So, I have finally officially graduated! :D After working for almost 8 months now, I’m really missing the days at school.  I still don’t miss the exams and the burning midnight oil, but I miss those 3 day week, going home at 11:30am.  The late nights and late mornings. I don’t miss the lack of money (like really constantly broke), but I miss the freedom of time.  I used to have so much time on my hands!

My convocation was on Friday, 5th April 2013, the 5th session.  I was a bit sad ‘cos my other friends were graduating on other dates cus we studied different courses.  :(  & my fiance couldn’t come ‘cos he had an impt meeting and couldn’t take leave. :( :( :(

I was really really blur like sotong and completely didn’t read instructions properly.  Registration was from 8am – 9am, and we were to be seated by 9:45am.  All I read was be seated by 9:45am.  Haha so we happily chilled and ate breakfast, then chill some more at the sofa, thinking that I had loads of time.  Slowly walked up to the 4th floor grand hall at 9am, only to see tons of people all gowned already.  I’m like :O :O :O & my dad said “eh the poster says registration 8-9am” :O!!!  Hurriedly searched for the registration booth which I didn’t know where. Hahahaha.  Really too blur.

Still managed to get gowned and go into the hall early. :) Here’s me at my seat in the 6th row! The little booklet has all the names of the graduates attending the ceremony. (& the classification of honors of everyone :O) –which is how I found out that my eyecandy in school was attending grad & had 2nd upper honors!  So I probably saw him for the last time on Friday & still didn’t take a pic w him cus I’m too shy + he had a girl w him hahaha. 

Before I got my results, I was always damn worried about graduation. ‘cos I didn’t do exceptionally well at school and was so scared of getting a pass degree. I always thought that they’d announce the classification of your degree when you collected your cert. But they don’t!! Heave a sigh of relief, all you people who are not FCH students like me. xD

Your seating arrangements & collection of certs are however, according to your classification of honors. (& it is all printed in the booklet anyway), but they only announce the First Class Honors graduates, and after that its just one big group with no announcement when they reach the next classification.

But then again, all the names + class are printed in the book & u can find the results there. So if you really don’t want anyone to know how you did…. Just don’t go for the graduation! But that’d be a real pity.

& no picture of me getting my cert cus my parents were too busy figuring out how to take pictures when my name was called out.  Lololol.  But nevermind I’ll get one soon when we collect it for Serangoon Broadway! Thank God for that. 

Here’s me walking out of the hall during the academic march.  This time round my mom fast hand fast leg captured a shot of me! :D 

Daddy doing the “congratulations” handshake lol. 

After the longggg wait in the hall (I was within the 1st quarter to collect my cert so after that was just waiting and waiting and waiting.  The girl next to me fell asleep too hahaha), the first thing we went for was the food!! It wasn’t super crowded, probably either because everyone was at the atrium, or everyone was busy taking photos.  But we paid for the food! & we were hungry!!

Here’s my proud parents happy to finally see me graduate.  :D

Me + Isaiah who was like the people’s photographer.  Running around to take pics for everyone. 

& then my awesome gf came down w a big balloon n a flower!!! So happy n thankful ‘cause otherwise my graduation is actually really boring, with only my parents around since most of my uni friends weren’t graduating on the same day.  Thank you gff!! Love you max max. 

I would say its a really nice experience and even if you hardly have friends around like me, its still worth going.  & I think this is what my parents were waiting for all my studying life. & now I can finally say I am a graduate!!! :) 

/XOXO!

I’m really going to try to round up my Italy posts already cos its been like almost 5 months lol.  & I might just finish these posts in time to blog about my wedding if I don’t hurry up.  But its ok I’m almost done now! Just 1 more post on Rome after this.  :)

So we woke up to Day 7 in Italy, and time was passing really quickly. 

I had my usual breakfast of croissants, bread, sausages and ham + a donut.  & bf’s is pretty much the same just in larger quantity + egg n bacon. 

& his huge tomatoes!  He really hates them by the way, just forcing himself to eat them cus its healthy!  It was funny to watch him cringe with every bite.  xD

Its beautiful to wake up in Italy.  Just look at that sky! 

We went back to our room to pack up and get ready to leave for another day out in Italy~

My ootd.  (which doesn’t really matter cus its covered w the coat 99% of the time.)

Enjoying the sun n scenery on the way to the medieval city of Siena.  This was an optional tour at 60 Euros per person if I don’t remember wrongly.  We originally did not want to go, but since our tour guide said everyone else on the tour joined… We just went along.  (& if we didn’t go along there was nothing for us to do but like bum around somewhere on the bus or I don’t know where.)

& so here we are at Siena!  Its really really beautiful. 

Walking along and here’s the Siena bank, which is the oldest bank in the world!

Toilets are at 0.50 Euros each time so hold it in!  Restaurants provide free toilets if you grab a drink/bite there so that’s what all of us did.  Hold it in until we see a restaurant/cafe.

Walking along some more and we see a protest! Not sure for what but we just caught a little glimpse of it anyway.

More scenery pictures in Siena.  But really, its all about the scenery. 

Its just a little medieval town.

& of course, the Siena cathedral (Duomo di Siena).  Our tour guide kept telling us about this zebra stripes church!

Here’s me for size comparison haha. 

The interior!  Made out of black and white marble, and zebra stripes just like my tour guide had said!

Beautiful, isn’t it!  I guess if you’re like me and Adrian and really like these cathedrals you’d enjoy Italy a lot ‘cus these cathedrals are everywhere! & all of them are similar yet different and have their own highlights.  Like this one would definitely be the black n white marble. 

Dome ceiling~~

Spot the tiny us with the cathedral behind!

Restoration works in progress on buildings all around Italy, and here’s one of them. 

& then we walked along to the Siena square (piazza del campo) It wasn’t so much like a square though, more of a trapezium..? Haha.  This is also where they have their twice-a-year horse racing. The horses just run around the sides of the square where the shops are, and the spectators gather in the square!

& lunch at I can’t remember where (might have been Autogrill again).  ‘cos this was the only picture I had.  But I remember it was quite yummy! 

Omnom Gelato (pistachio n hazelnut, or maybe caffe I think) while we were gathering to leave Siena.  This was.. 2.50 Euros or 3.00 Euros I can’t remember.  But it was one of the nicer Gelatos we’ve eaten!  (Comes w a spoon la so we don’t actually lick it off like that)

& last pictures of Siena before we left! 

Bf didn’t make nice faces cus the sun was shining too brightly :(

I still can’t decide if its really worth the 60 Euros (about S$96) per person to visit Siena.  But I figure since we’ve already travelled all the way to Italy and paid almost 3k each to be there, we should see as much as we could!  & it was really beautiful. 

& then dinner at Papa Rex.  This was one of the more decent dinners we’ve had!  (most were actually quite bad, or just passable)

Pasta, followed by pizza, pork chops and then ice cream! All tasted not bad!! (Except the pork chops which were really salty)

& they were selling pictures they took of us at the entrance for like 10euros or sth I really can’t remember.  They already printed out the pics and were passing them around for you to decide if you wanted to buy.  So… I took a picture of that photo hahahahahaha.

/XOXO!