Tough days back then. Joined choir and Buddhist society as ECAs. The ECAs points are important for us international students to secure a hall for next year, or else, you will be seeing there are lots of people will be squatting at the street, and maybe, you will be seeing me too!! lolx, joking. haha. As for the information how do we allocate a hall for next year, here are some details. As an international students, we have 9 points in our hands. But the minimum ECA points that we must allocate is 15. That is only the minimum. Who knows afterthat they will increase till 16 points, then I'm sure that you will be seeing me at the streets of Singapore. Famous huh? hahaha... So where do we have to allocate another 6 more points? From the post of the clubs or societies. Even for sub comms, we have to be interviewed to get the small post, so for a bigger post, ya should have some ideas what they are going to ask about or which type of bullets they are going to use.
The first interview that I went was the sub comm interview for Buddhist Society. Nervous, did not have the idea what they were going to ask. Sis told me they would treat you just like a friend. Lolx. Erin and I were there for the interview. Her first choice was Resource and second was Fellowship. While the first choice of mine was Dharma and second was Event. Eventually it was my turn. I went into the interview room. It was SUPER COLD. I mean, the room was already cold and the adrenaline level at that time was SUPER HIGH. Should the doctor would to examine my blood pressure, I think it would be like maybe 210/120? haha. So, I was being interviewed by 2 guys. Kinda pressure, 2 at once (200% versus 100%)lolx. Of course, they would ask you to introduce yourself first. I just introduced myself accordingly to what I had written in the blog, in the ' about me' column. So, they were like laughing. haha. Being interviewed for about 30 minutes, and finally I was released from the 'jail'. lolx.
So, after the sub comm interview for Buddhist Society that was on Tuesday, Wednesday I would be having the choir main comm interview. I wanted to run for the tenor sectional leader. The interview was at about 9 something in the evening. Reached the room, AND WAS SURPRISED TO SEE 6 INTERVIEWERS!!! The vice president of the choir asked me to sit in front. This was even harder!! ( 600% versus 100%). jia lat liao la!!! (Sorry but have to use a bit of dialect here, so that it won't be boring)lolx. On the spot, they asked me to teach a SENIOR to sing the song. I just teached what I can. After that, the interview started. Asked me about what do you feel about music. Of course, I will bla as much as possible about music, cause I'm experienced in it. lolx. Then after the interview, finally the bullets appeared. And I did not know what the bullet was made of, he told me,' can I be brutally honest with you?' So I did say ok. The big bullet was,' your teaching technique is so not fantastic.' haha. lolx. Nevermind, just let him shoot, and in the end, he told me,' but actually for the first time, your teaching is quite good.' lolx, I do not know what they were talking about. Just forget about it. haha.
Then the final interview was the main comm for Buddhist society which fell on Thursday. Waited from 1900 till 2129pm though there were only a few people, think about 14 or 15 people. It was my turn, again, and I went into the tutorial room. And again, the same interviewers. They did introduce to me and from there I found out that he's the Dharma Propagation Director. Lolx, shocked!! Still, I continued to be interviewed by them. Uhh, reached till the last few questions which were very hard for me to answer as I do not encounter that before. Just tried to give the best answer. Finally, they told me,' if unfortunately you were not choosen into the main comm, will you be staying with us as a sub comm?' I said ,'sure, my faith towards NTUBS and Buddhism will not fade.' Lol, and they even told me, promise me yea. Uhh, based on that, the chance for me to be in the main comm is quite slim. But of course, the results is not out yet, so why should I be worrying about it? Just let it be natural. Follow the natural law. Lolx. Haha. Will let you know when I got the results!!!
HOPE FOR THE BEST!!!!
Signed up for the registration for choir. The audition date was on the 20th and 21st of August.
Decided to go on the 20th. Wanna go for the audition as soon as possible.
I did not know what they would test about. Was it to present a song? Or they would play the piano and we would just follow accordingly. Out of my mind. I brought along my mp3, just in case. Should they want me to present a song, the songs that were in my mind were either Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman, Come back to me by David Cook, Touch my hand by David Archuleta or Bleeding Love by Jesse McCartney. Was quite nervous. Worried that will my voice be out of tune.
Sis and I were waiting at the LT 7. There was a girl. She approached me, asking about the place for choir audition. I told her it was here. Then we started chatting. I asked her did she know anything about the choir audition. She said she did not know anything. The person in charged asked her just go for the audition.
Finally the door opened. When we went in, there was one lecturer there. The girl told the lecturer that we would be having our choir audition here. Then the lecturer told us, ' no, I will be having lectures at 1900 pm.' Huh!!! Then where was the place for the audition? I phoned the person who was in charged for the choir. Then.... bai oo long... The choir audition was in TR 7.. not LT 7. kekeke..
So we went to TR 7. There were quite a lot of people there, especially china people. (just like me, wanna gain points so that they will be able to secure a hall for next year.. We are in the same boat) keke. I applied for the tenor and bass sectional leaders. So, the person asked me to wait before going in for the audition. Finally, it was my turn. A bit nervous. lolx. It came out that we just sing accordingly to what the person was playing. It was kinda easy right? lolx. As expected(not praising myself), I passed the audition and got tenor. Woohoo.. haha..
I know it's a bit late for me to blog about this. But still, I've to blog it. Wakaka.. Happy birthday to you, mama..
Luckily sis did remind me that mama's birthday is on the 20th of august. If not, I would have totally forgotten about it (Oopps...) haha!!
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to mama,
Happy birthday to you!!!
Yesterday for the whole evening I could not get access to the internet. It's was ok in the afternoon and when I came back from my dinner, everything went wrong. It kept on stating that the computer was connected to an unidentified network and it was unsecured. This was the first time I encountered it. I did not know what should I do. Went to the hall office. Forgotten that it would close at 5 pm. Asked around. My friends from hall 2 said that the line was perfectly ok, nothing wrong. Nervously, I asked another friend from my hall. She said she was out for dinner and the line was ok. Seeing all these make me anxious. Feeling so helpless.
I tried to sign in the windows live messenger to check what was wrong with the internet connection. It stated that the defalut gateway was offline. What causes the default gateway to be offline? There are a few possibilities. One is the network admin has blocked the connections to the internet and the other one is the router is busy or switched off. I thought why would the network admin block my access to the internet? So it will not be the possibility why couldn't I get access to the internet. 99% of the answer will be the router is busy or was accidentally being switched off by the hall officer.
Finally, my friend sms me that her friend could not get access to the internet. 'Fuh' was my expression. It means that I'm not the one who was having this problem. But the weird thing is why the others from the same hall as me can get access to the internet while some cannot? Funny...
Anyway, the line is stable now.
Yesterday was the first tutorial of German class. I was kinda late for the tutorial because I was hanging quite a number of clothes(lazy person will be like that) lolx. Reached there around 4:41 pm. The tutorial class was supposed to start at 4:30 pm. Entered the room and the German tutor asked a boy and me(the boy too late for the tutorial) to wait for awhile. Then at first he bla a lot and I did not understand a word from his mouth. After that, the first question he asked us was, ' Alles klar?' then he pointed to the whiteboard ' ja'. I guess he was asking, ' do you understand?' and the answer was 'yes'. Then afterthat he pointed to the word Entshuldigung which means sorry. lolx.
We got to sit down eventually. Guten Tag, Guten Morgen, Guten Abend, Guten Nacht, Gestern, Sonntag.... Wie hieBen Sie.. (the B is not the ' B' in english... it's a double s.) Although it was a tough language, I find it interesting. Different questions have different answers although the meaning is the same, such as ' Wie hieBen Sie? Ich hieBen Mel Veen Boo' and 'Wie ist Ihr Name, bitte? Mein Name ist Mel Veen Boo.' The meaning of the two questions above have the same meaning, which means, what is your name? My name is Mel Veen Boo.
The pronunciation of the alphabet is very different from English, for example, g is pronounced as ghee, y is pronounced as upsilon, j is pronounced as yadut. The vowels in German are a, o and u. Sometimes you may see there's a double line on top of the alphabet, and the lines are on these three vowels. It is known as umlaut. lolx. Sounds funny right? haha.
Ok, that's all for today. Auf Wiedersehen!
It's my first day of lecture of BS 101(Introductory of biology). My seniors were saying that if ya listened and study the lecturer's notes, then it will be an easy A for you. At first, I do not really believe it. But now, I think i do believe.
Entered the lecture theater and sat with my friends. After a few minutes, the lecturer came in. Ok, so class starts now. And the first slide he showed us was..... 子曰：。。。。huh?? Confucious saying is also in the slide of introductory of biology?? What a lol to me. Then nevermind, afterthat, astronomy is in too. Sun is a star... There are 8 planets in our solar system. Pluto is considered a drawf planet....... I thought i entered into the astronomy class. lolx. Doesn't make any sense at all. haha. He did say that this will be tested in our exam. LOL?? Is this biology?? Whatever. haha.
After that, I thought that I have the lab session. But I heard my friend saying ' no lab.. next week only have labs'. I was wondering, it's week 2 right? we should have labs. He asked me to go into our school website and find the time table. In the end, I'm in the losing end. (lol, not so serious). Fine, this means that I can go do the student pass thingy. Went to student service centre with erin. We were so stupid cause the centre is right in front of us and we went one big round. lolx. BLUR... We went into the building and were finding where to do the student pass. And again we did not see the big word there 'STUDENT PASS DOWN'. Really went blur. haha.
It's such a long day, and finally we got our student pass ready. Will collect it on the 27th of august. huh.. After this will have my German class, will get some rest first. ciao!!!
It has been six days and still I did not update my blog. Sorry guys, have no time to blog. But it's ok, now I'm blogging and I'm gonna tell you what had happened for the last few days.
I did tell ya that I attended for the BS 103 ( organic chemistry) right? So, afterthat, one of the senior asked us to go to the BS school. I wonder what was going to happen. Still I followed that one big group. (Follow the crowd) lolx.
Soon, we reached the BS school and we entered into the lecture theater. There, the president of the BS club was waiting for us. He just wanted to brief on how many AUs we all could take, the INSTEP thingy(students exchange programme), then about the BS club, and one last thing was the add and drop courses. As I had only 16 AUs, I need to add another one more course to make it to 19 AUs.(16 AUs is too little) The add or drop course started at 7 in the evening. So, actually I did have a course in my mind, and it would be Spanish language. I aimed for it. At the ' course vacancies', I saw it had 7 vacancies left and till 7 in the evening approximately, I clicked on the ' add course into the STARS'. It came out,' no vacancies left'. LOL???!!! WHAT?? SO FAST!!! Nevertheless, I still had other languages in my mind, and it was german. Still, it had no vacancies at all. I was like sitting speechlessly there. lolx. The others told me that some one will sure drop off the course. I waited. Day after day, still no vacancies. I thought of taking the languages in my next semester. I did not care about it anymore. (In actual life, I'm still very anxious about it. lolx)
Till Saturday, I woke up early(about 9 something) cause 10 am was the time to add the course. Eventually, I waited till 10 am and aimed for the German course. Still, nothing came out. Xuan le ba... I went for a bath and when I came back, suddenly, MIRACLE HAPPENED!! Somebody dropped off the course, and it showed '1' vacancy. Hastily and happily, I clicked on the 'add course', and finally, I did add the course. Uhh... See.. Time is so precious for me, that I can't even blog. lolx.
Ooooo... Sunday approched. I was supposed to be at the food fair to help around and to.... SING. hehe. However, I can't. Feeling kinda sad. haha. It would be fun to be at the food fair as I called some of my friends to go for the food fair. So how was it?? Did you try out the mee rebus? It's supposed to be VERY VERY VERY (x infinite) NICE!! And for the chai kuih too.. It would be a waste if ya din try out the food. The purpose of the food fair is to raise fund to build a new centre near Changkat Jering. The centre consists of old folks home, clinic, place to meditate, etc. The centre is quite big and will be built in 2 years time. Waiting for it. lolx.
Ok, tomorrow will be my first class of German language. Hope I can master it well. Yay!!!
