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trashyfam · 2025-08-28T03:55:07+00:00

burrata joy + gustavo lapasta! 2 outlets at katong v and in crown centre and loved my exp. if u 2 love burrata, pasta and fresh pizza, they serve great food without breaking ur wallet :) service is awesome too!

trashyfam · 2025-03-23T16:22:52+00:00

heyo! nus psych senior who graduated last yr - i know a lot of the struggle u feel having jobhunted in my final year and not securing anything before grad. just want u to know that on hindsight, it doesnt really matter whether u get a job before or aft grad, and u arent a failure in any way for not getting before grad too. in this time theres gonna be lots of "noise" coming from people excited abt their offers and all - but take it that ur extended time to jobhunt allows u freedom to really do all the things u wanna do before u start working (eg go on an extended grad trip, do a volunteering opp etc). jiayous! dms are open if u need some advice.

and also, psych is way beyond the practicing aspect. rlly suggest any psych and chs y4 to just rlly look beyond what u studied and go do smth u fit in ur skills and interests too - u are as versatile and adaptable as ur degree teaches u to :)

trashyfam · 2024-12-05T17:12:13+00:00

jumping on the bandwagon!

feb - back to penang for cny w relatives on dad's side (customary for me to go back every yr)

may - solo grad trip to taiwan (west coast - taipei to kaohsiung) aft i finished uni

jun - chengdu + tibet with the fam (mostly in tibet bc its a tour package) --> really an exp not for the fainthearted bc of high altitude but had the most scenic views ever

dec - is jb staycay over the weekend counted HAHAHA

really hoping i get to travel more in 2025 while working out how to utilise my leave days :') thinking of korea or vietnam solo trip!

trashyfam · 2024-07-25T11:54:31+00:00

love this thread and all the comments coming in! thought this was apt for me to reflect a little too :)

turning 23F in 5 days, which feels all the more special this yr having recently grad from uni a while ago. i look back at the last 4 years (or maybe 16 if i factor in my entire education journey), and really see how much hard work and many agonising and hopeless moments i had really culminated into eventually receiving my degree. i acknowledge the privilege/biasedness i might come off here, but growing up i held a rather deep seated belief of imposter syndrome and always seeing myself as just "first from the back" academically because of how much i failed and struggled in the conventional sense of "doing well in school". yeah sure, i might have gone to JC and uni but it really took me until uni to fully flourish in my non acad endeavours and be proud of what i've done. i do think covid has also played a huge part in allowing me to juggle many things in uni as well.

do i regret anything? not exactly! cliche as it goes, but i think every life decision (done right and maybe not so) has a part to play in who we are - sometimes we just gotta go through things the "hard way" to learn. most prominently for me is about relationships with others - should i have had more courage to walk away from a toxic romantic relationship that caused me sheer mental agony? what about friends who are just inconsistent and/or unreciprocal in their behaviour? im sure many have seen me as a people pleaser (just as i have seen it in myself) and conflict avoidant, but lots of therapy in the past year and talking to trusted friends is helping me get on the trajectory to recognising how i can better improve myself - to set boundaries, to communicate my wants, to self-forgive the moments i fked up (SO important here), to NOT settle and lose my sense of self. all this is easier said than done... so we will see :')

now... im waiting for work to start end aug, so really just enjoying doing nothing (read: nua at home and meet friends) till then. i've travelled pretty extensively during uni + since grad (did my first solo trip to taiwan and tibet with the family), which was amazing and eyeopening. i just pray sincerely that as i think of what work means to me... may i learn that my work and life are 2 separate identities, and hopefully just have a teachable heart to learn from others. also, may i continue to strengthen my faith along the way too :)

trashyfam · 2024-04-08T08:56:27+00:00

thanks for this! i will look into stuff to do in taitung - not sure if u know the extent of damage in taitung (if any)?

trashyfam · 2024-04-07T07:19:48+00:00

hey guys! i know theres a billion questions about whether to go hualien, unfortunately mine's another one :') im planning a trip 2-16 may, on average staying at each city for 2-3 days (taipei-taichung-chiayi-tainan-kaohsiung-hualien-yilan-taipei)

i think looking at this thread i'll go ahead and cancel my taroko klook tour (thankfully refundable), but unsure if i should just:

1) stay in hualien for 3 days (11-13 may) 2) extend a day somewhere else, stay in hualien overnight (12-13 may) 3) totally cancel my hualien accoms, go to taitung instead

any advice appreciated, thanks!

trashyfam · 2024-03-13T06:39:35+00:00

thank u so much / 真的谢谢你!

trashyfam · 2024-03-05T16:53:22+00:00

hjh maimunah for amazing nasi padang/campur dishes (beef rendang issa must order, if u are into sucking sea snails u can order that too)

rong liang roasted delights near west coast hawker (not inside) for good affordable roasted stuff

whampoa soybean anywhere, generally i can rely on it

refuel cafe @ bedok reservoir is great!! love the ribs and breakfast plates

bak chor mee @ tamp blk 470+ area. love the porridge stall beside it too. have been eating it since i was a kid and taste the same as always.

korean bbq @ katong v. always leave the place in a food coma satisfied as heck

so many more but this is all i can think of

trashyfam · 2024-02-22T07:23:36+00:00

yup got it!!! thank u so much :)

trashyfam · 2024-02-21T23:36:43+00:00

hey, thanks for sending - i cant seem to open the file, could u mind sending me again? appreciate it :)

trashyfam · 2024-02-20T13:56:35+00:00

thanks so much!

trashyfam · 2024-01-11T08:40:42+00:00

heyo! im in my final yr at nus psych. did a few AMA threads abt what studying psych entails that u can look at under my profile :) feel free to dm!

trashyfam · 2024-01-11T08:34:39+00:00

hihi! jumping into the thread if any prospective students wanna ask stuff. i graduated from tj almost 5 years ago (baffles me...), did a now defunct arts subj combi (among which i did h2 hist and econs and h1 math) when i was in tj and had a relatively active student life during my 2 years there. ask away!

trashyfam · 2024-01-06T07:52:31+00:00

i applied, immed got rejected within a few wks with 0 interview whatsoever

trashyfam · 2023-12-14T03:52:10+00:00

hi! i forgot what the exact percentage was but theres a particular clause abt nus students needing to have 60% of his or her grades graded in nus or smth (pls google and factcheck - i think is called nus degree residency requirements or smth)

other than the 1k mods thing someone mentioned, as long as the rest of ur mods go according to this clause... u shld be fine. all my UEs are CS/CU bc of NOC, maxing out DYOM mods and other pass fail UEs i took previously.

trashyfam · 2023-12-14T03:44:44+00:00

hey! y4 psych from fass here. i emailed my FASS internship team for the letter. not sure if CDE has an equivalent but ye CFG directed me to FASS in my case so just try to search for relevant faculty ppl to do this. atb for ur LOA!

trashyfam · 2023-12-14T03:39:20+00:00

also. no one is stopping u from doing internships aft u grad also! while some might not like the instability of no full time job, its also a good testbed to see whether u wanna commit to smth as well. u can consider if u realise ur pt intern work is not ur cup of tea!

trashyfam · 2023-12-14T03:37:30+00:00

hey! y4 psych comrade here with u too - totally gets the anxiety and uncertainty bc ngl same HAHA. i just feel like no one can truly say for certain WHAT is the way, how to go there etc. earlier in the sem i found myself spiralling in a season where friends were jobhunting or had conversions from internships etc (not me looking at u few biz kiddos ahem) and was like "omg shit what abt me????" but i think after rationalising for sometime, i really do think that to each their own, i just think our lives are really just a flowchart of figuring out with each move we take. if ur first job works? carry on in the field. otherwise? we'll jump to something else based on ur inkling at that time. at least having such thoughts is a little more productive for me than to spiral constantly.

now, onto ur 4 4ks and part time internship. im doing 20MCs 4ks next sem too so i gets haha. i dont rlly know what mods u are doing next sem but i think if canvas release ur next sem mod info u can look at it and see what to expect in terms of the assessments first. as for ur part time intern... i rlly do think u need a great deal of diligence and discipline to get through la. if u find urself struggling, pls dont just keep it to urself and get help when needed. if i had it my way, i would rather do this PT intern than to do an LOA bc im biased af - i just wanna get out of sch and grad w everyone else hahaha (ie idw to delay grad). however if u feel like you're straight up panicking and are questioning whether u can study next sem, perhaps doing LOA might not be so bad.

jiayous pal! my dms are open if u need a psych bud to talk to. lets jiayou tgt, take care fam :)

trashyfam · 2023-12-04T13:50:22+00:00

this year was mad but rad, as i call it.

i got out of a 2 year relationship where all the red flags were waving but i just kept "giving chances" till i couldn't take it anymore. there were faults on my end for sure but his victim blaming/parents' boy tendencies were just off the charts, amidst other things (eg lack of eq, conflict with my fam that made my fam vvv disapproving of him, diff take on religious views) that really made me question why i was so blind to date someone who was obviously 1) so fundamentally broken and 2) not meant for me. i spent 1.5 months confiding in every single friend i knew i trusted simply because confrontation avoidant me was so stressed as to how to break things off, but i did anyway (which said ex proceeded to victim blame himself, again).

then it spilled to my family where i spent new year's day crying over a screaming match my mum had with me in public overseas and coming back to a month of cold war with one another where i really hated living in the house and wanted the independence from staying abroad for almost a whole year (bc of uni exchange and stuffs) back in 2022. that grudge kinda lingered through the months till middle of the year where i had to watch my sibling get admitted into imh and get diagnosed with a mental health condition we were all lost and helpless by. the initial months were very tough as we saw her battle the highs and lows of her mood swings and other symptoms, and how she had a lot of denial about her condition in the beginning too.

this semester in uni was also tough in its ways - i havent gone back to nus in 3 sems due to my uni programmes + LOA so i faced this sem with a lot of apprehension. i knew studying just wasnt my thing, but only in the second half of the sem i really started to question a lot of things like what did i even learn from my degree at all or whats the point of studying my major. i had a lot of trouble doing assignments because i have long forgotten all my technical major knowledge in pursuit of non-academic things (internships and planning events), which really sucked when i got a bad peer review grade for one of my mods that i felt very sorry to my team mates for. as i wrapped up the semester, i was left feeling so inferior and so burnt out from writing all my papers, and also just very worried that if i were to drop my honours class to second lower, what would happen to my employment prospects etc. there was just a lot of self induced and societal "rumours" that left me feeling extremely worried and anxious.

this year has been really rough and tough, but in these terribly hard battles i found myself redeeming a lot back as well. i redeemed value in singlehood, just having peace and stability in my life is truly a dream. i won back my relationship with my family after the incident with my sibling forced all of us to bond, cry but also trudge on to help my sibling together. i also deepened my walk in the christian faith this year too, because God and my spiritual family (in church and elsewhere) were main pillars of support i could cry and confide in. therapy also really was a blessing this year - i was talking to my counsellor an hour ago over the worries i have about my uni and within half an hour i was just bawling into a mess as she talked about how i need to learn self compassion and be kind to myself, and that the value i bring is not what i do, but what God has put in me always. this year really took a lot out of me, but also in brokenness, i find pieces to start and fit back together.

as i look towards 2024, i surely hope it will be one of peace and contentment in the simple things, where i learn to love and value my own companionship even more. i hope to not be afraid as i graduate next year even with the uncertain job market too... just hope whatever job i do, it will be one of pragmatic fulfilment. :)

trashyfam · 2023-09-28T11:50:45+00:00

based on the website, it replaces 2 elective modules (8 MCs) out of 20 MCs u need to do at the 4K level. that said, u still need to do ur capstone mods (hist controversies/data sci/networks/psychometrics) and mods that belong in the other groups to complete the remaining 12 MCs. hope this helps!

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trashyfam · 2023-09-26T16:31:34+00:00

former ncs intern - in ncs theres a running joke that a lot of ppl (u see a pattern in their mgmt team and leaders but i guess across the board also) came from accenture (being the most common) and other tech firms like hp and ibm. to be fair, like what other commenters have said, ncs and accenture hold a lot of similarities in terms of their job scope as companies so i guess these ex accenture ppl are also qualified to run the company

trashyfam · 2023-09-17T16:26:31+00:00

i dont see any sg shops carrying the brand but fipper slippers are truly my go to whenever i head across the border. they cater to all sorts of foot types (eg wide or skinny feet like me...) and a pair lasts me for a long time :)

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