and of course I would work extra harder to increase my GPA to a 3.0 if that is possible.
A short moment afterwards, I had to choose my IS module choices according to which one I preferred more. We could only input a total of 6 choices. I have chosen Social Psychology as my 1st choice with Understanding Relationships: Love and Sexuality as my 2nd choice and Art as my 3rd choice. It was quite a difficult decision for me as I kept intercepting my choices until the very last minute when I finally picked Social Psychology as my 1st choice before the application closed. What we got was shown directly as our timetable was coming out, which also means we will know which class we got into. As the day the timetable came out, some of my class asked which class each of us got into while I asked some of them. Apparently, as I know of now, I am only in the same class with 3 of them, with 2 of them quite well known to me and a girl which I don't talk much to in class. Furthermore, I am in a different class with ST, something which I have expected for quite a while. I will not be used to going to school without her but it's bound to happen some day so I will have to get used to it fast. At least I won't feel bad about listening to my music all the way now. I hope things would work out well for her in the other class as a high number of my current classmates are in the same class with her. May we cross paths again some days in school often and maybe lunch sometimes if she wants, which I doubt she would agree to. Anyways, I hope my new class would be a much smoother one as it is my 2nd year here although I know it would be much more challenging as there are much more modules to handle on a daily basis. May most of the new people I am going to meet be nice, some might already be the ones I already know but they're just hi-and-bye friends, although I cannot expect much for now.
Just to share with you all, this is how my new timetable is. Seems pretty manageable except the first 2 days when lessons ends at 06:00 pm. It's going to be very very tiring for those 2 days. Aside from that, I start at 08:00 am on Wednesdays but the very good thing is that lessons end at 12:00 pm so there is sufficient time to do other things, which would most likely be naps and probably studying. Other than that, rest is always essential as it would make memorizing easier but it would definitely dry out very fast when we are in classes or when we actually try to study. some of the days the lessons end made me believe that this is the morning timetable, but the known timetable of other people also have the same ending time for the first 2 days. There's only slight differences between each of our timetables. This is probably why the school didn't want us to choose our timetable and randomly picked it for us instead.
The Concluding...
"We never know what's ahead".
I probably have said it before but I will just say it again. I am enjoying this holidays a lot although school is starting really soon. Had quite a number of new experiences and learnt quite a number of new things. Best of all is of course, there is peace (somewhat) as R is not around anymore. Of course since there is still a few more days of the holidays left, it is best to enjoy what I can before the dreaded studying life starts again. One of the few outings worth mentioning is of course during Tuesday, 20 March 2018 where WY and I went to visit Mr Devon at ITE College West with a few gifts for him. We tried to visit Mdm Seet as well but we found out that she was at Japan so WY left his gift at her pigeonhole. Afterwards, we headed to J-Cube and met up with TK to have dinner. ST and Jw was supposed to come too but they couldn't make it for reasons we probably don't know. Actually we know the reasons but it isn't nice to say here. They and their excuses. Astons was super crowded with people lining up all the way to near the toilet so we ended up having dinner at some sushi place, it was a little costly but the sushi there was good. However, it didn't really made me full so I had Maggi supper later on at home. The night afterwards, Wednesday, 21 March 2018, WY and I went to watch Detective Chinatown 2 at JEM. It was a very nice movie as promised by WY.
Well, as I have said before, may the remaining holidays be a fruitful and of course, a peaceful one. I would love to share anything that have happened over the course of the last 2 weeks of the holidays. There has of course been happenings that have transpired this week but I will share it in another post which I will type out quite soon definitely before school starts. So stay tuned!
Yours sincerely,
YKS
The easier part of the flyer job would be of course standing and just handing them out. You can learn quite a few things just by doing that. Most notably, people's expressions and/or whether they would actually accept the flyers or not. There are a lot of nice people who's willing to take the flyers from me not because they are interested in what the flyer was about, but they just take the flyer because they understood the pain of trying to clear up the flyers that was intended for them. There were people who was genuinely interested in the tuition offered to kids and they wanted to know how much each subjects cost. There was a few who just knew that I reached my hand out and try to give it to them but they just did not take it at all and still looked really straight, as if there were nothing there at all. Some also looked pretty pissed as well and it felt as if I offended some of them or I invaded the privacy of their daily lifestyles. Those was pretty turn off, but still, there was a lot of people who took the flyers so it was okay. The slightly hard part of it is the standing. Doing that for a few hours straight could be really tiring for the legs especially without moving for an hour or two and I constantly have to sit down for 5 minutes as I do my job longer and longer.
I have been handing out the flyers by standing near the MRT station for quite some time now especially at Marsiling MRT station, sometimes opposite of the station itself. It was only recently when this holiday started do I had the chance to go block-by-block to give the flyers door-to-door. This was simply called the "Block Run" to me. Well, simply put, my task was to place flyers on the doors of residents from blocks 301 to 315. I did most of the blocks on a Saturday itself before meeting my friend for dinner. Apparently, the first few blocks were quite easy to do although there were many sections to go by and the layouts were pretty confusing for the first few blocks as well. This part of the job was quite interesting as I got to see different houses and there were even some whee their doors and corridors were very well decorated. Most people have their corridor decorated with plants. It would be "littered with plants" to most people living near-by unless they got to steal the fruits or flowers. Anyways, things was easy until I reached block 307 where each block started to be at least 10 levels high with confusing layouts. The only exception was 312 but I only did that block the next day. It was really really very tiring running down after taking the lift to the very top floor a few times due to the different layouts of the building. I ended at about 07:00 pm with 310 being the last block I did for the day before I went to collect my pay. Managed to get about $70 that day so it was all worth it. I then went to meet my friend to eat dinner at Bukit Panjang Plaza (BPP). The next day, Sunday, I went on to finish distributing the flyers at the remaining blocks from 312 to 315. So it was another $15 for the job. I would say it was an overall well balanced experienced as it have been a while since I last worked like that during my school holidays. The last time I really worked was Secondary School. I did work during ITE as well but I do not count that as it was like a one-time one day event. I hope I do get more opportunities to work like this before the curent holidays end and school starts again.
4) Food Ventures! 😋
"Who doesn't love food?"
I have been implying this for quite while already, or I have not, I have been going around trying different food with my friend WY, of course with TK as well. However, I am just going to be sharing one instance of that "food hunting" I have with WY just recently. It was on Monday, 26 March 2018. We met under his house and we took a Grab to the place near AIA building where the Claypot Laksa is. The place was rather empty, or vacant I would say with a few stores open for business. Anyways, we ventured into the hawker center and it took us at least 2 rounds before we actually found the place.
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| Claypot Laksa! Yum yum! |
Me and WY didn't just go to this Claypot Laksa place to eat just that. This place was near the Alexandria branch of IKEA which is also near the Queentown Mall (I think that's what it's called) which we went to walk around looking at the different sports equipment they offer there. Well, yes. If anyone's looking for any sports gear, that's the place to go. There's a lot of variety there from Basketball to Swimming equipment. Apart from sports gear and equipment, this is the place where the Katong Laksa is. We've went there several times together, sometimes with our other friends as well. After walking around for some time, we just went to the first floor where the place is, sat down and ordered a bowl each of Katong Laksa.
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| Coconut goodness! Sweet! |
I'm going to talk about the dinner as I want to give it a little mention as well. After finishing the Katong Laksa, we went to TK's house to chillax and watch some movies, but we do not mention what movie it was as it was literally disturbing. We did lay various games as well while TK was playing Pokemon on his desktop. Afterwards, we head down near-by for dinner as we did quite a few times before. I had myself a Char-Grill Chicken from Char-Grill.
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| GASP!!! CHICKEN!!! |
5) The Ending Break
"Even the longest day have its end".
As the title implies it, the holidays are coming to an end. School is starting really soon and I'm very sure everyone is not looking forward to that kind of stressful life again, but everything has its end and comes the new beginning. The good thing is that it is the beginning of Year 2 for everyone and unfortunately, we're all split up into different classes. I'll get into that later but now, I'll like to share how I did for the final exams before the holidays started which I have mentioned in a previous post titled "Long Stretch of Life Lessons and Enjoyments". I was really surprised at how I did, how my final results turned out to be. It was something I could have never thought of during the moments I was studying for Macroeconomics, Organisational Behavior, Business Management and lastly, the hardest out of them all, Business Statistics.
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| Holy Balls! Improvements! |
A short moment afterwards, I had to choose my IS module choices according to which one I preferred more. We could only input a total of 6 choices. I have chosen Social Psychology as my 1st choice with Understanding Relationships: Love and Sexuality as my 2nd choice and Art as my 3rd choice. It was quite a difficult decision for me as I kept intercepting my choices until the very last minute when I finally picked Social Psychology as my 1st choice before the application closed. What we got was shown directly as our timetable was coming out, which also means we will know which class we got into. As the day the timetable came out, some of my class asked which class each of us got into while I asked some of them. Apparently, as I know of now, I am only in the same class with 3 of them, with 2 of them quite well known to me and a girl which I don't talk much to in class. Furthermore, I am in a different class with ST, something which I have expected for quite a while. I will not be used to going to school without her but it's bound to happen some day so I will have to get used to it fast. At least I won't feel bad about listening to my music all the way now. I hope things would work out well for her in the other class as a high number of my current classmates are in the same class with her. May we cross paths again some days in school often and maybe lunch sometimes if she wants, which I doubt she would agree to. Anyways, I hope my new class would be a much smoother one as it is my 2nd year here although I know it would be much more challenging as there are much more modules to handle on a daily basis. May most of the new people I am going to meet be nice, some might already be the ones I already know but they're just hi-and-bye friends, although I cannot expect much for now.
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| A little sharing. |
The Concluding...
"We never know what's ahead".
I probably have said it before but I will just say it again. I am enjoying this holidays a lot although school is starting really soon. Had quite a number of new experiences and learnt quite a number of new things. Best of all is of course, there is peace (somewhat) as R is not around anymore. Of course since there is still a few more days of the holidays left, it is best to enjoy what I can before the dreaded studying life starts again. One of the few outings worth mentioning is of course during Tuesday, 20 March 2018 where WY and I went to visit Mr Devon at ITE College West with a few gifts for him. We tried to visit Mdm Seet as well but we found out that she was at Japan so WY left his gift at her pigeonhole. Afterwards, we headed to J-Cube and met up with TK to have dinner. ST and Jw was supposed to come too but they couldn't make it for reasons we probably don't know. Actually we know the reasons but it isn't nice to say here. They and their excuses. Astons was super crowded with people lining up all the way to near the toilet so we ended up having dinner at some sushi place, it was a little costly but the sushi there was good. However, it didn't really made me full so I had Maggi supper later on at home. The night afterwards, Wednesday, 21 March 2018, WY and I went to watch Detective Chinatown 2 at JEM. It was a very nice movie as promised by WY.
Well, as I have said before, may the remaining holidays be a fruitful and of course, a peaceful one. I would love to share anything that have happened over the course of the last 2 weeks of the holidays. There has of course been happenings that have transpired this week but I will share it in another post which I will type out quite soon definitely before school starts. So stay tuned!
Yours sincerely,
YKS
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