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A last post before flying off to Berkeley

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Yesterday I went to the JPA office in Putrajaya and met 4 other JPA Scholars who were going to the United States under the same inaugural JPA Ivy League and setara Scholarship Program. In total 6 Malaysians were offered this Scholarship to the US (UK another story), including the MIT girl who appeared in the [...]

JPA offered a Scholarship for my studies in UC Berkeley!!!

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

***PRAISE THE LORD! He answered my prayers.***
I was driving in the afternoon around 5.30 today when Cher Hao called me and told me that the JPA Scholarship (Malaysian Public Service Department) application results were out.
So I told him my I.C. No. and after a few moments…
“Eh, you got it wei.”
“…wow… serious…”
I actually forgot that I [...]

Boring Post, Important Announcement

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Sorry this post is going to be boring as I am uninspired to write at the moment… but just one piece of news:
ERN SHEONG WILL BE GETTING BAPTIZED TOMORROW!!!!
I remember many years ago seeing people get baptized in church and I wondered whether I would ever come to that stage in my walk with Christ. [...]

Alright time for an update

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

OK so Ern Sheong has gotten himself rid of that sales job with iZZi Wireless Broadband which required him to work all weekend and practically 9 hours a day in a shopping center trying to sell people one thousand ringgit broadband packages. (I actually got a promotion to booth supervisor, but when I realised that [...]

ADMITTED TO CORNELL

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Ern Sheong Lin
No 21 Jalan BU 7/2 Bandar Utama
Petaling Jaya, 47800
MYS
Dear Ern Sheong:
Congratulations on your acceptance into the College of Engineering at Cornell University! We are very pleased to be welcoming you to the Cornell Class of 2012.
Very soon, you will receive a large packet that will contain your official letter of admission [...]

REJECTED BY STANFORD

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

E-mail came in at 5.11 am on Sunday morning, the day AFTER they were supposed to send out the e-mails.
March 28, 2008
Ern Sheong Lin
No. 21, Jalan BU 7/2
Petaling Jaya, 47800
MALAYSIA
Stanford ID#: 05522867
Dear Ern Sheong,
The Office of Undergraduate Admission regrets to inform you that we are unable to offer you admission to Stanford [...]

Less than 10% admitted to Stanford

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Quoted from MercunyNews.com:
Stanford University announced Thursday that less than one in 10 applicants have been offered admission beginning in the fall for the class of 2012.
A total of 2,400 students were offered admission to Stanford as freshman out of more than 25,000 applicants, the largest number in Stanford’s history.
“The competition for admission to Stanford this [...]

DJian Scores 15A1s!

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Bumped into this in Hazwani’s blog. Looks like most of us (me especially) do not read the New Straits Times =.=
Yes we have all heard about this guy with 20 A1s and 1 A2.
But A DJian has scored 15A1s and became Selangor’s top student! Congratulations to Chow May Suen! (Puan Yap’s daughter) May Suen is [...]

CHBTC School of Theology (SOT) 2008

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Friday, March 7th was the day the Singapore A-Level results were released. I came down to Singapore to collect the results, and stayed overnight at my aunt’s place. Saturday, I went to City Harvest Church Singapore @ Jurong West for the 3.30 pm service to meet up with my previous cell group friends (and also [...]

Congratulations people!

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

I would like to extend my congratulations to all from National Junior College who did exceptionally well in the previous 2007 Singapore-Cambridge A Level Examinations! Kudos especially to Yoon Ji Wei, Navin Brian Ramakrishna, and Doan Duc Huy for being the top three students in National Junior College. They scored straight Distinctions in all subjects [...]

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