Thursday, August 16, 2007
First week of school
Times really flies. It seemed not too long ago when in the cold room of AS6, Cikgu Aishah collected the "primary 6-looking" pile of papers from the table I was sitting behind, lifting the stone casted on my mind as well.
While I had a rather eventful 3-month holiday (ICT, Arts Camp, working at Adam Khoo's, preparation for Oweek, Oweek itself) it's back to the mugging season.
Well, the dust and rust collected in my brain is more than I've imagined.
Sitting in a LT quietly and listening to adults talk academically, rather than doing cheers, talking cock or playing stupid games, logging on to the IVLE, printing notes in the library, gathering my concentration back to prevent the disaster of Sem 1 and embarking on the Journey to the West everyday, all these things which I'm doing now remains an alien concept to me, despite having been trained for that in the past year.
Right now, I'm still in the GTM (go through motion) mood, just trying my best not to lag in any sense before the spark of muggerism hits me, granting me the momentum to fly like I did in the last semester.
School still revolved pretty much around Arts Club and the Oweek Ocomm rather than the supposedly-important things we're supposed to focus on once the semester starts. The motivation for going to school has largely been based on the chance to meet familiar people again and going to the newly-opened The Deck. Banner painting for the bash, buying stuff for the bash, going to the booth for the bash and plain slacking in the clubroom are just plain excuses to extend and recollect the friendships made during Oweek.
I love to meet these people, I love to play, I love to talk cock, but somewhere deep down inside I know I need to start focusing on my schoolwork again. Being on the ball, being on the forefront of the concepts being taught, and being able to push my mind towards excellence once again.
But before I can settle my mind down, I need a bloody room! I hope to have good news from the NUS scholarship side (I really really need the money), I hope to get a room (I really really need a room in order for me to fly in my studies), I hope to get my final module (I really really need that module for me to settle down and put my mind to rest) and I hope to settle some miscellaneous yet important emotional thoughts.
Settle these, and I'll fly =)
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