Friday, January 16, 2009 -

Well, I think most of you might have known by now that it had been almost 4 months since I last updated this blog. School work was a killer and as a result I had to spend the majority of my time on revision, readings, assignments and tutorials. For those of you who are curious of what I had done for the missing months, I will summarized all of the events together.

October 08

As I could recall, this was the month where I was finalizing my project assignment for EE2006. Its a digital design module, which I must comment, is a pretty fun module to take, where you have the opportunity to design your own digital system. There were several challenges to be met, such as using the least amount of microchip as possible and so on. It was fun as I had to ransacked my brain to think of the appropriate solutions to the problems I encountered. There were limitless ideas to all design and that the main reason why I am so interested in this particular module.

Apart from the 2006 assignment, this was the time to prepare myself for the upcoming exams in November. Its the first exam I will be sitting for after graduating from poly 2 years ago. I must admit, as I had stated in my previous blog entries, that the system in universities is very much different from poly. Life was not easy over here but it still beats being in National Service. After all, I do get to enjoy countless degree of freedom over in NUS then the autocratic structure in the SAF.

November 08

(Exams and Holidays)

It was the exam period and the most stressful period in my first semester. Finally, I will be tested on my concept. The papers were tough and I seriously had a cultural shocked when I did those paper. But despite the difficulties the paper were still manageable. This exam had forced me to change to a new strategy in handling the modules in Universities. The study method that I had formulated in poly is no longer effective. I had to open my mind and forced myself to adopt a new studying method.

After the exams, it was finally the holidays. The time to relax and rest our minds had finally arrived. No doubt the first thing we did was to catch a movie with my universities pal. We then went around town looking for some stuff to buy for Christmas since we were student, our budget was pretty much limited. So we went around looking for the cheapest and good quality product we can find. Most of the time, I was looking for my stuff and had to thanked my pals for accompanying me around.

I also spent some time helping out my club in poly. My juniors needed help in some events they organized and I came to lend an extra hand rather than standing at the side and providing them with moral support. I am extremely proud to see that my club had grown so much over the years. I still could recalled that during my times, the club was just a rag team with very few member clinging on to a common idea. Now the club had grown to almost a hundred members.

The club strength was never about earning CCA points nor the numerous events we did. CCA was all about forging bonds that will last through out our lifetimes. Friendship is the heart of all CCA groups and there is, without a single doubt, that life without friends is always very miserable. Friends will always be there for us whenever we encountered any troubles or porblem in our life and I am proud to make many group friends from my club. Something that is very few in societies nowadays. That is why we should, always treasure our friends.

December 08

Its the festive season, and the result for my first sem in NUS were out. Personally, I thought it was alright but still I believed that I can do much better. I also felt sad that some of my friends never did so well. But nevertheless, we put aside our grievances and look forward to the new semester starting in January.

This month also saw a change in one of my good friends character. I can't imagined why he said those terrible things. Perhaps it is due to the stress that he encountered in his work, but still it does not give him the right to be corrupted by the pressure of society. Worst of all, he did not realized his mistake and insisted that he was correct. He became less sincere in the words so much, that it agitated his friends beside him. I hope, for the sake of our friendship, that he will one day realize his own mistakes before its too late.

Friday, January 16, 2009