Interview
I went for a JPA interview last year. It was a group interview in which several candidates will sit around and discuss a topic while the interviewers listen. I was delighted when the topic was national service. Since I was enrolled in the three-month program before, I could keep blabbering about the experience I had. "That went well" I thought. But I turned down the scholarship offer. It wasn't what I wanted.
Recently I went for another interview. I didn't have high hopes for this. The two interviewers didn't seem to have prepared much questions. After I've finished answering a question they'd look out of the window and ponder on the next questions to ask. Not wanting the awkward silence to ensue, I mentioned that I joined the national service program. It seems that my experience at the national service serves as a good ice breaker.
Orphanage visit
This is unprecedented. I've never went to an orphanage before and I wanted to do some charity. I grabbed the chance to do so in the weekend as my club held such a visit. It's the first time I'm staying in the campus during the weekends too as the visit is on a Saturday morning. We went to the orphanage, played games with the children and gave a somewhat horrible performance of two christmas songs to the kids (coz we didn't rehearse). The small boys, mostly indians, are surprisingly good, cheerful and obedient. I guess they've really become more independent as they're not spoilt by parents. A kid even insisted on sweeping the floor with the only broom available even though we offered our help.
Surprise
Just a few days later, I received a great news. I got the scholarship! It's a 50% off my tuition fees and that really halved my parents burden as we saved around 10k per year. I feel great!
And about karma, my negligence to my assignments which I should have done so much earlier is giving me a serious headache for this and next week,
after which I'd be on holiday!
5 comments:
congrats to u harvey for getting dat scholarship. so means double effort, double study hard. muahaha... otherwise ler wor... hiak hiak...
congrats harvey!! my gosh, you're making me so jealous! with your super great A level results, and now getting a scholarship! you so rock!
cibetronic: Um... i'm still the lazy procrastinating me... muahaha...
kekex: Thanks dude! You can do it too!
Genius Harvey - you're just plain brilliant. That's all there is to it.
I always believed in karma.
Good luck on finishing that paper. Keep going.
annie: Thank you so much annie, my so-called brilliance is only limited to academia, but it's better than nothing. :)
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