I am back in singapore, for those who are uninformed. This is supposed to be a secret…. maybe until now…. but OK fine, actually many knew about it, because I was ranting about how much I missed home during my last few days in Beijing, and telling everyone how happy I was to be going home soon.
Sadly, while I am back on the sunny (maybe rainy is more apt) island, I can’t really hang out with people because I have to MUG!!!! yes MUG omg… for this really troublesome but essential exam called GRE. For the sake of my future (since Beida cannot give me enough assurance of that), I’d better study, and study hard.
Internship at NYT Beijing was fun, the last few days were spent rushing on wrapping up work I was assigned, and packing luggage. Am so happy that this article on downsized bank workers was published on the front page a few days ago – it surprised both me and my reporter! It didn’t look like something that could appear on the front, but it did!
But the bigger reason why I am proud of it is because it is my first and only solo effort. So pardon my showing-off hehe, I’m low-profile on most days.
But internship with a Western media inevitably influenced the way I saw China, and unsurprisingly, I got really cynical. So thank you to Zhaopeng (ZB’s Beijing correspondent) for pulling me back. Maybe some things should just be left to the angmohs.
aiyah I think I have internship overdose already.
I wanna go out with my friends, mahjong, gossip, Mambo Night (baojia you promised me that!), makan etc, without thinking about those burdens and obligations. I wanna do what I really love, like draw and design, be an adobe geek and stuff like that. Maybe I’ll join PIE (beida’s design club) next semester, and pick up these skills again…. And I wanna go travelling on a single-trip ticket, take things slowly and really live there, not just mere travel. Maybe Lhasa will be a great destination – I am still planning this with my friend from Guangzhou… hopefully it will materialise.
Enough of the ramblings…. I should be studying. I need good GRE grades, then write my personal statement, then get my mentor and bureau chief to write my recommendation letters (who should I get for the third LOR? omg…), and then get the terrible transcripts (my 污点 in my application! >.<) and what else? oh, money in the piggy bank.
sheeesh.
but hello friends, so this is my life so far.
what about you?