[Mood: Okay] [Mentally: Strained] [Physically: Fine] [State of Mind: Different]
Haven't been myself this week. Not much idea why. I can feel something is wrong, but I don't know.
The weather here is becoming unpredictable. Snow, rain, snow, rain. Should I complain? Maybe not. I heard there was a bushfire in Singapore. Reminded me on how hot it is over there. But the weather can still be a pain here. I like snow, mainly because it looks nice falling down, and is not very cold, but when cycling, it is horrible. It will make you slow down, slip, and requires you to cycle 2 times harder than normal. Rain, on the other hand, melts the snow on the road, making the path easy to cycle through, but it is super cold, and combined with winds, it can make you shiver while cycling. I encountered my first cycle in heavy rain yesterday, and it was fun. Except for the part where my face was totally wet, and I almost lost control of the bike while trying to wipe my face dry.
I was doing some spring cleaning on my external hard disk drives this week. One big task, trying to clean up 110GB of data. But the data loss on my 80GB lifted my load. I don't know what happened, but I left it to transfer some data from it to my laptop, and when I checked again in the morning, it was corrupted. Oh well, I don't need most of the data after all. Now I have a brand new 80GB of space to play around with.
I came across some of the old files dating back to 2001. Those old MSN chat logs, documents and such. And it is a wonder how much things have changed over the past 4 years. Things, and me. If I have the chance to relive my secondary school days, I will do it no differently than being the geek or nerd I was, and being a total wuss in lower secondary. It all makes me into what I am today. Not many people really know about my turnaround at the end of Sec 2, not many people really understand why. My parents played a huge part in it, I mean, whenever do they not?
Talking about secondary life and parents, I got some disturbing news this morning that one of my secondary school friends' mum passed away last Friday. Innalillah. It was known that she had stomach cancer. I felt really sorry for my friend. He is one guy who is very religious, in my perspective. The last time I met him was during a BBQ a few weeks before I left for Japan. I don't know when I will meet up with him again to personally send my condolences, but I passed it through a friend.
Makes me think how life is fragile. Never mind. I don't wanna talk about it.
Got a letter from CMPB on Thursday, asking me to report to them for an IT Vocational Assessment. Yaomin got it too. How we are going to report to them, is a big bonus question. Already e-mailed them though, and have yet to receive a reply from them. Maybe in a couple of days.
Applications for both Universities have been submitted, and paid. Now I have 5 more days to modify my courses. Not much choices really. Computer Sciences, Computer Engineering and Business in NTU, and Biological Sciences, Computer Sciences and Computer Engineering in NUS (in order of preference). If I don't get into computer-related course, I will kiss Universities good-bye. Or maybe I can kiss them good-bye now? I don't know if I will even be accepted in. No harm trying.
Work over here is a real challenge. The complexity standard has increased, and the amount of sleep decreased. The good thing is that I am gaining weight, I think. Maybe it's just an illusion. Maybe because of the difference of my position on Earth, it has a bigger pull in gravity on me now. But my appetite has definitely increased. 5 meals a day, at least. And that's excluding the food I eat in between. *shrugs*
48 more days to go. I will prevail.