Monday, August 25, 2008
humble beginnings

Hey guys! After a relatively long period of absence, I am back! Haha.

Its week 3 of the semester; start of tutorials, start of the dreaded condition called 'mugger-philiac-phobia'; gotta love mugging, gotta hate mugging. =) I start feeling as if I am alrdy behind in my studies, though we only just started. Kiasu'ism rearing its ugly head again? Perhaps.

Its better to be safe than sorry. Better to start seriously now than to regret it later when my lack of a stitch in time did not save my nine. Haha. I love playing around with those words..lols.

In other words, studies first. Everything else, okay maybe not EVERYTHING, but most other trivialities, second. This is a promise I am making now, to myself, and I plan on honouring this resolution with a stoic determination.

Come to think of it, with all my commitments, especially the one to my hall concert, a great fraction of my time would already be directed to non-academic pursuits, making the time I do have left, precious and few. All the more adding importance to time management and more specifically, just plain academic preparation i.e. mugger zombie.

My laptop has finally arrived, after what seemed like an eternity. Ask any of my other friends who got this laptop too; they'll vouch for Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and show that I am not exaggerating when I said eternity!

I have to admit besides the obvious convenience of the laptop; i.e. working from anywhere, there are the other undesirables that come along with this. For one, Iam typing out this post when I should be sleeping right now. Without a doubt, the laptop does pose a distraction. I mean, who wouldnt be guiled by the sweet lure of the laptop's uses; msn, gaming, internet surfing etc. If left unchecked, I might be whittling my time away playing games instead of constructively expanding my reservoir of knowledge.

Which boils down to a very important tenet of university life; self-discipline. I really have to plan my time and actions accordingly. Obviously, I do not want to spend my whole time in uni mugging, yet I did come here to get a degree. A certain minimal amount of effort must be set. That will start later today. No more fooling around, seriously.

Failure is the stepping stone to success; to succeed, we need to put in effort, in order to fail. ^.^

Friday, August 01, 2008
fast pace

Ordered a new laptop.

Lenovo ThinkPad T400 something. Haha. I will be getting it latest by 11 Aug. Like, finally!

Went to watch Money Not Enough 2 today.
Okay la, not as good as I had expected.
In fact, towards the end, my fatigue was starting to overcome me, and I was actually falling slightly asleep towards the end...
There's a touching part though, and that, at least, saved the movie from being one of the more boring ones I have watched this year...haha.

Well okay, from now onwards I will be very busy in uni.
We will all be a lot busier now on. It'll be harder to meet up alrdy.
Try to look on the bright side of things yea?

Phew, I am tired out!
Been to hall camp the past few days.
Okay, actually I was glad I didnt skip the whole thing (only those events where you'll get wet...haha).
Nice people there. =)

Oh mann, and I just found out for the engineering O week, there's still a problem with the guy/girl ratio. =(
Whyyy??
Haha. =P

Currently I am looking forward to joining two particular CCAs. Pool, of more specifically, cue sports, and the Electronic Music Club. I think that club is quite cool.
Compose your own music, jam, all those kind of stuff. Looking forward to it. =)

...and the study-free days keep counting down. In about 10 days, I will be having proper lessons alrdy. No more non-stop playing!! =(
Every day is going to end super late. That is not inclusive or various CCA and hall activities I will be involved in. Luckily I have a dorm there. At least I have a place to study, chill, rest etc.

Going back to campus later this morning. Haha. To think, I used to dread thinking of that place as a 2nd home, but now, after recently being ard in campus quite often, I already look to it as another home. Now all that remains is to add a more homely touch to the dorm...haha. YK, I'll add more 'act cute' stuff, just because you like complaining about them so much =)