Life
Sunday, April 20, 2008
week 1 of the April Semester 08/09 has passed. so I am now officially one of the 5100 (!) freshies over there.
usually they only take in 4300 freshies or so, then this year they decided to aggresively expand enrolment probably due to some government initiative or to suck more money out of people. most likely the latter la I think.
and so during lunchtimes, you can enjoy a wholesome lunch at any of the four wonderfully sardine-packed canteens. or join the throngs of queues at nearly everthing from photocopying to collection of ez-link cards.
I met an insane amount of people in school. from primary school all the way to new friends I just made during the two camps I had attended. then I met some more who are in my tutorial class, my IS class and tutorial class friends of my primary school friend called kah sing.
oh, tutorials havent begun. this is because in Business & Accountancy School, what they do is schedule the tutorial for a particular topic to be held the next week after its lecture. so I have only been attending lectures. and that means I havent really met my tutorial class beyond DSS workshop.
thus, I have mostly been with kah sing for the past few days. but now that tutorials are starting, I guess it is inevitable we are going on separate journeys again. do hope I can meet them often though. he and his tutorial friends are nice ppl.
as for my own tutorial class... from what I can gather from the 2 hours DSS workshop this week (my new week starts on a monday), perhaps they have not been what I had expected. but at least there are some nice ppl in there. but 来日方长 la, perhaps with knowing the class better I might just appreciate that class more..
for my modules, lectures take place in the large standalone Lecture Theatres (meaning not a classroom. for my case being LT20, 24, 28 and 45 in case you wanna know) which involves tapping your student card to mark attendance. unfortunately it uses the same technology as ez-link so you have to hide your card somewhere in your bag instead of leaving it in your wallet.
each lecture has nearly 300 people and if you end up not concentrating, probably no one will notice or even give a shit. and many ppl sure dont concentrate. guess I must improve in this aspect if I do not intend to waste the 1000 over dollars I pay per semester.
other than the lectures, my tutorials take place at the classrooms in block 72 and IS lessons at block 56. next week is going to my first time attending tutorials of my modules at block 72. things are finally starting to get busy..
japanese lessons are quite fun. seriously. the people in my class are nice as well. yay. must practice hard for hiragana. haha.
okay enough morsels about school for the time being I guess. after I meet my tutors, I will give a quick summary of my various lecturers and tutors next week. probably on the weekend again.
other than kah sing, I had been spending quite some time with a particular someone for the past week too. actually the few weeks before also la if you had been reading my blog. I am sure you people can infer the relationship lah hor.
she's melissa. no not melissa from commonwealth. she was from westwood secondary. and currently in NP as well. met her at my workplace, so it is not like I hitched her on the first day of school. guess that is all I have to make public. you want further details you can ask me I guess? lol.
so back to topic. I have been meeting her nearly daily for the past week too. even though it took a great deal of waiting and coordinating for it to be possible. on some days the meetings may have been really short, meaningless or even boring, but I nevertheless enjoyed whatever time I spent with her.
the journey may not have been far yet, but there were already some ups and downs, especially for the past week when school reopened. and I realised along the way I might have hurt you some way or another. and I would really like to apologise for that. but I hope this would serve to strengthen our bond and make us love each other even more =)
alright. gotta help my aunt with vesak day preparations for SBYM later today. so signing off now. just a quick reminder to finish your tutorial homework in time for the start of tutorials next week. lol.
usually they only take in 4300 freshies or so, then this year they decided to aggresively expand enrolment probably due to some government initiative or to suck more money out of people. most likely the latter la I think.
and so during lunchtimes, you can enjoy a wholesome lunch at any of the four wonderfully sardine-packed canteens. or join the throngs of queues at nearly everthing from photocopying to collection of ez-link cards.
I met an insane amount of people in school. from primary school all the way to new friends I just made during the two camps I had attended. then I met some more who are in my tutorial class, my IS class and tutorial class friends of my primary school friend called kah sing.
oh, tutorials havent begun. this is because in Business & Accountancy School, what they do is schedule the tutorial for a particular topic to be held the next week after its lecture. so I have only been attending lectures. and that means I havent really met my tutorial class beyond DSS workshop.
thus, I have mostly been with kah sing for the past few days. but now that tutorials are starting, I guess it is inevitable we are going on separate journeys again. do hope I can meet them often though. he and his tutorial friends are nice ppl.
as for my own tutorial class... from what I can gather from the 2 hours DSS workshop this week (my new week starts on a monday), perhaps they have not been what I had expected. but at least there are some nice ppl in there. but 来日方长 la, perhaps with knowing the class better I might just appreciate that class more..
for my modules, lectures take place in the large standalone Lecture Theatres (meaning not a classroom. for my case being LT20, 24, 28 and 45 in case you wanna know) which involves tapping your student card to mark attendance. unfortunately it uses the same technology as ez-link so you have to hide your card somewhere in your bag instead of leaving it in your wallet.
each lecture has nearly 300 people and if you end up not concentrating, probably no one will notice or even give a shit. and many ppl sure dont concentrate. guess I must improve in this aspect if I do not intend to waste the 1000 over dollars I pay per semester.
other than the lectures, my tutorials take place at the classrooms in block 72 and IS lessons at block 56. next week is going to my first time attending tutorials of my modules at block 72. things are finally starting to get busy..
japanese lessons are quite fun. seriously. the people in my class are nice as well. yay. must practice hard for hiragana. haha.
okay enough morsels about school for the time being I guess. after I meet my tutors, I will give a quick summary of my various lecturers and tutors next week. probably on the weekend again.
other than kah sing, I had been spending quite some time with a particular someone for the past week too. actually the few weeks before also la if you had been reading my blog. I am sure you people can infer the relationship lah hor.
she's melissa. no not melissa from commonwealth. she was from westwood secondary. and currently in NP as well. met her at my workplace, so it is not like I hitched her on the first day of school. guess that is all I have to make public. you want further details you can ask me I guess? lol.
so back to topic. I have been meeting her nearly daily for the past week too. even though it took a great deal of waiting and coordinating for it to be possible. on some days the meetings may have been really short, meaningless or even boring, but I nevertheless enjoyed whatever time I spent with her.
the journey may not have been far yet, but there were already some ups and downs, especially for the past week when school reopened. and I realised along the way I might have hurt you some way or another. and I would really like to apologise for that. but I hope this would serve to strengthen our bond and make us love each other even more =)
alright. gotta help my aunt with vesak day preparations for SBYM later today. so signing off now. just a quick reminder to finish your tutorial homework in time for the start of tutorials next week. lol.
