Battle with the Rain

Going to school today was such an adventure.

I have only 1 finance lesson today at 11am, so we decided to check out the Friday market earlier in the morning. Another friend of ours joined us as well because she wanted to check out the prawns and fishes, and so the plan was: Market in the morning, 1 Euro breakfast at Hema, ESN card at M-Building, then school. 

In the morning, it was already very cloudy and windy, threatening to rain anytime. The stalls in the market were not opened fully yet, so we just walked around, waiting for our friend. And you can see the strong wind blowing at the tops of the stalls, balloons flying off from one stall...etc so basically the weather was not ideal at all for exploring the market at all. Nonetheless, there was no rain at all yet so the three of us were still happily looked around and bought fruits! Look at the fruits - they are quite cheap I think! Melons @ 2 for 2 Euro and Grapefruits @ 9 for 3 Euro! Excited Excited! Checked out the fish and prawns and sotong as well but no photos for that!

Then, we dropped by Hema for our 1 Euro breakfast! It's only from 9am to 10am, so it's really like the early bird gets the worm! hahaha (: And there was already a line queuing to get the breakfast! It was super satisfying, so it was super worth it! (: 

The Breakfast!

Sad to say, after we stepped out of Hema, it started to rain already. I didn't think too much of it because I thought it would just be like the rain the night before, and I was lazy to take out my umbrella as well, thinking I could survive with my non-waterproof hoodie that did not quite fully cover my head at all. Dropped the whole load of fruits at our house before we proceeded to M-building. By that time, we were actually running a little late - I was actually quite worried that I would be late for my 11am class.

Thought I could survive the entire walk without my umbrella, but I was so wrong. After a few steps, I can bear it no longer walking in the rain so I took out my umbrella and struggled to catch up. Have taken off my specs to save the trouble, but I was actually having more trouble with the umbrella instead. The wind was so strong I could even feel myself gonna blown off my feet, and my umbrella just kept overturning. No wonder my friend just gave up on umbrellas altogether and just brisk walked in the rain. Wish I had a photo to show y'all how strong the wind is and how big the impact is on my umbrella but anyways my umbrella is now distorted so I shall let it rest. And it does not help that M-Building is so so far omg I was really trying very hard and struggling to catch up with the rest in front as I fought the oncoming rain and wind with my pathetic umbrella. Towards the end I just gave up on my umbrella altogether and just walked as fast as I could. Terrible man the rain was super merciless and it was so cold (It was the first time I put on my thermals and I'm glad I made the decision to wear my thermals today) I could totally feel my heart beating fast from the exercise and a headache coming on. 

And that's not the end, because we still had school to go to. Luckily for me, my friend has a 11am class as well so she can help lead the way. The walk to school was a little better, because apparently the rain was not as heavy, and the wind was blowing in a favourable direction for us so I felt it somehow boosted our walking speed a little. But, by then we were both drenched and looking super 狼狈 

I'm just glad I made it to class on time. But class was another traumatic experience. I didn't participate in class that much this time (merely volunteering one-word answers 2 times for the lesson) and the prof realised and was asking me why I am so silent today! gahh and he was saying the smiley on my name tag is much bigger than mine today and I'm like trying to tell him I'm trying to follow the discussion. Because for most of the time, I am trying hard to understand what he was saying in class and noting down the simplified explanations he gave! In fact, I didn't think I have to offer the answers in the class because many questions asked by the presenting group could actually be found in the textbook and people were just repeating what was in the textbook. So I didn't really bother trying to answer them until towards the end, I realised I could just repeat what was in the textbook without adding much explanation, but unfortunately, the rest answered what I wanted to say more quickly. For the rest of the opportunities, I could not think of any value-adding words to say so I just kept quiet like the rest. Ohmy finance mods are really jialat manz. At least I could still fluff a little in my other non-finance module. 

On my way back, I just kept self-encouraging myself to try harder for finance, and telling myself that all will get better. I hope my finance prof is as encouraging and understanding as I thought he was. 

Went to bank but didn't manage to complete my account set up because we were still lacking one letter. Went back home and thought I could nuah my afternoon away, but it ended up being spent on discussing about our London trip and feeling sad that my handcarry roller luggage does not fit the dimensions of carry-on baggage for Ryanair (Not like Ryanair is super cheap for the dates we want but still~~~)

NEED TO MUG NEED TO MUG NEED TO MUG

-Have to forever remind myself that the purpose of my exchange is primarily to clear mods clear mods clear mods- 

On a brighter note, I brought the camera out today! So here are more photos of places that look super cool and super pretty but I have no idea where's what haha! (: 

This should be the city town hall where the mayor works at - look at the pretty clouds!

I always see flocks of birds like this here!

See the birds! And the clouds are pretty too despite the weird focus

On the way back from school - will always pass by this red church with clock and every hour there will be music like from a musical box from here

Funny trees!

This is apparently what the locals will eat with their bread! Seems like chocolate sprinkles and rainbow sprinkles to us. My friend gave me these samples to try - they are so cute! Like little matchstick boxes!

And one day I am definitely going to try these famous fries! It's not the Mac's fries!

And to end off with a view from my room's window!

And cool clouds again! (:

xoxo

The Christmas Baking Party

As much as I always swoon at the pretty baked goodies and then psycho myself that I would love to bake, the truth is I am not cut out for the patience and rigour of baking at all!

But my little Bobos like to bake! At the very least, I feel they are more excited and enthusiastic about baking than I am! So here they are! (:

Shopping for ingredients on Xmas eve!

So I tagged along just to help carry the stuffs back. They were going to bake red velvet cupcakes, but that aside, I am totally clueless as to what needs to be bought, so I was just standing around drinking my oolong milk tea from koi (It's nice omg! *swoons*) and looking at all the pretty (and expensive) baking stuffs. Quoting phuajue, "baking is a really expensive hobby" - so true.

Before heading home, we stopped by to have some prata for supper (super sinful, yes). The cousins ordered egg prata and some ginger tea and papadam. Phuajue ordered papadam and teh with milk and I only ate the papadam because I was too full from the big pan of rice and bubble tea *burps* But here is a throwback of the prata I had last Friday! Sinful but happy!(:

Pratas! (:

Headed home and the Bobos started on their baking!

Played Christmas songs while baking for the festive mood. Midnight struck and Christmas came!

After clearing up and all, it was already 3 am in the morning. I was glad and thankful that the Bobos had this baking party because it really adds a little festive mood to the otherwise uneventful Christmas! :3

So Merry Christmas! :D

Ain't this look like a Christmas tree? (:

xoxo

那时看完<下一站幸福>后就很爱的歌 现在又重新loop了起来

当时的我也是像现在这样连续几晚都追着戏看 一整天下来心里就只是惦记着晚上要看戏 很少发生这样的事 所以认真从头看到尾的电视没几部

喜欢真是个让人捉摸不透的感觉 所以无法非常具体清楚地解释为什么会那么喜欢这歌  就知道喜欢它的词 而且也是从这开始喜欢上丁当的爆发力

还喜欢这歌唱的那么痛心 那么的悲

Belated Revelation

Today was a day when I realised continuous whining complaining wallowing in self pity makes you feel even worse than before.

Something I should have grasped a long time ago.

It's like the negative feelings just kept feeding on the negative feelings and the vicious cycle repeats itself to form this deep dark hole that engulfs me in negativity altogether. And as the whining kept on the negativity and self pity persists as well. Negativity and self pity that enshrouds me tightly, entirely, sinisterly.

Never ever let myself slip into such a trap again. No way. Not going to be easy, especially when I am so used to it already. But still, go take the first step and try (Y)

Another Friday.

Exactly 1 more month to the first paper.

Still feeling overwhelmed with the stress and intensity of projects. Always mind-boggling and makes me go round and round in circles for my arguments. And sucks up a lot of my time.

That major mid term test didn't go well at all. Once again every semester there will always be this thought of skipping the finals altogether. But no I cannot do it this sem.

Counting down. 3 more weeks to the end of semester. Gonna overcome all of them, one by one, one at a time. FOCUS AND FIGHT ON!

on the mrt ride home with the phone

whoa it's been so super long since i've updated here or anything and as i'm not in the mood to write anything properly structured i shall plunge into rattling that i love to do so much really miss writing without punctuation and all hahaha anyways ytd was my 21st finally hehe need to blog abt that properly i think and i need to update my reading list and i need to update abt my hols seeseesee so much backlog once agn and it's the same in real life grahhh consol i have no idea what to do abt it i'm like struggling so much to understand it ohmannnns i must tell myself i must and i have to catch up ahhhh need to tong for this ehh other than that i need to stop sleeping in classes so much don't know why but it seems to be getting worse argh okay nth much to update and talk abt this is a good way to destress i feel hohoho

Just watched Jay Chou's "The Rooftop" at Filmgarde, Bugis Plus. Almost couldn't watch it because my friend was suggesting another movie to watch instead; luckily we did - I could do with some light hearted, funny and lovey-dovey genre. And that day I was already mentally prepared for Jay Chou. By the way, I really like Filmgarde seats (Y) -but just that this time I kept feeling ppl kicking my seat from behind grah-

I was glad we did catch it in the cinema because personally I felt the artistic and cool effects could only be properly  experienced in the theatre. It really reminded me of some kind of musical, and to be exact it's like a major drama production being brought onto the big screen! I guess everyone would agree with me the plot is so-so and maybe a little cliche but at the very least i appreciate that the story flow and ending was not too illogical or too idealistic (y'know it's not like those plots that deliberately drop in miracles and turn supposedly sad endings into impossibly happy ones)! And there is kind of a little twist which is unexpected at the end.

What left the deepest impression on me was most probably the projections on Valentine's Day. Because it reminded me of how much conflict we had over this last time in a drama production  and how much trouble it then gave us. I remembered the reason why I was so against it was because I couldn't see our projections adding much value to the show itself.

But seeing the projections in the Jay Chou's movie totally awed me. It was really epic. And I feel it must not have been easy to create this scene, with all the planning, storyboarding, and the execution etc. I wonder if this can be re-enacted onto theatre and drama productions -maybe this is why his movie felt so much like a big-screen theatre play to me.

And the slow songs inside as well - I guess it's kinda his style. My friend was commenting that this movie had all the elements of Jay Chou and I agree.

I'm not really sure what makes a good movie to people. Maybe they feel that this one would be easily forgotten after watching it. However, for someone who rarely steps into the cinema like me, I guess I am just amazed at how he managed to string together and seam  all the elements like the music, dance and martial arts as well as artistic effects into one whole movie like this. Creativity not so much in terms of plot, but in every other areas other than that, you will most probably feel the Jay Chou's style of imaginativeness and artistry.

“这是全天台最靠近星星的地方，所以许的愿望特别容易实现”-浪子膏 《天台》