April Update
05/04/07
FireFly said 'No' to my application for the scholarship.
07/04/07
Going to watch ACSian Theatre's West Side Story. I'm glad to hear that most of their shows were sold out, and the rest were almost filled full. I'm going out to watch their last show later.
20/04/07
I had a shortlisting interview for the NUS Global Merit Scholarship (NUS GMS) this afternoon. I booked out with Kelvin Soh (from my section in the platoon) after completing our MP Ops theory test, as it turned out that Kelvin had also applied for this scholarship and was having his interview a few hours after mine. I arrived at Tan Chin Tuan Wing (the venue of the interview) with quite some time to spare and waited for a while in some meeting room before heading up for my interview. My interviewers appeared to be three professors from different faculties of NUS. Somehow I felt this interview turned out quite well, and I thought it was because I didn't rehearse so much for this interview; my aim was to just be myself and be spontaneous. After all, the interviewers are looking for the true personalities of their potential scholars, not actors. (Well...I am one, but not during the interview. :D) I got quite some time outside since the rest got the night off.
23/04/07 - 27/04/07
We're halfway through our MP Basic Course, and this week we're away in Tekong for our outfield exercises. Passing the Tekong Parade Square always brought back memories, be it PT or the POP on 13 March. Day 1 was a "Amazing Race"-style navigation exercise, while Days 3-4 were non-stop missions that offered us little time to rest (well, it was supposed to look that way anyway). I never imagined I'd move over a thousand sandbags in two days, but I did it anyway. Day 5 was great; we got a canteen break on Tekong before heading back to mainland, and booking out after all that hard work was just sweet. Another great news was having guard duty tomorrow postponed to the following week by the SSM; that meant I had the whole weekend to rest.
To top it all off, I opened my inbox when I reached home on Friday to get an email from NUS inviting me to attend the final interview for the NUS GMS. Kelvin got it too; really glad for him. But I'm still waiting for that email from MOE asking me to attend their interview.
FireFly said 'No' to my application for the scholarship.
07/04/07
Going to watch ACSian Theatre's West Side Story. I'm glad to hear that most of their shows were sold out, and the rest were almost filled full. I'm going out to watch their last show later.
20/04/07
I had a shortlisting interview for the NUS Global Merit Scholarship (NUS GMS) this afternoon. I booked out with Kelvin Soh (from my section in the platoon) after completing our MP Ops theory test, as it turned out that Kelvin had also applied for this scholarship and was having his interview a few hours after mine. I arrived at Tan Chin Tuan Wing (the venue of the interview) with quite some time to spare and waited for a while in some meeting room before heading up for my interview. My interviewers appeared to be three professors from different faculties of NUS. Somehow I felt this interview turned out quite well, and I thought it was because I didn't rehearse so much for this interview; my aim was to just be myself and be spontaneous. After all, the interviewers are looking for the true personalities of their potential scholars, not actors. (Well...I am one, but not during the interview. :D) I got quite some time outside since the rest got the night off.
23/04/07 - 27/04/07
We're halfway through our MP Basic Course, and this week we're away in Tekong for our outfield exercises. Passing the Tekong Parade Square always brought back memories, be it PT or the POP on 13 March. Day 1 was a "Amazing Race"-style navigation exercise, while Days 3-4 were non-stop missions that offered us little time to rest (well, it was supposed to look that way anyway). I never imagined I'd move over a thousand sandbags in two days, but I did it anyway. Day 5 was great; we got a canteen break on Tekong before heading back to mainland, and booking out after all that hard work was just sweet. Another great news was having guard duty tomorrow postponed to the following week by the SSM; that meant I had the whole weekend to rest.
To top it all off, I opened my inbox when I reached home on Friday to get an email from NUS inviting me to attend the final interview for the NUS GMS. Kelvin got it too; really glad for him. But I'm still waiting for that email from MOE asking me to attend their interview.
yours truly, tobias at 5:19 pm
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