hey peepz!
its been such a lont time since i last blogged.
anyway, the first week of school has already came and gone. and i am nicely settled in my new home away from home. the more i think about the room, the more i love it. its far away, from much of the hustle and bustle. it faces a steep slope covered with trees, is near the toilet and is on the same floor as the pantry. the window faces south, so i dun get the morning or evening sun, but it gets sufficiently bright enough for me to wake up and stay awake. really i love the room. only that the laundy room is really far, in another block.
but i know a few friends staying here with me, namely mel, alex, jiahe, jason, teddy, gm, ms wen, and benny. its great living here already.
the week has been really hectic. the first shocking revelation was that my ps lecturers were not providing course packs, which means we had to gather about 50 sepearate readings for the module! and i have 2 module lecturers doing that!!! it was a horrorible, horrible treatment. luckily, i managed to rally 2 other friends to divide the task of compiling our course pack. so i spent 2 whole days in the library from dusk to dawn just hunting the readings down and photocopying them. yoke could not even stand 2 hours. imagine 6. then again, i am a shamelessly and pervertedly self-proclaimed master of photocopying, and the great pirate to copyright laws.
oh. just want to say, that if any of you are going to infringe copyright laws, and am going to do so anyway, please, at least do it with consideration for the environment. please use both sides of the paper, and save the toner by covering exposed areas with the white cardboards that the shops have so kindly provided. it irks me to see people photocpying books the same size as "the little prince" on one side, and when each paper like 50% blocked out by black toner. its cruel to the environment. so please, save the trees.
i still have 2 more modules to zap readings for. argh. the pain. the torture. and in it, a slight pinch of pleasure (please refer to previous entries on the perverse excitement i take out of zapping notes on a massive scale).
and so the week passed by so fast, i find myself falling behind on readings already on the second week of school. today was pretty much wasted running here and there doing errands and amending corrections, and retrieving forgotten items and teaching a neophyte meiling at the art of zapping notes.
shall not complain anymore about me being sick. yes. i am still sick for the 4th week running. if i dun get well by tomorrow, i am going to yih and insister they refer me to a specialist. i was surfing the net about "persistent coughs" and was relieved to hear that its common that they can go on for "a few weeks". but my blanked out when i came across an article about a woman who found out she got "unoperable lung cancer" after what she thought was "sinmply a nagging cough." the cruel, cruel tricks fate plays on my mind. now, i really do not want to think about anything, about what on earth i could have possibly contracted. pq thinks its tb. another thinks its cancer. i think i shall lock myself up in the room. and suddenly, the oh-so-familiar feeling of being isolated and singled out for a disease has come wafting back to me.
that's not the only cause for my worry. the juniors that have come in have become a new source of stress. they are all generally fit, with some fitter than others, and some fitter than me during my peak. all the aspirations to get strong and stronger, and to be a source of motivation for them, have seem to have taken a reverse turn upon myself, and now especially when i am still sick. its frustrating, its agonising. i havent run in 3 weeks. marcus's speed is quite fast, or so i heard. and i wonder if i will faint the next time i attempt at running. of course, i am glad that there are potentially good juniors around, and in the end, i just hope for a strong, bonded, winning, NUS db team, even if i am not in the boat, cos at the end of the day, its really not about winning or losing, or whether or not i get into the boat and such. its really about bonds and us fighting together. so i hope we all can work harder together.
was telling a lot of people, that i miss running around nus at night. just tempted to get out there and just do it. really tempted...
its been such a lont time since i last blogged.
anyway, the first week of school has already came and gone. and i am nicely settled in my new home away from home. the more i think about the room, the more i love it. its far away, from much of the hustle and bustle. it faces a steep slope covered with trees, is near the toilet and is on the same floor as the pantry. the window faces south, so i dun get the morning or evening sun, but it gets sufficiently bright enough for me to wake up and stay awake. really i love the room. only that the laundy room is really far, in another block.
but i know a few friends staying here with me, namely mel, alex, jiahe, jason, teddy, gm, ms wen, and benny. its great living here already.
the week has been really hectic. the first shocking revelation was that my ps lecturers were not providing course packs, which means we had to gather about 50 sepearate readings for the module! and i have 2 module lecturers doing that!!! it was a horrorible, horrible treatment. luckily, i managed to rally 2 other friends to divide the task of compiling our course pack. so i spent 2 whole days in the library from dusk to dawn just hunting the readings down and photocopying them. yoke could not even stand 2 hours. imagine 6. then again, i am a shamelessly and pervertedly self-proclaimed master of photocopying, and the great pirate to copyright laws.
oh. just want to say, that if any of you are going to infringe copyright laws, and am going to do so anyway, please, at least do it with consideration for the environment. please use both sides of the paper, and save the toner by covering exposed areas with the white cardboards that the shops have so kindly provided. it irks me to see people photocpying books the same size as "the little prince" on one side, and when each paper like 50% blocked out by black toner. its cruel to the environment. so please, save the trees.
i still have 2 more modules to zap readings for. argh. the pain. the torture. and in it, a slight pinch of pleasure (please refer to previous entries on the perverse excitement i take out of zapping notes on a massive scale).
and so the week passed by so fast, i find myself falling behind on readings already on the second week of school. today was pretty much wasted running here and there doing errands and amending corrections, and retrieving forgotten items and teaching a neophyte meiling at the art of zapping notes.
shall not complain anymore about me being sick. yes. i am still sick for the 4th week running. if i dun get well by tomorrow, i am going to yih and insister they refer me to a specialist. i was surfing the net about "persistent coughs" and was relieved to hear that its common that they can go on for "a few weeks". but my blanked out when i came across an article about a woman who found out she got "unoperable lung cancer" after what she thought was "sinmply a nagging cough." the cruel, cruel tricks fate plays on my mind. now, i really do not want to think about anything, about what on earth i could have possibly contracted. pq thinks its tb. another thinks its cancer. i think i shall lock myself up in the room. and suddenly, the oh-so-familiar feeling of being isolated and singled out for a disease has come wafting back to me.
that's not the only cause for my worry. the juniors that have come in have become a new source of stress. they are all generally fit, with some fitter than others, and some fitter than me during my peak. all the aspirations to get strong and stronger, and to be a source of motivation for them, have seem to have taken a reverse turn upon myself, and now especially when i am still sick. its frustrating, its agonising. i havent run in 3 weeks. marcus's speed is quite fast, or so i heard. and i wonder if i will faint the next time i attempt at running. of course, i am glad that there are potentially good juniors around, and in the end, i just hope for a strong, bonded, winning, NUS db team, even if i am not in the boat, cos at the end of the day, its really not about winning or losing, or whether or not i get into the boat and such. its really about bonds and us fighting together. so i hope we all can work harder together.
was telling a lot of people, that i miss running around nus at night. just tempted to get out there and just do it. really tempted...