dream. dare. dive.

that was the theme for my silicon valley adventure trip. before we went there we spent alot of time together preparing for the trip, and it was really quite interesting bcos this before this whole trip we're just a bunch of strangers. so it was really cool to have made more frens n known more ppl on this trip. ;)

i really felt quite inspired whenever we visited someplace new. now that im back, i tell ppl i had a great time but i cant really find the words to explain why. i guess its just the change of environment n you get to see how the difference in culture n people contributes to the success of many companies in silicon valley and in USA. theres smthg open n friendly in the american culture that u'll nv find in singapore. maybe its the people here, maybe its the asian culture. maybe its even the govt. but theres definitely this inertia that you experience here in singapore, that smthg that keeps ppl from accelerating towards excellence or to try out new stuff. for one, in silicon valley, failure is a credit. in singpaore ppl are very concerned bout doing things right.

we were constantly hosted by people who are complete strangers to us, and probably there was this feeling of gratitude towards them that made me feel so happy n warm over there. it was really great bcos there we were gettin to visit big companies lk google apple and intel, and gettin to meet the nus overseas students, and this non profit organisatin called Dalencey street(which i felt most inspired by) and the california college of arts (which was apparently one of the ivy leagues of private art schs in SF)

now that im back all i wan is to get over my exams first ;) then ill talk more bout it hahah. or think more bout wad i experienced over there.
oh n i slept in the bed crack for half the nights over there. the other half, i got the whole bed to myself ;)
n the first night we didnt noe how to turn the shower on so poor us had to use use the bathtub's tap to bathe. ;(
i had red eyes on the first two days, n diarrhoea on the second day there.
on the fifth day or so i was alr running low on cash. so didnt get to spend at factory outlets or disneyland boooooo.
haha. ;)
n i got the 'ms floppy disk award'. ahhah. the tchers made sure everyone had an award ;) u see before we go we had to do a presentatin n i saved mine in a floppy disk. turned out my tcher's laptop had no floppy disk drive so we spent quite some time changing coms n all. then at apple the guy was saying how advanced they were n wad foresight they had when they decided nt to include floppy disk drives in their laptops anymore. n some ppl who rem that incident turned to look at me.. so yes, okay. i noe im outdated.


yup okay. four days to study. its okay im tryin to convince myself that common tests are nthg.. :)
chalet!