When Silence Is No Longer Golden

Another post on another month! Seems like either this is a very happening semester or I just have too much free time to post (it is the latter). I can't believe my journey in the university is coming to an end soon. And I am still the same inexperienced guy when it comes to girls, just like when I entered. What happened? Yesterday I watched a musical by the Indonesian community in NUS to support a friend. I did not even think to buy her a flower. After the performance, I had nothing much to say, not even requesting to take a picture with her and her gorgeous costume. In contrast, two years ago she performed in the same musical series and I took a picture with her, even gave her a friendly hug. What happened? At the same musical, I met her (the her from this post ). Actually, I met her a few hours before the event. We just spoke briefly, both parties awkwardly trying to end the conversation not awkwardly (even this whole sentence is awkward). After the event, we met aga...

Hi readers! It's just been a month since my last post! I am not actually neglecting my blog this year! Well, actually it is because I am having a chill semester this time, so I have quite a lot of time for myself. I must say I don't actually like it (!!!) because it makes me lazy and actually messes up my sleeping pattern even worse than when I was busy. This is because I ended up wasting my time playing games to fill in the spare time, and when you play games, you usually end up sleeping late because you are so into the game. Now, even when I tried to sleep earlier (1 or 2 am is considered "early" to me now), I would be unable to sleep because my mind is still very much awake, thinking about games and things that have been going on in my life, which is what I wanted to share now. As some of you readers might have known, I have been taking Chinese classes in my university, and it has become a habit of mine to put YouTube on autoplay playing Chinese songs whenever...

Hi readers! Didn't expect me to write the next post in the series of "Obligatory New Year Post"? I know it is a little late, since this year I spent it in my home country and I'm sharing my room with my brother. In the last few years, he had been studying in China and thus I usually had the room all by myself around the new year, and I got into reflective mood pretty quickly. Also, I am kinda (ok, REALLY) addicted to Civilization V . Moreover, I am worrying about my FYP all December too. Shortly, it is kinda hard to get into reflective mood these days. Finally here I am and here we go.

Hi readers! If you have not noticed (actually you definitely did), I changed the theme of my blog! This is actually a *confidential* template for the next generation of Blogger! Do let me know what you think in the comment if you have anything to say about the new templates, be it good or bad!! I believe there won't be a single comment on this post though, despite my call for comments just now but yeah at least I tried lol.  Oh and also I think some may find it irritating that the Contact Form is no longer there, because I know some people actually use it. Sorry, I really can't help it. The new template won't let me add that form. Well, to be honest, I have not really tried yet. So maybe you will see it again some time in the future (or maybe I revert back to the old one) Edit: managed to find where to add the gadgets. Now you need to click on the sidebar (the three lines on the top left of your screen) to see it. Too lazy to edit all my previous posts that refered to the C...

Hi readers! Seems like I've been trying to catch up with my lack of posts this year by posting in a window of 10 days before my last one (And contributing more to my lack of sleep)! But this is one of those midnight thoughts you have before you sleep, and I feel that it is too important to be let go and forgotten to the next day, so here goes. I thought I have written about this before, but apparently a quick search revealed that I didn't, but it seemed that I almost wrote about it but decided not to. To be exact, it was actually my first post ever . I remembered roughly what happened. I got into an argument with my friend, and he mentioned something that it was because I couldn't let go of my ego that I didn't manage to accomplish something. I knew he was right. However, I was probably in denial or something, I just got down and felt moody and stuff, just like what I wrote in the post. I didn't remember if I followed up after the realization, but probably not,...

Hi readers! (...tumbleweed...) It's almost the end of the year (not really, still 2 months away, but pretty close) and I realized that I have only posted for like 6 times this year!! Damn.. That's like less than once a month.. What happened to the promise to my friend that I am going to post at least once a month/week? (I can't even remember the promise anymore, nor can I find the post where I mentioned this... Can anyone of you readers help me find it lol) Anyway...

3 months have passed since the last time I updated my blog. Damn, how time flies! There were a couple of times when I had the urge to post something when I encountered something interesting, but I was either too busy or too lazy and now I have already forgotten what it was about... But now I am having another urge to post something and I happen to be right in front of my computer with Internet connection so.. why not.

Hi readers! Not a very long hiatus between posts this time round, eh? Count yourselves lucky, because I decided to update my blog just to keep a journal of something that happened last week. Just to give you a background information, I flew to Tianjin, China last Wednesday and just returned today.  The plan was for my family (and I) to attend my elder brother's graduation ceremony but because we bought our tickets before the graduation date is confirmed, it turned out that the graduation would be on Sunday and we already purchased our return tickets on Saturday. Despite the trip being extremely exhausting, things did not go as planned, and we ended up not doing what we intended to do for the trip (attending the graduation) it was nevertheless a fulfilling one for me.

Hi readers! As you might have read in my previous post , I was offered an internship position in Google Sydney this summer (or winter, down here). And today is my first day at work! I'm sure all of you who read this blog must be waiting for this post! So here it is! Before I start on my story about Google, let me start with my first impressions of Australia and its people. To give you some background, I have never been to a "Western" country my whole life, so it was really quite an experience when I first arrived there. I already had some expectations of how Australians would be (the usual "Western" stereotypes: very cheerful, friendly, talks a lot, etc..). And they really are; I was picked up by the AIESEC people in the Kingsford Smith airport. They were just like those stereotypes I just mentioned lol. Not that it is a bad thing, but I was really tired from the flight, so I was not ready to speak a less-Singlish English and to reciprocate their eagerness to...

Hi readers! Another long hiatus! And this time round I must say that I am REAL busy this semester, so much so that I was left with very little time on my own, which I spent doing something else other than updating this blog, because the little time I had was too short to do it. In case you are wondering why I have so little time this semester, refer to paragraph 2 of this post . So anyway, the purpose of me writing this blog (damn.. I have been writing one too many emails lately, and it affects my written language) is to let you all (or maybe just my future self) know that..... I was offered an internship at Google Sydney!!! Yep, you read that right. Me. Google. This summer.