Places I visited:
1) Ipoh, Malaysia
2) Boracay, Philippines
3) Romania
4) Frankfurt, Germany
5) Philadelphia, USA
Places I have uprooted to from Singapore:
- Skillman, New Jersey, USA
- Teacher's College, New York City, New York, USA
Things I have consumed since waking up today:
- Remaining sliver of bread loaf, with slice of swiss cheese and (awesome) sweet Lebanon bologna
- One banana
- Leftover brussel sprouts with turkey bacon
- Leftover cauliflower cheese
- Leftover creamed spinach
- Not-nice goldfish crackers
- One hibiscus flower (that tastes like hawthorn flakes)
Music I purchased in 2014:
1) Sia's Chandelier
2) L'amour est un oiseau rebelle, from Carmen
3) Handsome Family's Far from Any Road
4) Etta James' Swing Low
5) One Republic's Counting Stars
6) Lighthouse Family's High
7) Clean Bandit's Rather be
8) Echosmith's Cool kids
9) Lorde's Royals
Things I have learnt in my first semester of Masters:
W4170x, History of the First Crusade - humans behaviour doesn't really change, but excuses do. Also gained a new appreciation for the many different accounts of events.
A&HH 4070, History of American Education - education can be, and is, a scarily powerful and political tool. Who on earth would've thought to create a whole type of special school devoted to eliminating the Native American culture? Americans did! ALSO: American education system is super fucked up.
ITSF 4613, Peace and Human Rights Education - how education, and even the way how things are taught can eventually effect great changes in society. Also gained much, much, much greater insight into the (lack of) rights of women in greater society due to existing structures).
ITSF 4090, Issues and Institutions in Educational Development - ideas about the function of education and school, awareness of core vs. periphery/north vs. south, ideas and problems about the existing field of top-down, UN large-scale type development
Types of clothes I wore for the first time in 2014:
- Black leggings
- Sweaters
- Jean leggings from Uniqlo
- Semi-sporty North Face winter jacket (because it's so cold and I can't be bothered to use my less-warm Winter coat)
- Fleece pyjama bottoms
- Ankle boots (that my Mum bought for me as a parting gift in Germany, that I absolutely love)
- Sperry topsiders (influenced by Lauren, my cousin)
- Reverted back to wearing plain, fitted t-shirts
Other miscellaneous milestones:
- Receiving no rejections from the 3 universities I applied to (TC, accepted; UPenn, accepted; Stanford, waitlisted)
- Learning how to drive a car, but failing the road test (50/50 for the Final Theory Test though!)
- Learning how to live with cats
- Parasailing with Dad in Boracay
- Cliff diving in Boracay
- Filling in many gaps of knowledge of the Middle Ages
- Finishing puzzles with my Aunt and Uncle over the Christmas break
- Figuring out the damn NYC subway system
- Learning how to use liquid eyeliner, although it still smudges
- Wearing glasses again, because one eye has slightly fuzzy vision
- Participating in qin ming with my grandparents
- Seeing the Thanksgiving float inflation
- (SORT OF) watching the Rockefeller Christmas Tree light up ceremony
- Finishing two different cross-stitch patterns (gifts for my Mum and Aunt Cat)
- Removing all my wisdom teeth
- Learning how to floss, finally
- Quitting my first job
- Tutoring/helping out/experiencing adult education (for GEDs)
Things I want to achieve in 2015:
- Get a driving license
- Visit Mexico, see the ruins!
- See the cherry blossoms bloom in Washington DC
- Finish a third cross-stitch
- Get an internship, preferably in some peace education place
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