I GRADUATED FROM SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC WITH A DIPLOMA IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WITH A DIRECTOR ROLL AWARD! *twirls around throws confetti in the air*
this post is 2 months late, but better late than never. i hope this post won't be overly emotional, cause i don't wanna read my archives and feel that i didn't enjoy my poly life because despite all the rainy days, i still thoroughly enjoyed those sunny days:)
Honestly these 3 years hasn't really been easy for me as compared to secondary school. In Regent, it wasn't hard for me to be popular & well liked, it wasn't difficult to excel acadamically & do well in netball. & they boys i met in secondary school definitely had lesser experience in breaking a girls heart.
polytechnic days were just more... complicated, at least for the first year 1.5year. i was enrolled in one of my last few choices, information technology, an industry which i cannot forsee myself stepping into in near future or probably in all my life. As much as i tried, i couldn't understand programming, i either failed or barely passed every programming examination. I only had a CCA for a few short months, Cheerleading. I was attached then, & that boyfriend then discouraged me from going for training (no guy will want their girl to get carried around by other guys), after which, i fell while doing a stunt & caused my arm to be dislocated, and decided not to continue anymore.
because some friends were juggling work & studies at the same time, i thought that i wanna try it out too. partly also because my status went from attached to single so i wanted keep myself busy, so i had my first proper job at a F&B restaurant, which probably turns out to be one of the best jobs ever! i stayed there for about 1.5 years before quitting. & after that job, i worked for an IT fair which brought me connections to another IT fair which brought me connections to Draftfcb which also turned out to be one of the best jobs ever again! hahaha. i had so much fun i didn't even feel like i was juggling school & work at the same time :)
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life" - Confusius
while making new friends, i lost one or two of them on the way too, but at least i know who are the ones who are real and are still sticking close to me now.
"These people won't always tell you the nicest words, they will tease you; they won't be the kindest, they'll be so comfortable and they will laugh at you when you did something wrong. In the other hand, they will be there whatever happens, you'll stay together through your committed crime; they will understand you for who you are that won't misjudge you and the most important thing, they treat you like siblings, not just another person they've met. They are called FRIENDS."
wow, thats a big wall of text, back to graduation day, 24th may 2011 ~
The only thing I’ve learned is that you can’t move on alone. You need someone else to show you that behind all the clouds, the sun is still shining. & on this very day, the sun was shining so bright, i felt like a smoked salmon before even stepping into the auditorium :<
a few of my happy pills. we were doing last minute girls stuffs, eg. stares into mirror & fluffs hair a million times & practising our smiles? i kept my fringe long and had it pinned up nicely with a bobby pin.
BUUUUTTTTT ... genius me was fiddling with it in the auditorium and my one and only pin flew somewhere & fml, i had a bad fringe instantly afterwards T.T sometimes i really applaud myself for my stupidity.
graduands seated behind all the proudest parents of the day :)
台上五分钟，台下十年功.
i really do have major stage fright, i could hear my heart pounding like the thunder while waiting to collect our scrolls. i even avoided heels cause i don't want anything embarrassing to happen on stage in front of everyone, because i know, me being me, is extremely suspecible to do anything stupid. hahaha.
extremely grateful that my parents were here with me, ♥♥♥ :) this photo is currently my dad's facebook display picture too!
photo spam ahead.
group shots with all the happy pills, the ones who made me sane during the drama period & internship, the ones who made me look forward to going to school everyday. i couldn't possibly ask for more :) it's impossible to sum up my gratitude for them being in my life in words, so i shall just save those mushy mushy to myself, hahaha.
& lastly cheryl & sak, my 2 besties. our graduations were all at different timings, 9am, 2pm & 5pm. but we all managed to get a shot taken together, a pity the rest weren't able to make it though :(
after 7 years of studying in the same school, i've been through 2 graduations with sak & 3 graduations with cheryl already, hopefully in another 2 years time, we'll be there for each others university graduations too, keep in touch! ♥
so after graduation from singapore polytechnic, i've gotten 2 choices for university, NTU's Bachelor in Education(Science) / SIT's Bachelor in Hotel Administration (UNLV) . I've rejected the former & chosen the latter, and i hope it'll be a wise decision. i'm pretty excited to continue on with my next phase in life, and to those who haven't figured out their lives, don't worry. not many people have their lifes figured out @ 20 :)
to all those who matter, all the best in your future endeavours & god bless.
