hey guys...

sorry there hasnt been much updating. my uncle's takin real estate classes n he juz finished his exam today, so i can finally get myself updated wit the news n reply to people, n of course, to blog.

so i guess i missed my blog's half year anniversary then. 6 mths isnt much. 1 yr will b. by then i would b gettin prepared for college.

ah, university update. i got rejected by purdue. coz accordin to the letter that went to singapore, dad said that they could not assess my academic records fairly and on that basis, could not grant me admission. i knew it was comin. i mean, how many people apply as u.s. citizen n provide british standard academic results? (i guess its only me) so on that note, i cant blame purdue, since they're assessin american high school format n they would definately find it hard to compare that to wat ive gone through. but then again, they could refer my case to the international committee but grant admission rite? ah heck, no pt arguing.

so since that happened wit purdue, im afraid im expectin more rejections. coz i bet many other schools will also have probs assessin my grades n curricula. now my hopes are only on three unis. univ of california - berkeley, univ of illinois at urbana-champaign and univ of michigan - ann arbor. actually only berkeley n urbana-champaign will prevent me from goin ahead to georgia tech. only coz their engineerin department is better than georgia tech's. the only way to move is up. since its only MIT, stanford, berkeley, caltech n urbana-champaign tts better than georgia tech, it makes no sense to go to a uni tt has a department tts below the georgia tech standard.

i think its a blessing in disguise. i always tell myself n other tt i'll transfer. but i get this feelin tt i might stay on n get my bachelors from georgia tech ultimately. if possible, n i mean if possible, then the only 4 schs i'll apply as a transfer will b MIT, Stanford, Berkely or CalTech. it'll b easier to hop onto graduate schs from those 4 schs afterwards. ultimately, its the name that matters, as we've all come to know.

yep, tts it for my uni update.

my bro finally started sch today. he's in grade 9 (sec 3) but the yr will finish in couple of months. wats amazin is tt even tho he's in grade 9, at the end of the day, he takes a maths class that is actually intended for grade 10. he's one of very few students who does tt. so in tt sense, his math is his strong pt. ive found out more bt the high school system here n its v interesting. they take a single science subject for the whole year. not like us, who took 2 or 3 science subject each yr. example, my bro takes bio for the rest of the yr. he then takes chem for the whole of next yr n only phy for the year after. for his final yr in high school he'll do AP science for 2 or 3 science subjects tt he has learned durin the past 3 yrs. i think thats quite reasonable.

but wat i wasnt happy wit was the advisor group. my bro was supposed to start sch last wk. coz they needed paperworkd n a physical, he was delayed til yesterday. when everythin was set, we were told 7 o clock in the freezin mornin tt he couldnt start coz they required a second doze of MMR shot which was not certified in the medical records. the sch nurse could hav told us that last week! y on the last moment? i understand she was juz doin her job, but i tot tt was v unprofessional. i wanted to say somethin, but since it could affect hasib's enrollment, i decided to juz say nothin n b patient. hasib was visibly disappointed. god, a kid's first day in sch destroyed like tt? come on. but ah well, at least everythin went fine today. tt makes up for wat happened yesterday.

so now, its my mom n me left at home. i finished jeffrey archer's 'sons of fortune' its a terrific book, everyone should read it. archer's god in terms of novels that take two people's lives separately n then suddenly bump em into one.

so now i hav nothin to read. seein how hasib is advanced wit his maths, i decided to start studyin n put a good use to my time. so i started self studyin further maths. yea, i brought wit me the bunch of notes that i got from jonas. its gonna b useful now. since i dont hav much access to computer yet, i hav to delay the C++ thing, so wat else is there? maths. sickenin, but since it'll help me in the long run once i start uni, i tot i might as well.

yea, if not for that, the japanese acquaintance we made, Mrs. Oshiro takes us around places. mom does grocery shoppin n furniture shopping. n i play wit her son, Leo, 6. he was v quiet n shy, but he's seen me enough n now he runs around me, punchin me n all. he's v playful, but cute. i mean, apart from them, i hav totally no social life right now. gonna b takin my drivin written test next week, juz got the material, will b readin from tonight onwards. can u believe it, its so easy, Mrs. Oshiro said if i study for 1 week, its more than enough to pass. i was like, whoa. then comes the visual n hearin test, then the actual behind the wheel. i think i'll b gettin my licence by april or may. then the fun starts. yea.

yea, so its gettin a lil monotonous life, but its alrite. i can take it. its not unbearable. but its definately not like the life u guys r imaginin im leading. but yea, a change ive been seekin.

in a sense, i feel like im in a holiday. a long one.

but i guess i dont realise that it isnt.