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I had some weird feelings on this day, my polytechnic graduation day. My family didn't come, I'm glad about it because it was boring and I think I'll leave them out for the whole big time. I brought my D90 but I didn't take it out at all, marking the last day in NP as a student, a friend, a classmate, but not a "photographer".

I don't know who (I've forgotten) was on that stage giving us a graduation speech while I recall the coolest memories I have ever had in my whole life. I felt kind of emotional? Haha.

Long before the graduation..maybe after the last paper, I have been thinking of posting this entry. Recalling the exciting, happy, cool, sad, worried, stressful, memorable 3 years of my life. And well, it took me 2 hours digging out all the photos (fortunately I arranged them in order), and I am still editing them now. Take note of the time: 8.40 PM.

I still remember the first school day (minus the boring orientation), I stupidly reached school at 9am to go for Business Computing XXX's (forgot the module name) workshop. Know why stupidly? Because first week of school doesn't have any workshops! So there's where I knew my first few friends - Carolyn, and through her, I get to know Kok Seng (TYVM for all the exams tips and notes!!) and Marcus (TYVM for driving me homeeeee).

First tutorial was a funny one. I forgot what module was that but it was the first time TB24 (aka TB26, TB30, etc.) got together. I'm very cold towards people who first meet me, I guess Jzeying and Yishan still remember. I was extremely dao towards them, because I thought we will change our class for every single module, so I didn't really care about the classmates (plus I wasn't really in a good mood to know people).


Look at how "innocent" we are in the first year of poly. HA!


Seriously, I can't remember how Crankybutts was formed. Long history! Maybe you can try digging them out from my archives. But the name is only used by me and Jzeying, purely because we were together in too many classes, and I didn't know what to represent this group of crazy people in my blog. Oh, and it was named by Jzeying. :D

It was until going to Year 3, I realized my clique was kind of.."famous". Because of the total number of people (there's 15 of us!), we always hang out together in school as a big group, but most importantly, we always ask people not to choose the class we've chosen beforehand so that we can be in the same class! HAHA, THE EVIL GROUP OF PEOPLE.


We didn't manage to celebrate everyone's birthday every year, but we're still happy! :D

The Crankybutts' Year 2 life was extremely fun. We have weekly gatherings (yes, even though we see each other's ugly faces everyday in tutorials and lectures) at Sherlyn's "secret palace"...And we go out every other day, we have different groupings for different modules (very tedious though), and giving each other names, gossip every single day about other lecture mates (I've said we're evil), invented all sorts of acronyms for disgusting stuff, skip lectures, skip tutorials (this must have made the tutor extremely angry, because there's only 15 of us in one class), laugh out loud in lectures (I bet lecturers hate us too), we have our first chalet, the mega celebration for CJ and Yuexin's 18th, and a lot a lot a lot more. I still remember I have my personal stereo choir singing "You say it best, when you say nothing at all" song - by CJ, Qiuling and Qiaoyu. (What a torture! AHAHA)

Looking at every single photos we've taken just now, the memories just flooded in. I don't know if we'll be still the same after this graduation, but I really hope every single one of us will be in contact after 10 thousand years. :D



Everyone knows, okay, those who know me well will know, NP's Business School wasn't my first choice when I wanted to enter a polytechnic, it was Advertising Design in TP. And Marketing was the most similar course which I can go during that time, so I joined! In the 2nd year, hiding from my Mum, I chose Marketing Communications instead of Marketing. (Don't ask me about the difference, I've answered this like ten thousand times) Reason being, there's Graphic Communication in this course! (which is something related to Design) But after half a semester passed by, I fell in love with it. It was like, FUN & EXCITING (stressful though). Maybe it's the people, maybe it's the tutors & lecturers, maybe it's really interesting, I don't know, I just love it. *BIG GRIN*



In this 3rd and final year in polytechnic, I met another group of crazy people. The Marcommers! Not Masscommers, but MARCOMMERS. Maybe due to the nature of our course, we are all weird and creative (we are!) and fun and cool and very very nice. HAHA, sorry a bit BHB here. I have to say, we've been through thick and thin in this 2 semesters. But we've enjoyed every single bit of it (I think, most of us. Hahaha!)

I met good people, semi good people, paranoid people, lesbian (Crystal Tham), gay (Joel Zee).. We "conquered" Shanghai and Suzhou. We had fun, sad, stressful, happy, trilled, exciting moments. They gave me my first surprise birthday celebration (though the start of it was ruined) in NP. They made me laugh, cry, angry, and..violent. I was asked to be the "photographer", when I don't have any good knowledge of photography. It was them who was with me for the first time I went clubbing, and maybe the last time. We entered a competition and won a Silver trophy, and had our photo pasted on Open-House brochure and on the graduation slides. It was when in competitive nature of Marcomm (my batch), I realized I can work harder and be better. Haha!

Of course, not forgetting.....

My group! Low Ai Ping, Faith Chua, Lynette Teng, Sarah Oh, and Tan Lilin. :D We used to frequent Bugis area for our project meetups. It happen to be the most convenient place for us, because we stay in different parts of Singapore. And another thing is that National Library is near there, we frequent there to research for our projects too. HAHA, WE'RE HARDWORKING OK!?

And then...we evolved....... (!?!??)




Oh man. This tagline. Our PR tutor commented that this sounds like sanitary pad advertisement slogan, or even sex ad. We were sooooo paranoid about it during that time. Because we were the group which was changing our main idea every single week, and only get the above tagline like maybe..around one month before the actual deadline. We had stayovers at someone's place, do work till morning, then meet up every single day to do our creatives, PowerPoint slides, reports, ..and maybe some juicy gossips (Ok, it's a must-have session to release stress!)

And then time flies fast enough, we were standing there, presenting our final product of Heyday! to our lecturers. I can't bare to leave it behind my head and then forget about it, you know? It's like our baby. (This is the reason why I keep saying Heyday! every other time I see my group mates.)

While waiting for my photos to be uploaded to Flickr, time check: 12.28 AM. How hardworking am I!?

I know, I know. I have screened through every single photo and filtered the unglamorous ones. And guess what!? You can watch them below! HAHAHAHAHA *EVIL LAUGHTER* To be kind, I have only chosen 7 out of the thousands of photos I have. I included myself some more! I am NICE. :D



Thank you.. Crankybutts, classmates, lecture mates, and you you you and you. HA, for being a part of my life and for those memories! Be it happy or unhappy ones. Thank you. :D

I shall end here. Because I'm totally drained, juiced, squeezed, after hours of digging photos, editing them, renaming them, rearranging them, uploading them, posting them, making them in slideshows, naming the slideshows, and finally blog them. Although I did blogging and photo-ing at the same time, I'm still feeling very tired. Because I went to work, for the first day at Mum's company, as a Personal Assistant-cum-IT Department-cum-Driver.

Good bye and good night. :D

This entry might mark the end of this blog. Yes, I'm closing this blog.. No whys, so don't ask.

All 3 years are in here. The happy moments, the childish ones, the angry ones, the sad ones. The people I care, or cared, about were all posted here. Memories, memories. They'll be kept, just that one day no one else can read them except myself. (:

I might be moving to Wordpress or Tumblr, or maybe some other awesome websites, as soon as I've "master" CSS. I'll let people know about the link, if ever one day it exists.

Time check: 1.02 AM. Nice, I spent 4 plus hours to complete this entry. HAHA! Task accomplished!

And here's a song dedicated to those who were mentioned in this entry. It was introduced by Sarah, and now I shall share with you!



Till then! (;

P/S: I signed up for another Flickr account just for this entry. Because I exceeded the monthly limited. :S

P/S/S: And what! I was feeling kind of emotional halfway through blogging this entry. But I'm feeling so tired now to feel that emotional.

P/S/S/S: Time check again, after the last few editings - 1.29 AM. NAISSSEEEEE. 6.5 hours in total, posted wrongly in FB. HAHAHAHA.

P/S/S/S/S: I AM NOT CRAZY. TYVM.

Last second note: I remembered the days before I entered Poly. Friends placed bets on when I'll get a boyfriend after entering. Shortest is 3 months, longest is 6 months. None of them were right, I didn't have any for these 3 years. Do I get any money for that? HAHAHAHAHA!!

Last note: I pasted the whole freaking post in HTML codes into the Template. So, there's no more posts which others can read. Haha! Anyway, I am studying Wordpress CSS now. Complicated, but interesting!