I have successfully admitted to SP - Diploma in Digital Animation. It will be the first intake for this course. Initially it was under Diploma in Digital Media, however during that time wasn't well established yet. Therefore the course is being segregated into 3 sub-diploma courses.

Diploma in Digital Animation (DDA) is a 3-year course offered by the School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology (DMIT) at Singapore Polytechnic. It aims to develop digital animation artists with strong foundation in art and aesthetics, solid working knowledge of the typical animation production pipeline, specialized skills and good work ethics. Launched on 19th November 2009, it's first intake will be in April 2010.

I didn't expect the NS deferment letter to be so slow, shouldn't there be a template that most of students do? First day, I went down to CMPB to get it approve, they said that the letter had to be given by the school not by them. So I headed to SP to get it, they said I need the admission card. At that time the enrollment date hasn't started yet. So I waited till the enrollment date, I got my admission card. I went back to Student Service Centre, they said that they haven't prepared the letter yet. It is wise to give another two weeks, which by then would already been the start of school. This is one thing that everything has to be on pending process, this is what it works for in Singapore. I wait for you to approve, you wait for me to approve, I send to the next higher department to approve again.

Upon reading the DMIT Freshmen Orientation Programme, I don't really see the need that it takes four days to have it. I will be stuck inside the auditorium on Monday, listening to welcoming addresses from the board. I would say that the most important activities are just on the second and third day. I also don't know why the need for SP Flag Day, in such a wrong timing. Which I had to push away the school for Catholic High School during Thursday, crashes with the Flag Day event. Sorry Angela for rejecting the school, and instead even brought another headache for Wednesday just for the Freshmen course.

During the holiday, it was quite packed schedule for me. It has been the second time as lead trainer for CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls. It was so difficult to control this class, moreover it was their relief teacher during that period. She can't speak fluent English, she looks like a Taiwanese. Sometimes guys aren't the one who can be naughty, girls can be as well or perhaps even wilder.

Schools for April-May
Westwood Secondary - Sec 1/Papercut/Normal Academic/Express
Westwood Secondary - Sec 2/Manga Art/Express
CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls Primary - Pri 5/Cyber Art
Ang Mo Kio Primary - Pri 3 - 6/Manga Art/CCA Art Club

Friday was the best crappiest moment for this month, I am being attached with Stephanie the whole day. The girls in Westwood Secondary got scolding from their principal. It was so serious that they were being spilt into boys and girls at the courtyard. Their scolding actually taken up into their lesson. I was above looking down. Then we were like so disgusted by the behaviour the girls did. You know when girls had their period. Some of them couldn't control, which led to their bleed. They borrowed skirts from the school, then when they were to return back. They didn't even wash it, and returned back. So it's kind of stained dried on it. I was like what the heck, this is like basic hygiene.

Then Stephanie said during her time, they were wearing pinafore. Pinafore was a one full dress. So whenever their dress was wet, they hung on the ceiling fan to have it dried. So imagine the pinafore being hung on it and fans turned on, is like spinning clothes on the air! :D

After that we went to CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls Primary. As always the girls are the slowest that I have seen so far. First time was 20 minutes late, this time was 30 minutes late. So Stephanie, Jiaying and me was browsing the web for weird facts. Searched like Tay Ping Hui going to get married soon, Ripley's Believe It or Not. We saw three interesting articles. There is a man whose feet was huge, that took more than 200 pounds. It is kind of upper body normal, but till his pelvic it starts to get elongated and his feet took a third of his body proportion. The other was a 9 years old girl, yet look like an old granny. It is kind of disease that hasten the aging process. Surprisingly the picture weirdest was, it doesn't have the wrinkles that granny does. It is like a fairer skin granny on the picture. The remarks that viewers gave was funny, like pretending as a senior citizen to get money. Last article was a China girl whose skin turned into a cow hide. Basically her skin turned into leather, a disease that is the spreading and expanding of mole. I was thinking "Well, at least leather worth a lot and it's waterproof". Stephanie said "It is not as though you are going to kill her and tear apart her skin and sell it, right?" :D

In the evening went to Ang Mo Kio Primary, we were like slacking for two hours. I even had time to complete a page of manga panelling. This was also the first school that I saw the flooring was used using those sports stadium red carpet as their flooring. Most of the time would be cemented floors.

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Posted by Purity And Simplicity at 20:11