Back. Finally.

Well, I know I’m a very lazy person. It’s been long since I last posted and I have many reasons a.k.a. excuses for abandoning my blog for such a long time, which, as usual, I’m not going to explain why. To you who are reading this and others who care about this pity blog, thousand apologies…


To make things simple and understandable, point-form does the best job.


1. Finished the AS exam in early June, now undergoing the third semester of A level programme. Tough life…

2. Moved out of my apartment (hostel) and joined Choong, Daniel and Ah Wong in the apartment one floor below the previous one. Choong said I’m the most “normal” person in the apartment. But if that’s the case, I’m actually the most “abnormal” one when this situation is viewed from another perspective.

3. New semester, new time-table, and new lecturers. Thank God~~

4. Juniors (new JPA scholars) joined the big KTT community on 13th July. Congratulations or commiseration?

5. Busy selling books to juniors while some friends busy hunting LZ & LL. I don’t care, I just want the $$$.

6. Learned a lot about my new housemates. Their behavior, routine, likes, dislikes and so much more…

7. Went to Times Square with Choong, Ah Wong and Ah Cheng. We watched the IMAX version of Transformers 2. That was the 2nd time hanging out with college friends (1st time with housemates) after a visit to Tong Zen Temple during CNY.

8. Had my first ever Physics night class at 9pm to 11pm, and after that dinner (or supper) at 11 something coz the spaghetti (my supposedly dinner) wasn’t ready before I went to class. You think water boils at room temperature is it? (only my housemates understand this)

9. Kai Hsien’s 18th birthday!! Grow up ok??

10. Farewell to Bryant =( . But congrats for securing a place to study medic in Indon. Btw you are cute, sorry Wong!

11. Engagement issue which troubled me physically and mentally.

12. Mid-semester exam at 8.30pm started on Monday and ended on Thursday (16th July).

13. Home sweet home!


Present and future:
Can’t wait to meet Su Lin who just returned from China, and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince! OMG OMG!!!

Oyasumi nasai!

Scholarship virus

An outbreak of why-didn’t-I-get-the-JPA-scholarship endemic has started few days ago. The influenza biasiswa is known to the nation as being annual, and for reasons unknown, there is still no vaccine available. As history suggests, the virus will linger in the community for a considerable amount of time, inflicting frustration and gloom before vanishing into silence.

It can be seen from the newspapers and TV news that students who did not manage to secure themselves with the scholarship were voicing their protest and dissatisfaction, despite obtaining bunch of A1’s in SPM. Some got the scholarship offer, but it is not what they wanted, e.g. different course or scholarship to study locally instead of overseas.

Such chaos happens every year, and the reasons and causes behind all these were… many. Due to my “identity”, I must not comment in depth. However, I’d still like to provide a few dosages of opinion (just what I think).

I understand that many people are very disappointed. They have worked very hard and getting the scholarship is the best present to compensate whatever they have sacrificed. However, luck was not at their side. Yes, LUCK. It is even more frustrating when a person who got 14A1’s did not get the scholarship while another person with only a dozen got it.

There are plenty of reasons causing the scholarship to slip from their fingers, one of which is the course they applied for. Here, I’ll just talk about medic. The number of applications for medic is more than threefold the number of scholarships actually available. It seems like so many people wanted to become doctor. But are they really ready for it? Are they sure that they will hold no grudges when they are forced to work 36 hours continuously, looking more like patients than the patients?

People may wonder how it feels being a scholar, especially JPA scholar. As such, they will start fantasizing about the glory and money and everything sweet. As time passes, the thought of getting the scholarship rooted deep in their mind, and they get super sad when they don’t have it. It is even more sad to see parents saying things like: “ … all the efforts are wasted…” Is studying really just about getting scholarship?

What I can say is that getting JPA scholarship is just a brief burst of fame. But after that, life goes on. With all eyes on you, you have to work thousand times harder than you were. Also, the scholarship does not guarantee you a flight ticket to study abroad. With greater challenges, harder syllabuses and more competition, can you handle the pressure?

There is also no turning back. If you regret making the decision, you will face the fate of paying back all the money the government spent on you, and it’s a really BIG sum of $$$. Unless you come from a wealthy background, then there should not be a problem. But why taking the scholarship when your parents can afford to send you study overseas?

If you did not get the scholarship, calm down and don’t feel upset. Maybe there’s a blessing in disguise?

OK, it’s time to return to the alphas and betas, sine, cos and tan. Ciao!

Trash

It should be a very long chain of words here, full of rancour, but accidents happen in life, no matter how we dislike them.

I'm extremely reluctant to re-type everything that was here few minutes before, because the fact that doing this will just resurrect everything evil and this would possibly affect the quality of sleep I shall have later stops me from doing this. Just ask me if you are curious enough to want to have everything clarified. I'll answer you vocally.

Lets KISS (keep it short & simple).

Tomorrow is the first day of AS exam, beginning with Pure Maths 1. Here, I wish those who are reading this and will be taking any sort of exam ALL THE BEST and MAY WE SCORE WITH FLYING COLOURS!

I'll be returning to the place of sorry sight this afternoon instead of evening. Wish me luck.