Geography Field Trip

went on a "field trip" for our project for GE1101E and we went around to the various embassies on our target list for some information.

Turns out that overall, asking about embassies is a very sensitive topic as warned by Dr Pow, and we had a large mixture of reactions to our presence there and attempting to find out more information.

From the friendly to the not so friendly, it was an eyeopener experience nonetheless.

Looking forward to seeing how we can get the project done in time!

on a sidenote, teh tarik ice cream at island creamery is SHIOK! thx yokes!!
and jos and neha for the company yesterday.

super tired out.. still want to snooze some more, but my books are all staring at me and nagging away. *studies*

apologies..

to yoke khee and jocelyn for pang seh-ing the meeting on thurs (for lecture) and friday (after 4pm) cuz i didn't feel well enough to drag this sorry behind to school.

even though it was made up (sort of) online, it still isn't the same as meeting up. we really need to get the project going! i'll make it up by working extra hard on the research! and doing up more notes for the 2nd half of the term.

erps! mid-sem break is almost upon us! eeeks!

新学期！

新学期でしょう！
今学期、私はもう一回六moduleを勉強します。六moduleは大変です、でも全部は私はとても好きなmoduleですから、大丈夫と思います。

私のSEPのapplicationはだめです。経済departmentはsupportしません。＝（
来週の水曜日、私はSEP facilitatorで会います。SEPへ行きたい！

今、私は日本語三を勉強しますから、blog post はもっと日本語を書けって、練習します。

でも、私の日本語はまだまだ上手から、たくさんmistakeがあります。みんな、すみません。

よろしくお願いします

2008

2007 is over and 2008 is here. so many things have happened in 2007, and I'm grateful for everything that has happened over the past year.
Being able to serve in the ex-co of nusws has been a great learning experience. playing for both concerts was a really nice feeling, even though i wanted to quit halfway through the year, and didn't really want to go to italy for fear on a drain on financial resources (which it was actually so i'm not intending to go for any trips that are not saved for by myself) elections wise wasn't that nice as things didn't go as i expected and i made quite an odd decision really.
its 2008 now and i dont know if i'm going to continue to play for planet earth even though i've practiced for it. supposed to submit the signup form for the concert the week after. really hesistant to spend that bit less time with family in exchange for the band. time wise, its not a problem, but sometimes, that tug to spend time for family is there rather than to spend time out with friends, even though they are really fantastic company like zijun, xinhui, khee nguen, ian, huili, ruixiang, teng wen, jin xun, song wee, joel, kee jun, tze ting, yoke khee, fairoz, edna, xiuyu, huikoon, cheng huat, wan ting, jasmine, sharon, fairoz, zheguang, cedric (both of you), and everyone else and of course, mr leonard tan for being so nice all the time and trying so hard to bring us all to the next level of music.
school wise, 2007 has been a year of ups and downs. i broke down in yr1sem2 and flunked my studies. y2sem1 was ok given 6 modules and i really enjoyed learning all my subjects even if i didn't do that well for some. great friends around, like ben, stephanie, cheryl, vengky.. even though i drifted away from some, i became closer with some others. makes me feel odd sometimes to see people that i was really close with in yr1sem1 drift so far away. missing the seniors that have graduated like charlene and i'm so going to miss qin yan the upcoming semester. i always looked forward to japanese classes even though we were next to each other in class to meet up for that lunch session and we could just talk nonsense. haha..
family wise, my family has stabilised over the past year. i still miss you, dad. things are a lot better now and will continue to do so. as they say, time heals all wounds? i'll find more time to go and visit now that its one module less (i hope) for this semester.
relationships wise, all in due time. Its in your hands my Lord. I'm sure you have it all mapped out for me and I'll follow you, with your words in my heart.

resolutions for the year, firstly, to lose some more weight. haha.. make more friends and strive for better grades. hopefully SEP goes through and I'll get to go around the world sightseeing. Looking around for tuition jobs still, and with luck it can be found. pay off my laptop loan by this year and get a new laptop next year along with a SLR. my clarinet wise.. i might sell off or just give it to jinxun or ruixiang should i stop playing. who knows?

everyone else, happy new year!!

i'm supposed to be studying... but...... i made this up!
S is for super
T is for tiring
U is for unending
D is for dying
Y is for yearnings to be free!

the question that haunts me

ok.. i couldn't do this question in the exam and it has been haunting me for the past 2 days. so i'm posting it here in the hope that it will stop haunting me. question has been paraphrased.

Take a Robinson Crusoe economy. He has to decide on how much to produce and how much to demand. his production function is x = sqrt(l) and he has only one unit of time, 1. his leisure is denoted as n, and his work is denoted as l. his utility function is u(x,n) = ln(17x) + ln(n).

solve for the competitive equilibrium.

ok.. its out and i shall hope that it stops haunting me.

exams

ok.. 2/6 are over, 2 more tmr and what am i doing here? just sian of studying already.
someone pls fastforward time till my holidays so that i can be free?

ok. just plain complaining here. -shuts up-

Famine in Niger

This is from yoke's blog and the clip just makes me feel nauseated as an economics major. How can such things be happening in this world that we live in? How can we substantiate the food that we are eating even, when such things are happening? We aren't talking about ten or twenty years ago, this is just -two-, i must emphasize, -two-, years ago.

So much for welfare economics, so much for public finance, so much for developmental economics, so much for economic theory, when they can't even -see- such atrocities happening. Its in the news, it may be just one side of the story, there's UN presence there, there's obvious monitoring from IMF and World Bank, there's international aid presence there, so why the heck are they ignoring the basic principle that people should sell off excess only after their basic needs are met?

isn't the right to food and drink for survival part of the basic rights of all human kinds as stated in the Genova convention? so is all that just plain talk and all fluff?

anyway, the video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw9OARpp-KI
just watch and form your own opinion.

mine: disgusted

TR2201 - Crossroads Corporate Video

Our corporate video for module TR2201, Entrepreneurial Marketing for Technopreneurship Minor. Too bad, I'm not in it as I'm 不上镜！=P

Comments anyone?

Mayday Mugging!

this was what we had... from vivocity! yay! can queue there next time rather than cityhall. its smaller, but the queues are soooo much shorter! thx nick!

27/04/07 - sci lib

ok.. the spread for today is here!



we have two satisfied customers from spinelli's!

spinelli's 1 for 1 offer! and all the other food for 4 of us. haha

studying in sci lib

when you have food in abundence...

and drinks...

you get a very happy pk!

and then after eating...

a very satisfied pk resting up for studying =)

and here's an accurate portrayal of how much food we really had. =x

and of course, we had 2 not just one happy person. haha

note: no offence is meant at all in this post.