What course will you be starting at NTU? For some courses like Engineering, the vast majority of students are male… you’ll have slim pickings and massive competition… good luck in advance!

And I suppose you’ll be staying on campus? Campus life is great and gives you an opportunity to mix around with different genders, esp thru hostel sports etc.

Wow….

Alas, I sold my magic beans way too early when I got hitched young (but thankfully to a woman that I’m still madly in love with after 30 years) so I can only cheer you on and live vicariously through your adventures

Bro, PhD mah…. Sapiosexuals will find that irresistible….

Wahlao… good luck bro! Hahaha

TS is lucky. In life, there are certain universal truths that are fundamental facts. In the faculty of medicine, it is well accepted that <beauty> x <brains> = k, where k is a fixed constant.

So, yeah…. Slim pickings for med students.

Every Sunday, Lucky Plaza in Singapore has a smorgasbord for his selection….

Well, I can only tell you what I’ve heard secondhand, since my Master degrees were from (1) NUS and not NTU and (2) at Masters level, I ain’t got time for extracurricular activities since I was also working full time at the hospital…

So, hearsay, some say, anyhow say, the biggest K is to be found in the FASS (Arts and Social Sciences)… that’s probably where you’ll have the right ratio of genders too.

All the best bro, and happy hunting.

It’s a common enough question and an often enough icebreaker to be asked the “where are you from” question.

I didn’t experience it when I was studying in Australia because I assimilated so well (it helped that my residential hall had only 3 Asian boys) and I sounded like a local after 2 weeks, apart from certain less commonly used words which I learnt quickly enough.

Funnily, that became my established English accent and I got questioned multiple times when I was studying and taking my specialist exams in the UK. The examiners couldn’t comprehend why this decidedly Asian looking boy would have such a strong Sydney accent. Same thing when I did my fellowship there - and I used it to to my advantage to break the ice and make new friends.

An interesting anecdote on this aspect - my wife and I were on Safari in Kruger National Park and we took a detour to the Zimbabwe/Zambia border to ride the ultralight planes over Mosi Oa Tunya (Victoria Falls). We were there with my classmate and his family, who flew in from Sydney via Singapore, and we were having a chat while waiting our turn to go on the ultralight.

There were these 2 Australians in front of us in the line and one of them turned around to face me and greeted me with a “Good Day, mate, fellow Aussie here. Can’t help but overhear your accent. Inner West Sydney eh?” I suppressed a chuckle and said “Good ear, mate, good ear” and he seemed really chuffed with himself, telling his friend that not only could he distinguish an Australian accent, he could pinpoint it down to the suburb (apparently he lives in the suburb next to mine).

After they got on the ultralights, my wife and I, together with my classmate and his family, burst out laughing.

So yeah, accents can be a great icebreaker.