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Friday, March 04, 2005

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For the hundredth time I feel like strangling the computer. Which wasn't physically possible. I feel like I'm being taunted by the stupid site; so much that I can almost hear its contemptous laughter.

From last night till now I've been trying to enter the site to do the JAE (Joint Admissions Exercise) thingy but to no avail. My mom said probably everyone is rushing to do it since its peak hour after dinner (?), so I waited till this morning. But the same problem occurred! Rawr!

For every step of the way the "we are unable to process ... inconvenience caused" message kept popping up so many times I can almost memorise it already. When I clicked for the singpass.com site it appeared, after I typed my password for my singpass it appeared, when I clicked Course Application (when I finally logged in) it appeared, which means I have to start right from the beginning again. It's like a snake & ladders game - and I always end up in the box with the snake sliding down to the Start box. Imagine the frustration!

Imagine my happiness when I got through after like, my 999th try. I wanted to jump up and scream around in joy when I finally saw the "Your JAE registration was submitted successfully." message!

Maybe as I type this, there are still people who face the same frustrations as me... That's why I'm glad the deadline has been extended till Monday. Else Singapore may find half of its student population disqualified for JC/Poly/ITE Admission just because they couldn't get into the site.

Which is quite a stupid and ludicrous reason if you think about it.

writing at 11:53 AM