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Posted Saturday, May 18, 2013 // 12:56 AM
So here marks the end of Year 2, Sophomore Year in NTU.I know everyone is probably sick of the phrase 'time flies' but no other phrase is more apt at describing how I feel! Each academic year in poly back then felt so much longer than that in NTU! Probably cause we have a shorter semester and longer summer break now in uni as compared to poly. As much as I dislike studying, I'm really not counting down to my convocation in 2015. How much I abhor work! How I wish I could stay forever young and study forever :( Can't imagine how my working life would be in a few years. To sum up the last semester, I would say it's definitely not as horrid and hectic as the semester before that. Without the much feared HW0202 (Research Writing), I had more time to focus on my studies! But like any other semesters, the start of each is always filled with table tennis trainings and competitions. Sad to say, I wasn't good enough to make it to the IVP team this year cause I haven't been training much and I think I've reached this stagnant phase where I can't improve any further but instead have huge room to deteriorate. Oh well, knowing that I won't be in the team playing for my school but rather just sitting on the bench really affected me quite badly. It just meant I wasn't good enough. That I was of lower standard. And what makes me most disappointed was because I've actually been in this sport for 13 years. Yeah sure, I can just make excuses for myself like 'I'm a slow learner' and 'It doesn't mean that the longer you play, the better you are' but it's hard for me to forgive myself for playing so lousily during the internal match. Devastating. Anyway, it's over. Actually it wasn't as bad as I thought. I mean sitting on the bench. I'm really proud of my teammates for helping to secure our champion title at IVP this year again (: and the men's team did us proud too so we had double champs for IVP just like SuniG. I was appointed as vice captain at the end of the whole IVP; thanks for my team for having faith in me. Although I wont be around for the whole of next sem, I'll do a good job in everything I do (: And then trainings stopped after IVP ended. Boy, was I more than happy to be able to dedicate all my time to studying. I'm not sure I'm really confident of this semester's exams though..I have to admit I was quite slack as compared to other sems. I guess I really need to be under stress to perform well. Shall leave all the 'Oh shucks I should have studied harder and watched less shows' to 31st May when the results are out. And right now I have URECA (continuation from last holidays), which is the abbreviation for undergraduate research experience on campus. Just like fyp, except I chose to receive stipends instead of clearing it as a module. The stipends can help me lighten the financial burden for the korea exchange. Oh yes, DID I MENTION I'M GOING TO KOREA NEXT SEMESTER FOR EXCHANGE?! At Dong-A University. Sounds fun right. But I'm kinda afraid. Don't give me the weird look but although I appear to be strong, I'm the kind of person that is afraid of rapidly changing environment. I hate changes and I have a hard time adapting to them. Which explains why I'm ordering the same food and mixing around with the same people all the time. I hope I will enjoy myself there instead of getting homesick ( which I think I most probably will)! I'm really glad I have Jodi going with me (: But Jenz is going to linkoping uni in sweden so we won't see each other for a sem :( I just came back from the BKK trip with coursemates a few days ago! Will upload pictures in the next blog post (: Till then, goodbye for now. |
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