The New and Last Semester in NUS
Jan 11So it's a brand new semester all over again. But this time, it's gonna be the last semester (I HOPE SO!).
With tears trickling down my cheek, a small grin on the face and a raised eyebrow to confirm the fake tears, I start reviewing the courses I take this semester.
I'm glad, after all, knowing that this might be the only semester in which most, or maybe all of the modules are not forced towards me, but what I actually like.
- PC1327/GEK1519 Science of Music
- GEM1501 Problem Solving For Computing
- CN5181 Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
- CN4120R Design Project
But it's not all dancing in the clouds too as there are some sacrifices that I have to make.
One of the hardest decision is to take Computer Aided Chem E which schedule is Friday night, meaning I have to miss almost every single NUS-ISCF fellowship sessions.
I am sure that I will never forgive myself if I do not give my best from the very start to the very end for all these modules.
Well, I also need to come to school almost everyday. And, I'm gonna force myself to stop being too comfortable at home, away from school, studies and the society. I just need to fight these well, and end it well too.
Yes, I have my ups and downs all four years in NUS. And I fear the outcome of this 4 year study. Will I graduate and make my parents proud? Will I get a job after graduation? Will my university time be marked as "failed" by myself, or friends, or family? I really don't know. As all these thoughts race all over my brain, I calmed myself down and reminded myself that I should let go of the past, the complacency, the disappointments and failures. After all, I'm not working hard to serve men, myself, parents' expectations or what others think about me, but God and God alone. I commit myself this last semester not only to fight hard in my studies, but also to depend hard on Him.
Ah, and I get stressed out extremely easily with little things and I get sick easily with big things 
Those that know me well, know that I have those tendencies. I used to see that as one of my weaknesses. For now, it's still my weakness, but I would like to see it this way too: I am granted the stress and the sickness such that I stop being ignorant, not responsive or plain negative when problems come. I'm kinda forced to learn to respond not only in the right way, but also at the right time (which means as soon as the problem strikes). I guess if whenever problem comes, I stay lazy, unresponsive, using stress as my excuse not to do anything and even if I later on 'learn' and get back on my feet. I've basically never learnt at all.
And lastly, I think I should start being more organized. Starting with the little things.
Great, a rather positive post to start the new semester!
Very Random
Sep 17but I was in NUS Arts Canteen for the whole day today. And rot there. Even Erlin said it was like my home already. And while bored, take pictures and play with iPhone. Yes. Don't be jeles laa..
A true blog post
Apr 21This post will be about the yada-yada of the day.
I woke up at 6 am, trying to finish up the last document for my French visa application today. I was doing my resume and realize how little I can write. Oh well, that's not important. I finished it up and went to the bus stop as I planned to take A1 to YIH to print my bankbook and take 151 from there.
Weird things start to happen when I arrive at the bus stop and see BTC coming. My first impulse is just to get up the bus and worry later. Umph. So I tried calling Hartanto who took the bus before but apparently his phone is off. I don't know who else to ask about BTC so I sms-ed Indra in Sweden (what an expensive SMS, lol) and he replied telling me the bus will not stop until it reaches NUS Bukit Timah Campus. I thought it's ok I'll just find my way around once I reached there.
Ppl say that the Bukit Timah Campus is European-style, so Indra mentioned that I could taste how it feels like in Grenoble *errr.....*. When I first reached the first bus stop, I didn't want to look as if it's my first time on this bus there, so I acted cool and DIDN'T GO DOWN THE BUS. The 2nd stop is the main whitish building, I went down and felt lazy that to walk further outside, so I went back in to the bus *second errrr....*. Then I realized that the bus does not stop in the areas inside BTC anymore *LOUDEST ERRRRR....*. I've already started feeling as if I'm in a sight-seeing ride from NUS-BTC-NUS with a 1 min stop at BTC until it stopped at one of the nearest public bus stop to fetch some NUS students going to the Clementi campus. Thank God!!!
The French Embassy sent me home because of the uncertainty about my travel/medical insurance.
They didn't know I have so much more to study for my exam!!!!!!!
Huhuhu.... :'(
