Saturday, August 25, 2007

And They Say...

When I was in secondary school, they said this.

"JC life will suit you better."


Then comes JC. Mr Hanis said this.

"Maybe this system is not for you. Uni life should suit you better."


And now that I am where I am, I wonder if someone will be telling me...

"Maybe the working world will suit you better."

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

There you go Vanessa xD

He gave me this comment, "you make it sound like being an undergraduate is a bad thing" because I was complaining about having to start school and attend classes on monday morning. Of course, anyone would say that, considering that he is suffering the wrath of national service and having a freaking retarded army life, where potato chips now mean the world to him.

Everyone was so excited to start school, but I wasnt. I didnt want to have any false hopes on the education system that I am going through. This is only the second day of school, and fate just presented me a topic to fill in the first chapter, about why university life is not as grand is it seems.

Bloody freaking hell fucking Add/Drop Period. I swear this system must be having its period. And I can bet my toes that many others are unhappy too. I chose to take it nice and easy, so maybe I made a wrong move. Even before we got access to the system, most of the vacancies are filled up by seniors. In the end, loads of people brought their notebooks into the lecture so that at 9.30am sharp, so they can login and try to beat everyone into getting a place in their chosen electives. But that is like no different from trying to squeeze through the crowd at a temple and stuff in their 'first joss stick' before others during the new year.

Wells, you might still get a chance to get the electives you want, provided someone decided to drop the elective that he/she is taking, and you quickly jump in to fill the space. Qi was saying you can camp in front of your monitor refreshing refreshing refreshing refreshing refreshing refreshing refreshing refreshing to see if some idiot had dropped the subject that you want to take. What the hell. If I can spend that same amount of time refreshing at the Chocolate Factory in Neopets I can prolly restock tons of goodies and make 6 digit profits.

I hear people complaining that they simply 'anyhow whack' and blindly grab subjects to study. Others rattle and pull their hair out because either the timetable or the exam schedules clashes with one another, so they have to give up a subject in order to take another subject they want. Some stopped giving a shit and gave up searching once they managed to find random subjects that helps fulfil their AU requirement, has no timetable and exam schedule clashes, and with vacancies. Many were forced to take some unknown-wierld-nobody-knows-about-it subjects, but whats the point of doing something just for the sake of doing it. Maybe I should learn how to script a program so that it helps me grab the electives I want. Wells, what to do.