Sunday, June 03, 2007
update for the weekend spent ((:
busy sat. been travelling up and down the east line alot..tsk. it's so far from home! anws, went for dragon boating in the morning. hur. it's fun but the thought of having to drag myself up at 6am every sat kills me i tell ya. why can't they have a sea sports club at somewhere nearer to home! kallang is freaking far la. and even though training's tiring but i still like it..have been wanting to do it ever since the last time i went there, which is like 2 yrs ago. but the 2nd 800m fast stroke is crazy! but thank God, they are only doing 300m for the competition which is not that bad afterall. lol.
after db was lunch at suntec. talked about uni stuff. it may seems contradicting but as much i wanna study again and returning to school, i kinda don't really want uni to start. as in, i guess it's just me. i don't like new environments. i prefer environments where i'm familiar with and starting uni means new friends, new school, new tchers and even having to be more independent. no more spoon-feeding, which scares me cause i'm so used to having everything spoon-fed to me in school for the past 12 yrs. urgh. owell. i know i'll settle in somehow. and on the topic of uni, i'm seriously pissed off at the fact that SO many ppl which average grades can't get a place in the local unis. like wth man. of the many years, i've never heard of ppl with grades such as BCC can't get any offers. and we have 3 local unis! and this grade is only a grade diff from me. how ridiculous. and i've been hearing stories of more poly students getting a place rather than JC students, even to courses which are difficult to enter. i have no offence or whatsoever, i promise, but since they know that our poly students are doing better and we have the huge dragon babies batch of JC students this year fighting for a place, why aren't they doing anything to help?!? and instead, they just retain the same capacity of intake. so where do they expect the rejected ppl go?!? isn't this simple absurd!
and i heard that 300 over ppl who applied to SIM are on waiting list. and now with the amt of students from UNSW who can't enter the local unis also applying, how many more will be added to this waiting list? even grades like BCD have to wait. lol. this is totally ridiculous. and i wonder have the top ppl considered this before, in circumstances whereby an employer engages a worker, they usually ask for a diploma or a degree. no one ever asked for a A'Levels certificate! and to think that someone prominent in the govt actually said, "every student SHOULD be given a chance to study university", then may i ask, why aren't they doing anything?!? your ppl trusted your words and we slogged like nobody's business in school, studied hard for A's, faced the strong competition bravely despite the constant reminders of being a dragon baby, and in the end, we can't get a place in uni! so what do they expect us to do?
even though i've got offers from the local unis, this is a plea to anyone who can do something about the current situation. i really think that it isn't fair to my peers who studied hard but yet not given any offer.
okay. enough of complaining(but someone needs to create an awareness for the current situation la!). met kar wai in late in the afternoon. and also the toots at night. i was late for dinner. teehee. and we (pearl pam me wai steve mish) caught the midnight show for priceless. better than i expected it. it's in french by the way. kinda funny too.. ooh ooh. we had shaker fries too! *shake shake shake* but hur hur, lido seats sucks! i still prefer cathay and vivo. stayover at mish's thereafter.
got home this afternoon, met lou in the late afternoon. accompanied her to this aussie unis fair. and there were really many ppl! mostly got rejected by local unis i think. ugh! see! now local talents will go abroard! local talents outflow la! walked aimlessly in town too. which is crap. no where in mind to go, nothing in mind to buy. goodness. changed location to vivo and we decided to stone at pacific coffee. i realised i'm starting to develop a habit of just sitting down at some coffee place(even though i don't take coffee at all), on their comfy couches, and just relax. should do more of this often ((: and as i was crossing the bridge over to interchange from harbour front just now, i realised the nightview of cable cars there is so pretty! havent taken cable cars for a long time. and i wanna try taking it one day, at night. it's so romantic and nice! the nightlife in singapore is quite pretty actually, just that it takes time to appreciate. right place, right time. and of cos, right ppl. lol. what can i say, i'm a night person myself ((:
yupp. okay. long entry today. shall stop. will update more with pictures. till then, tata ((:
