looking back at my blog posts, i also realise that i didn't blog at all about summer school or the last semester and it kind of annoys me that there's a gap in my log. well in brief(ish) summary -

summer school was awesome fun. living in seoul was a dream come true. tho there were times i wished i was back home, or that i felt lonely there, now all that remains are memories of a time that i would give anything to go back to. living at CJ house with juhee and shauna was like the kind of flatmate dream i'd always had. being independent but there for each other. i was really lucky to be put with them. one, because they are koreans and that just kind of completed the whole experience. but more importantly, because they were some of the nicest people i've ever known. meeting qianyi was another huge blessing. she was such a great seoul-mate to have because she was so fluent with the language it was a breeze getting everywhere. more importantly, she was so similar to me in terms of tastes and preferences that we could hang out with practically no compromises on either parts. i think i might have been truly miserable without her. studying at KU was such a refreshing break from NUS. the school grounds were beautiful, the people much better eye candy haha. also, i was so much happier NOT studying anything psych related. it was so fun not having to concern myself with abstract theories and instead focus on learning things that are applicable in the real world and i think that really reflected itself in my results. of cos, studying 4 days a week was bordering on torture, but ultimately i realised it's so much easier when it comes to exam time because everything is still fresh in your head. outside that, seoul is just a great place to be. from the shopping, to the music scene, to the food. this experience is probably the one thing i'm glad i achieved in 2009.

as for last semester at NUS. it was the first time i literally had no one to go for classes with for every single module. it was horrifying. daunting. terrifying. hahaha and i'm not even joking. not to mention my timetable consisted solely of level 4000 psych seminars. fortunately, i met with really great groupmates and made some new friends. being alone really forces you to be more sociable and i guess i needed that or i would never be bothered to get to know the other people in psych. thankfully, level 4000 modules also somehow turned out to be less horrible than level 3000s. i guess it's less theory, more application. at least for the modules i chose. i also got to visit changi prison which was quite the eyeopener and i am vaguely considering a career at singapore prisons.... all in all, it was a pretty enjoyable semester tho i didn't do thaaaat fantastically haha.

last sem was also the first time i had a 2day week (mwahahaha). it was liberating but also v dangerous because i don't really know what i did with the other 5 days of the week. specially since i wasn't working either. till now, i have no clue what i was doing.. i did manage to take a short 5 day trip to hanoi with d. that was some hugeeeeeeeeeeee eyeopener. the heat and the dirt made me really angsty but looking back it was a pretty fun experience. the streets were so fascinating and the food really grew on me (phooooo ♥).