mad.ramblings.

[The following excerpt was taken from an email written to a group of close friends... too lazy to type out again lah...]

Yesterday's scholarship ceremony was stressful man.. i forgot the lyrics to the corrinne may songs i was singing, (i got damn kancheong cos i thought i was supposed to be the 2nd item but they scrapped the 1st item without telling me, so i got a shock of my life when i was introduced first, and had to go up to present immediately...), and all that ribbing about how the scholarship depended on whether we performed well or not, certainly didn't help matters much. Prior to that, it was board members galore and millions of introductions to new faces- i couldn't for the life of me remember anyone's name OR their high-flying titles for that matter... and it didn't help that everyone seemed to be speaking in tongues, what with the acronyms flying around like nobody's business (A&A, DC, PPD, blahblahblah)... Too much brain power around i tell you... the KPMG boss (also known as the Chairman), the CEO, the DCEO, Directors of the individual URA departments, Heads of dunnowhat and dunnowhere, board members who interviewed my during the scholarship interviews, present scholars, juniors whom i recognised from school, all this coupled with having to handle my parents and sis... WAH LAO! *faint*

I also met my mentor for the first time yesterday... He's supposed to be there to provide advice whenever I need it... He went to Cornell to read architecture, and thank God he's a nice guy man... very approachable, very knowledgeable, has the nicest brown eyes, and is relatively good-looking to boot! ahahahaha.... I must say it was such a relief to know that my mentor isn't some loyal old-fogey to the URA establishment. And that he's doesn't hurt the eyes of course. :p

After the ceremony, my family went to No Signboard Restaurant at Pasir Panjang, and stuffed our faces with nearly 250 bucks worth of chilli crab and mantous and various other assortments of food! And everyone loves pincers but they let me have TWO huge huge huge ones all to myself! Supersuper yummy man i tell you... the calories are all worth it!

ok i know i'm rambling on and on here, but i just wanted to let you guys feel a sense of how blessed i feel right now. Yes, it's a blessing cos i surely haven't done anything to deserve all the good that's happening to me now... The scholarship, the being able to go to NYC to study, the many people I've met in URA who seem genuinely nice and who have offered to look out for me, my family who's supportive in their own ways, and of course, YOU GUYS! *sobs*

alright... i shall stop my verbal diarrhoea here. :p