Good Deeds and a Garden University

My main plan today was to participate in my professor’s presentation in NUS. My breakfast was a soft bread with chicken filling and tomato sauce, and a big cup of mango lassi in an Indian restaurant near my hotel which was constantly popular whenever I passed by it. By the way, lassi is a kind of yogurt-based beverage very popular in India.

Then I took bus No. 10 and went all the way to western part of Singapore, where I had a fun conversation with a Germen tourist on the upper deck of the bus. He left the bus a few stops earlier than me, forgetting to take his umbrella with him, so when I alighted, I took his umbrella and walked back along the street, hoping to find him. Luckily, he was a slow traveller and was reading the signpost by the street when I found him and returned back his item.

Let’s start the good day with a good deed!

A significant difference between universities in Singapore and Chinese university is that there’s no solid wall forming a clear line segregating the campus from the outsides, so it’s quite hard to know when you have been inside the campus. Another thing that is worth mentioning is that there are dustbins specifically designed for garbage classification everywhere, with clear instructions about which kind of garbage being allocated to which dustbin. Also, the university gave me an impression of “university in the garden”, with plenty of greenery decorating the campus. I had dinner alone at the Deck, a hawker center styled canteen, and tasted the very delectable Thai Mango Fish Rice with Egg, although the yellow fruit in my bowl was jack fruit instead of mango. After dinner, I wander in the campus, but probably due to the darkness after dusk, I was not as impressed by its scenery as later when I was in NTU. I left the university from NUH, National University Hospital, and took the green line from Buona Vista station to Kallang, where most of the time the train was out of channel so I could enjoy the night view of Singapore from the train.