went for gh's birthday celebrations last night! tracy made macoroni + baked chicken while i cooked my potato dish and my fried vege with tanghoon which tasted quite okie i guess haha. i realised i only cook for potlucks and stuff but i hardly cook for myself nowadays since the corridor kitchen is always in a mess and totally tired to cook inside there other than my maggie mee which i have to wash the pot for another corridor mate before i use it so you get the picture. had some fun yesterday night! guess what! we made our own mahjong tiles out of IKEA brown paper and we drew all 148 tiles! and it was quite funny because it was so hard to hold the tiles and somehow it became like a memory game haha. was quite fun and entertaining but sadly we have to rush off to catch the bus =( just some pictures from last night. credits to tracy =)
the amt of food that we have!
mahjong 'tiles'!
went for clubbing first time on wednesday and all i can say is i am lousy at it. even till saturday i am still recovering from my muscle aches and they are going tonight again! didn't want to go on wed but it was claire's birthday and so i agreed to go since she took great care of me during the kiruna trip. clubbing is just so not for me. feels so shiok in the beginning to dance hard but later it becomes tiring after 2 hours even with beer along the way. the most guilty thing i did was to unknowingly took a bit of nicotine. yes nicotine. not really pills but its called snooze i think which you hide it under your lips in front of your gums for 5 minutes. suppose to get you high but it has totally no effect on me. (nicotine tolerant i guess luckily) yet i feel so guilty for doing that. guess no more clubbing for me other than going to pubs but definitely not nations party.
and at the same time i am feeling quite sick and tired of drinking here. it seems like a must to drink here to socialise but the singaporeans here or rather the smu pple really drinks a lot. every dinner we meet up for there will definitely be some drinks around. its here i learn how to really take whiskey vodka and hard liquors (i think its called purge). i promise to stop drinking after going back to singapore. maybe just with friends and working to test a bit of wine but not beers and liquors every few days like here. one thing lucky for me is that i am quite alcohol tolerant and hence i have never gotten drunk before. the only time i nearly got drunk was after half a bottle of wine, 1 glass of whiskey, 1 glass of purge and yes i think there's 1 to 2 shot of vodka too which is called the mixing of drinks. i managed to make it back to my room (luckily its next corridor), bathe and sleep. totally disgusted with drinking.
think after this post everyone will change their perception of me man. clubbing and drinking and nicotine from me! only 1 thing i don't do its that i don't smoke though yes some of them smoke. should perhaps hang out less with the smu people but sadly if i don't do that i will have no one to go out with and stuff. my clique meets up so not often like perhaps once every 2 weeks. we were joking that i drink only pepsi with my more comfortable clique while i drink alcohol with the rest of the bunch of singaporeans (which is so true). at least my corridor mates only ask me to go for beer which is still okie and they don't really club and do hard psychoing to get you to join them. i need to expand out of my circle somehow but its kind of too late though. i need to control myself for the rest of the 3 months before heading back and banning myself from such stuff. i shall just be the nice and nerdy me instead of forcing myself to become part of them who parties and drinks a lot.
and my second part of my timetable is totally screwed up! the organometallic timetable is totally crap! everyday lesson. its either 4 hours lecture from 8 to 12 or lab from 8 to 5pm (i think total more than 10 times). totally stunned. hope i can survive with those masters / phd student since its a master level course. trying to plan trips for my easter break and my end of may trip before my exams and after that i am going travelling with tracy they all! woohoo! meanwhile back to my sad life for now to try and finish yet another egypt paper and my econs paper. needs to really stay more positive. take care people!
(p.s. and i shall try and update my blog layout when i get off my work since i realised its been ages since i used this layout) and a short video clip from the snow mobile and ice hockey (the winning penalty):
