Monday, September 28, 2009
the greatest trip in toronto is visiting the Niagara falls. here, we got to take a small ship which sailed to very near the Niagara's falls for us to have a good view. after looking at how magnificent and large the water fall, it's not surprise that there's no water bills in montreal(meaning people don't pay for water consumption).
i have been procrastinating to blog ever since i got here. i told myself that i must finish writing an entry before i sleep today. i have so many thoughts in my mind everyday, but i don't know how to express them in words(i'm a computer science, not a english major), so i shall simply think of some keywords and write things related to them.
who are my friends in mcgill?
got to know a few singaporeans in McGill doing undergrad. I am actually quite surprised that there are quite many of them doing full time undergrad here. Anyway, most of them are damn rich people. Sometimes, I do feel inferior knowing the large parity between my family's background and theirs. THIS WORLD IS SO FARKING UNFAIR. KNNCCB. So, this also leads to my less incliation to do phd, since doing phd means i will be poor for another few years. i need to START EARNING FARKING MONEY so that i can be RICHER than these kids will ever become. FARKED!!!
On another note, I also realised that almost every other Master's student I know is either paying full tuition fees or gets much lesser funding than me. So, i guess i should be happy that my boss pays me well and I am essentially getting a free ride and a free degree here. Haha.
And I also realise the large number of americans here. Quite a number of my french languages classmates are from new york!
Where do I get food?
Have been cooking my meals almost everyday. My stipend of 1000 CAD is actually enough to cover accomodation and for me to eat outside everyday. A meal outside costs like 8CAD after taxes. But being soon-to-be 25, I really need to save up a lot of money since a man without saving is a farking pussy,(once again, money is important) and it's so much cheaper to cook here because even though the taxes are high here, daily essential food items like rice, vegetables and meat are not taxed at all. I believe I will become a better chef than my mum after I graduate. Hahaha.
What the fark will I do after graduation?
believe it or not, even though i only just started school, i have already been thinking of what I should do after graduation. i usually plan my life 5 years in advance. hahaha. after staying in montreal for a while, and having been in france and many other european countries, i feel that canada is indeed a great place to stay in. initially, my plan was to finish my master and do my phd in US and then find a job in US. afterall, US is the land of opportunities and has great IT jobs. but now that i'm here, and after talking to people and reading accounts of students who didn't get PR nor job offers after studying in US, my inclination to go US drops drastically. Not to mention that US is a lot dirtier, more racist and has much higher crime rates(plus guns!) here. Besides, i always think that i'm not cut out for doing research anyway. so maybe a job in canada after two years will be good?
where is the love?
Saw this video on facebook of a couple from DHS who started dating way back in DHS and filmed a marriage video in DHS. They are only two years older than me, and I also spotted a senior in the video. Since Feburary last year, I kinda believed that I passed the stage where I don't mind being single for my entire life. But after watching this video, I actually feel like getting married very soon. Haha. Anyway, what i wanted to say is that when you are 14 or 15, when you like someone, it's really pure liking the person. When you get older, many factors become part of the equation, like whether the other one has a proper job. Love seems more like a transaction. Okay, i'm getting cynical again. moral of the story is : Farked. Why didn't i get a gf in DHS?
Where is my home?
Another thought that came to my mind after watching the video is the rate of change in singapore. Though the students filmed the video in DHS, the classrooms and volleyball courts are not the same as the ones 10 years back. DHS renovated the campus just last year. And actually, when I entered DHS, the campus I studied in was new and only two years old! I remembered when I was in secondary school, my primary school was closed and the streets I used to hang out when i was young changed. When i'm in NUS, one day I realised the macdonalds at kallang station was closed and the place was converted into a ERP gantry! I believed that as we get older, we tend to want to revisit places that brings back fond memories, and these are the very places that remind us of who we once were. But it seems like we don't have such luxuries in SG. Another contrasting incident was one day during our student exchange programme, sinhui told us that she revisited the basilique in Lyon and place where a few of us carved our names one year back was still intact. Haha. I really think that after a few years, sg would have changed so much that I don't feel any sense of familiarities when I returned.
how are my lessons?
As you can see, I have been using vulgarities in this post, and it's partly due to stress from assignments and projects. Argh, taking graduate modules sux.
i shall end by posting a few photos of mcgill's campus.
mcgill students like to suntan during their break time. eating lunch on the field is a common sight here.
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