The one with the poem I wrote in Bio 3

Do I dare dream?

I am but a small soul,
Carrying a dream of my far-fetched future,
I stood in reverie as before me, my life unfold,
Asking myself my path of travel.

They told me to walk among the ordinary,
but I can't help but wonder, can I be more?
Should I have failed in my choice,
I will be but a humanity's sore.

Oh lord, high and almighty lord,
I dare myself to question you.
Will it matter all which I have fought?
If you have already lay my path through.

I stared upon the clouds, at the rocket propelled trail,
Is my life my own to decide?
Will I be able to reach my self-proclaimed grail?
Or have you bereft my dreams with a solitary tide?

Kelvin Hoo Kai Fu,
28.9.2009

The one with my aspirations

Essay for a scholarship application. Yes, it know its smut-tish

Have you ever spend hours deciphering how something works? I have, more frequent than I would like to admit. I would spend so much time obsessing about an unsolvable enigma that I would ignore everything else. Whenever I solve a puzzle, I feel an excitement that no phrase can ever define. My interest in science began even before I could recall. However, I do vaguely remember asking my mother to read my bedtime stories from the science reference book instead of a story book. Before I further engross myself in my aspirations, I would first and foremost like to confess that I do not have a stand alone interest for any field, at given time. However, my passion for science lies upon Psychology, Neurology and Astronomy.

Why does these fields seem so estranged to one another? In order to answer that question, I would need to allege something about myself first. My aspiration is to be a part of the invention, innovation and exploration of unfathomed areas of human knowledge. I predict great potential for me to put my knowledge and passion into practice in the following fields. They are as if in an embryonic stage where so much can be accomplished. Psychology fascinates me in its ability to explain human behaviour, Neurology engages me in its abstruseness while Astronomy astounds me with myriad of phenomenon beyond my wildest imagination.

I would be untruthful if I admit I will settle with only one of these fields in the future. Although I have determined my future profession to be related to Astronomy, I could never lay myself off the other two fields. I designated Astronomy as my choice of profession because it is one of the most unexplored fields known to humankind, period. Did the big bang theory really created the universe as we know it today? Is there more undiscovered planet around us? Is there life beyond earth? If so, do they require the same basic requirements as we do? My body is pumped with adrenaline just by stating these questions which I know would spend a life time understanding and researching.

My long term aspiration is to work under NASA, the world’s most advanced organization in aeronautics and space research. I want to be there, as one of the proud aeronautics engineer that created the very first space shuttle to land on planet Mars. I want to witness first hand, everything that I have ever dreamed of coming into actualization. Then, break another new boundary of space exploration after another where everything is possible. I am a simple person but with an audacity for success.

The one with iGreenify

So basically, we went for this Inti college university event which was held last week and got ourselves chosen as the finalist out of 108 teams all over Malaysia. Believe me, it's not as glamorous as you might think.

To win this competition, we're required to carry out a campaign related to the conservation and preservation of nature which we decided to call iGreenify. We came up with an idea after a long series of contemplation.

I am just going to skip all the interminable details, what we are going to do is plant a flower for you around the school for a price of RM5. You will be given a complimentary badge that looks like this. Your name will also be imprinted on a stone beside the plant, to acknowledge your donation.

Well, as for my prosaic week, I was forced to skip many of my classes due to the campaign and our upcoming Footloose musical by the choir.

I also got myself a new phone =D. Shut up, I really needed it this time. You will understand if you have seen my Samsung u-600. It's call the Samsung Jet, here's a picture of it.



Besides that, nothing much is going on as I am currently tied down with these events. Barely even have time to socialize and study. In addition to that, our choir will also be having a performance and competition soon. Thus, forgive me if I tend to ignore your calls for this few days/weeks ;)

The one with the bridge

Basically, this to a bridge from my previous post to my latter post, explaining what had happened in these few months (only things which I can remember).

ASEAN Scholarship
Lets see, I will begin with myself. Applied for ASEAN, got into the selection, went for selection, waiting for reply. The math was pretty hard, most of the candidates left at least half of the paper empty including me. The sad part was I was sure that I can answer all of it but I was stupid to held in my pee. My hypothalamus was signalling my body so bad that I think my bladder was about to burst. Now, I know it's stupid but they said we can't pee! I was desperate enough to ask after a while which granted me with a answer that saved my bladder from the brink of explosion. Anyway, when I came back from the toilet and had the proper mental capability to sit for the exam, the examiner announced "Time's up you suckers!".

English was not too bad, the only challange was to write a 350 words essay in about 30 minutes which I did with 600 words. The title which I had chosen was "Should the excellence be based solely on academic only".

General Knowledge (IQ) was a surprise for me. It was so freaking easy! Maybe it's because I had completed similar questions beforehand. I really want the scholarship but we all know the result.. Still, no harm hoping.

Icare/Ichallenge
We ( Carmen, Hsien Wei, Aiman and I) recently qualify ourselves as one of the 9 finalist chosen out of 108 teams througout Malaysia. Currently working on the campaign (iGreenify) which we are suppose to be carring out. I will elaborate more about it in our next post.

Choir
As for our choir, we won the district level competition. Lost the state level, 4th place, period.
I would say it was most probably our lack of capability as a leader that led to the downfall.
Though now we need to look ahead for the Subang Parade Competition and our musical.
Can't wait to step down.

Choral Festival
Due to the economical downfall, the location of the festival had been changed from KLPAC to our school. Had quite a lot of fun though I only attended 3 out of the 5 days it was hosted. Took lots of pictures with students from all over Malaysia and a choir from the Philippines. Too bad we were forced to clean up after the event because it was held in our school but we're willing to do it! =)

Summary
As to sum up this chapter, I am back =D