My Little Princess and Prince

Monday, July 31, 2023

26 Jul 2023 - Dean's List Award during TJC College Day

Javier managed to get into TJC's Dean's List based on his academic results in IP1. It means he is ranked among the top 5% of the cohort. Today he received the certificate as well as a plaque for this achievement. Well done, Javier!

21 Jul 2023 - Poly EAE Written Assessment and CHAGEE Honkai Star Rail Event

Jerlene was shortlisted for the written assessment for NYP's EAE, which was held in NYP today. Before that, we went to Ang Mo Kio Hub for our lunch. We had another objective for coming to Ang Mo Kio. And that is to buy CHAGEE drinks which comes with Honkai Star Rail merchandise. When we arrived at the CHAGEE store in Ang Mo Kio, there was already a long queue snaking along the pavement to the store. We joined in the queue hoping that it won't be too long. However, after queueing for half an hour and the queue did not move much, I decided to drive Jerlene to NYP for the EAE written assessment while Tracy continue to queue. And when I returned, she's still in the queue. I took over the queueing while Tracy took a break at a nearby Hawker Centre. Sad to say, after we paid for our orders, we still had to queue to collect the drinks. Tracy waited there while I drove to NYP to pick Jerlene up. By the time we returned, Tracy was still waiting for the drinks.....sigh......

The merchandise includes cup sleeves, cup coasters, special edition stickers and in-game reward cards (below).

We are not going to queue for such merchandise again. It's not worth it and we are not even die-hard fans.

15 July 2023 - Another Relaxing Afternoon

Just another relaxing Saturday afternoon admiring the beautiful sky. :-)

Friday, June 30, 2023

28 Jun 2023 - Polytechnic Early Admissions Exercise (EAE)

The Polytechnic Early Admissions Exercise (Poly EAE) is an aptitude-based admissions exercise that allows students to apply for and receive conditional offers for admission to polytechnics prior to receiving their final grades. This is similar to the Direct School Admission for Junior College (DSA-JC) Exercise.

After visiting NYP early this year during its open house, Jerlene has made up her mind that she wants to pursue a Diploma in Communication & Motion Design at NYP's School of Media Design. As such, she had submitted her application via the EAE Portal today. As part of the application, she had submitted a mandatory 600-characters write-up about the courses that she's applying. In addition, she also submitted another 1,000 characters write-up on her achievements and talents. In a week's time, she will be notified whether she will get shortlisted for the next round, which is some form of written assessment or test. Wish her all the best!

14 Jun 2023 - Perth Day 7: Westfield Carousel Shopping Centre

We spent the remaining few hours of this trip at Westfield Carousel. It's a very huge shopping mall and it's just a short 15 mins drive to the airport.

You can get 4 hours of free parking by using the Westfield app and sign up as a member. Non-members will receive 2 hours free parking. Of course, if you do not mind the hassle, you can also leave the car park before the time is up and re-enter to have another 2 or 4 hours of free parking. Westfield Carousel uses a parking system that uses number plate recognition technology to replace paper tickets.

We had our dinner at Ippudo Japanese Restaurant. The food at Ippudo never disappoint.

This marks the end of our short 1-week Perth Trip. For those who follow my posts, hope you find some of the info useful if you do plan to visit Perth.

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