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....

***************************

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?).


**************************

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

Labels: NUS, volunteering