These are from my diary (the beautiful one Trân presented me) during the days I travelled to Singapore.

Sat. (12/08)  Terminal 2
                            City Hall & Fountain of Wealth with Hoa, Công, Lê
Sun. (13/08)  At Hoa's home --> Clementi --> KFC  with Hoa, Công, Trà, Nga
                             Meet Hòai Anh D1 --> Move to NUS (Tra's room)
Mon. (14/08) Go around NUS
                               Sentosa with Lê, Trà, Nhung, PhÆ°Æ¡ng
Tue. (15/08)   Study: Financial Accounting with Trà
                               Merlion + Durian (theatre)
                               China Town with Hoa, Trà, Công
Wed. (16/08)  Botanic Garden with Lê
                               Orchard Road with Trà
Thu. (17/08)   Zoo  with Trà
                               Mustafa - Little India
FRi. (18/08)     Around NUS + Computer Cluster
                               Market --> Happy Birthday to Trà
Sat. (19/08)     Home
   
Things to remember about Singapore:
1. Cleanliness
2. MRT (Mass Rapid Transit): fast, hi-tech, good view, polite
3. Lots of trees
4. Left-handed Traffic
5. Mixture of many races: Chinese, Malaysian, Indian, Westen,..
6. Singlish is hard to listen to. In the first 3 days, I couldn't figure out what language these people are speaking. My friends had to interpret while I stood still with big eyes and stupid face. 7. Public transportation and most activities are automatically activated. Each person owns a lot of cards.
8. People walk a lot and very fast
9. People wear fashionable clothes. Each weekend, it seems like they have nothing to do except going shopping in big big big shopping malls (with complicated road systems, at least for me )
10. Many old people work as waiters/waitresses
11. People live in flats. Going along the country on MRT/buses, you can only see big buildings in blocks, no house.
12. Life here seems to be stressful. Everyone rushes.
13. I like the atmosphere and the sight here. They are fresh, beautiful and carefully designed/planned.

Friends: THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Công and Hoa welcome me warmly at the Budget Terminal and took me home. However, I had a feeling that I am making some troubles for all of my friends here because this time they are all very busy with their works, studying and accomodation.

They took me to many places that are typical of Singapore. We chatted, took photographs, laughed and... yawned. I am the 5th person of 12Anh coming here to travel and visit them, so it's easy to understand how boring it is for them to go to certain places, repeat all those same explanations. I intended to ask them many things but I had to restrain to keep them away from repetition and boredom.

I stayed with Trà, from Sunday evening till the moment I left Singapore. She's different from herself 3 years ago. Uhm, I feel rather glad about that. She's more confident, well-organized, attractive, active and also more complicated, or, say, sophisticated. No matter how my head tells I am happy to see her like that, my heart still feels a little bit strange and cold in her. Maybe, it was just because she had an ache in her mouth that time so she couldn't speak much.
Now, I can partly understand how independent you can become if you live away from home. Yet, you can also be more aware of yourself, your lifestyle, your timetable, your health, your relations, etc. I am living with my family and everyone cares about me a lot. Though, I wanna try living alone in a different invironment to see how strong my will is. What do I have to do now? Which way should I choose? Will I be successful? Sometimes, I think struggling for careeers and money is meaningless if I don't have a stable and loving family, other times I desire to struggle to see how well can I deal with life, or at least to keep up with my friends.

If I stay here any longer, I think I'll try to study in this place and be something different. Maybe, it's too late to start.

However, wisedom is not always the only key to success. Who knows!