How time flies, it's been a week since we last featured Fifi, the rock-climber cum passionate digital art designer and now it's time to feature our next student in the list.
Today, we present Nicholas Ching, a former Bukit Batok Secondary school alumni who describes himself as a ROCKER.
Fifth choice but loving it
So how did a ROCKER end up in a digital media course like DDM?
"Actually, DDM was not my first choice, it was my fifth choice! My first choice was Media Communications in SP. I tried getting in through JPSAE but failed, and was posted here"
But all is not lost. As Nicholas added, "I like this course, even though it is not my first choice. I feel that this course is fun, and really cool. especially Photoshop! haha!".
Though he admitted he was initially quite disappointed that he did not get into his preferred course, the out-going student from Bukit Batok Secondary has learnt to adapt and blended incredibly well into his course and with his coursemates.
"I'm loving life here in SP, in this course. Except for the part where I have to take less of DDM-type of modules under the Common Year One (CYO) curriculum, I love everything else about SP and DDM. I love the food here, the people here, everything in SP is really good! I find the teachers/lecturers and students are all very friendly, easy to mix with, after 10 months here, I have loads of new friends already!
hahaha."Paintball MANIAC?
So what does this active boy with boyish good looks do besides going to school?
"I love playing soccer and basketball and also paintball."
His passion with paintball is evident from the way he talks about it, "I really love playing paintball. I started this sport when I was in poly Year 1. I've focused a lot on it and feel that it is something I'm good at."
What makes him love paintball so much, I asked him, "I think paintball makes me grow as a person. Playing paintball really helped me realise how important teamwork is and made me communicate more with my peers and also realise how important friends are."
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| Nicholas playing paintball at a competition in ECP, Oct 2011 |
Nicholas smiled and said "Well, I call myself a rocker because I listen to a lot of rock music, very fast-paced songs. and I like to dress like one! I am ALWAYS in jeans and band tees!"
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| Trying to act like a rocker! |
Besides paintball and listening to music, like any typical teenage guy, he also loves to play video games like FIFA, NBA and first-person shooting games like Call Of Duty and Battlefield.
He loves all kinds of western food especially fish & chips and steak. But don't feed this boy any vegetables - he HATES them and Chinese dishes are not his cup of tea either.
Missing ManU
I asked Nicholas what would he want to do if he was allowed to be anything or do anything he wanted. He jokingly replied, "Play all day, and get people to give me a huge allowance everyday!"
Later, he reverted to a serious face and shared this with me, "I really want to go back to Manchester and see that place again. I've been there once and really love it. Manchester is the home of my favourite football club, Manchester United, and what's more, the food there is good, the houses are nice, everything seems great over there."
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| Nicholas at Old Trafford, a football stadium in Manchester |
"Well, I really want to learn the guitar or another instrument as I love music and hate how I can't motivate myself to focus on something and perfect it instead of quitting it halfway." I learnt later that Nicholas had tried to self-learn the guitar on his own but he could not discipline himself and gave up after a while. He declares that in order that history would not repeat, he would sign up for guitar lessons in future, and put his heart into learning it this time, "I would live on the "never say die" slogan just like my father!"
Never say die slogan just like his father?
"Actually I really wish I can do something really meaningful to my life and make something out of myself. I really wish I can make the people around me happy, for instance, my dad. He's a really great father who inspires me alot. He has the 'never say die' attitude, and always willing to help people no matter how badly they've treated him before. He always helps me when I'm in need, teach me what to do and stuff"
So what's your philsophy in life?
"What goes around, comes around"
"A man who never made a mistake never tried anything new"
"All our dreams will come true, if we have the courage to pursue them"
If you can be someone else for a day, who would you choose to be?
"If I could be somebody else for a day, I would like to be David Beckham because I love soccer, and he is my idol. I love how he plays soccer and gets to play in those big clubs like Manchester United, Real Madrid and AC Milan. It would be really awesome to be him for a day and imagine the things I could buy with his one day salary!"
So what would make this carefree boy really happy in life?
"I would be really happy in life as long as I know my family and friends are always there for me, and that I hope that luck would shine on me from time to time(I'm a rather unlucky person in some ways) haha. As long as everyone who's in my life right now is doing great, I'll be glad :) "
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