Saturday, September 22, 2007
Went to the National Library yesterday to research on the social studies stuff with a friend of mine whose name is coincidentally Melvin. So we are known as M1 and M2 in class. Well Its my first time stepping into the national library cos i used to find it too huge and intimidating. But it also happens to be the only place that we can find all the relevant materials and at least there's someone to accompany me. Anyway, headed to Lee Kong Chian Reference Library located on level 11 and it's really a eye opener for me. Very quiet, very organised, very clean and the view is superb too, you can even see the "ferris wheel", suntec and esplanade from the self studying area. Spent a couple of hours there browsing the books and copying down all the relevant infor cos all the books are not for loan. Anyway went to Bugis junction afterthat to shop for mooncakes for my family and also books from Kino (Kino is having this 20% discount for members). Manage to get two books of which one of them is the book on broken english. Besides being useful for teaching, it's also quite interesting to understand the mistakes that we often made.
Tried my hand on fixing a wooden windmill model today but i failed miserably. In case you guys dont know what am i talking about, recently there are a couples of push carts selling those wooden models that you got to DIY. Anyway, think it's either that i dont have enough patience or i am too rough cos i literally broke one of the pieces. Very demoralising indeed. Just imagine you spend the entire afternoon trying to fix that model and one of the most important pieces broke into two... I ended up throwing the model away cos the broken piece stuck out like a sore thumb and i can be quite a perfectionist. Luckily the model only costed me $4.o0 so i dont really feel the pinch. Haha
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