Embrasser La Pluie 비를 맞다: 第十五章。Road to Naval Architecture

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第十五章。Road to Naval Architecture

30.11.11
Things can be happened out of sudden. And there is a chance, the only one for you to grab, must not be missed. It happened to me, something I can't expect, and I never think of which engineering path and engineering field that I am really interested in.
Perhaps it may not be necessarily in engineering. Until now, only I find my own way to explore more what I really want to, before you give it a try, you'll always wonder what and why, yet until you explore further, things can change.

ASMI hit my doorstep out of sudden, in just one application form, it changes my whole life after all. Thanks to my buddy, Kah liang, for helping to print the application form because my home printer was down. Seriously, I never think of getting this down in my best way, I just attempted to give a try, although I know chances are extremely low. I don't even have a good printer at that moment, quickly urge me to forget about this stuff, and my friend just gave his hands to print out, and I just submit like that.

The first email I received, was telling me that, usually this opens to Singapore citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents. Nevertheless, it doesn't mean foreigners cannot perform better, they can be the pioneer group of talent and expert in Singapore - that's why we call talent hub in Singapore. I always believe, everyone has equal chance and opportunity to succeed. Anyway, I replied to them, why not Malaysian? and their reply was [NO]

And after a week, things changed, [you're allowed] ... but I know chances are low. It is a marine industry, one of the pioneer marine industry in Singapore. It is not a surprise to me. The reply was just a waste of time, the dateline was over, they postponed the application dateline, a new dateline. So, just 2-page of application form, mom asked me to do it.

OKAY, so now I got my paper, print it out and submit, that's all. It was the month of August, and I shouldn't be in Singapore, haha when I first saw the interview session for shortlisted candidates, forget about it, I would not be able to drop by.
Yes, I was going for FAMINE 30. The interview call-up was just next to my door, I would definitely miss it, I should be in Kuala Lumpur for something big for me to do.
Famine 30 was a successful event.

Second chance again came to me, [we have a 2nd time interview]
So, what does it mean? I have another chance, I already gave up in that moment, still it belongs to me. Total of 11 interviewers with me in a huge conference room, after 15 mins, I walked out from room with 50% confidence. 3 representatives from Keppel, 3 from Sembcorp, 3 from ST Marine, plus two rep from ASMI. It was a wonderful interview session, with 11 interviewers.

I really know I want to be, yes it is Marine industry I want to get myself into it, right before the end of my internship with ExxonMobil, I already decided to take up specialization in naval architecture and marine engineering, although I know the [road] is not easily taken.

And yet, the reply comes [Congratulations]