I have lots to blog about in the past few days, but was too tied down and drained out to write about anything. Been busy with projects, meeting and geog soc stuff. Similar as last sem, mid sem break is no break at all.

Wed was the career talk organised by the geog dept. Along with it was the geog dept open house for the JC students. It was quite a turn out, but those who considered doing geog was only a handful. Guess most of them was forced to come by their school.

After listening to the talk from the alumni speakers, as well as fellow geog soc mates, i have reaffirmed my faith in geography. Many of the graduates speakers mentioned they choose geog because they love the topic. For me, it was the same too. I love to study about things around me since young, as well as looking at maps and creating them. I was happy when i got to do geog proper in secondary school. The only regret i have was not choosing pure geog and a levels geog back then. I thought sci was the route for me cause i did well in them during o levels, but studying them in jc proved to be a torture. Many of the jc kids choose not to do geog because they are afraid of the jobs prospects in future, which is why for this career talk, we invited alumni who are in the line of job not related to geography. For me, i feel that armed with a uni degree plus the attitude to learn, one need not fear the lack of job. Ultimately for me, it is job satisfaction that i want in future and i do want to go into a job which earns lots of money but i hate it. there is no point in dragging myself to work everyday and dreading every moment of it.

geographers with our alumni speakers!

I love the above mugshot that is going to appear in our geosphere magazine! gonna add in more ppl who are not present for the shoot. Thanks to winnie for putting this mugshot together.

yest was spent in ubin doing fieldwork for our geog project. haven been back there since dunno when. island still looks the same, which i am happy about. We should all fight to preserve this rustic part of singapore

the ubin jetty

where else can you find this in singapore?

chek jawa wetlands.. too bad by the time we reach there, it was alreadly high tide..

because we were interviewing ppl. this group of nice and friendly tourist from holland.

I forgot who i was talking to about this but it goes like this: what are the people from holland called? ans: hollanders. LOL!!

cam-whoring session

we met them countless of times and we even helped to fix their bike. I know how it feels like to be stranded somewhere with a bike that is not working (think bikequest).

managed to capture a shot of this SIA B777 approaching changi.

the fine is so cheap right??

Part of the project requires us to talk to people and it was really a pleasure talking to most of the residents and tourists. There are many things which i only knew about after talking to them and at some points, i feel really inspired to be part of the team that preseves the nature in ubin island. I really like visiting pulau ubin. It is really a good break away from the city. From the bumboat ride to cycling upslope and downslope, all of it is an different experience. those who have never visited ubin must visit ubin!!

Met up with the DesDanang ppl for dinner after ubin. only 14 of us managed to turn up. it was still fun to be able to catch up with them. towards the end of dinner, we were talking about some of the memorable moments in danang. the CCTV spiders, the kids in the house, the fight at village 8, the food that we had (both gd & bad), silly moments that some of us had... Really miss those days....

and finally.. FOC poster is up.. sorry to the publicity team as i kept bugging you gals for stuff.. even late at night and early mornings....