WORK

13th to 16th Jan 2009.

Time: 8:30am
Workplace: Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Job scope: Help out in DAE (Direct Admission Exercise)

WOW. Work was so fun. Not exactly 'hahaha'-fun, but fun as in satisfying (and I'm not referring to the pay).

I had to sort out application forms, photocopy documents, file up forms, and explain things to people.

There were ALL SORTS of people streaming in to apply for DAE- foreign students, private candidates, ITE students, A'level holders, ex-poly students, O'level candidates who can't apply the course they want through JAE because of almighty ENGLISH, and just whoever who wants a diploma but can't get through the criteria.

There were cases of students who so really want to get into Mass Communications but missed the chance because they had a B4 for angmoh, there were also cases where people refused to accept the fact that they have to retake their O'levels again because they failed EVERY subject and wanted to bang their luck through DAE.

How many passports if touched, I felt as though I was working at the immigration check point.
Singaporeans, brace up, the number of Chinese nationals applying to get into a course comes in batches of hundreds, not to mention the other 4 polytechnics in Singapore too. They can be anytime smarter than us, if not for their English.

There were of course some funny cases. People DHL-ed their applications to the school from everywhere, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Myanmar etc. Some will send the full application form, while some just send us their results. Some did not even register for DAE but still sent their forms to us. One delivery package from China had Liu Xiang's picture on it, running towards the finishing line, and it just seemed so hilarious. Some people sent their entire certificate files to the school, attached with their PSLE results and New South Wales certs from eons ago.

Total number of paper cuts I've got: Too many.

My knee hurts due to the long hours of standing. I fell down too cos' my knee gave way. Haiz.

Makan Place is very noisy, but they have a Subway there. Cool.

The school is very BIG, I will still get lost within it.

The staff are very friendly, I really enjoy working with them:)

I misplaced my wallet and I didn't even realised, until a staff passed it back to me. Haha. BIG-HEADED PRAWN~大头虾

:)

Anyway, for people who wants/have to retake their O'level subjects as a private candidate, please remember to register on SEAB's website from the 9th to 19th Mar' 09, and send the receipt back to the respective Polytechnics you wanna study at by the 20th Mar.