Verbal constipation

Yo~~~~~~

Yes. It's been two weeks since I last updated my blog...... due to the number of papers I have to write and the projects I have to do...

So I'm facing this dilemma now. Verbal constipation. You heard me right hahaha... I bet you've heard of the term "verbal diarrhoea". Now let me introduce you to the term "verbal constipation".

I've been writing too many papers, to a point where I run out of words to type into my word document haha... No more ideas and no more words...zZzZz

The good news is exams are ending on the 20th haha... I can see the light @ the end of the tunnel.

Running under the moonlight

Has been ages since I last ran in the night... If I can remember correctly, the last time I ran in the night was during last semester, when I was still staying at Kuok Foundation House wahaha...

Feeling pretty good~ The weather was pretty cooling.

在月光下奔馳，有一種很 relaxed 的感覺。

不知不覺中，發現到自己的腳步越來越快 哇哈哈

一個字。爽~

Although I almost ended up with a stitch and pain at the appendix area...
Wah lau... both sides also kenna... -_-'''

First Day of School......

Today was the first day of school! No pictures to show, but I'll try to describe in detail how classes are conducted here.

It's actually pretty much like SMU-style, just that some classes (like my first class - "Public administration ) contain up to 80+ students in a single room haha......so I can just lie in a corner of the classroom/just beside a wall. This kind of classroom...you can remain low profile and just be a bit more slack haha......

But unfortunately I can't find my textbook for this module, cos this is the "Part 2" of Public Administration, and all the other students got their textbooks during the 1st semester. Nvm...... I'll either be a pirate and zap or just be thick-skinned and try to borrow from the prof or classmates......

The other class I went for was a Post-graduate (Master's) class on television production. The module is pretty interesting in the sense we get to role-play as reporters and do mock TV-reporting footages as our assignments. However, the workload is terribly heavy... and considering that I have another Master's module to take... I think I may just drop this mod even though it's really interesting... I heard that the other module has a 6-week internship with a local Taiwanese english newspaper agency...We shall see haha......

Accidental Cosplay

We were about to leave for 九份 on Saturday when we saw a group of cosplayers bumming around the school campus. We approached them to ask if we could take their pictures, but they told us that they were heading for a much bigger Cosplay gathering that was taking place at NTU's equivalent of the Sports and Recreation Complex.

Here's what we saw:

It's L! wahaha... I'm trying to set up a flickr.com site or multiply.com site where I can upload all my photos. If not I'll just put them up on my Facebook account hahaha......

Touchdown in Taiwan

Ok... I've finally gotten my Internet connection in my NTU dorm! It's been quite a hectic past few days... Unpacking, getting the administrative work done, shopping for household items and opening a local bank account.

I'll let the pictures do the talking for this post!

My 2 fellow NUS mates going to NTU

My humble (but messy) abode

Very old-school feeling...Like in Cambridge or Oxford haha

The temperature is hovering around 10 degrees celsius now haha......so almost every other day you can expect wind and rain...can't see much of the sun. The IYC (International Youth Centre) is where I stay haha... Anyone wants to mail stuff to me can ask me for my address hahaha......

The Taiwanese student volunteers helping us out are really helpful. 比綠巨人還“好客”. I'll see if I can upload any of their pictures later. The dorm room is quite small, but cosy enough for 2 persons.

We tried walking around the campus these past few days, and I think the campus covers the same area as NUS, just that it has A LOT more vegetation.

This is the Royal Palm Boulevard (don't know if I spelt this correctly). It's 2 rows of Palm trees running down the entire stretch of road till the main entrance of NTU. Nice. hahaha

Overall the school gives me a really old-school feeling, very rustic and 古色古香. I'm still not used to the toilet culture here though. They don't allow people to flush toilet paper down the pipes, because the width of the pipe is damn narrow and the paper will clog up the toilets. So whatever is used for cleaning is thrown into a bin placed just beside you haha......

Taiwan is a nice place. Minus the bad weather. And the school toilets.

More updates to come! Watch this space.