~ Congratulations ~

Took my precious time off and attended my bro's convocation yesterday. (see how much I love you, bro...)

He got his 2nd lower class honours in NTU's Mechanical Engineering. ( I thought with his nerdy and boring school life, he would at least get a 2nd upper class...)

The NTU graduates' gowns are new pieces and it's more worthwhile to buy the gowns then to rent them. It's only $35 and you will get a gown, a hat and a nice bag.

NTU's convo was a boring affair. They dun even have a emcee for the ceremony.

My parents were asleep before my bro went on stage and after he collected his cert.

I recalled mine in NUS has elements of fun. We had 3 shouts of hip hip hooray at the end of the ceremony and threw our hats up. Colourful balloons descended upon us while we did that. There was definitely an atmosphere of celebration.

But still I would give credit to NTU for creating so many phototaking backdrops for the graduates. They even had sound system and a small stage at the tea reception area for songs' dedication and more photo-taking opportunities .

My bro kept commenting that the graduation bear was stupid looking and ridiculously expensive and that he would laugh at frens who had the bear in their hands.

hmm...I smell sour grapes....

Anyway, Congratulations, boy! Welcome to the vicious working world!