Tuesday, January 09, 2007

BaCk To ScHooL!!

Oh yesh!! Bet most of ya know by now that Ms Rena is back to school!! Now hold it right there.... I sld stop callin it school man....it's back to Tertiary education.... sounds less kiddish.. LOL... so yeap....time for me to hit the books again...

Yesterday I had my orientation, which was relatively okie. I got a chance to see the brand new CITY CAMPUS @ Starhub Building which is way way much better than the previous campus which looked a tad bit dowdy. However being situated near the orchard road vacinity....like AGAIN!!...... i've to travel a lil further than i need to if they hadn't moved to the new campus. A friend of mine commented that i've soo fated to be ard the orchard area coz previously while i was doin my internship i was ALSO working in orchard.....wat a FATE i have eh?!! Guess i'll be stuck there for another 2 years man!!

But it's alright.....i'll work it out.... i'm a TROOPER yeah!! Hell yeah!! hahaha... anyhow...during my orientation, i got a chance to meet most if not almost ALL my classmates (*waves disclaimer flag: i'm not against any race or language ah!!*). Like 85% of my classmates are from Mainland China....a couple from Indonesia and about 8 others are Singaporeans. I mean i was a lil shocked at the proportion of locals to foreign students man. To a certain extend i did anticipate that there'll be foreigners...but NOT to this level. The part that surprised me though was the about 4-5 others of the local students were from the poly as i was & even from the same BUSINESS STUDIES course. The only difference was all the various specialization that we all graduated from. Thus, being the sole reason why we cldn't like recognize each other.

However, lucky me (*actually i don't believe in luck..*) did recognize one of the NP student who happen to be from the same class as one of my (IS) modules back in poly. Wat a surprise eh!! I was soo delighted to see a familiar face. But the sucky part was that we're not in the same study group. Ya see, when we came for the orientation y-day, we were all pre-grouped. My initial group consisted of two China student,one local and myself. However, the local student in my group wanted to form her own group with some of the other locals who so happen to be her friends too! Wat a bummer man.... for awhile i saw a glimmer of hope tat at least there's a local that i can relate to and can help me like translate or wat man....haiz...so much for tat hope!!

I mean don't get me wrong...it's not tat i don't like my current group mates, they seem to be polite pple. It's just tat i'm really concern about the language barrier man. As it is y-day while tryin get their contact details, i had such hard time tryin to explain tat i'll add em on MSN instead of me giving out my email...& they were both like HUH?? like they started to speak to me in like a mixture of mandarin & broken english. I guess we all had hard to just communicating for just a basic thing. Can u image when it comes down to doin presentations and projects?? OH MY GODNESS!! I really don't know how i'm goin to converse with them in the long run man. I really hope that i'll be able to handle this situation well.... GOD SAVE me!!!

WoRdS oF tHe InDiAn GeiShA at 11:18 PM