Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Before getting to the main topic, last Monday to Thursday was dreadful. Friday was the NUS seminar regarding admission to the School of Computing. Had lunch and dinner with my friends whom I chat on MSN daily. Strangely, it felt like meeting cyber friends I meet on the net because we chatted so long on MSN and it felt like we never met before. Lol. The seminar left me rather clueless regarding what kind of courses they offer. It's too confusing and the courses doesn't related to what I'm studying now. Hence I've drawn a conclusion, NUS is no longer of my interest for a degree in IT.......................
Yesterday, Monday was my Further Reporting Order by Mindef (Ministry of Defence). It sounded formal and serious but what that day does is like an audition for Commando position for National Service (NS) for pre-enlisted guys like myself yes. Briefly, there are 5 stations:
- Physiological & IQ Test - To test your IQ level, your personality and how you cope with stress
- Physical Test - To gauge your fitness level
- Psycho-Motor - To test your agility, flexibility, balance and determination.
- Medical - To find out any medical history, injuries, illnesses etc.
- Interview - Like oral asking you some question like, "How much you know about Commando", "Will you be interested to know more about Commando", etc
I woke up 5.30am that day and reached the camp at 7.45am. The camp it at Pasri Ris Lots of people there as well. We were asked to 'take attendance' and then divided into groups of 20. Each details/group will do a series of test as mentioned above. Coincidentally, I met my classmate, Yu Huang. I only saw him during lunch time.
I catch up with him and find out how he's doing.
He said he's not doing FYP with Zhi Cong, Justin, Joseph and Marcus (I might be wrong 'bout that). He's working with his friends from another class doing a flash game; I should have asked him what kind of game he's making! Gabriel is doing FYP with Joseph (of another class) and Moshin (the hopelessly useless guy).
He wants to see the Media Law paper which I did last semester. So I'll scan and send it to him on MSN. Before that, have to get his MSN from HL Milkz / TrusT. Lol
And I met a couple of new friends as well. One from SP doing Computer Engineering, no one can pronounce his name. Lol!!! The officers get stuck at his name when ever they want to call him up. And I still dunno his name after talking to him for so long. Hopefully I get to see him when I do my NS.
I looked around and found more competitors for the Commando spot as I hoped. One guy is so fat but he can do 50 push ups in 1 min !!! 70% of the guys looks so ah-beng (ITE people lor) with extreme long hair with tongue/mouth/eye/lip/ear/brain/arm/leg/chest rings/studs. Most people are fitter compared to myself and I have dilemma whether I can/should get into Commando. My fitness level is weak compared to everyone there. Although during the interview, the interviewer say "Must stay positive. Can make it (reach high fitness level) de as long as you stay positive", I still don't believe I can make it. Lol.
Oh, Yu Huang gave me some advice regarding internship. One of it, he said 'download some movies to watch in office', indicating to me I should hack care about the work. Hm... Interesting. Since it's only 2 more weeks before I'm 'released from the prison' (complete internship), I might as well spent sometime for myself.... Any one to add on to that?
Ok, ending the post for this week. Hope you have a great week ahead.
Auron
Posted at || 9:16 PM
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