Happy Chinese New Year
Happy CNY! This would be my first time celebrating cny without my family, and it's not fun at all. Well.. at least i manage to celebrate a little with my aunt, she gave me ang pau wohoo, at least one aspect of cny was still here.
I had my cny dinner at a place called Wong Ting near the city center, a few of us joined the singapore society. This is because the massoc's cny dinner was after cny.. yea weird.. the dinner was alright, food isn't that good but at least i met new people and there was a cny feeling to it. ^^
Manchester Games
Like Nottingham Games, I travelled to Manchester to compete in basketball. Woke up early to prepare and made my way to the train station. I arrived a too early though.. i forgot the was going out with a bunch of malaysian with their timing.
When they finally arrived, the most amazing thing happened. I realise I left my basketball shoes in my room. Awesome right? who the heck goes to a basketball competition without basketball shoes?! Lols i always laugh when i think about it.
Nothing much to talk about the games we played cause.. we got our butt kicked.. real badly..
Up side! I met a few nice people, and we had dim sum! It was rather cheap (don't convert) and they tasted good too.
Exam Results
The moment of truth. Exam results were passed to personal tutors and students are given the choice to find out their results sooner or later. I chose sooner, couldn't take the pressure of not knowing how i did.
So i went up to my tutor's office and knocked on his door. I told him my reason of visit and he started looking though piles of papers while i sat waiting with sweaty palms.
He took awhile to find my results as he forgot what year i was in. When finally found the paper, he gave me a serious face and told me that the exam results are most likely not to change from the official release. At that moment I thought I had failed a paper and had to retake.. I'm so screwed..
Then he flipped the paper to look for my name and cooly, "first of all you passed all your modules" Hell yeah! I lied on the table after hearing it. He passed me a paper to write down my marks for each module.
As expected, I did badly for the Manufacturing paper.. but extremely happy i passed.
Anyway here are my marks.
MEC214 - 46
MAS253 - 80
EEE218 - 91
MEC202 - 71
MEC205 - 59
MEC203 - 86
and those make an average of 72.2 which is first class! haha I'm pretty happy when I found out that not only did i passed everything i averaged a first class. Cool.
But now that the excitement had settled down, I realise that I could've done better and I need to do better if I were to maintain my first class. So spring semester here I come!
Haven't blogged for a long time, sort of busy but mainly cause i was lazy hehe. Anyway I'm back from Amsterdam and i shall catch up with some overdue posts.
First off.. we have winter post!
Winter has passed and spring is already here, but i still remember my first winter quite clearly. It was afterall my first time experiencing the chill of winter and the white of snow.
I knew winter was coming when gale winds were gusting all day, and boy was it colddd~ If you're lucky enough the wind blows the direction you're walking.. otherwise your traveling time just doubled. Honestly! the wind was so strong that it was impossible to walk straight.
There were a few days when i walk back around 3am from the library.. It was crazy cold, lucky to be alive haha.
And then finally.. it snowed. The first time it snowed here in Sheffield, I couldn't believe my eyes. That's cause I never thought snow would look like that.. well 'that' being like.. cotton! yes that's it, it's like small pieces of cotton falling from the sky.
I was quite excited about it (jakun a bit) so I ran out of my room and onto the parking lot. Looking up the sky, snow was falling down on my face. It didn't snow as heavy as it will be later but for a kid like me, it was more than enough. Oh yea, i did open my mouth and tasted it, of course, it's tasteless.
Few days later it snowed quite heavily, I'd say about.. 8cm thick snow. It was fun! I took a handfull of snow and ate it up. Later that night, Azarel came over to print his plane ticket, I said I'll print it for him but he has to make a snowman with me. Snowboy was born! *pictures @ fb*
All my flatmates went back home during winter, I was the only one occupying my flat. At times it was kinda lonely, but it was alright because exams were near and i had to study. The crap thing was the heater malfunction a few times, but at least the maintenance people came to fix it rather efficiently.
It's amazing that i stocked up enough to pull throught the winter without shopping, wonder how i did that. I did however went over to Jon's place to cook a few times. We even had a nice christmas dinner of grilled salmon, steak, mash potatoes and boiled vegetables.
I said earlier that falling snow is like cotton, but it's different when it's on the ground. Walking on snow is like walking on wet sand, but getting hit with a snowball is like getting hit with dry sand! Oooo snow is interesting indeed~
Had a few snowball fights with my friends and it was good fun. Sometimes even strangers join in the fun haha.
Even though it's winter, it doesn't snow everyday, it comes and goes like rain. But when the snow melts in the cold of winter, it turns into a layers of ice. That layer of ice is not fun at all. It's almost impossible to walk on, I slipped a few times but thankfully still in one piece.
I guess that's all I'll cover for winter, wait for next years post! Lol.
First off.. we have winter post!
Winter has passed and spring is already here, but i still remember my first winter quite clearly. It was afterall my first time experiencing the chill of winter and the white of snow.
I knew winter was coming when gale winds were gusting all day, and boy was it colddd~ If you're lucky enough the wind blows the direction you're walking.. otherwise your traveling time just doubled. Honestly! the wind was so strong that it was impossible to walk straight.
There were a few days when i walk back around 3am from the library.. It was crazy cold, lucky to be alive haha.
And then finally.. it snowed. The first time it snowed here in Sheffield, I couldn't believe my eyes. That's cause I never thought snow would look like that.. well 'that' being like.. cotton! yes that's it, it's like small pieces of cotton falling from the sky.
I was quite excited about it (jakun a bit) so I ran out of my room and onto the parking lot. Looking up the sky, snow was falling down on my face. It didn't snow as heavy as it will be later but for a kid like me, it was more than enough. Oh yea, i did open my mouth and tasted it, of course, it's tasteless.
Few days later it snowed quite heavily, I'd say about.. 8cm thick snow. It was fun! I took a handfull of snow and ate it up. Later that night, Azarel came over to print his plane ticket, I said I'll print it for him but he has to make a snowman with me. Snowboy was born! *pictures @ fb*
All my flatmates went back home during winter, I was the only one occupying my flat. At times it was kinda lonely, but it was alright because exams were near and i had to study. The crap thing was the heater malfunction a few times, but at least the maintenance people came to fix it rather efficiently.
It's amazing that i stocked up enough to pull throught the winter without shopping, wonder how i did that. I did however went over to Jon's place to cook a few times. We even had a nice christmas dinner of grilled salmon, steak, mash potatoes and boiled vegetables.
I said earlier that falling snow is like cotton, but it's different when it's on the ground. Walking on snow is like walking on wet sand, but getting hit with a snowball is like getting hit with dry sand! Oooo snow is interesting indeed~
Had a few snowball fights with my friends and it was good fun. Sometimes even strangers join in the fun haha.
Even though it's winter, it doesn't snow everyday, it comes and goes like rain. But when the snow melts in the cold of winter, it turns into a layers of ice. That layer of ice is not fun at all. It's almost impossible to walk on, I slipped a few times but thankfully still in one piece.
I guess that's all I'll cover for winter, wait for next years post! Lol.
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