here or there
i was actually quite surprised when ntu sociology department called me up earlier this week to schedule for an interview. well, i didn't think that i would stand a chance but i just applied anyway.
took a day off on friday to go for the interview. it was a written test cum interview and i assumed that it would be an open-ended essay for the written test. turned out to be a comprehension passage with two questions that i had to answer. the article was mainly about social influence in our daily lives. it was quite okay. i misheard the instructions, thought that the time allocation for the test was 15 minutes when it was actually 50 minutes. oops.
the interview went fairly well too, impression-wise. but it remains to be seen, i wouldn't speak too soon yet. it is an option for me i guess, next to pursuing my comms degree in melbourne.
speaking of interviews, i read somewhere (i forgot where) about this true account of an interview which i found to be very interesting.
it went like this...
interviewer: have a seat. before we start, i would like to tell you about 2 important traits of an employee that our company emphasizes a lot on. the first of which is cleaniness, may i ask if you had clean your shoes on the floor mat outside my office before you walked in?
interviewee (eager to impress): yes yes, i sure did.
interviewer: well okay, if that's the case i'll go on to the next trait, which is honesty. and i'd just like to tell you that i do not have a floor mat outside my office.
needless to say, the interviewee did not get the job.
some food for thought.
in loving memory
it's been exactly one month,
and his legacy lives on forever.
i'll never forget the times that i had spent with him,
the memories are now etched deep within.
i want to write a proper entry when i have the time to do so.
because i'm ever so proud,
proud of him and to be his eldest grandson.
like slow spinning redemption
"da xiang, da xiang
ni de bi zi zen me na me chang
ma ma shuo bi zi chang
cai hui piao liang"
elephant so happy! haha.
and so i'm officially (yet not exactly official) installed as:
Leave Clerk, S1 Branch, 6SIR. i would say that i did earn my place and i'm deserving of my appointment. hard work paid off in the end and well, christmas came early! :)
now that's nice.
time flies...but please fly faster!
hola!
this entry is long overdue. so much so that i keyed in the wrong username when i was logging in. the last entry was about my POP, and now louis and andre have also POP-ed. haha.
it's about 3 months since the last post...
tomorrow will be 6 months since i enlisted...
and 18 months exactly from today is my ORD, which in actual fact spells out as F-R-E-E-D-O-M.
a quarter of my NS life gone, 3 more to go.
much has happened i suppose. from BMT to 48SAR to posting out of 48SAR to 6SIR to whatever lies ahead, which i really wish for status quo. from vel's 21st to our 1yr4mths to my slimming down and getting fat again. randomness. but yeah, that's the picture. perhaps many things can really happen in 3 months' time, good or bad.
quote of the day: "it doesn't pay to be healthy in the army".
seriously, it's a warped system, from the perspective of the majority.
i like how listening to songs on my ipod nowadays can make me feel totally relaxed. and how i appreciate people and the real world better after being cooped up in camp for the whole week. a simple day out with vel today makes me feel happy, and buying a birthday cake and present for my mom makes me feel good as well.
the future in 2010 seems exciting. besides my ORD, there's the circle line, the upcoming megamall just opposite my house and my further study plans to look forward to. just to name a few.
CAN'T WAIT for 2010!
pop! goes my heart
4 days after pop!
and private ng here is enjoying these 11 days of my block leave being a temporary civilian. i guess it's probably the best 11 days out of the 730.
bmt has taught me some things. how to appreciate people and life better. what a wonderful world it is, indeed. and i finally understood what it meant when they say that the friendship forged during bmt will be the most memorable. because everyone starts out on this 2-year journey equal and goes through the same shit together. when we all get posted to our units, it's gonna be different altogether.
jaguar coy 3/08 platoon 4 section 2, glad that we've come through as one all the way. :)
all things military have been a mere experience, anything else is an added bonus, a value that we've gained. i'm returning to tekong again tomorrow! haha. no longer as a recruit though but as a private and on top of that, going back as a civilian. darryn, andre and i are accompanying our fatty friend louis to his enlistment. for darryn and i, the feeling's great going there with a lighter heart.
oh yea, louis texted me after the match last night (to my singtel line): "LIVERPOOL! LIVERPOOL!"
and i didn't check my phone till this morning. so when i did, i replied him: "TEKONG! TEKONG!"
haha. i think i quite
cekark. but well, nobody messes with my manutd. haha.
on a side note, while searching for new games for my ds, i stumbled upon the news that GTA is going to be on ds. woohoo! can't wait but it seems like the game will only be out next february. GTA: Chinatown Wars, it will be. i guess GTA is probably my favourite kind of game that is not football-related.
did i mention i love the comfort of my room? i can never emphasize enough.
last but never the least on the 14th of this month,
HAPPY 1 YEAR & 1 MONTH to my dearest! :)
