Probably the most expensive oral exam i have ever took in my life...in full singapore idol style yesterday morning...with a panel of 4 pairs of eyes scrutinizing your every move that u make...every word that u spout...every gesticulating of ur hand...down to every ooze of cold sweat breaking across ur forehead...and with such penetrating eyes...such sharp-witted questions shooting at u left right up down center in that cold hard training room...wad an experience really...the only difference from s'pore idol is there is no caustic remarks from the "judges"...no recording contract at stake...no road to stardom...no cheering and frantically yelping fans (got a lot of high-levels rivals only)...BUT still the stakes are high...a direct and privilege route to enter a regional marine engineering conglomerate...a listed Temasek-linked company on Sesdaq...and landing that job ahead of ur fella peers with 20k into ur pockets...it cannot get any higher for a hardup year3 engineering undergrad...

with that...didn't really sleep well on sunday night...tink too nervous liao...as this is not juz some scholarship interview but also a job interview loh...woke up at 6.45am exactly...brushed my teeth in an unusually detailed fashion...shaved...bathed...grab 2 gardenia breads while putting on my "armour"...put on my atlantic city fossil watch...sprayed a ridiculously high amount of addias deodorant until i am satisfied...and den the final and most important ritual...gelled my hair with that familiar bottle of HARD GATSBY...looked at the mirror...checked all my documents in place and OFF i go at 7.30am sharp!!

tete...presenting my armour!!

on the way there blended in perfectly with the working crowd...at last away from my t-shirt and berms...only my slingbag was the only sign that gave me away of my real status of a student...haha...on the way to boon lay was tinking of the speech i have prepared...trying to remember my "lines" and crossing my fingers they will ask wad i prepared...heh...

wah kaoz really damn far the shipyard...from boon lay still muz change bus...saw a long queue of ntu students waiting for bus...tink their exams have already started...tot i was going to be late becoz i have no idea how far away the place is...and heng juz made it on time like 5 minutes before my slated time of 8.45am...reached the security office and saw my name was the number 2 on the list...the guard directed me to the room in the opposite building and i didn't know and barge straight into the middle of an interview session...den one of the interviewers directed me to the waiting room...oopphhs...dunno got minus points like that anot...haha

Finally my turn came aft 10 minutes of waiting...wah damn nervous but manage to calm my nerves as i sat down...first thing handed over my documents and resume and was asked to introduce myself...4 interviewers in total with 2 of them seemingly more senior...the more senior guy seriously looks like one HK actor that always act pai kia one...haha...and they were the one firing me the questions most of the time...the questions as below...as far as i can remem...not in any particular order...

"Tell me about yourself"
"What is this Work and Travel thing about?"
"What did u do in the army?"
"What is this best soldier about?"
"Why did your superior in the army nominate u for the award?"
"Why did u choose to specialise in offshore engineering?"
"What is the criteria they look when they choose students for the offshore program?"
"Do you have any working experience in a shipyard before?"
"What is this CE3101 project about?"
"Why did you think your friends choose u as the CEO?"
"Why do u think u deserve the scholarship?"
"Are you a more design and calcuation type or the on-the-go, hands-on kind?"
"What do u think working conditions are like in a shipyard?"
"Do u like working in outdoor environment?"
"Describe one problem u have faced and how u resolve it"
"Do u intend to go for further studies...local or overseas?"
"What is the Hons u tink u will get when u graduate?"
"Do u understand there is a 2-year bond?"

Wah lau really intensifying...bombarded with questions...answered each and everyone as truthfully...as detailed...and as enthu as possible...and tried to ask a few questions at the end...lucky got prepare so still manage to get by for the bulk of the interview...hee...but kaoz the senior woman commented i looked so fair to look like the outdoor kind!! wah lau forgot to bring my lifeguard pics show her lah...haha...walked out aft a seemingly overstretched 25minutes...only to realise there are one whole bunch of year 4s outside...wah lau stress...becoz of these pple doubt i will get it lah...tink my grades are not really "the scholarly kind"...i remembered the senior mdm said something like still got 2 years when tokking abt my grades...chui when i heard that...now banking on my cca record liao...but not raising my hopes too high honestly...will take it as a good experience learned in any case...which will definitely help for future interviews...keeping my fingers crossed though...hee

Jurong shipyard at a glance...

Goong last episode today!! wah lau i am totally mesmerized by this drama man...and mesmerized is an understatement...totally caught off my couch while watching this K-drama...now i finally understand wad this K-melodrama wave is all about aft such an impact...haha...admit i a bit slow paiseh...this show is really something...always delivering me to korean fantasy-land come dinner time for the past 2 months or so...i watched every episode xcept the first one lah! (due to my initial apprehension of yet another "cry here cry there" korean drama)...wah lau i am wrong!! this is juz not any other ordinary melodrama...it is a romantic comedy...a political backstabbing story depicting how 2 royal camps fight it out for the prized throne...the grandeur of the palace and the fairy tale of teenage princes and princess caught in a love web...intertwined with catchy theme songs...well scripted lines...scenes that made u wanna swallow ur tears sometimes (ok exaggerate a bit)...and so many chiobus (even the court ladies are chio lah!!)...wah lau and there u have...the most popular K-drama of 2006!! one that literally blew me away...dinner times will be like a vacuum from tomorrow onwards...sobz sobz...


As a tribute to my fav K-drama of all time...(my first one thus far...haha)...dinners would have been so boring without u...without u...dinner without u...can't imagine really...Goong rawks!!

Princess Hour 宮 - Perhaps Love

got back phy test...damn happy...totally unexpected...26/29 to be exact...wah kaoz so wrong of me to tot of it as my jinx module this sem...now can aim higher for this module liao...haha...an unexpected happy closure for this mod :) ok enuff of hawking my test results...but things are pointing to a "personal best" this sem as far as CA test results are concerned...still dun wanna count my chickens before the eggs are hatched...still got 4 papers to go...jia you!! to all my friens having exams too...leeeeeeet's jia you together!!

YJ: Cheer up!! Muz be strong...ken, genie and me will be waiting here for u to join us back...and u can have the seat at xiao hong back...haha...time will heal everything...life is too short to be sad...so enjoy ur time in sweden and dun tink so much!