NUS finished

On Saturday morning at 11am on 19th of November 2011 - I had finally finished my studies in National University of Singapore. I was actually first one that I know to finish the studies completely. Moreover, the upcoming two weeks are meant solely for final exams and some of my friends are finishing their studies in the beginning of December, good luck for all of you guys!

After my last exam, we headed out to celebrate with my Finnish visitor and a good Pakistan friend. We went into an Italian restaurant called OChre in Somerset, one of the busiest and most expensive areas in Singapore,  the Orchard Road. The restaurant has a wide range of excellent but a bit expensive pastas and pizzas. There is actually some thinking behind the decision to choose this restaurant. I had previously heard a rumor about all you can eat pasta and pizza buffet offer for the price of 22sgd on Saturdays from 11.30am to 3pm. It was there, when we realized that it wasn't a buffet, we were actually allowed to order as many pastas and as many pizzas we wanted from the menu with the fixed price even though the pizzas and pastas cost more than that price separately. In the end we managed to indulge ourselves with six different pizzas and three different pastas before our bellies started bursting - the best pizzas and pastas that I have had in a long long while.

The upcoming night was filled with excitement. I had some free tickets to a beach party I helped to promote and sell tickets to. The night was success in every way, the swimming and partying in the beach clubs pools was refreshing. We started heading back home at 4am and finally went to bed at 6am already anticipating the following trip to Philippines with my friend from Finland.

Ps. Pictures will follow later, it takes eternity and a half to upload anything here in Philippines...

Siloso beach party

The gathering on friday was just about making new friends. We had already decided to hold a new gathering on saturday. First it was just going to be a new direct gathering on the bridge and then tell people about different clubs before hitting in. But on friday night I met a couple of older exchange students from previous semesters (they did also know my brother). They told me that there were going to be a once in a month beach party on saturday. So we decided to arrange a pre-party there beside the beachside club.

On that day we were also planning our first trip abroad but we just hadn't chosen where. So we had a little planning pre-party for the small ad-hoc trip on first weekend in one of the apartments on GR. It was actually there when we decided not to dare risk to take anyone without the disembarkation card or student pass (visa) abroad due to possible fine of a 1000S$. Also the student pass would might have been revoked, but that would have only meant that you'll have to do the process again. So at that point the group size of the first weekend trip reduced from 8 to 3. We decided to try look out for some people from the upcoming gathering on the Siloso beach and we had already one Norwegian in mind. We found the Norwegian from the party and got him and his friend to join, so then the group increased to it's final size, 5 travelers.

So the arranged gathering took place again in front of the GR around 9.30pm. From there we started to divide people in to groups of four with directions to the beach party on Siloso beach on the Sentosa island. Even though the taxi lines were awful long and MRT route was a bit complex, everyone made it to the right beach. The word about the gathering had spread, in the end we had around 130-150 exchange students hanging out beside the club just listening the music and chatting. Of course at some point, part of the group went inside the club area and partied until 6am by when the club was closed. One could say that the club was awesome, it had outside pools and everything. If you want to check it out, here is a link to the Azzura beach club.

The gathering by the beach party was a great success! More about the planned trip still to come.