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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Finally a free day. Some time for me to catch up on tutorials. And fill up the application form for masters sponsorship. Another stack of forms. This time round to MOE. Sigh. I think it's quite unlikely that I gonna get the scholarship from NUS. Looks like they gonna give to people who are doing phD as well. In any case, I'll just try my luck.

To obtain sponsorship from MOE, I need at least a first class honours. ok, that's like the prerequsite. After which, there's still an interview. So demanding, yet they didn't even state how much allowance they gonna give us during that year. I thought this kind of thing they should at least state in bold. Haha.

Two referee letters to settle. Shall hand one to my supervisor. Should I give the other to my examiner? Or quekie? Or Prof To again? I'm such a troublesome kiddo, going around troubling my lecturers. Haha. But still, I think I'm kind of sweet to them. Haha.

ok, enough of my nonsense. But on a more serious note, I think NEL sucks. ok, this isn't bout the discomfort of train rides, long waiting time or whatsoever. The thing is, when faced with technical difficulties, the station master and staff should make proper announcements to the public. For outram park station, in particular, such announcements should be made at the east-west line station as well. On monday, when problem arose in sengkang, the whole nel was affected. Technical problems aside, inconvenience aside, the staff could have make things slightly better by making announcements. This would avoid passengers transferring from east-west line walking all the way to the nel station, wait for ten plus minutes, listen to one announcement then disperse. Many passengers weren't able to find alternative transport to their destinations. ok, that's excluding cab of course. The thing is, they could have provided shuttle buses to certain destinations. Of course, this too boils down to a problem with the local public transport system: to get from point A to point B, there's little direct routes. When one route fails, you're stuck. For instance, apart from the NEL, I can't get to sengkang. Even from orchard road, I can only get home by train and bus 65. Bus 65 is damn infrequent btw.

On days when I've exams or presentations, I'll never take the NEL.

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