我搬家了!
Finally, I had moved to the Unilodge yesterday. The Unilodge is a non-catered university apartment which consists of individual self-contained units. Every unit is "5 in 1", which means the study area, dining area, kitchenette, bathroom and bed are all in the same room. The advantage about staying in such unit is that cleaniness is so much easier to maintain; the disadvantage however is that the room can get warm and stuffy, especially during summer because it is actually quite small in size. But I think most importantly is that the apartment is just five minutes walk from the uni, which is really convenient for students who are staying there and studying in the uni.
I believed we usually won't know how much stuff we have until when we are moving. Yesterday I spent a few trips just to shift my stuff over to the new place and to unpack them after that, which was really tiring. But thank goodness that most likely I'll be staying in this uni apartment until the end of my course.
I was really disappointed with my performance in the financial accounting exam this morning... I started well with the first question on preparing the statement of financial performance, which I managed to finish in 45 mins and was pretty confident to get at least 20 out of 25 marks for it. But what followed after that was a disaster, as I was stuck at the second question on cash flow statement for nearly one hour, trying to reconcile the figures. In the end, I had to leave the question so as to finish the other four questions. I lost at least 8 marks (around 5% of the total coursework) for the questions/portions of questions that I left blank, and I believed more marks would be deducted for errors in the other questions... After doing some rough calculation, now I don't think I can even get a Credit (B- grade) for this unit... :(
Had lunch with my housemate at Chinatown in the afternoon. Frankly speaking I wasn't in the mood to go out at all, but because I had already promised him few days ago to have lunch at Chinatown today, I had no choice but to drag myself going... Anyway, ordered soy sauce chicken and char siew rice and while I was eating halfway thru, I suddenly recalled that I also ordered the same dishes when I was having dinner with Justin at Tampines mall food court two months ago... Oops! Better stop I told myself, before I start making comparisons again :p... After lunch, we did a bit of grocery shopping before heading back home...
I have only one week break before semester one starts again next week. But because I don't have classes on monday, I'm actually starting one day later than the rest. Probably another consolation is that I'm only having classes from tuesday to thursday each week, with three hours of lessons each day...
Hope to smash away the monday blues...
Managed to find some time to blog today after completing my first exam paper for the summer semester on Government, Business & Society this morning... The exam which started at 8.30 am, lasted for an hour (excluding 10 mins of perusal time). I believed many people in the exam hall were rushing like mad as we were required to write 300 words of analysis for each of the two newspaper articles within the one hour... I never like morning exam at all, given the fact that I'm not really a morning person. Thank God that I managed to complete the exam on time and was not affected by the "morning sickness"...This is the first time in my life that I had celebrated Chinese New Year overseas... Had reunion dinner with few Singaporean friends at the apartment where one of them stays on the eve of Chinese New Year last week. It was like a "steamboat buffet" as my friends bought heaps of food to be cooked... Though there were events like the Lion Dance performance and market day in the Chinatown, I didn't have the time to watch due to the preparation of my exams... Anyway, I had already checked the next CNY which will fall on the 29th of January 2006, and so it's actually "not too far away" :p...I have to stop for now as I need to get back to study for my last exam paper on Financial Accounting this coming Monday (another 8.30 am exam :( )... Not forgetting also to tell myself: "Jia You" (Add Oil) ...
