Journey to the West
>> Wednesday, June 27, 2007
today i went NUS and NTU with rachel ree to submit our documents for re-appeal in NUS and NTU. the trip was.. not smooth sailing at all!
firstly, i went to bowen to collect my overdue testimonial for 2.5 years.. it's just a piece of paper with 3 paragraphs which will not help me at all for my univerisity appeal. it's so useless that i wondered why i wasted my energy to walk to bowen although it's only 5 minutes from my house. rachel asked me to collect hers too but i knew the clerks will definitely not allow (although we always collect stuff like school magazines for other pple in the clique) that to occur. i predicted that scenario so i drafted an 'authorisation letter' myself and signed on her behalf. of course, as i've predicted, the clerks refused to give me rachel's until i showed her the letter, and told them stuff like "ya the testimonial very important to us cuz we're heading to NUS and NTU to apply for university and today is the last day. my poor friend rachel still have to work so she had no choice but to ask me to collect for her..."
haha, i sounded so damn pitiful that the clerks began to flood me questions like "wah, so after you graduated from bowen you went jc ah?" (in a very surprised expression, maybe she didnt know bowenians are eligible for JC) while i replied "meridian" and she started "wow-ing..." siao. hahaha. of cuz, i left with 2 equally useless testimonials which both of us didnt even use.
i travelled all the way to raffles place to meet rachel and took the train to clementi.. which we walked under the crazy hot weather and perspiring profusely.. until we reached the interchange. we took the bus and finally reach NUS but guess what, we didnt know which bus stop to alight so in the end we missed all the NUS stops and landed up at some highway outside NUS lah. it's so pathetic and paiseh. so, we climbed the overhead bridge and took another bus back to NUS again. this time, although we didnt miss any stop, we alighted at the wrong stop. so, we walked... walked.. for 4 bus stops and finally reached engineering drive 1 (which singhui told me) but there were no indication where the administrative office was. so rachel and i tried our luck and entered a building.. FINALLY WE FOUND THE PLACE. we were so happy cuz there was aircon to cool us down.. and so we queued to submit our documents.
me: "hi, we are here to submit documents for university adminssion"
the stupid idiotic sickening person at the frontdesk (TSISPATF): "eh, take our all the documents in your file. i don need the folder" (apparently i put all my documents into a file so that it will be easier for them)
me: "okay" (but in a super buay-song manner"
TSISPATF: "what's your application number?"
me: *shows her my application number"
TSISPATF: *checked her data* "apparently, you have applied for NUS but got rejected. and so is your appeal. so why are u here for?"
me: "precisely. that's why i want to submit documents to increase my chances. moreover, i didnt know during the application period i am allowed to submit any document. as stated on my application status, i am not required top submit anything but it seems like all my friends submitted except me."
TSISPATF: "okay. u got rejected cuz ur grades are not good enough. not cuz u didnt submit any documents"
me: "THAT'S WHY I WANT TO SUBMIT NOW RIGHT!"
TSISPATF: "okay. give me ur stuff. ok u can go"
she's really very AP. i'm so tempted to slap her face and scold vulgarities ok! sucks man when i endured the unbearable weather and long walks and walking based on my intuition. what the hell!
after that, rachel and i hopped onto a cab (after waiting for 10 mins under the scorching sun) to NTU and it cost us $10.10. can you imagine how deep NTU is when both NUS and NTU are in the west? can you imagine the cab fare from hougang to NTU? $50? hahaha
the uncle told us he knew where the adminstative office was.. so we alighted but the security guard told us it was not that building that we alighted. so, we walked 400m (quoted by the security guard) to the student service centre. the people at NTU are 10000000 times better! we entertained ourselves so much even though there were no cab in NTU and we had to walk through the forest and up on a hill.. a picture to convince you.
(outside the design school nice building)
we took a bus from NTU to boon lay.. which brought us to jurong point. and while walking from the bus interchange to jurong point, we saw a bowenian and the always kaypo me wanted to trail her but in the end i tripped and almost twisted my ankle.. but i'm fine don't worry haha. the stupid small pathway from the interchange to the mall looks like we are walking on a construction site lah.. damn disgusting. we settled ourselves at coffee bean, indulging ourselves with pasta and ice blended.. it feels so good to be in aircon. haha. stayed there for about 1.5 hours before we took the train from boon lay to outram then to hougang.. the train ride we talked so much crap.. it's been long since i saw that mad woman. meet up for kbox ok kbox queen!
i think i've suntan enough today. think i will only suntan next week the weather is pissing me off.
ps: i'm Sandy while rachel is Pigsy. no idea where Tripitaka is. haha
