Day To Be Crossed

Hmmm…. today i’m visiting the new nephew. First, shopping with modesta to find a gift for baby. Looking around at Takashimaya’s baby fair. Lots of choices, lots of people, so crowded! Considering that he is the second child of my cousin, so I decided to buy something useful. Finally I bought a bottle sterilizer… directly pay and wrap it! Then I wanted to buy some biscuits for my sister, Ricki will back to Indo tomorrow, I asked him to pass it to my sister. But it is sold out at watson’s Taka, watson’s Wisma Atria, and cold storage. As modesta’s suggestion, I drop by at Toa Payoh on my way to Bishan to buy it at NTUC. Then I continue to Bishan, arrive there, my cousin suggest me to continue using bus no 54 but he didn’t tell me where to stop. I’m checking on my little "dictionary" of bus routes and found that there were 2 bus stop at bishan street 13 and I didn’t know which bus stop I should get off. Ask the bus driver that I want to go to xxx block and the driver told me where to stop. Luckyly I didn’t get lost, hehehe….

Getting there makes me a little confuse, many blocks and I just turning around, finally I found it. Next problem is I didn’t know where is the lift to get upstairs. Luckyly I met Ricki downstair, so he help me to go up and see the baby. Then went out with Ricki, Tera, and his mom to Junction Mall, which is beside Bishan MRT. If I knew, I would buy the biscuits there, oh… so stupid! After dinner I went back to the apartment to talk with them and drop by to see my cousin. The baby is so cute and small =). His name is Timothy. His mom ask me to carry him but I reject it, I’m afraid I will drop him coz he is still so weak. Wanna play with his sister, Camelyn. But today, Camelyn is unfriendly, crying all day, maybe she just realizes there is a new "comer" in the family whom will share all the mom’s and dad’s love with her.

Times to go home, it’s 9 PM. My cousin send me back with his car, it’s quite fast, only 30 minutes. If I went back by myself by MRT and continue by bus, maybe it will takes 1 hour even more. He got in from the highway which was not the route of bus that I used to take, so when he asked me the way inside the NTU complex, I got a little confuse. I just know that it was the correct road, coz the name is nanyang crescent, but I didn’t recognize any building there. After checking the map and following my "feeling", we found the hall where I lived. Finally I  found that the building I saw when I first got in was the apartments for staff which I never passed before. A little ashame of myself, coz I don’t familiar with the way inside NTU. I think I should try to walk around of all NTU area to get familiar ^_^

One week has passed, I’m feel so terrible. When all the fun has stopped and the headache started. I would like to review my first weeks result:

1. Monday: Multimedia Networking

This course is about QoS, how to decide the best QoS; what kind of protocol should be used for different kind of data/video/voice, etc; delay; jitter; and the least but not the last is headache! All about theory and sometimes the professor makes me sleepy in the class. That’s 3 hours boring course.

2. Tuesday: Computer Network

The professor using chinese-english, from the first sentence he spoke, I know he came from China, and you know how to deal with terrible chinese-english… another headache! Anyway the lesson will talk about TCP/IP and friends, ATM network, and all the protocols…. Another 3 hours boring class.

3. Wednesday: Network Performance Analysis

All about math, especially probability, poisson, etc that implemented on queueing analysis. Forgot all the math, should recall my memory again. Anyway, the professor tech too fast, or maybe I’m too stupid to catch it. I think this course is more suitable to phd student, coz it’s only makes me more headache!

4. Thursday: Holiday ^_^

It should be Digital Communication System but it is canceled coz of Singapore National Day. So it’s time to have fun! Finally I went to Modesta’s apt and cook rawon (Indonesian style beef soup), but modesta bought the wrong meat, it should be beef, but she bougth pork. And she didn’t realize it till I show the label at the package. Finally we cook it, not so bad…. there’s no different taste between pork and beef, hehehe…

5. Friday: RF Engineering Techniques

Need to recall my memory again about transmission line, VSWR, and smith chart, so far I learn more by myself and doing some exercises

6. Saturday: monthly shopping

Go to IMM to buy body soap, shampoo, and another daily needs…

7. Sunday: church time

Went to church with Modesta. Then meet denny to go together to Funan, finally buy HP deskjet 2460, I choose the small and cheapest one. Lunch at Lucky Plaza, ayam penyet ria is ok…. Find a parfume for my sister and accompany modesta to buy shoes at OG chinatown. Cook dinner with modesta, even it’s a little terrible coz of "weird" ketchup made by singapore… When I went back, all my room are wet., I hate it! Need to clean it….

Tomorrow I will try my new printer….