Sunday, December 10, 2006

Be There or Be Square

The day is finally here. A day which my dear table-mate, M, has always been trying very hard to remind me by sticking yellow post'it note on my monitor everyday.

"Dinner with Prof Y! This Sunday"

And I stick the note behind the LCD screen instead. Bahh stop reminding me! Haha. Especially when she herself got trouble remembering it too. The only thing we both can remember is what he said in the emails,

"Marketing girls, can you 2 plan a nice gathering for me and the 4 interns (M, Pau, SiX & me)?"

Marketing girls!!! How degrading it sounds! Both M and me were dying to strangle him for calling us that. But being the usually nice and angelic girls we have always been, we decided to forgive (but nv forget) and plan the gathering.

In his last email to us, "Marina Square. Lovely place. Be there or be square. :)"

So we were joking if we should turn up in boxes.. :P alright. That's spastic.

In order not to be late for this dinner, I stepped out of the house 1 hour earlier in case of jams at Orchard. Surprisingly, traffic was extremely smooth and I reached town in 30 mins time. Meet up with Pau and M at Marina Square's Puma Shop 30 mins before the official time. (M didnt tell SiX that we were already here). M was nagging at Pau for her revealing top and short skirt, as this might give the prof "a wrong idea". Haha!

We 3 were standing there wondering where should we wait for prof Y. Just as we about to drop him a message, Pau let out a squeak which startled both of us, our dear prof Y was right behind us! Then he said, "oh hi gers, I was wondering how to contact you. :)"

So we ended up at Waraku Japanese Restuarant. We took quite some time looking at the menu while waiting for SiX to turn up. We ordered drinks first. 3 of us have innocent iced green tea and plain water while... he drank Asashi Beer. SiX arrived shortly and we let her had the most honourable seat. :P hehe. The 3 of us were practising caution while ordering as..

We have no idea who's paying. Dutch, He treats us, We treat him?

I ordered a small yakiniku don. He was shocked and said I should order more. So he ordered a big plate of sushi. I was poking M's thighs under the table, trying to tell her "who's paying?!". The food came.. and yum yum..

From the dinner, we found out:
1) Prof Y has a driving licence (A US licence converted to Singapore licence). But he has second thoughts about getting a car cos its v expensive. Plus he is living within the campus.
2) His campus apartment has 3 rooms and he is not living with anyone else.
3) He is from HeilongJiang.
4) CH4242 (si le si le) 's first part would be covered by XR, then second part by him. and he claimed is not difficult. Yahrite...!
5) He dont encourage doing research cos it's a tough route.

It's payment time. And hehe.. he flashed out his credit card in time. He told us that he used to have quite a lot of credit cards but he had cut up most of them and left only one. Hmmm...

But *phew* great relief still! His treat! hehe. :P $150 meal....


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Monday, December 04, 2006

Fastest Fingers!

Was chatting with A (my colleague from Finance) the other day while having lunch at Old Airport Road Hawker Centre. A who was from NTU too, started talking about the "main highlight" of uni life. Haha.. Planning timetable and subjects registration seem to have left a deep impression on her especially all those panic attacks she got from subject registration. Well.. some things will nvr change...

It's such a pain in the neck to plan timetable, especially for this coming sem. Limited PEs, "Title-seemed-v-boring" PEs, Horrible timing modules, Horrible Exams timetable and what have you... And the worse is I dont have time to plan due to work! Argh. But thanks to Xin, who updated me constantly on the changes and help me plan. hehe! Thank goodness both of us have cleared our PEs and GEs, therefore can share somewat similar timetable.

It's giving me panic attacks every now and then.. and you need extremely fast fingers (to click ur mouse).

Perhaps, beside the STARS planner, someone should really set up a timetable consultation firm. Haha.. talking about entreprenuership (dont know how to spell)....

Yeah. Its war time tmr and good luck peeps! Exercise and warm up your fingers abit yah?


*Just 2.5hrs before the "auspicious hour", recieve warnings that there are other pples choosing the same lab groups as us and there are only 9 vacancies! And find out about the most popular tutorial class! and everyone seems to be panicking .. worst some not contactable/gone mia/bz to reply email to know whats gg on. *Pulling my hair off* Arghhh*

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