The year didn't pass as quickly as I imagined and crazily enough it has been one of my most productive years. It's always been rather crazy how I managed to juggle hall life, school club and academic work. I've never been the best at it, but looking back, I'll never tell myself, "I wished I'd study more." I like it that I organised Wee Chill with Edwin, took photos for hall IHG and played volleyball for ISG.
In February I found myself drowning in commitment, gave up on hall a bit more and found my heart clinging elsewhere. I was feeling emo and down. The highlight was definitely coming in second for dance performed during the closing of Hall Olympiad. All the hard work and training paid off and I was proud of what we had achieved together.
March was slightly better. Maybe because I complained less and did more. It was still tough balancing my commitments with school activities, studies and tuition. I was trying to find optimistic me, who somehow got lost. There was Ros' play and Surf N Sweat. I also did the Fete Festival which was a crazy thing with tonnes of events in it. I also designed a collage for Hall that was complimented and then rejected.
After three crazy months, I decided that I was going to minimise and concentrate my efforts on stuff that mattered. I still sounded rather humourless in my entries. And the single thing that changed the course of things-to-come - I moved out of hall for the first time in 2 years. It was strange but it was for the better. I filmed by COM 225 (or was that earlier just that I blogged about that later?) I had more control of the way I lived my life even though I complain about staying in home all the time, I now operate on my own terms. Oh! And I organised a stayover at Sentosa for the seven of us! I think they deserve a blog entry on their own!
In May I started living once again. It's kind of weird. I finally felt alive after so long. Commitments were claustrophobic and they were all gone. I started doing silly things like getting myself injured while cycling from East Coast to Changi Jetty. I was forced to stay at home and leave my outdoor activities behind for awhile. I continued teaching, taking on my cousins yet again as they came back from Taiwan. I went for a Graduation. I took tonnes of photos because Lyon lent me his DSLR, especially those of Ubin and the Science Center. Qiqi and Yue Ting went to France, which turned out to be such a big deal for all of us later in the year.
In June I sort of got bored with sitting around. I got "cheated" of my money for those two months because I "invested" in something silly. Don't really want to go into that, but I was obsessed with making money to travel. And I've just got to share this video of Ellen Deneres giving a commencement speech at Tulane University. Inspiring. I felt a bit emo about the person I was and how hard it is for me to see past my anger at times. I also helped canvas for Hall 12 DND, knowing that I was going to leave. I knew I'd most probably be seen as the bad guy, but it was something that I had to do with my life (yes, I've seen that bitter blog entry about how I'm such a liar) and I was responsible enough to at least finish canvasing instead of leaving them high and dry midway. From photos I saw of the event, they've done well so I'm comforted to know that the event was a success.
In July there was reservist. I am done being bitter about it. I choose to remember the good stuff. Well, at least until next year. I also had an awesome holiday at Bintan.
August started. Hall called me back and I declined. I also caught up with my running and I have been running a lot ever since. It's the most consistent I've ever been since being in army. School started but I was in partying mode. That's right. I partied at Fort Canning with Lady Gaga. It was definitely one of the highlights of the year. And then there was Wee Ride, where we rode all night! I realised that the start of a new semester means lots of partying. There was also the school WKWSCI's DND 09 - Old Hollywood Glamour. And there was a lot of clubbing. More than usual. Frankly, that's the reason why I never get started on a semester proper.
September! Gosh finally I've reached the last quarter of the year! I acted for Lyon, and you can check out the video here. I also had a somewhat cringe-worthy performance in Melvin's film, Betrayal but yeah, I enjoyed myself and I helped a friend. I guess that's all that matters. And I think I've thrown the towel on acting. Haha! I wrote the funniest blog entry ever on Ris Low. She's so awesome she's now on the latest FHM. With school and tuition I was once again doing the balancing act, but I realised that it was much easier to cut down than to want more time, because that could never happen. Oh, and Britney released 3.
October was a crazy month of birthdays and parties. I love parties. And birthdays especially when it's my own. The 6 of them gave me a memorable celebration at Timbre. There were also many nice presents. There was also Pamy's birthday party, Christine's birthday party and Ness' Birthday Party. It's as if there's no more school I was stressed out my projects and tuition but my kids were about to graduate from me as it was PSLE month. I squeezed time to give them extra lessons and hoped that they'd do well. For many of them, it would be my last lesson with them. The month ended on a high when Philinh and Kimvy came all the way from France and we brought them around Singapore. I had tonnes of fun... gosh!
November. Aha. That's only last month. There were exams. But exams aren't the thing that you'll remember when the year ends. That's why I say you can't stop living your life just because there are exams. Granted, my lifestyle changed quite a lot. There was one week where I studied with Stanley every fucking day for 10 hours at the various libraries in Woodlands. Other than that I started my AltLife column. I've always enjoyed Jason Hahn's 8 days column on his adventures with Saffy and Amanda and I've been so inspired for the longest time. I've always known that I wanted to write something like that so I'm just experimenting with it for now and we'll see how it goes. November is also home to one of the most talked-about posts on my blog for like, all time - the Spreedom post. I post photos of myself without my shirt, nobody say anything. When there's a V-neck then everybody start jumping on my case! What is this!!!
And December... well, December is awesome so far. I've been doing a lot of writing. I've been reading up on personal development, as Christine so aptly said, relearning how to life live. I've been exercising a lot. I've secured my internship with Singapore Police Force. I will be going to Batam for a holiday. I'm learning more about Internet Marketing, which I find myself building a career out of. I've been shopping for Christmas although it'll probably be overrated.
I'm chill. And I'm happy. Guess there's nothing more I can ask for.
Thank you all for reading my blog. It's been a crazy year and I'm looking forward to a crazier one.
PS - it would be nice if you guys could leave notes on the blog so I could look back on them, rather than in the chatbox. Thanks! Also, thank you Weetz for always leaving comments. I really appreciate it.
2 comments:
keep writing :)
thanks! =) i will!
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