Dear Mr Nur Asri Bin Agus,

LETTER OF OFFER

Congratulations! Your application for admission to the University of Technology, Sydney as an international student has been considered and we are pleased to offer you a place in the following course for the following intake(s):

Course: Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering
CRICOS Code: 009478M
Normal Course Duration: 4 Years
Deposit Required: $11,472.00
Advanced Standing: 24 credit points (1 Semester)
Revised Course Duration: 3.5 years

Intake: Spring 2010
Deposit due: 30 June 2010
Orientation starts: 26 July 2010
Classes start: 02 August 2010

Late arrivals may not be accommodated in classes. Students unable to arrive in Sydney before 26 July 2010 are advised to request deferment (in writing) for up to twelve (12) months. Please note that any deferment of offer will be subject to the entry requirements and the deposit applicable to the requested intake.

You are required to pay a deposit on your tuition fees in order to accept the offer. The deposit required, shows the tuition fees for 24 credit points for the relevant program. Where the standard program for a course is less than 24 credit points, the balance will be held over to the following semester. If you enrol in more than 24 credit points in the first semester, you will be required to pay for all credit points studied at the beginning of the semester.




This is one of the universities that i'm considering..... hmmmmm.

posted @ 6:52:00 PM

Latest update from me.

An overseas SMS from UoN: "Congratulations Nur 'Asri Bin Agus! You have already received a Letter of Offer to study at the University of Newcastle! Check your email for more info."

University of Newcastle is one of the world’s top 100 universities for engineering/technology and computer sciences.

I applied for Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics) 4 years Direct Honours. And since i graduated from a local polytechnic with an engineering diploma, i was given 2 years off. That means i'll enter the university in July 2011 Intake for my third year!

Alhamdullilah. (Thank God).

I've yet to accept the offer as i'm still waiting for the results of the remaining unis.

I really, really hope to get into University of Queensland. That's my first choice uni. in australia. Once i got that, i'll take UQ straight away!

Before this post, i've listed the names of the universities that i've applied a couple of months back so you'll know what other aussie unis i'm expecting.

Till then, wish me luck!

Australia 2011, here i come!

posted @ 6:29:00 PM

The past couple of weeks have been truly hectic. I've been having a handful of interviews with a number of universities in Australia, and sending my application to the respective universities.

All in all, i applied to 11 australian universities, with some of them telling me i can be accepted into the university's faculty of engineering by entering into the 3rd year of the 4 years honours course.

wish me lotsa luuuuuuuuuuuckkk!!!

I applied to:
- University of New South Wales (UNSW)
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
- University of Queensland (UQ)
- Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
- University of Newcastle (UN) *received Letter of Offer (6th July 2009)*
- University of Western Australia (UWA)
- Murdoch University (MU)
- Edith Cowan University (ECU)
- University of South Australia (UniSA)
- University of Technology, Sydney. (UTS) *received Letter of Offer (8th July 2009)*
- Curtin University of Technology (CUT)

All of which i indicate my year of entry is July 2010, and once i'm offered a place, i'll tell my agent to defer it to July 2011, as i'll still be in national service in 2010, with my ORD date being May 2011.

That means, upon graduation from national service, i'll have about two months rest before hitting australia for my university studies!

expected timeline:

NS > university in australia > 2 years work in australia > return to Singapore around July 2016.

CAAAANNNNTTTTTT WAITTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!

posted @ 8:19:00 PM

I AM MORE ACTIVE IN TWITTER, FOR NOW.

YOU MAY WANT TO READ MY DAILY GOING-ONS THERE.

=)

posted @ 2:57:00 PM

It has been a while since i update my blog. I've been busy.

Being a tutor isn't easy as u think it is. Well, that's what i think. It's the mid-year exam period and my tutees are stressed as they need to pass their exams as expected from their parents, as well as me too.

It has been a pretty tiring week for me. Having tuitions every other day, in the evenings, for 2 hours straight, with different students and different subjects ranging from English to Maths to Science. But at the very least, it's a time well spent. It's good to know that i didn't just slog at home with nothing to do. I'd rather have my brain put to function.

I've been "university shopping" the past couple of weeks, with most universities i'm planning to go are in australia with one or two in the UK. Among some australian universities that i am applying soon are University of Adelaide, University of Queensland, University of South Australia, University of Newcastle and University of Wollongong.

I am still divided on pursuing an engineering degree in australia or an accounting/finance degree at a local private education organization here. One side of me wanted to go overseas to study while the other side wanted to remain in singapore and take up a degree with a PEO.

Honestly, i believed i did well enough in poly, mostly Bs and Cs, but NTU's and NUS's admission criteria is super-stringent that even with my Commissioner of Police triple awards and a couple of recommendations of cca teachers, i still got the dreaded NTU Rejection Letter last weekend.

That's heartbreaking.

So now, i'm looking forward to applying to the australian universities end of this month and which once i'm done with NS, i'll have a few months to rest and prepare before restarting my studies as an undergraduate in either an engineering or accounting/finance degree.

University undergraduate 2011, here i come!!!

posted @ 11:21:00 PM

Sometimes late at night, i lie awake and watch her sleeping. She's lost in peaceful dreams so, i turn out the lights and lay there in the dark and the thought crosses in my mind.

If i never wake up in the morning, would she ever doubt the way i feel about her in my heart? If tomorrow never comes, will she know how much i loved her? Did i try in every way to show her everyday, that she's my only one?

And if my time on earth were through, and she must face the world without me, is the love i gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?

If tomorrow never comes, cuz i've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much i loved them. Now i live with the regret, that my true feelings for them never were revealed. So, i made a promise to myself, to say each day how much she means to me, and avoid that circumstance where there's no second chance to tell her how i feel.

So tell that someone that you love, just what you're thinking of, if tomorrow never comes.

posted @ 5:57:00 PM

This baby arrived on Saturday, 2nd May 2009 at 155pm.

And i'm in love with it. So now, i have...

A fast working desktop.
A fast working and NEW laptop.
And a soon-to-be fast working 2nd desktop.

Oh. i love living my life, currently.

though, there's one thing.

i should've taken the number of that girl working at a "local shopping mall's" McDonalds when i had the chance.

She KNEW i was looking at her throughout my dinner, she KNEW i gave her that "one kinda look", and she KNEW i will look back once im outta there.

What's still haunting me is not about me missing the chance of not getting her number, but about her giving me that smile when i looked back at her once im out of the restaurant.

I wanna return to the counter, but there was a long que in front of her and she was pretty busy at the counter. Besides, im totally out of $$$ by then.

And my friend expected me to just que at her counter and just asked for her number without buying anything. Where's the transition in that? Read my previous post to know what is my definition of "transition" when getting a girl's contact.

Damn it, asri. Fucking damn it. I'm pissed with myself.

Okay, fine. I'm just slightly pissed. Hell, i'm gonna return to that mall everyday at that hour with hopes that she's working and i'm gonna push for her number. Oh yes, u bet i will.

I'll update soon.
cheeeerrrios.
=)))

posted @ 3:04:00 PM

Okay, that wish is for all adults who worked their asses off the past year since last year's labour day and today's their day, and for those of you who are reading this post, that wish is for you too!

I've been pretty slacked the past few days. Been sitting around at home, watching gossip girls episodes after episodes, as well as hitting the pool for a swim twice a week. I don't know why, since the MINDEF enlistment letter entered my letterbox, i've been sleeping late, and thinking alot lately.

One side of me really look forward to going to pulau tekong. Breathing in a new life, having had to wake up early in the morning and doing morning PTs and drills and whatnots. Having had to learn the ways of the military.

But the other side of me felt like ns is sucha a waste of time. All i will be doing is training to be a combat-fit soldier to protect my homeland and blablabla.

What bothers me most is the very fact that after my basic military training (BMT), i will have to go for further training as an officer (OCS) or sergeant (SISPEC). Training of 9 mths for the former, 3-6 mths for the latter. ARGHHHHHHH! i'm in the enhanced batch, u see. so they say there's alot of leadership courses and whatnots. =_="""""""".

Why can't i be like ibnu??? He went for the bmt, after pop, he is posted out as a military driver. And for his two years in ns, he drove luxury cars as well as military vehicles for VIPs. And because of that, he's done clocking the minimum mileage required to convert it to a class 3 driving license for FREE once his ns is completed.

DAMN.

sometimes i hate to be a leader. having to lead and showing example is natural for me, but having had to make all these sacrifices so that i can be a much better leader can sometimes be very frustrating and demoralizing.

but sometimes, i love being a leader. i love being in command and instructing and teaching and imparting knowledge to my fellow followers so that perhaps one day, my grooming will make them into a much better leader than me today.

yadayadayada, conflicted emotions. pffffft.

i went to NTUC supermarket yesterday, ALONE, for grocery shopping. the plan was to just shop for groceries, as requested by daddy, and get the hell outta there as there's like alooooottt of people doing grocery shopping too!!! haha!

yeap, grocery shopping, and on a side-note, babe scoping. which basically means, scoping and getting to know potential girls. not all babes are at the beach or in town, mind you.

so i was just walking along, looking around at potential targets while acting as if im really looking for ALOT of stuff to buy. then... i saw her. for some reason, she's not a full ten maybe rated around a 7-8, yet there's something about her that makes me tingle.

maybe she's fair skin. maybe her eyes are attractive. maybe she's wearing that white shiny silk-lookalike dress that makes her beautiful. or maybe because she's holding a 1 litre strawberry yoghurt that i am about to buy.

and so began the war. the war of having to go to her and saying hi and engage in an engaging conversation with a pretty lady. then, i remembered. my dating game mentor told me opportunities always come and go. just go and say hi with a sincere smile. the worst i could ever get is a "what the fuck do u want?" face. heh.

so i psyched myself, looked at her, think of all the potential openers that i memorised, chose one, edit it according to the situation, and went up to her.

With confidence and smiling..... "Hey. Hi. Actually i need a quick female opinion on something. U see, my niece's birthday is coming up and she really like those stuffy animals..........."

So we had a chat about stuffed animals right in front of the milk and juices area of the supermarket. lilo and stitch, teletubbies, tigger, winnie the pooh, kangaroos, and all the cartoon characters we can think of, which we find it funny in the end cuz we're talking abt it right in the middle of a supermarket.

Once i saw she's easing herself at me, i quickly end the convo.

"Look i gotta run. My dad gonna kill me if i'm back home late...." yadayadayada.

u see, if i were to continue talking to her about alot of different things and make her laugh again and again, then i'll just be like any other guys. pushing her and hoping that she'll be interested in me. that's not my objective. my objective in talking to her today is to get her number as soon as she got comfortable with me and get the hell out of there.

why? cuz when i get the hell outta there, with the chemistry that i created between us, and her laugh and smile and she seeing that im not some emotional freak, that will let us leave the conversation on a positive energy and when i contact her two days later, she'll have me in a positive light. and i'll continue making her smile and smile and smile somemore.

it's all about the art of the game. and i'm still learning it, step by step. and so i left NTUC with my groceries, as well as Kristina's number. i'm a happy man. haha!

gonna crash now, it's been a long day. good night everyone. =)

posted @ 2:13:00 AM

There were two students who would be having a final examination the following day. These two boys are consistent top students of the class, and being so, instead of studying and preparing for the exam, that very night, they went out with their friends and partied the whole night.

The next morning, both of them woke up late so they rushed to the bathroom, dressed up as quickly as they can and went to school. Unfortunately, by the time they arrived, the exam was over and so they pleaded for a special examination.

The teacher said, if they could give her good reason for their coming late for the exam, she might as well consider giving them a special exam. And so, one of the boys said, it was because the vehicle they were in had a flat tire and so they had to stop over so the driver could fix it. The other boy agreed to what his friend had said with matching pitiful look on his face.

And so, the teacher decided to give them the exam, provided that they would take it in separate rooms. The teacher also said, she's going to give them just one question, if they answer it correctly, they would get an A, otherwise, they would fail.

The two were so relieved, anyway they didn't have to study for the exam because they thought it would just be a piece of cake for them and there's no big deal if they had to take it in separate rooms, anyway, both of them are smart.

So they were now ready to answer their exam, the one-question exam. And the question was.....

(1) Which tire?

posted @ 9:52:00 AM

Enquiry of Enlistment Status.

Good morning Mr NUR 'ASRI BIN AGUS.

Your enlistment date is on 09-Jul-2009.
Your reporting unit is:

TRAINING LIST BASIC MILITARY TRAINING CENTRE SCHOOL 1.
PULAU TEKONG.

10-week Enhanced Leadership BMT
This course trains combat-fit commander-potential recruits in the basic military skills. These recruits usually go on to do Specialist or Officer courses to become commanders.

Passing Out Parade: 16th September 2009

Botak soon. :x

posted @ 8:17:00 PM