Moment Musicaux

(I can’t believe it. The ghost of school hasn’t left! >>)

Strangely enough (or not?), poring through the articles as though they were another bout of the usual online news-reading made information-absorption so much easier. It actually got rather interesting, and I had to pull myself back from deviating too far from the essential stuff. Wow. They’d better not drop out of my shrinking memory storage space by tomorrow, though.

Well, well. At least it was one productive day of ’studying’. On other days of futile attempts, I’ve been either distracted, detracted or…

Yeah, like now.

The little blog category (called ’school’) that could is going to be defunct soon. And it’s hello once again to @Work. After that final IMC project which dragged for 12 days too long, the freedom brings a little relish, yet a little more unease. MCM has taught me plenty: from dealing with deadlines and stress, to handling setbacks and enigmatically broken friendships. But the working world, as my internships have taught me, is still very different. And the end of school means new responsibilities and challenges ahead.

I have dreams that I want to fulfill, but these dreams will most probably remain vacant. Reality has determined it that way. So being the idealist-no-longer, I’m letting them slide — till God wills them out of slumber.

That aside, both demos are up! Click here! 

Emileen at the New Face finals. She didn’t win, but she’s still my favourite childhood buddy!

Kenji-something, apparently my age. Can shred acoustic siaaaa. The SingIdolies (namely the guys) were doing self-intros to him right after his set. -_-

Today, in the Library. The Convex people are doing the JobsCentral Career Fair, and Lanxi was doing her job as a faithful A-board woman!

Plug: It’s at Suntec Singapore, Hall 402, 28 - 29 Oct. Visit www.jobscentral.com.sg/careerfair to register! (You guys owe me one.)

(I know my smile looks forced… I wasn’t ready lah.)

Yes, yes. School has started, and not surprisingly, my attention-deficit problem has returned. It’s not easy trying to pick up English while absorbing information.

Of course, I’m quite determined to put in 150% into this final semester. Good, fun electives and lecturers (save a certain ro-butt-ticks): It’s a plus that I’m not letting up for anything.

Life’s good. Life’s changing, I’m definitely moving on from the past. Hooray!

Random note: I absolutely LOVE Whose Line is it Anyway. Improvisation’s the funnest thing in the world, yessum. I hope GoogTube won’t get on the wrong side of copyright laws… This soon.

MUST WATCH VIDEO!! SOUTH PARK MEETS WORLD OF WARCRAFT. 

Ed: No, they didn’t give me a swop. Someone remind me to be less compromising. Mumblegrumble.

Sho Ling Tay/is/staff/npnet   27/09/2006 09:23 AM

To Balachandran Ramaswamy/is/staff/npnet@npstaffdom, Yeong Choy Chew-Kong/is/staff/npnet@npstaffdom cc Khartini Abdul Khalid/is/staff/npnet@npstaffdom, Maria Buang/is/staff/npnet@npstaffdom Subject  IS Enrolment - LIM YOU HUI BENITA

For your reply to student, pls.

—– Forwarded by Sho Ling Tay/is/staff/npnet on 09/27/2006 09:22 AM —–

You Hui Benita Lim/mcm/student/npnet@NPSTUDENTDOM   09/26/2006 11:04 PM

To tsl23@np.edu.sg cc Subject IS Enrolment

Dear Ma’am,

I’m very unhappy that I failed to get a level 3.2 IS (MCM) module of choice because of the overloaded server during my selection period.

Like every other kiasu student, I was already on NPal 10 minutes before my selection period. But when my timeslot opened, the server was swamped. It took a very long time to load, and the "page has expired" warning kept surfacing when I tried to submit my requests. In just 5 minutes, almost all the modules were snapped up, leaving only one or two modules that had plenty of vacancies left.

After conversing with a friend, I came to know of students using the ‘back’ and ‘forward’ buttons on their Internet browsers — apparently it allows you to go back without having to refresh your cookies, enabling you to ’skip’ the server’s reloading time. Very important time, I must add.

Well, I had stuck to the request on the NPal website:

Please do not use Back or Forward buttons on your browser or double-click a hyperlink.

This, I believe, was to prevent the server from overloading and thus slowing down. But it was obviously ignored by everyone else, and I could only watch and wait in horror as vacancies disappeared before my very own eyes.

Helpless and with only one module with vacancies available during my next selection timeslot (I hoped for better modules then, but alas. I was wrong.), I had no choice but to take it although it’s irrelevant to my future, or interests.

Of course, the purpose of my email is in hope that in my effort, I can be granted the module of my wishes, Ethical Dilemmas. But if there is REALLY nothing that can be done, I will take my given module — Mobile Robotics — with maturity.

However, I do hope that there will be measures taken and improvements made to the website, and prevent such server overloads from happening again. It is rather unfair and a great torture. Hope to receive a reply soon.

Yours sincerely,
Benita.

I admit, I didn’t want to go back to school. All I wanted was to start working at the place I want to be, doing the job that I’ve fallen in love with.

But today, I dropped by school to get a stamp and signature for the Crowbar Awards entry form. And changed my mind.

I do miss school. And many.

Really, I don’t care about what happened once upon a time that discouraged me momentarily. I only know that I miss seeing people my age. I miss hearing Really Random Rants and outbursts. I miss feeling the team spirit amongst my peers.

It’s a mystery to me who reads my blog nowadays, anyway. But just so you guys know, I’ve been snooping around the Urbanwire and CTV and Radio Heatwave (plugplugplug!) pages, and I couldn’t help but smile as I read the stuff up there. With pride.

Kick butt, y’all. (: