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2Dec/090

Day 15 : Bday

Posted by James

Yup, it's my birthday. Happy birthday to myself. Nothing really exciting today, Home -> School -> Home -> Sleep.

So, for the day, I don't really have much to update about.

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18Nov/090

Day 2 : Working starts

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After having enough rest and settling down for the past 2 days. Work officially starts today.

I woke up at 7.15am and prepared to leave work. The morning was lovely with cold wind blowing at my face and it was still pitch black outside on the road. The weather today was colder than yesterday because there was a storm yesterday at around 2am according to Carolyn but all of us didn’t heard or feel anything, guess the jet lag made us tired :P

Carolyn kindly drove us to the school because she didn’t want to see us being drenched. She is officially my Irish mum  :P

After reaching the school, we met dave, our overall in-charge and he left us to do our work in their library. We were left alone to do what we wanted after we left from meeting him at the canteen. So we headed down to the cafe and had breakfast! It was lovely! My Ham and Swiss sanwhich cost me 3.80 euro but it was well worth it!

So, after having breakfast, we are now in the library doing research work. Lua, Unreal engine, Unreal script, C++, AI, A*, Finite State machine, Hierarchical Finite State Machine, Fuzzy Logic and etc. If you understand any of these, you are lucky. I barely understand any :(

Update at 8.30pm : Just finished a wonderful meal cooked by carolyn. It was lovely. The dishes were very well done and I was very full. There's indian rice, potato with cheese and onion sauce, meatball with curry sauce, vegetable salad, Chicken fillet and for dessert, a cream and custard jelly. The dessert taste like the raspberry ice cream from those singapore ice cream stall on bike though.

Now everyone is downstair watching TV/using computer/playing games while I am upstair blogging about today. I think I will turn in early today because tomorrow is yet another early morning for me and Zhen Ming. :)

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16Nov/093

Touch down! Day 0

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Finally we arrived at Dublin, Ireland after 24 hours from leaving Singapore! When we left the plane, we were instantly hit with the cold weather! The exit of the plane is not connected with the airport, so we had to take the stairs down and enter the airport ourself.

On the way to immigration, there's a lot of airport staff and I noticed that most of them are female and most of them are quite hot in terms of figure and looks.

The custom was fast with the letter from carlow university and checking out from the airport was a breeze once the officer knew we were flying from Singapore and is student attached here.

Peter was just standing there holding the IT Carlow paper waiting for us. A very friendly chap and we self introduced before he led us to the taxi of his.

The scenery of Ireland is very surreal. Very cold and it's currently autumn now. I am now on my way to my accomdation and it will take about one and a half hours to reach. We've been zooming past a lot of interesting building and hotels. There is also a lot of sheep, cow and horse on the big greenfield.

UPDATE 12.00am, Ireland time : Just had dinner with my lady lord and my room mate, thomas. Went to a decent chinese restaurant and our lady lord foot the bill for us. She is a very very adorable and friendly lady. Very funny as well. Their pub culture is really very strong because even after stuffing us with food, she brought us to pub for drink. I drank carlsberg and well, still taste as bad as how I use to hate it. The weather here is really nice, cold like air con is blowing directly at your face.

The house I am staying in is very very nice. It's an apartment and it belong to the lady lord, caroline. Will try to take a panorama picture of it soon and post it here. In the mean time, I guess you guys just wait while i upload the photo's :P

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16Nov/091

Schiphol airport

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After 12 hours of grudesome flight time which half was spent watching tv and the other half spent rotting my life away, we finally arrive at schipol airport for our transit flight! Schipol airport is in netherland, Amsterdam.

The first step out of the airplane was a chilling gush of air which shoot down to my spine and yes, one layer of Jacket is not enough but thankfully, the airport is heated and it isn't so bad after entering it.

We did our basic washup and i changed into a more comfortable jacket given by bena and alex as farewell gift, thanks a lot for it. We tried to access their wifi, well for 3 euro it's 15 mins, so expensive yet so reasonable to them. So we went for a walk and found a mcdonald kids zone which has ps2! Need for speed underground was on but the design of the cabinet is so idiotic that if you sat down to play, you can't see the screen!

After that little fun, we made our way around the airport because pei sheng was hungry.. Found a spot near our gate and pei sheng took first blood for eating a European meal. It cost him 7 euro for a sandwhich and espresso. It's not that bad but if you did convert it back to SGD, that's $14! Enough for 2 subway meal! Nevertheless he enjoyed it.

Shortly after, we 3 were hungry too and went to check out the pizza section but the chef just started making the pizza and so now we are waiting for it to be done.

So we rotted for 3 hours at the spot in front of the museum. Shevonne slept.. Me and Pei Sheng talk cock and zhen ming entertained himself.

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15Nov/091

On board!

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So.. After that farewell from all my friends and family, I boarded a klm flight with my other 3 schoolmates.

The flight is going to take about 13 hours to reach Amsterdam and another 7 hours of wait at the airport there before a 2 hours flight to Ireland :)

Waiting patiently now for the flight to take off! :D

Update at 5.17am Singapore time : Food was served around midnight. It was a choice between fish or beef. It was quite a tough decision because both tastes bad to me if not done properly and yes, my expectation proved me right. It does taste bad.

I picked beef. It was beef rendang with rice. I mean, who in the right mind serves beef rendang on board a freaking plane! Aren't they scare that it would clog up the freaking plane toliet!? Geez... Luckily I didn't went to the loo because of it.

The side was a coleslaw with a few pieces of chicken on top and one red cherry tomato.. The taste of the coleslaw was weird.. I can't describe it but it doesn't taste coleslawish.

Another side was to be a dessert I suppose, I think it's an almond cake, taste decent enough and seems to be the only thing edible in the whole meal.. Bleahz..

Currently, the whole plane is asleep except a few person and cabin crew. I slept for a couple of hours but I think sitting up to sleep is not a feat which I possess :( my back aches and my leg is sore! I've also notice that small red or you can call it ??, stink! It's the rabbit doll which Michelle, val, Qi yang and jon gave to me before I left. I think it might be because my niece stepped on it :"(

Guess I will try and go back to sleep now.

Update 2 at 11am Singapore time : Just had breakfast and it was those traditional English style breakfast. A custard texture egg with bacon inside, a yogurt and a fruit platter. Quite edible I must say.

The flight info state that we will arrive in about an hour.. It's -56 degree outside the plane now and I had about 3-5 hours of sleep. Everyone is queuing up for the toliet, hmm..

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