50 fav. foods

I got this idea from Evan.. 50 top fav. foods (not in order):

1) Xiao Long Bao
2) Laksa
3) Bak Kut Teh
4) Wagyu Beef
5) Tony Roma's Baby Backs
6) Soup Spoon's Clam Chowder
7) Subway's Chicken Terriyaki
8) Beef lasagne
9) Waffles
10) Mac's hotcakes
11) Bananas
12) TUTU cake
13) Chilli Crab
14) Pepper Crab (must be from Joo Chiat)
15) Hokkien Mee
16) Marks & Spencer TITBITS (all are good)
17) Ben & Jerry's
18) Chendol
19) Goreng Pisang
20) Rosti
21) Oh Chang Kee curry puff
22) OCK's squid-on-stick
23) Strawberry milk tea
24) Milk Tea
25) Ha kau
26) Mum's curry chicken
27) Mum's brownies
28) Mum's brownie cheesecake
29) MacNuggets
30) Mudpie
31) Hawaiian pizza
32) linguini
33) Unagi
34) most types of sushi
35) Amanda's brownies
36) BBQ chicken wings
37) Spicy stingray
38) BLK 85 Ba chor mee
39) BLK 85 pork porridge
40) abalone
41) Ee-fu noodles
42) this is not a food, it's a restaurant: Jade, at Fullerton.
43) Ba Kwa
44) Bedok Central's chendol
45) Fried Mars Bars
46) cupcakes from Marmalade Pantry
47) Bibimbab
49) Spicy Ramen
50) Choc elairs!

Singapore is one of few places, I think, that can offer you more than 50 foods you love. The variety is astounding.

Marketing 101

I took a business module called Marketing 101 under a really tough Prof this sem. Project two caused my group mates a lot of brainwork and headaches. (we worked especially hard cos Project 1 had a D+!!!) Finally, 2 days ago, it was over. You know what's the best thing? Our project really rocked! Both the marketing team from ACP (guests) and Prof said 'WELL DONE!'

Thanks to my beloved team mates: Shaun, Kiwi, Matt and Y. Fan. I'll forever remember our LONG LONG LONG meetings and the endless suaning.

A dream

Hey Amanda, I hope you read this! I had a dream of us last night. We were planning our trip to Amsterdam.

Me: Can we couch surf?
Amanda: No, it's too dangerous.
Me: But we can save so much money. Let's say a hostel stay is s$50 a night, times 6 nights, that's $300! Plus all the other stuff we want to do. Those are going to cost money. And I really really think it's safe!

I was surfing Couchsurf.com last night, no wonder. Most of the hosts are male and 30+ years old though. But the younger ones seem wild.

And it's Good Friday today! A day for reflection.

new musical coming up

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New Singaporean musical, Sing! Dollar, coming up! Woohoo, starring all the best theatrical actors in Singapore like Sebastian Tan and Hossan Leong and Kumar! Who wants to go? And music by Elaine Chan, the music director for SMU's first musical, Honk!.

Floating rubbish dump

Please read http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23156399-2,00.html

A floating rubbish dump has been found, an area bigger than US! The implications are huge. Please stop using plastic. It's an order!

Had the longest meeting yesterday!! 2pm to 1am!! Ok la, can take two hours out for meals and some photo taking. :) the photos can't be shown here though

Scholarships losing appeal

In my smu email account, once in 2 days, a school administrator sends us newspaper articles, selected based on whether it affects us and articles that have any smu professor's citation. In a way it's a bit of spoon feeding. No wait, it's complete spoon feeding. Shouldn't business students, or any university student, take the initiative to stay current?

Anyway I noticed an article about scholarships no longer being the golden ticket for students to achieve a high-flyer career path. Well, you know, parents or mine at least always say how neat it would be to get your education all paid and upon graduation, a job is secured. No need to worry yada yada. Or some version like that.

While I agree with the article, that scholarships are not as appealing, I disagree that students don't find them attractive. 2 problems exist: mismatch in expectations and irresponsibility. You can't rule out students who genuinely hold on to traditional beliefs too. Take myself for an example, I really wanted the MFA scholarship one year ago. (eventually I did NOT get it) This was firstly in my area of interest and I'm genuinely open to serving in the public service. The scholarship may not be mine but I'll still try for MFA one day!

The article has not considered other students who cannot afford university fees. True, Singaporeans are more affluent now but some things that make up the college experience are damn expensive. Overseas student exchange (easily $12k), overseas study mission, a new wardrobe of corporate attire, notebook, useless textbooks. Now you see why scholarships are still to-die-for. Another thing is the trend of bond-free scholarships given out. Some are given by unversities, via the donations of philanthropic individuals, and corporations. A form of CSR? Maybe. In another scholarship interview wth AmCham once (another one that i failed to get), I asked, 'Why is your company so nice to offer a bond-free scholarship?' The director said, some of them have been in Singapore for 10, 15 years. They feel it's time to give back something to the society.

So suddenly, there's a competition of bond-free and bonded scholarships, no wonder many scholarships are losing appeal. That newspaper article was in Chinese, by the way. There could have been serious flaws how I might have intepreted it. HAHA. So, maybe, just take all this with a pinch of salt.