Zi Rong's Personal Blog

Friday, May 25, 2007

Weekends burnt

I'll be helping out at the Navy Open House at Changi Naval Base this weekend. I'll be working as an usher for the jet-ski and banana boat rides. I'll definitely get extremely sunburnt after the weekend. Do say hi to me if you see me! :D

Sunday, May 20, 2007

NYJC College Day

I finally have a chance to attend a college event as an invitee. The college day was both exciting and disappointing to me though. It was exciting as I could finally return to college to visit friends and tutors, and also get my prize. It was disappointing as I was the only one from S6A to attend it. The 3 other eligible students didn't attend. I was so eager to meet and catch up with them.

The beginning was boring, reached there at 8am, spent 1.5hrs doing nothing. The other 30mins were used for a simple briefing by the teacher in charge. By 11am, the presentation ceremony started. Row by row, the recipients received their prize. I finally got my prize, it was a brown envelope with a certificate and cash cheque inside. The process was quite fast though, faster than I expected. I also got to see Katrina. She reminds me of my birthday each time I see her, cause we both share the same birth date. I'll definitely get her something on Oct 22!

The lunch reception was a simple one, the food was good though. I also finally got to speak to Mr Haniss. He was always engaged with other students during the NY 30th anniversary and A lvl results day, thus I didn't get to speak to him. I also got to chat with Mrs Chan. She has been the best teacher thus far.

In the evening, I watched Spiderman 3! I've been desperately trying to find friends during the past 2 weekends to catch the movie, but all of them were either working or in camp. The beginning of the movie was boring, but got exciting as it progressed. It isn't worth the hype though, IMO. So many must-watch movies coming up, like Harry Potter, Pirates of Carribean and Simpsons!

I find that my writing skills has deteriorated so much. Army has made me stupid, and many of my other friends agree that the same has happened to them as well. The jump from army life to University life will be a very, very wide one. Girls are very lucky, enough said.

Someone from S6A planned a badminton session for the class, hopefully many turn up.

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Lots of stuff

So many things happened last week.

I finally received an acceptance letter into NTU's Aerospace program. I've not received a letter from NUS though, probably by next week. There's also no news from NTU about the scholarship application I sent, chances are that I've to apply for it again next year. I also received an invitation letter to NYJC's College Day. I pray hard that I can attend it, it really means a lot to me, to be able to meet my teachers and friends after so many months.

NDU's training is getting routine, it's just the many speculations about book out timings that make things a lot interesting. Like last week, there were almost 20 people who reported sick. Thus the sergeants wanted to reward the fighting fit by giving them a Friday night book out. However, the people who reported sick rebutted the decision saying it was unfair. In the end, everyone booked out on Satuday after breakfast. Blarh. I'm sure there'll be more of such cases this week.

Currently, I can only plan my programs on a weekly basis as I've totally no idea whats going to happen, whether I can book out during the weekend or not. Army is really so regimental with zero freedom while in camp. It has only been 3 weeks so far, my already routine life is becoming even more routine. I wonder how I'll survive in University after two years, where creativity is very much needed for me to survive.