Korea 10

Day 10

Phew.. settled with neuroscience don't want to think of it anymore!! just take and have fun. CHUANG  ONLY!!! bio-imaging, introduction to neuroscience, imunnology and biomolecular engineering :)

had a bread outing with my buddy and another buddy today :) ligia and hye won!! haha bread i love bread!! tours de jours chewy cheese stick is really good. love it!! its only 1000 won so its pretty cheap yay! then we went to the library and i got my bookmark! like a finally :) meeting my buddies for korean bbq on monday night!! hehe :) cannot wait to try new things, especially samgyupsal :)

last night, the dinner was great! Juhee bought korean street food for us as well as sweet chicken with noodles. they also had 'tang hoon' wrapped in flour and fried or .. something like pig's liver :) which i kinda liked haha . we learnt many things from Juhee as well as Vanessa and Ligia who were both Brazilian and they speak Portuguese. 

Did you know that in Portuguese, things have a gender attached to them? 
Like table is female and handphone is male? even the show or bathroom is male haha. cars are male but roads, bicycles and motorcycles are females. It is actually based on the end of the word, if it ends with an a or o. a for female and o for male. Or if you have to put o or a as an article in front of the object. so like please bring the coffee. its por favor, traga o café in Portuguese, the o in front shows that the coffee is male. :) interesting huh. haha and they said that Chinese is difficult lol. memorizing the different sexes of both living AND non-living things would be harder imo hahaha :)

anyways, though this trip i think i better do some self reflection. i realised that in Singapore, we take everything for granted. even the education system. we keep complaining that the lecturers are no good, its really stress to study etc.etc. but here in Korea, its even worst. the students literally camp at the library! they do not go back to their hall till i think the wee hours of the morning. the seat reservation in the library is always almost full. maybe most of them just chuck their books there to reserve the seat but really. here in KAIST, its super competitive!!! :/ plus the lecturers really push us. we lecture hoped into one class called landmarks in cell biology, the students were i think mainly graduate students i don't know but they all know who is the current new nobel prize winners. 

they are  Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka btw," for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent" o.O i mean i haven't even heard of them if not for that class. this really set me thinking. haha unfortunately i will not be attending this class --> too intimidating haha. but it really opened my eye like.. wow. almost every kid in the class knows that!!! o.o wow. just wow. so yea really. Singapore students should really buck up. plus we are a privilege country. we import almost everything to the convenience of our Singaporean consumers i wonder why anyone would want to migrate elsewhere? oki maybe it is more relaxed in the European side or the States or elsewhere. But as Asians, i think Singapore has done pretty well. so maybe we should take some time to reflect on what Singapore has already done for us rather than keep thinking about how insufficient we are as compared to other countries. you know. the grass ain't always greener on the other side. its only greener where you water it. so appreciate Singapore, Singaporeans!

'if you want your life to be meaningful, it starts with you going out and doing something about it'

p.s Currently holding on to two Agatha Christie books. the first and the last. hopefully i can speed read through it and enjoy it at the same time. Books are always my solace :)
=do something right=