home for good this time?

4 days since i've touched down in singapore, but to me, it seems like it was only yesterday that i moved out of my apartment in aalborg... and according to chami when he met with the janitor, he managed to persuade him to paint only the kitchen instead of the entire apartment, hopefully that will translate into more money which would be refunded soon (pls pls... that sum of money will go a long way to ensure my survival, at least until i find myself a job)...

i miss my apartment! my beers in my 2nd-hand fridge! my noisy little bed! my messy room! my clean clean toilet which i had spent hours polishing the tiles! my nice Hungarian neighbours! chami! and least of all, the fabulously-cold-and-no-sweating-when-i-finished-my-bath weather!!

did nothing much these days in singapore except to eat, met up with some friends, and complaining how freaking warm the weather was... arrggghhh... will probably slack further over the next 3 days, before i pack my ass off to taiwan... got this feeling that some people feel that i am crazy to be going for a trip instead of getting a job =( it's true, but i figured out that with the job market in the dumps these days, i won't get any job interviews anyway, so i might as well go over to taiwan and take a well-deserved break before i dive into the job-search process full time... nah, that's just an excuse!

ps: london heathrow terminal 3 is a joke...
pps: A380 is even worse...

it's a day of clearing and cleaning... my little cave...

it's amazing how much stuff we've managed to squeeze into our little apartment over the last 9 months... i remembered mentioning in an earlier entry that my apartment resembled a little cave, and how empty the whole place was... but earlier in the day, tina came over with some friends and carted away a table, lots of utensils and chaminda's bed... yet, the place still seems so congested... ha~ only one more day before we have to thoroughly clear out every single piece of furniture... my my, think i am starting to realize how close i am to leaving denmark, and how much i am going to miss my little cave...

1 can of 330ml beer = 120 calories...

had not been sleeping well recently, maybe it's the excitment that's keeping me awake... the thought of going home after 2 years seems so scary, not knowing what is awaiting me ahead... coupled this with the fact that singapore just went into a technical recession made me feel more uneasy... ha~ why did i leave singapore in 2006 when the economy was booming and jobs plentiful? =p

another reason which could cause my sleeplessness might be alcohol... just counted, ever since my project defense day on the 30th sept, i have had some forms of alcohol every night... whoa, that makes it 10 nights in a row... must be a personal best of mine... and there is yet another mega party tonight **said to be the best of the year!** who knows how much i will have to drink? must keep a lookout on the calories!!! 1 can of 330ml beer = 120 calories...

countdown countdown =)

wahahhahaha!!! i am coming home in less than a week!!!

no more norway...

sigh, even my hopes of going to norway have been dashed...

return ferry tickets - >100 pounds (for whatever reasons, the price was tripled as compared to a month ago!!!!)
4-5 nights accommodation - est. 120-160 euros (cos it's norway)
travel expenses in norway - est. 80 euros
grand total - est. 350 euros...

the price is kinda steep for just a 5-day trip huh?

travel or not?

another 10++ days before i get onto the plane to london... been going to the university still despite me officially ending my student status cos of the interaction with friends... and talking about friends, there isn't too many of them around now... abresh left, fabio is always staying at home to work, and that leaves with me with only chami and the next batch of juniors...

what should i do over the next few days? i wanna travel to norway, but i cant imagine myself sitting alone in a ferry for 8 hours straight... ha~ i hate the fact that denmark is so isolated from i.e. the fact it's located in the north means that many parts of europe are not that accessible... it's either that or one is willing to pay some serious money just to travel out of denmark... for example, if i were still in hamburg germany, going to budapest (hungary) means taking a 1.5-hour train to bremen followed by a short flight to hungary. this will probably cost me 16euros for the train + another 30-50 euros for the ryanair flight... going to hungary from aalborg = 50 euros for one-way train to copenhagen followed by 2200DKK (300 euros) for the return flight to hungary... arghhh...

so the remaining "cheaper" option will be to travel up north instead... but in case one didnt know it, in europe, the higher north for you are, the more expensive things will become... ha~ going for a 5-day trip to norway will probably set one back by 1200DKK (170 euros) for accommodation alone... sigh, what should i do? stay at home and enjoy my remaining days slacking? or get out there and finish spending all my savings? sigh, how i wish there is another singaporean here in aalborg... if only clare is here right now, we could have been travelling to somewhere now... hahaha~

let me complain..

well, i've finally finished my presentation, and with that, signals the end of my studies in Europe... however, there was simply no joy on my part...=(

didnt do as well as i've hoped. it's true when the professor commented that we didnt go into detail, or rather, didnt meet his expectations. but i've had this feeling that we were misled, through the meetings we had earlier, into thinking what we had done so far were sufficient. well, what else could i do now...? amount of work put into the project = not necessarily be reflected by the grades... and what is the exact requirements of any project? people spending time inside the lab, collecting data, and coming up with graphs, disgrams and SEM pics end up getting high marks. for us, time spent discussing with various private companies, working towards the agenda set by the company and eventually ending with no graphs, charts end up with nothing? maybe what the professor said in the end was right, we are afterall doing an academic project, so even if we were to include absolutely useless stuff (but through these work will reflect that we have put in lots of thoughts and considerations), we would have secure more points instead... ha~