overseas trip

1st, the choice was Bali, then krabi and now finalised to be Phuket. I wasnt really in the mood maybe because my project nv really progress; been stuck for 3 weeks.....hai..I have tried alterating this and that but no luck yet. Actually it was nazanin who suggested going to bali but no one take the initiative so in the end, the air tix offer is gone and then somehow, nazanin wanted to join sam and his friends to thailand but he advises not to because the activity is more "guys" style since both his friends are guys; includes cheap accomodation and not clean but cheap places which nazanin dont like so it was changed to phuket. After they did some comparison of prices they said 9th aug is the best and will come back on 13th aug. They told me the days so i was like oh. Then nazanin keep saying this time must book the tix and finally ystd we settled the tix for 4; Aram, Nazanin, Sam and me. Honestly, this is the 1st time I am going overseas with people from different nationalities. I hope it would be fun. Also, this is the 1st time i am spending so many days on a beach......

This brings me thinking. Research may be a tiring and non-result guaranteed work (doesnt mean more effort = more result, is more effort = more chance of a result). However, when I see sth working, I would be grinning and be really excited about it :) The other good thing is, you get to meet people from different nationalities and u get to travel! This is great because i used to be locked in my own shell ( own culture). Now, I am beginning to learn how to adapt and understand people of different culture. It really needs time and understanding and not forgetting skills. =D

Transferable skill camp

It has been 2 weeks since the end of the transferable skill camp in PGP hall. I just want to write it to remember this once in a lifetime oppurtunity to mingle and interact with people from different culture and school. This camp is a unified phd camp b/w Imperial college, NUS and NTU. I thought majority of the people would come from NUS and NTU but i was wrong. Like in my group of 7 people, there are 3 from imperial college; france, poland, UK. This camp really make me realise the importance of communication and teamwork not through examples but through experiencing it. I admit that this is the 1st time i am in such close distance in contact with ang mor. I have never travelled to ang mor countries or talked much even with the NUS ang mor lecturers before. This is therefore, a good opportunity for me to know more about how western culture is and how their uni life is. Basically, they love to drink beer and really not conservative; they speak up during lectures. They are really open and not forgeting loud when they sing (they dont care about following the music and just sing whatever they want and that includes lyrics; a mess lol). If anyone wants to go to angmor country to work or study, have to know how to party and drink beer. I think this is important for anyone to be able to merge into the group.