In a blink of an eye, I'm back in NTU, starting a new semester ahead.
Things have been such a blur since I returned from BKK. Left on another mini trip to Genting a few weeks after, love traveling with the parents. Brought our baby piano there and got some awesome polaroids! The food was still as awesome, but the unique thing about heading up to Genting this time of the year is the durian festival! Nobody can resist a durian buffet.
Also, we stayed at the Highland Hotel this time around, and had a room with a beautiful sight overlooking the cable cars. Lovely to wake up to the misty mountains! Didn't hit any of the theme parks this time, so this freed up more time for the casino, food, and photo-taking. The best meal of this trip was in New Orleans restaurant, located deep in the heart of the casino i.e. Only 21 and above. It was a western cuisine, but the best part was that it was located in an outdoor-sort-of coffee house, and what I presumed were large glass panes were in fact non-existent. It was an open air concept, overlooking the theme park. Ideal as well because the restaurant serves up grilled/barbequed meats, and my clothes didn't smell as bad as it would if it were to be in an enclosed area.
On our last day, we headed down to KL Damansara for a shopping trip, didn't get much stuff but got lost plenty of times due to all the clonfusing North Wing, South Wing. That very shopping mall houses a really good peranakan eatery, that serves up one of the best char kway teow & tom yum fried rice! A good thing we traveled by plane this time, so it was a mere 45-minute flight home instead of the usual 6-hour drive.
Anyways, the first week of school has just begun, hardly considered a first week. I managed to get a 4-day week after all, anything to save even one day from having to travel down. Its a real pain, and it takes about 2 hours both ways. An awful waste of time, but nothing can be helped when there's so limited hall spaces. Plus, the new halls aren't gonna be up until 2014, I would have been long gone by then.
Taking a few interesting modules this sem, forensic science is one of them. Been waiting ages to take this module and the first lecture lived up to my expectations. That is until the boring bit comes along, which is all the sciency parts. :[
And I've finally plucked up the courage to do a language module, Spanish! Inspired by my semester in TCU, I decided to relive that little bit of exchange through this mod. A good thing this is in alphabets, I nearly died learning Japanese because it was characters!
The third mod is something which I applied for during my semester in TCU, not expecting to get it due to my lacking in journalism background, is SOJOURN. It will be based in Sabah this year, and the theme: conservation. The itinerary looks awesome, but I still draw a blank on my story ideas. Sure, I want to cover certain aspects of conservation, but that's just going to be plain boring to read. This is why I am not in the journalism field, but the whole idea of conservation in Sabah just drew me in so strongly.
As a result of my decision to take SOJOURN, I am now registered under COM221, the most talked about module of last year. I've heard stories but it is not until you are seated in the first three rows of LFLT as a registered student that you question your sanity. Nevertheless, I found the lecture to be thought-proving, stimulating even. It is going to be my most interesting module yet, and it certainly lived up to its reputation. I do believe there is much to gain from this module, simply because of the teaching style and the degree of challenge it presents.
As much as I would love to write about my 3-week trip to NY and Orlando, I have yet to finish editing 1/3 of the pictures. Its so time-consuming, and I'll probably just postpone it till the next holiday. Another semester begins, and this is going to be the most diverse semester of them all. Previously, I've concentrated mostly on modules within my concentration, and the only divergence are my GERPEs, which I suppose are their main functions. No psychology modules this semester because it clashes with everything else! :(
Long weekend ahead! Oh how I love public holidays.
