8th September Saturday - TP law Alumni Gathering - Gotcha -

After taking the last train home on Friday, and waking up at 12+ the following afternoon. I had to decide whether to attend the black Saturday centrepoint event, or to just slack at home until it was time to attend the TP law alumni gathering at night.

Since I started playing Persona3 at around 1pm, and I was so caught up in it, I decided to give that event a miss. After all, I don’t know anyone that’s going, and frankly speaking I hate shopping alone. I’ll probably just wander Centrepoint for a bit, before.. truth be told I don’t even know what I would do afterwards.

So, managed to squeeze an hour of sleep before heading over to TP. Although the plan was to take the buses like when it used to be, I had to take the train cause I was pretty late.

The event is supposed to start at 6, but I reached at around 7 (helped my dad to carry some stuff), just in time to see the ‘party’ in full swing.

Basically there were groups of people all around, talking to each other. Be it a lecturer-student group, or a student-student group, we were just catching up with each other. I saw some faces I haven’t seen ever since graduation, like Vithya, Ling, Erfandi, and so much more. Some of them I’ve seen during Ms Eileen Ng’s CNY dinner get-together like Soffie, Yanie and Sin Ping.

Truth be told, I was just ‘flitting’ around, cause I don’t really know anyone here that well. My ‘closer’ friends have decided not to come, and the rest of my clique decided to reach at around 8, and despite repeated phone calls to them, they didn’t pick up. I didn’t even know if they were coming actually.

Here’s a part that I don’t understand. If you were carrying your HP with you and someone you KNOW calls you. Would you pick up the call or just ignore it? And if someone smses you, asking if you would be free to attend a certain event, would you at least reply to say that you will/will not be coming?

Don’t you think this is a mark of utmost disrespect? Imagine someone calling you, and your friend asks, “hey, why aren’t you picking up the phone?” I expect the reply would be something like, “Nah, its no one important.”

Its okay with me actually. Maybe I’m petty, but I’m sick of people treating me like dirt. Don’t worry, I won’t ask you out next time. There’s no point anyway, you won’t pick up my calls or reply my smses mah.

Anyway, back to the event, there were like 10 batches of people at least, who each had to do a round of introduction in the centre of the stage. There were some interesting people and stories, like one of them had the chance to do his SIP overseas, one who’s a model, the first person from our course to get into NUS Law, some of them who’re married with kids, some doing their degrees overseas, etc.

There was standard buffet fare too, and it was the first time I actually got to use the Alumni lounge, though the air-conditioning was conspicuously absent, so I had to go out for fresh air many times.

I had a long talk with Darren, who’s 1 year my junior in the courses, and we caught up. He’s a clerk now, due to over-working at the gym causing slip-disc, and I told him he looks more .. depressed now. We had a good one hour chat, before I had to leave to meet Zacky at Tampines Mall Starbucks.

Chatted and caught up for a while, before taking the train back while being entertained by Jeanne D’Arc.

On the bus ride to Tampines bus interchange from school though, I had the bad luck of watching Gotcha on TVmobile. And I got reminded of how bad it was. Why?

I only managed to see one prank, in which they recruit a new lady, and on her first day, demonstrates to her how to bend a spoon by spraying something on it, and a few minutes later she has to show the same ‘trick’ to some very important clients.

Since its really a trick to begin with, there’s no way she would be able to do it, and she gets scolded by the clients, and even sprayed at!

Oh my god. This must be the saddest trick shown to man. Not only is it mighty insensitive, heck, if the 4 ladies who got tricked were my friends, I’ll be so angry I’ll probably write letters to everywhere. We all know how well letters work here.

In fact, despite them being complete strangers to me, I was feeling sad for them, and angry at the people for doing such a stupid prank.

Now we know why Gotcha was taken off screen.

20th - 21st Jan - TP open house - Biz Skit - CMM Tour - Night cover -

20th Jan - Saturday - TP Open House - Biz Skit - Cmm Tour - Night cover -

I almost wanted to give this a miss, since i wasn't feeling too energetic this days, and yesterdays NP open house was quite a bit of a letdown... but well, Tomithy convinced me to come, and thankfully he did.

I reached Tp at around 2pm, taking the traditional train method. Didn't want to try the triple bus way as the buses sometimes take forever to come in the afternoon.

Saw mingwei on the way to school, and when i finally reached, the memories came floating back. Dang, i missed TP. The Orientation leaders were in full force, giving us a welcome as we entered school from the bridge, and me and tom headed straight to Business school.

I knew from the past few years of orientation that the 'Must see' skit at business school was at LT 19, and we walked in there, a few minutes before the skit started.

Dang, it was funny. This year was about TP and their superheroes, each of them a person from one of the respective business school courses. The plot wasn't that good, but it was the actions from each and every one of the actors that made it good. Not to mention the dialogue. I'm sure everyone that was there enjoyed the skit tremendously.

I know i did.

After that, walked around the 'chat rooms' which were opened to let people know more about the courses available. I walked to law & magt, and were greeted by a couple of year 1 and 2 students. We chatted for a bit, them having no idea that i was a graduate of course, and i asked some questions about some of the career options available...

Did you know that i could actually become a legal researcher? Haha, now that's interesting.

its a pity i didn't see any of the lecturers, must be because its already late afternoon. Ah well.

Went back down to one of the LTs, and actually managed to see Haider, Priya, Tammy and a few others. They were doing some kind of presentation(no, not my ex-classmates), and were asking questions.

It got extremely boring after a few minutes, and since it was around 3:30, we went back to the CMM's lab. CMM being Communications and media management. The tour opened at 3:30, and we went on in.

We were shown the radio rooms, and actually learnt how they DJ. It was really cool, seeing the programs they use, and the way its been done.

Next was the studios. The 'Live' TV section. They actually did a live show, and we were there at the set itself, seeing how it was done. We also went to the command room of the studio, and saw how chaotic it actually was.

Man, all these eq looked very new, and they said everything was just upgraded. No wonder this course are for one pointers only.

I always wanted to come in, but never really got the chance to. Now i'm glad that i got a look around...

After that, we went to the library and i showed Tom around a bit. It started raining a bit then, and i brought him to the Design canteen, though everything less the drinks store was closed.

Then went to Bugis to meet his Aunt for dinner. I brought him to Sketches and his aunt treated us. When the bill was presented, a few items were missing, and Tomithy instantly pointed that out. Now what would you have done? If i was the one paying, i may not have done the same thing.. but you will remember Thoughtscape, and the reputation that he's trying to potray...

Bought some bread and instant noodles, and then we took the train down to JP, then a cab down to TNB. Right, we're actually doing a Night cover...

So we showered, prepared our stuff, and at 9:30, the vehicle came and picked us up. We eventually headed off to different directions, and my vehicle went to a port near PSA.

I talked to the driver a bit, and it seems he maples quite a lot. He's level 120 in fact, and he has tonnes of accounts. its kinda crazy.

He also shared some of his experiences with girls, and it was a pretty uneventful night, sleeping in the mini-bus.. it was pretty uncomfortable too actually.

Not going to elaborate much, but at around 1:30, i reached TMC and waited for Tom. Played some table soccer and got thrashed 10-0 by Jason and Zhiyuan. beh.

Took a cab back home, mapled a bit then slept.. since i didn't sleep well the night before ya?