4 more days

time:11.48pm

Dear Brain,

Please work for the next 4 days. Make me understand everything I'm studying and soak it all up like a sponge. Block out all unnecessary noises like Facebook and online comics. Electrify me with brain waves every time I stone and make me fall in love with academic literature and lecture slides. I don't know how you can do it, but I'm sure you will figure it out. After all you are the one with all the grey matter.

Do all that and I will love you to bits.

From your owner,
quek

time: 9.05pm

sometimes I wonder, why I even bother letting the tears roll.

a few steps more.

time: 4.01pm

I feel a little defeated by this morning's experience.

I'm done with all the interviews and so now, i have to wait(which could be the most painful part)

Meanwhile, I really really have to start/finish studying!

Then its goodbye school and hello world.

2010, Semester 2

last class of the sem : COM459

time: 1.03am

...is finally over.

I havent blogged for close to two months. It feels like I have forgotten to capture all the little moments that would mark the end of school life. So here is a little recap:

FYP: need i say more? With submission on the 25th of march, i strangely felt little relief. It simply meant that time would now have to be given to all the other work i had cast aside for this major project. But still...its what really marked the academic life of our final year. The sweat, the long nights and insane MSN chats that kept me up. And i couldnt have asked for better group mates, the ease at which we communicated with each other and how we managed to overcome all odds. Im glad this is over though, so that we can finally be back to being friends-before-project-mates. haha Kind of miss the times when emails were sent to discuss which food haunt we would have our next gathering rather than what should be the next deadline we set for our parts.

Modules: with only two modules this sem, the workload has been surprisingly heavy. I guess i didnt expect any less from Public Opinion. What helped though was a very nice and enlightened lecturer and interesting class discussions. And it was great working with JT. An unlikely partnership with lots of funny moments. :) I cant say the same for my other module though. The inertia that grips me as i try to finish the final essay is ridiculous. Writing a 3000(or was it 5000? shit i cant rem!!) word essay on ANY topic is so silly. I hate such instructions. so hard to write. and the lectures have no organisations. its just made up of TONS AND TONS of words. The only great thing is that midway thru the term, the lecturer cancelled all tuts, due to poor turn out. haha

Future: hmm...i dont know. what exactly do i want to do? Its taking a backseat at this point of time, as i look to wrap up my education life first.

And wrapping up indeed. With a last class photo during COM459 last week, that marked the final lesson in CS. Ended aptly as a CR student. How do i feel? bittersweet kind of sums it up.. I love being in school and everything that comes with being a student(yes even the dreaded exams), because safe in the campus of school, im still free of the responsibilities of adulthood. But now, the future awaits. And while im in no hurry to work, i cant wait for the exams to be over so that all the exciting plans will roll out.

First up, Japan on the 9th of may with two of my bestest frens. :) But first i need to overcome the dreaded exams.

stay tune!