First passport in 20 years of my life.

Hah ! Holding the passport.. it's great !! Finally i a going to hold this booklet to further my studies in Singapore for 4 years !!! Gosh.. open it... aha.. i saw a handsome face... (haha.. jz kidding... pls allow a low-key n ugly guy to have soe pride) and my details.. 178cm.. haih .. i should put it 180.. look rounder mah... haihz... haha.. but hey... u wanna know what's happening before n after i tok my passport... *flashing back

my father called suddenly and said going to collect afternoon... so i called Tuan Haji Lokman as what the Tuan Shukri in Putrajaya told me to do so... ... and ok.. shorten the story and now i'm in Imigresen Damansara second time in my life.. but i almost knew the corners quite well... coz i need to walk around to find the TUAN.. hmm.. before he asked me to wait at the PEKERJA ASING counters... i went to collect my passport.. WAO !! GUESS WHAT ?! NO PEOPLE WAS WAITING THERE !! It just a very fast 10 minutes before i had my lunch outside...

then i went to look for TUAN at PEKERJA ASING COUNTERS ... haha... second time see so many different colour passport together... (first time during my SAT II exam.. i got mention.. my loyal reader you won't wan to forget my first experience rite?) Myanmar.. (tis guy holding LONG-EXPIRED passport and the receptionist's eyes grown BIG n HUGE when she read out the expiry date.. the situation was so funny)

then i was called and entered the TUAN's room and i explained.. blek.. he agreed but he said the procedure were more complicated now since the money had banked into government account.. Damn it.. but he promised I can get it back.. just some more procedures and of course .. TIME !! Well i aledi expect to get my RM150 for my next school holiday to spend ... in December... haha... but still ok coz learnt to complain mah... some more Imigresen .. haha.. dun afraid they restrict my passport later.. haha

so tats more or less the 'interesting' part of my day..

TTFN

my new desktop

hmm... my new desktop and some light to share



yaya... looks great isn't it ?! I'm still working on it... kinda easy to do... Using WindowBlinds and Object Dock ... ...

This afternoon suddenly got a telephone call.. when the voice sounds low-key (*should i say MAN???) and speaking Malay, aha... I've been expected for his call.. wow.. he's the HEAD of Bilik Gerakan and call me to explain the refund of RM150 to me... well.. so far what i heard from him i could connect to the possibility of getting the refund is still there... Hmm.. good service !! And he's the one that was so keen on speaking English to me... haha... (maybe when he heard i was a bit KEK KEK when speaking in Malay) ... i wanna give good evaluation... but not yet... i wanna wait for the money first... afraid later the higher the expectation... the greater the disappointment... I'll evaluate them after I'm going to take my passport later...

TTFN wow... only 506 Chinese got EEE ... and now minus one

Weird...

No Kad Pengenalan / My Kad : 860915XXXXXX
Nama : NG BOON MING

---------------------------------------------------

TAHNIAH! Anda telah berjaya ditawarkan program pengajian seperti berikut:


KOD : SK02
NAMA PROGRAM : KEJURUTERAAN (KEJURUTERAAN ELEKTRONIK)
IPTA : UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA
SURAT TAWARAN : http://XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.asp

======================================================

USM - KEJURUTERAAN ELEKTRONIK means Electronic Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia located at Sebrang Perai, Penang... weird ... first time government release results and i got no feeling.. dun know leh... everytime when they released PMR, SPM, STPM results my heart's pumping... the adrenaline keeps the heart accelerated each time trying to check the results..

this time.. no sign of warning... no news on paper i read in the morning... i just suddenly got a MSN message said that the results can already be checked through SMS and website... i went and i typed and i looked... nothing surprise...

Getting first or second choice was already expected... i knew that this year the extra curicular activities marks would be counted and my "EXCELLENCY" can be shown.. haha.. but ... never mind.. i won't regret... i am just asking... what if i put higher competitive courses such as medicine.. pharmacy.. biomedic engineering... well.. haha... no one knows what will happen right ?? yup.. life is just like that... you won't know what would be different for a tiny choice that you made in the past... haha.. perhaps i'll be more excited when the results of SAT II Subject Test being released on 26th June later... haha.. maybe it's becoz it's one of my hope to get into USA prestige universities... haha.. perhaps now i got wider horizon.. sees things more objective ... who knows ??

so.. where am i going ?? nah.. i've said... LIFE IS SIMPLE... YOU MAKE A DECISION AND YOU DON'T LOOK BACK. i made my passport last week... i paid the accommodation application fees this morning... no looking back... hahahaha GOOD LUCK GUYS !!


TTFN..

Saw something funny and interesting so I post them here... watch one by one... it can light up your day... i ranked them and bring you the TOP 5 !!!


TOP 5 : This is the chinese version of Smooth Criminal .. amusing !! It's about Saddam anyway.. lol





TOP 4 : SHRED GUITAR PLUS HUMAN BEATBOX ... incredible remix !!!




TOP 3 : Autralian Idol - Amazing beatbox !! Look how amused the judges are...





TOP 2 : This is an incredible human beatbox making the amazing scratching skills and bringing the latest songs...





TOP 1 : aha... sorry... this video is too popular until it's not available to be embed... you can still view it through this link !! See how popular issit !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVCb52iQrfo

Hi hi..

nothing much happen... reading books and start to read some examples for SAT I. ... dude.. it is hard.. damn it... i do not know how i am going to prepare for it... read those comprehension materials... damn it.. i couldn't even understand what is it trying to imply to the readers.. i mean.. what the ... the writers are just trying to write the messages out and tell it to the readers right ? Then why the hell on this Earth they write it so difficult to be understood??

Nah.. away from the books... my parents going back to hometown to attend a funeral.. my aunty.. hmm.. should say she's my father's sister, she had passed away... it was unbelievable.. so shock i heard this news... well i never predict this since i just saw her when i went to Langkawi and stopped by at my hometown to see her end of May.. so unpredictable... she's one of the nice person though I din talk to her much but she was so kind... one of the long relatives that I would see her every year.. now the greatest fear is begun.. i wonder how is the next Chinese New Year going to be in my hometown.. although it's a big celebration with more than 30++ relatives will gather together.. but without any ONE of them is already enough to make us feel sorrow... and sorry...

It was Friday after i went to Imigresen department.. then when i was typing in front of this pc.. my mum just came in and said... "你二姑死了" In a split second i really couldn't react... ... I wonder.. isn't she still there ? How about my cousins ??

Quoting again,
"Life is simple. You can be gone any minutes. So why not make it the best of your every seconds ?"


TTFN...

I skipped blogging... tight schedule... yesterday night watched Fast and Furious... ya know lah.. you must not expect nice storyline but excellent and professional drifting skills from the drivers... I would like to quote..

"Life is simple. You make decision and you don't look back."

So I made a decision. In fact I made a lot of decisions... i used to look back but now I won't ! Going to Singapore is my decision and I will also try to look for other option to go further overseas... never look back and regret about it... so this morning something annoying happened when I tried to apply for my passport..

this morning went to Jabatan Imigresen Damansara to apply for my passport... guess what happen ? I tried to apply for half-priced passport which is RM150... all my seniors asked us to do like this.. so I tried to apply for it..

but i got rejected... the officer said that my document was not enough to prove i was going to study in overseas.. what the... then he asked me whether i could show any financial prove that I've paid to the university... i tried to explain but he just too stuborn to listen to what i said... i said the university will only charge the students their tuition fees when we are studying there in August.. how can I pay the money NOW in June?? How am I going to settle a bill that is only going to be issued on August ?

I was quite upset.. and i need to pay RM300 for my passport instead of RM150.. after I got home.. I went straight to write letters to file a complain .. I phoned the headquarter and luckily i got friendly reply... i faxed my complain... hopefully will get my refund soon... ...

So ?? I'm going to Singapore ... ... this is more or less the summary of this article.. i also included the complain letter i faxed.. so syok that so long i din argue with somebody adi... now in Imigresen finally i got the chance.. but with the price of extra RM150... Wish me luck to get back my RM150!!

TTFN

Complain letter page 1

Complain letter page 2

Recipt of my payment .. RM300 man!!

Below is the offer letters from NTU

oops.. is the only conclusion for the KUOK interview this afternoon...

"Don't be nervous !! Don't be nervous !!" I kept telling myself all this morning but I still did. For the starting few minutes, I was too nervous until I stopped in the middle while I describe about my course to the interviewers. Oh gosh...

I'd give myself 4 out of 10... ... just disastrous performance... I don't think I impressed the interviewers. Haih... anyway, I would be need to wait and pray hard for it. The result is to be released way too late and I'd probably be in Singapore already by the time they approved my application. Well... I would still be confident in it.. I need to be confident of what I had talked to them !! Yes.. I'm winning !! Hahaha... *gone crazy...

So.. life goes on huh... poor Croatia i prayed so hard that you would draw in the Brazil match but that ******* just couldn't be stopped !! Any team in World Cup please kick them out !! Boring to see them in WC...

TTFN

OK.. so someone quite confused with my choices of universities since I applied many of them and looked too greedy to be enrolled into all of them.. lol

I'm going to Nanyang Technological University 南洋理工大学 in Singapore in mid-July. To study Materials Engineering, (mostly, but i'd try for a change maybe) and further my excellency there... haha Why? Just because I wanted to grab a chance to go overseas and widen my horizon. Don't want to be kept in the cage for so long. And looking for chances to be successful ANYWHERE... Honestly for now, I don't have any intention to take up Singaporean Citizenship so please DO NOT THINK I AM BETRAYING MY OWN COUNTRY. Singapore ain't better anyway...

In the meantime I would still sit for the SAT I : Reasoning Test in Singapore and perhaps some other subject tests (again) if I screwed up my last SAT II test in 3rd June. Why ? This is a compulsory exam for us to be eligible to apply for USA universities. For your info, I intend to apply for Harvard, MIT, Yale and Princeton. I know. You would start laughing and rolling on the floor and wondering how could I day-dreaming to enter those... Well.. I can tell you that I'm just GAMBLING here and putting a bet. Who knows I could strike a jackpot?! Just a bet... ... just a bet... I'm prepared to be disqualified anyway but I knew I am 2 certs more prepared than other undergraduates... ...

Now.. talk about nervous ! I am going to attend my first ever interview in my life tomorrow. Haha... just trying to be relax... Hope won't throwing all those choking + smothering questions to me... Haih... anyway this is just a loan. Hope that I can receive the part-loan part-grant fund... Wish me luck!

TTFN.

hey.. i missed blogging for Monday... haha..

yesterday i just went out together with Wai Jin n Hong Fai to MACEE for the third time.. guess we are too ambitious or are we just stupid ?? haha.. studying and looking for reference for the SAT Reasoning Test..

Anyway.. at this time it is the first half break for Italy vs. Ghana World Cup.. (for you guys don't watch World CUP, this year they are having it in Germany so I have to stay up all the night to see it LIVE!)

What a good fight putting up frmo Ghana and Italy. Both team possess quality to hold the cup but guess Italy had missed a lot of chances to score their goals.. now it's 1-0 just a point lead to Ghana... Italy GOAL ! GO GO GO !!

The other reason i stay up all the night is I gotta prepare for an interview tomorrow.. gosh... it's my first ever interview... hope i din ruin it..

TTFN...

just to post something before Monday..

tomorrow going to MACEE to have a reference for SAT I Reasoning Test.. this time not going to take a test blindly without knowing what is it .. lol...

Netherland beat Sergia & Montenego 1-0 !!! but actually i support S&M .. why ? no particular reason...

wow ... it's a blow !

3 quite good things to share.. first.. i went to the NTU seniors meeting to get my freshmen guide. Haha .. I knew a few new guys but I din get their names ... oops... The seniors are quite helpful and ok to talk with, and finally i manage to have a clear look on the campus through the guide. Hmm.. better to apply for my passport next week ..



Then, TA-LAH ! Finally I finished watching LOST Season 2... hey .. tell you a secret.. i had a cameo show-up on this tv-show !! Ah.. prank!! Juz kiddin' anyway, my main purpose is to tell you it's the BEST EVER tv show on Earth, telling you the synopsis later when I'm free enough.. in this very second season .. my god, so many things revealed (especially in the few last episodes!!) and what the heck.. i was like watching no-ending ending finale for two hours .. and suddenly .. "What?! You are done?!!" Well.. cross my fingers for the third season but sadly... can't use BT in NTU campus... finding other way... lol

Third.. GOD HAS JUST SAVED THE QUEEN'S LAND !! With some luck, England manage to get an own goal from Paraguay's own heading... haha... ... anyway.. i think England has no luck (neither do Paraguay) so i think if with no own-heading-goal from Paraguay's player, Beckham would not score it ! Haha ...

Well... that's quite ALL for today.. Kok Keong looked for me just now and got his certs back finally. I am not complaining but I was just afraid that I would lost his certs in the sea of paper rubbish covered all over my room. Guess have to settle it before I leave...

TTFN !! C ya !

Excited .. tomorrow going to meet NTU seniors and get my NTU freshmen guide... ...

Education 伯乐与千里马

Thanks to Hong Fai and John, thanks to friends that fight along. Tonite through a series of conversations, it helps me to have a deeper look on our education. It reminds my sad story...


各位千里马, 你找到你的伯乐吗??

Most people will come and ask me Maths questions, hmm.. maybe they think I am quite ok dealing with numbers. Well, you might say I am proud but I do admit that I am good dealing with numbers since I was little. Dunno why.. I feel it's comfortable facing with the numbers, and the operations plus, minus, times, and divide among themselves... i was always try to get 100 marks on maths paper, if not, even though it's merely a few points, i would be upset, very upset.

I remember... I was the first one in my class to know about PRODUCTS (what times what equals to...) it's school asembly time and each time the teacher on duty will give out several questions to be tested in every class, she mentioned that this PRODUCT question is for YEAR 3 only ... (i was in YEAR 2) ... What is the answer for 10's 10 ? By using fingers (becoz i just learnt it from my aunty) i just simply yelled, "100!" Everyone was looking at me... ... the teacher smiled at me. Maybe i was still little, I did not aware of my talent.

I din even know when my name was called to receive the second prize for Mathematics Competition (I din even know the simple Maths quiz i did the week before was a competition) during Year 1 assembly. Year 2 i advanced and got GOLD PRIZE. Other than Year 4 which I was sick and absent for the competition. I got prizes each year from Year 1 til Year 6.

But I was not giving the chance the represent the school. Not once.

I was a kid and probably I din care. Or probably I didn't know how to care for it. I still remember the Maths competition questions in Year 6 were tougher. Since they covered some topics which were never taught in our syllabus - ANGLES. But I still manage to make a guess because my Mathematical Logic sense is there ... I know which angles should be same with which angles by having a look and follows the logic manner... i got consolation prize that year. I felt lucky, but no longer when I sees the son of the school principal was getting second prize. How could it be ? A talent may not be risen in just a night !!

Forgotten what reason I got a chance to have a try some questions from Maths Society which people got represent the school. I saw angles questions ... i saw many questions which were quite similar to the competition... ... i felt cheated... maybe as a kid, i din care so much or i din know how to care... this matter fell into the deepest place it could be and no more being told to anyone...

Days after days ... years after years .. all I had done was to be a good boy studying books, following syllabus that made by our ministry. I am still good at Maths especially in those numerical analysis, but so far the syllabus teaches. So far the syllabus goes, that's why I've gone. I didn't get any chance to meet any professors or have any relative who graduated from university that would be able to teach me and discover my talents. Now, I believe I am just 'good' in Maths. No more talented.

There's an old proverb in Chinese. A good horse that runs miles need a good rider to know its value and fully uses its value. Without the good rider, it's useless to have a good horse. 各位千里马, 你找到你的伯乐吗?

SAT® II : SUBJECT TEST

Last Saturday, June 3rd, is a day I will never forget. I took the SAT Subject Test which is a standardised test requirement for any US university admission.



This is a test administered by College Board which I think I had no good impression on them so far. My admission ticket which was supposed to be arrived days before the exam started, seemed lost in the way of postage. However, luckily I was still manage to take the test. When I entered the room with my friends, it's like ALL OTHERS were using passport as their ID, and heard a lot of different languages murmured around the room. Like United Nations...

This was something funny. One thing you gotta know about this test is that you can only take up to maximum 3 subjects ONLY and they would give you ALL SUBJECT PAPERS together at one time. But at a time you were allowed to do one subject and were not allowed to look at other section. Honestly, you would have no time to look at other questions. Please, 85 Chemistry questions, 50 Maths Level 2 questions, 80 Biology-Molecular questions with each subject one hour. I bet you won't even have the time to peek at others to see their answers.

I did the Chemistry first which I thought would be the headache for me since I did not revise for it. But it turned out to be quite easy. Unfortunately for my next Bio, I felt like all my revision was useless ... ... lastly the Maths I think would be no problem to gain a high score.

This is a first step for me. I would definitely sitting for SAT Reasoning Test (or ACT, but i won't talk about this) which will be another nightmare for me to memorize 2000+ vocabularies. (Which is what I heard from other SAT students) Oh gosh... ... the results for SAT II will be available on 26th June... hmm.. wonder whether I will still have to mood to check the results (especially after the release of the results of admission to local university).. anyway.. hope everyone work hard and good luck ! Godspeed !

TTFN

Testing...

Hey.. This will be a new blog of mine. Brand new start huh ? Thanks to my messing-up skill, the previous was nothing but a mess.

Will update soon.

TTFN

Wanna tell you a list of what I wanna tell you ... ... (confused??)

I got a haircut in a barber shop this afternoon. Haha ... nothing special ? How if I told you that I've never had a haircut in a barber shop before ?? I got my personal saloonist so far ... ... so far ... no more in the future ...

Prepare for college admission essay, just starting the "ideas"

Prepare to meet the NTU seniors in McDonalds Kota Raya this Saturday to get my Nanyang Technological University's Freshmen Guide. After that I will be busy to apply my passport, hostel acommodation, bank loan etc...

Time is near, and I felt nothing ?

TTFN