Happy New Year

Hello blog and everyone that reads it. I am finally back from cold places and its great to be back in Singapore for the New Year. Thanks to those who wrote me cards and bought me presents. I hope to post photos of my trip soon and to those who want to meet up i will post my number up soon. Should be the old one and just need to top up the prepaid card. Although i cant seem to find it. And i do not remember my own number anymore. Thats all there is for this boring post. Just an update, dont get upset that it isnt interesting. hahahaha.

From Toronto

Hiya everyone, just putting a post to try to be an 'effective' blogger. hahha. And also because i must make full use of this really expensive internet pay station which costs $2 for 40 mins. I think Toronto is rather cool, it has a really huge china town and big shopping malls but also very nice archaic buildings. Thinking of doing Masters or PHD here. Only problem is that the winter weather is super bad. Especially with the wind factor its almost like fear factor episodes.
Besides having a bigger than Singapore Chinatown it also has "the world's largest bookstore" although i really suspect its a hoax and they named their store that. More disappointing though was that their books werent really cheap. They had some 80% discounts but only some. Anway, i am kind of tired and merely rambling. Maybe if i really get to do masters one day and can look back at this post and remember where might be a good place to go.
I watched King Kong in Toronto too. Also in another larger than life movie theatre. The escalator i think took 15 seconds to get from the ticketing booths to the screening areas. Well, really poignant place to watch King Kong i guess. I liked the film though, i really do think they made it into an action film but at least they tried to incorporate some meaning into it. And it was exciting and touching as well. A tad too long at over 3 hours but i enjoyed it quite a bit. Well thanks for indulging my rather ineffective blogging of just talking about my days in a foreign city. Off to Washington tomorrow and i guess people who watch a lot of Hollywood films can tell me more about the city even after i visit it.

Its been awhile

Apologies go out to everyone who checks if i updated my blog. Which due to exams has been really tough. Anyway, its been a really bad week for me cos i had to hand in 2 major essays and had 2 exams in 6 days. And the 2 papers were the worse 2 out of my four exams. And i take 5 subjects. Which is why God has been really good this week.
I must admit i wasnt really prepared for the papers but i went for most of the lectures so i was just spotting what i felt he emphasized. It was quite amazing really. I was joking with my friend jason on what i thot would come out in the exam and i said " Zajonc studied with cockroaches to prove what theory?" And we all had a good laugh. Guess what? It was the first MCQ. I was almost in shock. But i felt really calm after that, cos i knew that God had answered my prayers and even though i wasnt the best humanly possibly prepared, he was there with me. There was a 15 mark short answer which during my study i just felt was going to come out and its the first time i really knew how to do the most marks SAQ in all the tests. hahha. Furthermore, there was a chapter i read only 3 pages and the only question that came out from that chapter was in those 3 pages. And knowing me i just love irrelevant stuff that usually doesnt come out in exams like why is group brainstorming not as good as it is made out to be.. And there was a SAQ asking to list the 4 points. Truly quite happy that it was so clear God was helping me. Thanks to all who prayed.
And my other psych paper 2 days ago was even better. I just handed in an essay on friday and my paper was on sat. Wasnt the most confident again cos this paper was less structured. And lo and behold, there were 2 copies of the paper made so that ppl sitting together cannot copy. I still do not understand the space constraints issue but anyway.. Due to admin error, one of the papers was exactly the same as last years one and not an original exam. And guess which one i got. haha. Amazingly again, i had did the past year paper -- which isnt true for all subjects and i just happened to sit on the one with last yr's paper. ( although half the students did). So they are still trying to figure out how best to adjust the marks now, but i was quite relieved that i wasnt going to fail the paper. Cos some of the questions they ask tend to be super obscure. haha.
Anyway, i shld get back to studying. And i have watched Narnia already but found it a bit too soppy. I am cold-hearted at times however. I just thot they kept trying to make the audience cry. But the special effects and the acting was quite cool. Laters then.