okok i shall update after such a long 'absence'. haiz i havent been studying much recently...and i intend to catch up on my work! but before i do that i rmb that i havent been blogging as well! so here i am..haha. so much has happened ever since i came to london. i really love being in imperial cos of my wonderful friends! but i really cant wait to 'run' back to singapore when summer hols begin. haha
i had a wonderful christmas last year! met up with a few of my moe scholar frens for lunch on christmas eve! and on christmas day itself i went for christmas service and then we had a potluck at my place!! and i ate turkey!! yay :) new year celebrations were not that fantastic though. after the potluck dinner on new year's eve, we headed down to the Embankment (where the London Eye is) to watch new year's fireworks. but the place was SO TERRIBLY CROWDED that we might just get lost in the crowd easily! we were squeezing through the crowd like mad and it was so uncomfortable. it was like a mob loh. we even had to hold hands and pull each other along. and finally when the fireworks came, it wasnt v impressive cos (as we later realised) we were at the wrong side of the London Eye!!! the fireworks were supposed to be nice but we just viewed them from the wrong place!! urgh!! then we had to squeeze our way back like siao and we didnt manage to return to our halls until v late. haha but overall xmas and new year was not bad :) and i was glad i toked to some of singapore frens on xmas and new year! :):)
im looking forward to cny but there is NO PUBLIC HOLIDAY for cny in uk!!! so sadd!!!!!! arghhhhhh... there's a singsoc cny dinner next wk and hopefully i can celebrate cny with my coursemates as well. haiz but i cant celebrate cny in sg and with my family =(
and im gonna watch Sound of Music (the musical) next wk as well! hope it will be nice and worth my money =)
this is abit random..but yah..i hope to meet my frens whom ive lost contact with or not seen for such a long time...
im really pleasantly surprised by something.
and im really waking up to reality =)
[im taking a break from my (slow) mugging for my exam. haha]
im supposed to be studying now but i cant help blogging. *feels guilty*
just now i went to camden town!! cost me 4 pounds to go to and fro camden =S haha but it was a nice trip! i visited three markets: Inverness Street Market, The Camden Market and Camden Lock (the main market!). actually the two smaller markets (inverness street and camden market) have more stuff worth buying though. i saw jackets that i like!! i shall go there early for the post-christmas sales! haha. so basically i didnt buy any clothes there. just went there to see see and select clothes first. and if/when the prices drop after christmas, i shall go and buy! hopefully i'll get there in time to buy what i want, and hopefully the prices will really drop such that the jackets are 'affordable' for me. haha
hmm..this place is more towards the north of london so it's v cold! once i take out my gloves my hands just froze. wah cannot tahan loh =P
anyway i posted the pics of camden on facebook! but im not inside any of the pics since i went by myself. haha
haha i realise this is a short entry :p have to end here i must STUDY soon. bye!
my hols have started last sat. an entire term has passed since i arrived in london. winter is arriving and i can feel the temperature getting colder. my lips are cracking and my hands are 'drying up'. when i first arrived in london i was really enjoying the life here but as time passes, homesickness starts to sink in. i cant wait to go home in summer. it was so sad when i saw my frens and hallmates leaving one by one. even though it's just a short christmas break (term starts on 3 jan), i couldnt help missing my friends. my hall seems so quiet now. but well, i was the one who chose not to go on the ski trip or return to singapore during the hols, since ive got an exam to study for. (but the irony is that i havent started studying for it!) hmm i cant wait for the ski trip ppl to return, then we can celebrate christmas together! =) and im going for a tour of leeds castle and canterbury (which are in the south of UK) this sun. so it's not that bad lah. i really miss home though :(
i havent been studying very much this term, at least not as much as i used to in singapore. ive generally been enjoying myself :p and i like my friends here :)
oh yah if nothing goes wrong, i'll be spending my birthday next year in VIENNA!!! i look forward to this trip even though i know nuts about classical music. hahaha..really hope to have funn~~
urghhh i have to STUDY!!!!!..................
im really disappointed with the superficiality of this world. however, i take comfort in my belief that even though Man may be superficial, God definitely isnt. yay (:(:
thoughts
finally im blogging again. tonight i just have this strong desire to blog. (but unfortunately, this is not cos of sy..i was just joking on my tagboard..sy dun kill me..haha :p). more than two months have already passed since i arrived in london. and so many things have happened. before i know it, my first term is ending soon and christmas break is coming.
maybe it's abit hard to believe that slightly more than three years ago, i was still a student of dhs. last year i was still mugging for my a levels in rjc. and now im living a totally different life altogether. i remember when i went to rjc from dhs, i was always missing dhs and i wished that i could be trapped in dhs forever. and i didnt make good use of my jc life. but now that im in imperial, i realise that being trapped in dhs forever might not be the best thing for me after all. i've experienced so many things ever since coming here and despite the problems i've faced, so far i've never regretted choosing to come to imperial. i still love dhs very much, and now i no longer struggle with the unhappy and painful memories during my dhs years. i love dhs, but at the same time, i want to move on and experience new things in life. i was a person of "intense" feelings during my secondary school years. i could hate someone/some ppl very much, be infatuated with someone and go crazy over shuai celebrities. however, all these have changed. my feelings have become 'milder' and im no longer the starry-eyed, idealistic teenager of the past. i've completely woken up to reality, and stupid stuff like popularity doesnt matter at all to me now.
studying overseas had been my long-cherished wish. there were so many reasons for going overseas to study: u get to mix with ppl from so many different countries, understand the cultures of other countries, travel to many different places, experience a whole new culture and lifestyle and learn to live independently and solve problems by yourself. however, after coming to imperial, i realise that these general, "theoretical" benefits arent the only benefits ive experienced. in fact, i didnt try hard to go "cosmopolitan" and i just interacted with ppl naturally, with whoever i felt comfortable with. at imperial, i've experienced valuable friendship which im really enjoying. since we are living away from our parents, we spend more time with our friends. i think now that we are in uni, we are more 'grown up' and are no longer that discriminatory or clique-ish. so i really like interacting with my friends here, even though i may not be very close to them.
based on my experience, life is more relaxed and slow-paced here. i like it :):)
hmm.. i like the feeling of living overseas by myself, yet at the same time, i have to admit that i do miss home. i think for me living overseas is good because it not only gives me this valuable opportunity to experience so many new things, but it also makes me cherish home more.(absence makes the heart grow fonder!) i like london life (in general) and i love home :):):)
im finally alright again! thank God! (:
