Bookstore + Dnr wif Singapor Association in USC

Sunday was pretty fulfilling. Woke up early to make breakfast and pack house. However, as i slept really late on Sat, i felt realli tired during the noon so i took a nap. Woke up at 3pm to get ready for the apartment meeting at 330pm. The whole gang of us went to the meeting but left kinda early coz we wanted to go to the bookstore to buy our books.

The text books here are super duper expensive lor. On average, one new book cost bout 150 USD and a used one would cost bout 110 USD. Hence, i decided not to buy the books first. I took down the ISBN number so i can either ask my sis to buy it for me in spore (which she already did. She bought my Advertising & Promotions text for me. Its the same title and author but diff colour for the colour. But i dun care coz it's so much cheaper), or purchase it online.

However, i bought one of my text le coz its like 56 USD and its like a magazine so i doubt they will have it online or in spore. And since its relatively cheap le i might as well juz buy it here.

This textbook is realli interesting. It looks like a magazine but the contents are like marketing fundamentals. Its realli costly for a magazine, but considered cheap for a "textbook" in states. We also bought a printer coz there are lots of homeworks and handouts that we have to print. 6 of us (including the 2 guys) shared the costs which summed up to 190 USD including paper and the cable. So each person paid bout 33 USD.

After buying the textbookds, i rushed to get prepared for the outing with the Singapore Association of USC. The sporean couple had told me bout this dnr outing and i decided to juz go and make some frens. So, there were actually 9 of us but 2 of the sporeans didnt wanna go so left wif bout 7. The president Ellen and another guy Glenn drove us to a Korean BBQ restaurant named MannaKoreanBBQ. Its a bbq buffet with tons of meat. They also hav side dishes and salad.

I love the beef as it tasted really good. Its realli top grade beef. The salad was also very nice as the dressing was really appetizing. I ate hell lotsa food which made me felt that i was going to burst. Pretty worth it for 20 USD.

Jacelyn, Me, and the president Ellen:

The sporean couple and me:

From left: 2 new sporean freshman and Glenn (he has been here for 2 yrs)

Before cooking:

Side dishes:

COOKING!!

Happily eating...

After dinner, i went back to pack alittle things and went to bed early to prep myelf for 1st day of school on MONDAY!! So excited...

Hee so today i went for my first dae of school. Things were realli good and i love school! (at least for now... hee). Lecturer is humorous and teaches well. Lotsa cute guys in my class. Nice and warm classmates... So far so good =) Most imptly, my eye candy is in the same 2 classes as i am! And he talked to me! Oh gosh he is so gorgeous. He's a Dennish and he's from Koopenhagen Universityin Sweden. Hee... But well, juz for the eyes only. Nothing more.

During my Global strategy class, Ellen was in the same class as me. For that class, i suppose to get a course reader which cost bout 120 USD. So, i asked her whether i could borrow from here to make a copy and she allowed. Oh she's so so nice =) Really appreciated it. So i went to the copier place and asked the person whether i can copy it. He quoted 70 USD to copy and bind it. At least i get to save quite alot of money =)

When school ended, i went to the bookstore to get some stationary. Then, i went home to cook a big bowl of vegetables as i onli had breakfast at bout 830am all the way till ike 5pm. I was realli starving. At bout 710pm, i went for a jog as i had not been jogging for many days due to my tight schedule.

At nite, i read some of the readings that were posted and then went online to try to buy my books. I managed to find one of the books from Amazon.com and it costed only like 32 USD. In school it would cost like 150 USD. It was so cheap that i was kinda skeptical whether im getin the right book; whether they will realli mail it to me, or whether it is in good condition. But the description states that it is brand new. Well guess i will wait and see =)