Beginning of Another End

The Real Me

It has been awhile since I typed down anything on this blog. Well, I have been clearly busy these past few weeks, maybe even months already. Sometimes I just could not really tell. School has been really busy and of course, I had to go through all my exams which consisted of Accounting Applications and Analysis (AAA), Principles of Marketing (PMKT), Cost & Managerial Accounting (CMA) and Service Operations Management (SOM). Why I want to post is because I feel like it now and of course, why not? It's been long an already I am in my third week since the last exams ended for me which was SOM. I still remember that day I went out to the Cathay and had Chunky Lobsters for lunch and then went to watch "How to Train Your Dragons: The Hidden World" before walking around and going all the way to Jurong East just to have dinner at PocoLoco while most of my friends still have their last paper the next day. Afterwards it's just been enjoying myself as days go by, and it h as been three weeks now.

1) The Good News

"After the rain comes the rainbow."

When it's the exams, there will always come the time where the results will be released, and mine was only recently released. In fact, I got it just this morning. I'm happy to share that I have did exceptionally well this time round! In fact, I have done better than the first time I have gotten my first few A grades in Ngee Ann Polytechnic. The thing is, I checked this on my phone as I was still lying down on my bed as I just woke up as opposed to always hastily turning on my laptop to check on my results in the morning and I'm thankful that my friend WH did not call me up wee hours in the morning to check on my results.

My recent results.

The most surprising one was definitely CMA (the one which I have re-moduled, second attempt). It's not the fact that I actually pass it, it's the fact that I managed to even get a C grade for it which looked rather impossible in my eyes. I guess all my hard work paid off, consultations with my lecturer and printing all the past year papers to practice on. I am very happy about this and I would like to personally thank my lecturer when school re-opens. Not only am I happy about this, but my overall grade is exactly like my Secondary School N-Levels results, which reminds me of the time I struggled so hard because I sucked at sutdying a lot and became one of the top few with all distinctions except for a C grade which was for my Chinese exam at that time. Now I look at this overall grade and reminded myself how far I have come, how much I have struggled from Secondary School Normal Technical Stream, ITE Nitec & Higher Nitec all the way to Ngee Ann Polytechnic now.

These six or seven years was not very easy to overcome, not because of the amount of studying I had to do, but because I was in the path where most people looked down on. The lack of motivation was the constant thing dragging me down, sowing me down but thankfully I did not give up knowing that I am able to do a lot more than where I was back then. After my N-Levels and I got to ITE, my grades started to improve from there and that's how I came to Ngee Ann Polytechnic eventually. Sheer hard work. Of course now I got to work extra hard for the coming semester as it is my third year already, after another round of studying will be the six months of internship before I finally graduate with the rest of my friends which is my current goal now. In the meantime, I just got to prepare for the expected struggles which is going to come burdening down on my life soon. The good thing is it is only one more year. Thankfully for now, I am motivated to do even better for the coming semester after my holidays.

2) Time Waits for No Man
"Time is free, but it is priceless."

It's going to be the beginning of my third year in Ngee Ann Polytechnic very soon, and I'm definitely not going be in school for the last six months in my last semester due to internship. It's still way too fast in my opinion. It's almost just only yesterday that it was my first day of school, the journey that was like a walk in hell yet I experienced and learnt many new things so far. From the first day until now, I have also gained many new friends and all the while losing one or two, particularly ST as I used to call her, but not going to talk about her though. All the long nights of staying up late just to do projects, study and revise for any upcoming common tests or exams, it is extremely stressful. However up till now, it's been going good so far as I have shown despite having to re-do one module for another semester, but I am relieved that is completed now.

Actually thinking back, I don't really remember much that is going on except maybe that with every semester comes with that annoying module that hinders any student's progress such as Innovation Toolkit (Yes that's a module!), Exploring Contemporary Issues: Business & Society and CQ at Work. Surprisingly, I have scored at least a B or C for all of the mentioned annoying modules as many people would call it.


3) Time is Precious
"Time is Money!"

Like I have always repeatedly mention, from the time I started Ngee Ann Polytechnic until now, many things have changed, particularly the group I always hang out with. I'm not really sure what but it seems to be changing a lot. I think it's probably almost all of them are already going into a relationship, and some of them we thought wouldn't stand a chance asking someone out. Apparently now we are all damn wrong about that. Now, I think it's only me and my good friend that is single if I'm talking about the group I hang out with often. I'm not really particularly lucky in this so I'm just going to wait, wait for that someone who will finally appear in my life as we walk down the paths of life together hand in hand. In the meantime, I need to definitely focus on my studies, which is especially my third year in Ngee Ann Polytechnic. The final year which I will study as hard before I go into National Service.


Here for a Good Time, Not a Long Time
"Title says it all."

Currently, the thing I cannot wait for is my one week Malaysia Trip to Genting for four days and then Melecca for the next two days from Monday (18 May 2019) to Saturday (23 May 2019). Technically an overseas trip I am eagerly looking forward to. A good rest to my troubled and tired mind from the current semester which had took a huge toll on me. Another thing is, a fortune cookie given by one of my lecturer also mentioned that I need to go on a holiday. Not that I believe in these kind of things, but I really do need a trip overseas to relax myself. Afterwards, there's about three to four weeks before school starts. Not really sure the exact number of weeks but it's almost at least a month. Until the next time I update on this blog!

Yours sincerely,
Yai Kai Soon

How Time Really Flies

That Was Quick
Time for another update again. It was never really this often for my previous blog for obvious reasons, one mainly the length of it. Anyways, it's going to be the end of another week yet again! It has been a very tiring week because I have been getting very little sleep especially on Monday (21 January 2019). Here's the run down of the reason why. Basically I had an 08:00 am class the next day and I slept at around 02:00 am and woke up at about 06:00 am? Well, you might think that is a very small contribution, but the day I spent in school was very long, until about 10:30 pm as I had to help a good friend of mine to complete her design project for our IS module.

As much as I hate to say it, it's been very long since I have stayed back till very late, particularly in school. With few others, it felt like old times again despite it being only last year. In the end, I managed to help my friend with the project so it's productive as I get to complete most of my work as well. We were the last people standing, getting chased by an irritated security guard. That night as I was going home, I was very tired to the point of losing three of my five senses until I got home and sleep after bathing.

1) The End of Parts

As tired as I was, life still have to continue. The tiredness consumed into Wednesday (23 January 2019) as well. Following the next day, which is today, included a test from an IS module called "CQ at Work". The total overall weightage for that test was 15%, and I got 6%. I initially thought I passed until I realized that 6 x 2 = 12 as I didn't realize the total for the test was 15%. Well, the good news is I got back the report my team and I have been working on for that module along with how our presentation went. We got an A which was very surprising because of how rushed our presentation slides was and the amount of mistakes we found in our report towards the end, although one of them got a B+. A sigh of relief for all the hard work that have paid off and that lesson ended for the year, giving us one hell of a stressful experience.

I went to find my friend in my school's library and began to help her before we went into class to submit our Design Project. We went to have lunch afterwards before going home. Introduction to Interior Design is one of the best modules I have ever taken from my time in Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Finally a module which really suits where I truly belong, with it also comes the signs that tell me I should work on my design skills. The only thing tedious was the rendering of the photos. It was initially thought that it would only take a day or so, I ended up having to get help with my friend as she also had difficulty rendering her photos. The experience for this module? Nothing but fun and no much stress.

2) As Life Moves On

Well, I never really thought how it would be like in my second year in Ngee Ann Polytechnic. It is going to end soon and when it is going to end soon, it means that the exams are very near to which I have to prepare for them. Hopefully I have the energy to work hard and pass all of them. With that out of the way will come the two months' holidays. I am definitely going to find something productive to do like work as most of the diseased people I used to know are gone from my life, lessening many worries which takes away a lot from my holidays. Life is definitely happier.

The sad thing though is that when the new term starts, nearly more than half of the good people I know will be away for internship. When they come back, it is my turn to go for internship and the only time I will see them again in school will be graduation, assuming that I make it to the end. Blame me for being sappy but they made my life for my Second Year in Ngee Ann Polytechnic an enjoyable one and I will never forget the moments. Hopefully, I get to hang out with some of them if they are free during their internship period. Luckily, some of my friends will also still be in school for the next semester as well as some having high chances of being my classmates. Only time will tell. Till the next post!

Signing off,

Yai Kai Soon

Half-Way into Another Month

Toiling the Weeks Away
As the title implies, things are still quite busy at school right now but I still got some time to kill. Most of the projects are done now where the project for Service Operations Management (SOM) recently got finished and submitted on Wednesday (16 January 2019). Now all that's left is the Marketing project which is going quite well, after which would be revising for exams all the way, cutting through this year's Chinese New Year as well. I think I have said before in my previous post. A little bit stressed because there's quite a lot of things to remember especially with having two Accounting modules.

Recently on Thursday (17 January 2019), I've just finished two major graded assignments. I say they are major because to me, one of their weightage is quite large in portion, while the other one consists of a question with multiple parts and it contributes to 10% of the overall grade. The Business Communication 2 (Bcomm 2) Interview Assessment and the Cost & Managerial Accounting (CMA) Individual Assignment respectively. Thankfully, I did quite well for the interview assessment and I am quite confident to score well for the CMA Individual Assignment.

1) January Trapping Time

Do you ever have this feeling that January somehow always lasts longer than the other months? Think about it now. It's practically nineteen days into 2019, it is very fast and I believe most of us would think February is next week, or even the next few days for some. Also, it feels like we have done so much already, but we still have about two weeks to go. I don't know if it is just me or others feel the same way about this as well as this was quite a noticed phenomenon for last year's January if I remember correctly. People had this feeling that days felt like weeks, weeks like months, months felt like years and so on. I'm not sure if people are still having the same feeling or not, but most probably not as I do not really see people posting about it anymore for now. Maybe we will see the posts soon? Only time will tell, but only two weeks left.

2) The 10 Years Challenge

Now this, I am very sure all everyone has heard about it. It's all over social media of people comparing photos from ten years ago to how they currently look like now, and even I have done it on my Instagram as well. It just suddenly appeared from the second week of January and it became viral. Well here, it's definitely going to be stories instead of photos. Back in 2009, I was still in Primary Six struggling quite badly for my Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE). My very first stressful moment in my journey of education, partly because I was very bad at Chinese and Mathematics as well. However, the best part about my Primary School phase was the two good friends I had. I remembered we would eat together every time during lunch breaks like every good friends would. We were rather special, in a way that we would create our own unique way of having fun with each other during our free time in school. Most notably, we'd make board-games out of cardboard and draw out chess pieces before cutting them out. Good times. I wonder how the two of them are doing right now.

Now into the present, 2019. It's not bad too, although life now is not as carefree as it used to be. Now, everything is just more expensive, people have expectations on you, there's  always school work to do and I'm practically an adult now as well and I'm feeling quite old now without much notable achievements. At least I went into Ngee Ann Polytechnic right? Let's hope I can graduate out of the school then! I just feel that within these ten years that so much has happened, so much has changed and so much have drastically become more difficult to endure, you just want to go back to where times were much easier, much carefree. It's not like I have much of a choice either though. As of now, just keeping myself happy and hopefully one day, I get to find my other half as well.

Signing off,

Yai Kai Soon

The New Frontier: 2019

Welcome Back!

Now that just feels like welcoming myself back again. It's been quite long since the last time I posted something on my previous blog. I decided to come up with a new one because of a simple reason, I want to move on from there. There are bad memories being written there, plus each post is practically  like a novel which takes about two weeks to complete? It's tedious to be doing that when I can just type and post straight away am I right? Right! 

Deciding to come back blogging a little took me some time to think about as I have been very very busy with school work recently. Further enforcing my need to think about it carefully is because I do not have boobs (or assets as people call it) nor do I make tutorials on how to place ten layers of powder onto your face. Sometimes you just question how that is the trend nowadays. Those are the kind of things people want to see.

1) What's Been Up?

If anyone has read my previous blog, you definitely know the layers and layers of shit I had to go through back in 2017 and the first half of 2018. For those who doesn't know it exists, let's just say  it was a really huge social hurdle for me. Those wasn't really colorful moments to be remembered, but I managed to get through it on my own terms in the end. Basically, I just felt that it was not worth it for me to continue fixing it. I just feel that all my efforts were wasted. Thinking back, I should not have spent so much time on it that I had to lose myself several times and having to constantly snap myself out of it. Now, that is all over. 

It should have been like this from the beginning. As my second year in Ngee Ann Polytechnic begun, particularly the first half of the semester, life have became much better, meeting new people, feeling more comfortable and relaxed, doing something for myself and best of all, being happy. I don't really know how to explain this feeling, but I am thankful for all the wonderful things that have been happening so far. On the other hand, despite having to re-take one module, my grades for the newer ones have been doing great so far. Got two As for my recent Common Tests which is something which I did not expect and something else to be happy about as well. I should work hard and revise well for the final exams. Kind of a burden that Chinese New Year happens first before the exams begin.

2) Better Life, Happy Me

There's really not much to say now but just that I am a much happier person than I was before. I have recently turned 22 Years Old, and it was very recent like about eight days ago! The party this year was a success! Yeah sure, I do feel old and there is still a lot to look forward to. What could it be? I don't know. Life just comes along and throw whatever it decides you must handle. We can never really expect what is about to come but to just roll along with it and hope for the best. Like I said before and I will say it again, I am a happier person. Happy in fact that I got fatter. You heard me right, fatter! Fatter, that is something that came out from one of my lecturers and believe me, you could not believe how shocked and happy I was to hear that. I am still skinny as shit though so I'd probably still have to work on it. 

As of now, just doing up some project work and in time to come, in about a week, got to study for my finals. Hopefully I'll make it through so that I can graduate out of this school rather than just being given the boot. So looking forward to the two months' holidays! So much to do, people to hang out with, family to spend time with and trying to think of some exciting new things to do. Blogging? Once in a blue moon. Drawing? Yes. Working? Maybe. Hotel? Trivago.

Signing off,

Kai Soon