my body is aching all over. i can't move any part of my body without feeling the slighest of pain somewhere around my body.
no thanks to the first ever silat training i had yesterday. haha i admit it was tough (my legs were quivering at times! haha) and i'm really not in shape. running on hard ground barefooted means the soles of my feet ache badly too. but i guess i need some getting used to it i guess. but so far so good. but it's really tough trying to get the techniques right.
and school's okay. although i haven't really been able to push myself to read most of my readings. i'm still trying to tune my brains back to the student mindset. haha it doesn't help with the flurry of people i've met within such a short space of time. too many people, too many names to remember. errgh. almost everyday i learn a new name. haha it's really troublesome when you start to know more and more people.
haha the other day at the lift landing while going to school i bumped into a girl who's also in my faculty in school. turns out she lives just 2 storeys below me. so 1 neighbour who went to my secondary school, antoher 1 who went to my junior college, and yet another 1 who goes to my school - same faculty at that! haha so that totals 3 altogether! another surprise to add on to the forever growing list of shocks and surprises i've had so far.
and so much for history being my pet subject. i've totally no idea on the french revolution and anything else that happened in the history of modern europe after that. means i've to diligently read the thick-ass history book real slowly. there's so much to read, it's really quite taxing this european history course. whatever people have learnt within 2 years, i'm to squeeze everything within 3 months!! goodness me. can really slowly die.
can't type without even feeling the slightest of pain. oh well.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Saturday, August 18, 2007
welcome tea
school's not really a blast.
for the first week it's just rushing to queue up for the readings bundles and whatever textbooks that i need to buy. and the lectures are all mostly introductory ones. ah but the tons of reading i have to do, is enough to just deflate my spirits. in fact for once i really have to be very much learn independently, which is something i have to get used to. and the tutorial ballotting system is really ridiculous. i'm too lazy to even bother about it now.
so i went for 2 welcome teas the past week. the malay society one was held 1st. played this superhero dress-up game, where they asked me to put hats under my shirts to make me look muscular. well, of course it looked like boobs! althought i must say at least i did win the final challenge! haha. ah but the muslim society welcome tea was much more refreshing.
met alot of international muslim students, like those from pakistan, iran, myanmar, mauritius, bangladesh and the list goes on. it was really an eye-opener just interacting with them. it's a hard feeling to describe, when you get to meet fellow muslims from across the globe and exchange your thoughts and feelings. i wonder how these people really get through with their lives in their war-torn, poverty-stricken countries, where there is political instability, and the threat of war is very real. countries where the trains still run on diesel, where freedom of speech is strictly forbidden and so on. it makes me think that despite such obstacles, people still believe in the hope that the religion brings. hope springs eternal as they say, and the fact that they are willing to part with their families to actually find a better future is amazing. such is the strength of their willingness to travel to further their studies. living alone in a foreign land is extremely daunting and they risk being outcasted. i really admire such people. it's really interesting to interact with them honestly.
and just now i had a tuition class in the morning, under the mendaki tuition programme for malay/muslim students. i was a relief for some tutor who couldn't make it. i thought sec 3 express english. and from the way i see it, i think we're gonna have a huge problem at hand in the years to come.
the students just don't have the right attitude! stupidity is 1 thing, but attitude is another. if you are just not born smart, the do it the tried and tested way - through hard work. one can be stupid yet achieve goals in life. and that is if you have the right attitude. even the most smartest person in the world will never be succesful if he chooses to be lazy and not make full use of his own potential. and those kids that i were taking are the future of the nation! the very ones that will make the step up when they come of age! the very ones who will decide the path the nation would tread upon!
on one hand, we see more malay people becoming more successful - we see more doctors, lawyers, engineers and the what have you. but on the other hand, more people are dropping out of schools, more truancy cases, more shotgun marriages and the what have you. yesterday one lecturer pointed out the suicide cases among singaporeans are the lowest among the malay/muslim community. but of course, that's not the real picture. pre-marital sex rates, abortion cases, divorce rates have been increasing for the malay/muslim community. and the real reason for such things to happen?
the lack or guidance and education. but as i've said before, one has to help himself too. teaching someone to fish today for a living doesn't guarantee he'll drag his lazy ass to the sea tomorrow to fish on his own. one can be the most knowledgeable person on the planet, but without the right attitude, i doubt he can be successful. and the scary thing is alot of kids do not realise the importance of education. the paper chase is inevitable in a resource-scarce city-state like ours. like it or not, realisty is as such. none of them are thinking practically! as if i have a choice to not want to study too.
it's really scary. and of course, those students i took on just now are not the worst of the lot. if such trends persist, i shudder to think of the future. i get scared thinking of my own personal future. don't such kids get scared of the consequences and repercussions they will face if they falter?
someone should just invent a reality-check mirror where if you look into it, your reflection will just scream its lungs out at you or just give you tight slaps as reality checks.
for the first week it's just rushing to queue up for the readings bundles and whatever textbooks that i need to buy. and the lectures are all mostly introductory ones. ah but the tons of reading i have to do, is enough to just deflate my spirits. in fact for once i really have to be very much learn independently, which is something i have to get used to. and the tutorial ballotting system is really ridiculous. i'm too lazy to even bother about it now.
so i went for 2 welcome teas the past week. the malay society one was held 1st. played this superhero dress-up game, where they asked me to put hats under my shirts to make me look muscular. well, of course it looked like boobs! althought i must say at least i did win the final challenge! haha. ah but the muslim society welcome tea was much more refreshing.
met alot of international muslim students, like those from pakistan, iran, myanmar, mauritius, bangladesh and the list goes on. it was really an eye-opener just interacting with them. it's a hard feeling to describe, when you get to meet fellow muslims from across the globe and exchange your thoughts and feelings. i wonder how these people really get through with their lives in their war-torn, poverty-stricken countries, where there is political instability, and the threat of war is very real. countries where the trains still run on diesel, where freedom of speech is strictly forbidden and so on. it makes me think that despite such obstacles, people still believe in the hope that the religion brings. hope springs eternal as they say, and the fact that they are willing to part with their families to actually find a better future is amazing. such is the strength of their willingness to travel to further their studies. living alone in a foreign land is extremely daunting and they risk being outcasted. i really admire such people. it's really interesting to interact with them honestly.
and just now i had a tuition class in the morning, under the mendaki tuition programme for malay/muslim students. i was a relief for some tutor who couldn't make it. i thought sec 3 express english. and from the way i see it, i think we're gonna have a huge problem at hand in the years to come.
the students just don't have the right attitude! stupidity is 1 thing, but attitude is another. if you are just not born smart, the do it the tried and tested way - through hard work. one can be stupid yet achieve goals in life. and that is if you have the right attitude. even the most smartest person in the world will never be succesful if he chooses to be lazy and not make full use of his own potential. and those kids that i were taking are the future of the nation! the very ones that will make the step up when they come of age! the very ones who will decide the path the nation would tread upon!
on one hand, we see more malay people becoming more successful - we see more doctors, lawyers, engineers and the what have you. but on the other hand, more people are dropping out of schools, more truancy cases, more shotgun marriages and the what have you. yesterday one lecturer pointed out the suicide cases among singaporeans are the lowest among the malay/muslim community. but of course, that's not the real picture. pre-marital sex rates, abortion cases, divorce rates have been increasing for the malay/muslim community. and the real reason for such things to happen?
the lack or guidance and education. but as i've said before, one has to help himself too. teaching someone to fish today for a living doesn't guarantee he'll drag his lazy ass to the sea tomorrow to fish on his own. one can be the most knowledgeable person on the planet, but without the right attitude, i doubt he can be successful. and the scary thing is alot of kids do not realise the importance of education. the paper chase is inevitable in a resource-scarce city-state like ours. like it or not, realisty is as such. none of them are thinking practically! as if i have a choice to not want to study too.
it's really scary. and of course, those students i took on just now are not the worst of the lot. if such trends persist, i shudder to think of the future. i get scared thinking of my own personal future. don't such kids get scared of the consequences and repercussions they will face if they falter?
someone should just invent a reality-check mirror where if you look into it, your reflection will just scream its lungs out at you or just give you tight slaps as reality checks.
Monday, August 13, 2007
school
yai start school tomorrow!
so finally the day arrives, after more than 2 and-a-half years of waiting. i don't have classes on monday hence my school week starts tomorrow. ah the anticipation ends tomorrow, but i've only got a 2 hour lecture tomorrow and that's all. the tutorials haven't started yet so this week is rather relaxed actually. so finally the feeling of going to school will sink in again tomorrow. call me wierd but i like going to school. save the studying part though.
went to gym with liz just now to kill time. i think i had a great workout just now, so i expect to wake up tomorrow with a body like a bodybuilder's! haha. but just now was not bad. ah if only i wasn't born such a lazy ass, i would probably have a better-looking body, maybe learnt how to play the bass guitar and have a much much cleaner room now. and a million other things that i could have achieved. haha.
the other day, had dinner with the friends for the orientation group. it was fun! then went to catch some show with them at victoria concert hall. i think the people in my group are quite fun. of course, not in the sporty or outdoors sense. i feel we all can connect on the same level. haha. i can't help thinking i've more than enough friends in the arts faculty. of course one can't have too many friends, but it can prove to be a headache!
anyway the past week i've had too many surprising news. think i had 4 shocks last week. which is really enough. anymore would just shake the pillars of peacefulness of my life. haha. i've really had a shock too many for the past week. and i also got myself a new handphone on top of that! so that should really end my shopping spree. note the keyword is should. hope that no one would have my handphone too, if not that would be quite a spoiler.
okay so tomorrow i start my life as a student! whoo-pee-do!
the competition with girls and the competition for girls starts tomorrow! haha.
so finally the day arrives, after more than 2 and-a-half years of waiting. i don't have classes on monday hence my school week starts tomorrow. ah the anticipation ends tomorrow, but i've only got a 2 hour lecture tomorrow and that's all. the tutorials haven't started yet so this week is rather relaxed actually. so finally the feeling of going to school will sink in again tomorrow. call me wierd but i like going to school. save the studying part though.
went to gym with liz just now to kill time. i think i had a great workout just now, so i expect to wake up tomorrow with a body like a bodybuilder's! haha. but just now was not bad. ah if only i wasn't born such a lazy ass, i would probably have a better-looking body, maybe learnt how to play the bass guitar and have a much much cleaner room now. and a million other things that i could have achieved. haha.
the other day, had dinner with the friends for the orientation group. it was fun! then went to catch some show with them at victoria concert hall. i think the people in my group are quite fun. of course, not in the sporty or outdoors sense. i feel we all can connect on the same level. haha. i can't help thinking i've more than enough friends in the arts faculty. of course one can't have too many friends, but it can prove to be a headache!
anyway the past week i've had too many surprising news. think i had 4 shocks last week. which is really enough. anymore would just shake the pillars of peacefulness of my life. haha. i've really had a shock too many for the past week. and i also got myself a new handphone on top of that! so that should really end my shopping spree. note the keyword is should. hope that no one would have my handphone too, if not that would be quite a spoiler.
okay so tomorrow i start my life as a student! whoo-pee-do!
the competition with girls and the competition for girls starts tomorrow! haha.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
dreams
the other day i had 1 of the most wierdest dreams ever.
i dreamt that i was on this mrt train on the east-west line, heading towards boon lay, with my parents. as you all know, they are now building an extention of that line, till somwhere in the pioneer road area or somwhere there. but by right boon lay would still be last stop. but the train didn't stop at boon lay, in fact it picked up speed as it sped past boon lay. so naturally everyone on the train was horrified, since the tracks would run out eventually, and the train would go hurtling in the air (think spiderman? the scene where spidey stops the train from going over the tracks and crashing down). but the thing is, in my dream, there was no such heroics. when the tracks ran out, the train just went into the air and plummeted into the sea, but just beside the shoreline, probably somewhere in the tuas area, near the second link. amazingly, nobody died. everyone managed to force the doors open and just swim to the surface. heck, even my parents did that. and of course, a full scale investigation was launched thereafter.
but what a preposterous and wierd dream.
on another note.
the past week's been damn busy! organising schedules, outings here and there, bidding of modules. and my room's still in a damn mess. i'm too lazy to even bother, but i need to do something about it soon anyway. classes start next week, and from the synopses of the modules, they look quite interesting. there's like a fieldtrip to lucky plaza / penisular plaza, and even a remake of the famous versailles treaty of 1919 to be played out in class. oh and a screening of nang nak in one of the lectures. it might not turn out to be interesting, but at least it's different.
back to school in a week's time!
i dreamt that i was on this mrt train on the east-west line, heading towards boon lay, with my parents. as you all know, they are now building an extention of that line, till somwhere in the pioneer road area or somwhere there. but by right boon lay would still be last stop. but the train didn't stop at boon lay, in fact it picked up speed as it sped past boon lay. so naturally everyone on the train was horrified, since the tracks would run out eventually, and the train would go hurtling in the air (think spiderman? the scene where spidey stops the train from going over the tracks and crashing down). but the thing is, in my dream, there was no such heroics. when the tracks ran out, the train just went into the air and plummeted into the sea, but just beside the shoreline, probably somewhere in the tuas area, near the second link. amazingly, nobody died. everyone managed to force the doors open and just swim to the surface. heck, even my parents did that. and of course, a full scale investigation was launched thereafter.
but what a preposterous and wierd dream.
on another note.
the past week's been damn busy! organising schedules, outings here and there, bidding of modules. and my room's still in a damn mess. i'm too lazy to even bother, but i need to do something about it soon anyway. classes start next week, and from the synopses of the modules, they look quite interesting. there's like a fieldtrip to lucky plaza / penisular plaza, and even a remake of the famous versailles treaty of 1919 to be played out in class. oh and a screening of nang nak in one of the lectures. it might not turn out to be interesting, but at least it's different.
back to school in a week's time!
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
sch's starting
sorry for the way overdue entry!
but hey - school's-a-starting!
haha. something i've actually been waiting for ever since i left school at the end of 2004. although i must say i'm not really as enthusiatic as i would like it to have been, because all the preparation is so confusing! everyone is just as confused as i am about alot of the things, and especially the bidding of modules. i'm slightly stressed up by it, no thanks to the meticulous planning required.
but so far all has gone well. been going back to school for the past few days, and i feel i've really got alot of friends all over. i'm not saying i'm that popular - it's just that everywhere i turn, i'm bound to find someone i know. like today. i bumped into a friend on the way to school, and in school i bumped into so many other long-lost friends. the ex-NS buddies, the primary and the secondary school friends too. hell, i even bumped into an ex-NS colleague while crossing the road just now. and he was on his motorbike waiting for the lights to turn green! haha. had time to catch up abit with him before the green man started to blink.
can one simply have too many friends? but it's hard to define how many is too many. even acquaintances or those "hi-bye" people, some would consider as friends too. well all i know i have quite a number of friends inside my faculty. and i'm going to miss my upcoming faculty's orientation anyway. and this whole week has been really busy busy busy! well, at least i ave things to do outside of home everyday anyway, so i'm not exactly complaining!haha.
ah i expect lesser time to play games then! that's real sad. but school's-a-starting, and i hope i have a decent start in school. after more than 2 years of brain-freeze, i hope it still can function properly! haha. but there's so many people to compete with, and its really scary when one thinks of the competition for places and grades later on. tsk tsk.
on another note, i thought i was done with my shopping! but i just had to buy another pair of jeans, and i'm relly thinking of upgrading my handphone. but it should wait, because i want to see if i have enough cash after i pay off my bills and all. haha. getting a new handphone would really cap it all off! but i must see how.
okay i better play my computer game first before i really have no time in the future.
but hey - school's-a-starting!
haha. something i've actually been waiting for ever since i left school at the end of 2004. although i must say i'm not really as enthusiatic as i would like it to have been, because all the preparation is so confusing! everyone is just as confused as i am about alot of the things, and especially the bidding of modules. i'm slightly stressed up by it, no thanks to the meticulous planning required.
but so far all has gone well. been going back to school for the past few days, and i feel i've really got alot of friends all over. i'm not saying i'm that popular - it's just that everywhere i turn, i'm bound to find someone i know. like today. i bumped into a friend on the way to school, and in school i bumped into so many other long-lost friends. the ex-NS buddies, the primary and the secondary school friends too. hell, i even bumped into an ex-NS colleague while crossing the road just now. and he was on his motorbike waiting for the lights to turn green! haha. had time to catch up abit with him before the green man started to blink.
can one simply have too many friends? but it's hard to define how many is too many. even acquaintances or those "hi-bye" people, some would consider as friends too. well all i know i have quite a number of friends inside my faculty. and i'm going to miss my upcoming faculty's orientation anyway. and this whole week has been really busy busy busy! well, at least i ave things to do outside of home everyday anyway, so i'm not exactly complaining!haha.
ah i expect lesser time to play games then! that's real sad. but school's-a-starting, and i hope i have a decent start in school. after more than 2 years of brain-freeze, i hope it still can function properly! haha. but there's so many people to compete with, and its really scary when one thinks of the competition for places and grades later on. tsk tsk.
on another note, i thought i was done with my shopping! but i just had to buy another pair of jeans, and i'm relly thinking of upgrading my handphone. but it should wait, because i want to see if i have enough cash after i pay off my bills and all. haha. getting a new handphone would really cap it all off! but i must see how.
okay i better play my computer game first before i really have no time in the future.
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