As expected... the letter to move back has come...
NO SURRENDER!
I'm going with the RA to talk to the person tomorrow..
Wish me luck.
Thursday 31 January 2008
ROOMING PROBLEM
WHAT ON EARTH.
I now declare a state of war on the Office of Student Affairs..
Those of you who know I'm in hall will probably I managed to swop my room with someone so that I could room with my buddy Jay...
So being good students we of course notified the Office of Student Affairs about the swop.. And the person said that ' I may assist you in this request provided that all parties (including the students in that current room) are to be included in your email saying that everyone is agreeable to this arrangement. '
So we swopped rooms and emailed the relevant 'i agree' emails to the person..
A couple of days ago, there was a room verification, where our Block Resident Assistants (something like a block IC) come over to check our Matric Cards to see who exactly is staying in the room.. And we of course notified the RAs that we put up a request to swop room, and all parties are agreeable.. And of course they wrote it down on their papers that we swopped rooms..
So the papers were submitted and of course the extremely childish OSA had to deny our 'request' to swop rooms because we swopped rooms BEFORE the okay was given. Even though all parties were already agreeable.
Right. And I'm now awaiting an official letter that will probably say 'get your butt back to your original room' even though its like week 3 and i'm super happy in my room with all my friends popping by to chat and say hi and we're solving till 2am in the morning and that kind of masochistic stuff. Thing is, I'm actually happy in my room, and i really don't want to lose the arrangement.
PRAY AGAINST THE BLOODY ADMINISTRATION.
I now declare a state of war on the Office of Student Affairs..
Those of you who know I'm in hall will probably I managed to swop my room with someone so that I could room with my buddy Jay...
So being good students we of course notified the Office of Student Affairs about the swop.. And the person said that ' I may assist you in this request provided that all parties (including the students in that current room) are to be included in your email saying that everyone is agreeable to this arrangement. '
So we swopped rooms and emailed the relevant 'i agree' emails to the person..
A couple of days ago, there was a room verification, where our Block Resident Assistants (something like a block IC) come over to check our Matric Cards to see who exactly is staying in the room.. And we of course notified the RAs that we put up a request to swop room, and all parties are agreeable.. And of course they wrote it down on their papers that we swopped rooms..
So the papers were submitted and of course the extremely childish OSA had to deny our 'request' to swop rooms because we swopped rooms BEFORE the okay was given. Even though all parties were already agreeable.
Right. And I'm now awaiting an official letter that will probably say 'get your butt back to your original room' even though its like week 3 and i'm super happy in my room with all my friends popping by to chat and say hi and we're solving till 2am in the morning and that kind of masochistic stuff. Thing is, I'm actually happy in my room, and i really don't want to lose the arrangement.
PRAY AGAINST THE BLOODY ADMINISTRATION.
Friday 25 January 2008
morning alertness
wow i'm awake early.. well its before ten and i have no classes..
breakfast - 三鲜饺子拉面 and coffee
woo!!!
hungry hungry hungry
breakfast - 三鲜饺子拉面 and coffee
woo!!!
hungry hungry hungry
The heat begins
OK.. Now that the 2 weeks of lessons without tutorials are almost done with, (honeymoon period is over) the tempo is beginning to heat up..
For a start all of my fortnightly tutorials are on odd weeks.. Well, i only had a choice for one of them.. but i chose odd weeks not knowing the rest were fixed.. Bleah.. I'm bad at gambling i guess..
But it hasn't been bad.. I've moved into my hall quite comfortably..
I take the right half.. we managed to clean it up some.. It still needs a massive mopping but most of the dust is cleaned out already.. The guy sitting there is Jay.. my physics pal..
And yes.. I remember promising to work doubly hard, so keep me in prayer, and keep tagging..
For a start all of my fortnightly tutorials are on odd weeks.. Well, i only had a choice for one of them.. but i chose odd weeks not knowing the rest were fixed.. Bleah.. I'm bad at gambling i guess..
But it hasn't been bad.. I've moved into my hall quite comfortably..
I take the right half.. we managed to clean it up some.. It still needs a massive mopping but most of the dust is cleaned out already.. The guy sitting there is Jay.. my physics pal..
And yes.. I remember promising to work doubly hard, so keep me in prayer, and keep tagging..
Tuesday 15 January 2008
Wednesday 9 January 2008
2008
Right...
Let's get down to this..
The past year has been a very... intriguing one..
If we get past all the nonsense that I had to go through...
The Lord has been faithful.
In the times that i obeyed, the Lord revealed that there is a reason for His will.
This will be my motivation for the coming year, that I will believe in the joy that will come from obedience..
Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.
He who goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
-Psalms 126:5-6
My friends have been amazing.
I honestly cannot believe the number of times I have been blessed by the people around me.. I really don't understand this friendship thing.. We have varying degrees of friendships.. Some friends you say hi to only because you saw them coming round the corner, and you can't get away in time... Some friends you smile at once a week cause after the worship some genius has to tell you to go and shake the hands of 5 people before you sit down... Some friends you call when you need help with homework... Some friends are only there for tennis or DOTA...
And yet, this very intriguing system and compartmentalisation of friendships has been slowly moulded into a less rigid system.. The Lord has been revealing that friends are not just grouped into this category labelled 'friends', like parking aunties.. To us we don't really see the parking auntie as an individual, just as a role.. And increasingly this friend thing is more and more an individual person thing.. Its more than how deep you are into this friend role thing. Its a totally different mind boggling puzzle when there is a different person involved each time you interact.
Anyhow, I'm proud to have friends such as you guys.. And how deep this friendship is not really as measurable as I once thought it was..
Thank you ALL for your acceptance, and your time and your wise advice over the year.. Thank you all for talking to me, for listening to me and for thinking (hard) with me in the many things we've all had to go through.. Whether its things in school, things in church or just thingies, those things made up my year, and thank you all..
In writing the above i officially declare here that I feel like a socially retarded person because these are things that young children should have seen in growing up, and not when they are 22.. But better late than never, and we will press on in our growth.
Never give in.
Let's get down to this..
The past year has been a very... intriguing one..
If we get past all the nonsense that I had to go through...
The Lord has been faithful.
In the times that i obeyed, the Lord revealed that there is a reason for His will.
This will be my motivation for the coming year, that I will believe in the joy that will come from obedience..
Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.
He who goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
-Psalms 126:5-6
My friends have been amazing.
I honestly cannot believe the number of times I have been blessed by the people around me.. I really don't understand this friendship thing.. We have varying degrees of friendships.. Some friends you say hi to only because you saw them coming round the corner, and you can't get away in time... Some friends you smile at once a week cause after the worship some genius has to tell you to go and shake the hands of 5 people before you sit down... Some friends you call when you need help with homework... Some friends are only there for tennis or DOTA...
And yet, this very intriguing system and compartmentalisation of friendships has been slowly moulded into a less rigid system.. The Lord has been revealing that friends are not just grouped into this category labelled 'friends', like parking aunties.. To us we don't really see the parking auntie as an individual, just as a role.. And increasingly this friend thing is more and more an individual person thing.. Its more than how deep you are into this friend role thing. Its a totally different mind boggling puzzle when there is a different person involved each time you interact.
Anyhow, I'm proud to have friends such as you guys.. And how deep this friendship is not really as measurable as I once thought it was..
Thank you ALL for your acceptance, and your time and your wise advice over the year.. Thank you all for talking to me, for listening to me and for thinking (hard) with me in the many things we've all had to go through.. Whether its things in school, things in church or just thingies, those things made up my year, and thank you all..
In writing the above i officially declare here that I feel like a socially retarded person because these are things that young children should have seen in growing up, and not when they are 22.. But better late than never, and we will press on in our growth.
Never give in.
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