23 June 2008
10:50 PM
More will come...
But as for now:
:)
The most wonderful time since a while! (:
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[edit] 1131pm
it's getting close to midnight but I just thought that if I don't get this down I'll forget the feeling.
Having been asked to give the RG sec4s a short talk about surviving JC life made me think, and hard.
I did survive it, we survived it, some with more battle scars than others, but it's over and gone, and now the monikers I once used in my handphone have been removed, so I need to "insert word" to refresh the memory of my handphone.
Or is it more that I need to refresh my own?
I found this from smoot's blog about 2 years ago.
School has been good! Generally, cher and I spend a lot of time doing stupid things, saying stupid things and laughing over stupid things.
The geog lecture was HELL. Everything was making us so frustrated. If the timing hadn't been so impeccably BAD, I'm sure Cher and I would have LOVED the breathtaking videos of million year old volcanoes and other landforms. Instead we were stressed frustrated and spent a lot of the time laughing at the ridiculously dramatic music that accompanied the video depicting Mount Kilimanjaro.
You see, I remember the Geog Lecture from Hell. We were squirming in the lecture hall and I was begging smoot to skip this one lecture on thursday and run to the canteen to eat pandan cake with me, but smoot had too much good sense and I had too much fear of the consequences, so we stayed put in mute (or not so mute) misery. I thought it couldn't get any worse than that day, which was strange because I liked school a lot, and never fell asleep during tutorials / lectures, and was generally an excited kid when it came to learning.
But that day just blew me away. Every minute in that hall was a minute wasted, a portion of life I wished I were not living, an hour of youth gone.
Sometimes I whined about how stressed out I was with hyperbolic statements that bordered on painful angst, and maybe it was true and I did have too much on the plate, but now it's all a distant memory of the Past. The commitments and the assignments and deadlines.
The past is always eating up the present.
So maybe I'll tell them something like this:
-Laugh harder and louder than you should
-Forget about the 'closet muggers'. They don't matter in the LR
-Keep looking out for your friends, because it's over in 2 years, and even if you wanted to, you couldn't really protect them anymore
-Make friends with everyone, but keep the good ones close
-Join anything you want. Your CV will make you proud but it won't necessarily make you happy
-Study for promos. Don't let irresponsible seniors / peers tell you otherwise
-It ain't over till it's over: keep going until The Day. (then it's really over)
Be ridiculously happy; be irresponsibly happy and grateful because every day is a new day to make mistakes that won't stick.
and chin up, because then one will be able to see clear cloud-less sun at the quadrangle every morning, and never wonder why.
School's out;
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