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Look at the Jimmies, look how blue they are.
And everytime you taste, yeah, they are very sweet.
Jim came along, Jim wrote a song for them.
He thinks they sound like him, And so he put it here.
(sing along to the tune of Coldplay - Yellow)


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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Okay, so I went to NTU with scott my bro and roommate for NTU Hall. We did our medical, submitted the tuition grant thing, and explored a bit if NTU and had a nice lunch. Then I proceeded for my interview.
I was sitting at the chairs outside the interview room. Then there was this ah-pek looking middle-ages man spotting a pot belly, walking around the room. He wore the typical uncle dress, white short-sleeve collared shirt and black pants with a weird-looking towel hanging on his trousers. I assumed he was a cleaner who just cleaned the room. So while I was waiting for my turn, I took up the CN Yang brochure, as till then I still didn’t know exactly what the scholarship’s objective was. Ah, I saw the director for the program face, Aye looks so familiar. OH GOSH, it was the AH-PEK. OPPS!!!! He’s a Harvard Grad for goodness sake! Many apologies to him first.
And so it was my turn, I went in.
And the first thing I saw the director, I tried to suppress my laughter. He’s too funny looking. Another professor started asking me why I didn’t go for the first interview. And I said I was in NZ on working holiday trip. The 3 professors started to get interested in what I did in NZ. So I explained. That took about 5min. Then the director asked the other 2 whether they wanted coffee. And he left. I said, what the hell, you’re interviewing me halfway and you left to get a coffee!!
Ok, the aerospace professor started asking me, what is my interest? So I told him I like planes. That sparked off a strong discussion on planes, on how they fly, how it maintained its flight, the rudder, tail plane, flaps. Then he kept insisting in asking me what the material for planes making initially was. Isn’t it Aluminum?! Then I refused to answer his question. By this time the discussion got a bit hot with him which somehow evolved into a mini debate. The director with his piping hot coffee came in. I tried to impress them by saying the new composite materials which are used in current new planes design. Okay, they all got impressed. Then, the irritating aerospace professor went back to the initial materials question. I said I don’t know! He just said wood. Oh yar!
after which I thought planes were over, the third prof started blabbering, how does a helicopter works? TOOT to myself. Wa shit, I gotten myself into deeper mess. I tried to smoke, and answer to my best ability cause I didn’t really know.
Then after it, the director pointed to a white board and asked me to find out the angle. I said which angle. He said that’s a triangle, there’s only 3 angles, of which 2 are useless to find out. Okay, that made me real stupid. So I guess it must be the right angle. Haha, this is a secondary maths ques. OMG! I seemed to have seen it somewhere but I cant recall the proving steps. I held onto the marker, stunned a bit, draw some random lines and angle then EUREKA! I solved it.

When I sat down again, they asked me, what questions I have for them?I said, I don’t really know the objective of this scholarship. Then the third prof asked me back, what do I expect myself of getting from this scholarship? ERM. Blank! I want to learn more of Aerospace?! Then the 3 of them unanimously said NO! you think a plane can just fly on aero?! What about fuel, fluid dynamics, seat comfort, materials, environment……? Like a barrage of jargons thrown into my face. Ok I officially just jacked myself again! I tried to salvage myself by saying ok sorry, I think aerospace is just a small part of the bigger picture of science and technology and I hope to learn and research more about it. They seem satisfied. That was the end. Haiz. The moment I reached home, I wanted to download the episode 14 of fated to love you. Then came an email. Dear Yida, we are delighted to offer you the CN Yang Scholarship. OMG!!! Hooray! Haha it’s so shocking la, I tot I screwed it up big time. Oh wells, called my dad and mom, and my poor sis who was on a mission to conquer alkenes in her notes were greatly disrupted by me. Just then babe who just gotten her break sms me, so I called her to share the good news. Oh man it’s a nice happy day today!!!!!!!

Thanks scott for the luck it worked! And Mimi who guided me out of NTU from the pouring rain. And not to forget, National Geographic Channel's Air Crash Investigation which provided all the facts for me to smoke.

And thanks babe, the waffles helped! With added ability comes greater responsibility.


my silver v3i is playing, "我的快乐 - 命中注定我爱你OST"

Jim popped a can of Jolly Shandy @ 5:54 PM

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