The Second Year

Its been a week since the start of yet another year of poly. another year of ups and downs of school life, the dreaded projects, the even more dreaded social politics, and this time, a screwed up time table.
now everyday ends the latest as is allowed. which is, 3 on wed, and 5 on all other days. and neither does it start very late. not because its full of lectures and tutorials, but because theres so many holes in between them; that is, breaktimes. perhaps when the projects come flowing in, those break times could come in handy and forces lazy groupmates to stay back to do project. but thats just for the rise-to-busy season. for the slack season like now, we r gonna be so sian. i dun even think we can watch a movie. and for the busy-peak season, its gonna make us lose precious time which could have been otherwise used if we were at home. basically, i hate waiting, and everyone does.

the trend of courses have changed. the cut off for DTRM has risen, while accountancy, banking & finance and business admin have all dropped. now from the usual 3 points apart, DTRM is tied with DBF at 11. and i cant figure why. i dont hear of any big banking boom coming in the future, while trm continues to show upcoming prospect such as the IRs, youth olympics, and new hotels. And now the newly introduced course Human resource with Psychology has topped the chart in SP's cutoffs this year. i guess they just want the psycho part and dun care the HR. anyway, cutoff points have dropped almost everywhere. last year it dropped, then this year yet again. i dun think ppl r really getting so much smarter... so it means O lvls are getting easier! yay, woe to the elites.

This year there is also a huge influx of chio-bu in the business school. This batch has at least twice the amount of chio bu as mine, or the year before's. again, i dont noe what caused such a surge. but if ppl tell me that the number of chio-bu in JCs have decreased, then maybe i get the answer. yeah, the rise of poly as The Place To Be! haha. This is especially to the delight of the bunch of guys in my class who have a hobby of people-watching during lunch hour when its crowded, looking out mainly for high quality babes or atrocious fashion sense. many times, these 2 go together. then when they spot one among the crowds, signals like "ehh look now, your 7 o clock, my 1 o clock, blue top, beside the pillar." would be suddenly given. naturally, i would be drawn in by curiousity and i will turn to look also, but being not attuned to such an activity, i take a long time to spot the target and it soon disappears. Well, those guys get really smitten by them. but for me i try not to go deeper than just having a treat to the eye.

For this semester, most of the modules are indeed more interesting, being into more specialisation instead of boring general business stuff. i would surely expect the syllabus and projects to be more in depth; which also means more dificult, and the tutors to have higher expectaion of us, since we had a whole year of relevant experince already. so we all realise we cant afford to be slack. though theres slightly less hours of lesson this sem, it would still add up to spending more hours on work altogether. from what i see, i think i would be less vulnerable to being victim of social politics this time. a bit more acceptance, and the newly agreed system of pair-balloting for group formations should make things better. but its still too early to say, for new unthought of problems may arise with the new system.

Away from school, our long house hunt have finally bore good fruit. we have found a nice place that we are quite keen of. though smaller and less accessible than here, its the best so far. nothing beats farrer court, but its time to say goodbye. good things come to an end. now its down to just a money issue, and if it goes all fine, that would bring our chore of house hunting to an end too. and of course, a new home to move into.