[UPDATED TIL DAY 2!]

As I’ve mentioned earlier, I took more that 1500 photos during the trip and given my seemingly never ending workload (thanks to my kind lecturers), it will take quite a while for me to resize, upload and write about them. So bear with me here; I’ll post the photos day by day so you wont have to see a page with hundreds of photos in your face.

Click Here to see Day 1 - Welcome to Yogyakarta!
Click Here to see Day 2 - Taman Sari, Affandi, 2 Trees!
[Days 3-11 Coming Soon!]

Hey everyone! I’m back from Indonesia and am currently (not) enjoying my one week ‘extension’ on my holiday… I’ve got an assignment that was supposed to (and maybe still will) be due tomorrow, and it involves writing a game design document. Now, writing game design crap which normally nobody would read, isn’t exactly my forte, (okay, I suck at it or any other writing related to games for that matter). I pretty much haven’t started at all, and would prefer to procrastinate, but I’d hate to open my email tomorrow at 12pm only to find out that I have to send it in immediately. (I am praying hard that my deadline gets pushed back one week!)

Oh but anyway, I am writing this now because I’m telling myself that I will start work as soon as I finish my dinner and shower. I just came back from my regular 4km run around the park which would be my first hint of exercise in the over two weeks. Not to mention how much more than normal I ate in Indonesia, due in part to the cheap but great food and some kind sponsors treating us meals here and there!

Rachel and Yihui sms-ed me on my way back from the park to tell me that Rachel is displaying multiple symptoms of H1N1 flu and is going to TTSH later!! Also, Yihui and Tommy have slight flu/runny nose! I am still perfectly healthy now, hoping that none of them have caught H1N1 and that everyone would get well soon…

On another note, it will probably take a (long) while before I finish resizing, editing, selecting and uploading the Indonesia photos (I actually have >1.5K photos, so thats A LOT to go through), so I leave you here with a group photo of my 1-Star kayaking class…

I finally get a break from work work work work work work work work work work! I swear, any more work, and I’ll go crazy!

Its been a hectic two weeks of endless DEADlines but at last, its over! (Well, not quite, but at least I’ll get to enjoy Indonesia for 10 days without having to think about school work) That pretty much explains the lack of updates in recent weeks. I still have the Marina Barrage photos and the Dumpling Festival Photos to process and upload.

I’ll be taking kayaking lessons over the weekend, having dinner with shi kai and the gang on Saturday night and celebrating my sisters’ birthday and Fathers’ day on Sunday night. So I’ll still be dead busy right up til the moment I leave Singapore, but at least my head wont contain anything related to work…

Oh and last Thursday, in between my projects, emceeing for SGCC and babysitting secondary school kids around SIDM, I took part in the campus road run! 21 minutes and like 10 odd seconds for the 4km… not too bad considering the unbearable heat that day and the fact that its been a while since I last ran before that. (Oh other than being buried in assignments, I got a cut on my toe when rock climbing 1+ weeks ago which was already blistered and torn, so for a while, it hurt just putting pressure on it, much less running with it.)

Okay, I’ll need to be in Changi Village by 9.30 for kayaking, so I should probably go to bed soon..

Had originally intended to take sunrise shots at 6+am, but having overslept among other reasons, I only went there in the afternoon with Wilson.. I borrowed my uncle’s D80 for that day since there was also a Photography Club outing later in the evening at Marina Barrage (will blog about it/post photos some other time)

A HDR of the famous bridge at Lower pierce, It was built in the colonial era and used stones from Egypt or something like that. (Really like this =P)
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Upper Peirce at night…
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Last thursday, my sister didn’t have school, I had afternoon class and my dad was on leave, so together with my mom, we went to this really ulu place (I’m talking colonial era one-way one-lane roads typeof ulu!) called the Bukit Timah Saddle Club’s Riders Cafe for a nice breakfast!

I ordered Smoked Salmon Benedict with Asparagus which was just heavenly! OMG~
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School ‘Dome’ at 3am
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I just realised that its been a week since I blogged! Anw…

A long list of assignments and projects have just been bestowed upon me! (Of which, many are due next week!) So even though I have dozens of photos to post and millions of things to write about, every time I want to, I am being reminded about my unfinished work…

In other news, I’ve been giving tuition for 3 nights straight, and will also be doing it for a fourth tonight, and once more on Sunday! Gosh! [Insert my soon-to-be-written (which probably means never) thousand word essay of complaints about the Gen Z kids these days] Oh oh! And I just remembered, the circle line is finally opening in 2 weeks time! I’ll soon be able to take the MRT to my Sengkang Student’s house! Yay! No more hour long bus rides…

Oh well, at least school starts at 3pm today, giving me some time to write this post and do some drawing for one of my assignments (POGD)… But no pictures today (they take a long time to edit and upload), I’ll post em but as soon as I have some space to breathe

Went to Simpang last weekend… will write more later, I’m in class now and gtg soon…

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We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

-Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
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Its only the 3rd week of the new school year, but I’m already procrastinating.  (THINK: only 5 more weeks til term break!) The lessons are getting boring and mundane, I’m loosing the drive to do my projects/assignments and what not. Oh well… Anw, I’ve actually got some pictures to post, but I’m a little busy/lazy right now, so bear with me..