Why in the world do I have to fight with thousand over poly grads for places in a univerisity?
So I was reading Straits Times this morning and HOLY MOLY.
There are say, 6000 places in university and there are like, 10 000 over applications for that 6000 places. Oh why oh why. I wish I was born in the year of a unicorn (eh, dragon also mystical creature okay).
Imagine if I were to be LKY's only daughter, princess of Singapore, and Daddy LKY commands the entire country and world not to have any form of human reproduction for a year. This is so that his daughter dearest wouldn't have to fret her little precious head on whether she would have a place in a university.
Hello, papa.
Seriously, why can't NTU just open like, a night session? You know like, have 2 batches of students in school to cater to the demand. The day session students, go in, study their courses and then by 4pm, must get back to the hostel to make way for the night batch. And da da da da da.
The worst thing is that biomed, mass comm are the more competitive courses. Why in the fuck's world is it that I happen to be in one of the more sought after courses? Thank the lord of animal year person because I'm not in the year of a dragon. It's said that, the dragon year is like damnit competitive because there's a baby boom because Chinese being all Chinese, we like to be in the year of a snake that has legs and scales that flies around the skies, probably only job is to puff up clouds to make them look fluffy as cotton balls.
Ho ho ho. Sure, get like GPA of 4.0 and you'll sail in straight away. WRONG with a fat ass W. Because Singapore being Singapore, they like whole packages. Just like how Singaporeans love free stuff from just buying toilet rolls; they expect to have 1 free when they buy 2.
So, universities want to see that you are not only a geek in school by scoring a 4.o, they want to see that you are sociable as hell, so picture like, a nerd in a club, dancing to Whine Up, grinding that hot guy beside her. They also want to make sure that you're not as weak as a flimsy daisy and you don't drop dead after your first time running after your bus. Nooooo. They want perfect, smart, sociable people.
This calls for drastic measures. Because I'm currently un-IGed (no CCA), because Photography IG can just shoot themselves in the foot and not know that they're barely alive. Maybe I should just get back to Write IG although I don't like it because it's just... I don't know. I just didn't like it when I went for their first meeting. Creeps.
Maybe I should join something that makes me exercise, something that pushes me to run that extra kilometre. I should join cheerleading! You know, like throw pom poms in the air and have guys to catch me as I spin 360 degrees in the air and do a backflip and whatever flip there is. Sounds fun. Or, maybe I should try-out lion-dance. Tsk, who am I kidding. I hate those chang chang chang thingy.
RP should have an IG set up where students go around and do fun things like take a chair with wheels and roll all the way down from the 2nd level to the 1st level (which is like fucking high, I mean you can friggin abscale down!) without stopping or using shoes to stop. I mean it's fun stuff.
Me and Mahesh tried before when it was dark with little people walking in/or out of the school, it's those stuff you can get away because there are no cameras around and the only thing that stops you is probably getting caught by the security guards. Then again, we can outrun those uniformed pudgy cuties anytime. No worries.
Or maybe have people to do game obstacles like 'Fist of Zen'. Anyone seen that show on MTV before?
I mean if you have fun, yet without harming the public nor making a hella of a noise like our dearest lion dance, WHY FUCKING NOT?
So, anyway, I've got less than a month till Year 2 starts. And I'd bet there'll be a orientation shit stuff for freshmen to get comfortable in school and have them to choose their IGs. Guess I'll be picking an IG there then, just for the sake of my future, I FRIGGIN SHALL. And hopefully they have like some cool IG over there and not some lame baking IG or whatever not because honestly, it doesn't impress me that much. Na-uh.
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Can't wait to watch Get Smart, which Steve Carell is inside. He makes me laugh like crazy in The Office as that obnoxious boss. Anne Hathaway is inside too. Pretty as hell. Love her in The Devil Wears Prada. There's also Masi Oki (albeit I think is just a supporting actor) or Hiro Nakamura in Heroes. There's Dwyane Johnson, or The Rock (watch out in the trailer where he stapled a paper to a guy's forehead.)
Check out the trailer here. Click on high def. For some reason the small, medium, large thing doesn't work here.
PS. Trailer 1 is funnier than trailer 2. (;
Okay, so... my senses tell me that my older brother has a girlfriend now, WHICH isn't a bad thing. Besides, I'd bet my mom knows since her senses are way more acute than mine. Talk about experience since she has about 30 more years of experience than me.
Oh shit, I just realised I told the entire virtual world my mom's age.
Sometimes, it's hard to keep your family from knowing that you have a girlfriend when you voice tweaks so much until you become so ah pu nei nei (not Jeanie's kind of hate against Indian people but apnn like er, you tei, or you speak in twits' accent. 'Dunn lai-dat larh, dar-liing!') that your ear must be filled up to the brim with yellow wax. Or you whisper and laugh airily to the phone.
Must be hard to keep to your normal lifestyle for your family not to realise that you're in looooove.
So I questioned my mom the other day when I remarked that he might be talking to his girlfriend.
I asked if she minded him having a girlfriend since my dad has this pact of not having relationships UNTIL we are in the university because that's his level of 'maturity', but trust me, I've seen people who are WAAAAY matured beyond their years and to have a relationship if they were at 21, would be like having a relationship when they were at 57.
She said something like she didn't really mind that much, WHICH, made me surprised.
Probably because I've always thought her to be more conservative and more old-fashioned whereby she'd judge maturity by numbers, so my mind went blank a little. I wanted to ask her more about what she thought about having live-in boyfriends and then I stopped short because I forgot, riiiiiiight. This is Singapore.
Ever watched The Simpson's Movie whereby they had this hemisphere glass to contain the entire city?
Singapore's just like that. You're contained and EVERRRRRYTHING is controlled. Can't do this, can't do that. So, I asked my mum if I could somehow buy a flat (or loft!) by myself without walking down the aisle.
She stared at me as if I was biggest shit that ever popped out of her and laughed.
Probably one of the stupidest question I've asked when I'm sober and have not tasted a drop of alcohol or smoked any nicotine.
Then I thought about renting a flat. But aiya, just wait till I get out of Singapore la. I can't imagine settling my life in Singapore. I've always seen myself as someone who works in a busy district (please shut up about CBD). Like Wall Street. Only that it's a journalistic kind of district, not so much on financial.
HEAVEN.
Of course, if all else fails, I'll just submit myself to a dating agency, get a foreign husband, get my loft, kick my husband out of the house, divorce him and get on with my life.
Prenup is a definite thing. I don't want to end up as a woman that has nothing but a dusty typewriter and a camera.
