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Hi! My new blog add is www.0ne-two-three.blogspot.com. Note that it's 0 (zero) in 0ne, and not O ("oh"). Haha...

I've decided that my obsession with ice cold coffee is finally over, and I'm gonna move on to something new. Don't know why I choose that particular name. It's easy to remember I guess, and I wanted to use the letter "oh" initially, but the add was already taken up. Oh wells...

It's gonna be a whole new beginning, moving on to uni life. I just pray that I'll have time to update frequently so it won't become dormant towards the end like this one... I may decide to let my friends know about this new blog, so we can keep in touch with each other's lives... Dunno yet, we'll see how.

Happy reading! :)

Whoo!! I highlighted my hair purple on tuesday. And I absolutely love it!!!

I had a 30 mins cut, and I thought the layering was very, very well done. :)

Then, the guy took 45 minutes to put on all the aluminium foil thingys and I had to sit for another 1 hour for the colour to set.

After washing and blowing dry, my day at the hair salon took a grand total of 3 hours!

It's supposed to be kinda purple, but it looks more red actually. It doesn't really matter though, cos I think it looks nice. Ha!

Just that I'd rather tell people that I highlighted my hair purple than red, cos most aunties have decided to dye their hair red too... Hmmm...

Anyway, I'm really pleased with everything.

Work has been going great, and I'm having loads of fun.

Interviews kinda sucked, but oh well, they're supposed to.

So yeah, my life's kinda fun right now, which explains for my lack of blogging. Ha! Paiseh...

I haven't updated my blog in eons!

I've been busy with scholarship stuff and work.

Out of the 7 new scholarship applications (MAS, SIA, NUS, FIREfly, SGX, PUB, LTA) that I sent, I've received calls from the last 4 scholarship organisations to go for interview. I turned down LTA and PUB cos at that time I had already confirmed the PSC one. But I went for the FIREfly and SGX ones just to not limit my options.

The FIREfly interview was fine, and I got into the second round. But I turned down the interview cos it would take a whole day, and I wasn't very interested in it anymore.

SGX hasn't called me for second interview yet, but I'm actually quite confident of being called up cos my interviewer actually said I was an impressive candidate. Ha!

I guess my greatest concern would be that if I want to get another scholarship offer so I can widen my choice, they may not be able to get back to me before 1 May, which is the dateline to accept the PSC scholarship.

But after loads and loads of thinking, I think I'm going to finally accept the PSC scholarship. I think the career that comes with the scholarship is really, really important. I wouldn't want to break my bond cos that's a breach of integrity. Then again, I was quite worried about a job with the civil service cos of the low wages, as compared with the public sector.

That was then. Now, I think my mind is quite set on this scholarship and career. I suppose the salaries of civil servants will be more in line with the private sector 5 years later, when I graduate. If it isn't, I'll see how then. After all, the salaries aren't up to market rate, it's not really my fault right? Just that I hope that won't happen.

It'll be great if I can get at least market rate salary, and a good job at the same time! :)

I just received an email from PSC last night that my grades have qualified me for the scholarship!

My first reaction was that I'm super, super happy. Later, I felt kinda angry. Know why?

Cos they had to take so long to decide that I qualified for the scholarship, that I already sent in my applications to the other scholarhip organisations, and had to write more than 5 essays about myself, not to forget I had to take 2 days of leave to write them. Irritating! Couldn't they have told me earlier?

Anyway, I feel more happy than angry. I'm glad that they still want me despite my one merit and one ungraded S papers results.

I once heard from a teacher that it's often the case where the same few students will receive multiple scholarship offers, while the others won't even get one. Sure feels good to know that I'm probably in the top section. Ha!

I'm a little confused as to whether I really, really want the scholarship though. I think I'll probably take it, but I'm afraid of all the expectations that come with it. Their Management Associates Programme sounds so impressive that they'll groom you to become a future leader and all, but I'm really not sure if I'm up to it. That's why I'm scared.

It's not that I don't have confidence in myself though. I think I can I go through it and come out much better. It's just the thought of that little possibility that I might not make it that scares me.

But, I just have to say that I'm glad I got the scholarship. At least I can relax a lot more. I'm going to call the PSC lady tomorrow to confirm some things before I really decide if I'm going to sign on the dotted line.

I'm happy! Woohoo! :)

I've been applying for loads of scholarships the past few days, and it has been a mad rush. Almost all the deadlines are today, and I took leave today specially to complete my applications.

The past few days, I've been reaching the office early since it's the school hols and there's no jam, and my Dad wants to go early so we don't have to pay ERP. So I reach at about 7.30am, 1 hour before work starts. Anyway, it's been good because I get an hour to type my scholarship essays. So it's been like that every morning for some time now.

And then, I bring food for lunch so that I can stay in the office to type my essays some more. And when I reach home in the evening, it's some more type type typing after 8pm.

I just completed all my applications, and I'm one happy girl now.

Work has just begun to get more and more busy, and I'm actually very happy to do OT since I get paid, and it's just lots of routine stuff. So why not?

The thing is, I couldn't work OT the last week cos I had to rush home for all these scholarship stuffs. But now that it's all over, I'm going to have a lot more time for myself.

I applied for NUS, SGX, SIA, FIREfly, MAS, PUB and LTA scholarhships. A whole load of them. It's mostly because my conditional offer from PSC has yet to be finalised. It's that kind of feeling where they first tell you "hey, you got the scholarship!" then they take it away from you, leaving you empty and bare. The PSC lady said that the board will have to consider again, on a case by case basis, so nothing's confirmed. It's not a nice feeling.

I've also considered the bond. And although I must say I'll be happy to serve my bond at some organisations, there are one or two that don't really interest me, and those are the ones I just applied for fun. I wonder how many of them will actually consider my application seriously and call me up for an interview.

I think I wrote quite a lot about my CCAs and stuff, and it's quite impressive I guess. I really put a lot of effort into all those essays, and I really hope that someone high up there actually gets to read it seriously before it gets chucked into the"reject" bin or something.

Anyway, I'm just hoping for the best. I went for open houses the recent weekend, and had to sacrifice my precious sleep and shopping. I'm looking forward to having a good break this weekend.

Anyway, with regards to my university applications, my first choice is the double degree for Econs and Law at NUS. My second choice is Econs single degree there. Though I heard from some of my supervisors that NUS Econs is not really recognised, I have already made up my mind. At first, I was swayed to take up Business or Accountancy instead, because of what they said. But when I saw the curriculum topics for Econs, my eyes lit up, and I realised that Econs is really what I'm interested in. Business and Accountancy is fine, but that just wouldn't be the same. It would always be only my second choice.

So, if I fail to get into the double degree course, which is very vey competitive (only 15 students!!) I decided that I shall try to join the University Scholars Programme (USP) at NUS to add more value to my supposedly not-very-recognised degree.

The open houses were fine, and I thought NTU's was a lot, a lot more fun than NUS'. I think it's the atmosphere and the way they welcome you to their school. On Saturday, I went for both. On Sunday, I went back to NUS again, to give them a second chance to impress me or something, if not I wouldn't be happy to go there. And luckily, they sort of did.

I didn't go to SMU though. I decided that I didn't like the school anymore, so I'm not even going to apply for SMU. It's kinda weird actually, because when I was in year 1, I some how just wanted to go to SMU. Now, I'm not even considering it...

I think it's a big step from JC to uni. And the course I get really determines a lot about my future career. I just hope to get what's best for me, though I may not even know what it is right now!