HIIIII!!!! i'm finally back here!!!! (like anyone reads my sporadic entries haha)
actually i've been postponing blogging because so many things happened i dont know where to start lol.
and well i've been kind of busy..and any other time classified under free is labelled running man heehee.
i experienced so much ups and downs within this month after exams that i can't tell if im happy or sad now. i guess i'm now generally happy and contented, splashed with occasional bouts of unhappiness and stress.
1. gradtrip
it's freaking 28days long so i felt abit homesick towards the end. japan was really awesome and totally my place haha. want to go back again someday! i ate till i had a tummy gosh! full contentment in japan:D
as for taiwan, i have to repeat my sad story. basically the food's too oily or salty for my liking, i had food allergy that lead to swollen eyes, bedbugs from my hotel bed (WTH) and it was raining intermittently throughout the day for almost all 10days. if i really thought back carefully i had fun with the watersports and go cart at kenting, the scenery at wufengqi and qixingtan and chuhuo was beautiful, had a great time in jiufen and raohe in taipei, so i guess it wasnt that bad but the bad things were just overwhelming. ahhwells.
overall, i guess it could have been better. need to go with like-minded and less individualistic people next time, we all have too different personalities and preferences, although i'm quite unwilling to admit. as they always say, the company matters the most. lesson #1.
2. results
i guess there's really nth to hide so let's just say my semester results sucks to the core. almost pulled me out of 1st class haha. so what? no one will ask for SAP anw, not like they'll even ask for CAP. as long as i have my 1st class what else matters lol. plus good news: chalmer's award and valedictorian(: really feel ultra honoured and u can imagine my surprise when i received the email. of course i didnt expect it! i was so shocked the happiness didn't even get to me initially. made my taiwan trip slightly more bearable. anw, that only shows that God is ever faithful even when i threw Him aside for almost the whole trip, because no way i could have achieved all these without Him. lesson #2.
3. holiday
finally a proper rest when i came back from gradtrip...or so i thought. immediately news of the passing of my grandfather and my hospitalised uncle got to me at the airport. got me thinking about the fragility of life and being upset that i wasnt able to see my grandfather before he passed away. thankfully i visited him before i flew off, if not i'd feel guilty the rest of my life. he did dote on my and my bro alot although he didnt outrightly show it cos he tends to be quite reserved. live life with no regrets and cherish your dear ones. lesson #3.
been cold turkeying on running man cos i didn't bring my laptop overseas. i thought i would wean off my craze for it but nah it grew worse. so bad that i reached home from the airport at 1am and i watched 3episodes till 6am before i went to bedXD and the next day was runningman marathon. clocked 10episodes after 1st day back, check. i left singapore at episode 53 i think? nw i just finished ep80 HAHA. now i know how codeine and tobacco addicts feel. too bad i'll empathise but not sympathise with them heh. lesson #4.
and being the introvert me, having 28days of no privacy drove me nuts. me need personal quiet time everyday. so i was determined to not arrange for meetups although i really wanted to!!there were so many i didn't manage to meet after exams before i went on gradtrip!! but guess what, i still went out everyday zzz. it's really not that i dont want to meetup with those that i did, im just sorely lacking in personal time. had fun during all the meetups really, didn't regret going for them in the end haha. but of course i tried to minimise the time out of my house, the weather's killing me anw. reminder to self: give myself more personal time cos introverts really need the time alone. lesson #5.
4. book in
well..not me obviously, my sad day is next monday. speaking of which an annoying email announces what i'm supposed to read up on by 13 june. crazy, obviously im not going to touch anything work related nw if i can help it. need to make full use of my holidays while i still have them. anw, my bro got enlisted on thu hahaha. sent him off to tekong, so fun!ate army food which was not bad (i know it's just cos there's us haha), but it was better than school food anw. and tekong's a really pretty place, wish i could go there at night cos they say the stars flood the sky there(: in any case, i get to use my bro's hugeass monitor to watch runningman etc, shiok!
ok nth much else. just that i think i give pple the impression that i've been watching runningman and doing nothing else, but watch me agonise a day writing (and everyday thinking abt) my valedictorian speech, packing my room, read books, settling work stuff (rather unwillingly) etc. not that i have time each day to do much, sleep takes up 11hours?HAHAHAHA. my eyebags are bad from gradtrip and they havent been diminishing since im back despite the beauty sleep. guess i sleep too late but my slp cycle is abit screwed after sleeping as and when we commute around the cities and places in japan and taiwan. their trips are relatively long so i think i sleep average 3hours in the day and 7hours at night? japan was epic, for hakone we sleep 6 hours in the day and at least 8hours at night haha. it's in taiwan that we slept lesser cos more rushed, i almost couldnt take it cos there was one night we slpt 3-7 only.ok time for slp now, my last day of slping in tonight, sun gotta wake up at 8 as usual and mon is start of work!i can feel the monday blues alr...
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