Right..the closing post of the year. The few usual questions are played out in everyone's head. What have I done this year? How far have I come from the last? What do I want to see change?
To put it plainly, this wasn't a good year for me. The worst in fact, not considering the two hell years in JC. However, it was also one of the more fulfilling years for me.
The year kicked off with me fresh back from Japan and wanting all the more to get back there. The rest of the hols were spent working at Glencore, the workplace with a view. haha..if the bee reads this, she'll know the view means more than a 34 floor view of the Singapore flyer.
school was great..not in the results sense though..... got to know more pharm people espcially joy and niron..had much fun and laughter with them. i guess the thing that made us closer was the NEPAL trip!! which reminds me that i should blog about it soon.
uni life seems to fly the older i am..and i'm not at all happy with it. i lurve sch life, i love going to school and finding that dearest socky has reserved seats for me right smack in the middle of the LT, i love just giving up trying to pay attention to the lecturer and chatting with joy instead, i love having lunch tgt on the round tree tables talking about crap such as weird names for our future children i.e. titanium..mercury.., i love my lab grouping with all the funny, humourous gals around me who all chiong to go home asap and i love my easygoing lab partner chiew lei!
the only thing i hate about school is the tests and exams. i just can't seem to compete with the rest of the smart ppl in pharmacy, no matter how hard i try and it's seriously depressing. if i can memorise one chapter of patho, they can memorise line for line 5 chapters of patho.... that's why i'm grateful for joy who keeps me grounded, who tells me to just do my best and be happy that no matter what results i get, i've put in the effort and really, that's all that matters.
results have been crap as well..when my best results belong to modules that are not pharm modules, i guess it must be telling me something ain't it? owells! new year, new sem, time to see whether my brain is still working for pharm...
then there was preceptorship, it wasn't the most fun thing i must admit, but i guess that at least if my results don't serve to get me some nice office pharm job or a job in cosmetics, i wouldn't mind being in retail. totally hate the standing and irrgular work hours, but chatting to the store people and the occasional nice customers was really enjoyable.
nepal was real swell too..fell in love with the fishtail lodge so much so that i promise myself i'll be back there one day..okay shall not rant about nepal here. want to really blog about it. a little late though...
on the guy front, i finally ended it with him. i know he's a real decent guy and will be a really great hubs to someone in the future, but right now all we need is a breather and time to regather our feelings i guess.
a great thanks to ppl like bee, joy and sj who have been my pillar these last half of the year..
one thing i'm glad i did is to chop off my hair. mixed reviews from people...one thing though, short hair is a nightmare to manage when you've just woken up from bed, many a times i've felt like shearing them all off! but looking back at the photos for the year, i guess i'm more suited for long hair. it was thrilling though seeing the hairdresser cut off what seems like 30cm of hair in a blink.
on the friends and people front, i seem to have more time to spend with friends and it's all been really good. met up with vels for a night out...had great xmas meals with the pharm ppl, tk gals and of course family. have to blog about those too. one more thing though is that i've grown fonder of my jc class. been chatting to them online, hilarious conversations there. had supper too at simpang, playing those sit in a circle orientation games and doing the weirdest forfeits.
what's been really bad this year was sleep, exercise..aye basically my health. the first half of the yr wasn't too bad but with hell sem the second half the of the year. i guess if i accumulated all the sleep i had and spread it out evenly, i'd have like what er 3 hours of sleep a day..think i've put on 3 years to my face due to the lack of sleep. and sleep is supposed to be aid for weight management. went to nepal, lost some weight then promptly put back 5kg after that. ):
driving test was horrendous. i knocked down a pole during parallel parking so you should be able to guess whether i've passed or failed right? hurhur...
so anyways in the new year, i hope for a more healthy lifestyle. more sleep, more exercise. haha yeah quite boring laa..but i cannot afford to let my face put on more years. also better time management, and the right sense of mind to prioritise my activities.
