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. ^.^