Chieng Vui Leng
19th December 2005, 07:48 AM
There is a long story behind this.
Last month, I put in an application for Arrow on Swanston (a student accomodation in Melbourne) for next year, and I was told my potential roommate had moved in already. I later found out that he is in the Extended program of Trinity College (Foundation Year, one year Pre-University course for International students), which just began in November, and leads into the main program which begins in February. (I just completed the Foundation Year early this month and I am going on to University next year.) I went to meet him and get to know him better. I always went to look for him at lunch break. He was quite friendly when I met him - we even exchanged MSN addresses.
A week ago, the person-in-charge at Arrow sent me an email saying that I had been shifted to another room - someone else had moved in and room allocations are made based on availability. I was a little upset at this, but since I had already got to know the person, I looked at it from a positive perspective: I would be getting not one, but two new friends. How very wrong I was.
On MSN, he always puts the busy status. I tried chatting with him the other day but he refused to respond. I gave up. I was afraid he would delete me from his contact list but he did not. Until today. What happened was that I received my results last week and I wanted to tell him the good news as a friend would. However, not only did he not respond, he deleted me. I was devastated.
I emailed one of my teachers and asked him to help me to mediate, the above was adapted from the email. Hopefully he will help me mediate.
I also sent him an email:
Dear Mark
This is Leng here. I do not know why you deleted me from your MSN, but I am very upset at this. Perhaps I've been bothering you too much? I understand that you are busy, but I only wanted to get to know you better. I received my results last Friday, and I qualify to enter the course of my choice in RMIT. I have been trying to tell you the good news - as a friend would - but it seems that you perceived it as a disturbance. I am very sorry if I have offended you in any way. If there was anything you considered disturbing, please note that it wasn't intentional. Please accept my sincerest apologies, and I assure you that it will not happen again. Please give me another chance, and re-add me on your MSN.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope to see you again when I come back to Australia next year.
Chieng Vui Leng
I don't know when he will read this, or even if he will. In the meantime, the anguish remains. Just when I think things are beginning to work out, they go horribly wrong. Mark is a really nice guy, I just don't know what's happening.
Will I always be rejected all my life? *cries* Fate is cruel. Life is not worth living.
*slits wrist*
Last month, I put in an application for Arrow on Swanston (a student accomodation in Melbourne) for next year, and I was told my potential roommate had moved in already. I later found out that he is in the Extended program of Trinity College (Foundation Year, one year Pre-University course for International students), which just began in November, and leads into the main program which begins in February. (I just completed the Foundation Year early this month and I am going on to University next year.) I went to meet him and get to know him better. I always went to look for him at lunch break. He was quite friendly when I met him - we even exchanged MSN addresses.
A week ago, the person-in-charge at Arrow sent me an email saying that I had been shifted to another room - someone else had moved in and room allocations are made based on availability. I was a little upset at this, but since I had already got to know the person, I looked at it from a positive perspective: I would be getting not one, but two new friends. How very wrong I was.
On MSN, he always puts the busy status. I tried chatting with him the other day but he refused to respond. I gave up. I was afraid he would delete me from his contact list but he did not. Until today. What happened was that I received my results last week and I wanted to tell him the good news as a friend would. However, not only did he not respond, he deleted me. I was devastated.
I emailed one of my teachers and asked him to help me to mediate, the above was adapted from the email. Hopefully he will help me mediate.
I also sent him an email:
Dear Mark
This is Leng here. I do not know why you deleted me from your MSN, but I am very upset at this. Perhaps I've been bothering you too much? I understand that you are busy, but I only wanted to get to know you better. I received my results last Friday, and I qualify to enter the course of my choice in RMIT. I have been trying to tell you the good news - as a friend would - but it seems that you perceived it as a disturbance. I am very sorry if I have offended you in any way. If there was anything you considered disturbing, please note that it wasn't intentional. Please accept my sincerest apologies, and I assure you that it will not happen again. Please give me another chance, and re-add me on your MSN.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope to see you again when I come back to Australia next year.
Chieng Vui Leng
I don't know when he will read this, or even if he will. In the meantime, the anguish remains. Just when I think things are beginning to work out, they go horribly wrong. Mark is a really nice guy, I just don't know what's happening.
Will I always be rejected all my life? *cries* Fate is cruel. Life is not worth living.
*slits wrist*