yeah been a while since i last blog. Term has ended last week and it's a 3 week winter break be4 our 10 module exams! It's kinda crazy to study 10 modules in 3 weeks but i think i just need to pace myself. been studying day and night and will always watch 美食大三通 before sleeping, causing me to have supper almost daily. argh! and i craved so much for korean bbq after watching the korean episode. and finally i had my korean bbq yesterday night with 3 hkers!

The bbq wasn't really that fantastic and def couldnt compare that to the 1 i had in LA. argh! think u cant find such satisfying bbq besides korea and US. maybe i will try the fei cui korean bbq when i go back to sg but that will be quite a while. nevertheless the company was really good. got to know vicky better during physical labs; jon and hilary during organic labs as we were in the same grp. wa and they keep conversing in canto and i really enjoy the canto atmosphere! i can actually generally understand what they were saying. ah! can't wait for our after exam plans - k lunch, cookout and mahjong. sing canto songs but i think i will sing in chinese. and then cookout will be super exciting! cultural exchange indeed. and i think i will lose to them in mahjong cos hkers are too zai in mahjong and it's a little different from sg mahjong without the animal tiles. haha i cant wait really! hou hoi sum! well, think this year i know another new bunch of frens from hk and it seems that it was all fated. will definitely miss this bunch of ppl when i graduate. and i'm gonna visit them next july definitely!

life these 2 weeks has been quite stressful at times, esp now actually. the 1st most stressful thing is my masters application to cambridge. i am applying to another course in cambridge and though the official deadline is 31st jan, the admin officer told me to send be4 christmas as usu the masters places will be all taken by christmas. i have gotten 1 referee's reference but i cant contact my other tutor who has agreed to be my referee. really frustrating, so i think i will just pop by his office on monday and get it from him. i really have no time but there's also nothing i can do. Hopefully i can send my application by wednesday. argh, i'm really chasing time now. and yeah i have already sent my application to eth. oh well, i just need to handle this well for now and i can concentrate better on other stuff.

but anyway, went out today all the way to greenwich to visit shane which is like 1h-ish away from central london. it's really quite far. yeah and super nice shane brought us to the observatory centre and yes singapore is on it! maybe cos we're on the equator. the journey up to the observatory centre was an arduous 1, we had to climb v slippery roads but it was worth it. and then went to the O2 dome to walk around while waiting for laya to come to have dinner at zin! and shane kinda surprised me as he said that laksa is his fav dish there. he should come to sg 1 day and i bring him around. haha!

at the observatory place!

dinner!

today was really fun and a meaningful day i thought. i was able to get involved in some deep conversations with shane and actually talking to him just makes me feel that i am so much luckier and i should treasure all these. somehow while talking i could sense that he got a little emotional (could see tears i think) which kinda affected me too. somehow he's quite diff from the general ang mor i know. very sensible, mature, real, sincere. a really great fren indeed and yes i do hope that he'll be successful in his career and whatever not. haha and i think i cant wait for the day when me alice laya and him meet up in japan from singapore, taiwan, china and london. cool stuff! yes, and shall bring them to nonya and also will go to matsuri!