Week 15

I can't believe it, this week has flown past so quickly. I don't remember sleeping much so y did it fly by so quickly??

Mon was an exhausting day, I stayed in sch till like 3am to set up the Expo booths. We were doing so much last min stuff like drawing billboards, arranging tables, packing goodie bags etc. 3am!! Until they had to send me home in the NUSSU van.

Tue saw a lousy start to our Expo cos most of booths were as white as sheet "literally and figuratively". Many projects didn't show their support... But we won't let this keep us down. We'll do sth to it.

Wed-Fri it got a bit better, we managed to decorate it a bit on Tue night. Taking things easy this 4 days and waiting to make an impact nx wk.

Better concentrate on my schoolwork first. Been rushing through Financial Econs as usual. Didn't manage to grab a friend fr the class. I tried asking a China girl, apparently fr Shanghai, why I didn't get the ans for some qns and she was quite reluctant to help me. These PRCs really know their schoolwork. I think they mug very hard. They understand the stuff that the lecturer and tutor r trying to put across easily. And it's not only the PRCs, it's the foreigners in general. They amaze me. While the locals are trying to catch what the lect is abt, desperately clinging on to every word the lecturer says, and equally desperately trying to jot them down, the foreigners just sit back confidently and listen. AND ask questions!!

If you pay close attention, when locals raise their hands it's to ask "Can u pls push the slide up/ can u pls put back the previous slide?" but when our overseas counterparts ask qns it's like "So what happens when beta is -ve? / What if...." or it's to answer the qns the lecturer pose to the whole hall.

QWei says he has long given up on the PRCs who don't want to share answers cos they see us as competition, if we do well, the bell curve will wk against them etc. etc. Well, I've decided to be an optimist. I think not all PRCs are like that. The girl that I asked did answer my qns afterall in a nice manner. Maybe she thought I was those expecting her to pass me her paper and let me copy wholesale which I know many ppl in class do (which is quite sick). Pearl and I rem our Micro class test when everyone at the back of the class was copying fr one another. We were so amused because one guy just blatantly looked over my shoulder at my answer! Tck tck...We don't resort to such things, we struggle very hard for our grades especially when we only know each another in the whole Econs course... Copying is not an option for us and neither is the option we want to choose.

One day, I'll get the Shanghai girl engaged in a intellectual debate abt the topic on Portfolio Analysis, I'll get "let down her guard" and we can exchange intellectual questions and answers =D

Fri night- ended at 12 pm and took a cab home...$24.70 Sigh* We're trading money, hard work and time for it....