ReCap/ Flashback/ DeBrief

It has been a fruitful year.....***cliche*** Time really passes fast/ In a blick of an eye, it has been a year***.....I have spent one year of my life in Nanyang Technological University.

Thinking back, I was still enjoying my ORD days.....a new boy fresh out of the army. A lot of stuff was unsettled, like my hostel, whether to move in soon or later, whether to join the Freshman Orientation Camp by Hall 12 (I didn't join in the end), do we have a book-list or something like that, matriculation (????) and other petty admin stuff.

It was really different.

A new life, a new place and a totally new set of experience.

There were many people to meet. Take your pick: Tutorial mates/ Hall people/ School people through some activities/ Professors/ Canteen aunties/ NTU Bureaucrats......

There were also many things to do:

1. Study (yea....we studied all our life)

2. Skipping classes(YEY....I get to skip a lot of lectures AND tutorials)

3. A whole range of Hall activities

(i) I danced publicly at Orchard.....my biggest nitemare

(ii) Went for garang guni....how often do you do that?

(iii) Go for supper at wee hours in the morning......

(iv) Mahjong at night.....

(v) Midnite jogging

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Wooh, a year just went pass.......

Now is to look forth to the new semster.

I just shudder to think that I am going to graduate so soon......a lot of my pals already graduated.....i.e. to say....they have entered into a new dimension of their life.

Things are wheezing pass me so fast that I did not have the time to enjoy my youth. I feel so old now, eager to start a family, to work, to pay for my downpayment for my HDB flat......

Maybe this blog may offer as a reflection and memory of my life. Who knows, this blog may get to pass down like a family heirloom thing. My connection with my descendants.

Much is to be updated at a later date nearing to the opening of the new semster. My new perspective and a new route to embark on.

---------------------------Flashback-----------------------------------

Thanks to a lot of my friends who enquired why I have not update my blog ever since I came back from Shanghai.

Yea, I came back on the 4th of July.

Was busy preparing for my FOC stuff, the liaisoning and all.

Then was prepared to upload all photos I've taken in Shanghai and write my blog on it......it was a Herculean task.....I will put up the blog at a later date.....(I AM NOT PROCASTINATING!!!!!)......

It took me a few days to deal with some mundune stuff.

Then the BLAST occured. May the terrorists be condemned. God bless London. It was a joyous celebrations turned soured. The happy news of London clinching the 2012 Olympics Games soon reduced to mourning for the dead and missing. My philosophy in life has been as always : Never be too happy when happy for it will mean sad things will come soon; Never be too sad when sad for it will mean happy things will come soon.

Judging from the recent news, Londoners have responded positively to the attacks. They went back to work, they stood behind their government, they vowed to uphold the 2012 Olympics Games.

On our side, the Singapore Government kept emphasizing that all has been done to tighten Singapore's security, yet, many Ministers reminded us that it will come of no surprise (shock yes, surprise no) that a bomb may go off in Singapore. However, it is not the end of Singapore. The Government urged us to respond resiliently, instead of descending into self-pity and despair.

We can only pray that such will not occur in Singapore.