Letters to my future self

12th mar - SIM

went down to both NTU and SIM aft knocking off work in the morning. took a train all the way down to boon lay, met adrian, then a bus into NTU.

at NTU we tried to look around for the admissions office or the design skool that adrian wans to enquire abt. we were actually quite lost for a while.

1stly, we got off the bus like 1 stop earlier and ended up on the hostel part of the campus and had to walk cross a small hill to the main buildings.

2ndly, despite being the open house, the place was actually quite quiet.

3rdly, on the map we couldnt find anything that says admissions office, so we decided to try the admin office instead.... closed. darn.

walked around abit... b4 adrian decided to call his cousin and we found out that he had remembered the date wrongly... and the open house is *ahem* actually tomorrow and not today. no wonder the place looks unprepared and quiet.

nevertheless we asked around for the place to enquire abt admissions and we got directed to some student something centre... where we found out that they dont operate on weekends. well, done. 1x wasted trip. bah.

took the bus back to boon lay where we decided to get a cab down to SIM. the taxi stand was overflowing with ppl, so we decided to go to some nearby road and try our luck.

barely 5 mins of waiting, i saw a cab turn into a housing estate, in it was a passenger. so i reasoned that the passenger was probably getting off inside and so we crossed the road waiting for the cab to turn out aft dropping off the passenger. this plan would have worked perfectly except 2 secondary skool kids randomly appeared out from nowhere right where the carpark exit was, abt say 10m away from us and got onto the cab *facepalm*

over ther next 20 mins saw the 2 of us walking to different parts of the road in the scorching sun, complaining abt how every freaking cab around here seems to be either occupied or on call.
we finally decided that if a cab doesnt appear in 15 mins, we'll take the train down to clementi and take a cab from there.

in abt 5 mins time, i finally managed to flag a cab down. opened the door, even b4 i can step into the cab or say anything, the moniter in the cab started beeping. b4 i know it, the cab driver said "sorry sorry, i on call, sorry sorry" -_-" WTH

abt 20 mins later, we got off the train at clementi mrt station. the taxi stand there was no better. we went to the opposite side fo the road, man, also got quite a number of ppl there. already quite tired of having to wait for cabs (or having our cabs snatched away), we walked abt 50m further up the road, away from the ppl waiting for the cabs. 5 mins later, we were on our way down to SIM.

only upon arriving at SIM then did we realised that there is a free shuttle bus service back and from clementi mrt station *facepalm* ARGH

asked around abit abt their courses. apparently i shdnt have problem getting into 2 of their courses cos for the 2 programs they take in students even at o lvls. one is for a bach of arts in communication and the other is bach of science in business administration, a collaberation btw SIM and the university of buffalo in the states. each of the courses costs a bomb of close to 60k thou ><"

bleh, prob apply 1st then see how....
oh well, at least thats the least of my worries.... for now... i hope

alright, to rest... its PCQ day again tomorrow...
gd luck to me
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