Monday, February 23, 2004

better days

sorry for the foul mood in my last couple of entries. i guess i'm just not the supergirl i always thought i can be and i should really allow some time for myself to be pathetic and miserable.

things have gotten considerable better for the past week. i managed to let go of IT a bit...and am now not as obsessve as i was. am still a bit homesick, and can't wait till i go home next month, although it'll only be for 3 days. sigh.

actually things started to look up since valentine's day. i spent the day studying before heading out to marina bay for a steamboat bbq dinner with my hostel mates. it wasn't as fun as it was last year, where we went for a performance and then took a stroll down the stretch of road between esplanade and fullerton hotel. lovely place, that. this year there were only 8 of us, and due to the strict hostel rules, we couldn't stay out. we reached the guard house just 7 minutes late and were punished for it anyway.

as for last week, i spent most of it stressing about the asean mass orientation. you know me...i usually exaggerate the situation and got myself pretty worked up. then there were the juniors who complained that the SLs didn't inform them properly about the orientation. i honestly do not blame the SLs. after all, we ARE in jc2 and are very busy people. what did they expect us to do? send them personal invitations?

despite the initial disappointment over the poor turnout and the fact that we had to kinda scramble to rearrange the rotation tables for the station games since we had to halve the number of orientation groups, the whole thing turned out pretty well.

i know i certainly had fun. even when i got dunked into the sea twice: once by the SLs, once by my dastardly juniors. they made it a point to throw me in the deeper end too. ended up screaming for my slippers...haha.

so yeah...things are looking up, and these are definitely better days. it is rather sad, though, that the orientation marked the end of my term as an SL...and that i won't be planning anymore things with the others. sigh. got tonnes of work to think about too: tutorials, exams, my mugging schedule for the term 1 holidays...

still, am feeling much happier. thanks for all the support i've been getting. didn't mean to sound self-pitying. i appreciate it all the same. and i promise: better entries in the future. just that i don't have much time to think profound thoughts these days. but i'll try...=)

lishun at 9:32 AM

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