Beautiful trip -> Vietnam

And so here I am, having not posted after such a loooong time. Heh, been feeling lazy, that's why. Anyway, felt quite lucky that I finished my papers much earlier than the rest of my peers hehe. And did them pretty well too I felt =)

Right after exams, I headed down to SLS on Saturday 25th April to get the components for my new PC!! So excited haha! Spent about $1.6k in total. These are the components of my PC, which I'll be using for at least the next 4 years:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (at 3.95ghz), w/ OCZ Vendetta2 and IC Diamond 7
Gigabyte EP45-UD3R
2x2gb Kingston HyperX DDR2-1066 rams
Western Digital 640gb Caviar Black
Powercolor 4870 PCS+ 512mb
Aerocool Horsepower 750W
Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card
Asus Vento TA-M11 chassis w/ Scythe Slipstream 1900rpm fans and Coolermaster Green LED fan

When I got all of them back to hall, I spent the whole night fixing them up, only to realize it doesn't boot up after so much hard work. Went to bed feeling vexed, and the next day, I opened up the casing and reseated the front panel headers, and voila, it booted up fine! Yay, my troubleshooting skills are good lol! Damn happy with this PC!

After settling my new computer, I had to busy myself with the FYP presentation. Luckily, it was all fine =) Very soon, it was off to Vietnam! Woohoo! I touched down in Ho Chi Minh, and spent the first 4 days there. Trekked around the city on foot, and also took some day tours to further places. The exact places and pics are in facebook lol. We then took a domestic flight up to Hanoi (capital), then to Halong Bay (some beautiful scenery, and was once voted to be 1 of the world's great wonders), and to Sapa by train. Sapa was literally the coolest place in Vietnam; temperature hovers around the twenties, like in an aircon room. The rest of Vietnam was just scorching hot! Hotter than Singapore I would say. Sapa was full of those small girls who spoke better English than everyone else in other cities in Vietnam. They said that they picked up the language because they had been bringing tourists around as their main means of livelihood. Anyway, I really enjoyed myself at Sapa, though it was only a short 2 days 1 night. Next, we took an open tour bus and came down to Hoi An, which was known for its shopping. I bought 4 shirts, 2 pants, 1 slippers, and 1 shoes, and all of them were tailor made! Still cheaper than what I can find in SG. Haha! Our next stop was Nha Trang, which was basically a beach city. We were lucky on the day we headed to the beach, as the sun was happily displaying its prowess at the beach-goers. We then ended up back at Ho Chi Minh, where we were to take out flight back to home sweet home. I miss the Pho, the walking under the hot sun, the sweating, the taking of pics, and many other things.

Anyway, when I came back, I signed for the education service shortly after. Now, just slacking and busying myself with DrumZout matters, and then have to start taking my driving lessons and PASSING the test in July. Sian, this year's convo and 1st day of reservist clashes. Most probably I guess I would be going for my convo, rush back home, and book in. Sucks. And, I would be starting work directly on the week after reservist. There goes my honeymoon period in NTU. Bye NTU. I think I will miss you =(

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End of Projects

Finally, I have come to end of projects for this final semester. After printing my report and binding it, I submitted to my moderator on monday afternoon. My FYP supervisor just needed the softcopy, but moderator wanted the printed copy. ZzZz. In any case, I have a demo tmr, and hope that it will go smoothly *wish*

Today was my Engineers & Society presentation. My group was the last group to present, and we had initially not wanted this slot as it was so freaking near to the exams, 1 week in fact. But we chose abit too late, so there wasn't any choice left. Anyway, it went pretty ok today, but the last member in our group, was basically just murmuring away. It was really so boring, and I could just imagine AP Jessica stop his 'self-conversation' lol. But I guess our group was still pretty ok, minimum should have a B. She also returned our assignment that was submitted right after the term break, and each question was graded and awarded to the individual member who did it. I got A+! Haha!

Just did some cleaning up of another project powerpoint slides and added in some stuff. Tmr is my demo, and I'm not sleeping yet. Argh. Next tuesday's my first paper! Gotta go into active mugger mode!

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Job Hunting !

I finally got to eat steamboat last saturday at bugis lol. Had been wanting to eat that since last year, but always didn't have the opportunity to do so. Hence, I jumped at that when jf asked me to go out eat for my bdae lol!

I had eaten twice at a particular shop before, therefore we ate at this seemingly 'higher class' steamboat. The price was also alil more premium than the rest. But the food was really good, much better than the one I ate before. Shall go back eat again someday haha.

Sian, haven't gotten a job yet. Applied for 3 companies 2 days ago, but I guess even if they contact me, it will be after exams, since they won't disturb the students during exam period.

Will be submitting my report to my fyp moderator on monday. Hope he doesn't want a demonstration haha! Just feel lazy, wanna have the time to mug instead. Exams coming! One more week.

Mug mug mug..

Happy =)

This is a good weekend for me. Last night, I had gotten another new mouse, the razer salmosa (asian gaming edition) from sls, and then headed over to Pierside restaurant to have my sumptuous dinner at Fullerton.

Man, the Cod Fish was just heavenly! I have never tasted such nice fish before lol. It was just this good. And the other dish was the kurokawa pork, which I believe is the black pig I heard from one of my friends before. That was nice too, but I still preferred my cod fish haha. After the dinner, comes the Guanaja cake from Rive Gauche. It was a nice chocolate cake, with melted chocolate on top, and a biscuit (mcvities?) as the base. The best chocolate cake I have ever tasted =)

Next stop is Equinox! We went to the City Space, a nice cosy bar whereby we got to enjoy cocktails and mocktails, and also admire the beautiful landscape that sunny singapore has. Saw LY and MY there, so we sat together. And chatted till 2 am! Gosh, I was dead tired by then haha.

I tried out the new mini salmosa I got, and loved it. It's small, light, smooth, and just simply pleasant to use. Gonna sell away my A4Tech mouse, since it doesn't really suit my hands.

I had just come back from christina 21st birthday party at SMU Settler's. It was my first time walking through SMU concourse. This concourse links all the schools in SMU I believe, and is fully air-conditioned. How I wish NTU was like that lol. There were still significant number of people around campus, either studying or doing projects. Geee.

All in all, just wanted to say the weekend was just perfect for me =)

Carbonara!!!

Wheee, I cooked carbonara today for wood, clarisse, and alvin.. Bought spaghetti, mushrooms, bacon, 3 cans of sauce, broccoli, eggs, and added in the hams that were available in the fridge.

I started cooking at 515pm, and took around 2 hours! ZzZZzz, that was long lol. But the end result was pretty good! Tasted not bad! Haha! So happy with myself =))

Maybe I shall cook some at home for my family one day too ;P