It's another weekend gone.. with lessons at PKU going into full swing, days at coke seems shorter. It seems to be a good thing, however, the weekend seems shorter too… haha
The days at coke now was just looking forward to Thursday whereas the days at PKU was looking ‘backwards’ to Friday…hee.. really need to proposal working days reduce to 3, studying days staying at 2 and weekend remaining at 2 too..

I have decided to get a speaker system from the ‘sim lim square’ here. Been looking thru the catalog online, have short listed a few.. gonna get a 2.1 system.. cost will be abt 30-40 sing bucks.. think it’s definitely cheaper here.. guess I’ll be visiting the electronic market here very often as it’s just beside PKU, so tink will be going to Carrefour n the electronic market after sch every fri or sat ba…

Last Friday PKU organized a student exchange session between us and some of the PKU students, well… there’s nothing special abt this session though except for the dinner and the dinner sucks.. haha.. got a few chio bus here n there.. hmmm.. maybe it’s just only 1 or 2… haha….
think due to the nature of study in PKU, most of the students here are taking double major while the others are going on to research or master level in their specialization, most of them are taking subjects like medicine, archeology, physics, economics, environment etc.. mostly non technical related subjects. Guess their mentality was just to study n study till they reached the peak of the study hierarchy… looking at their attitude towards education, I can see a reflection of them in those PRC students in NTU…haha…

But unlike NTU, the study environment in PKU is really good, although everything is being taught in Chinese, but the prof here really pose questions that will let u think… quoting one of my prof teaching us here, he said, “ there’s not right or wrong answers to my questions, there’s only ‘top’ and ‘below par’ answers to them”… he just meant that no matter how irrelevant is our answers is to his qns, as long as it is logical and holds our own personal opinions, supported by facts and figures, it will be a top level answer… guess u’ll nv find tat type of marking standards in NTU.. ya, think it’s because the courses in NTU are all those with all the formulas and standard procedure.. which means u can nv smoke ur way thru… sian

Went to 颐和园 on sat after lesson, it’s one of those many imperial gardens with lots of ancient structures from the ancient times.. I’ve always feel ancient when walking thru these old imperial places.. there’s always been this curiosity of mine on how ancient emperors led their life, the stories from long long time ago, the deception, the conspiracy from the olden dynasties, the story behind each and every grandeur of the original structures… wow… everytime I’ve stepped into such places, I always think that it’s just 100 or 200 years ago that some emperors might be standing at the same point as I am, looking at the same thing.. n what might he be thinking at that point in time while looking at the same scenery…. Hmmm…

Well, maybe it’s due to the lack of time and the crowd, the ‘ancient’ feeling that I have at these places don’t always last very long, maybe it’s just that I don’t have the time to linger ard a particular spot for longer period. Guess I will be reading more on the history of such places, if I have the time.. hee.. it will be very interesting after reading thru stories and visiting the exact same site where the story happen… it’s cool… n ya, companions that u go to these places are also very impt.. that’s wat I feel after so many visits, with different grps of pple, to these historical places. Maybe 2 will just be a nice number if I’m touring these places again… hee

This weekend of mine ended with a visit to a salsa pub on sun nite, was invited by a few of our PKU counterparts.. erm… it’s not strictly a pub that is solely dedicated to salsa, it’s just that the theme for that pub every sun is salsa.. there’s not many pple there, but most of them know how to dance… haha, in the end most of us(the NTU pple) who went there just sit by the side and chit chat.. haha.. hmm… it’s not that we are anti, we did join the dance for a while, then after tat, we just exit from the dance floor.. becos we are just so stiff n un-sexy on the dance floor… haha.. guess gil will like the place over there…. Nice experience… think the pub is called taku, location is very near PKU, didn’t remember the road name in which the pub lies…

So that’s my weekend and here I am again, sitting at my desk at coke, starting a whole new week of work…