Frayon: Fanning! FANNING! Quick, we’re on! *Ahem*. HELLLOOOO everyone!

Fanning: … Frayon, you’re looking in the wrong direction.

Frayon: What? Oh. Right. *turns around* HEL-

Fanning: SHUT UP. … … Wow. It certainly feels good to be able to say that to you again.

Frayon: Still as grumpy as ever, eh? Some things don’t change.

Fanning: Considering how you’re posing like a monkey as you talk, clearly some things don’t.

Frayon: I’M FLEXING.

Fanning: You’re lifting up your arms with a constipated look.

Frayon: The army has helped me refine my highly toned physique into a well-oiled and lean machine of manliness.

Fanning: You got skinnier and you got a tan. That’s all I see. AND WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP “FLEXING”?

Frayon: You can no longer hurt me! I’m tougher and stronger and bigger than I ever -

*THWACK*

Frayon: AAAAH MY TOE!!!

Fanning: Oh how I missed the joy of bringing you pain. I guess this will work out for us again after all.

Frayon: *whimper*

Fanning: Oh for crying out loud… MAN UP.

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Hello folks, how’ve you been? TP sure has changed a lot since we’ve graduated earlier this year. The Open House is coming really soon, and since Frayon and I are subject matter experts on Temasek Polytechnic, we got called back to do a series of posts on our dear alma mater.

Today we’re gonna talk about the Beyond O Level Seminar (for short, we call it the BOL Seminar). It’s happening on 7 January 2012 (Saturday) at 10am and is totally free-of-charge.

As a simplified way of describing the Seminar, you can think of it as consisting of 3 “parts” – the sharing sessions, the Q & A and the school tours.

Sharing Sessions

There will be a total of 3 sharing sessions during the BOL Seminar. TP Registrar (the staff in charge of all administrative work regarding admissions), an alumnus (a graduated student like us) and a group of current students will be sharing information based on their respective areas of expertise.

Our Registrar, Ms. Sharon Soh, will help to shed some light on the various admission exercises and procedures.

The TP alumnus, Victoria Li, will share about her life in TP to give you a “beyond the O levels and beyond TP” look on life.

And finally, Mrs Mary Thomas, a senior lecturer with our School of Business will facilitate a “talk-show” session with a couple of TP students to give you some first-hand accounts on what it’s like to study in Temasek Poly.

Frayon: I’d share about how TP is awesome by sheer virtue of the fact that I studied there.

Fanning: I’d share the pain of knowing you, but then it’s plain to see.

Q&A Session

The BOL Seminar will be fielding a panel of staff that will take questions from the audience. You can ask anything you’d like regarding our courses, admission requirements and student life!

Frayon: You know, I never understood why they didn’t ask me to be in that panel. Besides being an expert in all-things-TP, I’m also ruggedly handsome.

Fanning: The only thing you’re an expert in is being delusional.

School Tours

Attendees will then be brought on a guided tour to a school in TP of your choice – Applied Science, Business, Design, Engineering, Humanities & Social Sciences or Informatics & IT.

This tour will focus on showing you the facilities and opportunities available at those schools, and if you still have any unanswered questions, you can ask the facilitators at the tours.

Of course, since our Open House is still ongoing on that day, after the tours you’re free to roam around TP to discover more about the rest of our school!

Fanning: I was once a guide for the school tours, and I must say it’s great fun seeing visitors explore TP for the first time.

Frayon: I’m surprised they didn’t just run away, screaming in horror when they saw you.

So if any of you wish to register for this Seminar, simply head on over to http://www.tp.edu.sg/events/bol – see you in TP!