A New Chapter begins

Happy New Year! and goodbye to yr2007.. it has definitely been another interesting year, esp since in Uni, as well as having vacation attachment during the months from May-Aug and Dec07-Jan08. Many things hav happened, the good times, the bad times. WEll, that's life, isnt it? All of us have our fair share of ups and downs. Some downs are really downs, but we have to overcome those to move on, and make life interesting, enjoyable and bearable. New year's eve, had a ball of a time in camp, after a run in the morning with everyone else (and me suffering of course), a small celebration in the mess, and then walked around with Raynor and Eugene Tay at Sim Lim searching for an external harddisk. Raynor and Eugene kindly came with me cuz i was so blur n unsure of wat the heck is a firewire. Well, I finally saw what it was and what it looked like, but cost-wise, well..it aint too cheap. haha.. but 500GB, it shld be sufficient for me for sometime to come. Spent the evening out for dinner and Warlords at Cathay and walking around before heading home. Along the way home, saw throngs of ppl all over the place, and padang had ppl sitting down occupying the best seats, waiting for 12am to come, and the fireworks to burst.. 1 Jan was pretty alright, spent the day at home, and also chatting with Faith, talking abt many things, modules, games! haha.. and of cos, headaching abt modules as well.. sigh. ITs the time of the sem again. 2 most headache-y times of the semesters: (1) during exam times! and (2) the time of bidding for modules. One might think it is quite simple, cuz its jus simply bidding for modules, choosing wat we want, and tat's it. But if we really look at the situation, there's various factors to consider. Bid points, popularity, and especially, whether there were exam and lecture clashes. Right now, i still hope to be able to take Science of Music, but looking at the past bid points, i can only cross my fingers and hope. if not, my backup plans have to kick into action. haha.

2 Jan (Wednesday):
was on half day leave today, and met with Jasmin, Jasmine and Marcus for a belated celebration for Jasmine's bdae. Went to Yuki Yaki at Marina Square. It was certainly an eye opener, since i've never been there before, and the way of "food prep" was unique too. Especially the preparations for the ice cream! we all sat there from abt 1.45 to 4.50pm, having a ball of a time eating n chatting n fooling around with the icecream "cooker". We had a walk around after tat, looking at clothes, shops, etc.. and each of us also met out own friends along the way! which was pretty coincidental as well. After dinner with em, met up with Evelyn, after 1year! we had a good chat, and im v glad to see that she's doing fine for stuffs in sch and personal stuffs.. it must have been the 3 or 4th time i have walked and walked marina and raffles city in the past 7days.

Well, as the hols comes to an end slowly, and the sem is about to start, many things start going thru my mind again. Sometimes i wonder why is it i just cant get things right. and why my results, no matter how i work, its still the same dismal results. And when some ppl discuss about results, they either give u the shocked unbelieving look that "how come u cant get A's and B's?!" . or some will seem even more dismayed and sad than u, and describing as if they'd failed and gotten REAL horrendous results, when all they've gotten is a B at most. and well, it gets kinda demoralising seeing everyone around u improving by leaps and bounds while i myself am crawling at a snail's pace.