7 Quick Takes Friday - vol.18

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I spent the past week transcribing the observation study files. Now it seems clearer that research assistant needs to stay up-to-date about what the preschoolers watch these days: Noose (Singapore local comedy show) and Ah boys 2 Men (it's a movie about army life in Singapore). No wonder one of the boys was worried about going to army. Apparently he watched this movie =P

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Me and my boyfriend went to see Mummy exhibition last Sunday. It was soooooooo fun!! This exhibition is a collaboration between Art Science Museum in Singapore and British Museum. They did CT scan on the mummy and revealed the possible age of the person when the person died, the possible cause of the death, and so on and so forth.

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I had a good meet-up with 'old friends': my hostel friends and NUS friend =D It's been a long time since the last time I had lunch with them.

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Last night I cooked beef with capsicum and prawn with french bean. I accidentally spilled almost a tablespoon of salt, so that we needed to 'wash' the beef in hot water before we ate it. >.< Then we watched "Now you see me", a movie about four magicians =D it's supercool!! The ending was really unexpected.

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Last Friday I read Pride and Prejudice till 1am. My bad habit is...skimming through the book once I reached second half of the book. I was so curious so I have already peeped the ending of the book (oops!!). My favorite part is when Mr Bennet supported Elizabeth to reject the proposal of Mr Collin. Hahaha. He's so cute.

"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do."

I smiled when I read this part =P

And my second favorite was when Mr Darcy revealed his feeling to Elizabeth. Somehow I felt it's very sweet =P Ah I think it's just because I'm not used to nice writing :)

"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

When I read this novel, I really imagined the characters talk to each other in British accent because I watched documentary on Jane Austen before. Hahaha. Sometimes I still have difficulties in understanding the words in this novel, but I love the tone, pace, and the description of each character.

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October is coming! The three last months of 2013. Wow!! *that's why I start cooking again.. improve my new year's resolution report card for the last three months, I guess. I was supposed to learn cooking every alternate weekend*

One thing I like about cooking is... when I tasted the food afterwards, I felt happy. I really really feel happy to enjoy 'homecook', my own cooking and to taste something that is precisely for my 'tounge'.

One thing I don't like about cooking is... I am naturally clumsy. I'll mess up one thing or another. And I don't like other people to know about it. Even if the mistake is not on the cooking part per se, I always mess up any other thing when I cook.

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I met up with my hostel friend on Thursday. I really admired her that she's very driven and she's a very ambitious girl. She has completed CFA (finance examination) level one and she's studying for the second level exam. She's taking driving lesson twice a week (early in the morning before her work!!). She meets up with some friends for guitar club almost every Saturday. Hmm, what else? Oh and she's looking for a job in investment/ finance. Sounds very cool!

But listening to her sometimes makes me ask myself, "What have I done?" To be more precise, "What have I accomplished?" Recently, I feel a bit "urgh, please don't ask me THAT question" when people asked me, "Are you going to do graduate studies?" I'm happy to give them a short answer "I want! But not in the near future." Full stop. Thankfully I'm still under 3-year-bond (all international students in Singapore must work for 3 years in Singapore or in other Singapore-based companies because the Singapore government has subsidized our tuition fee) so I still can give the excuse: "I want to fulfill my bond first." What I don't tell them is, I'm quite happy that even my mom, from insisting that 'you should take Master's degree soon' now just suggesting 'it's good to take Master's, maybe next time when your kids have grown up .' What I want to say is, to be honest, to be really really honest, it's not in my priority. I wish and I would love to do postgraduate study, but I start doubting if I really want to do it anytime soon.

Ahh it became a long post. Sorry!
It's just sometimes...I feel that I can't recognize myself anymore *a bit* and my close friend did say this to me, "You've changed, right?" And I just shrugged and smiled, "Well, the ugly side remains the same =P "


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