it is getting more tiring to exercise judgement and perception on choices everyday. making a choice now, post-21, is extremely not a linear process. life is getting more randomised, haphazard, ironic and problematic. i hope i won't descend into any quarter-life crisis soon. perhaps it's just the post-exams complex, where freedom spells a lacuna to be bridged, a gap to be filled.
the rainy days are back and it just makes sleeping in so seductive. have officially checked out of RVR yesterday and bid goodbye to my room. so now i can say i have at least spent one sem "on campus" and that's quite enough for me. interestingly, yesterday could very mean the END of all geog exams for my entire life!!! and it ended off in true tropical beauty - thunder and lightning! next sem, i don't have to do any more MPE and i hope i can just fully focus on HT!!
i love to look back sometimes, sometimes in search for meaning, others just to indulge in some bitter-sweet sentiments. it never fails to amaze me. that the day i decided to take on Geography at secondary 3 can lead me to where i am today. i cannot for a moment imagine, at least back then, sitting down in the hot and stuffy classroom situated in the neighbourhood of neighbourhoods and listening to what geog is "about", that i could take on the role of directorship of a nation-wide geog competition, attracting the best geog students from Singapore half a decade later! i never knew i could end up loving it so much at Uni, be so proud of what the subject entails and even willingly set my career on this one subject which i truly believe in!
who knows what a neighbourhood boy can achieve? ask me when i was 15 years old, NUS seems like such a big thing. ask me when i was 18, NUS seems to be the only place i want to be. and what i gotten from the UNI is beyond my wildest thinking. i cannot imagine publishing geosphere which made its round in schools across the island, made so many friends and had much fun. back then i don't even know what an honours thesis is about, and look here i am, having done a proposal which even won a grant outside of nus. now i'm almost set to embark on this 'masterpiece' or 'pinnacle' or 'capstone project' (22 dec!).
ironically, i didn't really think much about getting an A1 and A for geog when i was younger, as much as i felt bad and guilty for getting Bs for maths and science. is this some sort of unconscious competency? and now that i have entered the doors of higher learning for geography for abt 4 years now, received so much knowledge and skills from such wonderful profs and lecturers, it seems almost certain that i will be stepping out into the world, to continue to shape the learning of this subject for younger generations to come!
life is what happens when you are busy planning about tomorrow. i am glad that the choice i made when i was 15 years old, still continues to inspire me a decade later, and will surely do so for more years to come!
Princess and the Frog - 9.1/10
Zombieland - 6.5/10
another excessive long movie with a weak script. there could have been stronger moments for the characters to deliver their parts, but it seems that the perogative is still the action, to see cities melt into the crusts. funny, in all such doomsday scenario, we mankind still care enough to save animals. and somehow there will ALWAYS be GIRAFFE and ELEPHANTS. how ICONIC!
the entire development of the story is so slow, it makes watching mighty unbearable. i just get restless after a while. pale skins and milk-bottled complexions don't appeal to me at all. the portrayal of cold weather is inviting though. the landscaping of the woods was fine. that's all.
