// to decide //

I had quite a relaxing week, cuz I met up with Lynette for lunch on wed.
After a rather quick lunch we had to split ways to our lessons; me to my cog psy tut and she to her sound in daily life lecture.
I had quite a boring tutorial and psychology tutorials are mostly like that - no homework to prepare.
Basically, the tutor just go through the main points from the lecture and to clarify doubts, if we had any.
And guess what, I met her again after just 1 hr!
I was going to get a each-a-cup while waiting for project meeting to start and she was abandoning her lecture after 1 hr (supposed to be 3 hrs)
Yea! so we chatted over a cuppa for almost 2 hrs! (i had a lot of time to spare before the meeting)
she'll be graduating in a yr and that's when i'll have industrial attachment.
wonder when can we go travel again?
and when will we patch up with opal?

After which, I walked all the way back to north spine for the project group meeting with prof.
someone told me that it's impossible to walk from north to south spine (or vice versa) without meeting someone you know along the way.
I forgot who, but that person must be good at networking, cuz I didn't see anyone I know.

At the meeting, my heart almost leaped out of my mouth when the prof said, "So now, can each one of you present what you've found?"
Luckily our group reached a consensus of presenting 'group research' instead of individual ones at a meeting the day before.
Haha so our leader managed to halt the prof from asking us individually.
seriously, i still had not much of an idea what to do after browsing through the 10+ journals/articles sent to us.
but the prof did not really relent. For the next meeting with him, he wanted us to do up a draft of our individual parts.
i'm definitely not-so thrilled at his proposition.
what to do?

Then, on Fri, I met up with Christy! yippie!
Her practicals seems many times more interesting than mine.
She made injection bottles (which she gave me one) containing soap.
Pharma practs seem sooo fun!
Well, anything beats pressing buttons on a machine, which is apparently what engineers are trained in.

By Wed, I would need to make up my mind about the choice of IA Organisations.
It's a difficult choice cuz there's little info from the companies and the thought of having to spend 6 months there is really intimidating.
And, I dunno if I should also choose overseas IA in Japan!
Yes! Japan!!
It comes with provided accomodation, I assume is workers' hostel, and a salary of ~$2200
but then again, the company (Sanyo electric) might extend the IA to eight months and with my limited mastery of japanese, it might not work out.
The catch: there are only 2 places for the entire MSE.

What about my local choices?
It's equally difficult to choose.
I have not much of a confidence that I would be able to compete for places in Shell or Exxon Mobil hence those are OUT.
I'm interested in 3M's projects but then again, it's a popular company too.
IMRE sounds good, and it offers many projects but it's located near NUS, might be a bit too far?
Haiz.
Those are only interviewing organisations.
I'll have to choose from non-interviewing organisations too.
Those I admit, are less appealing but if you dun get an interview, there's no choice but to head to those companies.