Monday, September 29, 2014

50 things to do in exchange


1.Miss the plane (yup, how I know when my flight takes off, or that the airline will call me to push me)
2.Eat 600 calories a day
3.Burn 135 calories by walking to school 30min a day during the months of October, November, and December
4.Use 6 squares of toilet paper a day
5.Talk to people once in 7 days, during service on Sunday, no talking also can
6.Do not drink coffee (not the free brew from the Sunday refreshments, not on the airlines, not the complimentary breakfast in the inn)
7.Leave home at 930pm and come back at 4am
8.Recognise classmates on the all-night service
9.Study
10.Don't use a table to study
11.Do not turn the lights on (you can play with the dark)
12.Do not buy down feather jacket
13.Do not use umbrella (rip 'em)
14.Do not bring winter pants
15.Do not buy leather gloves
16.Do not buy heat pack
17.(Censored ) try to save toilet paper 
18.Unleash the horror at the changing room of Topshop The Bay
19.Do not take rice (no, I didn't miss any home food)
20.Stuff bread- have oatmeal, quinoa, couscous, bread, pita bread
21.Guess the stollen, poppy seed cake, baklava correctly
22.Know the falafel, hummus, tahini, foul
23.Try the kueh sago, cornbread, polenta 
24.Download the voice recording of yourself making a whopping cough during lecture, recognize which one belongs to you
25.Make a phone call in the garage
26.Make a phone call in the rubbish dump
27.Make a phone call in the laundry area
28.Make a phone call in the basement
29.Find plushies in the mailbox on Black Friday
30.Use Skype mobile 
31.Be asked out on last Sunday of the year
32.Be asked out on Christmas eve
33.Be asked out on the last day of paper
34.Be asked out on Christmas day
35.Be asked out on new year's eve and new year
36.Feel like Titanic and be unable to proceed many times during a 30min walk
37.Withdraw outstanding balance of 1K, lose wallet, find printer to print ticket without a printer the days school has closed a day before the day of leaving
38.Get invited for a meal when outside 
39.Be matchmade 
40.Be proposed to
41.Be mistaken as a caucasian
42.Take the plane alone
43.Take the taxi cab alone
44.Find your way back drunk and vomit in the sink
45.Make your way alone, drunk 
46.Lazy
47.Lazy
48.No, no new york
49.Lazy
50.Lazy

Sunday, September 28, 2014

50 things to do before you leave university


1.First week as a freshie, stayover at the notorious design arts school (yup, my grandmother did not ask me how to suck eggs nor had I tried a nanyang breakfast before despite being lived for 20 years)
2.See how people club with the blue screen on
3.Have someone to chauffeur to school on Mondays and back on Fridays (yes, this happens in 3rd tier ntu too)
4.Study exam in a hotel
5.Explore it later
6.Sleep in an opposite gender's room (make friends with the roomie)
7.Dye your hair fire engine red and curl it
8.Have a fruits Monday (fruits not bought from school)
9.Have a Formal Friday (not dress-down Friday)
10.Have a gothic Monday
11.Manage the drunk on top of the arts building as a freshie
12.Make pasta in hall
13.Make tri-colour pasta in hall
14.Make squid ink spaghetti in hall
15.Make spaghetti with chocolate sauce in hall
16.Walk to see the cotton trees
17.Buy ice cream at 3am at the gourmet grocer
18.Sit at the US bar top and say hi to international Indian friends
19.Cook bread pudding in hall (make it pink)
20.Stay in study room till 2am
21.Walk to see the President's house
22.Buy salmon pâté
23.Buy goose liver pâté
24.Make bread (not peace), in hall
25.Stay in biz lib at 945pm, snapping a photo of it as dark as Titanic before chased out
26.Be outside of school and miss the last trains (of both lines) to get back to school
27.Buy greek yogurt and eat it (or store it)
28.Walk to ah fang and get your legs scraped by the parapet on a rainy day
29.Have your hair washed in school (pay the barber) (not just once)
30.Pretend the library is your second home, stock it with our water bottles, tupperwares, fruits basket, grapes, laptop bags, bags, sleeping bags, sweaters, Korean food
31.Stock the library and settle with your sweets, honey sweets, tic tac, apples, water bottle, special beverage water bottle and tea and comp and wire and comp and wire
32.Eat vegetarian (?everyday)
33.Bring a different set of pajamas each year
34.Blog about Taylor Swift's cone in school
35.Blog about purple tofu in school
36.Make oatmeal (twice servings, if necessary)
37.Buy helium balloons for someone for Valentine's day in school
38.Go home, taking 2 hours to come to school when exam venue is 50m away from hall, go home after exam
39.Observe the birds of paradise
40.Observe the blue bottles
41.Observe the chicken
42.Observe the monkey
43.Get approached by people on the way to school, on the way back school, people from other schools, exchange students in school
44.Finish writing a film essay every semester (until exchange crumbles your life)
45.Share a locker with 3 people for a year
46.See a mice trap with live mice on it
47.Eat at Starbucks (not the cake) (for 5 times)
48.Eat at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (for 2 times)
49.Don't use a table to study 
50.Have an impersonalised caricature and a new name vandalised on your clicker by 2 different persons
51.Lazy