When Silence Is No Longer Golden

Hi readers!! Once again, a long while after the last post. I am so sorry for that, I am really, like really, busy such that I do not have any time to spare to blog. Now that the semester has ended (there is still finals though, but that is still (only?) a week away~) I can spare some time to write something. And just nice, I have something to say as well! Okay so basically, today (by the time this is posted is yesterday) I went back to my secondary school, SJI - that's St Joseph's Institution, in case you don't know - to attend a farewell concert. The concert is in conjunction with the moving of the campus as it is going to be renovated. The school is going to be moved temporarily to another campus in Bishan (I think it is used to be an ITE or something) for a couple of years. Shortly, I was a sort of..... fooled(?) by the nice-looking e-mail invitation, thinking it is some kind of grand concert that would take place in the PAC (Performing Arts Centre) or something, where o...

Hi readers! I do not even remember when was the last time I wrote here... Has it been more than one week? University life is indeed very hectic, extremely so such that I lose track of time. Suddenly this coming week is recess week (or in Singapore, is actually "mid-term preparation week") and mid-term exam will follow thereafter. If I am really that busy, why do I even bother to write now, anyway? Well... Because I love you my readers!! <3<3 .......... Nah.... Are there even readers? Is there any reader at all actually? Lol..... Anyway the real reason I write now is because I am waiting for the big data migration, just as what the title says. Well, remember I bought a new laptop last week? (Or was it 2 weeks ago? I seriously lost the track of time!) Yeah, so finally I am able to spend some time looking through my old files and decide which will stay, which will go over to the next laptop, and which will be deleted. It is pretty similar to tidying up your room; you will ...

Hey readers!! Finally, a more high-spirited post from me! Before I start proper, let me apologize to you readers (if there are any) that my last few posts have been really.... depressing. There were not much to be hyped about in my life thus far, really. Even now, actually my life has not gotten much better. This week (or should I say last week since today is already weekend) is e-learning week. For readers who have not entered university yet would say, "Yay! E-learning! Extra holiday, you mean?" While those who are currently in or have graduated from university (especially Singapore university) would say "I know how it feels, broooo." Yeah, e-learning is not so much fun anymore now that I am in university. E-learning week for me now has turned into "catching-up-with-studies week".  The pace of the lectures is crazy. It is not possible to get a good command on a certain concept before piles of new concepts are bombarded onto you the very next lecture. Thus...

Hi everyone! This time, it is really quite a long hiatus since the last time I posted here. Indeed university life is very different from the relaxed life of the 6-month holiday I just went through (you don't say!), even JC! Some of you may have heard the saying that if you can go through JC, you can go through anything in life. WRONG. I would say that the more correct saying is that JC is the preview of what real life (or rather, university life, since I haven't gone to work yet) would be like. Things come and go really quickly and without you realizing it, you missed out on a lot of things even when it is only week 3 of your university life! Anyway, I am posting now not to compare JC and university. Okay so the reason I am posting now is just to create a checkpoint in my university life so far, so that the future me can have a reference of his past, for whatever reason he may have. So far, things have been pretty okay. I took a hardcore "introduction to programming"...

Hey readers. This post is once again another emo/melancholy/depressing post of mine. Feel free to close this tab if you do not feel like reading another person's miserable mind or you can also keep reading if you want. Disclaimer, it may make you feel as down as me, hopefully not worse. Just as a background story, my mum, my brother and my sister came to Singapore to visit me, or rather, came to help me bring the stuff that I could not or I forgot to bring when I went to Singapore. Today was the last day of their short visit, which was only one night. After sending them to the airport, as I boarded the train back to my campus, I felt a sudden feeling of deep loneliness. Like, I suddenly felt that I am actually all alone in this world. I remember one of my friend who came to PGPR (the place where I stay in campus) earlier than me said that I should find a girlfriend if I do not want to be lonely here. Indeed he was right. PGPR is a really big residence and the chance of me being in ...

Hey, readers. It's been quite some time, again, since the last time I posted here. Just as an update, I am already in Singapore to do my undergraduate studies which would start somewhere in August. I am staying in an on-campus accommodation which turns out to be rather below my expectations. If you readers happen to be Singaporean or intend to stay in NUS, I am in PGPR. If you want to apply for an accommodation here, I suggest you to choose type A. My first few days in my type C room is horrible. I am not sure if it is the weather, but the room is really really hot. There is a ceiling fan, of course, but it does not really help much when there is not even a ventilation; just windows that cannot be opened too widely. Moreover, the fan may even become the source of another problem. It is located right above the bed, so all night long, you sleep while being blown by the wind from the ceiling fan directly. For some people who have a sensitive nose or some other respiratory problems, it...

Hey readers. It has been quite a week full of thoughts and reflections (thus the more frequent blogpost than usual). I do not know why. Maybe because I am turning 20 soon. Or it could be just a coincidence. Whatever the case, I just found this post on 9gag which I find quite ..... profound. Do not get me wrong; I have dropped the habit of scrolling through 9gag for hours long long ago. The last time I saw 9gag, it basically full of shits that are not even funny, and the comments sections are full of people flaming each other. Nowadays, I only see 9gag posts on Facebook that are shared by my friends, which means all the posts have already been "filtered". Here's the link to the post I am writing about. I know the title in the post is different, but I personally feel that my title fits better. Well, I call it "my title" but I cannot say that I came up with it by myself. It is from the comments section. For once the comments section contains useful stuff. Now, I k...

Hi, readers! I am sorry if I have made you all curious about my seemingly perfect past life because of the previous post, and yet have yet to continue my story. Unfortunately, this post is not about that. I am currently addicted to an old-school game "Yugi-Oh! Duel Academy" on GBA (of course I am playing it on my computer using emulator) and thus much of my time is wasted playing. Actually, it is possible that I am indulging myself in old-school games as an escape from my current rather miserable life. Not extremely miserable actually, but I have the tendency to exaggerate my troubles in my own mind. That reminds me. I just attended a sort of reunion with my 4-year scholar friends. It is really nice to see some of them again after so many months. Some were in China, rendering them not contactable via Facebook. Some others, to be honest, I do not really care to keep in touch with them. I just do not quite clique with them and I do not see the point pretending or attempting to ...

Continuing from my previous post, I managed to convince my father (or rather, made my father felt guilty, thus granting my wish) to meet my friends in the afternoon, leaving the event halfway. As a substitute, my younger sister took my place. I did not know if she enjoyed herself there, but I knew that she enjoyed the food and the room. Unfortunately for her, it is me who get to stay in the room, not her. *evil laugh* Anyway, I am writing this not for the sake of explaining what I meant by "not" on my previous post . There are more things I would like to write down; things that often disturb my mind. It is about the past and my personalities. It was actually because of the communication skills seminar I attended last night that made me think about this again. The main aim of the seminar was to teach those doctors and nurses on how to communicate with their patients about a programme in which their clinical data would be collected for an international-scale research on diabete...

Hi, readers! Once, once, again, it took me forever to finally post another thing on this blog. Actually, there are many, many posts waiting to be posted here, but I finally gave up chasing after the non-existent deadline to post those, because I just remembered the reason I created this blog in the first place; to improve my deteriorating English and to prepare me for the was-upcoming interviews. Now that there are no more interviews, I have somewhat lost my main drive to write. Therefore, I think I will just turn this blog into a kind of my record of thoughts instead of my life record. And as a consequence, I may post even less frequently than now, though there is also a possibility that I post more frequently since I can just post anything, however short or long, not confined to certain events and free to omit any information that is irrelevant to the thoughts I am writing about. And all the above changes about the content of my blog will start from this very post. Firstly, I want to...