Last Day of 2010

It's been awhile since I have last blogged and today is the very last day of 2010. Time really flies with a blink of an eye. To think of it, I have already finished the very first semester of my university life. A few months ago, I was still a happy polytechnic graduate. Thinking nothing would be too difficult for me to accomplish. In poly year 1, I set a goal to achieve a GPA of 4.0 in any semester in polytechnic and I really did that in the last semester. Everything went as I planned. And graduating from polytechnic with such results, 4th in the whole course, did surprise me, myself, and my parents. We were truly overjoyed. I even went Taiwan for a very much deserved holiday and came back with a Porter bag. But that was the first half of the year.

And there came the second half. I worked almost every day during my holidays for 2 months or so to earn some pocket money. I even volunteered myself as a Youth Olympic Games volunteer. At first, I was quite reluctant to sign up as a volunteer. But after much encouragement from my mum, I signed up. I attended briefings, trainings and there came the actual day of the scheduled duty. I was allocated to be the ticketing officer at Singapore Sports School. I was tasked to check the authenticity of the tickets, answer to spectators questions while they were queuing for tickets. And after the whole YOG, all volunteers were treated to a SURPRISING journey to the newly opened Universal Studios Singapore. It was great to be a volunteer partly because of the perks you get. But the greatest part is to know more people (YOG peeps) and help troubled spectators. And this memorable event will never be forgotten, for this is the very first Youth Olympic Games held!

After YOG, it was time to start school. Schooling in a totally different environment was at first interesting. You get to know new friends, how living in hostel is like, how tutorial classes are conducted without attendance being marked, how professors are, how everything that you imagined being in university is. And when examinations come, it's time you really worked very very hard for your grades. I really regretted not heeding the advice of my friend to study even it was just week 1 and not doing my tutorials during school terms. I took things very very lightly as when I was in polytechnic. And things turned out worst than I expected. I ended up suffering a lot. Examination results are not out yet but I already know how it would be.

After attending one semester of university, I finally understood the true meaning of WORK HARD, PLAY HARD! During examination period, I was studying almost everyday till 4am in the morning and waking up at 10am for my papers. After every paper, I studied for the very next paper as I had 5 consecutive days of exam. I did this for 5 consecutive days and was totally exhausted. I vowed not to put my exam dates consecutively EVER AGAIN! It was a horrible and stressful experience which I guess I will never forget. Even if I really did that, I vow to revise, revise and revise my work. Since I know my examination dates even before school term starts.

I faced another terrible experience while arranging my timetable. I found out that I could not fit in my Accounting 2 course in my timetable. My friends from my course faced that problem too. And we are now waiting for our mentor, who hasn't reply, to reply. Hopefully everything would be okay...

I have experienced all the HIGHS and the LOWS this year. How about yours?

I just hope that in 2011, where a new chapter begins, would also be a better year for me.

Main purpose in life now is to:
STUDY, STUDY and STUDY.
(Not forgetting to finish ALL tutorials I have and attend ALL lessons)