Cairo, I’m coming! Mixed feelings…
I don’t know am I feeling excited or what, I’m full of mixed feelings. Happy? Unhappy? Well, it’s regarding the Imagine Cup 2009 competition. For those who don’t know, I’m going to fly over to Cairo, Egypt, to represent Singapore in the Imagine Cup 2009 MashUp category’s finals.
My teammate, James, is not going with me, due to National Service (NS). Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP), Microsoft Singapore, and James himself, all 3 sources have wrote deferrment request letter to Army already, and James even went down to CMPB for the matter – but to no vail.
Thus I will be going alone, for the Question & Answer (Q&A) session, and probably some presentation on our VENews MashUp application. I guess I’m more or less prepared for that already. I can’t practise much, as I was sicked for more than a week (since 20 June?) ever since I came back from Malaysia – sore throat, cough, headache, etc.
Today I went to see doctor again, got a ultra strong coughing medicine. This is my first time seeing this medicine – been seeing this doctor for so many years, and this is the first time I didn’t get the same coughing medicine from her o.O”
Is this good or bad? Well, this shows that my cough’s condition is pretty bad. But on the other hand, it might be a good thing too, since she give me a stronger medicine, this might means that I might recover very soon? haha.
Oh ya, she added that if I recovered already, I should stop eating this medicine immediately, don’t eat it when I’m not having cough. Why? Is it because the medicine is too strong already? Well, who knows. I better be careful..
Back to the Cairo trip thing, I’m totally having mixed feelings. Here are my good and bad random thoughts:
It’s going to be my first time travelling oversea to a country further than Malaysia!
It’s going to be my first time taking an aeroplane!
It’s going to be my first time going oversea without any loved ones!
It’s going to be my first time going out to explore a totally new place all by myself (without friends)!
It’s going to be my first ever fully sponsored oversea holidays by Microsoft, to enjoy in Cairo, Egypt!
It’s going to be my first time going overseas to represent Singapore in a competition held worldwide!
It’s going to be a whole new experience! I want to have fun there!
It’s going to be a test to train me to be independent!
I’m going to sleep alone in a room as James is not coming – is this good or bad? Good is that I can have a room all by myself, don’t need share with any random unknown people. Bad is that I’m going to sleep alone, and I’m afraid that I can’t fall asleep and I have no one to talk to (you know, those things might look for me if I don’t sleep -_-“)
I’m travelling despite the fact that the H1N1 virus is still hot and running, and by then, over 140 countries are going to send teams to Cairo for the Imagine Cup 2009 comeptition, which means, to be a little touchwood, somewhere, somehow, H1N1 virus might be brought there >.<
I don’t even know if I am able to contact my family from Cairo or not, I hope that the event folks there would bring us to some shop to buy prepaid card to use there, or somehow allow me to use the phone at the hotel to make phone calls back.
Note that Cairo, Egypt is in the GMT +2 time zone, whereas Singapore is i the GMT +8 time zone. I have to always keep that in mind so that I don’t call back when it is in midnight in Singapore~
Here are my flight details:
Depart: Changi Intl Arpt (SIN) Singapore Terminal 2 22:40 Thursday, July 02, 2009 Arrive: Cairo Intl Arpt (CAI) Terminal 2 06:05 Friday, July 03, 2009
It’s going to be a 7 hours 15 minutes flight from Singapore Airport to Dubai Airport. Then, after change plane, another 3 hours 45 minutes flight from Dubai Airport to Cairo Airport.
And here’s my flight details when coming back:
Depart: Cairo Intl Arpt (CAI) Terminal 2 12:25 Wednesday, July 08, 2009 Arrive: Changi Intl Arpt (SIN) Singapore Terminal Not Available 05:50 Thursday, July 09, 2009
No one will be sending me to the airport when I’m leaving, and no one will be there to wait for me when I’m back to Singapore. Reason being – H1N1 case – Airports are in a mess, and I’m afraid that a lot of measures need to be taken for prevention, thus my parents etc will not be sending me off or picking me up when I’m back.
It’s my first time going to Airport, let alone flying off – of course I hope that someone will send me off. But what to do, H1N1 case so HOT nowadays, I can’t be so selfish, can I?
Oh man, I have been ranting and ranting for like an hour already. Sigh. I wonder who actually read my whole post. If you do, please post a comment under this post to tell me, or tag at my tagboard – I want to know who actually read this whole post. People who cares would read.
Till I blog again, cheerios.




Two other teams from NYP, “Epoch” from SIT and “Green Dream” from SEG(E), made to the Software Category of Singapore Finals. Team “Epoch” won the People’s Choice Award for their integrated communications system while “Green Dream” came in fourth for their Smart Home Monitoring System project.












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