bidding is killing me
Saturday, July 12, 2008
this week is super stress for me k..all thanks to the bidding of our mods..omg i din noe bidding is so exhausting can..bidding is a real tortorous process..
1. you need to decide on wad mods to take for the sem (which is not easy coz hafta make sure the mods u are taking doesnt make your sem too xiong or too slack..)
2. after confirming the mods, you nidda ask ard for the profs, see who is better la etc (nidda find prof that can teach well and give marks generously haha, and at the same time, manage our e$ well if we wanna bid for gd prof since gd prof are ex)
3. arrange the timetable so that the classes doesnt clash
4. most imptly hafta find kakis to take the mods with you (coz most if not all the mods requires us to do projects)
and so in the process, i spent a lot of money, both e$ and S$. i used up lots o sms to gather and research on the market rates..the sms that i used up in this week alone can last me for a month i think, if i dun waste my sms..not only money la, still got time spent toking on the fone n msn to discuss, and my energy can..last sun oso troubled by bidding and i cant fully utilise my precious sunday to watch my show): and there was a nite i cant slp well coz we haven decide and confirm on the mods n bids when the deadline for our bidding was drawing near..and the next dae when we finally confirm our bids le i slept too well and i was late for work..kns..and yea the night when i wanted to bid, oasis was DOWN!! which makes me even more sian diao..i was thinking of bidding le then can sleep peacefully, who noes oasis to be down!
first round of bidding over le..and i cant get two o my mods, just becoz of a few cents can!!! kns!! i bidded for CAT for 38.01 and wads the min bid?? 38.5!! then i bidded FT for 12.01 and guess wad..the lowest bid turned out to be 12.5!!! argh had i know i would haf spent lyk $1 more to save me all the trouble now..dun think i can really 安心 until i get all my bids successfully la..sian diaoz..spent too much to bid oso 心痛 and scared not enuff money for subsequent sems, spent too little lei scared cant get our mods..really every cents counts..cant splurge on one sem then next sem cfm die..waseh its really market forces in action eh..demand for good prof high drives prices up! when there are some kiasu or rich pple in the market who die die want the mods, they r willing to spend to get it and in the end, spoil the market..pple not in my sch would not haf been able to understand the agony we are going through de..they dun understand why cant we just spend lyk $5 more to secure the bids instead of worrying not being able to get the mods..they dun understand why we hafta save the money when its not real money, and somemore the account will be topped up every sem..haiz 有苦说不清,不是当事人是不能体会的。
i must really thank jieyi, keith and shiyang for their precious advice and directions given when im so lost..and also yu if not i will be bidding alone liao eh, which makes me even more lost..and my frenz serene, ade, alfred, juliet, rachel, kevin, weizi, kiente and yunjing for telling me their mods so that we can plan to attend the classes tgt and their bids to estimate the market rates... and many others who haf helped me in one way or anot..a million thanks!(: if not i would haf 死得更难看...
argh i hafta go through this every sem..omg!! gonna bid again..its lyk going through the whole process again la..and the results would be out tmr, 4 hours after the bidding sys closes..haha efficient ba..pass me ur luck so that i can get my bids hor!!!
admiring the sunset @ 11:40 PM