Engin Talk

Random strangers hardly ever guess correctly which faculty I am from. When I went up the kitchen to get water, there is this frequent kitchen user who out of the blue talked to me. People in residences like the one I'm staying in rarely take the effort to get to know other people. Yeah I don't know the names of my neighbors if you want to ask. So anyway, when this frequent kitchen user found out I was from civil engineering, he absorbed the information with eyes wide open and his jaw dropped a bit. He's always thought I was from Arts because of how I dress. In my opinion I dress like any normal girl would. Other people would guess I am from Science fac. Anyhoo. Turns out that this frequent kitchen user is my junior after all.

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People have different reactions and opinions when they find out that my first job fresh out of school would be as a site engineer. Some have been very encouraging, especially Prof Phoon and Tito Mon (Rovin's dad). But there really are other people in the world who have nothing better to say to me.

I promise this is the LAST time I am ever going to mention about my FYP self-imposed supervisor. I recently went back to the lab for the lab clearance, and to give her the CD with the softcopy of my thesis and raw data in it. When I met her she chit-chatted for a bit, so I thought wow, good, we would have a good closure. But now it appears she asked me things so she could throw some more rubbish at me. She was so discouraging - about my pay (which incidentally is the same thing my friend who's graduating with First Class Honours is getting, and I don't even have credentials like that to boast), about the working conditions, about how unsuitable it is for me, stuff like that. The last thing she told me was that she bets I won't last even one month at my new job. Ha!!!! I'll show this woman.

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Anyway, I am moving out of NUS campus, my home for five years.

I appreciate more now the perks of being here that I've taken for granted. Do you know that I have classmates who never go out of this campus throughout the school term? The very basic things are provided for within reach. Of course if you're a social butterfly that'd be impossible, but engin people are usually, erm, kindaf timid so just being here's all good already.

Cheers to a new house, new life.