Pkchukiss - Reality Wine

I’m officially pinning my postless streak onto the sun! All my thoughts evaporate into the sky along with that glass of water from 15 minutes ago. Ack, the sun had to spoil it all by being too hot! And no, it has nothing to do with the fact that I’m a lazy bum who decided that “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” is a better thing to waste time on rather than blogging. Really!

“Oh, that conniving pkchukiss…”

Things have been moving in jerks and pauses: just last week, I rushed down to my new school (Singapore Polytechnic) to finish my enrolment, make a student card with a really ugly mug-shot, and to break my budget with a compulsory laptop purchase from the school.

It looks really messy though, when I hit the train station (Dover) just outside the school, there was absolutely no directional signs where I should walk to the enrolment centre. That made me extremely grateful for knowing how to read a map!

The campus itself is a contrasting picture of the new and old, with the entire mash-up looking like a mis-matched wedding. Midst of renewal, I guess, but the condition of the old buildings really caused those newly built ones to stick out prominently. I’d post pictures, though I couldn’t take them on my last trip because my camera is still out. Just imagine a glass facade next to a brownish-stained supposedly white-washed buildings, along with a gate that looks out of place next to the small man-made stream created as a natural fence.

That oddity… I like it.

After a mercifully painless wait for the student card, the long road lined right in front. The seniors were out to recruit members for the various organisation’s orientation camps: and they did a really good job with the pressure part. I even felt the heat to scribble something on the application form just to get away from their spiel, even though they were really friendly.

So it was out a door, and into the next door, to hear yet another pitch for a different orientation camp. I must say, after the 4th presentation, I was really, really tired and bored. It was just about as good as listening in to a MLM sales talk, so I used the “Get out of Jail Free” card: I told them that I had to work.

Out I popped from the other end, into the exhibition hall where the laptop sales were held, where I spent another 2 hours waiting to collect the laptop and to wait in another room to have the notebook configured for campus access. I was asleep by the time everything finally finished, and I lugged the 3+ kg package with accessories onto the train.

Look ma, absolutely no hands to flash the fare-card!

[tags]singapore polytechnic, sp, singapore poly, freshman, orientation, mercy[/tags]

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