Woohoo. Another round up. Nah this year its nothing special, quite flat. But somehow I'm really excited to write this post. Well just for an introduction. I'm not just going to round up the year, but i'm going to have a post to round up the 4 years journey to pursue my bachelor degree in Germany. I guess the main adrenaline source is the fact that i'm finally done. I actually read the last years, and i remember i really wrote it with a jiwang heart. This year i'll write it in a neutral heart. Also, I think I'll write this post first as I have christmas post, which I'm still waiting for pics from a friend. So here it goes...
January
I've started my internship. Was really a noob there. Asking questions until probably they feel like kicking me out di. Get exposed to DOTA because of Oliver, Nikki and Adrian during Christmas 2007. Abit addicted la, but at least I don't talk DOTA when I'm not playing it.
February
The fourth CNY I missed. However it was not that bad since we had a dinner in a chinese restaurant and I went for a CNY party organized by the Uni. Was quite boring actually as I remember the highlights was they called a bunch of GUAI LOU to perform wushu. The fun part was that there was live music and pretty cool music. Had my first expensive haircut in a salon. Cost me 18EURO but he did it quite professionally. Great hair cut. Valentines was emotional as usual, but I manage to get it through with minimal pain compare to the past years. And first time i wore Phua Choo Kang's yellow boots and helmet lolx.
March
Kelsen came over to Germany. We gayed alot in the room and we went Cologne to have some nice pork knuckles and night scene pics. Didn't know Kel was so talented in photography. Sadly, one of the days where he was here, we received a really bad news where we learned that our friend Samantha passed away in a tragic accident. I had some exams to do i remember so we cannot travel far, but good thing is that despite his visit, I still manage to score well in those 3 papers. Thanks to the determination in the library.
April
Starting my second task in the Institute. My birthday but was flat. Nothing much. A buffet lunch celebration. But I'm thankful enough to have friends who celebrated and wished me. Next year probably I'm gonna have a poolside party. Still planning. Oh yeah I shaved my hair lolx. Kelsen's farewell home. Though I wasn't able to sent him off, but we did have a long chat before he left Finland.
May
Spent quite alot of time writing blog and making funny post/pics. Internship was finally over. But immediately start with project work. Was quite into cooking at that time. Made some good foods. Watch Man Utd won double. Got some health problems, but later found out that it wasn't anything serious.
June
After so long, I finally get to play some basketball. Start watching Euro 2008 like mad. Went to Bon Odori(maybe not la but its some Jap fair) with Nikki and Eriko. Those two fellas were like cats and dogs and its really funny listening to them arguing in German.
July
The month of Electronics failure. First my keyboard. Then my laptop TFT screen. Then speakers. Other side of it, My bro finally graduated. Sent Edwin off. Though we only have 1 month ++ to hang out, but finally get to play basketball. Somehow basketball is the sport I'm always interested in.
August
Emotional. Fully emotional month. But anyhow still get to enjoy some of the moments. Bought a new PMP with a super cool earphones. Best earphones ever invested. Lots of olympics. Watch it day and night. Made loh mai kai. Was really cool. Tharsis's birthday celebration. Officially start my Thesis and counting days.
September
Ultra Emotional month lolx. But slowly adapting to it. slowly letting it go. Just started the Thesis so was busy reading on stuff. Flooded with problems but solve it one by one. The last month I stayed in Kammerstrasse. Really nostalgic.
October
Living a nomad life. But its turning point. I mean since I don't have my room, I actually went out more and meet up people more. Have more time to hang out outside. Can't remember exactly what I've done, but I remember it was outing after outing. Was quite busy with my thesis too and struggle it with at some point. But I manage to handle it well.
November
Had my haircuit which looks like william soo. Again lots of gatherings, parties, badminton every week. Went shopping and got a wallet. Was tempted by the Zara blazer, but in the end didn't get it.
December
Final stage of my thesis. Pretty stressed-up but manage to get it through finally. Had my first serious presentation which turns out to be relatively good. Went to Kajin's place for baking party, made my first ever cookies in my life, but failed however. Hang out in Christmas Market in Duisburg, Essen, and Bochum with Jia-Uei, Tharsis, Adrian, Jason, and many others. Played badminton every weekend and even played badminton when it was -2degrees lolx. Had a great christmas eve and christmas(which i'll update it later) and also a good new year's eve.
Overall,
Positive :
1.)Completing my Internship,Project,Thesis and finally finish my studies
2.)Guitar and Cooking skills improve even more
3.)playing PES ALOT!(get to play in Barcelona FC yeah!!!)
4.)Meet many new friends like Edwin, Ricky, Kajin, Quan Wei, Soon Wei and many more...
5.)Meet up with Kelsen again in Germany.
6.)Meet up with Nikki and Eriko in Duesseldorf, Oli came down to visit me!
7.)Had my first hair cut in a salon in Germany
8.)Did alot of sports this year
9.)Spend even more money!!!
10.)Wonderful Christmas and New Year
Negative :
1.)Still very emo sometimes
2.)Still couldn't control my temper, poor anger management
3.)Lost some friends
4.)Rush things too much, screwed up some good stuff
5.)Lost my room lolx...
6.)Waste alot of time doing stupid things
7.)still as "squarish" as I am
Happy 2009!!!!
Man, I'm really in debts in terms of blog post. I mean, I had alot of things to update and I've told some of them that I would update but everytime I'm just lazy or finding excuse not to do so. Its year end and I'm suppose to do a annual round up of the year just like in the past. In addition to that this year I would do a 4 years round up in Duisburg, Germany. Oh by the way, I proudly announce that I've unofficially finished my studies. Unofficial because I still have to wait for my marks to be sent to the examination commitee and then wait for my certificates.
Ok I'll at least do a short update here. I've been seriously enjoying my last days in Germany. But first let me talk about the serious stuff first -- The presentation and Thesis. After 4 months of hard work, it's finally done. It's finally handed in to the Uni. It's finally there. The slack shirt and pants I bought for just for the presentation paid off. I didn't wear the coat but I wore my blue blazer, which made me look 70% formal and 30% casual. The presentation started early as everyone was there already, though there're people who are late. Normally in our Uni for bachelor thesis, only the people from that department will attend plus 1 or 2 professors. In my case, there were 3 Prof, 4 Dr Eng, and about 20 others. Ok there're not here just for my thesis, they have event after that. But it made me felt very tense as I've never seen so many high ranked people in a bachelor thesis presentation before. Anyway, I still did what i'm suppose to do, I was abit nervous in the beginning, but after a while I was fine. The speech went well, and the question session went well but there's one Prof who's not involve in my thesis, asked blardy deep questions, as if I'm a PhD student. But the good thing is that my supervisor spotted the difficulty of that questions and answered for me. Other than that, I tackled every other question well. I'm not sure bout the Professors, but for the colleagues in my department, they were satisfied and they praise my good presentation, including the boss. Ok he mentioned there're parts where i could have done better but in overall it was good.
After the presentation on wednesday, I was like suddenly lost of goal in life di lolx. I mean i had this feeling that i'm suddenly free from everything. On thursday n friday i was like just sleeping and playing PES at home. Good thing is that on Wednesday itself I went Bochum to visit Tharsis and he treat me a "nice" spanish meal and starbucks. Saturday I went Essen for shopping(window) and the famous annual christmas market. After that a tiring badminton session. Today I had an outing with friends in a cozy coffee bar and then a walk in Duisburg's christmas market. For Christmas this year, I will have a small Racklett party(some sort of BBQ cheese thingy) and a Siedler(a type of boardgame) session. I mean in this 4 years, I never had a good Christmas celebration except for 2005 where I was in Ireland. Throughout this 2 weeks holiday I had some plans already. I mean, I've been really enjoying my life in this few months comparing to the whole 4 years. Honestly, if its not my parents and CNY and meeting friends, I would start to think this place is more suitable for me. Yes I do admit I've been dying to come home and complaining bout it all the time. I guess all I can say is that the money factor is bothering me. I don't want to waste anymore of my parents money so lets do it quick and finish it. Of course some people ask me to try to get a job here, but I didn't take it seriously because right now my primary plan is to do masters. Depending on where my masters is, I might then consider working here if I'm studying masters in Germany. Yes I still face the language and culture barrier, but this I felt is the least problem of all.
Anywayz, nobody knows what will the future be. So let it be......
Ok I'll at least do a short update here. I've been seriously enjoying my last days in Germany. But first let me talk about the serious stuff first -- The presentation and Thesis. After 4 months of hard work, it's finally done. It's finally handed in to the Uni. It's finally there. The slack shirt and pants I bought for just for the presentation paid off. I didn't wear the coat but I wore my blue blazer, which made me look 70% formal and 30% casual. The presentation started early as everyone was there already, though there're people who are late. Normally in our Uni for bachelor thesis, only the people from that department will attend plus 1 or 2 professors. In my case, there were 3 Prof, 4 Dr Eng, and about 20 others. Ok there're not here just for my thesis, they have event after that. But it made me felt very tense as I've never seen so many high ranked people in a bachelor thesis presentation before. Anyway, I still did what i'm suppose to do, I was abit nervous in the beginning, but after a while I was fine. The speech went well, and the question session went well but there's one Prof who's not involve in my thesis, asked blardy deep questions, as if I'm a PhD student. But the good thing is that my supervisor spotted the difficulty of that questions and answered for me. Other than that, I tackled every other question well. I'm not sure bout the Professors, but for the colleagues in my department, they were satisfied and they praise my good presentation, including the boss. Ok he mentioned there're parts where i could have done better but in overall it was good.
After the presentation on wednesday, I was like suddenly lost of goal in life di lolx. I mean i had this feeling that i'm suddenly free from everything. On thursday n friday i was like just sleeping and playing PES at home. Good thing is that on Wednesday itself I went Bochum to visit Tharsis and he treat me a "nice" spanish meal and starbucks. Saturday I went Essen for shopping(window) and the famous annual christmas market. After that a tiring badminton session. Today I had an outing with friends in a cozy coffee bar and then a walk in Duisburg's christmas market. For Christmas this year, I will have a small Racklett party(some sort of BBQ cheese thingy) and a Siedler(a type of boardgame) session. I mean in this 4 years, I never had a good Christmas celebration except for 2005 where I was in Ireland. Throughout this 2 weeks holiday I had some plans already. I mean, I've been really enjoying my life in this few months comparing to the whole 4 years. Honestly, if its not my parents and CNY and meeting friends, I would start to think this place is more suitable for me. Yes I do admit I've been dying to come home and complaining bout it all the time. I guess all I can say is that the money factor is bothering me. I don't want to waste anymore of my parents money so lets do it quick and finish it. Of course some people ask me to try to get a job here, but I didn't take it seriously because right now my primary plan is to do masters. Depending on where my masters is, I might then consider working here if I'm studying masters in Germany. Yes I still face the language and culture barrier, but this I felt is the least problem of all.
Anywayz, nobody knows what will the future be. So let it be......
Man, its too long I didn't update that I don't know where to start. But I'll make sure I'll include all the important agenda from the last update till now. I don't even know where I end last time and I'm lazy to read my own post again.
So, lets start with serious stuff first. So, finally! really Finally!!! I am 2 steps away from graduating. One is to hand up the Thesis document OFFICIALLY to the examination committee, and the other is the presentation. Considering this is my first Real Important presentation, and despite it will only last for 20mins ++, I still splash some money to get a suitable dressing. So, I can forget about LV, Gucci, Armani etc...Then I can forget about Pierre Cardin, Bugatti, Hugo Boss CK, etc etc. But I don't want to go pasar or some cheap shop to get chaplak slack and pants. So, the brand that I went for is ESPRIT. I bought pair of slack pants and shirt for 80EUR. Don't question me is it worth it or not. I'll answer u now. YES. Firstly, considering that the original price are 50Euro for the shirt and 80Euro for the pants, it's definately a good deal. Secondly, most likely I'll be in Masters. Otherwise work. Either one of them, I need to have a proper formal wear. So why not spend now? This is how I MIGHT dress for the presentation. What MIGHT not occur is that I MIGHT not wear the coat, since I obviously can't dress better than the Professor right??
Yes yes, you can't see the shirt and pants. I will take pics of them when I have my tripod ok?? It's damn freaking hard to take it without a help of someone else or tripod. Unless, u just want to see the shirt and pants...not me posing with it. Well, then I'll be damn disappointed lolx.
Wuts next?? Yeah. I've booked my flight back. Sadly I don't want to announce it here. I'll let my close friends know bout it. As you might wonder why am I so low profile this time, well honestly I am not really excited to come back other than being able to celebrate CNY with my family. Anyhow, I will announce when the timing is right.
I would also like to take this opportunity to say thank you to my lovely guitar for accompanying me throughout the 1 1/2 years. Because of the guitar(and also other factor), my skills have improved and I found back my interest in MAKING music which was lost since form 4/5. Oh, it's not dead, just that I sold it to someone else. Well, I have to since its gonna be troublesome to bring home. I hope the new owner will take good care of it.
Wut else? Ahh yeah. The other day, a few of us visited a German's baking fest to welcome the month of christmas. Its a tradition to bake cookies during this month. Of course we(me, Jia Uei, Quan Wei, Adrian) also participated in baking cookies. Well, the outcome wasn't as expected but hey take note that the four of us are engineers and have NO experience in baking! But we did enjoy the process of doing it. The funny part is that we don't even listen to instructions at all. We were told to use hand to mix the ingredients, we used the mixer machine instead. In the end it turns out that we have to use extra flour coz it doesn't stick and consequently affect the texture of the product after baking. The recipe book stated clearly to make it into a dimension of 8x20x3cm, and the best thing is that we actually took a RULER to measure it lolx. The worse thingy is that we actually forgot to put SUGAR in our ingredient lolx!!!!! Imagine cookies without sugar?!!! haha!!!
This is our intended cookies :-
This is where we were told to use hand, but fark it, why do we create the mixer if we don't use it lolx!!
Honestly until this stage we were still full of hopes that we can surprise everyone...still looks good
Before baking. Hmm, still doesn't look that bad despite having too much flour around.
This is after baking. WTF? wut is that??
See what is professionally done??
This is what i called cookies...
Aha....well we do have some remaining mixture, so we decided not to waste it and we made the Jalur Gemilang Cookies.....yeah!!
Well haha...clearly baking cookies is not our thing.
So, lets start with serious stuff first. So, finally! really Finally!!! I am 2 steps away from graduating. One is to hand up the Thesis document OFFICIALLY to the examination committee, and the other is the presentation. Considering this is my first Real Important presentation, and despite it will only last for 20mins ++, I still splash some money to get a suitable dressing. So, I can forget about LV, Gucci, Armani etc...Then I can forget about Pierre Cardin, Bugatti, Hugo Boss CK, etc etc. But I don't want to go pasar or some cheap shop to get chaplak slack and pants. So, the brand that I went for is ESPRIT. I bought pair of slack pants and shirt for 80EUR. Don't question me is it worth it or not. I'll answer u now. YES. Firstly, considering that the original price are 50Euro for the shirt and 80Euro for the pants, it's definately a good deal. Secondly, most likely I'll be in Masters. Otherwise work. Either one of them, I need to have a proper formal wear. So why not spend now? This is how I MIGHT dress for the presentation. What MIGHT not occur is that I MIGHT not wear the coat, since I obviously can't dress better than the Professor right??
Yes yes, you can't see the shirt and pants. I will take pics of them when I have my tripod ok?? It's damn freaking hard to take it without a help of someone else or tripod. Unless, u just want to see the shirt and pants...not me posing with it. Well, then I'll be damn disappointed lolx.
Wuts next?? Yeah. I've booked my flight back. Sadly I don't want to announce it here. I'll let my close friends know bout it. As you might wonder why am I so low profile this time, well honestly I am not really excited to come back other than being able to celebrate CNY with my family. Anyhow, I will announce when the timing is right.
I would also like to take this opportunity to say thank you to my lovely guitar for accompanying me throughout the 1 1/2 years. Because of the guitar(and also other factor), my skills have improved and I found back my interest in MAKING music which was lost since form 4/5. Oh, it's not dead, just that I sold it to someone else. Well, I have to since its gonna be troublesome to bring home. I hope the new owner will take good care of it.
Wut else? Ahh yeah. The other day, a few of us visited a German's baking fest to welcome the month of christmas. Its a tradition to bake cookies during this month. Of course we(me, Jia Uei, Quan Wei, Adrian) also participated in baking cookies. Well, the outcome wasn't as expected but hey take note that the four of us are engineers and have NO experience in baking! But we did enjoy the process of doing it. The funny part is that we don't even listen to instructions at all. We were told to use hand to mix the ingredients, we used the mixer machine instead. In the end it turns out that we have to use extra flour coz it doesn't stick and consequently affect the texture of the product after baking. The recipe book stated clearly to make it into a dimension of 8x20x3cm, and the best thing is that we actually took a RULER to measure it lolx. The worse thingy is that we actually forgot to put SUGAR in our ingredient lolx!!!!! Imagine cookies without sugar?!!! haha!!!
This is our intended cookies :-
This is where we were told to use hand, but fark it, why do we create the mixer if we don't use it lolx!!
Honestly until this stage we were still full of hopes that we can surprise everyone...still looks good
Before baking. Hmm, still doesn't look that bad despite having too much flour around.
This is after baking. WTF? wut is that??
See what is professionally done??
This is what i called cookies...
Aha....well we do have some remaining mixture, so we decided not to waste it and we made the Jalur Gemilang Cookies.....yeah!!
Well haha...clearly baking cookies is not our thing.
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