Singapore and others!: It's Finally Begun

After 2 weeks of intense travelling, getting lost, and just learning the Singlish Culture and History, my journey has finally begun as I have successfully or somewhat finished my first week of school.

Before I talk about my first week, I have got to say that these past two weeks were amazing, but now i'm starting to get the feeling that maybe we rushed a bit too much in trying to see everything as now talking to locals, it seems as if we have seen a good portion of the main attractions in Singapore alreadyy.. -__-... damn it.. lol.....and spending tons of money within the first two weeks as well...not good.... but w/e I have no regrets, and it was all a valuable learning and bonding experience...haha....

Another thing I noticed was how I seem to have met more foreigners than singaporeans -_-......weird huh? ....prob cause of where i'm living, since i'm at UTOWN which is where most of the exchange students are accommodated kind of inconvenient in meeting locals which can be like one of the inconvenience in living at Utown. .. guess I just got to meet people through classes, clubs, and w/e thats out there...

As I have finally finished my first week of school, through much sweating, getting lost, and pushing my way to board the bus, I can say that I have somehow got all my classes I wanted after sitting in about 6 classes, I was able to add the classes I needed. Kind of trippy how I have American professors at a university in Singapore...not what I expected, but it's a completely different classroom environment being in class with local Singaporeans. For this whole week, I felt as if I didn't get the memo, or was missing out on something as even from the VERY FIRST DAY, everyone was reading, studying, and just preparing for the lecture, printing out everysingle slides and notes. Felt a bit overwhelmed and stressed just looking at the students as if I should be studying, or be keeping myself occupied with school instead of preoccupying myself with my upcoming Malaysia tripp XD. Damnn it's sooo crazy how i'm actually travelling out of the country just for a weekend, and then coming back for school with people I've literally just met 2 1/2 weeks ago. Crazy how things work out sometimes, pretty stoked.

One annoying thing I noticed about the NUS class system is how we don't sign up for tutorials when we first sign up, but still have to keep the tutorial schedule in mind when we still sign up for classes so gets a bit annoying. Also, sucks how we can't have any classes at all if the tutorial (discussion) overlaps or the final exam schedule overlaps, so the system will just completely not let you add the class you want. Still taking me a while to figure this stuff out, but starting to slowly get the hang of it.....and damnn gonna be a hassle to, buying the books, and jus borrowing the txtbooks at the lib, nvr did that before since i'm more of the type to just study at home, so we'll see how that works out as well. Maybe it'll force me to be more diligent and actually not procrastinate as much, since the time is limited on how long I can borrow the txts.

Well that's it for now, and next time I post will probably be after my Malaysia trip hopefully with some pretty sick stories and pictures...haha...peace

and some more pics...