Another typical day

I have so many things to says yet so little time to write. I'm going to write everything I want to say in this post.

Firstly, I got a laptop! I was extremely excited when I went to buy the laptop and started using it almost immediately when I reach home. Of course, I use it while it was charging. How else could I have used it? Lol. One thing I dislike about this laptop is its audio. It's so sucky. It becomes very "noisy" when I increased the volume to the loudest. Oh, and also the webcam. My face was upside down and I don't know how use it! Urgh. Well, at least I got a laptop right. :)

I have been attending lessons for two weeks already. Based on these two weeks, I'm very sure that school will be tough for me. I take 8 modules(6 mains and 2 cores) and we have lecture and tutorial every week. I'm dead beat. I look like an old haggard now. Although I smile at everyone everyday, I'm tired deep inside my heart. A smile that conceals my tiredness. When I was in secondary school, I always want to hang out everyday but now, all I want to do is to go home, finish my homework and sleep. That is becoming my routine now. I don't have time to go out.

I noticed that my class is not as bonded as the other classes. We are splitted into six cliques. My clique consists of six people, including me, and it is the largest girl clique among the girls in my class. It is good to be in cliques; you can shed off your mask and be the person you want to be. However, why can't we be bonded as a class?

The first conflict occurred when a guy called a lecturer the "king of procrastination". We weren't supposed to laugh, but some of my classmates did. It was already embarrassing enough to be shamed by the lecturer, so why did you guys add salt into his wound? *sigh* I am not trying to defend anyone here. Yes, it was his fault to call the lecturer the "king of procrastination", but c'mon, he deserve a chance to repent. That was at least what I thought.

CCA open house was held last Wednesday and Thursday. My clique went to see the various CCAs available in the school. It was an exciting sight. I wanted to join sports soooooooooooooooooo much though, but the practice sessions are so tiring! Yes I know I am lazy, but as I mentioned above, I am already very tired after lessons, so I gave up the thought of it. I wanted to join Chinese Orchestra(CO) too, because I know how to play the guzheng. However, I was from guzheng ensemble and if I join CO, won't I be playing some parts only? I am used to playing the mains so if you want me to be a sub member, forget about it. Hence, I joined two clubs instead. One trains your leadership and another on compassion. :) I am currently waiting for the leadership reply, and I hope to get in!

In secondary school, many people thought that I was from China because I have this oriental look and always speak to me in Mandarin and thought that I took Higher Chinese. OMG that was hilarious. I came from a two-language family. I speak English to my mum and brother and Mandarin to my dad. Hence, I am more comfortable with English. This is so random. Lol.

One of my classmate looks like my friend. The hairstyle and dressing sense are almost identical. If you look at the side view, it's 90% lookalike, but from the front, it's 70%. They are a bit different though. My friend speaks only English while my classmate speaks both. They also have one common thing, that is, both of them go clubbing. LOL.

I went for one of the CCA orientation today and it was totally fun! There's another girl who has the same name as me. One of them is also 34 this year. =O I met new people, and even explored the school in the most interesting way. I regret wearing loafers instead of shoes though. I can't run as fast as I wished! =/ Hopefully, I will love this CCA as much as I did for dance and playing the guzheng. :)

I can't think of anything to write. Gah. Till then! ;)

First day of school

As the title suggest, I'm a full-time student again after five months. :D

It means that I can't surf the internet as much as I want to, not able to watch a lot of dramas and lastly, I have to start studying again.

I'm gonna blog about my first day of school.

So...I was late for lesson. Not a good sign huh. *sigh* It wasn't my fault though; I couldn't find the room! Gah, it was so embarrassing walking into the room when everyone was already sitted. I promise I'll never be late again! =X

Lessons went on and we were asked to do some questions. I'm gonna skip parts of the process. The thing is, I never took POA during my secondary school days and we were called to do some simple accouting questions. Okay I exagerated, the sums are simple. :) I just took a longer time solving the questions. I will recall the lesson tonight. *pats head*

We had a two and a half hours of break time, but one hour was spent on buying lecture notes! -_- It was so darn heavy(five booklets!) and we had to carry it till the end of the day. I would have bought it after school if not for the lecturer who asked us to buy them during our break time...

We had another lecture. Oh I love that lecturer so much! He's so funny and I was able to understand the lesson most of the time. :D

A few of our classmates were forced to transfer to another class though. The school shouldn't do it. I mean, if you want to open another class, you should do it during the orientation. I feel so sad for those who are transferring to another class. =(

I used too much italics here. I know this post is very boring but I'll try to make it more interesting next time. :)

I am going back to school!

My five months holiday is ending soon! Fine, minus two months for me. It was a long holiday. During this period of time, I NEVER touched any of my books at all. *sigh* I guess I'll have troubles getting used again. Both my written and spoken English dropped tremedously; my grammars are wrong and I can't use a more profound vocabulary as I could in the past. =( Time to brush up your English, Charmaine!

What had I exactly done this past three months?

Well, basically, I held a part-time job, albeit quitting two days later. I gained new experiences though. The pay is pretty decent, but I hated the fact that I reached home between 12.30am and 1am.

I went out a lot. It's time to catch up with my friends after spending all my time studying for the O levels last year. A well deserved reward for me. :D We went to the movies and organized many shopping sprees. I bought a lot of clothes and on food. Hehe.

I spend a lot of time using the internet. I don't play games on the computer, so I watch dramas instead. Drama-thon. Japanese, Korean and Taiwan dramas. I think I watched more than 20 titles this five months. I spent more time on Facebook too.

Oh, I also received my O levels results and got posted to the course I want. Went for a two months preparatory programme. Met an awesome bunch of people who were all in the different courses during the two months.

Some of my friends and previous high school schoolmates went overseas to study too. Shermaine, one of my best friend, went back to Hong Kong. Alex, my classmate who's from England, returned to England. He's taking a gap year and will be studying for his A levels in a school in England. Ling Ling, my China friend, I heard that she's studying in Canada now. Some of them also went to Australia to study. I wished them all the best in their studies, and hope that they'll visit us back in Singapore in the future. :) I will miss all of you!!!

As a freshman, my goal is to study hard and get a good GPA score, and hopefully in three years time, I'll be able to study in an overseas university or a local university, probably holding a scholarship. I also hope that I will be able to interact with more people instead of staying in my comfort zone and make many true and good friends in my new school. :D

Orientation

I had my orientation yesterday. It was...fun I guess. I wasn't in my normal self though; I talked more than I did. You can say that I'm trying to be more sociable. Anyway, my classmates will notice the difference in me in a few weeks time.

My class consists of 30 students. The number is the same as my upper secondary class. It came as a surprise to me because I thought a class should only consist of 20 to 25 students in Poly. I was proved wrong.

My class has some of the smartest people coming from the four corners of Singapore. I'm envious(not jealous!) of these people.

Morning was boring. It was talks, talks and more talks. Furthermore, they were held in the sport hall, which means that we had to sit cross-legged for almost four hours. My butt was numb. Lol. The fun started in the afternoon. We played water games but the sun was blazing hot. I got sunburnt albeit not as serious as the one I had when I went to Pulau Ubin. Gotta spam lotion this week!

Orientation was supposed to end at 7.30pm, but it was dragged till 8.15pm. Clear enough, I reached home at 9.20pm and had SUPPER instead of dinner. =/

All in all, I think that orientation is fun. Sadly, it was the girls who were active. I wished the guys in my class would be more active though.

That's all for today! I will try to update often. :)