Before i proceed, here is a public service announcment
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Come on down to Hall@TJC for 2006's BlackLights!
Tickets going at $8
7-10pm, 21st July (friday)
read poster for more details!
Design, courtesy of Syakirah Sinin
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The week has been... different for me. Usually i would complain how i am lazy and dont study and simply cannot set myself down and focus on the task at hand, especially when it comes to studies. However, this week i have really deviated far from my usual self, and gave myself the pressure to focus on work.
This i have to give credit to Sze Sian and Jane. If not for going Sze Sian's house on tuesday and getting down to serious studying, i doubt i would have had teh momentum to continue the rest of the week. so from one study session focusing on biology, to the other subjects such as physics, and math. I wasnt studing the same topic as they were, as my tests were on different days, but the pressure they gave me was enough to kick off into a studying cycle, where after that little boost, i could get myself to study on my own as well. Perhaps this is potentially dangerous, after all does that mean that i need company to study? what would happen if my friends dont want to study (unlikely though) or they study at some ungodly hours (wake up 2 am, brain functions best then). Still i am grateful, as i had more confidence going into MOST of my tests that i would not have had otherwise.
Actually there is more to studying hard and doing well than just the grades. I realise that if i want people to take me seriously, i have to be serious about more things too. I may be serious when it comes to council, but that is not something everyone sees. Afterall, this is a school. Studies mean a lot to people. What the student body wants to see of their student leaders is not just the ideas and all the events of the leaders, nor do they just want to see some mugger that has no regard for anything but books, it is a balance. taking work seriously, is also a reflection of responsibility, and drive. a person can't possibly display a personality specific to the situation. attitude to work is attitude to life.
Thats where people like royston come into play. he is looked up to both as a student leader and as a councillor, and this is credited to his work attitude. I won't become top student overnight, or suddenly be classified as the epitome of mugger-dom, but i hope to gain more respect if i display that i can be serious in work, and in council. My aim is to discard that laid back, "all play no work" facade of myself, and let my more serious side emerge.
Enough about studies for now. i shall see whether my hard work pays off, when i get my tests back this coming week.
on Friday, i have to admit that the physics test was killer. i just cannot fathom how the physics teachers expect us to do well for the test. even BOB found it difficult, and that really says alot about the standard of the paper. but after that, the de-stressing session began. Dimira, Jane, Syak, Sze Sian and i, headed down to Sze Sian's house, for a movie session. I really don't wanna say too much in fear of offending people, but i just feel that "Aquamarine" is not really my cuppa tea. But it was nice just being around good friends, reminding myself how lucky i am to have them.
Saturday, i went to NYGH's Food and Funfair. actually i almost did not go. cuz, i wasnt too sure of whether i would feel out of place. But on Xinyi's invitation i felt obliged, after all i did promise her. So i went there hoping to meet some Ex-Ro i knew and maybe hang out with him/her for the course of the fair. Ended up, Isaac dissapeared somewhere in the school, and i was left hanging out with 3 Ex-Ro i havent seen in a while. I remember most of the time i spent hanging out at 410's food stall. cuz Yuling was now the monitress, and was in charge of her stall. I like not seeing people, and then meeting them after a long while. its cool to see how people have changed. Well Yuling and i used to be good friends back in Pri 4, and i will remember the stupid things we did, especially to our group mates, isaac and aaron XP.
Still one cannot just not meet anyone for a long time, and expect to be good friend automatically when they meet again, and i guess it was a little awkward at first. haha, if you chance upon this, sorry for the weirdness and hope we can catch up some time.
Speaking of cathching up. I met Leon at the Funfair, or rather, i told him to come meet me. It has been a while sincei spoke to him too. Now he is really slim, and really goodlooking too. Darn i think im jealous, oh well. FITNESS REGIME! haha. but it was cool hanging out with leon again. i even had teh chance to invite him to my new place. Maybe cuz he is a guy, it was no problem at all chatting with him abt school, about life, even though it we only chat for a while, it felt great, knowing that my friendship in the past has not died.
Maybe a VSGEP gathering could be done again, cuz there are some people that i havent seen in a long time. some i rather not meet, but some i wonder how they have changed? I think all this nostalgia could have been done during the june hols, but alas, i did not initiate it, so it did not occur.
I reminding myself of the people i have around me. Some things change, but same shall forever remain the same. :)
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