Day 68 -- I'm done with my dream board!

Spent the bulk of the day trying to finish organising my portfolio and dreamboard for tomorrow's submission. And this made me realise how  fast time had actually passed. It doesn't seem long before when we were given this assignment and tomorrow it's going to be due. Well, this also mean that I am soon approaching the mid point of my exchange here in Taiwan. Soon enough I'll be counting down to my return back to Singapore, that sunny island~

Despite it being my mid terms week, I'm still chilling and spending so much time on unproductive things instead of studying for the coming papers. Seems like i chillax a tad too serious. Well, I can only redeem myself by doing a little mugging now. Hopefully it helps!

Dream board <3

Day 67 -- Back to Tainan!

Spent the whole day in Tainan with my fellow group mates in Tainan today because of a school project we got to do. For the first time (and most  probably the last), I saw 阵头 and the rituals undergone to celebrate the birthday of a Chinese deity! It's indeed an eye-opening experience for me, not to mention the way they set off the firecrackers. So much firecrackers being set off just in a day! And this is not even the actual birthday celebration (which will be on Monday, but me has exams :( )

Well, spent 4 hours in the temple, running around just to get the best pictures, videos; and for me, actually the spot to watch the whole ritual, since I know I will most probably not make it back for any of such activities in Taiwan in the near future. But those 4 hours felt like a long time. I blamed it to the lack of sleep.

After the trip to the temple, we had our R&R at Anping! Had the famous prawn rolls (not very special IMO), 棺材板, and the Anping beancurd for dessert! Out of everything I had yesterday, the beancurd was indeed dope. I love it when they have the beans on top of them. Frankly speaking, I'm not sure if I liked the beancurd or the beans :p

Yup, that kind of summarized my day and seriously I'm already a walking dead by the time we took the train back to Kaohsiung!

Well, pictures and videos will be up soon, stay tuned~

Day 66 -- Prepping for a long day ahead!

Had a project discussion at Family Mart with my group mates earlier on because we are setting off to Tainan early tomorrow for a field trip. Another cultural learning trip, this time to learn about a local festival which in Taiwan. 三月疯妈祖 -- meaning the craze for Ma-zu in March. And tomorrow shall be the day I experience for myself what are some of the activities they will have for the celebration of the birthday of Ma-zu.

I'm kinda excited for it, but right now, I got to sleep because I got to wake up by 5am later. So I hope I will have more to update tomorrow! Nights :)

Day 65 -- Start of intensive mugging for mid terms!

Done with my last day of lessons and training for the week and it's back to intensive mugging for the coming midterms for the weekends!

So I'm going to list out what I have to complete this week.
4 videos to be watched and analysed
3 mid terms exams to study for
20% left of my portfolio
1 day field trip to Tai Nan

Oh wells, 这真的是名副其实的“时间不够用” :(

I'm already looking forward to next Thursday to come!!!

Day 64 -- A productive day in the library

How I spent my free day -- with my books and assignments. Perhaps I haven't really done much assignment this semester, it felt so good when I am striking off the assignments due one by one. But I got to speed up the process because my mid terms are just next week and I am seriously not prepared at all. What's more, I got 3 videos to complete and analyse by next Tuesday. Really can't wait for next week to end! Then it's another few weeks of relaxation before the much dreaded finals approach!

Day 63 -- What a splashing good training!

So, today is the first pool training I have with the girls team for the Tainan competition in the pool and it was a great one! I started training really tired and seriously speaking, I would have very much skipped the session if not for having pushed myself further. But I'm so glad I'm teamed with a bunch of fun and really awesome girls!

Got to mix around and talk to different people of different nationalities all in NSYSU for different purposes. Some are here for exchange, some for masters and some are just here to study Chinese. How cool! 

Back to the training, it was tough, but like the title mentioned, I really had a SPLASHING good time today at the pool!

Can't wait for more to come, but first let me rest my sore arms.

Anyway, if you are free, do support my friend's video here! It's a parody on #SELFIE! :D

Day 62 -- It's the start of revision week for the mid terms!

Yup, the title shows it all~ The coming 2 weeks are going to be really busy because of all the mid terms quizzes that are coming up! But i believe I can do this because honestly speaking I have only 3 quizzes which is much lesser as compared to what I'd dealt with back in Singapore. So as long as I start early, I should be able to do them (fingers crossed)!

Anyway, had our training earlier on and our instructor told us a bad news. The dragonboat competition in Kaohsiung has been called off due to a lack of funding. Now we can only pin our hopes to the one in Tainan and hopefully we can get to compete in it! Please pray for us too! Or else the trainings for the past 1.5 months will be in vain!