Wednesday, April 22, 2009 @ 3:37 PM: Lent term - Easter Break
As promised, I am now typing another perhaps long entry (i'll try to keep it short this time) in just less than like 12 hrs? Haha... still waiting for my mind to defrose from all the baeyer-villiger reactions and allylic rearrangements that i find myself somehow drifting to (haha still remb that particular organic chem lecture that got me excited abt those)... cos after all, i shldn't spend time marvel at too much chem (will have more time next year!!) and i'm always so envious of guanghao who could do whatever he likes, like designing real cool simulations of the solar system, and most likely tops his tripos (at least for physics and maths)
This period wise, I guess it is a real transition from having short days to long days (heyhey at least i'm not taking physio and have to bother about long day or short day plants)... and somehow as a night person, i'm not really benefitting from it... cos i slept at 3 and got woken up by the sun at 6:30... explains my tiredness these days... while i guessed i stored up a lot of energy during the earlier days when it could get dark for about 15 hrs per day!!
Anyway starting to realise I'm missing a lot of pple as I din go back during the easter break, which i think is a good decision... had really fun times together with our "study grp", though i shld say I am not as motivated or pro as my peers (evidently thru all the olympiad websites where all the pros make their mark)... but they are really nice and fun pple to be with around, despite some of my emo-ing days (i really wondered why i get so emo those days, but i'm definitely picking up cos it is sunny and happy weather!!)... we had a grantchester picnic, which was probably one of the coldest picnics we ever had... photo evidence of being so cold....
(courtesy of shengrong's album... shaoming joins the guanghao penguin club during the picnic)
and of course we had many cookouts, out of which hong kin will always showcase yet of his other "surprise ingredients" for us to "wow" at... it is always a pleasure to have hong kin and shueli cooking for us... while shengrong is evolving to become a good cook too (can't wait to taste a meal cooked by him one day)... various exploits in the restaurants, esp zizzi... where a waiter had practically joked the entire day cos we never gave him "the change" for two consecutive days we had gone there... going to macs and eat and realise the clever ways at which the macs advertise their monopoly game... i guess it is just these small things in life which will really go down the memory lane in time to come...
Well back to topic... I miss you guys seriously!!! first on the list would be SSG! haha... heard they got a simin bday celebration earlier this month... and i guess the members will all be reunited by august, when shouheng is back from heidelberg as well... and yesterday i was looking at the ryanair specials and a return trip to frankfurt would only cost me 15 GBP!! which is like 1/8 of what yibing is planning for her spain trip... shld do another of those day trips with base at a spot vacation, which i think would be super cool...
Next up it would be 7B! and 4A of course! Miss those k-box, pool, cycling, badminton sessions... a just simple gatherings and potlucks! Army friends also!! (was talking to encik the other day on facebook when he invited me for his housewarming like twice... hope u're doing well after ORD-ed!) ok for the benefit of someone who doesn't have a facebook account (for u noe who u are!), here i shall upload this pic again!
And yups to all the pple, it is the exams time now! Good luck for ur exams (though i know some pple like simin shld have ended their exams and now happily looking forward to their real JOBS!!) it just gets scarier to be reminded that how we have to be in the workforce some other time (at least not for me hehe, long way ahead!) and how all the responsibilities have to come into place one day... And very soon I would be hearing ppl lamenting how tough work is, or perhaps discuss about all the workplace politics, while i am happily insulated in the world of academics hahah!
Most importantly, what I couldn't help but notice abt the technology is that it helps to bring some of us closer together, esp my mum who logs onto the msn really quite often (after all she is the only one who is using the internet at home, and of course must maximise the usage!) And hope she has had enjoyed her bday and all the bday cards we've sent!! But it is just quite funny when parents have facebook accounts and start looking at their children taking lame quizzes or having some friends writing some joking comments on their walls... or worse still, being tagged in some photos that they didn't want to be tagged... haha... but i don't really anticipate that happening to me one day ba...
And just to update everyone, i've received my exam schedule! 2 to 10 June!!! but if u are wondering, it is one whole year of stuff... and it's not gonna be easy, esp given how slack and inefficient i am (with the comp right in front of me!)... so yups the best of luck to me to survive the rigorous demands that i have to go thru... and after that I would be looking forward to spain/france!! No more switz cos intending to visit there in winter, and no more amsterdam cos it is a bit out of the way... but ya plenty of fun to look forward to! esp travelling in the famous five grp man! hahaha...
Shall go on to my maths mocks now! Shall be terribly disappointed in myself and hopefully get a wakeup call!!! seeya!
thank you for bringing me memories...
