i haven't blogged in more than a week! see, this is what school does to you. it eats your life away.
too many things have happened, and too fast. first day of school, MCF in the morning at 8am, Dean's welcome address, going to Simon's to print photos in between classes, Kyna and Meelia's hostel warming party, bag shopping and eating tangyuan with joy at the army market, clandestine operations in my house, 32nd Council reunion, Stef appearing in the papers with her dad, tuition class, mission trip training, kaya toasts and MOH Perm Sec talk.
lots of thinking these days, figuring out the difference between being a hardworking student and a mugger, rethinking about the convictions i want to have being in Med school. people always say Med students (need to) mug their lives away, refrain from CCAs and just hibernate in the libraries. too many people have told me that i've "bid my freedom goodbye" and that i won't have anymore life once i start school. it was discouraging, almost disheartening. i never liked, and couldn't possibly tolerate, school that comprised of pure academia. i don't consider myself to be an extremely consistent person, though definitely a hardworking one. perhaps the regular Hwa Chong mug-when-the-test-or-exams-approach kind of student.
to be honest, upon starting school, i was instantly sucked into the whirlpool of mugging. 1 week into our semester and we've made our first trip to the library, spending a good 3 hours there reading. the strangest thing is that our peers frowned upon such actions, but followed suit anyway.
a sudden realization was that we all have walked straight into the trap of putting on the stereotype that everyone deems us to be, whether or not we are as such. people who don't usually work so hard feel compelled to do so when their peers seem to be doing so and this leads to a massive chain reaction within this pool of strangers who fight to keep up. it's as though we've made the rumours, that may not have been real, come true. makes me consider how easily we change according to circumstances, and brings new meaning to the song lyrics, "
On Christ the solid rock I stand; All other ground is sinking sand."
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Meelia and Kyna's hostel warming party was a great meet up for us since school started. it's always wonderful company and good food. :) 32nd gathering at president scholar's house was also another highlight, chilling out, meeting up and protecting ear drums. xP
hello i am friends with the president scholar. hohoho :) <3
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happy birthday :)
