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Friday, June 04, 2010,2:58 PM
the last i blogged was i think 3 weeks ago. in those 3 weeks the most awesome-est of stuffs happened.
the week that was 2 weeks ago was the most fun and meaningful that i've had. a coffee session with an old friend from my ns days, a day trip to jb with the silat people, a karaoke and supper session with my jc classmates, and a picnic at botanical gardens and then dinner with my primary school friends - all within a week. i'm thankful i still meet up regularly (i think once or twice a year is considered regular enough) with these different groups of people. i think the value of such meet-ups cannot be underestimated. it is the rekindling of old ties, the remembrance and commemoration of old deeds and occurrances, and opportunities to further strengthen existing ties, and still be able to laugh about each other. priceless, i assure you.
in the space of 3 weeks all i've been doing was going to school for training, and just playing games at home in between. i made it through the first round last weekend for ivp, though tomorrow it's the quarter-finals and potentially the semi-finals later on. i'm not exactly psyched up for things, but i shall find my own ways to motivate myself.
2 days ago i got silver for ippt! surprisingly i got 21 points, at least 2 points higher than i could ever achieve even during my ns days. the 2.4km run was excruciating - the only thing that kept spurring me on was that i was not going to be happy if i only managed a pass for the timing and not the silver standard - a difference of $100 mind you! so i pushed and pushed and i barely made the cut - 7 seconds more and i would have gotten only $100. as usual when one goes for ippt one will notice old men and fathers with round bellies struggling to clear the ippt. i'm thankful i still have a bit of youth on my side and my silat trainings at least condition my body better for gruelling physical sessions, even if i don't think i'm that fit.
my exam results were good i would say, since i equalled my best-performing semester, which was way back in my 1st ever semester. i'm thankful for that too, considering i was taking the real estate module that i've been cursing about on my blog in the past few months. yet surprisingly i got an a for that, the best result overall. i really wonder how bad one must do for the exams for that module, since i didn't even finish the paper, which constituted 60% of the overall grade, and i believei scored 0 for participation marks in tutorial. jerome says don't question good fortune, but i mean i still want to know how bad one must do to get a bad score. sometimes we do so much yet we achieve so little.
so i've supposedly conquered the many battles - the 1st weekend of ivp, my ippt, my exam results. next up is tomorrow and potentially sunday. one at a time, slowly does it i guess. once that is over a little while more time to rest before the next challenge - teaching. it's isn't particularly a career option for me, but it is an avenue to spend my holidays on something meaningful and on something that pays well. haha. oh well, by the looks of things i think it's english and history for me. but we'll see about that.
back to research on the thesis paper! i've already thought of the title somewhat, and i hope that's enough to kickstart this arduous journey.
it's a quarter after one, i'm all alone and i need you now.
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