Pleasant Surprise

So I went to pick up my transcript from NUS RO today. Then I decided to scan them, spice up my resume, do the online tests requested by the Spherion lady, and send her everything for my application to the mysterious 2-yr-startup-and-listing-for-ipo company. By the time I'd finished scanning n zipping through all three tests on OOP, Java 2, and Servlets, it was past dinner time! Whoa.. time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana... (quote from David McKinnon who taught me Cosmology five years ago, and inspired my major project on 'Time').

So I called baby to see if we can have dinner together, but he was too busy playing ping-pong with his happy folks at work. Ai~~~

So I thought I'd give myself a treat and catch a cab to Westmall for some fresh salmon sashimi and green tea ice-cream in Sakae, but when I was about to jump into a cab, I noticed an older Indian couple standing slightly behind me and lookin at me expectantly... aai.

So I let them have the cab, and sauntered to NUH instead. It was like 8 p.m. and everyone I could think of had already had dinner. Looks like it's gonnabe a lonely meal tonite...

But lo and behold! Just as I was about to decide between Dili's Western Food and the Yong Tau Foo in Kopitiam, I caught a friendly smile on an equally friendly face... flash! Bam! Alakazam... it's my dear Logics tutor from last semester and his sweet girlfriend. What good luck! Together they are among the best and most helpful seniors I know in NUS.. not to mention the cutest couple (one tall and cool, the other petite and chirpy, and both pretty good-looking :D), who's kind enough to invite me to their table for dinner. Yay~~ goodbye to lonely meal.

So we chatted almost endlessly about the struggle towards an NUS PhD (for them), prospects of post-grad studies in Europe vs U.S. (for me), living costs n standards n the culture of people there vs here (they're from Romania btw).
She: "In Europe, people are generally more relaxed."
He: "There's a lot more pressure in Singapore."
Me: "But the Singapore lifestyle cannot be generalised to the whole of Asia..."
She: "Yeah even in Malaysia, the pace is very different..."
He: "Yeah but in Malaysia, you're stressed about other things, like the safety of your wallet..."
All: hahahahha~~

I wanna go to Europe! Even if it takes me ten years, I'm gonna stay in one of those mountainous countries (maybe Switzerland!) for at least six months. Studying, holidaying, working, who knows... let's see how it goes :)