Passed

Remember I was so stressed preparing for the exam in Sept?

Received mail from SQI few days ago, that I passed the written exam. Now, it's time to think of what to do for practical exam.

I have till May'09 to complete them.

Passed, but not really happy.

Am back....

I am back. Thanks for all the best wishes. :-) How was exam you may ask. One word, TOUGH. Sigh... I thought I was more or less prepared, but the questions still caught me off guard.

Worse case, at the last 5 mins in the long questions paper, when the examiner said to a classmate, that he should re-do the whole graph again. I double checked my graph. GOD! I didn’t realize the question gave us the target value, and I spent 10 mins to calculate the target value, getting some decimal places in between, and round up to a bigger integer. And you guessed right, I did it wrongly. Lucky thing was, there was 5 mins left, I corrected the value in the table and started erasing the plotting on the graph and made it when the examiner said “1 more mins, please check all your answers”.

Phew… for the whole Sat afternoon, I have been thinking of the DNOM chart. I should have read twice, thrice and however many times I am supposed to, but I just didn’t. I was overly confident on that question, other than the DOE part. Just pray hard I didn’t do any careless mistake in the average effect calculations.

After exam, I felt lost. Empty. Have been attending classes for the past 4 months and thinking of the exam for whole of last month, and it’s finally over. Result will be out in 6 weeks time. Though I feel that I may have marginally passed or failed, I am hoping for the best, and preparing for the worse. :-(

Dinner
Went to library to get 2 books then met up with AT, SW, her fiancé, and her fiancé’s friend for dinner. Have not met SW since A Level, which was like almost a decade. Haha… and I have known her for 2 decades. :-p

We had Vietnamese food. Then we had some dessert and proceeded to coffee at Bugis Junction when AT suddenly said “let’s watch Balls of Fury. My gf doesn’t like this kind of boh-liao show”. I was like, “I have not even heard of the show, but seeing you are leaving, and I very bored, ok lor”. At 7.50pm, we bought the 7.50pm show. SW, fiancé, and his friend didn’t want to join coz they have to attend church service early on the next day.

Balls of Fury
So we rushed up to Shaw. The show just started, just nice. It’s really a boh-liao show, but hilarious. Good enough to de-stress. We had a good laugh, that’s very important after my exam. :-p

The show ended at 9 or so, and we went for a drink at Terra. AT called Rickson who came to Sg 2 months ago. Rickson is our high school friend. Rickson came, with gf and we chatted. Been years since I last met Rickson actually.

The 3 of them talked about finance, how much this friend is earning and stuffs, and as usual, when comes to finance, I am a total idiot. More inferior when I was told those friends in oil & gas are earning a fortune. God….

BFD
Our catch-up drink ended at almost 11pm, when I was supposed to meet an ex colleague for a drink at East Coast Park. We reached BFD at about 11.30, and were told that the kitchen is closed, so, there were only drinks and chips available. No sausages for me… :-(

He shot 2 IQ questions….. And I gave up the moment he finished the questions. No fun, he said. Damn lazy to think. :-p

A glass of margarita was it took to make me tipsy. :-( Been 2 months since I went drinking. Hehehe…

Back drop dead, but woke up at 7am on Sunday…… damn…..

Shoot em'Up
Watched Shoot em’Up with R on Sunday. Sigh…. It’s a M18 show, pervasive strong bloody violence, sexuality and some language. :-(

An overly exaggerated plot. Bad guys don’t die easily, do they?

I will be back next week

Dear friends,

Thanks for dropping by my little world of thoughts.

I am sorry; I am not able to write any post for these few days. I am preparing for exam that falls on Sat, 29th.

I have broken my personal record by taking 3 days of leave in a row. And yet, spending time checking emails 4 times a day, seeing 20 emails each time, needless to say the time to reply and scratch head to solve the problems, and phone calls every other hour.

Age is catching up, the more I study, the more I forget. Hehehe.. it’s not really a good sign.

Anyway, wish me luck. I can’t wait to complete the exam. The very first thing I would do is to library and get some novels. I am dying, trembling, shaking of novels addiction. Hehehe…

Back to revision….

Exam is around the corner

Last night was the last class. Mr. Too gave us tips for exam. I start to have exam fever. There are so many things need to be memorized! And I think age is catching up, the brain memory is used up. Haha…

Choon Tee brought glutinous rice and cup cakes to class. Patrick paid for the pizzas Mr. Too ordered and brought some snacks.

Our bond is stronger in this class. When I took Green Belt, we didn’t really “connect” this way. And so sad, there is no never-ending banquet in the world. Though I do not wish to go classes anymore, I feel sad losing this “commitment”.

All in all, we attended 144 hours of lecture. In which, I think I missed 25 hours! Haha… luckily, still able to meet the 75% attendance requirement, and can sit for exam. :-p

Wish me luck, 23 days to go……

Tired.. exhausted.. going down to minus infinity

I feel like at the descending tangent curve, down all the way to minus infinity….

Yesterday, I rushed to Orchard Plaza to meet SE and AF after delivering some samples for evaluation. Then rushed all the way back to SQI for class. Reached there at 7.30pm, exhausted and to make it worse, the new lecturer who taught was so damn boring I think he put most of us to “idle” mode. I was forced to sit at the back, and my mind started to wander everywhere.

Don’t really like the way Mr. Teo taught but we have to sit through another 7 evenings the least. He doesn’t give live industrial example so we are not able to feel and grab where we can apply our knowledge. More to theoretical, and keep telling you “well, you’ll know better when you do the project” or “I’ll sidetalk with you later about this issue” or “many people argued about this theory, but take it for now, we’ll learn more later”. Lame… but anyway, not for us to judge, the most we can make very full use of the survey form by the end of the course. :-( I hate being cruel and bad, but it’s for the institute’s continuous improvement!

When I was waiting for bus at Heartland Mall, boss smsed and asked to arrange for some evaluations for my Italy customer. He asked to retrieve email. I was really exhausted, and I had to check my mail at almost midnight? Well, what to do, Italy was still working and I had to call them first to get more information, else, we’ll lost another day waiting for these information. Lucky me, customer sent me useful information this morning when I turned up to work.

SA resigned and his last day confirmed to be on 1st June. The final decision was out, I am taking back some of my accounts. Deep inside, I am so glad, coz I do not have to keep counting the hours when I am in the office anymore. I felt like rotting and no motivation. Now, the motivation is back, but we lose a colleague.

I am really sleepy and tired today, really don’t feel like up to anything but yet have to do everything.

Boss starts to complain “why every time you get this kind of small flies… if you get one big shot, you can sleep already”. I think he is stressed, me too…………

I am really grateful……..

Class officially started yesterday. Friday’s was only for introduction.

After a short tea break, Mr. Too, the lecturer said, “I assume many of you drive here”.

(I shake my head slowly)

Mr. Too: If you don’t mind, can any of you give her a lift out to the main road after class?
(He gestured towards me)

I looked at him, surprised that he was so thoughtful.

Mr. Too added: It is really dangerous for her to walk out alone after 10pm. By the time I finish lecture, packing and stuffs, it would be too late.

Classmate 1 asked me: Sure, where do you stay? (I don’t remember their names yet)
Me: It is ok, a lift to the main road is good enough.
Classmate 1: Ok, no problem.
Me: Thank you very much.

Mr. Too: I am sorry, I was just being busybody because I know she walks to the institute.
(I am so touched! He is my idol…. :-p)

Mr. Too continued: If the classmate needs to stay behind to discuss with me, then we shall get other classmate to give you a lift ok?
Me: Thank you very much for bringing it up. :-)

Mr. Too: If no one can drive you, I can give you a lift home too.
(Whoa, extremely touched)

When the class ends, Classmate 1 stayed behind to discuss with lecturer, so, Mr. Too asked Classmate 2 to give me a lift.

Classmate 2: Let’s go.
Me: Thanks and really sorry to trouble you.
Classmate 2: It’s ok. Where do you stay by the way?
Me: Hougang
Classmate 2: Which part of Hougang? I stay in Punggol, so, maybe I can send you home instead.
Me: Ave 1, somewhere near Lor Ah Soo.
Classmate 2: Ok, I know where, I can send you to Lor Ah Soo. It’s on the way anyway.
Me: Thank you so much.

And then, I got to know that Classmate 1 lives in Kovan, which is very near Hougang! So, I can get a ride out after class from now on.

I am really grateful……..

First class

I went to the first class tonight. First time to SQI ever since they moved to Tannery Lane. It is nearer to office, but I do not like the new place. It’s in an industrial building, situated middle of nowhere. Imagine, starting from Mon, I’ll have to go back at 10pm every Mon, Wed, Fri, walking out to the bus stop situated at the main road. Going to washroom was scary too.

I was the only female student tonight. I asked the administrator if I am the only one this intake. She said there is another girl, but she is not in town now, will be back on 21st. Hope this girl and I will be in the same study group, then, I will have a company out from the isolated place.

Mr. Too started today’s introduction. It was motivating when he told us success stories. He said, students are normally headhunted once they finished their theory examination. Most of his students found new jobs with a fantastic pay raise. Main point is to pass the examination and the project.

Potential employer will judge our capability based on our project. We need to do a presentation end of the course. I guess just like our final year thesis, we presented our final year project to a panel of examiners.

It’s a sacrifice for 4 months, but I am telling myself, it’s worthy. It’s worth the money I am investing, and it’s worth the hassle and time I am going to spend.

(Btw, I heard that it costs almost 6 times to do a Black Belt course in Germany. We are lucky……)

Graduation Ceremony

Supposed published on 8th Nov'06

Attended the SQI graduation ceremony last night in Furama Riverfront Hotel, surprised to find out that I passed with Merit. (This tells you that we didn't know there is ranking in our results)
When the "guide" asked who is Merit, I was like "what has the cert to do with us being married or not?"

2nd prize was a S$40 BORDERS prepaid card. :-)

For more pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/colleen_clm