all as one.
2008. (okay i actually typed a wholely passionate entry on rounding off 2008 and whatdyaknow, some dear kind mishap had to happen and poof! went the said entry &%%$@# haha. i mean, it was VERY DARN long can but its okay, because Lii doesnt want to live her life in regrets so *breathes in deeply and feels the zen energy coming in. right.)
with that said, i think this entry would not be as passionate or detailed rather (which might be a good thing because then my f-list can be spared my neverending ramblings that know no head nor tail about punctuations whatsoever, lol) because however you try, it's rather impossible to recapture the emotions of that passed moment. yea?
it's just like how you have been lying in that comfortable position but then you suddenly need to shift this arm a bit because something is itching somewhere and so you try to commit to memory the exact position you were having so that you can get back to it after you're done with this lil distraction but then you realise that you just cannot go back to lying in that exact same position to get that similar comfortable feeling. err. . or i could just be very dorky with this of course. >__<
but i'll try.
so 2008 started with semester two. i think i was more sure of how the system works and was less paranoid about stuffs, lol. i mean semester one was a major hell ride. i missed poly and the friends so darn much ( so thank gawd for the new friends made who by luck or chance, were from poly too and we always tell ourselves that poly kiddos were magnetically attracted to one another, heh ) that i wasnt enjoying being a freshmen as much as i should have so sem two kinda made up for that. i got myself adapted to uni life and the expectations of a high strung schedule and coped one way or another to ensure passable results for year 2. heh. but i rmbr sem two more for the friends made, the modules taken and my higher level of participation and commitment to my club, VPC.
and then it was the three months break ! our first long vacation since uni started and omg the relief from the hardwork that never seemed to stop, i think most of us went rather berserk of crazy at the prospect of a long stretch of enjoyzment XD i think i brought bumming to a new level, personally, not regarding much others' definition of what bumming entails because to each his own so much so that into the fifth week, i was seriously contemplating if that was how i was gonna spend the following two whole months so to the recruit section i went :)
and hence, NYC. for a two- months stint, the first few weeks felt TOO LONG while the last few weeks couldnt have passed faster. i learnt more about myself, about people, different types of people, how to deal with (different) people, office poh- litics, the dire- ness of an office- desk- bound job that is omg, utterly draining, mentally and physically can you imagine, and so not inspiring, that i had more or less an idea of the kinds of job i would not want to go into, if i can help it, which sadly, makes up a larger percentage of the kinds of job available here in sg. which is why i still dont have a solid answer to the infamous qn of oh so what do you wanna do after you graduate. gahh to the max can. MIGRATE AH! yeah llike running's a solution *rolls eyes.
but i had a lot of fun on this job too. even if the jobscope was too mundane for my liking, the people almost always made up for it with their antics, jokes, personalities, lifestories. in a way, they made me more sure of who im better off working with. fellow mates than computers. LOL. XD and the field trips! def the highlights of my stint. where we go down to the base so to speak, to meet up with facilitators of community agencies, the such, mostly centres for the youths (n YOUTH c mah), and enquire if there are any areas where NYC could come in to help, mostly to do with fundings.
and how can i miss this out. because it is thru this stint that i got to know a fellow PT who is so SO into K pOP more than anyone i know, and she is a malay too for that matter ( like how that matters i dont know ) that she intro-ed me to the various k- acts, one of which is Big Bang of course BUT to which ironically i didnt leech on because i got glued first to another k- act, Epik High through their ultimate addictive number, One. err, that wasnt intentional. anyhoos. long story short. if i didnt bumm enough that i felt the need to do some serious work, i wouldnt have gotten the job at NYC. thing is, if she hadnt bummed enough that she too felt the need to do some serious work, our paths wouldnt have crossed. ooh how i love how these things work. it's a work of fate ! a work of chance ! that i got to know of BB because they are like the best thing to happen to me for 08 can. a wonderful fortuity. big heart can ! ! oops, sorry i can get carried away so easily anything BB. so yes, with any experience, there is always something to be gained :)
BUT. i also hated how i was so preoccupied the whole two months that i didnt have enough time for social life and didnt meet up with the girlfriends as much as i had wanted to. i was also pretty much useless around home, largely because i was for some reason UBER drained from the stint. just staring at the computer, day in day out, keying in some numbers to churn out datas after datas, figures after figures, omg. . totally not my thing. but it's okay, no regrets :)
and then it's semester three ! i think my fav sem out of the lot :) except that i could have done better in the results sector. i loved the modules taken (four soci ! because i at last made up my mind to do socio as major over new media or lit), loved the time taken out in btwn classes for lunches with the girlfriends, LOVEd my three days week, despite having five modules. big beams, teehe. loved how, i dont know, more calm (?) i was ? in balancing.
and in btwn it was Raya 08 ( of which photos i have yet to upload, bad me i know ) which was lovely as always if not a tad more someway somehow. and it's another sem over just like that. most of us kinda agreed that this sem passed by way faster than the previous ones, llike wayy faster. all of three months. but i think i must say that i have never felt more fulfilled, more engaged in what i was learning, more .. i cant seem to find the word now .. but i think its more like, more stimulated ? yea. i hope the coming semester will continue on this good roll.
and then it's the five or six weeks break in btwn semesters, which is now into its last two weeks. on the whole, i think this holiday has been greatly satisfying with the arranged meet ups coming into being, the heavenly times to do all the fangirling i want ( i just had to put this in dont i XD ), the trip outs with the fam to KL / Rawang, the luxury of free time basically.
i think 08 i must say has went by pretty alright, going by what i have recalled thus far. this is of course on a personal level because if i were to go on a national, regional, global and international level, the world has never been more mixed up, screwed up, tossed up into mayhem and chaos, that i would rather save this space of mine for things beautiful sweet and nice. leave the craziness to the news pages, if we can even trust all that we read. heh. so long as im content with my life, with who i am, with the fam and friends i have, and above all, with my faith for Him, im fine- o. that may sound a tad selfish, but hey, i think all of us deserve our own oasis. you the one reading, too. in whatever way that makes you happy. because we deserve to be happy, now more than ever, if not when. i dont know if im making a clear headway here because i have that habit of looping my words around, but if you can get me, then i thank you ;)
i mentioned earlier that i would try to recapture the entry that went poof! and im pretty sure i didnt (lol) but im certain the essence of it is still here. anyhoos, here's my sincerest thank yous to all you peoples reading, like omg, how can i nOT thank you guys for taking the time and patience to read thru my neverending ramblings that know no head nor tail about punctuations whatsoever (lol), for being in my life one way or another to inspire in your own special ways. i heart you all so much because we are all the same, beings on this temporary earth, because im a believer that if there is indeed such a thing as race, there is only one, and that is the human race. anything else, tell it to me as ethnicity, of ethnic groups with their own unique ways of doing ethnic.
i would also like to use this chance and space to most sincerely wish the best of 09 for each and every one of you who happen to be reading. so enough talking already, let us celebrate now with the song of 2008, SUNSET GLOW ! ! XD
[MV] Sunset Glow (붉은 노을) - Big Bang
FO' SHO XD
HAPPY WELCOMING '09 TO ALL MAH LOVELIIEES ! ! *__*
with that said, i think this entry would not be as passionate or detailed rather (which might be a good thing because then my f-list can be spared my neverending ramblings that know no head nor tail about punctuations whatsoever, lol) because however you try, it's rather impossible to recapture the emotions of that passed moment. yea?
it's just like how you have been lying in that comfortable position but then you suddenly need to shift this arm a bit because something is itching somewhere and so you try to commit to memory the exact position you were having so that you can get back to it after you're done with this lil distraction but then you realise that you just cannot go back to lying in that exact same position to get that similar comfortable feeling. err. . or i could just be very dorky with this of course. >__<
but i'll try.
so 2008 started with semester two. i think i was more sure of how the system works and was less paranoid about stuffs, lol. i mean semester one was a major hell ride. i missed poly and the friends so darn much ( so thank gawd for the new friends made who by luck or chance, were from poly too and we always tell ourselves that poly kiddos were magnetically attracted to one another, heh ) that i wasnt enjoying being a freshmen as much as i should have so sem two kinda made up for that. i got myself adapted to uni life and the expectations of a high strung schedule and coped one way or another to ensure passable results for year 2. heh. but i rmbr sem two more for the friends made, the modules taken and my higher level of participation and commitment to my club, VPC.
and then it was the three months break ! our first long vacation since uni started and omg the relief from the hardwork that never seemed to stop, i think most of us went rather berserk of crazy at the prospect of a long stretch of enjoyzment XD i think i brought bumming to a new level, personally, not regarding much others' definition of what bumming entails because to each his own so much so that into the fifth week, i was seriously contemplating if that was how i was gonna spend the following two whole months so to the recruit section i went :)
and hence, NYC. for a two- months stint, the first few weeks felt TOO LONG while the last few weeks couldnt have passed faster. i learnt more about myself, about people, different types of people, how to deal with (different) people, office poh- litics, the dire- ness of an office- desk- bound job that is omg, utterly draining, mentally and physically can you imagine, and so not inspiring, that i had more or less an idea of the kinds of job i would not want to go into, if i can help it, which sadly, makes up a larger percentage of the kinds of job available here in sg. which is why i still dont have a solid answer to the infamous qn of oh so what do you wanna do after you graduate. gahh to the max can. MIGRATE AH! yeah llike running's a solution *rolls eyes.
but i had a lot of fun on this job too. even if the jobscope was too mundane for my liking, the people almost always made up for it with their antics, jokes, personalities, lifestories. in a way, they made me more sure of who im better off working with. fellow mates than computers. LOL. XD and the field trips! def the highlights of my stint. where we go down to the base so to speak, to meet up with facilitators of community agencies, the such, mostly centres for the youths (n YOUTH c mah), and enquire if there are any areas where NYC could come in to help, mostly to do with fundings.
and how can i miss this out. because it is thru this stint that i got to know a fellow PT who is so SO into K pOP more than anyone i know, and she is a malay too for that matter ( like how that matters i dont know ) that she intro-ed me to the various k- acts, one of which is Big Bang of course BUT to which ironically i didnt leech on because i got glued first to another k- act, Epik High through their ultimate addictive number, One. err, that wasnt intentional. anyhoos. long story short. if i didnt bumm enough that i felt the need to do some serious work, i wouldnt have gotten the job at NYC. thing is, if she hadnt bummed enough that she too felt the need to do some serious work, our paths wouldnt have crossed. ooh how i love how these things work. it's a work of fate ! a work of chance ! that i got to know of BB because they are like the best thing to happen to me for 08 can. a wonderful fortuity. big heart can ! ! oops, sorry i can get carried away so easily anything BB. so yes, with any experience, there is always something to be gained :)
BUT. i also hated how i was so preoccupied the whole two months that i didnt have enough time for social life and didnt meet up with the girlfriends as much as i had wanted to. i was also pretty much useless around home, largely because i was for some reason UBER drained from the stint. just staring at the computer, day in day out, keying in some numbers to churn out datas after datas, figures after figures, omg. . totally not my thing. but it's okay, no regrets :)
and then it's semester three ! i think my fav sem out of the lot :) except that i could have done better in the results sector. i loved the modules taken (four soci ! because i at last made up my mind to do socio as major over new media or lit), loved the time taken out in btwn classes for lunches with the girlfriends, LOVEd my three days week, despite having five modules. big beams, teehe. loved how, i dont know, more calm (?) i was ? in balancing.
and in btwn it was Raya 08 ( of which photos i have yet to upload, bad me i know ) which was lovely as always if not a tad more someway somehow. and it's another sem over just like that. most of us kinda agreed that this sem passed by way faster than the previous ones, llike wayy faster. all of three months. but i think i must say that i have never felt more fulfilled, more engaged in what i was learning, more .. i cant seem to find the word now .. but i think its more like, more stimulated ? yea. i hope the coming semester will continue on this good roll.
and then it's the five or six weeks break in btwn semesters, which is now into its last two weeks. on the whole, i think this holiday has been greatly satisfying with the arranged meet ups coming into being, the heavenly times to do all the fangirling i want ( i just had to put this in dont i XD ), the trip outs with the fam to KL / Rawang, the luxury of free time basically.
i think 08 i must say has went by pretty alright, going by what i have recalled thus far. this is of course on a personal level because if i were to go on a national, regional, global and international level, the world has never been more mixed up, screwed up, tossed up into mayhem and chaos, that i would rather save this space of mine for things beautiful sweet and nice. leave the craziness to the news pages, if we can even trust all that we read. heh. so long as im content with my life, with who i am, with the fam and friends i have, and above all, with my faith for Him, im fine- o. that may sound a tad selfish, but hey, i think all of us deserve our own oasis. you the one reading, too. in whatever way that makes you happy. because we deserve to be happy, now more than ever, if not when. i dont know if im making a clear headway here because i have that habit of looping my words around, but if you can get me, then i thank you ;)
i mentioned earlier that i would try to recapture the entry that went poof! and im pretty sure i didnt (lol) but im certain the essence of it is still here. anyhoos, here's my sincerest thank yous to all you peoples reading, like omg, how can i nOT thank you guys for taking the time and patience to read thru my neverending ramblings that know no head nor tail about punctuations whatsoever (lol), for being in my life one way or another to inspire in your own special ways. i heart you all so much because we are all the same, beings on this temporary earth, because im a believer that if there is indeed such a thing as race, there is only one, and that is the human race. anything else, tell it to me as ethnicity, of ethnic groups with their own unique ways of doing ethnic.
i would also like to use this chance and space to most sincerely wish the best of 09 for each and every one of you who happen to be reading. so enough talking already, let us celebrate now with the song of 2008, SUNSET GLOW ! ! XD
[MV] Sunset Glow (붉은 노을) - Big Bang
FO' SHO XD
HAPPY WELCOMING '09 TO ALL MAH LOVELIIEES ! ! *__*