IELTS & New Friends

Yesterday took my IELTS at Cititel Hotel,Penang.
Started our journey at 5.45am. Actually,honestly,I don't prepare much. Last minute preparation, again. :(
Hm...anyway,slept my way through. Arrived Cititel Hotel at 7.35am. Dad went to the lobby with me. We looked for the level to go for my IELTS on the event board. Stated there was Level 3,Perdana IV.
I told dad I need the toilet urgently. Was having stomach ache at the wrong time >.<
Almost went to the wrong toilet but dad stopped me and told me mine was the opposite. Lol.
Then,came out after doing my "business".Headed to Level 3 myself. I don't know where's dad. Maybe he lefted, I thought. So, initially, I was really depressed. No friends to talk, I was like a stranger to everyone. Then I took the initiative to talk with a girl. I asked " Excuse me. Can I know how do we know what's our candidate's number??" The girl said that she does not know either. Then, her cousin sister asked about me. And we started to chat a little. I got to know that this girl, Angie Chong. Her cousin sister was really friendly. We barely know each other but she managed to make me talk comfortably. Haha.

Then, I got to know that Angie was taking IELTS to study in UK. That time, I only know Angie, and no one else. We said to each other "Jia you" during our first test--Listening. And to take IELTS is really uhm...protective. Because you have to do an overall body scan before you can enter the exam hall. And there's headphones for each of us during the Listening test!! *Relieved*
And before the test, we can actually listen to songs too. *Wow*

IELTS Listening was a great experience. It was definitely better than MUET's. However, the 2nd part, I (I guess not only me.Others as well) screwed up. All of us thought that it will stop awhile after the first sub-section. But then it continues till the end of Part 2. OMG!@! Anyway, I managed to grab some answers. Hopefully can get bout 30/40. Please.

Then directly after Listening (yes,non stop), was the REading test. There are 3 passages for me to finished in an hour's time. I guess I like the traveller's guide thing and the otter ones. The 3rd passage bored me. Each passage I allocated 15-20minutes for myself. Lol.

Then comes the Writing part. There are 2 task.Somewhat like our MUET ones. Lol. This is my first time to finish my essay early by about 15-20 minutes. I'm a lil scared. I mean, is it normal to finish it early? Well, my first task was to compare the maps, where one was in 1995 and the other was in the present. So, I cincai write lo...Just contrast n compare everything I can see from the map and do some conclusion by saying that there is an economic growth in that village. Lol. My second task is " The young people nowadays are having negative attitudes towards learning. Why is this happening? And what can be done to encourage the young people to have positive attitudes towards learning?"
I am not sure about this. Is the question related to life-long learning? I was saying something related to it and how important it is to continue to learn things even after our graduation.(That was my intro) Anyway, it was over now.

The last part was Speaking~~~!! Mine section was at 1.30pm. Angie was at 1.50pm. And there will be 3 interviewers for 3 groups. I was in the 3rd group whereas Angie in the 2nd. I should be the first to get nervous but Angie was so nervous than me. Lol. I tried to comfort her by telling jokes and chat with her to get both our worries away. After that, it was then my turn. I told her "good luck" for her session later and she winked at me and tell me "Luck" too...I smiled to her and said I will. My interviewer was an Indian. Sigh. I was hoping for an "Ang Moh"...Haha.
I smiled to the interviewer. She looked at me coldly. Then I was like..."Uh..okay.Stop smiling.Later people thought you're trying to bribe her or what" She then interviewed me asking bout my personal life. This part was okay to me. Questions she asked during the first part was as expected. Lol. Then came the 2nd part. About the special meal I've eaten. Then talked bout it. She asked me "Where does people in your country normally find for food?" I told her "the restaurant and hotels.Especially when it was during gatherings or parties or a certain functions"
Silly me. Little did I know that I've mistaken what she actually wants. Then I suddenly told her "supermarkets". She is actually quite okay...I think she did give me hints to make me realised I've answered the wrong things. Then I started to talk about it. Then she asked me "How about the wet markets? Why people choose to go to the supermarkets instead of the wet markets?" And "For certain foods like vege, why people prefer to go to the wet markets??" That quest was a bonus for me.Hehe.Luckily I always follow mum to the morning markets..lol.

Then, after finished mine, I went down to explore the hotel. And there was once I am so STUPID! I was pressing my handphone and went to the wrong toilet again!!! This time, there was no dad to stop me>.< When I opened the door and enter, I saw a guy in front of me and the others was looking at me. I think they got shocked. Then that time I was also shocked. I quickly turn back and said "Sorry. I didnt see anything." and terus run to the opposite one. Lol. Luckily I didnt see anything. Honestly I didnt see anything. I was playing with my phone that time kay!!

Then, I called dad, asking him to pick me up. He asked me to wait, and I said I'm okay with it. So, I sat at the lobby there, looking around. I was rather bored at first. Then Angie came down and sit with me. She was playing with her phone after we chatted awhile. Then, her cousins came. Her cousin even tell me "All the best for your IELTS" before they went back. I'm a little happy that people are so friendly~~

After that, there was a girl I saw before while waiting for the Speaking test. Actually I wanted to know her, but I saw that she was with her friends, I didnt dare to...:(
But then, she came to sit with me and start to chat with me. Then I also excited about it and chatted with her too. Then came a guy, at first I thought that they've known each other. But then, to my surprise, they just knew each other during the test! I was like " Huh?? But u all seems to be knowing each other for years!" Then we all laughed and chatted why are we taking IELTS...What course you wanted to study...and so on...After that, dad called asking me to wait him outside. So, I asked for their Facebook email add...

And I added them today. They are so friendly.~~ Both of them are my juniors:)
And we even planned to hang out together in Penang when we want to take IELTS results the time. I just knew them barely by 30minutes and yet, we already like friends!!

The girl name was Stepheny and the guy was Stanley~
I'm happy to be able to meet them~~:)

Capturing every Memories...

*sweetest dog of all*

i lurve you whisky!!!

*what are you looking at ???*

*Whisky: Wait for me!! I wanna go too!!*

Will be leaving in July...

Thinking bout that makes me felt sad...

I was reluctant to leave my home country because I know I will miss her dearly--> my petdog,Whisky...

"She" often drives me but "she's" the only one that I care and love the most...

"She's" naughty but I still pamper her at times...

I guess that I'll lovesick "her"...Lol.

These few weeks in Taiping, I can't stop hugging her...I am afraid to leave her apart...Whenever she was looking at me when I'm munching on something, I will give it to her. Though the thing I was eating was my favourite. And Im not usually like that. Haha.

I just love her too much...She was a gift from him...Though she was not the prettiest dog, she was the cutest and most adorable dog in my heart...She drives me nuts at times, and I would felt angry and wanna cane her...But I don't cane her, just scold her because I care for her too much. She was like my own child, my baby. I don't want her to go outside the road because she doesn't know how to cross the road. Unless if I'm there with her, then it's alright. I realised I've never went for a walk with her for such a long time since I started working. She must have missed those moments since she was behaving weird lately. She always wanted to go out but yet I couldnt find time to spend with her.

Workloads in the office till 6pm, after that I'll have tuition at night. I was too busy to spend time for her. All she wanted is just "kai kai". She desperately wants it till she always went out across the road. And it breaks my heart when mum told me that she always secretly went out without them knowing. I wanted to cane her but I couldnt do that because I know it was my fault. *Trying hard to keep my tears from falling*

Whisky, I will try to find time to went for a jog with you during these few weeks before I leave. I just hope that she won't sneek out and went across the road without my parent's conscience. Please, don't let anything bad happen to you. You know that I'll be deeply depressed if I don't have you in life. I just love you too much that I thought of you as my own baby. Please listen to mummy and papa. Please.

NUS Welcome Reception Tea

Woke up at 5.30am, flipping through my Freshmen Guide, eyeing on the important stuffs that I might want to ask the seniors later. Actually, the night before, I was reading the post wrote by seniors till 1 am regarding those SOLAR stuffs, Pre-Registration thingie and etc. I wondered who is cheanrocks,pinknotebook and bubbleblotz...They seems to be very helpful and friendly...I realised mark was once a blur guy too...I mean regardings to the short forms they used about NUS thing in that forum. Anyway, he seems to be the VIP when he attended the UFO thingie. Haha.

We went out and ate breakfast at about 7.30am.Then headed to Penang at 7.50am. Luckily dad didn't get lost as I did help to look out for the Magazine Road signboard. Then luckily I noticed the logo. My intuition tells me that it is Traders Hotel. Haha. And fortunately I was right! We reached Traders Hotel at 9.00am. That was early. Unexpected! Woohoo~~! I didnt saw anyone at all that time. I miss called Wan Jun.(Actually I never met her before. We knew each other through Recom) After a few mins, she messaged me that she needs a little time to brush her teeth and pack her stuff as she has to check out. I told her that it was okay and take her time as I'll be waiting at the lobby. After that Boon Sin messaged me when I was about to message him. Lol~!! After that, I met up with Boon Sin in the Level 2 Datai Room.

Actually, though Boon Sin and I were from the same hometown and we met before a couple of times in tuition, we have NEVER talked before. But today, we talked and joked. Lolx. Then, he introduced me to a guy who is a guest in Recom. And after that, Wan Jun came and meet up with us. Four of us sit at the same row. Chatted and laughed . Wan jun was warm and friendly. She is a person who is so much in love with animals. Salute her~! Haha.

Uhm...then, Mr Gan gave a talk. He was a funny guy. I can't help myself to stop laughing when he was joking. Lol. Espcially when he asked us not to be surprised when we saw many BLONDS in the uni...HAHAHA. And this hot and cute guy, Ryan was cute and funny. He was an Engineering student if I'm not mistaken. Very friendly guy and cute too...I find it funny when he was talking his informal speech and laugh at himself at the same time. His English was super goood. In fact, as what the other seniors told me, he doesnt really know Mandarin. Ryan talks like a Singaporean. He sounds Singlish instead of someone like me, talking Manglish. Ryan was also down to earth too. Okay, enough of the compliments. Lol.

Then this girl, who is taking Life Sciences in NUS, Xin Ying. From the first look, I thought that she was cool. But I found that she's warm when we approach her to ask things. In fact, she told us a lots. Something which I find helpful to me. And it scares me off when Ryan told us that Raffles Hall got GHOSTs and got RAPE case before. Lol. Not knowing much how true is that. And a senior guy told me that KE7 has an attempted rape case, HOWEVER, things like that wouldnt happen because everyone in the hall was there to help as a community. So, that sounds a relief to me as I was applying to KE7, Temasek and Eusoff. Lol.

Anyway, to cut things short, I find that my attendance to the reception tea helps me to get to know some of those friendly seniors. Hehe. And there was once this guy senior laughed at me when I said that I don't want to work in lab and smell those chemicals but I love Chemistry alots. In fact, he was a Chemistry student. I find him and Ryan quite familiar. I wondered if I saw them anywhere?? Hm...Lastly, these experiences are really enriching.

p/s: Xin Ying and Ryan live in PGP. There's one senior guy lives in KE7. Uhm..seems that he was the head there or something like that. Uhm...I don't know bout the other seniors d...Hehe.

Have to bid Goodbye to my Dream Job

I hate to make this decision. I knew what I really wanted. But I have no choice. Pharmacy. All along I really wanted you. But I have to say goodbye to you at the moment because I would definitely find ways to "find" you again in future.

People often asked, why pharmacy? And the reasons ??
1. I love Chemistry. I love it so much that I'm so into it. And pharmacy, most of its contents are about Chemistry and Biology a lil. Maybe about 30-40%.
2. Studying pharmacy can let me know a lot of the drugs available in the pharmacy stores. I always wanted to know what's the use of this drug, and what's the use of that drug, how it can help us, what are their side effects, this drug can't be taken with what and so on....I felt it's really cool if I were able to name all the drugs as in I can know all the laws which lawyers would know. (I always think lawyers are cool when they are able to say " You have committed a crime against the law in the Act of bla bla bla , Section bla bla bla" . -.-" of course the words bla bla bla is something lar...I'm don't know law, that's why I'm using the words bla bla bla to substitute the actual words)
3. I find it satisfying when I am able to help people at the end of the day, giving them advises on the medication they should take and so on.

However, financial restriction seems to restricting me. Local studies can't get me to work overseas in future as most of the pharmacy courses are just locally recognised. Sigh. And I got to know that Australia, UK and USA are flooded with pharmacists itself. This will reduce my chances of getting into oversea and work.

Hence, I am now considering my second option -Food Science. Though pharmacy is my No.1, I am now trying to love Food Science as much as I love pharmacy. I have no choice. Hence I wanted things to go according to my plan, if possible. My new plan is to take up Food Science now. And after working and got enough money, I will take up courses to enable me to study pharmacy again. Lol. Not sure if my plan would work or not. But if everything works fine with me, I will opt for it.

And today I just had a dream. We're ( I don't know who I am with. But it seems to be a bunch of students. And surprisingly, Agnes was there in the scene with me. Haha) driving our way to a place where I dont even know where it is but it seems to be a lil scary and eerie~
We're given 10 names. After arriving the place, it was dark and cold. We have to find for the description on the symptoms of the illnesses of the patients( according to the names given to us)in a box which I seriously do not know what other things is inside but it seems to be body parts of a human? Because it looks like my paper description was tied to a human's finger. Oh gross. Gosh. I don't know why would I dream this in such an eerie way. Anyway, forget bout it. I just know that everyone in the "scene" was trying to find all the descriptions for the listed names given as there are time limitation for it and we have to somehow give the names of the drugs for the illnesses. It was like a test or something.
But having a test in this way seems to be so scary. As if it was somehow kinda like those, uhm...you know, the sisters stuff, Theta Pi or Sigma Pi...those college girls used to have...

Anyway, I have to learn to like Food Science now. And I'm learning to like it:)

I Miss my Friends~~

My besties--- though they are not always there for me, I know they too are busy at times
& I fully undertand bout it.
--- they are the one who understands me and knew a lot of things about me
--- they accept me for who I am & I LOVE them for who they are
--- they are there at times when I'm down and sad
--- they gave me support to whatever I wanted to do
--- they never hesitate to help when I need their help
--- they laugh together with me, they go crazy together with me and we did a lot of
things together
--- And lastly, I seriously MISS and LOVE them for being in my life.

THANK YOU MY DEAR FRIENDS~~

Am I a Failure?

I'm not feeling good today.
The result for USM interview was out this morning.
I was waiting eagerly, hoping for the best.
But then, I found out that I was not shortlisted.
Initially, I was still okay about it.
Then I saw others getting called for interviews too. I mean my schoolmates.
Then Poh Juan called me, asking me if I was shortlisted or not and she told me that she's shortlisted and help her to ask Miss Choong for leave.
I told her that I will tell her when Miss Choong came back.

Miss Choong came back to the office at about 1130am. I told her that Poh Juan needs to take leave for USM interview. Miss Choong then asked that if I need leave too? I told her I'm not shortlisted. She then asked me " Isn't your results better than Ng? Why aren't you shortlisted? "
I don't know how to reply but just fake a smile.

Parents and relatives then asked me about the USM thingie. I told them I'm not shortlisted. Then they asked me bout my scholarship applications. I really don't know how to answer them. Dad asked " All my friends' daughter and sons already got called for interviews for their scholarship. How come yours until today no news at all? Did you actually apply them or you just say say only? "
When this questions hitted me, I almost cried. I really tried my best to apply as many as I can. All rejected me. What can I do? Cry and beg them?? There's no use of it. I felt so pressured. I felt like I lose hope. Felt that I'm such a FAILURE. It's not that I'm not trying hard. I did, I apply, I sent a few weeks earlier by courrier service some more, other people got shortlisted, how come I'm not?

Is it all these need luck? I've always done researches before applying...How to apply and so on...But what do I get? When I get my STPM results, everyone congratulates me. I don't seem to be happy at all, honestly. I was thinking that they should only congratulate me if I was awarded a scholarship. All these failures made me felt as if I'm a loser. So what I got good results than others when luck is not in my way?? I don't hope to sound so despair but I started to loose hope when everything I'm applying is REJECTING me!

Can't God be fair to me? I was not born rich. It's okay. I just wish I have a financial aid to fulfill my dream. Is that so hard?