NTU Appeal

I have been working on my appeal letter to NTU for the past few days since getting the rejection email from NTU for my Bachelor of Earth and Environmental Science course. Well, given that there is a word limit of 50 words, there really isn't much I need to work on. Well, at least not on the content. Given the word limit, I have enough words to only restate my interest in the course, highlight what could have caused my poor grades and then end off by requesting for an interview to better represent myself. This feels more like writing a short note actually, rather than a letter... lol.
As my work in office has eased off quite a bit lately, I had some free time at work the last couple of days. Thus, I did some "research" to see what people usually included in their appeal letters. Out of all the content I found, I only managed to include that little bit in my letter,as stated above, which I felt were more important. So I'm still working on my appeal and will get it done and sent out within the next two days. Hope I at least get an interview this time round!

Easing of workload

Hey guys! I'm back again!
I'm here to update a little about my work today. It's the 27th of May today, which means May is coming to a close soon. As such, that would mean I have been working for close to four months already. Thus, my workload has also decreased quite a lot. There are less documents coming in for me to settle and less work in office for me really. This is great of course, given that I now have a little time to take a breather between tasks and also to take a walk around so that I am not always staring at the computer screen. Furthermore, these short breaks also enable me to drink water more frequently which sure does help me feel more refreshed, other than getting me hydrated of course.
Despite the smaller workload, I am thankful that work in the office is never ending so I am always able to find something to do at any time so as not to look too idle. I would really hate for someone to think that I am lazing around in office.
Outside of work, I am also being fed quite a lot as my colleagues have been offering me food quite frequently. To them, I am the young guy who should be able to eat a lot so yea... I don't find any reason to reject the food anyway.
Ok nights!

Uni applications outcome...

Just happened to log in to my email... just. And I saw that NTU had emailed me with my university application outcome. Oh wells, it was another negative reply to my application. So that makes it two.
Already received the reply from SUTD couple of weeks back... which was the same outcome.
Well, I guess I kind of already expected this. Mostly due to the S grade I got for my Maths...
Gonna apply for SIM soon.
ciaoz

Late night thoughts

It's time for me to go to bed once again, but I thought I would post some thoughts that I had been having over the past few nights.
After working for close to three months now I think, I am starting to find my life being kind of mundane. It is basically the same routine everyday with me waking up in the morning around 7am to for work, then heading to work and then geting home from work. After which, I would be so tired that I can only think of dinner and then sleep. Yes. I would fall fast asleep on most nights after having had dinner. This leaves me no time and energy to think about the next day or the weekends, or to do any planning at all. Even during office hours, I am so occupied with work that I have hardly the time to think of much else other than my work. This is definitely not what I had intended.
As such, my weekends are now so much more important to me as those are the only days I have some free time for myself. Well, I guess it is lucky I got to experience working life before having to go into it full force. This way, I will hopefully be able to make some plans to make better use of my time in the future.

Feeling awesome!!

Hi guys, I'm back again!
Some incidents recently had me feeling kinda great!
One of which was that I met some really friendly and thoughtful bus drivers last week. There were at least two mornings when I saw the bus approaching and had to sprint around 200m to the bus stop from my condominium. Of course, the bus did get to the bus stop before I got there but instead of driving off, the bus driver actually waited for me to arrive to board the bus. This was despite no one else boarding or alighting from the bus. I guess the bus driver must have seen me running and was thoughtful enough to wait for me. Haha, such bus drivers sure make my mornings so much better, on top of ensuring I did not get to work late.
Then, my brother's bmt (that's Basic Military Training) mate came over to my house to help out with some work on Sunday. He was quite friendly and approached me for a chat. For me, it was quite interesting talking to a newly enlisted serviceman and our conversation sure brought back memories of some of the feelings I had when I just enlisted too. Haha, it was also quite fun chatting with him too.

Omg...I'm going to get fat!

It is rather late at night already and I am just back home from another heavy dinner. Yup, I have had quite a lot to eat for the past two consecutive evenings. What a way to start off the weekend eh? Haha.

So this was how I ended up eating so much. I received a call from JL during lunchtime on Friday to invite me to join his family for "dim sum"( a type of Cantonese style prepared food) at a restaurant near where I worked. I agreed to join them of course!

So I took a short 15 minutes walk over to Swee Choon dim sum restaurant after my work ended at 1700. Even though it was still early for dinner, there was already a long line of customers queuing to get seats. Haha, that is how popular it is. I did not have long to wait before I saw JL's car turning in from the road and soon JL came over with his parents. 

We were quite fortunate to get a table not too long after. Having already looked through the menu while waiting in the queue, we also made our order without much delay. The food came soon, and almost all at once. We dug in hungrily, unable to wait any longer seeing the spread before us. As JL's parents had said that they were paying for the dinner, I tried not to order too much or eat too much, as a form of courtesy. That meant I left out quite a couple of my usual dishes which I always have when eating dim sum. It was still okay for me though, as long as I had my egg tarts... hehs. The food there was also only just decent, and there were several other dim sum eateries around which served much better dim sum.

We had almost cleaned out the food by the time JL's sister arrived. Haha! That meant more food! I did not make a second order of food of course. But just helped finish up whatever could not be finished. If I was not already full before, I sure was after finishing up the second round of food. My stomach was full to bursting point with all that mouth watering food and I was really really happy after that fantastic meal. I offered to take the public transport home so as not to trouble JL's parents with sending me home. I also really needed a long walk to help ease my stomach a little... haha!

Before the tastes of Hong Kong had even left my tongue, I found myself preparing for another meal with JL this evening at 1700 at "Sikek" in Novena. This time though, we were eating with some of his friends and it was to be Korean cuisine, a barbeque buffet! 

This being my first time meeting JL's friends, it was quite fun for me. I got to meet new people and make new friends as well. I had thought it would be quite awkward for me with them being involved in their conversations and me being left alone as they did not know me well. However, JL's friends were really friendly and kept offering me food that they had helped to cook. Needless to say, I ate more than my fill of food as it was a buffet, despite there being mostly meat available. I drank lots too to wash down all that food, haha! No alcohol though. 

So the evening went on with lots of chatting and even more eating. I found JL's friends to be a really joyful group of guys and I sure am looking forward to meeting them again soon.
As I made my way home, I did worry that all these eating was going to make me grow fatter. I guess I need to do more jogging over the next week, but with the wet weather these days... oh wells!