Tuesday, July 27, 2004

school has officially started...

i love NTU a lot already.... ok go ahead and think i'm mad or whatever you want...but i can't wait to start school and face challenges again... no doubt the A-levels was traumatising as i have told the year 2s in tj just last friday... but it's entirely different. no more wonderful lecturers and tutors (ok maybe there are..but i'm quite doubtful. they maybe brilliant biologists and researches but not necessary good educators), no more uniforms...and it's bad because i take a long time to decide what to wear. guess that's gonna change now... also now with the whole living away from home experience...

i love my room a lot...i love my room-mate a lot too...haha~ but my hall's nice...with our own tennis and squash courts, a 10 min walk away from my school. hall 7 has one of the biggest rooms in all the halls of NTU... i'm bringing my fridge (which was my sis's hostel fridge too), tv, stereo...which is enough to make my life in hostel close to home... no cable!! argh...ok..oh yes i did bring my clay mug and the very first CD i played in my room was clay's measure of a man. ok.... been quite blessed...and i could see how concerned my parents, my sisters and my aunt are about me... paranoid...but concerned... *smiles*

yesterday was my freshmen welcome ceremony at nanyang auditorium. it was so funny! our 2 emcees were good and engaging, from NTU school of comm studies..naturally... we were introduced to the academic procession, includes our director, NIE director, all the deans of the various schools, alumni rep and NTU students' union president. then speeches and more speeches... wasn't too boring thankfully. then we don our academic gowns (the same as what you wear during convocation, but without your degree's colours) and recited the NTU pledge...funny...and then we had a traditional lighting up ceremony where we were all given torches and we were supposed to light up row by row... truthfully i think it'll be a beautiful sight...cos it's dark and it's like NDP...BUT apparently some people (quite a lot actually..) dunno how to follow instructions and lighted up when it's not their turn... haha~ silly... had performances by the choir and a grp of international students. then had reception! food quite good...MUCH better than food provided by MOE.... =) we were given a very nice stylo organiser, a plastic file and the torch....

just got an email from my school to say they don't print notes for year one students!! all online...dunno if it's a good or bad thing...remains to be seen....

council day was a blast...seeing my seniors and juniors again...had tons of fun crapping...food was good too... =) thanks to wani...

let's see what else....i got my very nice photocard driving license... must start driving...
 
oh yah!!! i'm 19!! haha~ i can't believe i almost forgot about my birthday. family dinner at silk road...a very hip and a very good shanghainese cuisine restaurant. dunch with selina, one of the many friends i gotten to know because of clay...a journalist for ST..had a great time with her at sakae sushi. dinner at siqiu's/siyu's place with the rest of the university-bound church friends. so many were there...had a good time eating. then xian han, siyu and yiyong shared about their experiences and we sang songs. or yah teacher chen kee also shared..candidly..as usual. but it was another learning experience...

as i get on with my first semester... this verse will hopefully be always on my mind. =)

"God is with you in all that you do." -Genesis 21:22

 

This girl posted at 11:49 PM