Sunday, July 18, 2010

Live here; live now

Woke up at 7.30am on a sunday, which is terrible and inhumane time to snap out of slumber on a weekend, but the seminar was at 9.30 so what can you do about it. anyway, the aforementioned seminar was the CATS scholarship and career fair. the first part was a talk to help us "constantly operate at peak capacity", which is just a euphemistic way to sell about an hour of inspiring but ultimately vague and useless words like "energy" and "efficacy". the speaker was entertaining and engaging and all, but i think everyone already knows what must be done; the cold hard truth is that it is much much easier said than done :( the second part was a dialogue session with a few scholarship recipients. it was refreshing to hear candid responses from post-graduate scholars who were not trying to promote their respective scholarships with every other sentence :)

after that was the tea session, which was really high-class :D what with their forest mushroom quiches and teriyaki chicken on-a-stick. met kevin and friend there and decided to tag along with them, since i didn't go with anyone. we were just sitting there eating our (FREE FREE FREE) food when a lady from HDB sat down with us to tell us about the HDB scholarships, but because she was hungry and too lazy to move on to the next table she decided to eat with us and have a random chat, where we explained the current academic unit system to her because apparently she's "not that old" and yet completely out of touch with the new system >.> so anyway after that we walked around all the booths, which were mostly about overseas universities (US, UK and even germany), and once again the question i've been trying to avoid was raised again: do i want to study overseas? until now i still have no idea on that. if i do study overseas then it will have to be on a scholarship though, since my parents would probably agree with me when i say that i'm probably not worth the half-million-dollar investment. i guess right now my best answer would probably be to  keep both my options and mind open. so anyway, we went out to the nearby KFC for lunch with the intent of going back for the university admission talks, when:


well actually they were students, but i'm not too far off, am i? :P and they were clogging up the entire venue and choking the queue lines to the talks, so we decided to go home then.

these few days i've been going for scholarship and career talks, and the surprising thing is that i do occasionally see SH1s there too. you guys should be running around acting retarded! singing dora the explorer and charlie the unicorn and pokemon songs while walking down the corridors! SH1 is a time for living in the present! not for worrying about the nitty-gritty details of the future and attending talks (and might i add, also adding to the queue in the process :P ). how can you plan your future without living your present?