Pathways

I am not good with my words though I got a 6.5 average for my IELTS (basic requirement for Australia University and 6 for Singapore University).

Our local government always wonder why people keep moving out of Singapore and not returning, actually we don't need rocket sciencist for this question, maybe just a simple survey will do. In 2006, I applied to the so-called prestigious University in Singapore aka NUS they replied me with a rejection letter without any concrete reason, the reason given was "Admission to NUS is very competitive as a large number of talented students, such as you, apply each year. However, the number of places for the course you have applied is limited an hence, we have arrived at this very difficult decision" by Assoc Prof Tan Thiam Soon. This looks like a good rejection letter from NUS, but let me show you how University of Melbourne handle my case then you will know why UniMel ranking for the world top University is higher then our NUS. University of Melbourne actually offered me a place for "Bachelor of Commerce" the course I wanted, but they give me a conditional entry, meaning that I need to go to Unilearn to enrole for a Mathematics course before granted entry and I need to complete a test before I am given a full entry, that's a way out for my case. I applied to 7 of the group 8 in Australia Universities and all has offered me a place and UWA even offered me a unconditional 6 months exemption, that means my length of course is only 2.5 years.

Million thanks to Australian Universities, they helped me so much, I am so grateful to them. It is a very clear picture in my mind Australian University offered me the course I wanted and accepted me and my own country, the country that I serve 2 years of national service for rejected me and I can't even get into the course I wanted, even in for my diploma in Information Technology selected me, I didn't choose the course. 2 years of my life wasted in the Army for the country and the country can't even spend more time on my application to the University. This is a very clear cut case to tell which country is better in terms of Education.

I remembered Mr Goh, lable people who left Singapore for other country as 'quitters', in my case Mr Goh, I didn't quit, this country despise me and refuse to give me a chance, the school didn't even a second thought to reject me. I was abandon by our beloved country after serving NS. That's how I looked at it.

Uchiha Itachi

ok over with the lousy education system of some country. Lets me introduce you to this video in youtube. I like it alot, it's about naruto a Japanese anime series, this is what they call AMV aka Anime Music Video. It's about uchiha itachi a cool naruto anime character. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osOP7AlUIQM

Heart Broken Student/Soldier

This evening 'MP' came to my house for a visit, my dad was speaking to them and I was busy surfing the net. After my brother told me it was a visit from the MP, I went to the door to have a look. They spoke to me with extremely friendly attitude and shook my hand. One of them, asked me this, "Are you going to Australia for overseas studies?", and my answer was "Yes, I am going over to UWA to study for Bachelor of Commerce". After a short chat, they left, I went back into my room to arrange my books and out of a sudden, I came accross a letter. I took a closer look and it was the rejection letter from NUS aka National Univeristy of Singapore, there was this sad feeling rush in and fill my heart.

Here is the story, I completed my Full-Time National Service with an Outstanding award with "Very Good" remarks on both performance and conduct, I have got a Nanyang Polytechnic Information Technology diploma with a score of 3.4/4 as my GPA, all I asked for is a place in NUS/NTU/SMU. I applied for all 3 of them, and got reject by either with a letter or a no notice rejection repeatedly until I give up on them. I don't want to get disappointed anymore, I decided to give overseas University a try. So I went to open house located at Orchard hotel and to my surprise I felt so welcomed there. Every single University makes me feel welcomed, they looked at my results and told me this "You have very good results you can apply for our University we will most likely take you(UWA/UQ/UniMel/UNSW/Monash...)". I found out that I was so demoralised by Singapore's Universities and Australian's Universities brighten up my life. As a Singapore citizen, I felt "second classed", thoughts of migrating to Australia or staying there as a PR beckons me. Few of my friends ask me, "why go and be a 'second class' citizen/resident in Australia when you can be a first class citizen in Singapore?" I question them with back with this "Are we 'first class' citizen or 'second class'?" Does 'second class' citizen in Singapore need to serve National Service?