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Other updates!
posted : Tuesday, August 02, 2011
So what’s up with my life other than the final week at work? Well settled CORS for this semester by the Tuesday of the first bidding week, sticking to my 6-hour week (excluding Design Project and FYP). Taking two transport TEs, Traffic Flow and Control even though I don’t really like the prof but I find the topic important and to some extent interesting. Ok I think I gotta banish my impression of the prof from my mind soon because experience tells me if I started out hating a mod or the prof I usually don’t do well. The other TE is on Intelligent Transport Systems which I have been itching to take for a while. Sounds uber interesting to me, nuff said. Design Project, got my first choice topic too (even though it is managed by the aforementioned prof) but I suppose I can live with it…and the schedule for design project is out too. Guess what…3hours of classes….EVERYDAY. Homigosh I don’t think I have had a more intense mod. Thank god I freed up my day time and it only lasts for 4 weeks. Seen the namelist of students allocated the project and spotted a couple of blacklisted (unofficially) students…praying hard that I don’t get irresponsible team mates.... FYP, met up with the prof on Monday, costed me half a day of salary lol. Prof sort of explained the topic..briefly…and assigned me my first task already (which I haven started on, oops) which is to read up on some developments in land freight in Indo-China region. In fact as I was told…he told us to give him our timetable once we finalize it so that we can arrange for weekly group meeting sessions (even though all 4 of us are working on different projects). Project is more research based so I suppose I will be finally making full use of my NUS Library privileges…not too late eh? Haha. :p *************************** Orientation started last Tue and I had a feeling that RH is slowly turning into a Singaporean hall lol. It appears to have a dwindling Malaysian population and still humongous numbers of Chinese because of the quota imposed. Sigh. But the old-school orientation seemed to be making a comeback, a number of the lost elements have been brought back though I missed them all haha. Hope they bring back Phoenix initiation one day, always thought it was cool. And there is no more chance of the Master’s Birthday hoax…wonder if Block Initiation will go away too…. Float on the other hand have been alarmingly quiet. Kind of scary. Checked with them once on what is going on (because head is spotted in hall in pyjamas at timings such as 11pm, which is reli abnormal if you ask me). But I guess float culture will be gone with the way things are carried out this year (2 halls producing one float and we are combined with our “next door neighbour” KE). Nobody really knows what is going on there and I doubt that freshies have a slightest idea too. And when you don’t connect to the freshies there is no new blood and that will most likely be the end. Oh well, about time. Wonder if it will start a revolution…wonder if the governing student body will wake up…. I may have been at fault for not being politically correct enough. Can’t exactly blame me for having zero idea that it is illegal to bring freshmen out of campus for orientation camps because most camps do it including the one by the governing body (or that you will actually approve it in the first place). Or thinking that “spraying water on freshies with a hose” does not sound scary. Whatever. The magazine is finally out (for some reason as I hold the product, I didn’t really feel much joy), and my term as a chair ended, and though I would have liked to do much better (towards the end I gave up on the event reporting part; she acted blur too anyway) I suppose I can’t change things anymore and I just have to let it go. Think I let myself down on that bit because I always thought I was the responsible type. **************************** Nothing beats time spent at home, which is where I am at now :) Even though sometimes it just involves lazing around and not doing much. And even though it’s only a week. Labels: holidays, NUS, Raffles Hall |
