Enrolment? SP?

Alright! Finally, my enrolment letter has come! This means I have got things to do:

1. Photo Form
2. Tuition Grant
3. Online Pre-Enrolment
4. Submission Of Financial Forms
5. Medical Checkup

I got a feeling I got myself into big trouble this time. Because I was suppose to submit my tuition grant form together with the photo form but apparently I submitted only the photo form without putting in the tuition grant application form, so it is either I find a way to get a white envelop and mail it to SP(thru SP or otherwise) or else I’m going to have to pay $8k+ for my course fees without tuition grant. Which means I will be bankrupt even before I can pay my fees, given my bank account balance can’t pay the fees with tuition grant. Hopefully, I can rush down to SP on Monday to get an envelope quickly, hopefully I can return back in time by 2pm for my piano lesson on Monday since submission date is on Tuesday 2 March, otherwise it would be after my piano lessons, and hopefully they do not close too early.

Enrolment done! It’s ideal to have enrolment done online, so convenient and easy to do enrolment online since I need not travel all the way to Dover and waste $2.60 and 2hrs of traveling money and time where it can be done at home within 45 minutes on your own. Enrolment also allow us the create SP email account, as if I am working in an organization. It’s really exciting yet a little weird, probably because I’m not used to having a working email and thus treated like an adult to know everything, indeed the next phase of live isn’t going to be any easier. In the Pre-enrolment, I was to fill up all particulars like citizenship, NRIC, Religion, Marital status, Occupation (if given a choice I will put servant of God :P), Number of siblings, housing type (tempted to put Zinc roof house), Gross Monthly income (of which I thought (<$300 was more appropriate), Contact information (which is a problem since I do not have a home phone and what was placed by default is my old hand phone number), and Medical/Physical conditions (which I wanted to include asthma though I recovered from it 12 yrs ago)

I will also be receiving my SP student Card, once again a feel of how it is like to work in an organization, to work as an adult, stress sia… so for those going SP to collect the student card it is 31 March 2010, 8:45am at the enrolment center. That means I will have to wake up at 6am in order to be in time!! For now, I will be waiting for my matriculation status which will probably be announced nearer to the enrolment date and get my tentative appointment for my collection of the student card…

Also, I think I may have my own SP email which should be leonteoyuyong93.10@ichat.sp.edu.sg.

What else? Oh yes, financial letters! Okay, this means I have to pay for my course fees L. It ain’t that bad with tuition grant but without tuition grant, it’s GG for my family’s finance. I wish Ang Mo Kio had a Standard Chartered Bank Branch then I dun have to travel to Thomson or Peace Center to go pay for my school fees, yup I have to pay my SP fees via standard chartered bank since I am not using my Edusave(which has a balance of 10% of my course fees…lol) or using a loan from banks(knowing that I might incur interest debts :P). I guess I will go down to the Peace Center Branch today to pay my fees before having my reunion dinner at Bugis and find a mailbox to mail my financial forms.

Ah lastly, the medical check-up, done it today at Thye Hua Kwan- Ang Mo Kio Hospital this morning, it’s been a long time since I last had X-ray, I used to have phobia of X-rays and always refused to go for an X-ray (at that time I did not even know X-rays could kill cells), which surprisingly not present today, thank God! Still, the aftereffects of X-rays are still present, will slight chest pain and discomfort which should be gone within a few day. I may even be radiating X-rays! :P Well, after paying $25 for an X-ray. I also had a medical checkup, where as usual they did an eye test and colour deficiency test, measured blood pressure, pulse and heartbeat rate. But I realized there was one common question which the staffs and doctors asked: “which course are you studying?” the strange part is, they the way they phrase their question were the same. I wondered if it was just by coincidence that they asked the same questions or there was a template to follow for them when speaking in Poly students during the checkups. But I suppose that doesn’t matter since I have done my medical check-up. I just have to wait for them to mail in my medical report form to SP then.

I seriously can’t wait to begin poly life, new challenges to face, new people to meet, and new opportunities to serve God too! Though there may be bad influences, discrimination, persecution, hatred, jealously in poly life. I pray that I may continue to stand firm in living out my Christian life for Christ, dying to self every day. It may be the toughest thing to do in poly given that the culture there. Then again it shouldn’t be surprising to experience this, after all “There’s no one righteous; not even one. There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away.”

Poly life won’t be of a life of slacking, it appears to be quite slack as we have holidays on the period where JC students are having examinations and also because we spend more time doing hands-on things rather than sitting down to mug, appearing to do things which seems less mentally challenging when it’s both physically and mentally demanding, You may think, Music and Audio Tech students would either be their studio playing their instruments or playing with sliders on the mixer. No, there’s more to that meets the eye. I recently received an email from my bro’s friend studying the same course regarding a essay question. He was assigned an essay question which needed him to visit a concert, take down all equipment used (from Speakers and Mixers down to Microphones, types of cables and DI-units) and account for their usage purpose. He had to talk to the sound technicians and asked them questions about audio tech (hopefully make contact with them). This is only a small piece of theory work that’s done for the Audio Tech aspect of the course for first year students. I seriously dunno how hard the music aspect of this course would be as they are also introducing new subjects like Business of Music and Critical Reasoning skills. So who says poly life is slacking, said JC people are just busy with more paper work and a little practical work, while poly is busy with more practical work and less theory work. So JC and Poly Students both equally busy, just with different things.

I will also be joining the poly band in SYFC, which I may even get to apply what I learn in Poly into doing Tech work and music arrangements, cool! Though it’s only a once a week commitment, this commitment may also increase as mission trips and events draws closer. But I suppose that isn’t the problem with good time management. The only concern is my purpose of serving in poly band. Is it because I like music? Is it because I like doing Tech work? Is it because all my friends are there? Or is it because I hope to use my skills in Music and Audio Tech to serve God and aid in doing His work in the body of Christ? I pray that I may continue to be clear of my decision, not just in poly band, but in every decision in life that I will make in future.

So for my brothers reading this, can you:

• Pray that I will live out the gospel consistently and courageously, with strength that only He provides. Living for Christ, dying to self.
• Pray for good time management as I juggle time between poly work and poly band.

• Pray that I may find great Christian companions in poly to consistently encourage one another through trying periods of poly life
• Pray that I may be able to use my skills wisely for the Lord’s Glory.
• Pray that my hunger to know God personally will never fade because of my poly life.
• Pray that in all circumstances I may Always Remember, Never Forget God

So, before I end my post, those people to pang sek and never come for MIMBY, here's one part of the MIMBY show for you:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/video/video.php?v=326373265285

Enjoy!