today started out bad. I woke up ard 920am, and then started mugging SAT book. But somehow, mum came in and started the whole Uni application issue all over again. She's pissed that i dun want to apply Harvard, Yale and Princeton. She's even more pissed to see that im applying for UK and not yet US. sigh. Why adults just like to refuse to live in reality???
My reasons for not applying top universities:
1) My grades are simply not good enough. Yes, i am almost at 70+ percentile for every subject, but it only means that im in the top 20+% in NJC, not talking abt the whole of Singapore, not talking about the whole world.
2) I did my research, Uni like Harvard and Yale and..yeah..Princeton, only accept like 2% foreign students a year, and like less than 2 from each of the Asian Countries.
3) Uni like Harvard and Yale are mainly better for post graduate studies
4) in any case, for US uni application, each application costs you at least $50 US dollar. so even an idiot also knows you have to choose wisely. I am not the type who love to throw money into the sea.
5) I know where i stand. As simple as that.
My reasons for doing UK applications first
1) They have earlier deadlines.
2) I have already chosen the few schools that i want, not like US..which im still wondering if i shld apply common uni, or liberal arts uni, or art uni.
I wana go: London School of Economics, Warwick Uni, Imperial College, Leagues, Goldsmith...yeah...something like this.
3) UK is more systematic, and DO NOT need SAT results.
My parents' thoughts:
1) i dun care about the application fees, i just want to see my daughter ending up in a prestigeous uni.
2) Im not gona fund her a single cent if she takes art course
3) my daughter will graduate and enter ministry of foreign affairs and therefore, she can only major in : Political science/international relations, journalism, political sociology, politics, mass communications, law.
oh gosh...my mum beat me up this morning simply because she thinks that im lack of determination, self esteem and the fighting spirit. Yes, aft she beat me, i kind of gained the fighting spirit, but it is directed against her! she scolded jy again. sometimes i felt sorry for him, aways kena dragged into this kind of things. My parents only have me, the only child. Until now they still cant accept the idea that i can ever like a guy, cos they know me, im a very proud girl, i use to despise guys, so if one day i really do fall for a guy, if must be he is better than me in someway, yeah, that's wad my parents cant believe in. They simply cant believe there can be someone who's better than me in anyway. Which im like...amazed, cos...im sure...of the 6billion people on earth, there's at least 9million ppl who are better than me~!!! but think my parents will kill themselves if we force them to admit the truth....
anyway...today is the first day since i blocked jy...feels...weird cos i cant even find his email add on my msn list...cos i deleted it at the same time. oh well...it's a good strategy...last time i block him and then aft like a few hrs i will juz unblock him cos when he comes online i will feel like talking to him, but now, i dun even know if he's online cos i cant see either, so...ha ha ha...it's more useful...so can really stop talking:)...oh...yk sent me a few of the old 05 photos of ps, let me see the young jy...wow...he used to have a lot of hair siah?!
