just finished typing a recommendation letter for han wei so that he can apply to go on a student exchange programme next year to....MELBOURNE!!!!
naturally,i am all-out 100% undeniably supportive of him. one whole semester with him...getting to see him everyday...not having to spend so much money on phone cards and not getting fustrated with waiting for his phone calls. yesyesyes...i am very looking forward to it.
but pessimistic person i am, i dun wanna get my hopes too high up. as han wei keeps reminding me, him applying not equal to him getting a place. so i am just trying to tie my madly excitedly hopping hopes down...
ok, back to the letter. basically he needs 2 letter - one from a lecturer/tutor and one from 'someone who knows the applicant on a social/community level'. i have no idea at what level i know him lah. so i thought i'll just type whatever good things i can think of about him lor. and since i am so enthusiastic about him going, i can just about pour every single good thing about him onto pen and paper...
which proves to be a huge mistake cos all the good things i know about him not exactly traits that they are looking for. i mean, i cannot say in the letter that 'he is a romantic and sensitive guy'...so i have to crack my head for more neutral descriptions. i had to revert back to "Ms Ni" mode, as if i am recommending him from a teacher's point of view. but i realised i only taught him for like 4 months and have nothing much to say.
arghz...imagine the fustrations. eventually,i settled for a teacher-friend perspective. wah,i say him until he is like a model student/Singaporean/friend. quite proud of myself actually...to put myself out of my usual "han wei is my boyfriend" mode and write about him from a different point of view. *applause*
ok, now talk about something different. guess by now most of you would have heard about the earthquake in the Indian Ocean yesterday, causing tsunamis that crashed into sri lanka, maldives, phuket, malaysia and indonesia yesterday. well, apparently the shakes could be felt in Singapore..i din feel it, but yesterday morning, about the time of the quake, the birds here went berserk and started screeching at the top of their seemingly-teeny lungs (and according to my mum, my hamsters were frantically trying to bury themselves under the wood shavings...) i was still in dreamland, so i was quite irritated by the racket. but now that i think about it, i think human beings very lousy leh. the birds can feel the quake, yet we won't even know about it until the news report. tsk tsk...
yet another natural disaster that killed so many...sighz. the past couple of years have seen many disasters of all kinds befalling upon the human species. is the end already in sight? would "the day after tomorrow' actually come true?!? things seems to be going downhill in all aspects of life...the future looks bleak and gloomy...arghz...i can feel my morale being dragged down...down...down
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