1st week slow start...

as is always the case i am experiencing yet another slow start to the study term... it's only the 1st week so there's no need to panic just yet but if this continues for the rest of the term i might as well quit school. after all, either way, i would not be able to get a degree anyway.. haha

it doesn't help increase my sense of urgnecy when i was compelled to stay in school for about 15 hours doing almost nothing... to cut a long story short, i needed to queue up to get a project i wanted. it was on a 1st come 1st serve basis and there were only 20 slots available for a cohort of 300 plus so i couldn't take the risk of not queuing up early for it, especially when i knew alot of people would be willing to queue up for it too. Thank God, things went well and i got my project. There were alot of other projects up for grabs too so almost everyone who queued up early was able to get the project they wanted. the only setback was that the queue started at 6pm yesterday while the counter only opened at 9am this morning...think national day parade tickets.. haha

i certainly do not blame the dept head for thinking of such a system... obviously, if this system was not used, i would rather go through the balloting system than have to spend 15 hours on the school floor. but my head was trying to give everyone a chance to show how interested they are in the project which i agree is a key factor in the success of any project... so i have to respect him for looking out for us.. and during the stay over, a lecturer brought us free packet drinks so that showed they really had our welfare in mind...

unfortunately any good intention normaly comes with a price and now i feely slightly groggy again... i had just recovered from the oweek hangover so this is a little like taking a step back but at least i didn't have to cheer haha

trying to convince my body to pick up the notes to study... but i can't so as is always the case i am going to blog again because making the effort to think of proper english sentences normally does help to warm up my brain a little.

oweek is about to come to an end. it was officially over a week ago but being in the committee, i knew that there would be other post 0week things to do. However i can sense the beginning of the end. people are starting to concentrate on other things like studies, other CCAs and girls/boys (haha)

anyway, that was my 1st time orgainsign something on such a large scale invloving easily 400 people. considering the limited resources we have, i think that despite the last minute changes forced upon us we did really well.. kinda hope we can win best committee but we'll see... i used to think we were very well prepared but in the end i guess there are just some things we cannot predict...especially the weather... but if you ask me, from the committee's point of view, the way we managed to respond to those unforeseen circumstances only proves how well the committee is doing.. but i can understand why from the freshie's point of view, other activities seemed more well-run...oh well...

speaking of points of view, it would be nice to know how other people think... cos it's one thing that always makes me frustrated... i realise i can't read people's minds but i find it so difficult sometimes to understand how some people can behave in certain ways... i would like to understand their own perspectives or their own unique situations because then i would know why they would be willing to do something i could never agree to... it would help to broaden my mind and make me more sympathetic i'm sure... but it's not as if i can just go up to people and say " so why are you doing this anyway?" .. guess it's one of those things i have to just let go