You only learn how to cherish things when you have lost them before.
Time.
Used to be spending up to about 4 hours a day on travelling up and down to school. It seems fine in year 2 and 3 when I'm able to miss the peak hours, and not be sick of travelling. But instead love it, as I am able to do work on the train or get some "free" time to catch my korean dramas on the iphone. However, in year 4 things are no longer the same. All lectures start at 930 means going school at 8, which meant hitting head on with the crazy peak hours. When i will be wasting half the journey time standing up or being squeezed, instead of doing my work): [tell me about the 7mil population!!] going home isnt any better, either with the peak hour crowd or past my dinner time, when I will be so tired once i reached home. Stoning for a while before dragging myself to shower, and barely starting on my electures or compiling on my data before i start dozing off in my seat.
This is how sad year 4 is. those who said uni life is a breeze after JC ought to be shot. Alright, year 2 and 3 are the most fun times, it might be stressful during exams, but i really love going school, cos of my fun bunch of coursemates. However year 4 is a chore. I dont see them as much for lectures, and we just seemed to be stuck in the lab. People in lab are selfish and anal. having a mentor that doesnt do lab with me (ONLY ONCE!) isnt any better. Whenever i need anything, i have to go around and beg for things or just kop things.
So glad that Sem 1 passed by very quickly, and i did pretty alright for my exams as well. Managed to pull it up a class, and now the final sem is about maintaining it which I'm feeling rather apprehensive about. Hence decided to stay in hall to try to save on whatever time I have to spend it on my studies, instead of feeling like I'm always doing my fyp the whole of the weekdays.
Now that I've learnt how to appreciate those weekday nights hours better (imagine starting work at 8pm instead of 11pm!) and will try to rush through those online lectures during the weekdays. Been doing this for the past 2 weeks, and feel rather accomplished! This way, i will have some free time for 1 more tuition and also for my FYP report (YES 50 pg report! FYP IS JUST A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME!!) Been doing this for the past 2 weeks and weekends had been packed with spending time with my family as well and of course yummy indulgent dinners to pamper and cheer myself on for the following week.
Always looking forward to the weekends, being able to see my kaibaby, kaylallaalala, kynan monster and of course spending some quality time with kenehahahahahahahahhaa. hehehehe. my life revolving ard the K's! kenehahahaha been really nice and patient with me and my temper, helping me with the moving in to hall and all, listening to my FYP woes and complaints. hohoho. blessed to have found him and of course his loving family! always feel so overwhelmed with the concern his parents shower on me, cos I think my mom and dad are easy and wants us to do everything on our own kind, hence not so used to all the concern I have now. like asking keneh for a panadol for my throbbing headache the entire sat, and his mom knew abt it, and wanted to cook the porridge that I said it was nice the other time. feels good to be pampered! not complaining that my own parents dont pamper me, but I'm glad they are like that cos I feel that my sisters and I are so independent! so im just enjoying the best of both world!! ^^
Sucha a long post after so long! Need to go back on a SUNDAY for my drug release. frigging hell i know. But keneh making it so much better by ferrying me to and fro from school and then to reunion dinner with the ZHU family! hehehee..
life isnt so bad afterall, just be contented and learn how to focus on the better things in life! all will be over my march and i cant wait! seriously wouldnt mind studying 4 more modules for that darn FYP and all the time that it has wasted! Mentor asked me if i wanna take pHd scholarship, oh please, cant wait to get out of hellish-lab!
