CHWEE KUEHS AND SCHOOL


So, I overslept and was late for my first lecture of the first day of Semester 2. Not my fault, really. I did not sloth away in my bed. Instead, I was taking bus 963 from HarbourFront. My eyelids were already drooping while on the NEL train. (I slept at 3am the night before, okie?). Seeing that it'll be around 10minutes before the bus reaches the Buona Vista Flyover, I closed my dainty and sparkling eyes to take a rest. The next moment I opened them, the bus was already journeying along Pasir Panjang Close. WHAT! THE! So, I alighted opposite Kent Ridge Terminal, and took the Internal Shuttle Bus from Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASS) back to Faculty of Science (FoS). I was a grand 15minutes late, but luckily, the lecturer had just finished with the usual nonsensical introduction of the module's "aim and objective, overview, library resources, reference text and whatnot" and was just about to begin delivering her lecture when I arrived. *phew* Thank goodness that I've not missed anything important.

Guess I'm still in a holiday-ing mood. I was bleary-eyed for the whole of today. *grins*


Anyway, I've just realized that my schedule on Monday is simply torturous. I have lessons straight from 10.00am onwards until 6.00pm, with no breaks in between.
Have to be in LT27 for CM1121 from 10.00am - 12.00pm,
LT11 (which is at FASS!!!) for SSA2204 from 12.00pm - 2.00pm,
and detour back to FoS again for LSM1401 laboratory session from 2.00pm - 6.00pm.

Gosh, what had I done?? Not only had I not left myself any breaks, I've even got to rush to and fro from FoS to FASS and back to FoS again, and during the afternoon peak hour, no less! AND on a day when I have laboratory session, too! Gosh gosh gosh.

On a happier note, I've a 4hours break from 12.00pm - 4.00pm on Tuesdays, and only a 2hours lecture on Thursdays. It'll be wonderful, and I can squeeze in some tutorial slots in between. This is great!


Anyway, since this week is the first week of school, there are no tutorials or laboratory sessions to attend. Thus, I only had CM1121 and SSA2204 lectures for the whole of today. And man, SSA2204 Nation-building in Singapore, offered by the department of History, is so dead boring. For the first lecture, that is. The lecturers spent the first hour going through the usual nonsensical "aim and objective, tutorials, CA tests, library resources, blah blah blah...", and the remaining other hour going through the overview of each and every of the 18 lectures. And of course, no prize for getting it right, I slept like a dead log for the second part of the lecture. Even the usual Polo mints failed to perk me up. I mean, if it's an overview of something interesting like, French, Psychology, Sociology, Biology etc, fine, I won't doze off. But hello, HISTORY??!! This is evil torture at its best. *faints*

I'm a sleeping beauty princess. Haha!


I jolted out of my blissful sleep just in time to hear my lecturer saying, "see you guys next week". Bolting out of LT11 with a new-found spring in my steps, and since I'm already at FASS, I decided to take bus 33 from Kent Ridge Terminal. It's high time to purchase the famous Chwee Kueh at Tiong Bahru Foodcourt which I've been pining dearly for for months. Luckily, I managed to alight at the right bus stop. The first and last time I've been there, was about 6 months ago, somewhere in June or July. Li Huey, Serene, Ian Loke, and I were dining at Bie Fu in Tiong Bahru Plaza, and decided to pop by the Foodcourt to sample the famous Chwee Kueh, after having read the recommendations and glowing appraisal in Strait Times Life!. It's ranked among the top five best Chwee Kueh stalls in Singapore, okie? And it is in the 2nd position, okie? Don't play play, ah!

Of course, my first trip there was quite a disaster. Ian Loke was leading the way. And, if you ask me, it's a case of the blind leading the blind. We walked for approximately 45minutes before reaching the Foodcourt (and it was supposedly to be only one bus stop down from Tiong Bahru Plaza!!!), and made a big U-turn detour around the blocks of flats opposite Tiong Bahru Plaza. Why was I so sure? Because I noticed something interesting while walking. You know the way Singapore HDB blocks are built and located - with the block numbers in running numbers? Well, I noticed that for the blocks opposite Tiong Bahru Plaza, there were block 6 to block 8, followed by block "???" to block "???" (have forgotten the numbers. Only remember that they're 3-digit). It's quite interesting, lah, having single-digit HDB block numbers smacked right in the middle of those with triple-digits.

When we finally reached the Foodcourt a grand 45minutes later, I was commenting jokingly to the rest that this is the FIRST time I've walked 45minutes just to purchase an item of food. And chwee kuehs, of all things, at that!


Anyway, the Chwee Kuehs smell oh-so-heavenly. They're totally out of this world, man! I bought 16 pieces all in all (for my whole family lah, not me alone. I'm not a pig, but a princess!), and I kept sniffing the packets on my way home. Gosh gosh gosh, smelling the heavenly aroma makes me feel like I'm already in paradise. Hohoho!

Seriously, someone should really classify Chwee Kueh as one of the world's finest delicacy. What's the hype over the rubbery and tasteless abalones? And what's so fascinating about Shark's Fin Soup? The only thing remarkable about them is that they are capable of burning a big hole in the pocket.
I say, Chwee Kuehs and Coffee Buns should rule the world!!! They're considerably cheap, and they taste absolutely heavenly.


I'm aware that I'm rambling and blattering away. Okie, it's time to go to bed and readjust my badly conked-up biological clock.