Happy 41st BDay S’pore!
This is pathetic. I am at least 4 days late in wishing our host nation! Oh well, in my defence, the past 96 hrs is filled with a hell of a lot of things which would take too much time to list down. I do have a few words for some memorable events though.
First up was watching the National Day fireworks at Raffles Place from Marina Bay. The fireworks beat our M’sians one hands down! Hehehe. Note to self, I’d better stop comparing our birth country against our host country, because the few things M’sia is better at are having more space and cheaper prices! I can’t remember a lot of things because life is becoming blurred (information overload!). It’s Sunday and I really hope I get to spend the entire day in my room preparing for lectures. I have my hundred pages of calculus printed, and they’re nicely stapled up but left unread. Oh, here’s a tip. The NUSSU guidebook said something about an inverted ‘golden road of Oz’ thing in the campus. You’re supposedly able to walk from any Faculty to another without worry of being drenched with rain or shrivelled up by excessive sunlight. I tried it out after the NES Welcome Tea (more like dinner) at the Engin Fac which was after I got my notes printed at the Central Library. Another tip is you’ll be better off with your own printer. My printing session alone costs me $5.10 already at 5 cents apiece! And that’s only one module’s workbin out of 5! Back to the golden roof, I’ve managed to try going from FoE to Biz. IMO, you’d be best lugging an umbrella with you. Remember this, do not blindly follow the yellow roof and you could still get drenched in a rain walking below the yellow roof.
Then Saturday was Rag Day, where it’s basically a day where all the faculties and halls come out with their floats and give a performance. It’s kind of sad for USP, as they’re the first to lead the float possession but there were only a handful of us to cheer them on! In fact, if we have gotten ourselves into a cheer fight with Dentistry or Medicine, we would still lose out flat because we simply have insufficient voice power! As for the performances, I think I can summarise it this way: Sensuous, ostentatious, flamboyant and aggressive. I think Biz Ad has the most emotional performance (think Memoirs of a Geisha), but there are a few good performances. I didn’t stay till the end because 3 of us left early to go see the nE clan in action at WCG Singapore and lend some support. However, the clan was so engrossed in their match and we can’t really see their DotA progress, so I went off and explored WCG S’pore. It’s not as big as I expected, but it’s still huge. Oh well, at least I managed to get my hands on a Core Duo 2 Extreme system, just for 15mins of Counterstrike 1.6. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to see how much such a powerul system can take (it’s not even CSS and there was only 10 players max at any given time!). Sadly, nE didn’t make it through the first round but let’s hope they’ll fare better next year. Practice more guys! We want to see you guys win, so we can mooch! Muahahahaha!
Lin Sien blogged about today too, so if you want you can go over to his blog and read what we have done today (we joined up with nE at KFC onwards). Oh, I managed to get some time off to watch Superman Returns! Now just some extra time off and I’ll be able to watch War of the Worlds too. Luckily, that 2 movie passes I won in SingTel’s lucky draw has an expiry date next year, so I’ll have lots of time in planning who to give that extra slot to. At least in theory, that is.
P.S.: I realise that I’m using a lot of acronyms for my recent posts. I apologise for the blurness this would cause, but S’poreans are fond of them for a reason: They save time!
