This post is going to be all, or mostly, about Direct Polytechnic Admission 2009.

The DPA application portal will open from 8 July, 2 pm to 13 July, 4 pm.

Last year, 4,558 students applied for direct admission into the polytechnics, but only 607 were offered places during last year’s exercise, and 535 applicants (about 88%) accepted the offers.

Click here to find out more about DPA.

Okay, I summarised the whole webpage.
607 is not even HALF of the total applicants.
It's going to be so tough!

Plus,

The five polytechnics – Nanyang Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Republic Polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic and Temasek Polytechnic – will each admit up to 2.5% of their Academic Year 2010 intake through DPA, or about 100 students per polytechnic on average. There will also be a course-specific cap of 30% for each polytechnic course under the DPA. This is to ensure that students admitted through the GCE ‘O’-Level route will continue to have access to popular polytechnic courses.

This means that if Ngee Ann's Diploma in Mass Communication (N67) has a total number of, let's say, 20 students each year,
they will only accept 6 students through DPA.
SIX!

someone wish me luck. arrgh!

• tagboard is spammed. by one person.
• but at least now it's alive. barely.
• i screwed up my chinese 'O' Level oral. arrgh.
• i'm having a slight fever. great.
• my right ear hurts like %^$$%#^$
• i don't like the way my life is right now.
• i want 2008 back.
• prom clashes with singout. wonderful.
• i haven't done maths. and it's due tomorrow.
• ms ang poh bee is now my teacher for maths afternoon prog.
• i don't have a life.
• the male examiner for oral was so scary.
  
• and i thought he was the friendly one.
• great, now i guess i probably have to settle for an A2 for chinese. or maybe even worse.
  
• i got an A1 for CCA grade. like that helps.
• mr lee passed me my testimonial today. didn't expect him to really help me write one.
• DPA is starting soon.
  
• will i screw up too?
• today, the letter to collect my prize for the poem competition came. finally.
  
• i got a $50 cheque.
• one week of school is almost over.
• english lesson today was weird and uninteresting.
  
• free tuky tuky tomorrow. don't think i can go.
  
• my parents are weird and really strict nowadays. i hate it.
• but no one cares.
  

25 thoughts;
Athan Leong, help me.
& whoever thinks they can help me too.
Just save me from depression.

I continue to smile, but no one can see the shrivelled heart inside.

OMG THIS IS SO AWESOMEEEEEEEEEE!

just barely described it to athan and he could find it..
arrgh, i have no childhood. ):

loved this song A LOT after watching Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.




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gideon-haha, okay. hello!
Louis(W)-no. old add/subtract/multiply
sarah-I KNOWWWW! haha, lucas till and chris pine are like so hot.. ): okay i shall stop my ranting of chris pine and lucas till cos i know someone will get upset.. :D

First thing I see when I go to Mozilla Firefox is:

"Michael Jackson dead at 50" -YahooNews

And I was like, omg?
Apparently, it has something to do with the heart. Cardiac arrest. Hmmm.

The next thing I saw:
S'pore confirms 95 new H1N1 cases

This raises the total count to 315.
Sigh, I wonder if going out later is safe.

Anyway, yesterday I went to the Pet Lover's Centre opposite my house. Bought a two-storey cage, (which comes with a water bottle and wheel), bedding, its food, a box for bathing sand and bathing sand too. Yeah, hamsters can bathe themselves. How cool is that.
Total cost: $56. Not cool at all.

But I couldn't tolerate the sight of the poor hamsters getting attacked by ants and flies in that small cage. And so the trip to PLC was necessary.

Going out to get Serene's letter of recommendation from someone called Kam Hoe. Also need to get Yen's letter signed. Hmmm.

Cotton Candy just woke up and it's so cute. [:

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Just came back from SPH, got Serene's letter. It's super awesome.

Below is what she wrote:

It is in my capacity as her editor that I have known Siying.

She has been an active member of The Straits Times Media Club's students council (called the "IN Crowd") over the past two years, and during her time, has been consistent, competent and responsible. She was an active participant during The Straits Times Media Club Camp last December. In 2008, she also went to Kuala Lumpur as part of the newspaper's annual study trip to visit newsrooms around the world.

She was appointed the council's president this year, a job that she has unstintingly performed despite it being her O Levels year. She has been prompt in meeting the rigorous deadlines of a newspaper, and reliable with her submissions, demonstrating to me that she is both a committed and passionate individual. She is already well on her way to her future aims - that of becoming a journalist and to mentor those younger than her - not least because she has a deep empathy for readers, and wanting to serve them.

Siying has made a deep impression on her council members and myself because of her proactive, go-getting attitude towards work. There is impressive maturity about her approach to work, and she is a natural newshound. She is also diligent, and has quickly picked up key journalistic fundamentals in the short time she has worked with the team.

Her story ideas have even appeared in The Straits Times broadsheet, where she worked closely with full-time journalists to interview her peers for a story about how teens were making money at school by selling fiction books to their peers.

I have every confidence that Siying will have no problems accomplishing her goals to study mass communications and go on to become a strong journalist. She not only has commitment, but the will to achieve.

Best regards,
Ms Serene Goh
IN and Little Red Dot Editor
The Straits Times
Singapore Press Holdings

The next one is from Yen, a full time journalist who mentored us last year:

Time flies when you're having fun.

"My choice~~~" -athan leong

ever seen him nearly spit milo?

NEWSFLASH:

ATHAN HAS A BLOG! :D

Transformers was awesome.

Today, for once I wasn't almost-late for june prog.
In fact I was early.
Chinese was totally boring.

And athan's next to me right now.
Reading what I type.
LOL.

Went to watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen today.
Met Athan at Hougang Plaza bus stop, then took 74 to AMK Hub.
We saw Brian Bong at AMK Hub too. lol.

Transformers is just so nice.
The effects were super cool.
And the theatre was super packed.

After the movie,
we went to macs.
Then Athan came over to my house cos he needed to do his blog.
And he's still here. @@
We did like, his blog skin, music codes, tagboard, blah.
All thanks to me. [:

still have to send him back to amk hub later. =.=

Okay, that's all.

move over, Chris Pine!
this is the new eye candy.
Introducing...
Lucas Till!!

From wikipedia..

Born	Lucas Till August 10, 1990 (1990-08-10) (age 18) Fort Hood, Texas
Occupation	actor
Years active	2003 - present

He's only 19 this year! ahhhhh.
And did you know Miley's 17 this year? Omg..

SARAH, YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO!



But it's impossible to get him,
so he's just eye candy. [:
Alright, time to go back to real world.

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Watching Transformers with Athan tmrw! :D

Today, serene brought the hamster that I was getting from her. it's a really cute white hamster, and sarah and i have named her Cotton Candy. because she is
white like cotton wool,
and sweet-looking like candy.
ironically, cotton candy aka candy floss is coloured.
but still.

and now CC's sleeping in her box, and she looks so cuteeeeeeee! :D
okay, that's all for today.

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Replies to tags:
Brian- lol, tsk brian! don't want lah..
Sharon- aiyoh, don't sad lah. you want i next time then give you lorh. haha..
ღ-huiling- lol. alrighty. i put it in already. haha.

A very special post for my 400th post.

Dear _____,

I have always been wanting to tell you, that I really love you. No matter what you do, it may hurt me but I don't mind. It's been a good two years since I realised I liked you. And now I feel really comfortable hanging out with you. You always make me laugh, and that's what makes you so fun to hang out with. But I've fallen too, too deep into this pit of loving you, and now I can't get out. I want you, and no one else. I know all this will sound mushy and possibly cliche to you, but these thoughts are from the bottom of my heart. Really.

Love,
Siying

I LOVE THIS COMMERCIAL! HAHAHA!

school was alright today, i was nearly late..
gotta reach at 7.30 tomorrow.
sigh, i'm so tired!

athan's in a chalet with his family..
at least he gets to have fun. ):

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THIS ONE IS A MUST WATCH! (below)



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my mom's watching korean vids again. lol.

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lynette-haha, thanks for tagging luh. you, nice? *pukes* sorry. you were saying?
SHANON-nah, just wanted to revive my tagboard. and your name is still wrong.
ღ-huiling- yo! huh? what don't love you? LOL. of course lah! i can only love one person leh! =x