KL HERE I COME!

I'm going to splurge like MAD. I have been controlling my spending for the past month...hehe. Need to stock up on tees, shoes and a BAG. I desperately need a bag where I can dump in all my A4 stuff...can't imagine carrying my seagate backpack in NTU.

Alicia! We must go to Pentaling street/ Chinatown/ Central Market okay!!!

Goodness! I'm so excited about the trip this Friday. I probably have to wake up at 4.30am in order to leave the house at 5am. And I haven't pack my laggage and convert my Singapore dollars into ringgits...procrastination AGAIN. And guess what... I still have tuition on Thursday, from 8-10pm... ... :( Tuition is becoming a drag to me. I do not know how to get through to my tutees sometimes. My chem tutee does not know HCl is hydrochloric acid, Ba is barium and lot's of basic concepts that I would expect a Sec 4 student to know. My maths tutee has problems doing basic integration and differentiation. Sometimes I just want to vomit blood. I'm quite worried for them. Sigh...and I don't know how am I going to continue giving tuition once I enter uni. Perhaps it was a wrong decision giving tuition in the first place, since I do not seem to get any satisfaction for the 2 hours.

On a side note, I can't seem to stop laughing during the Star Awards show on Sunday. The parrot, magic show and helicopter made the whole ceremony seem so low-class :/

And I calculated my uni fees. Apparently, it's a whooping $30 000 including hostel fees and living expenses. But I think that's considered little compared to overseas, because the Warcick student called me last Thursday to ask if I have any questions regarding the school (it's a nice gesture by Warwick to make the potential students feel welcome). Feeling very random since I do not want to go there anymore, I just asked 'oh how much is the tuition fees for 1 year?'

She answered '14 000 POUNDS'.

I was SHOCKED. 14 000 pounds = 28 000 singapore dollars for ONE freaking year. Now I know why scholarships are so competitive. :/

Finally!

Finally...NTU replied me with THE offer.

I thought I screwed up for the interview. Apparently the interviewer felt that I cannot manage my time well because of my answer to a particlar question.

'Oh I see you're from Choir. So will you join singing competitions like Singapore Idol?'

I rambled on... ...interviewer gave me that face.

'So you mean you cannot manage your time? Do you know who is Steph Sun? You know she's from NTU? Then maybe you should consult her how she manages to manage both her singing career and studies.'

That's why I thought I was screwed.

Accountancy here I come! I'm so freaking excited now, of all the uni life, CCAs and hostel life. Everything seem so real now because of that acceptance letter...and I'll say this again!

I can't wait for hostel life. :) All the best to my future roommate, because I'm really a messy untidy and disorganised person. But I will try to change, or else my room will definitely look like a 狗窝. That's what my mother said.

Went for the SPRING EDS interview (11am to 6pm) on Friday too. It sort of made me realised TJ sheltered us a lot from the realities of the world. I felt that in TJ, we have a very cool and warm family culture. People there at the EDS interview were extremely competitive, very vocal, very good with their words, very convinving. But I didn't think my team worked well, because everyone wanted to talk and no one wanted to listen. It's quite sad actually when you see everyone fighting for a chance to say something (or perhaps, say for the sake of saying something-- because all the assessors were there with clipboards in their hands.) It was a very stressful environment, partly because you HAVE to say something in order to be noticed amongst all the 30 plus people.

As for me, the interview was a goner because, well, I didn't exactly speak up. Or should I say I can't even get a word in because everyone was interrupting each other. But it was really an eye-opening experience for me. :)) I'm really amazaed by some individuals. They were very eloquent, very confident and very steady. Any coincidence that most of them are from Uni Year 1? Hopefully in a year time, I will be as steady as them. YEAH! :))

I told my father about my experience there, and he said

'Life's like this. That's why I think your friends are all too nice
already.
In life or in work, no one will actually care about
your
survival.
It's either you fight for the chance to shine, or you
will just get
lost
behind. I always tell you don't be so trusting...
...life in University will not
be the same as your life in TJ.'

Lunch at naked fish!

LiRong, Me and Caroline. And that's our dear Mary standing behind us. She's the one who's giving us THE TREAT!See, my eyes are closed. AGAIN. Half the pictures I take-my eyes are permanently closed! What will I give for big eyes like Huat. Can you spot Zhi Lin at the back?

That's Mr Ooi who bought us that chocolate cake. :)))

Ok, the cake doesn't look THAT nice here. But I can assure you, it's freaking delicious. Look at all the layers of chocolate, chocolate and chocolate...

The most sinful thing ever

TODAY WAS A PIGGING DAY.

Florence's group (My, Grace, Gerald) and Mary's group (Me, Caroline and LiRong) went to Naked Fish for lunch. It was really value-for-money! I had this set lunch which consists of soup+garlic bread, baked dory fish, drink and desset for only $9.80. (of course, not paid by me since it was supposed to be a treat by the staff at nyp). The service was also supreb! The person who served us was this guy who must be almost 70 years old since he lived through the Japanese Occupation. He's super patient and explained to us the various types of catch. He's pretty amusing too in his actions-- our order was repeated for almost 4 times. Drinks were served and refilled promptly. LUNCH WAS REALLY NICE!

AFTERNOON TEA :)

Then, at 3pm, Mr Ooi bought us this fantastic chocolate cake from Splash and Deckers. Apparently, he felt guilty for giving us too much work? But what are part-timers for? And actly, I feel quite guilty myself-getting paid to watch movies online and basically slacking away at work. LOL. Anyway, back to the cake! The chocolate cake, aptly named EXOTIC CHOCOLATE CAKE was made up of 4 layers- a hard biscuit crust at the bottom, followed by soft chocolate sponge cake, then this super smooth chocolate cream and then topped up by this layer of chocolate fudge. Wanted to resist the temptation as it was really sinful, especially after yesterday's mudpie at Changing Appetites. But you know me. I succumb to the evil piece of cake in the end. AHH. Cake 1, Diet 0 :/

The chocolate cake from heaven!

Pictures shall be up soon :))

And yes, I'm excited to start uni so I can go and live in a hostel. Sm, we shall go IKEA shopping and decorate our room. :)))

The Stupid Show

Watched this show called the S factor on Channel 5 yesterday. Seriously a bimbotic show. :/ My father was watching it together with me, which is so seriously weird as all the babes were strutting around in bikinis, and showing A LOT of flesh. And it's just weird to have your father watching that together with you. lol.

Ok, back to the point.

Dad: 'Only channel 5 will show this kind of show. What rubbish S factor. S stands for Stupid or Silly!'

Me:' Aiyah. But there's demand for this kind of shows. And their target audience are guys what...'

Dad: 'This show is so bimbotic, demeans women, portray them as sex objects, airheads, ect....You better GO and SLEEP and SWITCH OFF THE TELEVISION.'

Me: 'But you are also watching the show what'.

Dad keeps quiet and went to sleep at this point. :/

HAHA! But seriously, sex really sells. The show is really bimbotic. But I can't stand the judges. Apparently, after completing some tasks, the girls are supposed to stand up to the scrutiny of the male judges, who will then proceed to GRADE the girls with 'No thanks', 'You'll do' and 'Hell ya!'

I'm amazed that all of the girls were so unfazed at being graded like some poultry at a bidding farm.

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I'm currently watching this vampire tv series called TRUE BLOOD. It's really nice. Basically, it's about this synthetic aka fake blood that was invented which allowed vampires to coexist with humans. But the show is very graphic, and there's a lot of sex and blood. I'm guessing our beloved Mediacorp won't screen this because there's SOME graphic sex scenes (NOT considered porn by the way, just more like some M18 or R21 movie!)

You can watch this at http://www.watchtrueblood.net/

See, even the poster is damm nice.

I love the red lipstick on the oh-so pale face :)

DISCOVERY!

OH MY GOODNESS! I've made an exciting discovery. Probably the most exciting discovery in my nyp worklife.

Arren told me a website to get past the work filters. Even better than vtunnel!

The only problem now is that I cannot go and download FLASH PLAYER because...well, the administrative staff set some password thing which forbid us to download anything into the computer. :/

No flash player=no youtube=no facebook games=no videos to watch.

Any computer experts out there?!?