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(Tuesday, May 22, 2007-)
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# Sprung... a leak
Tuesday
Historical day. Let's get the basics out of the way. Got up, went for interview, went to church, went to school, had dinner, tuition, came home to blog about it. Here we go.
Okay, the highlight of the day, the SPRING SG interview. If any of you from Spring Singapore is reading this - HI! Hope u had a nice day at work =)
Woke up at 7.40 after Jean convinced me waking at 7am for an 11am interview is madness. Haha. So i woke up later, took a shower, re-ironed my pants, did my QT and then prepared to leave. It was abt 9am. Reached the bus stop at 9.10, and 14 was already here. Yay. No need to wait.
Got up, sat down, listen to All of the Above till about hostel there, then started reading up my Spring SG notes. Yes ppl, i made notes. I know that Philip Yeo is the Chairman while Mr Loh Khum Yean is the CEO and his deputy is Mr Png Cheong Boon. I found out it has 5 branches and 4 strategic thrusts. But do you care? I guess not. Haha. But still, the stuff they do are quite cool. ETDF, CCI, MDP, BrandPact. Yup, without Spring, its like, building a house without machinery. U can do it, but it'll be much easier with their help.
Yeah, lets just say i was super early for the interview. Yup, met Maria on level 20, she took my certs, gave me back my Orange folder, and i sat down. There wa this guy opposite me. Just smiled, but he looked super tense. Didn't get to speak to him and he went for the interview.
Actually, there was an air of disappointment when ireached level 20, i instantly knew it wasn't the final round and there would still be a need for Round 4. But oh well. Read Enterprise Today while waiting. Prayed. And finally my turn came.
The HR Exec was a very nice lady, then she gave me a quick briefing on what was gonna happen in the room, and it was Mr Tan from Corporate Development and a lady from Enterprise Capabilities i think. The interview was rather smooth although i didn't throw all my knowledge of Spring at them.Yeah, should have done that. Sighs...
Then the usual ending question came.. Do you have any questions for us?
I asked about the departments in Spring, if i get to choose... bla bla bla.. then i asked about accomodation. And here's when the leak sprung itself.
HR Exec : We will certainly provide the accomodation for our scholars
Me : Oh, so you'll be paying for my hall fees if i accept NUS
HR Exec : Well, we will definitely fund our scholars' accomodation because they need it when they are overseas
Me : Oh, okay, so firefly is ONLY giving out overseas scholarships
HR Exec : Yes..... *and here i stop listening and start thinking.. oh crap.. i am screwed*
Yup. found out that firefly only wants to give out overseas scholarships. And i don;t have an overseas place to be sent to. So yeah, God, if You want me to take up a plain ASEAN in NUS, i will i guess. But if u give me the Spring Scholarship, i know its You cuz it will take a miracle to get me both a scholarship and a place overseas to read Engineering.
Yup. That's how the thing went. A quick 20 minute interview. Then bussed back to home. Slept. Sorry Jayne, my hp was going crazy today. JoJo smsed me and i finally got 8 msgs straight away after restarting my phone. Helped Jayne out and towards the end, she had to leave for driving. All the best!! Finished it up and went home.
*Cue College Anthem - Jazz Version (which is my ringtone btw)*
Yumei called and i get to go and get the cable. She was doing make up PE. Reached school and saw her and Sek. Sek was doing the most cool make up PE I've ever heard. Shoot 100 balls. And Sek being the *cute* haha Sek she is chose 100 3 point shots. I reached at 57. And stayed around till 100. It was super funny lar with Yumei helping Sek with the balls. Yumei is also a B.. I.. M... B... She's a Bimbo.. B.. I... m...?... She's a Bimbo! Hahaha! *knocks her own head with the ball* Haha! Twice! Haha! So funny!! And then Sek also laughed, then can't concentrate and shot a few ass-balls (according to Yumei) Haha! Ok, she meant air-balls. Then after about an hour (they were ther for an hour already) we left while Sek still wanted to stick around shooting more balls. So cool ryte, 100 shots for make up PE.
Then as i left, saw the PE teachers opposite. Anyone want to guess what they were doing. I doubt any of u can guess it right. Seriously, even I didn't believe it.
Ate my dinner, on the way out, met Aprine, Amanda and Ying Huan, topped up EZLink and then went for tuition. Then came home. Yup. Hi. Im still on the school laptop. I bet that's illegal when u were retrenched like more than a week ago? I guess TJ jz rocks!
Shout outs
Zhiyuan, Trinity, Ryan, Cadence, Shawn - All the best starting tomorrow. It's a learning journey. Remember that, you make mistakes and you grow stronger!
Zhiyuan - Congrats on ur scholarship(S!) U crazy siao girl!! Take care tmr too. And of Zsa too
Julie - Jia you! Be a nice usher k? U rock!
Zsa Zsa - I don't really know what I can do for you except pray that God sends a special guardian angel to watch over you, your pain killers and your heart. Care lots for you..
Jean - Congrats on NUS Business!!! Awesomely cool!
Lay Sian and Co - Sorry about the confusion
TJCians of 05/06 - A level certs and SGC are ready for collectionLabels: Jayne, Sek, SPRING SG, Yumei
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(Sunday, May 20, 2007-)
+10:04 PM]*
# Spring...
Interview coming up. I want this. Yup. Prayed about it, and i want it. I need it.
Tuesday 11am somewhere along Jalan Bukit Merah. Not too sure how to get there, but i'll find out. I guess i've sort of ruled out NTU in my mind. But I don't want to have to go through uni on another ASEAN scholarship. It will be sad.
Spring Singapore. Read up about you. I guess it's something i can do for quite a few years. But of course i need to know what u really want and deliver it this Tuesday.
Okay, a little recap of the weekend. Friday was cool. Went for Choir Concert. It was nice, especially the musical this year. Met some of the choir people again. And Ms Tham vaguely remembers me. Yay! Haha. Carian was dancing in front of my side of teh audience but i don't think she saw me. Valarie was singing on my side too, didn't notice me either, but then again, she was supposed to be lookign at Ms Tham anyway. Had difficulty spotting Shi Yun but i saw her during the musical. light green scarf =)
The concert was good. Ushering was very bad. Emcees were a little off, not quite the right atmosphere. And the programme booklet was.... erm... smelly. Yes it was, go smell. But overall it was a nice concert.
Gave a little (yes, it was quite little i know...) something to carian, shi yun and valarie (whose name was spelt valerie in the proramme booklet) and then took off to eat dinner with eugene. Newton circus. First time, overpriced, but at least the Hokkien mee was nice =) I don't eat prawns though. Sad eh? But txs eugene for dinner =)
Then took 48 home and slept. Next day had College Day.
Met up with many people. Txs for the camera in the morning Yumei! Took some pictures, talked a bit. Then sat down, went to audi, didn't sit down. Went walking ard with Ben Tham. Then had to sit down when it was about to start.
The college was rather pretty, but its jz a facade. I found out that Dr Vivian Balakrishnan is a young man. Haha, that changes quite a bit of my perception, and his speech was not bad. I guess its a pre-requisite to be a politician? Got stephy to take pics for me. Txs Steph! I know it must have been difficult.
Got my awards, for SC (plaque), 4As (CAC Award), Overall Top Student (Some-guy's-name trophy) and gave the valediction. Cadence and Zhiyuan got awards too. The council's a brainy one this year!
Ok the valediction.... Let's see, i have heard many different things abt it. I was nervous. So stupid lar.. But i sort of settled in after a while. There were those who were laughing (yes, i won't embarrass u here) and those who were trying hard not to laugh. But i tried. I am proud of myself, and i think my valediction wasn't as boring as last years. Yay =)
Yes, i loved college day! Yes, call me proud but its something that im proud of myself. Of course i know its not jz me who could have done it alone, but i think its something i will remember for my whole life =)
Talked to many people, parents (some of which i don't know), tutors, juniors, friends, students. Then went for class outing. All 10 of us. 9 most of the time. Ate at Surf n Turf. The food there is not bad. And had a nice "discount" when they didn't add Mei Lien's meal to the bill. But the owner so nice say no need to pay. Haha. Of course they did spill water on grace and teik kheng, so they did kind of owe it to us? Yup, talked a lot. Ni Ying wants to buy laptop. (Ma) Lay Sian either wants to be a teacher or an accountant. Pei Fen, haha, she's definitley not committing suicide at 25 anymore. Mei Lien is gonna go UK. The guys... are in army. Period.
Then walked ard, went for YA.
I was ridiculously dressed from college day for YA, so they got me to be the "late usher" which is the guy who gives out this letter to those who were late to remind them to come early for service next week cuz we're locking the doors at 7.30pm sharp. Yup, honour God with our time. So it was not too nice a job, but it was alright. Although the speakers weren't. Just the left one i think. Winnie and Addy had a hard time with the sound board this time.
Yup, other than that, service was ok, ended on time and we ate chicken rice for dinner and i went home.
Shall skip Sunday. For those of you who are wondering, take a long thought of how (our cell in particular is doing) and then maybe u'd understand the way i reacted.
Yup... bye people..Labels: 29th College Day, Cadence, Carian, Choir Concert, Eugene, Grace, Lay Sian, Mei Lien, Ni Ying, Pei Fen, Shi Yun, SPRING SG, Valarie, Yumei, Zhiyuan
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(Thursday, May 10, 2007-)
+8:18 AM]*
# The Countdown
Wednesday
Hmmm.. the day started off slow, with me waking up late. Haha. Which meant i reached school late, but it didn't matter cuz i ponned assembly anyway. Haha. And i had no lessons till 11.40, so it really doesn't matter what time reached. But yeah, last few days of my work now. Should endeavour to make the best of my few days here.
Oh, this is also likely the last post in a long time cuz i'll be returning this wonderful laptop that has served me well (well, well enough that i haven't thrown it down a flight of stairs cuz it is so frustratingly laggy!!!). But yes, it has served me well enough to prepare my lame powerpoint slides, to play Gem TD, to MSN, to BLOG!, to visit ur blog (yes i mean you!), to surf the net randomly, and to get my own lovely iGoogle and Google desktop!
Yup, this is the end of an era. So from now on, this will be version 2.0 of my blog, from a different com. Yeah.
Ok, this is so turning out not to be a Wednesday post. I need to know how to do that strikeout html. Anyone know can tag?
Yes, this is not related to wednesday but rather next next weekend. Aurora XI is coming up, and i dun feel like going alone although i want to support shuming (ferena, so sad u're not gonna be there...) so if anyone wants to go for guitarconcert, pls tag me ya? Oh, on that note, anyone knows how to get to ACS Barker for (:hoyer (stolen from Carian) concert? Reflections VIII i think. Yeah, anyone wanna go pls tag or Carian, Shi Yun, Valarie wil have noone (aka me) to support them.
Ok ok, in general, if anyone wants to go with me (haha, i sound so despo now.. ee..) for any of te remaining concerts, pls tag? Sorry saturday concerts are out, i have YA on saturdays.
Oh ryte, back to
Wednesday
Haha, what happened today. Had my officially most unproductive class of my teaching career. Yes, i did NOTHING for 50 minutes (although Zoe, i hope things are ok). Yup, 06 persuaded me to let them do nothing while they take home the compre. Well, its sort of their problem cuz tonight they will realise they haven done it yet, and they will realise 1 and a half hours is freaking a lot of time, yet insufficient to complete the work. But a reminder: please only use 1.5 hours ya. Be fair.
Ok, now comes the best part. After lessons, it was... LUNCH TIME! My last time eating lunch out with JoJo and Eugene, so we went to our favourite Pizza Hut! Yup, yes it was raining, but that didn't stop 3 determined RTs (who had other motivations as well... hehe...) We waited at the bus stop, only for the rain to get heavier so we cabbed to the interchange. Such a waste of money, but oh well, today is special =) When we reached,the taxi stopped by the side of the road, as we were abt to leave, this car came and stopped RIGHT BESIDE US! like... hello?? we need to get out? So aft a while, the car reversed and re rushed out and stepped into pizza hut.
Oh did, i mentioned we brought TWO Rubik's along. The 3 and the 4 one. We were the center of attraction and one lady even asked us about it. Haha, we were rather bored waiting for the pizzas u see. Oh, without us realising, Eugene ordered TWO LARGE pizzas for the 3 of us... Like.. thats crazy man.. and he even ordered some meatballs, which were nice (=
Then i started to seriously time my 3X3 Rubik's solving time, and my record for yesterday was 1 minute 31 seconds! Yay, but my all time best is still 1 minute 14 seconds! Haha, but Eugene's best is 54 seconds.. so pro... My average is abt 2 minutes, plusminus 15 seconds? And JoJo was trying te 4x4 Revenge cube, and it didn't work out. We need to figure that last bit out. Final TWO corners won't match... eeww...
Anyway the pizzas came and we literally stuffed ourselves. JoJo had a record 4 and a half, i had 5 and eugene 6 and a half (although he claims 7 and a half! haha) Eugene's record is apparently 10 pieces, which is highly believable. And we stoned at the Hut for another hour to digest our food. Of course, concurrently, Staff Conference was going on. OOOPPSS? hehe.
After feeling quite well digested, we walked back to TJ. But before that, while we were eating SPRING SINGAPORE gave me a call! Yaynesses!!! They want to schedule an interview for me! Yay!! Haha!! But the lady herself sounded more unprepared than me. Must be some new secretary or something, she called, and asked for my surname. Like, shouldn't i be asking u? Haha. But who cares, its a round 3 callback!! YAY THANK YOU GOD!!
Things got better, in my email, NTU is asking me to send stuff for ASEAN consideration, Nanyang Sch consideration, as well as C N Yang Scholarship! NUS, please wake up before NTU grabs me with open arms and hugs me close! Haha, sounds gay, but NUS, please send me SOMETHING??? Yeah anyway, i wanna go NUS, but they are being irritating..
In school, i gemmed and lost again to Eugene, his towers all so nice lar... But at least i didn't leak and die. Hehe. Only won special crafter once. 14 leh, how to reach... Then talked a bit with JoJo before Eugene had to leave. He helped me book movie tix for Orang Labah Labah Tiga (thats in Malay) and im gonna watch with Heri tmr (which is today lar) So, yeah, its $16.50 for two ppl, but i guess the ppl are worth it!
Ok, went for cell today. Let's jz say what we need most is FOCUS. Not to talk abt ppl butt, or how fat we are. Haha, really funny, but yeah, unless u were at cell u won't understand the jokes. And guess what, they ordered pizza. Bringing my grand total of slices of pizzas ate in one day to 7!! My record!!
Ok, after cell, we were still arguing abt which way to walk back, and the guys eventually rleneted and walked the girls to their bus stops although we didn;t know what buses we had. Funniest moment is when FX and MY ran across the road and tried to stop bus 30 when they actually thought it was 33. Haha. Second funniest is FX wanting to wait at a deserted bus stop cuz she didn't see that the road was closed. Haha.
Rubik's on my way home until overshot my bus stop. Haha, good thing nobody with me, not so paiseh. Hehe. Reached home, got a little "nagging" to throw rubbish away and to put the clothes rack back after use. I was giving the im-blur look and said ok. Hosea came back today too! Yay. Ok, went online, chatted and slept!
Shout outs!
Trinity - Congrats!
Cass - Hang in there! God can change hearts!
03,06,21 - I'll miss u guys
C2 - All e best for ur test
Yumei - Be strong =)
RTs - I'll miss you guys
TJC - Bye.....Labels: ASEAN, C N Yang, Carian, Cell Group Meeting, Choir, Ferena, FX, Guitar, MY, NTU, NUS, pizza, Rubik's, Shi Yun, Shuming, SPRING SG, Valarie, Version 2.0, Zoe
the story ends like this;
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