______Here Comes MICKEY`!

Sunday, December 20, 2009

THIS CRAZY MIND-BOGGLINGLY JAW-DROPPINGLY OUTSTANDINGLY AWESOME B**** TURNED DOWN YALE FOR

Harvard.

And Yale was not the only one she turned down.

READ THE FOLLOWING WITH UTMOST RESPECT:

Princeton

Congratulations! I am pleased to offer you admission to Princeton's Class of 2013. Earlier today we mailed you a detailed letter of admission and a folder of information. Included in this mailing is an invitation for you and your parents or guardians to participate in one of two upcoming Princeton Preview programs. These events will be held on campus to showcase the academic, residential, and social aspects of Princeton.

If you applied for financial aid, a message from the Financial Aid Office is included below. You will find more extensive information about your financial aid award in the mailing you will receive.

We encourage you to explore the website we have created for admitted students: www.princeton.edu/admitted. To access this site, you will need the same username and password you used to view this online decision. The admitted student website will be available during the month of April. It will allow you to register online for one of the Princeton Preview programs, to create a personal profile, to view profiles created by other admitted students, and to read blogs by some of our current students and faculty members. You also may use this website to let us know your final decision by May 1.

We are delighted to be offering you a place in next year's freshman class at Princeton.

Congratulations again!

Janet Lavin Rapelye
Dean of Admission

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Columbia

Dear Ngoc,

Congratulations! Dean Austin Quigley and the members of the Committee on Admissions join me in the most rewarding part of this job - informing you that you have been selected for admission to Columbia College in its 255th academic year. As a member of the Class of 2013, you will be a participant in an academic community wealthy in intellectual and personal talents of every kind. We are fully confident that the gifts you bring to our campus will be unique and valuable and that your abilities will be challenged and developed here.

You and your family have every reason to be proud of the great achievements that we acknowledge today with this good news. We hope you will share your joy and excitement with the faculty at your school who have helped you reach this happy day.

The Columbia faculty, students and administration look forward to welcoming you into a community that thrives on our unique combination of a demanding and cohesive curriculum, a diverse and talented student body, and a college town that is one of the world’s most exciting cities, abundant in dynamism and opportunities. We know that you will contribute to the academic and personal excellence that has been the hallmark of Columbia students since 1754. The coming years at Columbia promise to be lively and joyful ones indeed as we continue to celebrate over 250 years of achievement and distinction.

It is our great pleasure to congratulate you on the successes that have earned you this fine honor, and we eagerly anticipate the successes that you will no doubt enjoy at Columbia. If any member of the admissions staff can assist you in the days ahead, please do not hesitate to write or call.

Signature

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Harvard

Dear Ms. Nguyen,

I am delighted to inform you that the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid has voted to offer you a place in the Harvard Class of 2013. Following an old Harvard tradition, a certificate of admission is enclosed. Please accept my personal congratulations for your outstanding achievements.

This year over twenty-nine thousand students, a record number, applied for admission to the entering class. Faced with many more talented and highly qualified candidates than it had room to admit, the Admissions Committee took great care to choose individuals with exceptional character as well as unusual academic and extracurricular strengths. The Committee is convinced that you will make important contributions during your college years and beyond.

Our faculty and students extend a special invitation for you to visit Cambridge over the next few weeks. If you feel a visit would be helpful in making your final college choice, we hope you will take advantage of this opportunity. An invitation is enclosed.

We have a longstanding commitment to meet the financial needs of our admitted students. No limit has been set on the financial resources devoted to making the College fully accessible to all students of promise, and we have a firm policy of making supportive offers of need-based financial aid. We encourage you to contact us now or at any time during your years here if you have questions or concerns about financial aid or if you have additional information that might be helpful to us in understanding your family’s financial circumstances.

I very much hope that you will decide to join us at Harvard. We have enclosed a statement about Harvard’s opportunities which might be helpful to you in making your college choice. Whatever your decision may be, you have my best wishes for every future success.

Sincerely,

William R. Fitzsimmons
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid

**Note: this is the truncated letter. The actual one is very long and contains details about School Final Report (and warnings), deferral of entry and other things. Harvard does get down to business straight away huh...

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Georgetown

Dear Ngoc Bich Nguyen :

It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Committee on Admissions has voted to accept your application for admission to Georgetown University . I am happy to offer you a place in the first-year class for the fall of 2009.

This year, Georgetown 's Admissions Committees considered approximately 18,600 candidates for 1,580 available spaces. You are to be congratulated for your acceptance in this very difficult competition. I have enclosed information explaining details of your admission and enrollment. During the next few weeks, you will hear from other members of the University community offering their congratulations and providing you with additional information. When you have reached your decision to attend Georgetown , please complete and return the enclosed Enrollment Agreement together with the required $900 deposit. This deposit must be received by May 1st to confirm your place in the class.

I am pleased to speak for the entire Georgetown community in extending to you this offer of admission. I look forward to welcoming you to the University as a member of the Class of 2013.

Sincerely,

Charles A. Deacon/
Dean of Undergraduate Admissions

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Yale

Dear Ms. Nguyen:

Congratulations on your admission to the Yale College Class of 2013! You have every reason to feel proud of your accomplishments, and it gives me great pleasure to send you this letter.

On the folder that holds your admissions materials, you will find the words of the late George Pierson, a professor and official historian of the university: "Yale is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, and a society of friends." We seek superb and interesting students who will feel at home in this remarkable community, and we look forward to celebrating your unique contribution to the university's life and mission.

You may reply to our offer by completing our online reply card at __. While the final Candidate's Reply Date is May 1, we would be happy to hear from you any time you feel ready to make your decision.

On April 20th, 21st and 22nd, most of your future classmates will come to campus for Bulldog Days, our program for admitted students, and we hope you will join them. To register for Bulldog Days and also to make connections with other admitted students, please visit our admitted student website at ___.

Finally, if you have any general or specific questions about Yale, feel free to email us at __. I am delighted, both for you and for the College, at the prospect that you will join us next fall. Welcome to Yale!

Best wishes,
Jeffrey B. Brenzel
Dean of Undergraduate Admissions

Dartmouth

Dear Ngoc,

Congratulations! It is with great pleasure that I inform you of your admission to Dartmouth College as a member of the Class of 2013. You were selected from an accomplished and academically talented group of more than 18,000 applicants. The admitted group, of which you are a part, is outstanding in its achievements, interests, and potential. We are enthusiastic about the prospect of your attendance and are confident that you and Dartmouth are an ideal match.

The faculty and staff join me in inviting you to attend Dartmouth. This is a particularly exciting time at the College; the opportunity for personal involvement in all facets of your education here is significant. The College continues to be distinguished by the commitment of its faculty to combine excellence in teaching with exceptional scholarship and research. New initiatives undertaken in recent years, including a reaffirmation of the commitment to a diverse student body, an expansion of the financial aid program, and a major expansion of academic and research facilities, will each enhance Dartmouth’s national leadership in liberal arts education.

All of us at Dartmouth hope you will visit campus during the month of April and take the opportunity to meet students and faculty, attend classes, and stay overnight in the dorms. During the month of April, we will sponsor a series of special programs to introduce admitted students to the academic and extracurricular life at the College.

Again, congratulations on your acceptance. Please let us know if we can be of any help to you in the next few weeks. We would appreciate confirmation of your matriculation plans via the reply form that is enclosed with your paper notification by May 1st. I hope you decide to become a part of the Dartmouth community.

Sincerely,

Maria Laskaris
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid

Oh how I would kill just to get one of those! And she picked one and used the rest as toilet paper. I don't know this girl personally, but I hate her already! LOL. *jealous jealous*

Squeaks` @* 11:22 AM

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Friday, December 18, 2009

SHUT UP AND DRIVE

Since many a soul have been complaining about the inconsistency of my blog's display, I've changed the skin. There. (because I've always loved Mickey Mouse, deep deep inside).

Due to some technical reasons which I am currently too sleepy to address right now (and perhaps too lazy to in the following days), the titles of my previous posts are conveniently missing. Don't bother. They're all irrelevant anyway.

Advice of The Day :

The world is really scary. Bad people do exist out there, those who can hurt, those who inflict harm. Now that we are not children anymore, the innocence is lost, blissfulness remains only distant memory from far-flung wonderland.

Those of you who have been treated wrongly, unfairly, violently even - have faith that bad luck is never forever, and all your sufferings will grant you acute sensibility to distinguish the good from the bad.

Those of you who have experienced a close brush with not-so-bad-but-still-really-bad person(s), count yourself lucky still. You have been warned. You will now stay alert.

Those of you who have always been very well protected, be grateful. You have been lucky. But boy will you need much much more dose of that luck to survive. You may not realize this now, and I pray that you will never need to know :)

Squeaks` @* 10:35 AM

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

1. Get a tattoo before year end.

2. Watch one live 2010 world cup football match (if nobody changes his mind. This one's on me.
being the demanding little brat. But it's world cup!!)

3. Ship that locked box out from the storage room, out from Memory into the Sea of Forgotten
Things.

4. Be good. Be kind. Be right.

5. Cry more.

6. Stop making lists.

Oh, and advice of the day :
DADDY SAYS DON'T DATE A FOOTBALL ADDICT BECAUSE 95% OF THEM WILL TURN INTO GAMBLERS.

(He's a bookie. He knows.)

lastly,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VANEZSAAAAAAAAAAA (the only one with a 'z'). No matter what happens, always remember that everybody loves you, and that makes you super special :)) Stay true to yourself. xoxoxo

Squeaks` @* 1:00 PM

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Tuesday, December 08, 2009

I'M GLAD I CAN WRITE.

I'M GLAD. I'M GLAD.

Reading was my first love. Writing second. And no matter which course, which loop, which direction my present life would take me, I know that they have been and they will always be. The loves of my life.

And nothing, nothing can take that away from me.

I'm glad.

Note to self : try to put up more substantial posts instead of random ramblings.

Squeaks` @* 6:43 AM

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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

It's a general tendency for most people to prepare early.

You would think if you've been well informed well prepared well researched, you'll save yourself from trouble (and that's why people bring umbrellas, get vaccination, build bunkers).

But no matter how much trouble you have gone through, you can only protect yourself so much.

Rain droplets would slide down the umbrella, spatter off the road, wetting your bare left arm, bare right leg, strands of your hair.

Time and again people all over the world suffered from completely curable diseases they thought they had been protected from.

Hitler hid in his bunker but he died anyway.

And no matter how much you had prepared, revised, researched, consulted, read, and written about them, no matter how strong you thought you had built your fortress; when endings attacked, they would be painful.

You would think that after that whole time you spent reminding yourself again and again, after that whole time counting days down to that point - you would have been numbed by then. Well.

When endings came, your heart would crack. A little bit, a little more, did it matter? Count yourself lucky if it did not break :))

Squeaks` @* 10:22 AM

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Friday, November 27, 2009

1. Americans are full of crap

2. Americans have quantity but no quality. They go for size, but never content. Same goes for their food, that gigantic bunch of high-calorie junk they call burger and fries.

3. Which makes them even more appealing because I'm full of crap.

4. They respect highly personal freedom. No textbook Asian-esque conservative rules.

5. They are friendly.

6. FRIENDLY. Like dogs. (I figure that's why they love dogs so much.)

7. Everybody will fall in love with Princeton at first sight.

8. New York is like a sloppy, exhausted, old man who keeps delightful sweets in his pockets and a pink rabbit under his hat.

9. Singapore is indeed one of the safest, cleanest, most convenient cities in the world to live in. (which is why it bores you)

10. Never, I repeat, NEVER buy Chinese food prepared by an Afro-American cook.

P.S. My internet refuses to allow me uploading any pic whatsoever, so I'll save them for next post. IF I feel like it :P

Squeaks` @* 8:40 AM

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

IF I BREAK HIS UNBEATABLE MODEL UNITED NATIONS RECORD

He's going to kill me with powerful, glaring disappointment rays that radiate from hair to toe as he mops around with a sorry look and unshaven chin. He's going to drown me in guilt and shame, bog me down to the bottom pit of misery, suffocate me with such overwhelming pity and self-reproach. Or maybe he's going to kill himself and come back to haunt me.

It is therefore imperative that I push myself beyond my perceived limit.

6 more hours left before my flight.

Wish me luck.

MAY GOD BE THE GLORY THE BEST IS YET TO BE. YEAHHH =P

Squeaks` @* 1:31 AM

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