Organic Chemistry Test ....

I just had my Organic Chemistry test ( which is to me the toughest paper ever ) .... I have even broken my own record ... I was still studying this yesterday morning ( which totally went against my principles of not studying a few days before exam ... ) ... but this is just too much for me .... it was 10^n times , n>100000000000 tougher than what I experienced in A levels ... omg ... what kind of language am I speaking now ....

Just to give an idea how the test structure in NTU is like ....

First question was about stereochemistry .... quite similar to A levels optical isomer and stuff .... but I spent too much time on this section ... I am blind when it comes to 3D structure .... and a little of Sn2 reactions were involved ... generally still manageable ....

Second question was all about reaction mechanisms .... this one to be honest is the most redundant part to me in chemistry .... just swallow and vomit .... this part I messed up a bit ... but still okay ...

Third question was about cyclic organic compounds where the conformational structure of a molecule suddenly became damn important .... I totally screwed this part up .... well , I guess this question was supposed to separate really smart people from normal students like me ... haih ...

Fourth question was about benzene chemistry ... it was okay ... just need to talk bad about Friedal-Craft and why it not a good method after all ....

Overall , this exam was very tough to me. The worse part is , right after the exam paper was collected , the first thing I heard was ' this paper is much easier than I expected' ....... OMG .... I was so close to walk over him and strangled his life out of him ..... NTU geniuses memang cannot underestimate .... now I know where I stand .... lol ... next semester I got to work harder already .... as for now ... I need a serious nap ......

Last Forensic ..

I know I am supposed to be studing now , but I must share this ......

Today I had my last forensic lesson. We had a crime scene officer as our guest lecturer. Wa ... it was damn interesting ... lots of REAL crime scene footage ... some really gruesome ....

I think I learn most today in term of application of the previous knowledge .... We even learned how to interview people .... there are skills to make people talk even with the presence of lawyer and without violence ....

Well ... as much fun as I had today , need to study ...

Exam is Around The Corner

My finals is coming in 2 weeks ... so I won't have time to update this blog ....

Give me a month ok ?

Hann Jiunn in Singapore ....

Last Sunday Hann Jiunn came to Singapore for his vacation .... He is our FIRST guest in Singapore ( considering Wei Han and I are gonna stay here for at least 7 years ... so treat ourselves as local already ... perasan a bit la ... ) ... Anyway , I'll like to briefly talk about what we did in these few days ...

DAY 1 ( SUNDAY )

Hann Jiunn arrived at Changi airport . He had to take the MRT to Jurong and Wei Han picked him up from there . Changi was too far from NTU so we couldn't go all the way there .... ( even though SOMEONE is dying to go there and have a look ... )

That night we had dinner together at Canteen 2 ( supposedly the best canteen in NTU ... ) . All of us had chicken rice and ICE-CREAM WAFFLE !!! My favourite dessert in NTU ...

Then we went back to Wei Han's room. Since my roommate has quite a different lifestyle, I asked Hann Jiunn to stay over at Wei Han's place. We caught up and talked a lot until I forgot about the time. I ended up staying over at Wei Han's place as well .... thanks for the singlet and the blanket ....lol .

DAY 2 ( MONDAY )

It was more of a studying day for Hann Jiunn. I brought him to my Organic Chemistry tutorial which has the prettiest tutor. Wei Han brought him to Physics and Material Science lectures .... can experience university life a bit ... lol .

At night Sin Yee came to NTU ( her first visit ) .... so we had our dinner at Sakae Sushi in NTU ....

Dinner at Sakae Sushi ....

Sin Yee bought Hann Jiunn his birthday present .... a bag full of hand washing liquid , cosmetic masks , lip bum etc ... all PINK !!! ....

Hann Jiunn's excitement for PINKS ....

DAY 3 ( TUESDAY )

In the morning Sin Yee and Hann Jiunn went out to NUS to have a look .. while Wei Han and I were having class ...

At night , we went out to Bugis to shop and have a look ....

We had Malaysian food ( so ironic .... Malaysians came to Singapore to eat Malaysia food ) , yet the taste was out ..... insulting Malaysia I tell you ....

Our dinner .... MALAYSIAN wantan noodle and 奶茶 ...


Malaysian Mi Goreng .... got tomato sauce inside ... like fake Prada ...

Then we walked around the streets , looking around .... and found lots of SEX SHOP .... but must be above the age of 23 only can enter .... haih .... had to turn away and go .... lol. We ended up in a new shopping mall in Bugis ... I forgot its name already ...

Wei Han , Hann Jiunn and Sin Yee ...


Wei Han , Hann Jiunn and I ... We were supposed to show how long the escalator was ....


I guess this shows better ... it was 4-floors long ....



Rooftop .... how romantic ....


Mall toilet ....

DAY 4 ( WEDNESDAY )

Morning Wei Han skipped his class and went to lepak around Singapore with Hann Jiunn while Sin Yee and I were stuck in our classes .....

At night we went to the most famous street .... GEYLANG STREET !!!

Geylang street ... see the no entry sign ... I wonder what it means ...

Then we had dinner .... Claypot Rice at Geylang street ....

Nice or not ?? ... ( from the left ) ... Fried Soft Shell Crab, Claypot Rice, Vegetable, Fried sotong wrapped with Chicken skin


Hann Jiunn cooking the rice .... lol ...


Mmmmmmm .....



Nothing was left behind ....

Until the bill came ........

WT* !!!! SGD 868.80 !!!! for FOUR person ??!!!

Haha ... it was SGD68.80 ... mistake I guess ... Hann Jiunn's treat ... Thanks again !

Then we hang around Geylang street, observing the people and the things they do here .... looking for what this street is famous for in the first place .... LOL .... THE FOOD of course !!!

Ironically, we found a few temples and mosques here ... I wonder what kind of message they are trying to convey ....

Geylang Street ......

DAY5 ( THURSDAY )

Last day here for Hann Jiunn. He went to shopping at Jurong Point in the morning. Then we had our last lunch together at Hall 9 ( supposedly having the best Western food in NTU ... ) .... Hann Jiunn's treat again ...


We went back to Wei Han's room. He bought each of us a whole big can of biscuits ... exactly what I needed .... Thank you .... Hann Jiunn packed his stuff and went off to Changi .... while both of us ...... came back to reality ..... for me is Bread days again .... lol



We all had a lot of fun with Hann Jiunn ... we wouldn't have gone out so frequently if there was no such excuse .... so anyone who is free ( especially those in Australia who are going to have their semester break soon ) .... feel free to come to Singapore .... accommodation is taken care of ( for guys only .... ) ....


I feel like the Ministry of Tourism owes me now ....

First Taste of Getting Drunk ...

Don't be misled by the title . I wasn't drunk , but this is and will be the closest I will ever get to that .... The suffering was too much ...

Yesterday night was a Friday night . I just finished my volleyball practice which by the way was our first friendly match against Hall 5 in an indoor volleyball court .... it was a lot of fun ... Anyway , what happens usually on Fridays is that I'll be hanging out with my laptop ( no $$$ ... where got outings ?? ) while Joonas will go out ( G** knows where he goes ) until very late at night ...

So I slept at about 2am ( which was pretty early for friday nights ... usually 4am .... because I was so tired from the training ... ) . Just when I was nicely asleep , Joonas came back ....

Although it was quite dark , I could still him walking funny .... he slammed the door so hard I was instantly wide awake .... He stumbled here and there until he got a hang of himself against his chair .... Ironically still had the time to undress before he went to bed ... The whole thing was quite scary as he couldn't even walk straight to his bed ... I was so scared he was going to fall or something .... with his weight I guess I would have a one or two broken ribs easily ...

So he lied on his bed ... safe and sound ... I was thinking ' Thank GOODNESS .... ' ... then I went back to sleep .... and was awake again when he threw up .... It was so horrifying ..... I didn't dare to turn my head over to him ... the sound of vomit dropping onto the floor and his throat choking again and again .... soon enough the smell of alcohol came out , fuming the room with vodka ....

I couldn't sleep at all . I tried my best to but it didn't work . I ended up waking at 7am and go online .... until I was really really tired only I went back to sleep ....

Although this experience is quite overwhelming to me , there were some points I just didn't get it . For one I didn't see his friends helping him up to the THIRD floor .... and how could he fit the key in correctly into the lock when he was so drunk ??? And to undress before bed ??? I guess I'll never know because I kind of make it a point not to get drunk at all !!!! So to those who have tried in the past ( you know who you are ... lol ... ) I'll be more careful next time .... Getting drunk is so not worth it ...

Cooking again

Well .... the title pretty much says it all .... we cooked dinner again ... It as really simple but yet very time consuming ... but the joy of the process was worth it .

Let's roll the menu :

Mixed vege ( from the tomyam soup )

Spicy long bean

Tomyam soup ( with chicken , toufu , chillies ... )

Fried eggs ( not a single drop of soya sauce )

Our dinner !!!! .... o ya ... and CORN adn BROWN RICE ...haih ...

And watermelon too !!!

There were 7 of us ... 2 are taking pictures ....

There was a lot of vege as all of them like vege more than meat .... except for me ... but it was so filling I didn't even touch supper ...

Not so top after all huh ...

All these years people generally feel very positive about my academic results , I myself am satisfied with it of course .... but here at NTU things have changed ....

Let's take an example . The recent Biochemistry mid-term exam was so so so tough .... really squeezed every single drop of brain matter out of my head and I felt good with the paper because I managed to finish all the questions ( tembak here and there of course ) .... my results are ok ... but wait until you heat this :

" 3 students scored 100% and about 40 scored over 90% "

I was like so stunned when I heard that .... What ???!!! 100% ???!!! 3 PEOPLE SOMEMORE !!! The total number of students in the class is only 200+ ..... there are about 25% of freaking smart geniuses all around the lecture theatre .... And I thought I was good at Biochemistry ...

It feels terrible .... do any of you actually felt this way before ??? This is my first time and I am trying to cope with it .

Well .... don't worry , I won't do anything stupid ... I realized to compete with these geniuses are really useless .... I decided to just try my best ( at least must try to maintain the scholarship ... ) and try to hang out with the more " ordinary " people ....

Well , what am I doing ??? Study study study .... haha ...