Hello from Singapore!
I’m back for CNY :)
It’s been really nice back home. I never expected to miss home so much because I’ve always wanted to live overseas. But this time round, it was different. And I feel so happy to be with my family and being able to meet up with my girlfriends, and Yong Kang of course :) The weather has been perfect too! If only it’ll stay like this forever!
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
Packing woes
So my luggage is 99% full. And I haven’t even put any of my clothes in!!!!
It’s like…full of gifts.
It’s like…full of gifts.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Why oh why
Today, I slept from 1.30pm-7.30pm after class and lunch.
I never ever sleep during the day unless…
I am sick.
And I am sick twice in a month!!!!!!
Normally, 29 deg C in my room = being in a 찜질방 but today, I felt cold.
So irritated. Now I don’t even have the strength to do much :(
I never ever sleep during the day unless…
I am sick.
And I am sick twice in a month!!!!!!
Normally, 29 deg C in my room = being in a 찜질방 but today, I felt cold.
So irritated. Now I don’t even have the strength to do much :(
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
TWG Korea
More than 6 months later, I’m still stuck in a dilemma. Whether to continue blogging on a daily basis and whether to make my blog more public, leave it as it is or to make it private. Some things never change.
But reading others’ blogs on Korea made me miss the old days of what my blog used to be and what it could do for others too.
Anyway, my 4 year old Macbook died on 31 Dec 2013 but was resurrected on 6 Jan 2014 thanks to James. Don’t ask me how I could have just sat aside and do nothing until my laptop refused to start up with just 25MB of free space left -.- Alright, my photos took up the most space…photos that have been sitting in folders waiting for me to edit them and upload them and blog about them.
I’ve since cleared enough space so that the total count as of now is 78GB.
Which means I should start blogging again regularly. But the thing is that for days when I don’t do much, there are not many pictures or exciting things to share, so they’re not quite worth me blogging because I’m sure you don’t want to read about my boring life. But for days when I do exciting stuff like taking a short trip out of Seoul, etc, I take soooooo many pictures that it’s a horror just thinking about the photos and things I want to share on my blog and then my plans to blog about them never materialise. And if I have a few consecutive exciting days, I accumulate a backlog that I don’t want to think about or sit in my room just clearing them when I should be out.
When will I ever make up my mind about what I want to do with you, dear blog??????????
Anyway, today was the start of the 2nd half of my winter semester and I’m just taking Emerging Markets: BRICs but I wish Marketing Research was held for 4 weeks instead 2. I had a great group and the class was…slack, which I want, after slogging it out for the last semester.
Some people returned to school for the 2nd half. Some of them…whom I have issues with, which perhaps, I’ll talk about in due time. Or maybe not, since I don’t want to be sued for defamation by anyone or any institution. But the only thing I really have to say to them is: they have no one to blame but themselves. And yes, rules are meant to be broken. BUT NOT ALL. There are certain rules that can’t be broken. Like NO CHEATING, in whatever form, in the relationship/friendship world or the academia world, etc. I mean getting a good job because of connections, to some people, may be deemed as “cheating” but it isn’t a morally wrong thing to do. But then, whether cheating is defined as morally wrong or acceptable is viewed differently by different individuals. I said I’ll talk about this in due time right? But you see, everything comes out. And everything has come out of my mouth for the past few weeks, so much so that if someone asks me how my MBA program is here, I have to pause for awhile, think about what to say and exercise self-restraint before replying them because some other stuff might come out from my mouth instead. What’s done has been done, you can never reverse the clock and go back in time. It’s how we move on from here. But how???
Ok, tomorrow, I hope that I’ll gain closure from this incident. It’s been on my mind for almost a month and I’m so sick of it that I don’t want to talk about it anymore. But I know that when I’m back in Singapore at the end of the month and I meet my friends to catch up on life, it’ll all come out again. ARGH. Self-control, Clara. Move on!!!
On a more positive note, I’ve exciting news to share: I’m going to Shanghai in March for 3 days!!!
It’s both a good and bad news. The good is that it’s the first time I’m representing my school (and maybe Korea) in a business competition held overseas. The bad is that my winter vacation will kinda disappear and I have to really prepare for this! But first of all, I need to settle the flight and hotel reservations first before the competition organisers can confirm our advancement into the Regional Finals. And I think we have to work on our team dynamics too…it’s Shibei and I, together with 2 Korean seniors who are doing their PHds here. Girl power!
Where was I? Right, I was talking about BRICs. After class, I had lunch with Hyunjin, Inkyung unni and Andy before going to Cheongdamdong with Hyunjin for….
TWG!!!!!
It’s my favourite tea salon in Singapore and just last week, I was commenting to my Marketing Research group that I really miss TWG and I showed pics of the salons in Singapore to them. Then, during the weekend when I rotted in my room, I googled TWG Korea and lo and behold, there’s one in Seoul now!!! Hyunjin said that it only opened recently so I guess I can’t be blamed for not knowing about this earlier right?
So yup, we went there for tea :) And it’s actually diagonally across Ugg Boots’ flagship store! Why didn’t I see it when I went to Uggs 1 month ago????
I felt like I was home after stepping into the salon. Even the music was the same.
I didn’t know that it was only 2.30pm when we placed our order and the waiter didn’t allow us to order the afternoon tea set (from 3-6pm) initially but he relented after awhile.
***ok, I’ll TRY to edit this post with pics ASAP!
But reading others’ blogs on Korea made me miss the old days of what my blog used to be and what it could do for others too.
Anyway, my 4 year old Macbook died on 31 Dec 2013 but was resurrected on 6 Jan 2014 thanks to James. Don’t ask me how I could have just sat aside and do nothing until my laptop refused to start up with just 25MB of free space left -.- Alright, my photos took up the most space…photos that have been sitting in folders waiting for me to edit them and upload them and blog about them.
I’ve since cleared enough space so that the total count as of now is 78GB.
Which means I should start blogging again regularly. But the thing is that for days when I don’t do much, there are not many pictures or exciting things to share, so they’re not quite worth me blogging because I’m sure you don’t want to read about my boring life. But for days when I do exciting stuff like taking a short trip out of Seoul, etc, I take soooooo many pictures that it’s a horror just thinking about the photos and things I want to share on my blog and then my plans to blog about them never materialise. And if I have a few consecutive exciting days, I accumulate a backlog that I don’t want to think about or sit in my room just clearing them when I should be out.
When will I ever make up my mind about what I want to do with you, dear blog??????????
Anyway, today was the start of the 2nd half of my winter semester and I’m just taking Emerging Markets: BRICs but I wish Marketing Research was held for 4 weeks instead 2. I had a great group and the class was…slack, which I want, after slogging it out for the last semester.
Some people returned to school for the 2nd half. Some of them…whom I have issues with, which perhaps, I’ll talk about in due time. Or maybe not, since I don’t want to be sued for defamation by anyone or any institution. But the only thing I really have to say to them is: they have no one to blame but themselves. And yes, rules are meant to be broken. BUT NOT ALL. There are certain rules that can’t be broken. Like NO CHEATING, in whatever form, in the relationship/friendship world or the academia world, etc. I mean getting a good job because of connections, to some people, may be deemed as “cheating” but it isn’t a morally wrong thing to do. But then, whether cheating is defined as morally wrong or acceptable is viewed differently by different individuals. I said I’ll talk about this in due time right? But you see, everything comes out. And everything has come out of my mouth for the past few weeks, so much so that if someone asks me how my MBA program is here, I have to pause for awhile, think about what to say and exercise self-restraint before replying them because some other stuff might come out from my mouth instead. What’s done has been done, you can never reverse the clock and go back in time. It’s how we move on from here. But how???
Ok, tomorrow, I hope that I’ll gain closure from this incident. It’s been on my mind for almost a month and I’m so sick of it that I don’t want to talk about it anymore. But I know that when I’m back in Singapore at the end of the month and I meet my friends to catch up on life, it’ll all come out again. ARGH. Self-control, Clara. Move on!!!
On a more positive note, I’ve exciting news to share: I’m going to Shanghai in March for 3 days!!!
It’s both a good and bad news. The good is that it’s the first time I’m representing my school (and maybe Korea) in a business competition held overseas. The bad is that my winter vacation will kinda disappear and I have to really prepare for this! But first of all, I need to settle the flight and hotel reservations first before the competition organisers can confirm our advancement into the Regional Finals. And I think we have to work on our team dynamics too…it’s Shibei and I, together with 2 Korean seniors who are doing their PHds here. Girl power!
Where was I? Right, I was talking about BRICs. After class, I had lunch with Hyunjin, Inkyung unni and Andy before going to Cheongdamdong with Hyunjin for….
TWG!!!!!
It’s my favourite tea salon in Singapore and just last week, I was commenting to my Marketing Research group that I really miss TWG and I showed pics of the salons in Singapore to them. Then, during the weekend when I rotted in my room, I googled TWG Korea and lo and behold, there’s one in Seoul now!!! Hyunjin said that it only opened recently so I guess I can’t be blamed for not knowing about this earlier right?
So yup, we went there for tea :) And it’s actually diagonally across Ugg Boots’ flagship store! Why didn’t I see it when I went to Uggs 1 month ago????
I felt like I was home after stepping into the salon. Even the music was the same.
I didn’t know that it was only 2.30pm when we placed our order and the waiter didn’t allow us to order the afternoon tea set (from 3-6pm) initially but he relented after awhile.
***ok, I’ll TRY to edit this post with pics ASAP!
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Hair disaster.
OMG Major hair disaster. Probably the worst visit to a hair salon ever :(
I will pay more for Juno Hair the next time.
For now, I can only hope that it'll be better after I wash my hair in 2 days' time.
CRAP.
And my router isn't working either so I have to sit in the common room to use the internet.
I need my laptop to work again soon too because I can't remember my SK global house housing account password which is saved in my laptop and now I can't apply for spring semester extension.
I really wonder how this year will turn out since these things are already happening to me at the start ㅠㅜ
On a side note, went to Lotte World yesterday!
I will pay more for Juno Hair the next time.
For now, I can only hope that it'll be better after I wash my hair in 2 days' time.
CRAP.
And my router isn't working either so I have to sit in the common room to use the internet.
I need my laptop to work again soon too because I can't remember my SK global house housing account password which is saved in my laptop and now I can't apply for spring semester extension.
I really wonder how this year will turn out since these things are already happening to me at the start ㅠㅜ
On a side note, went to Lotte World yesterday!
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Hello 2014!
Happy new year! It's a brand new year, a brand new start. A time for resolutions to be made.
But then, I never really follow them so I shan't make many this year. And I shan't expect too much too. But one thing's for sure though, is that I'll give my best!
Back in 2011, my countdown for 2012 was really special. I was staying at Hyatt Hotel in Taipei, right beside Taipei 101 and I stood outside the hotel in my sleepwear with my cousin and watched the fireworks display. 2012 turned out to be my best year in a long time: graduating with second upper class (a feat for me considering how my CAP was always under 4.00), getting the Korean Government scholarship and coming back to Korea and meeting someone very special here.
In 2012, my countdown for 2013 was quite special too because I spent the night at Busan Nat. Uni area with the special one, on an eating spree. But 2013 proved to be a very trying year for me. I was stressed because of many things and one of the saddest things was not blogging here on a daily basis anymore. I am still undecided on what to do and I might consider moving back to Wordpress where I can lock particular entries so that I don't have to worry so much about how some people are judging me by what I do and buy. No no, I'm not talking about a stalker. I don't have a stalker haha. But they are people whom I know personally, and people with whom I don't want to share my life in Korea with. Give me a break, please! Must you go report whatever I do to my parents and judge me???????
I guess the recent incident on FB was my fault but does that mean that I can't even say what I want, within reasonable limits? Those who know me know that I talk a lot and I need to talk. Oh wells.
And then there was the parental objection to my relationship but we'll see about this...only time will tell too and things are so uncertain now too. This year will be a year of uncertainties, just like 2012, because I need to decide what I am going to do after I graduate. AND my relationship wasn't a stable one in 2013.
In 2013, I also moved up to Seoul and entered Yonsei to do my Global MBA. I'm doing well in school now which is just so weird. People think I'm the top student in class and all which is also very weird. I've been at the bottom of my schools (secondary school and junior college) and an average student in NUS that seeing my scores now is like a dream. My lowest grade is 1 A-; I have 1 A-, 4 As and 4 A+s and my GPA is 4.13/4.3 for the 9 classes I took in Fall. Yeah, 9 classes. I had only 5 modules every semester in NUS and here I took a total of 9 classes + 1 Korean class for my Fall semester. That's why I was so tired during the last half of the year that all plans to resume blogging on a regular basis was scrapped. It's been a long while since I took on any form of responsibility in school but I am the treasurer for my class committee and I might be the treasurer for the Yonsei MBA student committee this year too. Maybe. I actually won our internal business case competition with my team and applied for the Hult Prize competition too, no idea whether we'd even get in but the thing is that I applied for it, when I didn't even do much in uni. And I'm liking the new me now. Actually, this was the old me last time but I faded and now, the old me is returning and I'm feeling powerful^^
And then I had to deal with cheating and other moral dilemma issues. So many things happened in 2013 and I think my heart broke a few times for many different reasons. I was so stressed too. I think it was a year of trial. God was testing me.
So my countdown for 2014 was the simplest in a long while. I didn't do anything special. I celebrated by taking a shower after packing and cleaning up my room. Yeah, washed away the sins from the previous year. And I'm now doing my laundry. Oh yeah and just before midnight, my 3 yr old Macbook Pro went into coma. The disk was full and I tried to delete files but it didn't even allow me to do so!!! I did a forced shut down and now, it gives me a white screen with my cursor after starting up :( Thank goodness I have my Air here but it doesn't have a port for my internet cable and I'm now sucking data off my data plan :(
But the special one cheered me up when he Skyped me with a cake to virtually celebrate the new year with me^^
Ok, the reason why I talked about my countdown for previous years is because I tried to determine if there's a correlation between how I started the new year off and how the year turned out. I should stop overthinking and overanalysing things.
So here are my resolutions for the new year:
1. Balanced lifestyle- regular exercise and healthy diet. I'll be a quarter-century old in 26 days' time!
2. Be the best student because this is my last year as a student i.e. make the most of my student life
3. Stop spending so much money
4. Be nicer and less mean to some people
When I was younger, there was a year when my resolution was not to say the word "stupid" to my brother but I promptly said it more than 5 times on 1 Jan. Oh wells. Maybe I should go out later and walk out to buy mandarin oranges and strawberries. Feeling a little miserable and sad and lonely in my room now.
But then, I never really follow them so I shan't make many this year. And I shan't expect too much too. But one thing's for sure though, is that I'll give my best!
Back in 2011, my countdown for 2012 was really special. I was staying at Hyatt Hotel in Taipei, right beside Taipei 101 and I stood outside the hotel in my sleepwear with my cousin and watched the fireworks display. 2012 turned out to be my best year in a long time: graduating with second upper class (a feat for me considering how my CAP was always under 4.00), getting the Korean Government scholarship and coming back to Korea and meeting someone very special here.
In 2012, my countdown for 2013 was quite special too because I spent the night at Busan Nat. Uni area with the special one, on an eating spree. But 2013 proved to be a very trying year for me. I was stressed because of many things and one of the saddest things was not blogging here on a daily basis anymore. I am still undecided on what to do and I might consider moving back to Wordpress where I can lock particular entries so that I don't have to worry so much about how some people are judging me by what I do and buy. No no, I'm not talking about a stalker. I don't have a stalker haha. But they are people whom I know personally, and people with whom I don't want to share my life in Korea with. Give me a break, please! Must you go report whatever I do to my parents and judge me???????
I guess the recent incident on FB was my fault but does that mean that I can't even say what I want, within reasonable limits? Those who know me know that I talk a lot and I need to talk. Oh wells.
And then there was the parental objection to my relationship but we'll see about this...only time will tell too and things are so uncertain now too. This year will be a year of uncertainties, just like 2012, because I need to decide what I am going to do after I graduate. AND my relationship wasn't a stable one in 2013.
In 2013, I also moved up to Seoul and entered Yonsei to do my Global MBA. I'm doing well in school now which is just so weird. People think I'm the top student in class and all which is also very weird. I've been at the bottom of my schools (secondary school and junior college) and an average student in NUS that seeing my scores now is like a dream. My lowest grade is 1 A-; I have 1 A-, 4 As and 4 A+s and my GPA is 4.13/4.3 for the 9 classes I took in Fall. Yeah, 9 classes. I had only 5 modules every semester in NUS and here I took a total of 9 classes + 1 Korean class for my Fall semester. That's why I was so tired during the last half of the year that all plans to resume blogging on a regular basis was scrapped. It's been a long while since I took on any form of responsibility in school but I am the treasurer for my class committee and I might be the treasurer for the Yonsei MBA student committee this year too. Maybe. I actually won our internal business case competition with my team and applied for the Hult Prize competition too, no idea whether we'd even get in but the thing is that I applied for it, when I didn't even do much in uni. And I'm liking the new me now. Actually, this was the old me last time but I faded and now, the old me is returning and I'm feeling powerful^^
And then I had to deal with cheating and other moral dilemma issues. So many things happened in 2013 and I think my heart broke a few times for many different reasons. I was so stressed too. I think it was a year of trial. God was testing me.
So my countdown for 2014 was the simplest in a long while. I didn't do anything special. I celebrated by taking a shower after packing and cleaning up my room. Yeah, washed away the sins from the previous year. And I'm now doing my laundry. Oh yeah and just before midnight, my 3 yr old Macbook Pro went into coma. The disk was full and I tried to delete files but it didn't even allow me to do so!!! I did a forced shut down and now, it gives me a white screen with my cursor after starting up :( Thank goodness I have my Air here but it doesn't have a port for my internet cable and I'm now sucking data off my data plan :(
But the special one cheered me up when he Skyped me with a cake to virtually celebrate the new year with me^^
Ok, the reason why I talked about my countdown for previous years is because I tried to determine if there's a correlation between how I started the new year off and how the year turned out. I should stop overthinking and overanalysing things.
So here are my resolutions for the new year:
1. Balanced lifestyle- regular exercise and healthy diet. I'll be a quarter-century old in 26 days' time!
2. Be the best student because this is my last year as a student i.e. make the most of my student life
3. Stop spending so much money
4. Be nicer and less mean to some people
When I was younger, there was a year when my resolution was not to say the word "stupid" to my brother but I promptly said it more than 5 times on 1 Jan. Oh wells. Maybe I should go out later and walk out to buy mandarin oranges and strawberries. Feeling a little miserable and sad and lonely in my room now.
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