Seven years

hellooo

actually feeling super lazy to blog

but FINALS ARE FINALLY OVERRRR

i always get this bittersweet feeling the few days after finals end. i feel kinda displaced, like suddenly i don't really have a purpose anymore. LOL. is it just me 🌝

and it's only been 2 days since finals ended. 

so anyways

did i mention the lsm paper was actually quite fun to me? went for the exam without studying at all, mostly cos it's open book. so during the exam i was searching up answers on my notes, and learning new stuff in the process... it was kind of interesting. LOL

sunday was my last day of the sem studying in school. i know that i have zero productivity at home, so even though i live more than an hour from school, i travelled there every day from the start of reading week till finals week to study. and studying with friends always makes life a little less depressing. 

then came the long-awaited day, monday. met lianne early at starbucks to study + have lunch, then went for dsc final at 1pm, which was easier than i expected. but still gonna s/u cos my CA components cmi. hahaha sian

and finally..... last paper, behavioural econs. waiting to take the last paper was torturous, for some reason time seemed to crawl by. 

the paper was also do-able. the bell curve is gonna be crazy. was also very annoyed by the girl next to me who kept loudly throwing down her correction tape every time after she was done using it 🙄

went to holland v after the paper with lianne and we had burgers at fat boys'. it tasted quite salty and processed. hahaha if that makes sense

contemplated whether to get beer/dessert/coffee after we had dinner, but i think we were both shagged from the 2 papers, so we decided to go home hahaha

woke up early yesterday morning and couldn't get back to sleep cos i was excited that i had nothing to do for the day. LOL

it was soooo nice to laze around guilt-free :') 

had lunch and my favourite teh si at the basement, then went home and watched a movie on my laptop called 'bridesmaids.' it's quite an old movie and halfway through i realised i've watched it before but i forgot where. but it's still awesome. kristen wiig's acting is A+++, some scenes were seriously comedic gold, laughed so hard

went to farrer park to meet jiams for curry rice. realised my internship is 5 stops from the hospital she's currently attached to, yasssss more dinners with the bff :')

and then we had beancurd. i LOVE traditional beancurd

went back home and finished watching the movie. i have such a huge crush on chris o'dowd. it's weird cos he's not even conventionally handsome. but he was sooo charming and cute in the movie ☺️

had to wake up at an unearthly hour today to go down to the german embassy, and also cos i wanted to avoid waiting long. 

came back and napped, then woke up at 12pm and had lunch with my mum at eastpoint. what a chill dayyyyyy

came home and watched another movie, 'there's something about mary.' great movie! but the ending was weird, and rushed. meh. 

my internship starts tmr and i'm quite bummed about it tbh. wish i could have a longer break :(( but oh wells. hope i like the job!!!

The day I discovered highlander

Totally random post, but as we all do when we get bored of studying for finals, I was searching up on random things like the best coffee in singapore, and one of the first few results that popped up was Highlander coffee. 

And that reminded me of the first time I accidentally stumbled upon Highlander. 

It was back in 2014. I was at the outram park area for a band jam, and I was 45min early. The studio was on the second floor of one of the units along a row of shops, so there wasn't really anywhere I could stand around or sit without looking awkward af. So I just sort of window shopped, walking around looking in at the shops along that row, and I saw this unassuming coffee place that didn't have a signboard. 

The place was tiny but only about half-full because it was 4pm, and the barista standing next to the large window made me feel awkward as he kept looking at me trying to decide if I should walk in. 

So eventually I went in, hemmed and hawwed at the menu, and after much deliberation, ordered the same thing I always do- a cafe latte.

And it was.... awesome. 

I'm no coffee critic, i just drink a lot of coffee, so idk the words one would use to describe the blend, but if I had to imagine the most perfect cup of coffee I could think of... That would be it. 

I was so excited for a while after that, thought I'd discovered a hidden treasure of a cafe, but some time later I realised it's already quite a famous spot amongst people who drink coffee... LOL

But i still think it's pretty cool how I chanced upon such a chill lowkey place like that. 

And thanks for reading my somewhat pointless post. HAHA. Just wanted to write down this feel-good memory of mine, lest I forget. 

Gonna sleep now good night

So I, sometimes

wow blogger changed their page layout

trying to up their game i see

down with 3 papers!! the first 2 were my heavier econs mods, so after those ended i lost quite a bit of steam HAHA

the first was public finance, which was okay-ish although i didn't quite finish the paper. the second was 3304 which was ughhhh. as one of my coursemates said, "the paper is a really bad indicator of our abilities for this mod"

just had my lsm paper at utown, which was more do-able than i expected, even though i didn't study at ALL. maybe i shouldn't have planned on s/u-ing it after all :/ but too late for ragrets

taking a short break now before i study for the next paper.

it's raining so heavily now that i was super tempted to go home. but nothing will get done at home :(

feel like eating smth now

2 days to freedommmm. can't waitttttt

You're right, it's true

Hellooo

Blogging cos procrastination

Really can't believe the sem is over. Done with all the presentations and assignments, and all that's left now is finals. I'm almost done with my 5th sem in NUS. Wth. I hardly feel like an adult yet and I'm gonna start working full-time in less than 2 years (hopefully)

I know I always say that each sem passes super fast, but this sem really topped it... still in disbelief that it's alr Reading Week. LOL. 

Had my last 9-hour day on Tuesday. If there's one thing I'm super happy to be saying goodbye to, it's this sem's Tuesdays. My timetable was super shiok in the sense that I managed to put everything into a 3-day work week, but the cost of that was my 9-hour odd week tuesdays. Fortunately the lecturer for my 9am class was super chill so some days I just came in late hehe

Hobo-ed at the studio both on wednesday and thursday to study. Went out to top up water at like 10pm and bumped into my eye candy 😍 we wave to each other but we've never talked before (not sure if he even knows my name LOL) As I was walking away I saw him look up and see me in the glass door reflection so I thought okay I should at least say hi... and we had a short convo yay he's so friendly and he has a nice voice too

ok nothing much to crap about alr so here's a few pictures (really just a few HAHA)

Throwback to Mayday Parade. Never been so close to the stage at a concert before hehe

Brooks looks so cute here like a small boy

Dinner and dessert a few weeks ago for a belated bday celebration for me
Went to Rangoon Road to have bkt and the soup was super peppery but the food was gooddd

I like this candid photo of DT

Looks like a Tigers Jaw album cover
Tasted pretty amazing
There was yuzu ice-cream under the duck and mango and it was pretty bomb

Expectation: Matcha filling oozes out onto the choc ice-cream below like on Instagram videos

Reality: DT accidentally breaks the biscuit and the whole matcha cake drops onto the ice-cream below

"Is she your only uni friend?"
HAHA
eternally glad to have you here in uni with me anyways :')

Oh I remember this was taken on a pretty shag day...
had a presentation just before, and my project group for this mod was super hiong...
they didn't allow me to use a script or even cue cards :(
But the prof loved our presentation, so I guess it was all worth it anyways

Had a much-needed coffee at humble after that
Plus humble expanded so much? wow
Love the new study spaces

Had an interview on Friday, then went to utown to catch my friends from the band Din's List perform
i think i'm actually quite glad that my band was outsted from the rising star competition so early.
so we didn't like go all the way to top 10 like Din's List only to not win...
does that make sense? hahaha

regardless, still an awesome performance, can't believe they didn't win
apparently the judges thought it was too heavy, which is a load of poo
plus i never would have picked the top 3 groups they picked to win...
Ben said it best
#risingshit

my project group for ec4394, my first level 4 mod
probably my favourite project group so far (but I don't think lianne agrees LOL)
cos they're quite funny and very easy to work with

While waiting to have our last tutorial of the sem yesterday

back to the grind

BYE

And now my fears, they come to me in threes

Wth is it really the last week of school?

Currently in the yih study room and the weather is so nice and cooling today I just feel like sleeping or watching a movie even though I just had coffee.

I just realised today that I never got to finish watching the movie Slacker... I always watch a little bit and then I have to go do something else or I get bored of it and just close the movie HAHA.

Same as the book A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway... either I fall asleep or I give up

#hey that sounds like life

I have been very unmotivated this sem and I can think of a few reasons why.
1. After around week 5 I decided that I'm just gonna use my s/us on the 2 breadth mods I'm taking this sem. I've really no interest in biology or business; just took those mods to clear my breadth module requirements. But I feel bad for Lianne who took the biz mod with me and thus has been tanking our group assignments since I gave up..... sorry my dear friend :(
2. Since I got my internship comfirmed I feel like there's no break after my exams so there's really not much to look forward to. LOL.

And I've been looking at the snaps and insta photos from all my friends who are currently overseas / on exchange and there's really only two words to describe how it looks..... "ho mia"

CAN'T WAIT FOR MY OWN EXCHANGE

All the beautiful European scenery and cities and food and travel

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