The turn

I'm finally done with my soft bound copy of my thesis. Its ready to be shipped on monday. It's been really a long way I came towards this point. I have lots of experience physically and mentally to share throughout this period of time, as well as some nostalgic feelings. But I guess that would take too much time and effort.

I just browse through some of the old post that I've written in the past. One that really caught my attention today was the post I wrote about being accepted to the Master program that I'm currently pursuing. I remember I applied this twinning program between Singapore and Germany as well as the full time local Singapore program. I got rejected by the local one but at the same time got accepted by this twinning program. Oh well, I did try to find an explanation for it. Since I am being accepted to this twinning which is even "harder" to get in actually because the admission board is at both NTU as well as TUM. For those who might not know TUM, it is one of the most elite Unversity in Germany and I think it's ranked around 50 over in the world. So I thought if it's not due to my qualification, it must be that the NTU admission board didn't quite understand the performance evaluation of my German bachelor degree. Since our grading starts from 1 being the best and 5 being the worse, with lots of step in between, I guess its understandable. But as time goes by, I start to feel there's this hidden reason behind my acceptance. Perhaps they hope that I'll join the twinning program because the fees are significantly higher and they can charge more? Or perhaps due to the program being relatively new, they want to have more students. But whatever reason it might be, I definitely benefit from this program. I'll explain a little below.

First of all, I will soon have a Master degree that have both logo from NTU and TUM, one of Asia's finest and one of Europe's finest degree. 2ndly, my grades are significantly good. If I can score well in my thesis, I'll most likely be in the range of the "1st class" portion. I'll go a lil deeper in this. We have lectures from NTU and TUM of course. And they'll do a conversion between the standard CGPA and the German ECTS credit system automatically for all the subjects regardless of where it is from. If you looked up in the internet, it is a fact that the ECTS system is somewhat higher standard because exams are generally harder. So in simple terms, to get a 1.0 in TUM is like u must have at least a brain power of a quad core processor. However, since my average in all my exams consists of grades from TUM as well as NTU, I'm now in the position of around 1.3. As long as my thesis don't go astray, I'll maintain between 1.0 - 2.0 grade. That's like superb! In other words, its the easy way out for me lol.

Anyway whatever grade I'll get, the main thing is I'm smelling the degree already. I suppose nothing will go wrong now. So I should be officially graduating this July. Great! Its time to reload my shotgun and start hunting for job. I still remember the feeling of finishing my bachelor thesis 2 year ago but that time was more intensified because it took quite a bit of delay and i was really relief to know it was over.

Well, 1 year living in Singapore and now back in Germany for about 5 1/2 months already. It was really a mixed feeling thingy. I had quite a lot of experience in both places. Despite the similarity between both countries in terms of technological and financial advancement, both countries have very different pace of lifestyle. In Singapore, I eventually get so used to walking so freaking fast and always try to be the first person to get up the bus. In Germany, it was the total opposite, although I'm so used to walking fast. My colleagues and friends around here couldn't bare with my speed.

I would love to talk some bout the highlights in both places as well as down moments. Sadly, I'm really not in a mood to do so. Just recently I felt there's a change of fate. Things really changed now. All I can say is that my decision to come back here in Germany brings lots of experiences as well as some sacrifices. I couldn't weigh which one is more, simply because the price I've paid was quite big. But well, if I have to be optimistic about it, I can only remind myself that my experience in Bosch will definitely decorate my resume to be more beautiful.

Notice that I've mentioned alot about new year's review and resolution, but only did and stopped at part 1. Partially, I'm lazy to move on with part 2 and 3. The other reason is just simply I don't have the motivation to it anymore.

Another long boring post.