Haha... as what the title say, the main purpose of this post is to revive my blog which has underwent a one plus month long hibernation.. LOL!
Well, as a whole life during this one month plus has been rather ok on the whole... although quite a number of things had happened, those events that are more major, in my opinion, I'm currently not going to blog about it for the time being due to some factors... Anyway, readers, i guess you'll surely know them pretty soon in the near future :) so please be patient :)
ANYWAY, I shall blog about school since i've not talked about it ever since AY09/10 Semester 1 has started (and now that i'm having my recess week in 2 days' time... LOL). School has been rather ok for me in general... But must really thank God for providing me with all the modules that I'm studying right now and giving me grace and understanding to learn more new and chim stuff...
First of all, I want to thank God for giving me the modules CBC811, AAI483, HMG2, CBC931, and of course my 3 core modules namely CBC212, CBC213, CBC215. But I'm really more thankful for the first 3 modules mentioned... Well, let's first talk about CBC811...
In NTU CBC811 is a super hot module that everyone is trying to take... By the way, that's the module code for forensic science... the supposed easy to score A module (or score well enough to pull up GPA in general) especially for people like me taking chemistry or the sciences... But well, I want to thank Him because it was really by His grace that I got allocated to this module... When I went to check the number of people on waitlist for this module, there were about 2700 people eyeing for about 1300 places by the end of the whole bidding process i think... that's like a 50:50 chance of getting the module... Then I was like quite worried because when I placed this module on waitlist as my first choice, there were still so to speak vacancies left... but at the end of it when I go check the final numbers, the number of people on waitlist just shoots up tremendously!! Then I also thought about how the school will usually allocate them to first the year 4s, then year 3s and then finally year 2s and 1s... So after some calculation using simple stats and probability, I realise that the chances of me getting this module is going to be very very slim... So i started to like feel very sad and a lil depress thinking that I'll most likely not get back the module for this semester cos I needed this module to slightly load this semester, to pull up my overall GPA and yet not become so heavily weighed down by schoolwork such that I can't go for prayer and home meetings. But in the end I just entrusted this matter to God and that if He is willing to give this module to me, so be it... If not then I'll just get another module lor... And Praise the Lord that He is faithful in all things and granted me this CBC811 module :) Hallelujah! I was like super happy when I received notification that I got this module *beams*
As for AAI483, that's the module code for Choir. And well not only must you place this module on waitlist, you must also pass through an audition to be able to be registered for this module. And well as most of you all should know, I was in choir from primary school till secondary school and was once a sectional leader for soprano in my secondary school, so the audition should be a piece of cake to me la hor.... :P Well anyway, at first I thought so too... but as the auditions went on (we were to be auditioned in front of all the girls present, who were also waiting for their turn for auditions), there were a number of people who had choir background failing the audition. Then I was thinking to myself that "Wa, surely I must not take this audition so lightly if i really want to get it... If i continue to be so proud thinking that I will surely pass the audition, who knows, God may not help me to get this module..." So in the end, I confessed before Him that I was proud and that I've placed my confidence on my ability instead of on Him. I then humbled myself and told God to help me pass the audition and get the Alto slot... And praise the Lord... not only did I pass the auditions, I also got to choose whether I wanted to be a soprano or an alto... and in the end I chose to be an alto because I never got to sing as an alto before and people around me were saying that my alto voice sounds very nice... so I decided to take up this challenge and experience singing as an alto :) and Praise the Lord, everytime when I go for practice, I enjoyed myself singing and singing as an alto... haha :P
And for HMG2: German language level 2... I had placed this module on waitlist as my second choice... but I got my 3rd choice instead... a module on energy management which I also wanted to take to attempt to do a minor in environmental management. However, these 2 modules had the same exam date during the same time period. So it's either this or HMG2... Actually I didn't really place this matter in prayer before the Lord but somehow I realise that the module that was allocated to me was a 3 hour lecture on friday from 430 to 730pm... which was rather rushing for me because I have home meeting at around 8pm in the east (or alternatively I can join the home meeting with sis shufang and saints living in the west at around 8pm too)... but in any case, both felt very rushed. So after much consideration and asking before the Lord (ok i guess that can be considered as praying for this matter??), I decided to drop the allocated module and took up HMG2 instead, since I'm still rather interested in learning somemore German and felt that it was better if I take up now so that it's easier for me to catch up... And thank you Lord Jesus for the decision made because I'm still enjoying my modules and it was not rushing for me to attend home meeting (ok except maybe for last week cos I was rushing my report so I was very late for meeting).
And well, in the end I took up another module CBC931: Industrial Chemistry instead of the energy management one and decided to do a concentration in Green Chemistry for now and plan and see if I should pursue a minor in environmental management...
But all in all, I love the timetable schedule for this semester with
NO 3-5 hours of break in between lessons (it happened to me last semester but at least I was staying in hostel back then so not too bad..); it's both packed and interesting for me... makes me feel like going school each day... and also on days when I end late, I get to start lesson on the following day later in general so I can have time to do tutorial and to rest... And by God's grace, I manage to rent a room in Bro Chi's house, which is near NTU so I don't have to wake up early in the morning to travel to school, since there's still no news from the school regarding hostel accomodation as I'm placed on the waitlist due to insufficient points to get a room in any of the halls of residences. All along through these decision making moments, I've indeed experienced God's guidance and grace that just pours upon me each day... And it's only now that i've truly realised that God had been leading me in selecting my modules...
Praise the Lord! Thank you Lord Jesus... I love You for Yourself and how You appear to me each time :)
