When Silence Is No Longer Golden

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.

Hi readers! It feel so surreal to be finally back to Singapore and my busyness as an NUS student. Did I really go to China for an exchange last semester? Just slightly more than 2 months ago I was still there? Doesn't feel like it at all, especially when you are 5 km deep within seas of responsibilities and school work. Just to update you guys, I am enrolled in Facebook Open Academy programme through my university this semester. It is basically a programme where students work on an open-source projects and Facebook becomes the intermediary between the project owners/IC and the universities. It took quite a lot of my time as the demand from my university is quite high regarding this, and I have been under-delivering results. Also, I become a laboratory teaching assistant for Data Structures and Algorithm I course in NUS, which takes much more time than I expected. However, for the money (which I need desperately) I shall persevere! Now, I am 2 paragraphs in and not a ment...

In merely a couple of days or so, another year is going to end soon. This would be the second time I am spending my new year overseas; the first one being the first year I was in Singapore - 2008. Damn I still remember how it was... We were playing some group game in the hostel and the game ended with a countdown to 2009. That was friggin 7 years ago. Damn, how time flies! And now I am most probably going to spend it playing another group game or singing at a KTV with a bunch of people from that Buddhist society. In case you guys are wondering why I don't go to some other place to watch fireworks, because I heard there is no fireworks during new year in China. (Say whaat?) I just realized (before writing this post) that this blog, despite already spending 2 new years, only contains one "obligatory new year post". I am not sure what happened to me during that year (or rather, this year!), but from reading the last post before the new year , apparently I was occupied w...

Hi readers! In a blink of an eye, it's already mid-December; more than a month after my previous post, and less than a month before my departure to Singapore. How time flies indeed... Especially when you busy making the most out of the days you have left here in China. Today was an especially fulfilling one.

This is just a rewrite of a reflection I wrote on my scrapbook about my trip to Xi'An with that girl from the summer trip  on the train ride back to Beijing, with a little addition at the start (for introduction) and at the end (for closing/conclusion). Minor modifications are done to conceal names and make things clearer. (her) is actually her name in the original script. Things inside the square braces are added during the rewrite and was not in the original script. #############

Hi readers! Didn't realize it has been a month since the last time I posted! Actually there has been a lot of things happening in between (actually just the past 2 weeks had been pretty intense, the other 2 weeks were pretty boring). Just as a preview, I went to Xi'An with "the girl from the summer trip" (here onwards will be referred to as "the girl") and some bull crap happened during (or rather, after) that trip. But that's a story for another post (don't worry, this time I MOST LIKELY will post it since I already wrote the hard copy during the train ride back to Beijing). Also, last Thursday, I just experienced the first snow in my life! And it was a pretty one at that! (the rather thick kind, doesn't make you drenced if it falls on you, and can be used to build snowman and throw snowballs). Those two are not going to be about that trip, however. Just a few days ago, a monk from Indonesia came over to Beijing to celebrate Kathina with the ...

Hi readers! Has it been quite some time since the last time I posted (as usual)? Though it was only about 1 month, it feels like ages ago. You all will see why shortly. So just to keep you all readers up to speed, after my last post, school starts and I might have made some irrational/bad decisions regarding my modules, which, despite not jeopardizing my workload on other semesters to graduate on time, will evoke certain kinds of judgements towards me. Thing is, I dropped a course in favour of a Chinese class whose credit I cannot transfer back to my home university, and I started off with few coursesin the first place so by dropping that particular course, I am now in a position of only mapping 3 courses out of the supposedly 5 courses per semester (according to NUS standard). However, as it turned out one of the courses I managed to map supposed to be mapped to a higher level course in NUS whose pre-requisite I have not met, and thus I feel like dropping it too. However, if I drop ...

Hi readers! Finally I have some time to myself again, after all the reports and settling down and everything (actually I have not really settled everything but I have done what I can do for now). Just a few updates, I am still in good terms with the girl :) though to be honest I am not very sure if our relationship can go anywhere (if we decide to take it further at all). I mean, my English is not exactly fluent; I often find myself at a loss of words, more often than I like. Moreover, Singaporeans speak much faster than many native English-speaking people in the world, which makes my "loss-of-word" moment much more pronounced. I also find it hard to express certain things to her, which I think will be a problem if we decide to take the relationship to the next level. Regardless of how this relationship will develop, I would be forever thankful to her for, directly or indirectly, teaching me lessons about relationship. For example, now I understand what people mean when they...

Oh my goodness... So many things happening in the past few days that my pace of writing cannot catch up with how fast things move the last few days... So anyway just to update you readers (if any), I have reached Beijing in one piece, and I am in good terms with that girl I wrote about in the previous post. So good in fact, it ends up becoming an intense heart exercise to my poor heart who had been void of strong emotions for the past few years. I had written so many drafts about many things that is happening in the past few weeks, but I am currently juggling between starting on my report (for 2 MC, scholarship provider, etc), getting to know new people (both Singaporeans and Indonesian, and maybe neighbors), settling down in Beijing and the Tsinghua dorm, and settling administrative things... It was crazy. I really don't have much time to just sit in front of my laptop thinking about life like what I used to do back in NUS lol. And then there is this girl from the summer trip. ...

Omg. It was just 3 days away from a seemingly innocent post and now I am already writing about some melancholy post again sigh.... But I really need to pour it somewhere to someone I can trust/somewhere nobody would find but I can feel that I have shared it with someone. So there is this girl in the summer trip. She is a NUS business student. Doesn't look very pretty but she is very cute. She is going to be my travel partner to Beijing before I can check in to the dorm (maybe). I fell for her on the first sight. Other guys turn out to be much more alpha than me. I missed a lot of opportunities to flirt with her. (Not that I am good with flirting in the first place). I got some cues that she is trying to avoid me. My brain says ok but my heart was in denial. It was such a painful afternoon, Luckily we went back to hotel early. I could not sleep or do anything at all. I tried to get to my laptop and do some simple coding but I simply could not concentrate.