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NTU Lao Jiao CNY Celebration

01 Mar 2010 by gabriel

It’s the last day of CNY and my NTU juniors (now final year already) organized a steamboat dinner in celebration of Chap Goh Mei. Unfortunately for me, the thing was all the way back in NTU.

There were 17 of us, where most are final years staying in new hall area. Yi Chin, Ariel, Sein Chyi prepared most of the food while the rest of us waited for the food.. haha.. All the rice cookers were malfunctioning and we ‘cooked’ the steamboat food on the stove. Thanks to the cooks,

We had lots of vege,

vege

and lots of meat balls. Teng Seng made very good tom yam soup..

balls

Shaun brought his lou sang from I forgot where..

lousang One thing that we learned from experience is to label our bowls. So not to mix them up with another person’s bowls.. I did the labelling of bowls!

bowls There were lots of teasing (mainly on me), nonsensical talkings and well, the usual NTU stuff.. haha.. Felt like being a student again. Many of us there are a in pairs with the exception of some few eligible ones who refuse to go into one.

group 1

We ended with the lamest lou sang ever..

Lou Jiao Lou Sang

There weren’t any well-wishes. Just plain shouting and missing chopsticks.

Anyway, it was fun being part of the NTU-MSA again. Hope there’s one last one before they graduate from NTU. ;)

group 2

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House Warming – Part 1

11 Oct 2009 by gabriel

After about almost 4 months shifting into Hougang, I’ve finally arranged a house warming session with my friends. Reason I put it as part 1 is because there are two groups of people that I intend to do house warming with. The first series is with my English-speaking kakis in NTU – Elaine, Wai Seng, De Zien, Yi Wang and Shaun. Second one would be with my batch’s people, the more Chinese-speaking one. The latter one will save for another time. Well, I just hope after 4 months it’s not too late. I quite like being in this house now. It’s like every two weeks, there’s always ‘new’ people who visits the house. Two weeks ago was Chee lim they all. The two weeks before that was the house warming for the NUS people. Two weeks before that was Jason Ling, Suk Mun, Adele… etc. etc.

 

Anyway, back to the house warming.. We’re to have a pot luck session where each/a pair of us are to prepare something to eat. Yin Sin and I prepared spaghetti, Wai Seng and Iris prepared fruit salad, Yi Wang and Yen Ping brought drinks, Elaine and Shaun prepared fried prawns, De Zien brought cakes, Yvonne brought french fries, my housemates bought noodles and everyone contributed a bit of chips. We started preparing the food slightly late. Yin Sin and I prepared the spaghetti sauces first and stored it in the rice cooker before preparing the noodles when everyone arrives. Elaine and Shaun were very secretive with what they’re preparing. When they first came, they brought prawns, flour, salted eggs and curry powder… And they only prepared salted eggs before the rest came.

While we were waiting, we killed time by playing King of Fighters on the PS2.

KoF

Everyone arrives at about the same time near 7pm.. And then the ‘actual’ cooking begins.. After a lot of hard work from everyone, here’s the results which eventually ends up in our stomach.

pasta fruit-salad prawns

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Yea, so there were a lot of variety of food. As there weren’t that many of us, the food portion was alright with minimal waste. Then, we continued on the night with a drinking game where Shaun sponsored some vodka along with Yi Wang’s drinks.. And we ended up with a late night movie in the living room, The Ugly Truth. Some were dozing off during the show but it didn’t really matter.. Overall, it’s good company and good food.. Maybe next time can have something more of this.. =)

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EEE Graduate Evening 2009

08 Aug 2009 by gabriel

An event to celebrate for EEE  graduate students. Organized by the School of EEE (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), the event is held at Marina Mandarin for $40 for early birds. It’s a good event for the current graduate batch to mingle around and socialize, but most of all for photo taking purposes.

The evening was alright. Packed with activities, games and lucky draws (I didn’t win anything from there). The emcees were a bit SS (syok sendiri) but I guess most emcees have to be that way. The audience wasn’t very supportive with them actually. haha. I went there with ying sin and weng fei cause I bumped into them in the train at Dhoby Gaut. The place was very nice. It started with cocktail reception and networking. Shouldn’t be there without friends. Otherwise, you’ll just be ‘networking’ with yourself cause most of the people there are within their own groups.

We took a few pictures on our own. Here’s me with a very ‘old’ friend. Classmates since standard 2.

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Basically, we just took a lot of pictures outside.

eee-mates

But there were a few friends that I haven’t seen for quite some time. Some IA mates, lab mates, tutorial mates.
Here’s me with EEE’s valedictorian, Jianglan. She was my HRM group mate. Oh, the things that we went through for that course. It was very good learning though.

jiang-lanAnd of course, my EEE ‘gang’. The people that I normally hang out with during classes, in between classes, after classes. haha.
For most of the 4 years in NTU, we studied, eat and played together.

from left: Ying Sin, Eng Sue, Xin Fern

from left: Ying Sin, Eng Sue, Xin Fern

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(left) with Chee Kheng and (right) with Soo Fan

For the event itself, we were served with chinese-style dining. Like those wedding dinners. But the food was just so-so actually. Most of the people weren’t concentrating on their foods. They were busy looking at their lucky draw numbers, watching the games that the guests take part in. Oh, I won myself a prize too! For dressing up a friend with scraps (most creative dress-up). We dressed a guy up to be the Statue of EEE (resembling Statue of Liberty). Long story short he had a tiara, a torch and boobs made of balloons. Obviously, he won.

There were lots of pretty girls in the room too! I didn’t know there were so many in school of EEE. Either I overlooked the external ‘beauty’ in my fellow batch mates or that make up really do wonders. Took a last group picture together with most of the Malaysians in the room (if not all)

m'sians

After the event, we went to esplanade for a quick photo shoot among ourselves.

at-esplanade

ps: Complete set of pictures can be found here

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NTU Convocation 2009

01 Aug 2009 by gabriel

NTU Convocation for EEE Batch of 2009.

This marks the end of my undergraduate life in NTU. It’s not a very sentimental event for me but it is a formality – an official ‘goodbye’ and an official way of telling you that you’ve did well and can now work your ass off in the job market.

Sidetrack: it’s been very long time since I was able to upload any pictures to my blog.
Just got my Internet connection last night!

My convocation session starts at 2pm and the list of students attending it are people with surnames that begins with N – Z. My mum, dad and my 2nd sister came together the attend the event.

convo_parents

The ceremony wasn’t as long as I thought it would be. Speeches were relatively short. There were also performances in between the award ceremony. Right after the ceremony was high tea at Nanyang Audi. Surprisingly, I didn’t feel like eating. I still remember when it was my sister’s and senior’s graduation, I enjoyed myself during the high tea. Now, haha.. Don’t really know why either.

It wasn’t as hyped up as it was during my sister’s time. Couldn’t find most of my friends and we weren’t very rowdy as well. But still took a few pictures with the people who are still there.

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with Xin Fern

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with Ying Sin

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with the twins, Jeremy and Joshua

with Soo Fan

with Soo Fan

The whole bunch of us

convo_eee

And of course, the traditional hat-throwing picture.

hat_throwing

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Family visit in Singapore

29 Jul 2009 by gabriel

My parents came down on Monday night to attend my NTU convocation the following day (to be updated separately). It’s always nice to have family around. Makes you feel more at home even if I’m in a foreign country. As my parents have been in Singapore for quite a number of times now, I didn’t really take them anywhere to sight-see. Just around Hougang neighbourhood for dinner and such. My 2nd sister joined us at night after she went shopping with her high school friend. She was smart enough to find her way right up to my house’s door step!

Anyway, as my family complains that Singapore food is lousy, I took them to the nicer places to eat here. We went to Old Airport Rd for breakfast and my dad was astounded with the size of the place. At that time, only several shops were open. Think the busy-hour is only at night (or lunch). Can’t imagine what it’s like there at night. Must be busy bustling with hungry people.

Had lunch in Cafe Al-fresco in NTU right before the convocation event. Convocation wasn’t as exhilarating as I hoped it would be but that’s another story aside.

For dinner, we went to Melban Seafood at Ang Mo Kio. It’s the same one I went with my NTU friends the previous time. We wanted to go somewhere further (know of a place by Casuarina Rd) but it’s too far away and it was quite late at some time. They enjoyed the dinner! My sister was kind enough to treat all of us including jit-vern, Ian and his girlfriend, Melanie. Food was good and they really keep the food to a certain standard. Price was reasonable as well!

Felt like being in ‘holiday’ again but alas, have to continue working now. Till then..

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