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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

|[ Year in Review - 2007 ]|

Finally... time for some updates! 2007 had just flashed past and i shall now do a year in review!

2007 had been a wonderful year for me, even though most of it is spent on my academics. I managed to survive through the first 1 1/2 years of my university life. =) In between time spent on my books.. yes.. don't call me nerd... i've also managed to balance my life by having meet up sessions with my secondary school friends, JC friends, soccer mates, NS colleagues, university friends and many more.

Now for some highlight of the year. Firstly, i've gotten a nice girlfriend. haha.. in case you still dunno, her name is Linda and i got to know her when i went for an exchange program to Hong Kong. The exchange program lasted 6 weeks whereby i studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Thinking back, it was really an enriching experience and i got to travel to many places including shen zhen (whereby summer brought me to eat cheap and big oysters) and Macau (whereby my sing dollars is still with their casino!). Ate so much food.. ( from egg tarts to dim sum to wife's biscuits.. i can't finish naming them!) I also got to know quite a few nice people during the exchange program. =)

During the year, i had also done some temp job at Emerson Process Management, whereby i was hired as a technician. hah.. i can't imagine myself being a technician. Luckily, i met my nice female boss who asked me to be her personal assistant instead. Through the job, i again met many nice people and made many good friends. Good contacts that should help my brother get a job if needed.

I also gave many tuitions throughout the year to maintain my upkeep. Tuitees in my list includes korean, taiwanese, thai and locals. Because of the language problem, Foreigners are usually harder to teach despite the good pay. I shall just try my best and teach whatever i can.

Recently, i also went to bangkok with my dearest girlfriend. Bangkok has always been one of my favourite holiday destination (cheap shopping with good food!... especially the mango sticky rice) =) However, due to the roadside stall embargo and the rubbish pricing of the items (from the t-shirts to the tuk-tuk) i don't think i will be heading back there anytime soon. Time to try out new and unexplored places!

I also went for a few JB trips with the soccer guys whereby we eat to our fill at very low cost. =) A 10 course dinner with many seafood items will cost us about $10 each at Teck Sin. Rumours of JB being unsafe, in my opinion, is slightly exaggerated. If one is careful enough, i don't think he/she will be easy meat for the robblers. So, just need to be careful in there!

That's about it from me about 2007. Generally, it had been a great year! Hope 2008 will be even better. We shall wait and see... the best is yet to be.

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