It's been a while since I posted the last one... I'll write some random stuff today....
UTown
UTown is the place where most of the dormitories are located. As I mentioned before, this place was built two years ago so everything is quit new. They have pretty good food places; two food courts & small restaurants. They also have the largest Starbucks in Singapore.
This is the new food court and just opened in this January. They have Chinese, Indians, Malay, & Western food. It depends on what you order but food are usually cheap here. You usually have to pay S$2.50-$5.00. I think I paid S$4.10 for this one.
So, I live in the graduate residence. I'll just show some pictures...
Graduate residence has up to 25th floor and I live on the 23rd. The view from my room is pretty nice. All I can see is NUS campus but this is only a small part of it!!
I don't have any pictures of my room but I think it's about 25 sq ft (8 sq m). A room comes with a desk, chair, closet, & bed. You have to bring your own bed linen, a pillow & an internet cable. Wi-Fi is limited in this building.. I also recommend you to bring or buy some hangers... Some rooms have air-conditioning but I have a ceiling fan instead. One good thing about this place is you don't have to clean up the shared space like living room. You'll still have to clean up your own room but it's small so it's not much.
Education Resource Center
This is the place where you can study for 24/7. The biggest Starbucks is located in this building. You have access to Mac & PCs. They also have private study room and seminar rooms.
EduSports
Sorry, this picture looks really bad... But the weather around here is always like this.. We actually had thunderstorm this past few weeks..
Anyways, the EduSports has sports hall, dance studio, gym, swimming pool, the new food court, bookstore etc... I heard the gym will be open sometime this semester.
Moving on...
Textbooks
Since I'm taking business modules here, I got all my books from the Central Library. There is a small bookstore at this location. All of them were new and I think the most expensive one was around S$60-70 so it's a lot cheaper comparing to textbooks from UH bookstores. You can also get used ones through IVLE (from your own account). I also heard that you might be able to rent a textbook from the library for two hours but I'm not exactly sure...
Club Activities
I decided to join the dance clubs called D'Hoppers (Hip hop) and Jazzttitude (Jazz but mixed with other styles). It's once a week lesson and S$70 for 8 lessons. They have different levels and the instructors are really nice. If you are not interested in dance, NUS has other sports clubs so definitely you should join them!! This will be the chance to meet the local students outside of classes!
Climenti Mall
This is probably the one of the closet shopping mall from NUS. I usually shop my groceries here. I got my pillow and bed linen too but I should have gone to IKEA... You can take a bus 196 from UTown or 96 from NUS campus. It takes about 10-15 minutes to get there. You can use your Ez-Link card and I believe it's S$0.73 one way. One thing I noticed is that most of the American products are pretty expensive.. Japanese products are also expensive but I felt American products are even higher.. I wonder why..
If you want to do the real "SHOPPING," Orchard is the good place to go. The shopping malls are huge! There are lots of luxury brands there. But they do have Forever 21 and H&M as well...
Chinese New Year
I didn't have school on Feb. 10&11. So I went to Universal Studio Singapore during the break. Since I went on the new year's eve, I got to see some fireworks in the evening!!
I didn't have a chance to go but in Chinatown they had Chinese new year's countdowns! I heard my friends had a lot fun so it may be a good idea to go if you are studying in Spring semester.
Recess Week
Recess week is from Feb. 23rd to Mar. 3rd!! This is the one of the longest break you'll get so this is the time to travel!! I'm planning to go to Penang Island in Malaysia with my friend for a couple days! So EXCITED!! X]
I'll update more about my trip when I came back!!
