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! :)

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