::Why my bag so crumpled and hers so nice huh?
Spent the whole freaking day at Singapore Poly showing people papers and signing on forms. It's called enrolment.
Came early, about 10.30 or something, with busybody ma and bored sis in tow and desperately needing a toilet thanks to the Gan Cheong King animated short film they were showing on t.v. mobile about some freaky looking guy called Gan Cheong King who was on a bus and trying not to piss his pants. Unfortunately, I was in exactly the same situation (right down to the MRT toilet being unusable) and it only served to speed the flow of liquids to my bladder. So nearly spent the first day at my new poly pissing my pants.
So ran desperately into the poly (luckily it's attached to the mrt station) and started bombarding the security guard with stupid questions ('Scuse me, do u know where the toilet/enrolment center is?) and finally got to a toilet. I never loved a toilet more in my life.
Now for enrolment centre. So I followed the signboard and got to... a construction site? Huh? So I went to ask the security guard more stupid questions. Turns out you have to go past the construction site. Oh well.
A lot of people at the enrolment centre. Take queue numbers and go check your pay-in slip, check and submit your documents, go make and collect your card and lanyard, then follow the yellow arrow. Ma keeps nagging (Keep your IC properly, put your stuff into your file, go here, go there, etc). Photo on card doesn't turn out too bad, looks terrible but still looks like me (do I see a connection here?). My big but not so happy family follows the yellow arrow which leads us upstairs where people are giving out forms to fill. Oh, busybody people not allowed upstairs. So I'm left on my own. At least no more nagging. But don't exactly want to be checking out the FO (freshman orientation) activities so better go make some connections.
So I complete my form and start checking out the company, mostly PLM (people like me), ie. 17 year old people. Tries unsuccessfully to chat up the person beside me (some girl from multimedia computing). Doesn't seem friendly so I shut up. Anyway, finds a girl from guess what, IT! Yay! So I start to 'kachiau' (disturb) her with stuff like "Eh, you're in IT also! So cool! What school you from? She responds and doesn't give me 'what's wrong with this crazy woman' looks so I continue, encouraged. Turns out her name is Angeline and she seems nice and friendly.
So we go check out the camps and asking the people stupid questions together and somehow I get hypnotised into signing up for almost everything cause they say that they'll call us to confirm it later. I paid for the one by ICT and then ran out of money for the rest (so at least I can still back out of them hehe) and fends off attemps to ask me to pay ("You want to pay?" "Yah, but I got no money."). Strange fact: most of the dates of the camps are joined together. Means that you probably have to come home from one camp, sleep, then go for another camp, stress, man.
Anyway, I also get a goodie bag and a shirt. Being unlucky, I get the crumpliest bag in the place. :(
Well, it goes on for ever (hah? still got arh?) and Angeline is kinda tired and I slept at 3 last night doing I dunno what and want to find out whether what some biker (cyclist, whatever) said about flicking your nose when you're sleepy to wake yourself up is true, but don't want the poly people to think I'm a loony and withdraw me from my course and besides, its not very polite. So we hang on until last station where they want us to sign up for SOME FREAKING YAHOO EMAIL ACCOUNT?! Does it anyway to make them happy and ends up with some damn stupid username.
Then Angeline wants to go look for her wallet which she lost around the enrolment centre. So I go with her. (Personally though, if I found out I lost my wallet the first thing I'd do is fly down and go look for it, dunno how she can wait till the whole thing is over before going to look.) And we pass through one of the 6 (i think) canteens and wow wonderful. My ma is there. And she sees me and comes over to follow us around. I tell her I'm going with Angeline to look for her wallet and so we go to the enrolment centre and ask the security guard there. Angeline finds her wallet. Yay. So we go home, ok she goes home and I go with ma and sis for lunch.
Lunch at Clementi. Yum yum. Then some guy thinks my back view is a guy and then finds out that I'm just a very unsexy girl with hair in a low ponytail. Ha ha.
One bus ride home and a nap later, I start to regret i) signing up for all the camps ii) not taking the brochure of the camp I'm interested in so I dunno what date it's on iii) confirming a camp that starts on my birthday :(
Pa disapproves of one of the three camps I finally chose to go to so that makes two camps. Then I get a phone call. Got people want to go biking with me!!! Unfortunately it means that go about the whole day, get home all tired and whatever and then have to immediately pack bags, sleep, then go ICT camp. So what? I don't care. As for the other camp, see lor. If it clash with my biking then I choose biking. Why? Because i siao (crazy). Haha.
Came early, about 10.30 or something, with busybody ma and bored sis in tow and desperately needing a toilet thanks to the Gan Cheong King animated short film they were showing on t.v. mobile about some freaky looking guy called Gan Cheong King who was on a bus and trying not to piss his pants. Unfortunately, I was in exactly the same situation (right down to the MRT toilet being unusable) and it only served to speed the flow of liquids to my bladder. So nearly spent the first day at my new poly pissing my pants.
So ran desperately into the poly (luckily it's attached to the mrt station) and started bombarding the security guard with stupid questions ('Scuse me, do u know where the toilet/enrolment center is?) and finally got to a toilet. I never loved a toilet more in my life.
Now for enrolment centre. So I followed the signboard and got to... a construction site? Huh? So I went to ask the security guard more stupid questions. Turns out you have to go past the construction site. Oh well.
A lot of people at the enrolment centre. Take queue numbers and go check your pay-in slip, check and submit your documents, go make and collect your card and lanyard, then follow the yellow arrow. Ma keeps nagging (Keep your IC properly, put your stuff into your file, go here, go there, etc). Photo on card doesn't turn out too bad, looks terrible but still looks like me (do I see a connection here?). My big but not so happy family follows the yellow arrow which leads us upstairs where people are giving out forms to fill. Oh, busybody people not allowed upstairs. So I'm left on my own. At least no more nagging. But don't exactly want to be checking out the FO (freshman orientation) activities so better go make some connections.
So I complete my form and start checking out the company, mostly PLM (people like me), ie. 17 year old people. Tries unsuccessfully to chat up the person beside me (some girl from multimedia computing). Doesn't seem friendly so I shut up. Anyway, finds a girl from guess what, IT! Yay! So I start to 'kachiau' (disturb) her with stuff like "Eh, you're in IT also! So cool! What school you from? She responds and doesn't give me 'what's wrong with this crazy woman' looks so I continue, encouraged. Turns out her name is Angeline and she seems nice and friendly.
So we go check out the camps and asking the people stupid questions together and somehow I get hypnotised into signing up for almost everything cause they say that they'll call us to confirm it later. I paid for the one by ICT and then ran out of money for the rest (so at least I can still back out of them hehe) and fends off attemps to ask me to pay ("You want to pay?" "Yah, but I got no money."). Strange fact: most of the dates of the camps are joined together. Means that you probably have to come home from one camp, sleep, then go for another camp, stress, man.
Anyway, I also get a goodie bag and a shirt. Being unlucky, I get the crumpliest bag in the place. :(
Well, it goes on for ever (hah? still got arh?) and Angeline is kinda tired and I slept at 3 last night doing I dunno what and want to find out whether what some biker (cyclist, whatever) said about flicking your nose when you're sleepy to wake yourself up is true, but don't want the poly people to think I'm a loony and withdraw me from my course and besides, its not very polite. So we hang on until last station where they want us to sign up for SOME FREAKING YAHOO EMAIL ACCOUNT?! Does it anyway to make them happy and ends up with some damn stupid username.
Then Angeline wants to go look for her wallet which she lost around the enrolment centre. So I go with her. (Personally though, if I found out I lost my wallet the first thing I'd do is fly down and go look for it, dunno how she can wait till the whole thing is over before going to look.) And we pass through one of the 6 (i think) canteens and wow wonderful. My ma is there. And she sees me and comes over to follow us around. I tell her I'm going with Angeline to look for her wallet and so we go to the enrolment centre and ask the security guard there. Angeline finds her wallet. Yay. So we go home, ok she goes home and I go with ma and sis for lunch.
Lunch at Clementi. Yum yum. Then some guy thinks my back view is a guy and then finds out that I'm just a very unsexy girl with hair in a low ponytail. Ha ha.
One bus ride home and a nap later, I start to regret i) signing up for all the camps ii) not taking the brochure of the camp I'm interested in so I dunno what date it's on iii) confirming a camp that starts on my birthday :(
Pa disapproves of one of the three camps I finally chose to go to so that makes two camps. Then I get a phone call. Got people want to go biking with me!!! Unfortunately it means that go about the whole day, get home all tired and whatever and then have to immediately pack bags, sleep, then go ICT camp. So what? I don't care. As for the other camp, see lor. If it clash with my biking then I choose biking. Why? Because i siao (crazy). Haha.
