You're just a pretty face

Ooh... Preeeettayyy

Umm.

So SM and I went to Republic Polytechnic yesterday. We took the MRT to Woodlands. It was still early so we walked around the campus. First impression? Beautiful. It has a shallow-pool-like pool with a fountain in the middle. And the buildings are all very... glassy. The kind of green green glasses you would find in some high profile company office. Very classy.

The outside of the building is even more impressive. Looked very green. Grass, trees, benches. Exactly like a park. Very serene and tranquil. The compound wasn't too big at all. We walked along the road and saw a sports hall. Almost like a stadium. And then there were badminton courts and a few other sports stuff. By far the best developed sports facilities. It had a hostel. Two blocks if I'm not mistaken. Pretty rad.

Take that lakeside!

Inside it looked equally mesmerizing. Beautiful library. Glass-walled. Has the feel of an apartment's show room. Subway. 7-eleven. Big food court. One of which was called South Food Court so I'm guessing they have four of them, or maybe eight, probably not. All in all it does not look like a school at all. I love that about it. Studying in a school that looks like a school just makes things seem more pressurizing don't you think?

So the reason that I described oh-so-wonderfully about the design and outlook of the polytechnic is because that's all there is to it. It's new, so naturally it's bound to be the prettiest. Other than that, there's nothing that I admire about this polytechnic.

The people there aren't very friendly. Not all, but most. I mean I walked up to them looking at their stuff and they didn't even bother to speak to me. They had booths, not like counters, booths. Like the ones you would find in cs selling expensive-and-I-don't-know-why-but-girls-like-to-have-them-anyway-accesories. That left me a bad impression.

The school of engineering had a whole room to themselves. Thank god for that. Or I would probably just leave right away. Inside it showcased robots, model airplanes, and very fascinating 3D technology. They had this simulator where you can control the person in the computer where to look by moving only your head. There was also this special glove that controls the guy to do various hand movements.

Oh yea and the touch screen glass the size of three quarters of a door. It was like a shirt design simulator. You could press on the shirts and colours and drag different pictures onto it. The idea was to choose the shirt you like and look into the glass to see your reflection so it looks like you're wearing the shirt. In the future they hope to further develop this technology so people could try clothes on without actually trying clothes on. There were people there dressed up as movie and game characters. Um basically the tehcnology, arts, and design stuff captivated me. A bit. Other than that nothing too interesting.

One of them was a fat Darth Maul

Then we took part in some 'games', if that's what they call it. So they guy asked us to stand on two rubber mats and hold the metal rod. Okay right then I was fearing that I was going to get electrocuted again like I did in SP. *Refer to SP post* So I was a bit paranoid but the guy held it himself and showed there's nothing suspicious. So I was dumb enough to follow his instructions. We both did. He started to spin the wheel thingy and wanted us to touch the tip of each other's fingers. Yea like ET. Guess what. ZAP! I could see the blue coloured electricity shocking us both. Ouch. Didn't felt great.

Here's the funny part. We saw two RP people playing with that stuff. A fat lady and a guy. They were zapping each other and screaming 'OU! OU! AAHH! AA!! A! OOUU!!' all the way. Haha pretty damn hillarious. Looked painful but exhiliarating.

Basically it's a beautiful place but sad to say there was nothing great about it. Not many courses too. Between what-the-hell-this-sucks-like-shit and oh-my-god-this-rocks-my-world, I would give it a MEH.

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*Oh, the girls are prettier there.*