My Project

Okay.
Very long never post.
But I can't help myself now, because there's something I want to tell everyone.

Its about a project I did during my year 2, 2nd semester.

During then, I took a GEK module entitled GEK 1002: Introduction to Japanese Studies, with Nicholas and Wilson.

And as with all GEK modules, we had to do a term paper. Basically, we are to produce an academic paper dealing with some aspect of Japanese history, language, or contemporary society.

So me, Nicholas and Wilson decide, "Oh! Let's do something on Japanese food!"

Now, we had to hand in a first draft. This first draft had to contain an abstract of our project, and we had to produce some references that we were researching from as well.

What better place to find references on a GEK module than the NUS Central Library right?

But to our horror, there weren't many texts on Japanese food at the Central Library. And what's worse, when we re-read out project guidelines, we somehow missed out this line:

"Based on past experience there are certain topics you might want to avoid: castles, tourism, festivals, ninja, or Japanese food."

OMG!

And there wasn't much time to change it either, because the deadline was approaching (Never do last minute work!!) So we had to no choice but to stick to our topic on Japanese food. Afterall, we had this mentality to S/U this module anyway.

So since there wasn't much texts at the Central Library, we decided to head down to the National Library. Somehow, we managed to find enough references. And I remembered the 3 of us decide to head down to sakae for its buffer after that. Hah.

Anyway, when we got the draft back, we got a C+. "Okay", we said in unison. "We shall S/U this module."

And we did.

But somehow, along the course of writing the actual paper, we put alot of thought into it. And well, more importantly, during that time, I had something to prove to myself...

Anyways, so after doing surveys, spending afternoons at the central library and uni hall discussing and turning it into a paper somehow about "The Globalisation and its effects on the fusion and localisation of Japanese food in the Singapore context", we handed it up to our tutor.

Oh, and I remember I had hell when I was trying to compile everything and squeezing all our infomation in, because it was practically bursting the word limit.

When the paper was marked, Nicholas and I went over to collect it. And I clearly recall both of us sort of screaming when we saw we got an A- for our paper. Of course we invited a few stares.

Hah. A-. "A very interesting read" or something along that line, was the comment of our tutor.

Okay, maybe A- is nothing much to some. But to me, it meant that I had proven something to myself. And for that, I felt damn proud and good about this project, even though I already S/U'ed it.

Well, that is until recently, when NUS revised their policy, and we were able to see our grades and retract our S/U.

Okay, the grade for this module, overall, isn't exactly in the A range, but seeing that I could still retract my S/U and my CAP would go up, I could only say,

And what this whole lengthy post is about:

That this is my proudest project in NUS.

HA!