Labels: milestones, NUS

Last set of undergrad results came out today and I passed everything!

Hmm..in the end an attempt to get a second and last A+ in NUS failed...Accounting ended up with A. Haha project's fault? The freaky bell curve for this mod meant that any minor slip up will be significant..and I am pretty sure I didnt slip up in the finals. Can't complain coz CAP-wise there isnt any difference between A+ and A...but then A+ prettier mah. Not like I see them all the time lor.

B+ for the other 3 mods. Turns out I didnt screw up FYP as badly as I thought, and HR definitely way exceeded expectations heh. Given that I didnt study until the night before the paper because was rushing thesis and my essays were really quite crappy. French...below expectations too, but can't complain also because I gave up the second test while rushing thesis. It is one module where the learning process is really so enjoyable that the results don't matter much in the end in my opinion.

Results don't look as pretty as other people's but hey I don't mind. Considering I started out just wanting to pass everything because I can't really improve my honours class anymore. Yea sue me for having low standards.

Funny how although passing everything is not a big ask...and that I believe that I have done enough to pass..it doesnt stop me from being anxious last night. And didnt manage to sleep through the 730am SMS too. And subconsciously didnt feel like ordering grad gown yet because results are not out yet lol (the first thing I did after I switched on my comp this morning hahah).

I have unofficially graduated! Second Upper Class Honours...kind of summed up my efforts these 4 years? Not the best, don't think it's my best either, but still pretty decent I suppose? Now I wonder how I will fare in the working world...

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日前挖出一堆中小学时的成绩单，奖状等...难免会缅怀当年那些辉煌的日子...那些所向披靡的日子..从各类大小型的学术比赛，班级全级考第一，多项活动学生司仪等...和在新加坡低调沉寂的日子相比起来...霎时间好像明白了当时同学对我的看法...现在的我，不就有点像当年的他们吗？哈..竟然有点风水轮流转的感觉..

毕业在即，回想起当时如何踏上这条路，突然觉得当时决定得好草率哦..中五毕业后，徘徊在吉隆坡和新加坡的路口，只差那么一点点就步上姐的后尘去读会计之类的课程(其实到现在还是蛮喜欢这一门，测试也说我比较适合这一门的，其次才轮到工程师)，结果收到信后不到一星期就到新加坡报道了...初院毕业时追求的是化工系，只因为化工好像比较和化学扯上关系..澳洲那边和南大也录取了我，结果又因为国大的一封信...三两天内决定修读土木工程...就这样定下了自己往后的日子..见工时被问到为何会选择土木工程时还差点答不出咧。

虽然说不至于后悔当时的决定...不过现在也只能走一步看一步了...话说土木工程内我专攻的哪一门也是颇冷门的一科..若有朝一日要回汶应该也不容易找工啊..其他的如结构、岩土等又真的不怎么感兴趣，也自认没学好，还是不要连累街坊比较好啊...

哈哈...这一段怎么看起来乱七八糟的...越写越没有感觉..还是“收手”吧....

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So I dug out old certs and old report cards...some ancient ones from kindergarten, they are actually rather funny to me now...

Labels: NUS, reminiscing, thoughts

So to pick up where I left off the last post..life after the crazy thesis chionging period is over.

It's almost a stroll to the finishing line. For the second semester in a row exam week resemble nothing like one..slacked a few days where I did medical checkup for employment pass application (declared fit though the HR called once to check about my colour-blindedness and my future boss (I think) called to check about my psoriasis sigh). Then san (very much like val last sem) very spontaneously made a trip down to sg. She's done wif her exams and in fact just waiting for convocation coz her results were out too. Given that its her first time in Singapore...its a perfect excuse to act tourist for a few days. Places like Merlion Park and Sentosa (like beaches, not just RWS which is the main focus these days). Lol. Food is the main agenda too (even though food in KL is way nicer). Guess I can pass off as an ok tour guide? :P


Oh so before that..Settled accommodation within 3 days. Have been keeping an eye on houses and booked three units in Jurong East for viewing on Friday night. Turns out the first and the third are the same unit but advertised under different agents =.=. And out of the two units we viewed, one was dubbed as "heaven" and the other as "hell"....seriously contrasting in every way man. In the end decided to go for "heaven" (though its slightly pricey)...confirmed with agent on Saturday (after a fair bit of drama) and signed agreement on Sunday. Hahah process was kind of fast but I guess it's not bad? So that is one more thing settled and I can go home earlier in May!

Right...so after san left...time to hit the books again for one last exam..Accounting. I suppose having cheat sheets kind of helped...wasn't familiar with the second part of the module. Though didnt reli study too hard wasnt in the mood already...and the paper was quite ok in the end. Had final FYP presentation the next day, kind of last minute notice coz a friend of mine swapped with me the day before, coz she needed more time to digest her freshly collected data and we had the same examiner and prof! Yep guessed she needed those extra days a lot more than me and I have done my slides anyway (even though I havent rehearsed at all) and I would very much prefer to end earlier. In the end wasnt really in the mood to prepare too...and presentation went..ok? Like went quite smooth coz the examiner, unlike last time during interim presentation, didnt interrupt me and I gained momentum as I spoke...then suddenly out of the blue he went "I...I...I disagree." Heart sank la seriously and we proceeded to debate a bit which sort of ended with sth like me agreeing to what he said and continued with my presentation. I mean its not bad like kena shot from head to toe, but I think it wasnt well done in that some of my theories and methods were criticized. Sigh. Hastily made some changes, thought prof would want to look through one more time but turned out he wasnt really interested..didnt ask me about it and wished me "all the best" when I went to get his signature for submission clearance form...took it as a signal that he won't be seeing me anymore in the future so went ahead to get my thesis printed and hard-bound. Heh.

With all official work done...post exam plans in full swing! JCube and IMM on Friday after presentation, Grad Night costume materials hunting with Chris on Saturday, and moving rooms on Sunday. Moved and packed at the same time so took forever, ended at 1am =.=



Grad Night on Tuesday, first time seriously dressed up for a D&D/prom-ish event. Theme was Greco-Roman so I went as a Greek or was it Roman commoner-trying-to-act-as-a-rich-man. Cloth was kind of expensive coz I got them from Spotlight =.= but it's all in the name of fun la. An enjoyable night...highlighted by first ever CE lucky draw prize! And its the grand prize! Never won anything from all those CE Days, Safety Days etc...but better late than never. And its perfect for my upcoming Grad Trip (for which planning progress is really about 30% oops).


Didnt really feel too sentimental that night...even when the final video was shown..thought it was really well done and I probably would appreciate it more if I was more involved..yes it has been four years, but I was never very close with my coursemates. Still a handful of them whom I have never spoke to even though I know who they are. I still remember one of my coursemates whom I walked past one day (he was coming from the opposite direction) and I sort of waved AND HE IMMEDIATELY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY. Yeah so duno whether its my problem or his but point is for some reason I seldom attempt to broaden my social circle and try to get to know people better. Of course it's my fault...and its something I will always regret..since there are very few of such gatherings in the future.

Nua-ed on Wednesday and visited their Poster Presentation on Thursday...opted out of it coz the A+/A wasnt important to me, didnt one an extra thing to bother me and frankly I thought my project wasnt really worth presenting. Rather spontaneously went out with them at night and spent half the night under the starless sky just chilling out and chatting at Vivo rooftop. :) Met up with the remnants of the McNair gang for Japanese buffet at Irodori on Friday night...another great catchup session! :)




Off to Malacca tomorrow! :P

Labels: around singapore, FYP, NUS, outings

Another step closer to the end of university.

So I had my last "must-pass" exam today...well actually come to think of it everything is "must pass" else I wont get my complete 160 MCs to graduate...just that the more difficult and annoying paper has ended. Was more unprepared than usual, because of thesis submission yesterday..more on that later. Don't think I answered the first question well and complete enough and the second one was much worse. Wasn't expecting much from the paper, but it should be good enough to allow me to graduate, which is the only thing I am working towards now..it's like having too much fun chucking excess luggage overboard and now I am hooked to it. Maybe I am too short-sighted because few years down the road, if I am still in Sg and want to change job..it probably wont look very nice on the transcript unless (hopefully) work experience overshadows it. Accounting paper will be my final NUS written exam, shouldnt have problem preparing for it and hopefully it will give me my (only) second A+ in NUS? Haha.

So thesis submission. Granted, it's still only a final draft, but unless things go horribly wrong in my presentation or my methods get shot down, it's unlikely that there are anymore major changes, so it's still kind of a milestone. Looking back, I started out not knowing much about the project and thinking it might be suitable for me because it doesnt involve experiments, which I perceive to be "dangerous coz you might not get the results you are predicting then you are screwed". I don't really remember what I imagine it would be like, but it turned out to be a lot of googling work and I didnt enjoy that a bit. Plus I thought I will grow to like the area of research, turned out I wasnt really very interested in logistics. Plus the weekly cycle of slacking/doing other work on Thursdays and Fridays while promising myself to finish up work from other mods first so that I can concentrate on FYP during weekend, then breaking the promise and delayed it to Monday, eventually ending up slaving through Tuesdays and waking up at 4am on Wednesdays so that I can have some findings to show prof during Wed afternoon meetings (this semester ended up as sleeping at 5am on Thursday mornings and waking up 3 hours later for my full day of classes with meeting sandwiched in betwen). Repeat.

It's a horrible lifestyle and I don't know why I allow myself to live that way. Progress was slow, I admit I could have devoted more time to it but another thing is that the info I was supposed to gather wasn't as easily available. Different countries have different databases, some keep the data and some don't, some made it publicly available and some require you to pay, missing data here and there. Prof wasnt really helpful when I sometimes reflect this to him and so work continues...ended up having to remove another portion of research work because of time constraints. To top it off the interest was shrinking everyday and I simply can't see how beneficial my work will be. Promised myself that I will end all research work by 31st March and started writing proper, and as expected it didnt materialize. And the deadline was inching closer.

Submission on 18th April and I sort of only officially started writing on 6th April, before which I had written small bits and pieces here and there and I firmly believe I wouldnt be able to finish it because HR is immediately after it and "I needed to study for that too". Even sort of hinted on extension and prof hinted back that I cant. Sort of resigned to fate and full scale thesis production began.

The inertia to start was immense but once I got the momentum going...I finally had the belief. I can see the finishing line somehow, suddenly. It got me going on and on. Occasional concentration lapse but in the end I got there. Probably coz adopted the strategy of "living in a different time zone" which involves sleeping at 5am or later everyday because I accepted I am no longer a morning person I used to be 7 or 8 years ago. Can easily churn out twice the amount of text from 12-5am as compared to daytime. Set a modest target number of pages and far exceeded it, which for some reason made me more satisfied and driven. Looking at how I have behaved throughout the project I am glad that I didn't sink so low that my thesis was of crap quality. Could have been better, just like most of the other modules I took in university, but I was so used to it that it became a norm to me.

Submitted first thing on Wednesday morning, which was a huge improvement as compared to the interim report. I was almost proud of it and myself, before reminding myself it could have been better and I could have put in more effort rather than last week work. You would say I should not be proud of mediocre and inferior work but I am never a perfectionist so yea. Not proud, but definitely glad.

Labels: FYP, NUS, thoughts

Oh how time flies. The last time I blogged I was saying "hello mars" and before we know it March has ended. Oh hai avril.

I know if i dun type out this entry tonight I wont have a chance to do it until after 19 April (which is in two weeks you see). In case you are wondering, it's the day after FYP submission and the day of HR exam :S

Last two weeks of chionging FYP, on top of that there's ACC project to vet through, and every possible French related test (on the same day too, i suppose that kind of helps coz dun need to study twice). I think I will miss learning French. There's so much more to learn! It doesn't help that the lecturer and tutor are both actively promoting French 2 to the students and I cant take it...obviously coz i will be graduating. Apparently NUS's pace is reli fast compared to external schools so much so that by French 4 + 1 month stay in Paris, you can pass off as a French already o.O

Settled HR presentation today...with only finals left..and of course, FYP. It's kind of bad that submission is in two weeks and I still have to work damn hard the day before to show prof some more results...should have settled those aeons ago. Gotta be really focused for the next 10 days or so...coz tested water today and I dun think I can extend the deadline. Oh well. Last lap!!

*chants* Ilovemyprojectiamdamninterestedinit.

Anyway yesterday...the call came. Lol the day after I told my dinner table I have been to 1t@ five times for various interviews and whined about my uncertainties to my supper gang I got the call. Probably that works haha. Offered the same terms as the previous post...and without thinking much I said yes. And made appointment to go down to sign Appointment Letter on Monday. Wheee...EMPLOYED! Civil Design called me up a short while later asking me if I am still interested to go down for interview given that I got an offer already and I said no...so yea. I guess that concludes job hunting module. :) Was so occupied yesterday that I din even have much time to celebrate..or rather, FYP neutralizes the supposedly high feeling.

Duno why but there is this funny feeling about going to work...like how will i be received by my colleagues etc...the jobscopes required of me..and that pops up occasionally even through all the FYP chionging yesterday..it is a new phase of life after all. Guess it will bug me more after I sign the contract and after FYP ends and I have time to think about random stuff. :S

Yea..survive FYP first....else dun even need to think abt work :S

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Oh by the way there is a second version of FYP which I think we spent a total of 11 hours on it only. Behold...



Lol...Hall Final Years usually have a FYP during the year and a separate performance during DnD which is sort of like a farewell to Hall...this year I suppose we dun have the time or the enthusiasm to do funny things twice so we combined them both hehe. End result wasnt too bad though...first time dancing in front of an audience since 1993 lol. Out-of-sync moves and goofs here and there but it had me rewatching the video a few times while smiling. And the camwhoring session after coming back to hall from the DnD venue. And I am glad to go for the post-DnD drinking party despite being a good patient and abstaining from alcohol. Being the only completely sober person and very well-entertained lol. :)

Well, I guess this is goodbye then, RH.

Next up....house hunting. Grr...après examens s'il vous plaît.

Labels: career, FYP, NUS, Raffles Hall

Mars means March in French, by the way.

So not very long after my last post..I got a job offer. My first job offer in my life!

Yep, a new milestone in my life. It happened over dinner when I least expect it (sad life of the HR staff...still working at 6pm?) and my mind didnt process it properly. So she explained stuff like the basic salary, bonus and what kind of perks I will be getting should I accept the offer. And i automatically told her I need time to consider.

The offer didnt excite me because it was for a job I wasnt very keen on in the first place. Part of me really want to accept the offer and yay job hunting is over. Maybe I would be able to transfer to another dept after some time. The other half just kept reminding me of all the things I am not looking for in a job.

Then the next day...Traffic Management Unit called me up for interview, the first position which is actually one of my interests. It sort of helped me make a decision regarding the offer, even though I had difficulty taking that step of officially rejecting the offer. Eventually asked if i could delay my response to them, to which I am told I can't. Didnt reject on the spot, but the decision is more or less there already, was just a matter of informing them formally. Was supposed to call on Fri, but was quite busy and the only free time I have, she wasnt at her desk. Same thing happened on Monday. I sort of pushed it to the back of my mind too coz she didnt call me back to chase anyway.

So came the interview, and it was the first one I thought I didnt do well. Lasts 40 minutes, a bit technical, and got asked the same question a few times which is a bad sign because it meant i didnt answer it well enough. Still, when the HR lady finally called Tuesday I bravely rejected the offer...turns out she changed her mind too and said she will KIV the offer while checking with the relevant depts (something that Traffic Mgmt Unit said they will do too, to check with the HR side). Conclusion: hanging on a thread now.

Was just thinking I should maybe settle this lt@ series of interviews first before starting to apply for other companies..down for an interview on Friday, one of the consultant companies I passed my resume to during Career Fair. See how..

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Got a bit emo while doing FYP last week...the fondness for the topic is nearly sub-zero now as compared to during interim presentation. Was much happier studying for my triple tests for the other 3 mods. French oral was kind of fun in a way, even though I forgot some phrases and didnt make a long enough conversations. Accounting midterm, um, finished the paper with 1 hour to spare and left early...first time in uni! Feels good :) Having prior accounting knowledge only helps with the speed imo, I am sure the lecturer did a good job teaching and everybody have the necessary knowledge for the test so it's fair.

Attended job interview clinic last week too, didnt read email properly and didnt know it will be carried out in a mock interview format (where 4 people volunteered as interviewee and the rest will be interviewers), tot the mock interview was a separate session. Hence missed the line that states "Proper attire is expected". Paiseh to the max and the facilitator doesnt look impressed. Sigh. Did manage to take something out of it though, even though didnt really apply it for my next interview.

And then there was volunteering for OCBC Cycle..got quite a bit to say about that and just the idea of volunteering in general...what it means for most people. Shall leave it for next time. All in all, another new experience, and I do hope to be back next year....as a competitor. Hehehehehe.

Labels: career, NUS

Wasnt as fruitful as I wanted, in terms of academics anyway.

Got through to final interview round for lt@'s Rail Project Engineer, and went for interview on Friday. Thought it went better than my first one, but honestly lots of thinking to do...whether I am really fine with the job. Gave what I think was the safest answer when they repeatedly emphasize that I should be interested and passionate about the nature of the job by saying I am opened to different options and this is one of the fields I am interested in. Deep inside (well maybe not so deep) I know I have my reservations...in fact when I started out doing CE this is one of the fields I wanted to avoid. Not sure what have changed, or if anything have changed at all and this inner conflict is just due to the fear of not being able to get my desired job, pushing me to consider the first available option/way out.

A second job interview, also lt@ but under Road Safety Engineering, asked me to come down for an "informal" interview (and rather last minute too). Another job which I have never seriously considered before, but went for the interview anyway and turns out it's another unit desperately/urgently looking for people to join them (this one kept hinting that I should start in May instead of July). Was thinking it might not be a job I can do well because I used to think that they are a bit too anal...but again, considering it too.

Shall see how it goes..no guarantees that I will get an offer anyway. Was going to send in applications left and right during recess week but for some reason, procrastination took over and it didn't happen. Sigh. TIFS took up one whole Tuesday, FYP another 2 days and job interview prep another day, and there are a couple of outings too, though yea, all these aren't real excuses. Fact is, recess week is over and I am off to face my hell week without much preparation.

Next week: Triple test on Thursday...only three mods this sem, and so happens that they decided to schedule midterms/test/mock test on the same day. Some luck. It would be even more awesome if prof decided to meet on Thurs instead of Wed. Then job interview clinic on Fri morning, volunteering on Fri and Sat, and another French test on Monday. Woohoo awesome!

Labels: career, NUS

(Google-translated the title...havent learnt that much, only know "premier" heh heh)

Another week has gone by..so let's see what has happened this week.

Monday morning, as usual planned to wake up for breakfast, but switched off alarm at 8-ish and went back to sleep as usual. Thankfully, because I woke up once already, wasn't really deep asleep so was easily woken up by a phone call at 9am.

Turns out it was a phone call to invite me for my first ever job interview =.=

"I am calling from LTA...."

LTA? *wide awake*

Put on my most energetic-sounding voice, think I still sound sleepy though haha. Lady asked me to come down for an interview on Thursday. Even in my half-awake state, I didn't forget that Thursday was my busiest day of the week so I asked if I could reschedule it. She said she will try to make arrangements and call me back later. (Afterthought: maybe that wasnt a very smart move, considering I can try to shift my classes and make up for them).

Hung up, lie on my bed thinking for a while, then I actually fell asleep again. And dreamt that she called me a second time confirming the interview and after i hung up, i panicked because I forgot to ask her when is the interview. =.=

Anyway she did call back (just nice when I was coming back from my morning routines in the toilet, then I was thinking maybe I should start carrying my phone everywhere, even when I am bathing just in case a future boss call me). Interview time and date confirmed. Just that I didnt know what post I was interviewing for. =.=

I know, the whole thing sounded really messy and full of =.='s. I thought she called up after I left my résumé with them during career fair. And found out that she is from the Rail Group in LTA after reading her follow-up email. My classmate told me it was probably going to be a geotech related post (which I wasnt very keen on). But I didnt speculate much and just prepared for the general questions in the end. And it was a bit last minute too because I usually reserve the beginning of weeks to prepare for my mid-week FYP meetings (which was 风平浪静 by the way, but I got a feeling I had to do much more to impress him next week). And last-minute shopping for formal wear too coz Ryan inspected my wardrobe immediately after I told him I got shortlisted for an interview and declared my stock of formal wear as "not formal enough".

Went for my first interview not knowing what to expect (and cursing inside because I hoped to have some practice before going for an interview at one of the companies I am targeting). The admin lady who spoke to me on phone was very friendly, had a chat with her first because there was another candidate in the interview room when I came, and she told me she got very confused when she saw the combination of "Malaysian", Sg A Level cert and Brunei O Level cert. Even talked a bit about my skin problem. And she told me I was interviewing for the post of "Project Engineer" at one of the MRT lines under construction, either Downtown, Tuas extension or Thomson. Which was another post I wasnt very enthu about (not that I totally reject the idea) because it will be site-based.

Lost my confidence a bit when I saw the aforementioned candidate coming out, turns out it was a classmate of mine, and was on the university's Chinese debate team, and I knew what she was capable of, having worked with her on a project last sem too. As for the interview itself, to my surprise the standard predictable questions came out (tell me abt yourself, strengths and weaknesses etc) but I think I didnt do very well either..Oh well. Practice maybe? Considering I supposedly can still get called up by the other groups within LTA for other posts which I am more keen on. Gonna have to send in more applications during recess week too! A friend of mine was like "Oh no, it's recess week and I am still jobless!" and I was thinking "omg I havent even started sending in applications proper other than those during career fair". A bit too laid back already!

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CE Day on Friday afternoon, the main attraction that drew me there was the lucky draw where the only non-Coop Cash Voucher-prize was an iPad 2. Joined the sculpture building competition (still beats me why it is named "sculpture-building"...you would think that you need to sculpt something which wasnt the case) with ML, Chris and Winnie (randomly decided upon it one day when we were lunching). Ended up being the only Final Year team competing among the first and second year undergrads and maybe some grad students, which turned out to be an advantage because the other FYs who came for the event were endlessly supplying us with ideas and helping out with the building lol. We were given random materials,such as wires, tennis ball cans, aluminium strips, barbed wires, satay sticks etc and we had to build the tallest structure possible. Apparently the prize was decided by votes (in which we got a helping hand too heh heh) and we ended up winning the first prize of $200 Coop Vouchers. Lol. After distributing it to everybody who helped out (rather than among us four) ended up with $30. Haha!

Didnt win the iPad though. The winning ticket was drew and the emcee narrowed it down to four people and I was among the 4! Went to Tze Yuen in the end. Lucky girl who nearly went off for her 6pm class but decided to stay for a while just in case!

Rather fun and interesting last CE day in uni though. :)

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So I finally dragged myself to UHC to get a referral letter for a skin specialist.

Turns out Dr Patrick Tan is actually a skin specialist. Always thought he was a sports injury specialist. Because i told registration counter that i wanted a referral letter for skin specialist..they arrange for me to consult with him first.

Hearing "yeah, its very serious", even though I know it very well, causes the heart to sink all the same.

"what happened to you? the last time i saw you, you still look ok".

He probably din observe closely/properly/forgot how i look like alr.

Anyway he said it may be treatable by cream alone. "At least its not big patches, just many circular red patches." Or go for UV treatment which might cost a bomb. Sigh. "Yeah...quite serious..should go..can no longer be handled at outpatient level".

Fixed up an appointment with NUH in the end, told him Skin Centre is a bit far for my liking..and he did say even though he thinks Skin Centre is the best, NUH is "okay too". The appointment was for next month because its the earliest available date (to which I flashed back to two years ago when the GP wrote a comment "consult specialist immediately" and the admin staff fixed up an appointment for the following week..so this time its not urgent enough?).

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Recess week this week, other than job hunting, there is the TIFS (Transport Industry Forum of Singapore) seminar I signed up for, OCBC Cycle Singapore briefing (possibly my last ever volunteering job), FYP meeting, and for the first time since Year 1, Midterms! MCQ Accounting midterms and written, listening and oral tests for French. Eeks. And to think before the semester started I was thinking if I could afford a getaway to either KL or Malacca during recess week...

Labels: career, NUS, skin

Was a good break, even though its just two weeks into the new semester. Did all I wanted to do during CNY, ate all I wanted, and went everywhere I wanted. :)

Totally not sure when is the next time I will be back...which made me emo a bit the night I came back. Hopefully I will have my job secured and accommodation settled by end of May..then maybe I can sneak in a couple of weeks at home..

Came back to a number of makeup classes, including back-to-back HR classes. Sandwiched in between, unfortunately, is NUS Career Fair which I only had less than two hours to visit the booths I am interested in. Hastily got my resume fixed and dropped off a few at the fair...but there is a lot more to be done...a lot more. Need to start sending emails, doing up cover letters etc. That's like a module on its own already.

And there is FYP..blissfully ignored it during the entire 15 days of CNY, only to, as usual, regret afterwards and barely survived a meeting with prof today. 3 months left....gotta really start chionging already...

And Taiwan Grad Trip is finally happening! Got tickets booked last weekend, and I am pretty excited already. It started off as a wild idea, maybe two years back, because all five of us have sort of different schedules and possibility of scheduling conflicts is pretty high...and frankly speaking it wasnt a Grad Trip for KH coz he isnt graduating at the same time as us, an additional semester for his double degree and he had to fly back to Asia for the trip...but somehow, the dates got closer, talks about it got serious, suddenly there is a free period and we went for it! It's indeed the only time period we can travel, Val having her nurse licensing exam right before it and San having her convo right after it, and KH wont be back from Europe in May. Excited because as close as we are, we have never traveled together or go for a vacation together, not even a road trip to Miri or something. Itinerary planning to begin soon!

Okay the post feels a bit too fragmented, partly because I actually started writing it like a week ago and got distracted..had HR presentation this week too. Speaking of which the past two HR classes are actually rather bearable..to my surprise. Accounting seems pretty familiar so far, French is still fun despite it getting harder..I still can't phrase questions properly even though I am picking up more vocab.

Finally got pressured enough to visit UHC doctor tomorrow for a recommendation letter and possibly visiting specialist next week. I duno..I supposed I just want to know if there is anything i can do to force a remission period or just at the very least, prevent new patches from appearing. Shall see how.\\

Oh and guess who's back...armed with a new motherboard and hard disk...good as new.

Labels: career, family, NUS, skin, travel

Bonjour! Je m'apelle Seng Yen. Je suis malaisien. Je parle chinois, anglais et malai. Je suis etudiant en ingenierie a l'universite nationale de Singapour. J'habite Raffles Hall a Singapour.

Lol...three lessons on..no more partner but the enthusiasm is still there. Guess I made a right choice in taking a language module after all! Haha though not exactly sure how much of it will stay with me after I graduate...First three lessons, quite a bit to remember already..conjugations, negation, some vocab, definite and indefinite articles (where I learn that all objects have a gender in French language. A table is feminine, while a street is male :S). Quite fun, just randomly spurting out a couple of things I learn in class and waiting for the confused look on a friend's face can be rather satisfying LOL.

The same cannot be said for HR though...Sigh second class and I got really bored already, if not for class activities to keep me awake I may actually fall asleep. The readings are damn hard to read! Urgh. Can't really decide whether I hate this more of Engin Prof more. Sigh wonder if this is another module that I pass just for the sake of passing lor. As for accounting...second class was also more of refreshing memory...T account? Double entry? Debit Credit? Whee!

Of course the most important part of the week...FYP Interim Presentation...preparation wasnt very ideal coz KH came down over the weekend..couldnt resist hanging out with the two and so..yea. Even fell slightly sick after the weekend and had a cold during presentation day. Turns out that interim presentation, for some people at least, wasnt all about getting shot, or rather prof use plastic bullets...that don't kill. In fact for mine..the examiner kept interrupting mine to either ask for clarifications or give suggestions on what can be improved/what should be done next. And my prof was kind of helpful? Even jumped in to help explain some stuff which I explained but the examiner didnt really get it. Yeah. Met Prof today to discuss the next course of actions and the first thing he say was "Your project...quite positive so far." Heh heh.

Even so in the end...I know this particular field of Transport is not something I want to go into..Logistics..I think its more on research, data, mathematical models etc, to improve on the efficiency of transporting cargo..hmm..not what I am looking for. Went to BCA's Career Fair last weekend and a lady from Association of Consultant Engineers was telling me I shouldnt narrow my sight to just Transport so soon, try out everything else before deciding which path I should follow..well let's just say when I went into CE that was what I have in mind..road designs, transport policies etc (and ironically I decided not to take the Transport Policies module this sem :S)..so LTA is something I will like to try out, or Transport in a consultant firm, which I still think I am very lucky to get an intern job on it last summer...in consultant firms they usually rotate fresh engineers around in various departments which I suppose I don't mind too much as well...just that I dont trust myself that much you see..I dont even know how I manage to score in quite a few of my core CE modules! So yea...keeping options open. People around me whom I am close to have mostly secured jobs already and I havent even sent out a single resume yet...sigh. Another thing to begin on after CNY...in addition to accomodation? I wonder if I am the only one who don't really mind travelling to work...I mean, of course not the extremes like travelling from Jurong to Tampines to work everyday la...that one can die. And, uh, potential housemates? Nobody saying anything yet....

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Sent dear old Toshi to hospital finally...literally, as the repair shop's name is "Laptop General Hospital" =.= First it was just a problem with waking up from sleep mode..as it shuts down soon after waking up in a power-outage-ish manner (sort of like me sometimes). Then it started having problems starting up. Then it started giving me random shutdowns..like during the day of my interim report submission. As if knowing it is going for repairs soon and throwing tantrums (*imagination running wild*)...it refuse to stay on longer than half an hour sometimes the morning I sent it to repair. Oh well. Repair shop lady says it will be done in 5-7 days (perfect timing because I would be back from my self-declared CNY hol) and I still have to pay $50 if they found out its a software problem. Surprisingly not too bored in my room without it, thanks in part to my sister's new Galaxy Note which I was helping to "test" it out. Heh heh.

Volunteered to cover IHG road relay before realizing I will be laptop-less that day..ended up having to go to PC Cluster just to write my article. But I was reminded of how I like the writing process and hated the process of getting information to write. They seemed to have severe manpower problems this year..hence the volunteer..but then after CNY..no more time to help..so good luck..I duno how else I can help.

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Have been looking forward to my CNY Hol all week..ever since presentation ended to be exact..flying off tmr morning and I am still at ThinkLab blogging at 11pm...duno what's gotten into me hahaha. But anyway just in case I dont get to online...here is a pic..as usual...



Happy Chinese New Year ppl! :)

Labels: career, FYP, holidays, NUS, Raffles Hall

Unlike previous semesters...where nothing much happens in the first week of classes and we usually just waltzed through...final semester started with two intense days of chiong-ing FYP interim report. Okay actually the bulk of the text has been completed a few days ago...then went to meet Prof, found out that he didnt even look at what I sent him before I went home in December despite replying my email. Coupled with the fact that he went overseas for a week after I came back..I can only meet him on the Friday before semester starts.

Guess what? He was surprisingly encouraging and kinder this time round. I was to update my road and rail freight capacities with data from countries worldwide too instead of just Indochina countries. It is a bit of problem because even though I have them, there are bits and pieces of missing data everywhere and it took me a while to finish updating the table (which I think wasnt very satisfactory lor), to be exact, the night before I was supposed to submit the report. I think the positive thing about the meeting was that I found out that I dont have as much things left to do for my project as I imagined (but then, you never know, because IMO he changes his mind very frequently and then blames us for not understanding what he said).

Submission day: went for lectures until noon, wanting to touch up the report after I get back...then LAPTOP DIED. It has been having problems starting up and waking up from sleep mode since November last year, then recently the problem escalates and I try to leave it on for longer periods...then the auto shutdown problem appeared..and when I wanted to work on my report...auto shutdown -> startup -> open word documents -> auto shutdown again after a while -> repeat. It wont stay on for more than 5 minutes! Panicked and went over to PC Cluster to finish up the report, very hastily, then submitted. Gah. Hopefully I have better luck and dont get killed in presentation. :(

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FYP aside...taking three other mods this semester, decided against taking any TEs in the end...maybe will just crash the Transport Policy classes..dont want to sit for exams and or projects or policy debates etc. A final semester where i dont have any engineering modules (other than FYP)! Didnt expect that. HR2002, Human Capital in Organizations, is the last mandatory module I am taking...tried it out back in Sem 5 and because of project deadline clashes with Engin Prof and CE3101 I dropped it...got a different tutor this time round, probably more interesting but the topic is still damn boring urgh. At least taking it with my reunited CE gang (minus Winnie who took the mod alr)! Probably makes it so much more bearable.

First class of the semester was actually ACC1002X - Financial Accounting...hmm a bit different from what I expected, but I suppose its interesting also..hopefully can score :) More interesting was French, at first sort of dragged into taking by Stel...who ended up not having enough points for it and still appealing for the module (and chances look slim too :S)...went for fist class and found out learning new language can be soooo interesting and fun. Probably gonna end up taking alone...which isnt very ideal coz its better to have someone to practice with mah...but no choice lor. Hope the enthusiasm doesnt die out haha.

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Finally get to visit Marina Barrage! Last Saturday, bravely abandoned FYP for a day. Bought kites, first time flying a kite that actually stayed in the sky for at least 5 minutes. Although admittedly the kites are somewhat lacking in quality (or maybe its just us)...string snapped and kite flew away and got damaged...the second one fared better but couldnt fly properly after a while too..and a third kite, someone else's, landed in front of us and nobody came to claim it so we adopted it. Haha! Was fun while it lasts. Dinner and jalan jalan at Marina Bay, Fullerton area..was a nice ending to the vacations. :)

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Sort of a mandatory post now.

3 mods excluding FYP, O suppose grades are a little bit lower than expected. Traffic Flow turned out to be my worst ever CE mod. Was kind of amazed when I discovered that I never got anything less than B+ for CE mods..duno how I managed that to be honest. Geotech portion of design project probably dragged down the grade a bit, so did ITS finals...so I still cant break through to get my As and A+s. CAP has more or less stabilized..only 0.01 difference throughout three semesters =.=....slow and relaxed stroll towards the end? Nah...there's FYP.

Got into the mood of planning next semester's timetable (hey, it's the last time we will be doing this!)..and then realized that there are changes and now I cant have my one day week anymore. HR is a must, and suddenly not very sure if I shud take a TE that might help in FYP even though I dun like it much (and it might help only) or a TE which I am more interested in and may help in the direction I am heading towards, or neither. The last module is a tie between French/Thai (I really want to take a language mod for once) and Accounting (which I always find interesting since Sec Sch but never had a chance to do more with it) or both..which would give me a busier sem and I am not sure if that's a good thing...with more FYP stuff coming up, as well as job applications, house/room hunting etc etc.

Suddenly I have less than 5 days left at home..both dreading and hoping to go back to Sg to face FYP (and Prof), given that I havent exactly done much during holidays...because home internet really prevents me from doing much. And the lesson didnt seem to sink in much....

To top it up I need to send in laptop for repairs as soon as I get back to Sg...it takes around 3 or 4 attempts everyday just to get it to startup as it will experience power failures halfway through startup...and cannot put it to sleep mode at all because after it wakes up its power will fail...maybe camping in comp labs/library will help me to do more FYP work...

Just realized LTA job application closing dates are coming up pretty soon...one more thing to add to my to-do list before CNY when I get back to Sg..

Oh well...shall see how..

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Hmm..gotta be the only time reading week was not spent on reading and exam week seemed pretty slack too.

Spent on a couple of meetings at Biz Library for the ITS report which ended up to be 108 pages. Lolz. Turns out Biz Lib is a pretty nice place to study...and discussion rooms are easy to book also, even during reading week. Too bad it is really far from hall. Anyway i think if things dont go wrong we actually did well for the project component of the module...kind of felt bad after that because I kind of assumed everybody's exam schedule is like mine...and have no guilt about completing the report during reading week..turns out some of the others have 3 papers this week alone and needed time to study. Uh.

The exam itself was pretty ok...because the topics of each question are already known and all we had to do is to bring in as much materials about the questions as possible...and he repeated quite a few questions from the past years which i read up on. The only uncertainty is that I think I wrote too much for some questions and too little for others. And no bell curve effect for this module..hopefully can score an ok grade?

The same cannot be said for the Traffic Flow mod...finished up the last report..and results of the first 5 are so so only, and took really long to finish up the last one..partly because there is time to do it during EXAM WEEK?! And i mean, my analysis showed no abnormalities and i am supposed to comment on the abnormalities and the causes..=.= Smoked smoked smoked. He is probably not going to be impressed with how long I took to finish it. *dies*

And to top it up FYP have been abandoned for ages and I still havent sent prof the email i promised, like, 2 weeks ago? And I wonder how much will be done during hols...

Sigh..this is so not working...gonna find ways to make myself occupied next sem. Take extra mods! Or maybe job-hunting and house-hunting will make me occupied enough. Something which I have blissfully chosen to ignore until next sem. When some of my friends have already landed jobs this sem. Lalalala~

I hope my ignorance now wont come back to bite me in my ass. :S

Home in 2 weeks! :D

Labels: exams, FYP, NUS

Unofficially, anyway.

Last class of the semester was presentation day for ITS...uh, a bit last minute work from most of us. Imagine still editing and adding materials to slides and writing script at 4.45pm, doing a first rehearsal run of the presentation at 5.35pm and the class is at 6pm? Woah. Reached 10minutes late, and we were the second group to go...which is a good thing because materials wont be repeated! Turns out the first group were really horrible...sub-zero coordination amongst the team mates, and they tried too hard to show off their mathematical  knowledge that they basically almost ignored the point of the project...and when the very fed up prof told them off after their extended presentation, the girl burst into tears and ran out of the room...! Drama...but I really do think they were asking for it lor. Sigh. Ours turned out to be ok and i really think we did better than everybody else, as in the most complete! Good that we had a debater on our team who can present well too. :)

Outstanding work include one last traffic flow report which seemed to take forever finish and the ITS report..submitted the 5th traffic flow report last night at 4am...initially wanted to complete that and the last report over the weekend but I guess I was too naive in thinking that I can actually do it. Plus I kind of didnt expect volunteering to be so physically taxing! More on that later. But yeah, 11 days to my first paper and this is probably the first sem in which I actually haven started stressing out over exams. Having only 2 papers which are so far apart sure doesnt help either...

Finally got my December air tickets settled...informed prof about my unavailability even though he was saying "December is the time when you should complete most of your research" right before i started on the topic..oh well. And because of my indecisiveness...ticket prices went up gahh. Whatever....this year I will only be at home for a grand total of three weeks plus...and possibly even less chances to go home after starting work so it's a must! And definitely a must to teman my parents...i dun suppose my mum has gotten over her shock yet....

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Volunteered for this year's FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup Series, Singapore leg last weekend..regretted a bit before going because I had quite a bit of project work to do, have to wake up at ungodly hours like 545am and it takes one hour to travel to Woodlands :S Posted to the security/usher team even though it wasnt one of my choices coz most of the posts were already pre-assigned to students from two ITEs (who probably got arrowed)...almost got assigned to a reli ulu location during training session...but thankfully got moved to a corridor on the second floor where I was to keep out people who were secretly trying to watch without a ticket (which means I got to watch the action hahah). It got even better at Day 2 where they decided to rotate roles and I was positioned near the swimmers holding area before they enter the pool deck..which means I get to see the swimmers up close...big names like Ian Thorpe! Woosh! And was in the spectators stands during the night session so got an even better view of the competition. Hahah!

Certain things happened throughout the two days that I wasnt happy about, more to do with PR issues but I suppose since I am not there to make new friends (get real, ppl) it doesnt reli matter. There really are all sorts of people in this world, and some just cannot grow up. But yeah, the experience was kind of fun, though sadly I might not have much time to do this kind of stuff after starting work (reli sounds like no life after starting work doesnt it?).


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So many things to do after exams! Looking forward to them already (whoops)! Hahah :)

Labels: NUS, volunteering

Eeps...even with more free time this sem, blog is more abandoned than ever. Not sure whether anybody is still reading this though :S

FYP update: Still not progressing a lot, and I suppose it's getting alarming because during the last meeting with prof, he was instructing two of my classmates about what they can start writing about for their interim report. He appeared to be satisfied with the reading I have done, claiming that I am finally confident about what I am saying, when what I am telling him is really what I have found out the week before =.= No instructions about interim report so that means I am the slowest among all 4? Eeps.

But then again, what he was telling the other two was really rather trivial stuff like "you can start writing about the procedures of the experiment you conducted"...which is really straight out of the textbook? And the information I have are really jumbled up and I am not too sure how to link them all up or make enough sense out of them to stuff into my interim. :S

Oh well. Looks like I need to spend more time during vacation on this and I can never get any work done at home, plus I am pretty sure I need to meet him once a week as well, unless he fly off for some conference or trip (I hope). Was planning to do enough work to impress him last week so when he is in a good mood, I can ask him about it...but then the graduate students and the other Prof were all around and I decided it was a bad idea to ask. But it really doesnt look like I will be home for more than 3 weeks. And it is probably the last time I can have a long vacation (by long I mean one month and above) at home T.T CNY tickets are settled though, actually went to plan for my timetable next sem (i should not have any difficulties securing any module I want) and I can have a one-day week LOL. Therefore awarded myself a 10-day CNY holiday at home hee hee.

As for the other two modules....ITS project is progressing really slowly because the program we are using only has one license key and while one person is holding on to it, nobody else can do anything. Not even writing report because the simulation results are not out yet! And these two weeks we practically have zero progress coz the person holding the key didnt do anything and we were waiting for Circle Line to open before collecting more data because we anticipated changing travel patterns.

Then came the data collection part....think I was attracting weird stares from everybody at the bus stops...like "there is this weird guy recording down bus arrival schedules and counting the number of people alighting and boarding". Especially since we are mainly collecting on busy bus stops during peak hours. A few times I have to sort of wave away people I know because I was halfway counting the sea of humans and they came over to chat :S Pretty glad by the end of the third and final day of collection.

As for the Traffic Flow module...report progress have stalled since the second report because data collection partners are always busy. Sometimes have half a mind to just do it myself...SY=procrastinate therefore ended up just waiting. First two reports were graded and actually turned out not too bad. Given that this is a class of just 12 people, there shouldnt be any bell curve and possibly wont turn out bad? I hope.

This is probably the only semester when I find all my modules interesting (save for FYP, dont really count that as a module), very much due to the fact that I have unofficially specialized in a field that I am interested in. I don't even fall asleep in class anymore and it's a three hour class! Though admittedly I havent been revising either and am having trouble recalling what lecturers said two or three weeks after the class, but I am feeling positive. That sure is a good thing.

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Skipped half of my ITS class on Tuesday to attend Concert, rebranded as RHMP this year. Was really glad that I skipped class, show has flaws throughout (the singing!) but was thoroughly enjoyable. The music composition was good! I thought publicity and PR did very well too this year - they had the correct people leading them. The sets were grandddd (okay for hall production standard) though it means they were immobile and we see sets people doing sets change in broad "stagelight", something I was rather uncomfortable with. Didn't have to go down to advise tech but I guess they din really need me and they did okay too.

Was very glad to see concert back on track...after the no-freshman crisis, it seemed like things are finally going back to normal for most of the big comms and traditions, Orientation being one, Concert being another, and I think Float probably has least chance of going back to the norm after what they have gone through this year. Though, on closer examination, the people holding concert together this year are mostly alumni and final years (majority of the music is composed by alumni, script by alumni, producer is a final year and alumni). How much have been learnt and absorbed by the juniors is unknown, but good to see that most of them are having as much fun or "fun" as we did in our freshman year. We shall see.

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Signed up for three volunteering events over the last two weeks: grabbed Stel to volunteer for Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore with me, then got emails about volunteering for the FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup 2011 (Singapore Leg) and The SGX Bull Charge 2011 and signed up for both. Another side interest of mine :) which I have abandoned for a while too because didnt have time to + was sorely disappointed by my volunteering stint during YOG.  The first two are confirmed too.

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Havent been actively reading up about career related stuff or even attended a single career talk this sem. I guess that makes me an apathetic final year student? Hahaha.

Maybe, it just means that I don't feel ready to go out there yet......

Sometimes when I can't sleep and my mind wanders around...I started thinking about job interviews....they always emphasize a lot about looking smart for your interview and how first impression counts etc etc...and I can't help but wonder if I am at a disadvantage right from the beginning. Would I not be able to make it pass an interview for my dream job because of the-stupid-p-word? How much of a disadvantage am I at right now?

And I am not just talking about work...about a couple of other things actually.....

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Wow..actually spewed out that many words in less than an hour...would be greattttttt if I was this productive while writing reports...

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While the rest of the FYs look kind of slack....it's the complete opposite for us civil engineers-to be.

Thanks to Rag Day..we only have 3 weeks and 2 days for the Design Project...mine involved design of a road diversion scheme for construction of an underground MRT station and designing support systems for the diversion of a canal in the way. Both parts are unrelated and the first part is ending on this coming Tuesday..had to present to the most fearsome prof ever. Fearsome because we never know what he is going to ask/shoot and he just had to put on that garang face during presentations. =.=

Been meeting everyday (earlier thought we have 3 hour classes + endless meetings, turns out only have one 3 hour lecture so far and the rest is meeting time), past 3 days have been from 10am-9pm...Thankful for the presence of an awesome teammate who knows AutoCAD well so us noobs dont die a horrible death (even though we pretty much know some stuff already but are still rather slow). Hopefully everything turns out well....by end of Week 4, I shall be a free man again...

FYP and the two other TE mods basically abandoned :P and all other profs understand how intense these period is for us so FYP prof din even contact us/ask us for any submissions. First lectures of TE mods and I already find myself sleepy in classes...Traffic Flow and Control seemed horribly stats-y and prof has managed to scare one of my classmates to consider dropping the mod by the second lecture. ITS is interesting but prof is monotonous though I think I will enjoy. I hope.

Final year and finally got to know more classmates. As in actually talk to them. Yea slow (coz, well, yea you know what i am gonna say). I think the process really started last semester when my regular gang was broken up coz of SEP etc. Then VIP time get to know another bunch, and now roughly the same group of people are doing transport-related modules so that's another bunch. Well. At least not going to graduate knowing a small bunch of ppl...

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Final Year resident in hall! Phantom time (though its partly because of Design Proj). Plus I duno most of the people around anyway other than the old birds who have returned from SEP/IA/whatever...at least wont skip dinner or pack dinner to eat in room coz no dinner buddies anymore. Hall starting to look like the one i entered some three years ago, though people's approach to things feels very much different now. Can sort of understand how FYs last year can do all sorts of funny things like Games Night to Final Year Residents Projects. Sometimes can be really free (or maybe its actually just relatively free).

On a side note....PP, please dont die. :(

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I realize my updates during semester time always seemed to have sort of a format. First, I will update about school stuff, then about hall stuff, then most likely bitch about my skin condition. Oh well. For the sake of keeping to that format...I was rather upset few weeks ago that even without school work to stress me out, the stupid disease conquered new areas without me noticing at all. Sigh.

Sometimes I will fantasize about picking up an old bottle that was washed up a shore and I rub it and a genie appear to give me 3 wishes. And I think I probably rehearsed what I wanted to say to him n times already. (By the way, the third wish was to ask for 3 more hee hee). Coming back to reality...I will probably visit the doctor again, now that I have so much more free time. Maybe even regular visits. Even though I wonder if it will actually help because all they ever say is to tell me that it will stick with me forever.

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Home is good. Even though it's only one short week. :)

Labels: NUS, Raffles Hall, skin

Week 10 - pinjam-ed to geotech team coz they had sth sort of urgent but maybe a bit too saikang for the perm staff to handle. Ok I feel a bit terrible for saying that.....but I wonder, if interns are not around..who are the ones doing these work? Oh and HP7.2 was awesome! I think its the best HP movie coz it is the only one that has enough time to cover everything required. Not many random scene additions (except for the jumping off the cliff part), not many things cut out (except for him repairing his wand with the Elder Wand)...tho a bit kua zhang..for the dramatic effect i guess..but overall quite good. *Like*


Week 11 - slightly more happening...sadly its not the working part....went for first complete team lunch coz there is this staff from Australian branch who came up to attend a progress meeting and he wants curry fish head everytime he is in Sg...so the team went out for lunch with him and my supervisor asked me to tag along...they ended up paying for my part too =.= Apparently its the season for clearing annual leaves too so one of the engineers in my team is taking next week off...since she wont be seeing me after she comes back so had sort of advanced farewell lunch with team..then Friday night the interns decided to have another gathering/celebration...supposed to go for xlb buffet but it's all full....even for the next week...wth? Ended up going Sushi Tei and movie....squeezed in between was a drinking/sharing session which I didnt drink coz I couldnt...sighs. Movie (武侠, starring Donnie Yen and Takeshi Kaneshiro) wasnt too bad tho...though the ending was seriously anti-climax....zzzzz.

Another 3 movies on Saturday night...kind of didnt expected it to turn into movie marathon..coz was waiting for Cass to finish her homework and so KT and I ended up watching 3 movies...No Strings Attached, Source Code and Inception (FINALLY!) Inception is a really cool movie! Thanks tho to KT for explaining some parts during the movie so I wasnt too confused. Source Code is good too if you like time manipulation kind of storylines. No Strings Attached is just kind of fun to watch.

Final internship week starts tomorrow! 11 weeks kind of flew past really...guess I will leave reflection for next week's entry.

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Got my first choice FYP! And finally know where I stood when compared to peers (roughly)...and thus wasnt too excited but totally not disappointed either with the choice I made...(ok i am hard to please) Meeting with the prof (and probably the phD students under him) with his other FYP students...shall see how it goes.

Then there is the CORS season again....will have a 6 hour week (minus off time spent for Design Proj and FYP) and my two final exams are 10 days apart...ample study time...not! Confirm will slack one...sigh....One of the modules seemed interesting, but thought by a prof which none of us like very much...the other one..no comment...no experience with the prof tho topic interests me.

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New infected areas when the old ones havent even cleared off!! I look more hideous than ever. T.T

Miss home so much, excited to go home in one week's time...yet dreading mum's lectures.....and afraid of losing temper again when she gets too persistent on my skin issues....and I reli dun wan to explain myself to everybody else.

Probably gonna visit the doc after I get back...two years since I last visited him....wonder if I should be doing more intensive treatments.....

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