Scholarship

THE ASEAN UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP

The ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship (AUS) is offered by the National University of Singapore (NUS) to full-time NUS undergraduates who have outstanding academic merit and co-curricular activities.

Eligibility

The AUS is awarded to freshmen based on academic merit. These freshmen must be citizens or permanent residents of an ASEAN* member country. Singapore citizens are ineligible to apply for the AUS.

Candidates will be considered and shortlisted for interviews through their application for admission to NUS. No separate scholarship application is required.

*ASEAN nations: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Terms & Condition

• The scholarship covers tuition fees and provides an annual living allowance of S$5,800. The scholarship is tenable for the minimum period of candidature for the respective undergraduate courses at NUS.

• The scholarship does not carry a bond. However, tuition fees at NUS have been subsidised by the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) through the MOE Tution Grant Subsidy. The MOE Tuition Grant Subsidy is not covered under the scholarship scheme. The MOE Tuition Grant Subsidy carries a bond for students who are not Singapore citizens. All Singapore permanent residents and international students taking up the MOE Tuition Grant Subsidy are required to work with a Singapore-registered company of their choice for three years upon graduation. Due to the higher fees and subsidies for the Dental and Medical courses, students in these courses are obliged to work for a longer bond period of five and six years respectively.

• The scholarship is open to students from all faculties. However, candidates should note that due to the highly competitive nature of courses like Medicine, Dentistry and Law, there are limited scholarships for students who wish to pursue these courses.

• Recipients of the scholarship may not concurrently hold any other scholarship, fellowship, grant or award without prior approval from the University.

• The University does not provide any assistance towards travel or other costs nor does it guarantee employment for the scholar upon graduation.

• The scholarship covers the entire duration of undergraduate studies on condition that scholars maintain a minimum CAP (Cumulative Average Point) of 3.5. The academic performance is monitored on a semester basis.

• If the scholar decides to terminate the scholarship prematurely, the university reserves the right to impose a repayment on a case-by-case basis.

Application & Shortlisting Process

• All applicants for admission to NUS will be shortlisted automatically through their application for admission.

• Shortlisted candidates will be informed by June of the year of admission.

• Scholarships are awarded on the basis of competition among eligible candidates. Shortlisted candidates will be notified by email for a scholarship interview. Leadership, co-curricular records and other capabilities will be assessed during the interview. Please note that the University shortlists candidates strictly based on academic merit. Not all applicants for the scholarship will be called for an interview.

• NUS reserves the right not to award any scholarship if there are no candidates of sufficient merit. The decision of the selection committee is final. Enquiries or disputes surrounding its decisions will not be entertained.

QUESTIONS
 

Who offered the ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship?

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Which Singapore ministry will subside the scholar tuition fee?

What will the Scholarship covers?

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What is the minimum CAP (Cumulative Average Point) so that the scholarship continued?

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What are the steps that scholars should complete to apply the scholarship.

Short Story Summary

REGRET Analysis

Synopsis:

There lived an old woman named Mamzelle Aurlie. She was 50 years old and had never been married before. She only had little friends, black people who works in her farm, cows, sheep, chicken, and her beloved dog Ponto. Mamzelle Aurlie, who looked very unfashionable, used to watch her neighbor’s children played music in a band. The name of the band was Arms Akimbo which personnel were the children of Odile.

One day, Odile knocked on Mamzelle’s house door, while bringing her children with her. When Mamzelle opened the door, Odile begged Mamzelle to take care of her children for a couple of days because she had planned to look in her mother in another town, which was very far. Mamzelle was pity with Odile so she just agreed to do so, although she had never taken care of children before. Odile was happy and she immediately went to the airport with Valsin her maid.

Mamzelle struggled really hard to take care of the children because she was used to take care of animals. For the first couple of days, Mamzelle kept complaining about the children behavior to her cook, Valsin, because she thought that the children are really different with the animals she have. She found out that she has to put extra care to the children. But after three days mamzelle had taken care of the children, she started to feel enjoy with the children. Mamzelle started to like the children and play with them happily.

The next week, Odile came back from looking in her mother and took back her children from Mamzelle’s house. It was a really sad moment for Mamzelle because she had already liked the children very much. From that day, Mamzelle regret not to have children in her live or a husband.

Analysis

Theme: Regret 

This short story is telling about Mamzelle's regret because she had never thought of being married before Odile asked her to take care of his children.

Plot: 

At the first paragraph, the writer tells a story about Mamzelle's young life, her clothes, and friends. Although the first paragraph tells about the young life of Mamzelle, the second paragraph tells the story about the first day Odile asked Mamzelle to take care of her children. The story continues until the end, the day Odile take back her children. Therefore, I could say that the type of the plot is Forward.

Characters:

• ·         Mamzelle Aurélie
• ·         Ponto, Aurélie's dog
• ·         Odile, Aurélie's neighbor
• ·         Elodie, Odile's youngest daughter
• ·         Ti Nomme, (petit homme--French for little fellow), Odile's son
• ·         Marcéline, Odile's daughter
• ·         Marcélette, Odile's daughter
• ·         Valsin, working for Odile
• ·         Aunt Ruby, Aurélie's cook

Settings/Background:

                Place: The story took place in Mamzelle’s house.

                Atmosphere: Funny but full of Regret just like the title of the story says

                Time: Not Mentioned

Morale Value:

                The morale value that I get after reading this story is that we should do things as much as we can as long as it is still positive because we don’t want to regret the things that we didn’t do.

Short Story

Regret
by Kate Chopin

MAMZELLE AURLIE possessed a good strong figure, ruddy cheeks, hair that was changing from brown to gray, and a determined eye. She wore a man's hat about the farm, and an old blue army overcoat when it was cold, and sometimes top-boots.

 Mamzelle Aurlie had never thought of marrying. She had never been in love. At the age of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it.

 So she was quite alone in the world, except for her dog Ponto, and the negroes who lived in her cabins and worked her crops, and the fowls, a few cows, a couple of mules, her gun (with which she shot chicken-hawks), and her religion.

 One morning Mamzelle Aurlie stood upon her gallery, contemplating, with arms akimbo, a small band of very small children who, to all intents and purposes, might have fallen from the clouds, so unexpected and bewildering was their coming, and so unwelcome. They were the children of her nearest neighbor, Odile, who was not such a near neighbor, after all.

 The young woman had appeared but five minutes before, accompanied by these four children. In her arms she carried little Lodie; she dragged Ti Nomme by an unwilling hand; while Marcline and Marclette followed with irresolute steps.

 Her face was red and disfigured from tears and excitement. She had been summoned to a neighboring parish by the dangerous illness of her mother; her husband was away in Texas -- it seemed to her a million miles away; and Valsin was waiting with the mule-cart to drive her to the station.

 "It's no question, Mamzelle Aurlie; you jus' got to keep those youngsters fo' me tell I come back. Dieu sait, I wouldn' botha you with 'em if it was any otha way to do! Make 'em mine you, Mamzelle Aurlie; don' spare 'em. Me, there, I'm half crazy between the chil'ren, an' Lon not home, an' maybe not even to fine po' maman alive encore!" -- a harrowing possibility which drove Odile to take a final hasty and convulsive leave of her disconsolate family.

 She left them crowded into the narrow strip of shade on the porch of the long, low house; the white sunlight was beating in on the white old boards; some chickens were scratching in the grass at the foot of the steps, and one had boldly mounted, and was stepping heavily, solemnly, and aimlessly across the gallery. There was a pleasant odor of pinks in the air, and the sound of negroes' laughter was coming across the flowering cotton-field.

 Mamzelle Aurlie stood contemplating the children. She looked with a critical eye upon Marcline, who had been left staggering beneath the weight of the chubby Lodie. She surveyed with the same calculating air Marclette mingling her silent tears with the audible grief and rebellion of Ti Nomme. During those few contemplative moments she was collecting herself, determining upon a line of action which should be identical with a line of duty. She began by feeding them.

 If Mamzelle Aurlie's responsibilities might have begun and ended there, they could easily have been dismissed; for her larder was amply provided against an emergency of this nature. But little children are not little pigs: they require and demand attentions which were wholly unexpected by Mamzelle Aurlie, and which she was ill prepared to give.

 She was, indeed, very inapt in her management of Odile's children during the first few days. How could she know that Marclette always wept when spoken to in a loud and commanding tone of voice? It was a peculiarity of Marclette's. She became acquainted with Ti Nomme's passion for flowers only when he had plucked all the choicest gardenias and pinks for the apparent purpose of critically studying their botanical construction.

 "'T ain't enough to tell 'im, Mamzelle Aurlie," Marcline instructed her; "you got to tie 'im in a chair. It's w'at maman all time do w'en he's bad: she tie 'im in a chair." The chair in which Mamzelle Aurlie tied Ti Nomme was roomy and comfortable, and he seized the opportunity to take a nap in it, the afternoon being warm.

 At night, when she ordered them one and all to bed as she would have shooed the chickens into the hen-house, they stayed uncomprehending before her. What about the little white nightgowns that had to be taken from the pillow-slip in which they were brought over, and shaken by some strong hand till they snapped like ox-whips? What about the tub of water which had to be brought and set in the middle of the floor, in which the little tired, dusty, sun-browned feet had every one to be washed sweet and clean? And it made Marcline and Marclette laugh merrily -- the idea that Mamzelle Aurlie should for a moment have believed that Ti Nomme could fall asleep without being told the story of Croque-mitaine or Loup-garou, or both; or that lodie could fall asleep at all without being rocked and sung to.

 "I tell you, Aunt Ruby," Mamzelle Aurlie informed her cook in confidence; "me, I'd rather manage a dozen plantation' than fo' chil'ren. It's terrassent! Bont! don't talk to me about chil'ren!"

 "T ain' ispected sich as you would know airy thing 'bout 'em, Mamzelle Aurlie. I see dat plainly yistiddy w'en I spy dat li'le chile playin' wid yo' baskit o' keys. You don' know dat makes chillun grow up hard-headed, to play wid keys? Des like it make 'em teeth hard to look in a lookin'-glass. Them's the things you got to know in the raisin' an' manigement o' chillun."

 Mamzelle Aurlie certainly did not pretend or aspire to such subtle and far-reaching knowledge on the subject as Aunt Ruby possessed, who had "raised five an' buried six" in her day. She was glad enough to learn a few little mother-tricks to serve the moment's need.

 Ti Nomme's sticky fingers compelled her to unearth white aprons that she had not worn for years, and she had to accustom herself to his moist kisses -- the expressions of an affectionate and exuberant nature. She got down her sewing-basket, which she seldom used, from the top shelf of the armoire, and placed it within the ready and easy reach which torn slips and buttonless waists demanded. It took her some days to become accustomed to the laughing, the crying, the chattering that echoed through the house and around it all day long. And it was not the first or the second night that she could sleep comfortably with little Lodie's hot, plump body pressed close against her, and the little one's warm breath beating her cheek like the fanning of a bird's wing.

 But at the end of two weeks Mamzelle Aurlie had grown quite used to these things, and she no longer complained.

 It was also at the end of two weeks that Mamzelle Aurlie, one evening, looking away toward the crib where the cattle were being fed, saw Valsin's blue cart turning the bend of the road. Odile sat beside the mulatto, upright and alert. As they drew near, the young woman's beaming face indicated that her home-coming was a happy one.

 But this coming, unannounced and unexpected, threw Mamzelle Aurlie into a flutter that was almost agitation. The children had to be gathered. Where was Ti Nomme? Yonder in the shed, putting an edge on his knife at the grindstone. And Marcline and Marclette? Cutting and fashioning doll-rags in the corner of the gallery. As for Lodie, she was safe enough in Mamzelle Aurlie's arms; and she had screamed with delight at sight of the familiar blue cart which was bringing her mother back to her.

 THE excitement was all over, and they were gone. How still it was when they were gone! Mamzelle Aurlie stood upon the gallery, looking and listening. She could no longer see the cart; the red sunset and the blue-gray twilight had together flung a purple mist across the fields and road that hid it from her view. She could no longer hear the wheezing and creaking of its wheels. But she could still faintly hear the shrill, glad voices of the children.

 She turned into the house. There was much work awaiting her, for the children had left a sad disorder behind them; but she did not at once set about the task of righting it. Mamzelle Aurlie seated herself beside the table. She gave one slow glance through the room, into which the evening shadows were creeping and deepening around her solitary figure. She let her head fall down upon her bended arm, and began to cry. Oh, but she cried! Not softly, as women often do. She cried like a man, with sobs that seemed to tear her very soul. She did not notice Ponto licking her hand.

Source:

http://www.americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/short-story/regret

My Favorite Animal

KANGAROO

Hello Everyone!! I would like to tell you about a unique animal that I like most, it’s called Kangaroo. This unique animal, most found in Australia, is actually the biggest marsupials on earth. Therefore, kangaroo is used by the Australian Government as the symbol of Australia. Kangaroo is an herbivore type animal so that it eats grass and vegetable. One of the interesting fact about this biggest marsupial is its pouch, where a baby kangaroo live in. Baby kangaroo live in its mother’s pouch for about 7-8 months after its birth. Kangaroo has a big tail which is used to balance their jump. A kangaroo could live for about 20 years.

          A kangaroo moves with its legs and they actually jump to move. Kangaroo’s legs are absolutely strong because their habit jumping around to move. A kangaroo can jump 3 meters high, but in general kangaroo jump 80-100 centimeter high. Because of their legs strength, I might want to suggest everyone not to stand too close to a kangaroo because they could kick you hard and it will hurt you badly. A lot of people got hurt by a kangaroo mighty kick.

            Kangaroos of different types live in almost all areas of Australia, from cold-climate areas and desert plains, to tropical rainforests and beaches.There are four main types of kangaroo, The Red Kangaroo, The Eastern Grey Kangaroo, The Western Grey Kangaroo, and Antilopine Kangaroo. Four of them looks almost the same but their biggest difference are where they live.

Red Kangaroo

THE RED KANGAROO

The first type kangaroo is The Red Kangaroo (Macropus Rufus) which we could know from its name that this kangaroo is a red coloured kangaroo. The Red Kangaroo is actually the heaviest kangaroo of all and they occupy the arid and semi-arid centre of the country. The male kangaroo could grow until 2 meters tall and weight 90 kilograms.

                                       

Eastern Grey Kangaroo

THE EASTERN GREY KANGAROO

The Eastern Grey Kangaroo is the less known kangaroo, but most often seen. This type of kangaroo covers the fertile eastern part of the country and occupies more area than the other Kangaroo. This kangaroo is a grey coloured kangaroo as it name says and usually found in moister, more fertile areas than the Red. The average weight of this type of kangaroo is 50 kilograms depends on its sex and its average height is 2 meters.

Western Grey Kangaroo

THE WESTERN GREY KANGAROO

The Western Grey Kangaroo is a more common kangaroo than the Eastern. This kangaroo occupies the western area of the country. This type of kangaroo weighs 28–54 kg and length 0.84–1.1meters with 80–100 centimeters tail, standing approximately 1.3 meters tall. Western Grey Kangaroo

Antilopine Kangaroo

THE ANTILOPINE KANGAROO

The Antilopine Kangaroo is just the same like Western and Eastern Kangaroo, but for me The antilopine kangaroo is the most unique kangaroo, because of their sexual dimorphism. Male antilopine kangaroos are mostly reddish coloured, but female antilopine kangaroos are mostly greyer. 

Source:
- Wikipedia.org
- Livescience.com
- Discovery.com
- Australiawildlife.com

Introducing Me...

TALKING ABOUT MYSELF

Me in Bali

My name is Daniel Steven Doxazo Sitompul, but people usually call me Daniel. I live in Indonesia right now, in the town of Bandung. I’m 16 years old right now and I’m the second child out of three in my Family. I’m really happy to be the member of my family, because I have great parents, sister, and brother. My dad’s name is Johnner and my mom’s is Ester, both of them cares a lot about me. I think, that’s the reason why I love them so much. My brother’s name is Michael, he is one year older than me. Michael and I get a long well, so we usually have time to chit chat together almost everyday, sometimes we talk about school and subjects that one of us didn’t understand at school. My little sister’s name is Gabriella but I usually call her Gaby, she always help me to do things that I can’t do, normally girly stuffs.

                The next thing that I want to talk about is my strength and my weakness. I am glad to have such a great strength and I thank a lot for that to God. I also think that I have good talents too, such as playing the piano and guitar though I don’t play it excellently. I also do some sports such as basketball, badminton, and many other sports. But my favorite talent is my computer skills. Although I have good hobbies, I have pretty much weakness too. The worst is my habit being untidy with my things such as my books. One of the example of my untidiness is that I can’t tidy up my desk in my house and I never put things back to it actual place. The next weakness that I have, is my discipline. I’m not a discipline man because I am lazy to do things that I don’t like, such as studying. I also cannot make a short term plan for myself because of my bad discipline.

                To be honest, I have much more weakness than strength, but I always have somebody to keep me motivated enough everyday. They are my parents, of course. I really love my parents because they never get bored on telling me to do good things and not to be friend with bad person. Since they are very smart to, they always help me with my school subjects. One of the thing that I don’t really like is that my parents temperate.

                I’m now in Bandung 3^rd Senior High School, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Most of all  the students from my school wish to go to ITB (Bandung Technological Institution) after graduating, but I don’t want to be a mainstream guy so that I always think about extraordinary goals. I have a big goal for my life and I think that it’s almost impossible to happen, it’s to get a scholarship abroad. I hope my parents could help me a lot to reach my goal because without them I will be nothing. I really want a scholarship that bring me studying at a university in Singapore or Germany. Some people think that my goal is impossible to be true, but I am optimistic with it so I don’t care about pessimistic words that people say about my goal.

My Family

                 Reaching my goal will be absolutely hard, therefore I need to have great people that could support me. First, my parents and the second, are my friends. Having friends could bring advantages but sometimes don’t. It depends whether our friends are kind or not. Therefore we need to choose our friends to get the best type of friend we want. As a matter of fact, everybody don’t want to have bad friends that bring me to a bad way of life. That’s why my parents always keep telling me to choose my friends wisely.