Jump up high, fall straight down through a thin ice path and FREEZE

To sum up what happened in recent days

1) I got something I wanted.

2) I went for a freezing trial and I got frozen with little resistance. Sad eh?

3) Thankfully, I managed to claw my way out of the ice cage and into a relaxing sauna.




And like you see in some movie/game reviews....







****SPOILER ALERT****








Okay so the real events were...

1) Not telling. lalalala....

2) ASEAN scholarship interview which...well lets just say I gained more *during* the interview than what I could gain *after* it. Geddit?

3) Okay so I got an offer elsewhere and I've accepted it.









****MORE SPOILERS ALERT!!!****








1) Still NOT telling. lalalala....

2) Okay fine so I got frozen solid in the interview. Some may wonder how an icy person can get frozen even further. But yeah, its just the way interviews are. No sour grapes though.

3) The offer is from Monash Sunway campus.









****FINAL SPOILERS ALERT!!! TURN AWAY IF YOU WANT AN AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCE!!!!****








1) Fine...its a PSP. No surprises.

2) So the guy shot down my lack of passion (which is true), he sort of..."revealed" the backbiting nature that exists with extreme competition (DAMN RIGHT THERE!!!) and etc etc etc. I have a knack of forgetting insignificant details. Only the 2 aforementioned ones were of significant value. No sour grapes...wait did I just say that. Anyway he didn't personally attack me unlike what some interviewers would do and he even said "have fun" after I thanked him, and before I left. o.O not the words I'd expect after an extreme-freeze session. But oh well...humans can be interesting heh.

3) So yeah off to MBBS @ Monash University Sunway campus. Slowly it'll be the end of games...then the end of a relationship...and then end of social life...and then reclaim all these in the later stage of career. Supposing I get through it.










1 month to the beginning of the end leading to a new beginning. With a lot of thorns, hellfires, and whatnot in between. Phew...

Defining moment

I'm Eu Vin. And yesterday was (definitely, for sure now) the longest day of my life.

Anyway, To make a reeeeaaaaallllllly long story short,




8.30am - 4.45pm : Final day of hospital attachment in HSA
4.45pm - 5.30pm : Commuting
5.45pm - 10.00pm : Sunway College JB Freshie's Nite






1) I'm dead tired. Period.
2) You don't know how immensely relieved I am.
3) Freshie's Nite was a blast! Even though it ended on a bit of an anti-climatic note.
4) Now comes JPA interview, a battle I'm doomed to perish in. zzzz.
5) My stress level is building. Below is a checklist to de-stress stress level. ( more will be added into the equation, of that there is no doubt)


a) Finish EALD "thesis"
b) Study Chemistry and Biology for their respective tests.
c) Complete hospital attachment
d) Make Freshie's Nite a blast
e) Get through JPA interview without looking like a dumbass, at the very least.
f) Catch up on every damn thing I missed during my 1 week absence from college. (yes, missing for one day hurts, but missing for one week is excruciating!)
g) find out what the heck "Moral" education is about. (since I was absent the recent week, remember?)








Useless trivia: March is about to end.

Sprinkles of pepper

Applicable Mathematics test ended. Anxiety in its purest form up to the very last second (and beyond, considering we all...ahem..exceeded the given time of 2 hours)

And I feel like I've just handed in a piece of crap, considering the mess made as a last ditch attempt to rectify any sort of potential dumbass silly errors. Just need 60 marks out of 120 to pass and stay in.

Or should I aim higher?

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March intake peeps in SYCJB are in! As I predicted, more opted for A-levels than the other courses (or so it seemed, from my beautiful view at the AUSMAT counter, ideally situated next to the A-levels counter). Can't say I blame them. It gives them ample time to catch up with the syllabus and be settled before AS and AL comes about.

Didn't really check out the other courses, but it seemed healthy enough.

And Freshie's Nite tickets have (finally) sold like hot cakes! For the first time in a very bleak 1 1/2 months. You really gotta hand it to the March-y (I made that one up) people for their zest to live college life to the fullest, unlike some people...ahem.







Ah, yes, and for the AUSMAT March-y people.....honestly, I pity you guys. I pray your sanity won't be compromised.

*They MAY survive, although the probability of that would be less than 0.5, as mentioned by the Applicable Maths lecturer.
**Not to further intimidate those doing AUSMAT, but you know well not to doubt a Maths teacher when it comes to probability
***Still, how often do we listen to teachers anyway?

A tale of rotten luck, a rotten number 1, and revenge served cold

Its been a rather bittersweet day the recent Saturday (26/7/2008). Computer Assembling Competition in conjunction with the opening of the "NEW" library near Convent or something like that.
Don't ask me where. I screwed Geography since PMR ended.


6.50 am
Arrived in school, and I brought my handphone to school on a normal school day for the 1st time (albeit one where I won't be in school the whole day). And there was assembly. Unexpected. And student turnout (attendance) is.... great, as expected. At least 2 form 4 classes had only one (yes, ONE) student each.
Cluster school mah, what to expect?


8.00 am
Made my last brief appearance in class before flashing my designer ID permit to leave class, school etc. The gang of me, Samuel, Yogaraja, Faadzilah (or something like that) and a form 4 girl (I was too caught up with the whole thing until I forgot the essentials) went to the computer cabin, and found out from En.Zamri that some smart alec decided to roast the fibre optic cable outside the cabin with a matchstick. And heres the best part, the reason?






"Good for health"






-.-






So yeah, a detour to the computer lab.

Y'know, is this thing safe....?

Really smart people. Playing pinball's part of the preparation, eh?

9.30 am.
Went for a quick bite in the canteen while waiting for ol' Mr.Zamri to emerge, somehow.

Happier days.

Took him long enough though. Only really appeared at approximately 10.20am and headed straight for the ...urghh book filled warehouse library, somewhere near Convent, so I was told.

I just had to take this en' route

Took just 5 minutes to get to the library. yay. And thats from SSI.




Okay, well fact is...




Premise 1 : Libraries are (usually) all about books.
Premise 2 : I don't do books









Conclusion : I don't do libraries.







I like (modern) maths.
Sometimes.






But at least the library has a few computers to jam on. Not that I'd care, I have my own blazing fast 500 mbps broadband connection at home.

Mr. Zamri demonstrates how to use the Internet -.-





I couldn't pass up the opportunity to do this. I doubt I'll ever get the chance to do this again.



Group pic. Pre-competition.

Double pic of the briefing

And then it came to drawing lots to determine who goes into the 1st, 2nd or 3rd batch. Theres 5 computers, 15 people. So yeah, 3 batches, you work the math. And guess what I got when I drew (the last, remaining number)

1

Foul number, that. From the moment I saw that, I effectively gave up hope on gunning for top 5 and decided to adopt a "surveying" strategy.

This ain't as easy as it looks.

The "computer assembling comptetition" (for lack of better name, its a direct translation) consists of 5 sections.
1) Inserting the parts
-RAM
-Floppy
-CD drive
-Hard disk
-Connectors.

2) Installing drivers
3) Change the resolution to 800x600
4) Create new username, log off, and log in again with the newly created username
5) I can't remember, I didn't get anywhere near here. Hmm.. maybe its the log in again part.




The catch? 15 minutes.



Ok, well being the one of the 1st few to set the ball rolling, surveying and relaying info to the team was all I could realistically do. Only did the 1st section, and a bit of the 2nd section. 2 marks for each computer part assembled properly, and 1/2 for the "lil bit of the 2nd". So 10 1/2 marks. Which was one of the lowest. Heck, nobody from the 1st batch got into the top 5. Predictable, really.

Samuel struts his stuff

But sadly, because of the rather well hidden "power" button, he wasted 6-7 minutes wondering why his computer didn't start, with the sponsoring staff telling him its the RAM, and then the hard disk, when in fact..


He didn't press the power button. Wasted, really. Sam could've been in contention for top 3, even, if not for that unfortunate incident. One dude from SAB finished the whole thing with a matter of seconds remaining. Hmm...







...and SSI's hopes rest squarely on the shoulder of one man, from a place called India...

Yogaraja. And his magic fingers.

He finished the whole thing. with 1/2 a minute to spare.










But he missed the floppy drive.







Or he could've gotten 1st place. Hands down. Such rotten luck, you have to agree.

Group pic post-competition.
Note the 2 fingers of mine above Mr. Zamri's head. el classico

Receiving the award

2nd place chum.

Mr Zamri's honours.



2nd post-competition group pic

Me and the 1st placed dude.



The certificate.
read:sedunia (worldwide) *beams*

Rare glimpse of Mr Zamri chomping on his food.
I ate more than him. 2 plates of chicken rice to his one.

So, it was a little disappointing that things didn't go our way, but Yoga exacted revenge on the tuesday (yesterday, at time of posting) when the top 3 placed participants re-do the same computer, in front of the MB (mentri besar, to those who don't know) and he came out THE fastest at approximately 2 1/2 minutes, while the 3rd placed guy gave up, and the 1st placed guy just chugged through the whole thing.




All in front of reporters, photographers, and what not.





Revenge served cold







And Yoga received a new SIM card, and 2 RM100 reload cards from DiGi on that day!!!!!! WTFFFF!!!!!















WHERES MINE?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!???!?!?!!?!??!