R3 Potluck Dinner

It's another new event from our residence. This is one of the greatest event! Hahaha... Each cluster(for instance, block 9 level 1) has to cook a dish for the dinner tonight. There will be some winners for 3 categories, which are the most creative, appealing, and popular dish.

We started to cook our dish at around 4 p.m. Our cluster leader, Adi, came out with an idea to cook some soup with macaroni. So, we had a macaroni and mushroom soup for main dish. Since we still got some budget, we bought some more things. Finally, we ended up buying a loaf of bread and chicken sausages. Eventually, we started to cook the dish! One and a half hour later, we managed to finish it! Yeah! Here is our dish!

=Sunflower Macaroni=

Yeah! That it is! We named it "Sunflower Macaroni". Hahaha... Do you wonder how did we cook it? It's very simple. First, we boiled the sausages. Second, while someone cooked the soup(it's me! ^^), another person sliced the sausages into small pieces. Meanwhile, the others cut the bread and toasted it. Next, I mixed the sausages with the soup and stir it for a while... Then, the soup has finished! Great! The last thing we needed to do is to decorate it. Hm2... I tried to put the toast here and there. As a result, I came up with an idea and there it is, the Sunflower Macaroni(I gave the name, too!).

Oh... There is one thing you must not forget to do when you have finished cooking your food. Taste it! I took one spoon of the soup and tasted it... Hey! It's not bad! We did it! Hahaha... Group of boys finally succeeded to cook their first dish in the cluster kitchen. When it was almost 7 p.m., I reheated the soup and went to the event venue, which was at R3 Lounge. Most of the others were already there. Wah... All the dish were very appealing and creative, especially the girls'. I got some pictures of them.

=Ice Cream Cake(It's full of chocolates!)=

=Pasta(You surely know it's from Block 10 Level 4)=

=Spagetthi(It's the most appealing one!)=

=A kind of desert(I don't know the name, hahaha)=

It was 7.30 p.m. and the event started. At first, nobody wanted to try ours. I was kind of a little sad. However, ours wass the first one finished! Actually, it was not because of ours is so delicious, it was just that ours was only for roughly 12 people. Hahaha! Well, in the end, we did not win any categories, of course. But, I really had fun! I am looking forward to the others event!

P.S. You can buy all the ingridients we used at Nanyang Supermarket at PGPR. ^^ It's simple and cheap!

Getting More Familiar with Singapore

Finally, it is Saturday! Hahaha. I started this morning by playing basketball. And, just after lunch, my trip today started. I actually needed to accompany my brother to airport. That's why I went by myself first. I then joined the others, i.e. William, Kelvin and Harris. They were having early dinner at Pizza Hut. When I arrived, they have just finished it.

Next, we went to see the COMTEX, which is a once a 3-month-IT fair. There are so many people at Suntech. You wouldn't can imagine it. However, I got a photo of it. Hahaha. It's not a very good photo, however. But, I hoped it can give you a little fraction of picture how is the situation.

=Level 1 at Suntec City Mall=

The IT fair is very crowded. You can barely move around freely. I decided to wait outside. I then saw some other friends who also came here, too. It was about 8.30 pm and I haven't had my dinner yet... Finally, with our so-called "Mr. GPS", Wilson, joined us and Harris finished his shopping, we went to a food court known as "Lau Pa Sat", which in Hokkian means Old Market. We were a little lost since the GPS had some technical problem finding the bus stop. Hahaha...

We took a bus and eventually arrived there. I quickly started to look for food. Hahaha. Wilson and I decided to share a dish called "Kway Chap". It is a dish with pig's organs and Kway Tiaw. As I heard from Wilson, it is so delicious. I then had a desert, which is "Es Kacang". I am very satisfied with my dinner. I think that's one of the best dinner I have ever had since I came to Singapore. It's cheap and delicious.

=Lau Pa Sat, main entrance=

=Lau Pa Sat, the food court=

Next, we had a walk around the Singapore River. As usual, Kelvin and I took some photos here and there. Hahaha. Well, I got one nice view. Hm2... I posted it below. Give some comment later on. We later had a chat while we were walking around. However, time passes surely fast. It was almost 11 pm when we realised it. We decided to return rather than we missed the last bus. Accordingly, we arrived back and we are all very tired. Despite that, I still want to write this post! Hahaha.

=Esplanade and Singapore River=

Uh... Although I said I wanted to write the post, to tell the truth, I was very very exhausted. Okay2, it's enough I think. One last think, please keep reading my blog and give comments! Thank you!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratz, Ady! Congratz, Esther!

Hi, everyone! These 2 days I received a very good news! First, Ady finally can secure his gold medal(although he is not so sure about it, :p) in IOAA(International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics). Hm2... I know he won't make us disappointed. Hahaha. You are indeed great, congratz, pal!

Next, we have Esther. She is one of the most hardworking friend I know. She has just been offered tuition grant for Singapore Polytechnic. Unfortunately, it's the April intake. I wonder what's wrong with the Singapore Polytechnic. Ckckck... Anyway, she really deserves a big applause. Her hardworking really impress me. Hm2... I wish I can be so hardworking like that. I feel I am really not that worthy for NUS to offer me a course here. However, since I have been offered, it's time to start working hard! Oh yeah, don't forget it. Congratz, Esther!

Well, I don't have many to say. If you have anything to ask or you have something to say, again, please don't hesitate to leave some message in my shoutbox. Keep reading my blog!

Last Weekend to Relax...

I'm not expecting to post so often like this. It's just that I have the mood. I hope it's not a boring one. ^^

Firstly, I would like to introduce my new template. Hahaha. And, I also edited it a little bit by placing my logo just in the bottom right. I hope you like this new look. Once again, please leave any comments. I really appreciate it.

This morning, I had a plan to join the walk to Kent Ridge Park with my cross-cultural group. The major problem is that it has been raining since I woke up and it keeps raining until now =='. However, it sometimes stops for a while, and that makes us decided to continue the walk. The park is actually a very nice place. It's the rain that makes it not that nice to walk around.

=It's me and Hebert somewhere near the exit of Kent Ridge Park=

This afternoon, I had my cluster kitchen cleaning. Looks like most of my cluster mates don't really care about it. Finally, I ended up cleaning the kitchen with my cluster leader(Adi Leo) and Ming Qi(his room just across my room). Thus, three of us start cleaning the kitchen at 4 pm. The kitchen was dirtier than we have expected. With just three of us, we spent 2 hours to finish the cleaning. However, it is really a fun one. ^^

So, just before I write this post, I was doing my tutorial questions. I thought I can finish in a very short time since there are only a few questions. Unfortunately, the questions is not as easy as I think. Luckily, I can solve it...

Probably, I will not be very active in writing post next week onwards. According to my senior, I will have lots of assignments to do starting from 3rd week, when all tutorials have started. Even so, I will keep writing a post at least once a week!

What a Comment! What a Speech!

Hi, my dearest blog-readers! This post is really an important one. Today, I received a very nice comment from my friend. Finally, there is someone who want to give her honest opinion. Well, according to her, my blog is quite boring. I mostly wrote about my experience which is not really interesting. She told me to write more about myself. For example, problems I face or . I am very pleased of the comment. I will try to write some posts in that context. Thanks a lot for it! I hope you keep reading my blog and leave me more comment!

Another interesting I had is a speech given by an experienced Buddhist while we were having our welcome tea. She gave a very nice speech. She told about herself when she was still young. She had many unexpected thing. Well, I will just summarize the story.

When she was 16, she wanted to skip "O" level, so she planned to go to medical school in India directly. However, she was found that she didn't have the qualification for it, thus she came back to Malaysia(she's from Malaysia, btw). Next, after her "A" level, she went to study at US. She went to science, because in US, you had to be bachelor in science before you went to medical school. At that time, computing is very popular. All her friends were in computer science. She decided to major in computer science for 1 semester and she found out it is very easy for her. After she has graduated, she was married to a Singaporean. Accordingly, she went to Singapore. But then after 2 years, they divorced. In fact, they did not hate each other. It was just they did not have that fate. That's how she ended up in Singapore.

Well, that's the summary. Probably it's not that interesting because I don't have that skill to elaborate it so nicely. To sum up, she told us that everything cannot run as planned. We need to be more flexible. We should not feel desparate if it was not as planned. We must quickly shift to plan B.

Yeah, that's all for today! To finish, I am really pleased if you can leave some comment. I will not be hurt by sharp "negative" comment, so don't worry too much. I know you all leave sharp comment because you want me to improve. Anyway, thanks a lot!

Another Week Is Passed...

Hi, everyone! It's been about a week I had not written anything. The bad news is I was sick last week. Oh... However, I've been a lot lot better now! Hahaha...

This is the first week of our instructional period. We only have lectures for first two weeks, so I am quite relax. I have 6 modules for this semester(I should only have 5, but I couldn't pass the QET. My English needs much improvement!), i.e.
1. CS1101C - Programming Methodology in C (My favourite module!)
2. CS1105 - Computing and Society (It's quite interesting)
3. CS1231 - Discrete Structures (The module is okay, but the lecturer...)
4. MA1505 - Mathematics I (Maths...as usual)
5. EG1108 - Electrical Engineering (Okay la...)
6. ET1000 - English for Academic Purposes (no comment...)

Today is Saturday! This morning, I went to play soccer with other friends from Indonesia. It's a nice exercise. I have skipped to do exercises since I was sick last week. Then, we (William, Kelvin, and I) decided to have our lunch outside NUS. Hahaha... Then, after Harris and Hebert joined us, we began our journey today! Suddenly, Kelvin got an idea to ask Nadia to join us. We made an agreement to meet in City Hall MRT station. Gosh... We waited her for quite a long time.

After lunch (and some stupid discussion), we decided to go to Sim Lim. Another idea came out. Now, we asked Sylvia to join us(FYI, Sylvia is Nadia's elder sister). For my surprise, Lasalle, which is the so-called "art" university that Nadia is currently enrolled, is just a stone's throw from Sim Lim. Accordingly, we went to look around this "Lasalle".

Wuah... Laselle is as expected as an art university. The design of the building is so cool! So, what am I waiting for? I took photos here and there. However, it was only Kelvin and I that have this anthusiasm. Ckckck.

=It's me at Lasalle=

=Kelvin and I=

Then, we went back to Sim Lim. Nadia was going to make his life-time decision. She was going to buy a laptop!!! Finally, she chose Sony VAIO VGN-SR13GN with red colour. It was a nice one, really. Next, we were going to take Kelvin orders from Medan. But before that, we had our dinner at Sim Lim's food court. I had "Bi Bim Bap" for my dinner. Hm2, it's really a nice one!

The next issue was... we were lost while we were searching for Kelvin's uncle's friend house... For our surprise. The apartment was just accross the girls' apartment. Wew... Thus, after Kelvin got his things, we sent the girls back to their apartment. In fact, it is the girls' relatives' apartment. Fortunately, their relatives were not at home, so we could quite relax there.

=Left to right: Nadia, Sylvia, Prajna, William, Harris, Hebert. Front: Kelvin=

Today is one of the greatest Saturday. I am really enjoying today's trip. Argh... It was already 11.40 p.m. Oh no! I need to wake up on around 6! I am volunteering for RunNUS tomorrow. Just wait for the story! Keep reading my blog!

FIC and Flag Day

04 August 2008, Freshmen Inauguration Ceremony with the theme "Inspirato: A Whole New Horizon" was held at the University Cultural Centre Hall. All freshmen were instructed to wear formal clothes. Every year, there is different souvenir given by the committee. For our batch, we had a laptop pouch!

The next day was Flay Day. Rag and Flag Day is a tradition of NUS since long time ago. In Flag Day, all NUS students will spread to whole Singapore to collect donation. It will then be used to help the unfortunate ones. As a NUS student, I also participated in this. In my group, I am the only one who has never done this before. Raising fund is common for Singaporean. Though it seems a tough job, but I really had fun.

The Rag Day will be held this Friday, 10 August 2008. Wait the news in my next post!

Freshmen Orientation Week starts!

1 August 2008, 1000 hours... Freshmen Orientation Week of the School of Computing starts! We freshmen were divided into 14 groups. My group is group 13, the "Moon". The first two days, we are just playing games and games... The point is to make a solid group and know more people in SoC.

=Group 13: Moon=

Last 2 days were very tiring... We had a night game until 2 am last 2 nights. But, it is so exciting. Most of them needs teamwork. We could do it well thanks to our group leaders. Both them are very nice and friendly seniors.

The most exciting game is the game held in LT17. We had a mission to enter the lecture theatre stealthly. The lights were switched off. There were 2 "guards" patrolling around. This one was really challenging.

Today, we all take a rest. I went to NTU this afternoon to kill time. Wait for my next post!