WHAT HAPPENED???
I just had a dinner tonite with two singaporean officials from A*STAR. The dinner was held in this posh Italian restaurant at South Main Street and seriously, after that dinner, i was totally confused on WHY i was there...
I was told that these gentlemen are here to talk to Singaporean students on their view of education in US and what are some things that can be used in Singapore and also to take resume for those interested in joining their scholarship program of something like that... at first i was like,"i am not singaporean or PR... why am i getting this??" then i was told that i should just go down and see what those officials have to say coz they also receive applications for foreign students... ok... I KNOW that my grades are not fantastic YET... and i say the word YET.. but still, i thought why not right... just go there and hear what are the expectations or ANYTHING that these representatives have to say... so i went....
ok... so i am totally confused now coz during the dinner, NOTHING even close to wat i was told happened... no resume was given, no feedback, no NOTHING... in fact one representative was like just chit chatting with these few singaporean SCHOLARS... i mean... look.... these people are scholars already... you have them in the pocket already... you want more people to work for you??? then why the hell aren't you talking to people like me??? alamak... not say i ego or not lahz... but it is OBVIOUS that this particular official is kinda acquainted with these three scholars that he was talking to... and check this out... the whole conversation is really kopitian chitchatting in my opinion... ok... fine... maybe it is an attempt by singaporean officials to be friendly to scholars... but er... HALF WAY ACROSS THE GLOBE and TREATING IDIOTS LIKE ME IN SOME POSH ITALIAN RESTAURANT USING SINGAPOREAN TAXPAYER'S MONEY??? er... is it just ME or is something JUST NOT RIGHT??? now you ppl see why i am totally in a daze when i left the dinner??? SURE... i had a GREAT AND EXPENSIVE DINNER!!! but then again, i am really not there for the food... i had expectations for this meeting... and i am just totally disappointed in this whole business... seriously... i have NO IDEA what it was all about....
but of course this whole incident is not all that bad lahz... i got to talk to this ME professor that is like TOTALLY NICE.... he is so fun to talk to... so i was like talking to him the whole dinner... actually kinda pai seh lahz... he was asking me about whether i have read this report from Stanford about how useless MBA is.... ok... i did read part of it... but i think i sorta give him the impression that i am like totally familiar with it... and he seemed kinda impressed... lol... so sorry... i always feel kinda bad when dealing with nice people like this... when i gave ppl the wrong impression of how good i am... hahaha... seriously... really feel bad... hahahaah
posted by David at 10/18/2002 01:27:00 AM