the twilight zone: The Long Overdue Post.

I owe you guys this, but to nicole most of all........(have been unwittingly made her personal entertainer).

Life in Singapore this half year has been a roller coaster ride. Ups and downs, twists and turns...making A Levels seem like a piece of cake (one with whipped cream and an oreo base and almonds like thos one i had tonight...but much about that later on.....).

I am once again among super geniuses (an upgraded version of PE1 albeit a less fun one)...more of this later on.

I joined the Hall football team and god knows how many knocks i picked up.

Joined the hall tennis team.

In short, its been quite a semester. My roomate is an Animation student and is this totally awesome guy. He got a fridge for the room and this has been a life saver (stomach saver actually)......getting a fridge alone is enough to qualify him as an awesome guy.

The University is a purely engineering one, except for the Art School and the business school. Oh, and the art school is like really really loaded...with a specially designed building filled with animation labs filled with MACS!!!!!! (Every nerd's wet dream is to run a Mac tower comp..including mine), design studios, art studios, animation software, freaking expensive Hasselbald DSLR pro cameras, Film camera, tripods, tracks for cameras.....basically the works. Roomie says its the most well funded Art School in Asia......and looking at the equipment alone, i have to agree. And btw, the roof of the building has a lawn on it, which you can sit on and have a picnic =)

The students stay in hostels called Halls of Residences, numbered from 1 to 16. The halls are pretty decent (mine is Hall 9 and my room faces a forest, which kinda acts as a natural air conditioner at night) but the best halls have got to be Halls 3 &16 the newest halls, built like resorts......with resort rental rates too.

Sports is pretty big here. Extremely competitive. Each year in December, the halls have kinda like a mini olympic thing and it is pretty darn competitive. Take football for instance. We had a friendly game with Hall 12 about 3 weeks back and the minute i got the ball and started my run on the wings, 2 guys came sliding in for a tackle....not your half hearted unskilled rag a tag kind of tackle, i'm talking about the real thing. The result? A busted ankle which was sore for 3 days. Its so rough that the guys thought i was mad to play without shin guards...i agree with them.

And then you have nutters who go running at 12 midnight like what i'm going to do after i write this post.........

And the ones who play futsal in the dark after 12......

And the ones who frequent the 24/7 shop on campus for chocs and root beer......

Exams ended yesterday, will be home on friday morning, might leave again in 10 days for the Games.

Celebrated yesterday with loads if pizza and then again today in Orchard Road. Food other than the one you get in NTU is awesome. We have about 5 or 6 canteens and cafe's on campus, of them, only 3 are really good, and all happen to be very far away from my hall. When i return i have to pig out at the following places:

1) Home and on mom's cooking
2) Chilis
3) any pizza place except Pizza Hut and Shakeys
4) The Ship
5) all my fave food places...to lazy to list.

Righto, am a man of few words and will let the pics do the talking: