(These look like a particular rock formation to me - even The Geography Major couldn't tell me what those things were called, anyone has any idea? Haha!)
"Complicated? But they're just regular double chocolate chip cookies!"
Surprise! (: They're not just double chocolate chip cookies, they're double chocolate chip cookies with peanut butter centers! They remind me of Reeses peanut butter cups (which are one of the most heavenly candies on earth). Sweet creamy peanut butter chunks enclosed in a chocolatey cookie shell. Yum yum yum.
Cute (:
Making them involved more manual labour than cookies normally require, but it was well worth it.
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"Having few resources, we have to be resourceful. Being small, we have to think big."
How do you think Singapore can "think big"?
Damn. I haven't created a powerpoint presentation in ages and ages. Not sure how to do up those professional looking ones either. I had better ace the "interview" on Friday, because it's the only scholarship board that would dream of funding me for my course.
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SMU business interview yesterday. It's quite funny because everyone who hears that I'm going for the SMU interview goes "huh?" Yeah, I know I have already submitted my acceptance and am in the process of acquiring a student visa to study in USA and settling my boarding issues, etc. But I applied to both NUS and SMU anyway, to go through the interviews for the experience. And having a backup plan is always safe.
But I do think SMU's going to reject me, and if they don't, it has to be because of my results and not because of the interview. Hahaha.
I went in with a very terrible attitude of "I don't need a place, I just want to gain some experience from this interview". So we sat down in the group of 9, read an article on foreigners intimidating Singaporeans, and discussed it. After a while I was so annoyed at all the people in my group that I just gave up and rolled my eyes at them and shut up.
Maybe it's the nature of the interview, to make you speak up and get attention, but everyone was so overly pretentious. It's fine to speak up about your view, but there's no need to shout it out and pretend to be extremely emotional about your viewpoint and defend it like everyone else's opinion is wrong. Everyone was so vehement and somewhat arrogant and it turned into an argument of sorts and I was just ... disgusted. At the pretence. I mean, a lively discussion would be great, but not when everything's so forced and everyone's clamouring for attention.
There was one part where I nearly burst out laughing though. This particularly annoying boy was going on and on about how horrible foreigners' attitudes were (???) and when he was finally done, a guy from the corner spoke up, and to my amusement, I realised that he was a foreigner from China! Hahaha.
Wrote a ridiculous essay on the importance of enthusiasm (of all things), without any of the said enthusiasm. Reached the word limit in about half the time given, was the first to hand in the essay and leave.
Horrible.
Edit (in the evening):
EH SO FAST.
"Congratulations! You have been offered a place at SMU."
Hahaha, ha, oh no.
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Time's flying by real quick. It's been, what, 5 months since we started playing, and I have 4 months before I leave this place for 4 years.
Now that's scary.
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Sometimes, I just sit down alone. Lost in my own random thoughts. And cry. Like the crybaby we all know I am.
Do you realise that I'm not happy?