Hey guys! How’s your holidays been going so far? For those of you lucky people who actually have holidays, unlike us people who are currently doing our final year internships, that is. Hope it’s been a good one for you guys!

In any case… guess what?

Last wed, I had the opportunity to attend the press launch for Marina Bay Sands! I headed down to MBS with my peeps, JY and Sophie, early in the morning for the press con at 10. (We were nearly late btw, thanks to a certain someone who had to cut their nails… Heh. ;P)

It was really quite cool ‘cause there was like, over 1100 journalists from all over the world in the Grand Ballroom that they used for the press con.

I think this is Andrea de Cruz... Hmm...

It was a really huge event. There were translators for about 7 or 8 languages, like Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, etc, so for foreign journs unable to speak English, they got to wear this cool headset thing to listen to the translator’s interpretation of what was being said at the conference.

After the conference, we had good food!

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Only got pics of my dessert, 'cos I forgot to take a pic of lunch. D:

Hehe. Then we went back for a couple of interviews, and attended this Gong ceremony thing, which was really just a formality in itself. We walked about after the ceremony, going to the lobby of MBS hotel because there was a VIP event going on! There were like, tons of rich, scary people milling about as they waited to sign in their attendance at the reception table.

The owners of MBS on the foremost left...

It's like this sea of black, right?!

It was like they had this palpable aura of “I’m rich and you’re not hahahaha you look sucky by the way”, and frankly, I felt quite intimidated in my silly old clothes while surrounded by the elite who were wearing bow ties and ball gowns everywhere. D:

Anyway, we headed back out, and attended this cool outdoor concert! JJ Lin, Kelly Rowland and the Jersey Boys performed, but it started raining halfway so we ran back to the media center for shelter.

It's awesome to be part of the media, ok! A lot of hard work, but sometimes a lot of fun!

Some Climbing World Championship - super heartwracking for me to watch the climbers just... climb! D: Singapore won, though! :D

And finally the day ended with yet another bout of good food! Heheh we were like gluttons over there.

This was dinner... Roast duck, baked cod fish in honey, fried prawn in salted egg, egg soup with crab meat (the real kind!) ho ho ho... Delish!

Followed by dessert... Sticky rice, osmanthus jelly, almond jelly, etc. ;D

Anyway, we enjoyed this opportunity to go to MBS, which would not have come about for our internship! Ho ho ho…

Here's a pic of all of us! From L to R: JY, me, and Sophie. And yes, I know I am short. (=n=)

In fact, when standing next to Sophie, I look like this:

D: I know. I am short. If Sophie hadn't tilted her head, I'd have looked even shorter and she'd have towered over me like some willowy tree! D:

Hehe. Anyway, hoped you enjoyed the pics! Have you been to MBS yet? What did you think of it? Let me know! :)

Haaaay guys!

Hello hello hello! I know some of you might be having exams at the mo, and some of you might have finished them all (and are happily chillaxing at home).... but guess what??

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npTribune Volume 43 Issue 1 is out!

Yes! After months of hard work (which is still continuing by the way - we have no rest D:<), npT is out and I am most definitely happy with what we've managed to produce. Though mostly I'm too exhausted nowadays to do more than bleat 'Meh' half-alive. Talking about the issue, though, we have a graduation suite lined up just for you in the first page and in the centerspread! We feature the top 7 graduates and find out how is it, really, that they managed to cope with schoolwork on top of all their other commitments like giving tuition to needy children and having fun like going out to karaoke!

Not only that, we also have articles on going abroad for a university education, which is the first part of our university feature, and Dialogue in the Dark, where we speak to Chen Wei Lian (Kelvin Tan) who won Project Superstar in 2005, and also a fashion page on how to dress up or down for school with a few basic clothing items!

Mehehehe. I'm really quite proud of it (despite my lacklustre appearance). And finally, to entice you to get your very own copy of npTribune, we also have contests running in it! There's one called 'My NP', where you get to win a Nikon Coolpix P6000 camera worth over $800, ice cream vouchers at awesome ice cream parlours near school, Dialogue in the Dark tickets, and a GAP voucher worth $250!

So. Doesn't that make you wanna grab a copy of npTribune NAO? ;P

PS: For those who can't get their hands on a copy of npT, here's the link to npTribune's website! Check it out! :)

Most of you probably know that grad day is long over (exactly one week today!), but I only JUST got around to returning my gown (major procrastinator). And with that, the realisation...

that my school life, as of now, is officially over!

Three years of torture hard work for an hour-long ceremony (that I was late for by the way, oops!).

That's me receiving my certificate!

The only photos of me in my gown that you'll see. I’m the second gal from the left(in case you don’t already know what I look like! Hmpf!)

I think I was one of the few girls who didn't wear heels( which is why everyone towered over me more than usual.  I ACCEPT THAT I AM SLIGHTLY HEIGHT-DEPRIVED, OK?!). But the point is:

It was my last day in school and the future is ahead of me and there are so many decisions to be made and things to be done -ahhhhh!!

While JC had been my choice until Sec 2, I decided at Sec 4 that I was too tired to go through with subjects such as Maths, Chemistry, Geography and PE anymore and chose Ngee Ann’s Mass Comm. It was the perfect stepping stone for a career in art and design! With the course being one of the most prestigious media courses here in Singapore, I’ve had soooo many opportunities to work with REAL world clients (scary for a 19 year-old like me, but sooo exciting!)

But so many things have changed now and the decision to make after polytechnic life is so much harder because your next move is basically the last before you go out into the working world. Oh god! Before this goes into melodrama-land, I'm gonna talk about something happier.

Spot me in my crazy group of friends!

Just looking back on some of the AWESOME stuff I did in NP:

My JC friends sometimes tell me that poly life looks so much more colourful than theirs. Welllllll.... Not to sound smug or anything, but.... haha!

1. I LOST WEIGHT!! (Yes! Stress is actually good for something. Haha!)

2. The friendships made were, of course, mostly awesome. There were problems, many of which I look back on and slap myself for, BUT it's been mostly smooth sailing so far.

3. The fun projects were, well, fun (case in point - picture above is from our Journalism module called “Feature Writing”. The magazine that we had to produce in a crazy short amount of time turned out super duper cool!) Plus, I actually enjoyed my 2+ months stay at the Loft (who doesn't enjoy complete independence?).

4. I got to do a lot of things that many people wouldn't be able to do - attend press conferences and special movie premieres!

5. Meet celebrities! OMG LADY GAGA!

6. Do design work, produce magazines and newspapers and radio shows (interview MPs!) and Advertisement campaigns.

I miss those times!

It's been a really long journey and sometimes you just really want to die or give it all up (trust me, I've felt like this way more times than I'd like to admit) because it feels too hard - but I can't say there haven't been any fun times. Because there has been lots, and I would not give it up for anything. Have a great time in you crazy people in NP, and cherish the most of it!

I love food.

I mean, who doesn’t, right? But even though I love food to death, I got a rather rude awakening when I had to do a food photoshoot for my magazine. 

I mean, just look at these pictures. Don’t they just look gorgeous?

From NickNguyen

From aiyah

From markncchang

But the truth is that things aren’t all that they seem! The truth was that I had to shift around the food in order to make them look good, so what really happened ended up something like…… this:

Heh. And while I can’t show the photographs from the photoshoot itself, I can tell you they most certainly made me go like this!

So yes! I hope you enjoyed this blog post!

(PS: I just happened to be really inspired by Hyperbole and a Half. Heh.)

(WAIT AH, please also note that I am not saying the above gorgeous pictures of food [not my lame sort of funny drawings] are fake or whatever. I'm just using them as an example of mouthwateringly delicious food. My burger photoshoot is the one that's all fake. So ya. PLEASE NOTE!)