Holidays have started so long ago and now's my first post since. LOL. I'm really a lazy blogger nowadays.
Simon drove Jon and I back to Malaysia - he was going down KL with Geri. The night before that was the best packing cum moving experience ever. I was searching for my lost ringgit somewhere among my haphazardly packed stuff, and by the time I was back to sealing boxes, Jon and Jerome had practically moved all my stuff from my room, and Tirza's things too. They were so quick that my sealing the boxes became the limiting factor! Thanks to them I hardly had to move anything at all. After arriving at Malaysia and doing some shopping for campus group, I stayed in Jon's house for a day and now I'm back home. Walked around Jusco in Seremban. Was really tired those few days so I didn't really want to walk around too much.
I'm supposed to do translating this Sunday but my Chinese is really dead this time round. This is what happens when you speak English like almost all the time in Singapore. I even speak English to Yew Hong half the time now! And the Chinese I speak is so conversational that I can hardly string a proper sentence together after looking at Pastor's notes. Thankfully my dad got those notes home earlier so I had some time to prepare. Unfortunately this week's sermon is rather technical, so it's going to be quite a challenge.
My aunt's family is here to stay at my grandparent's home in from Adelaide. My cousins are quite grown up now and conversations can be kind of awkward as all of us haven't seen each other for quite a long time, and our social background is really different by now. Hence, we were thinking of playing Monopoly to bridge the social gap, but I wonder if that's really going to be effective. With my slightly increased knowledge of existing board games, I do know that Monopoly is nowhere as exciting as Citadels and the likes of it. Hope they are not frequent visitors of board game cafes. The games in my house are more word-themed. Otherwise, the ever-versatile pack of cards would have to be the only other alternative.
Speaking of board games, to people who know that I like to play Bang! which is extinct from the shelves of Singapore shops, I just found out from XJ that it is actually sold in KL. However, I suppose I should forget on ever purchasing that for myself. It's a hefty RM 55 which can easily buy me two dresses or nice skirts or something like that at the right places. (Please don't get the wrong idea buy it for me either. I'm not hinting for a Christmas present! Even if I own it I would need at least 4 other people to play with me, which is harder to get than the game itself.)
Many other things happened besides. XJ came down to visit. I still can't bug Mable to start studying - nor start writing the Phoenix articles myself. I'd have to force myself to sit down and do it these few days. :S And I just found out that one of my project group mates last year is going to the same IA company as I am. Which would make it a much better experience, I feel, with someone I know around. I'm having trouble deciding which electives to take next year though. It's like indirectly trying to choose a major - and things would be much less complicated if I do not have to try and predict how positively skewed the bell-curves of each module would be, and whether I'll have time to take up a heavily project based module or not. All these are matters of life and death.
I know learning should be the utmost priority of every student and somehow I'm still struggling to make it so. This kiasu culture is not good for me. However, working in a company should be kind of a new start, and I do hope that I'd be able to learn much and enjoy doing so. :)
More holiday posts to come, hopefully!
