DTF and double movie

Met up with bestie yesterday! Our original plan was just to eat lunch and watch a movie. I wanted to watch Gulliver's Travels, she wanted to watch Meet the Parents - Little Fockers. So what do you do when you can't decide which show to watch?

You watch both shows!!

Because we were kind of leaning towards Gulliver's Travels, we wanted to watch that, but there was no space for the earlier show, only the 4.30PM one. Then we realized that Little Fockers was at 2.50pm, and the runtime for Little Fockers was such that it ended exactly when Gulliver's Travels started!

So on a crazy impulse, we decided to watch BOTH. Lol.

Then right, we discovered a flaw in the Nex cinema system - You exit the theatre from the same door you entered from. I think this is because the actual 'exit' was not fully constructed yet or something.

So we originally thought we would have to run from the previous show to the next and re-enter from the front. In the end we just walked out of our theatre and into the adjacent one (As you can see our first show was Nex2 and 2nd show at Nex1) .... We didn't even use our tickets! And there was no security personnel there to stop us!

This is so flawed? We could have not bought tickets and still got into that show man. Rawr. We thought of trying our luck and going to a third one but after the 2nd show there were some movie personnel standing outside already :/

Anyway, for lunch we ate at Din Tai Fung!

Xiao Long Bao! (10 for $9)
I prefer the Crystal Jade one though.. DTF's xlb the skin like quite thick and there's much less meat inside! grr

The next item takes the cake -

PORK CHOP FRIED RICE @ $9

THIS IS THE BEST BEST BEST BEST THING IN THE WORLD!
Seriously this is probably the best thing on the menu.
First, the fried rice is extremely fragrant and tasty and delicious. Like you know how some Fried Rice is abit overcooked and has a chao ta smell or too saltish cos there's too much MSG? This is PERFECTLY cooked, none of that!
AND the best best thing about it is the PORK CHOP. Wow. A very generous serving of pork chop like you've never eaten before. The skin is very slightly crispy, and the meat is VERY tender and very JUICY!! Like you can literally feel the pork juice or whatever explode in your mouth when you bite into it! SUPER SHIOK.
This is easily the best meat I've ever eaten in my life. Haha.

And it's not jut a outlet thing! When i first ate this at Raffles City outlet of DTF, it was equally good! So it's some secret recipe that DTF uses or something.

Haha ok that's all I have. I highly recommend the Pork Chop Fried Rice from Din Tai Fung, it is the best meal you'll ever have :D

And on a side note, if you have Twitter, be sure to follow me, and some fake accounts that are quite funny you can follow:
@Fake_PMLee 
@realFASS
@therealfakeNTU
@fakeMOE

You don't have to be from NUS/NTU to follow them! gogo!

Joyeux Noel!

The title means 'Merry Christmas' in French btw.

Had my annual relative gathering for Christmas today at Hotel Rendezvous.. The food wasn't fantastic but .. ok la. They had some award winning Laksa which I thought was not bad la, but not like ZOMG MUST EAT MORE.

They had prata which at one point was made by this aunty.. who was quite noob at making it lol. i was watching her.. she flip flip a few times, not only looked damn awkward but the dough broke lol. So she had to manually use her fingers to press press and make bigger. malu to the max.

So food aside, ofc there were presents!

So many chocolates >< The generic Xmas present when you don't know what to get. I end up not eat half of them as always.

Deodorant (omg yes i spelt it right.. I think)

This one was quite cool.. when it was wrapped and I picked it up it began ticking.. I was like wth why got bomb inside issit. But it's a 'Four-sided clock'. Lol. So basically you can rotate it at any orientation (think iPhone/iTouch) and it displays something, and makes a tick/beep sound when it rotates.
And yay got hongbao.

A kungfu manual that teaches me the ancient art of  Wingchun.
Lol ok no it's just a notebook.

Some multi-compartment pouch

Esprit towels! Bath towel, hand towel and face towel. Niicee. Actually I think it's a very simple gift but cos branded ma.  hahaha.

Ah and I have some photos of my niece which I think i'll post on my Facebook.. Cos i wanna do abit of photoshop. yupyup that's all folks merry christmas!

Semester 1 results and weird dreams

My night was filled with weird dreams. More accurately, my morning. I wasn't as frantic or anxious as many people last night. and I certainly slept pretty well.. or rather, FELL asleep pretty easily.

I don't know, it just seems pointless to worry so much for something that is DONE already. It's not like my exam is today, it's the RELEASE of results. Something that is done and I have no control over.

I woke up at about 6+ I think, I didn't check the time. Went to the toilet as usual, and went back to bed. From there, the weird dreams started.

(read on if you dont mind seeing my results. dont worry theyre not that great so you wont feel like slapping me for being showoff or what.)


This was my first sem ever in NUS, so it was also my first time receiving results. Thus, I had no idea what it was like. I subscribed for the SMS service which was supposed to SMS us our results or something like that.

If you cant be bothered to read my retarded dream and just want to see my results/analysis of it, scroll down to the red text

Dream 1:
I received a big mail package which supposedly contained my results. I opened it and it was a big bunch of documents containing clearance forms which indicated I was allowed to have my results (i.e. paid school fees, etc) There were even instruction manuals on how to read the results that would follow.

Included in the package was Secondary 4 model Science notes -_- Yes they were the notes of the top students, all nicely bound together. And on the front cover it listed the top students.

There was a special introductory paragraph in the cover page as well, and there it said 'We would like to commend 3 students for their outstanding performance.'
AND I SAW MY NAME THERE. 'ALAN TEO'.

But I read on, it said 'and Alan Teo, despite being already 30 years old, still managed to get a CAP of 5!'

-_- so clearly not me unless in that dream i retained for so many years.

Anyway it was damn confusing because there were so many papers inside and i was sifting through and had no idea how to find it. Then I remembered I had to check my phone for the SMS and so I did, and the SMS said to call some number and to say some code.

So I tried to call that number but .. I think my phone display was a bit screwed up so I couldn't see my code clearly. Then super pek chek!! No idea how to get results. And it was already 11+ AM already. (results supposed to come by 9AM)

OK I WILL STOP TALKING ABOUT MY STUPID DREAMS ON TO THE RESULTS.

(on a side note, the results came in a succinct SMS, with just my matric number, and BOOM results. No merry christmas no nothing. haha )

Summary:
PL1101E - A+
PL2131 - B+
NM1101E - A-
PH1102E - A-
LAF1201 B+

Ok let's go through this mod by mod. I'll just say whether it met my expectations, and why. Won't be long.

PL1101E - Yes duh. I expected an A+, and got an A+. I worked my skin and teeth off for this so it was, I guess, deserved. Entered finals with an A+ midterms already, so it would have taken a major screwup at finals to deny me my A (or A+)

PL2131 - Probably the biggest disappointment in all my results. Finals was easy for me, and I guess easy for alot of people as well. I definitely had an A for midterms, but I guess one of the assignments screwed me over. I got 3/10 for that. :/ 15% worth somemore.
I really don't think Finals was the problem, even if everyone did well, I was confident of doing better, I tripled checked everything and also compared answers with some people. Pretty sure it was the assignment that pulled me down :(

NM1101E - Kinda disappointed with this as well, expected an A. Entered the finals with good project marks and an above average midterm score. However, finals was a killer, and I guess it killed me.

PH1102E - Biggest surprise among all... I expected a B+ at best! My assignment scores were about 75% so that puts me at about the B+ish range, so it was all down to the finals. Guess my smokescreen that I threw was enough for the finals. I even left 15 mins before time because I ran out of smoke to smoke for my essays lol. Glad to get an A for this, albeit a negative.

LAF1201- (french) - Expected a B+, got a B+. Nothing much to say, got about 75+% marks for all the tests, but French is a competitive module, so I guess it wasn't enough.

Overall - CAP = 4.4
I guess it seems decent, but my goal was actually above 4.5. I mean, it is only the first sem which is supposed to be the easiest? And it was a fairly relaxed sem for me, in terms of my modules. Not very intensive modules, and I only got this.
Thus, disappointed? Yes. Grateful? Yes. I guess I could be worse. Thank God for blessing me with these results and sustaining me through this sem. Now, I need help for next sem. Got to try to pull this above 4.5 if I still want my first class ><