January 02, 2005 @2:37 PM
Does my hair looks PERMED?
a thousand sighs.
Its the first time i dread a new semester.
Not that i've been looking forward to it for the past few years, but this time i sense sth bad coming. haha. My laziness is acting again.
Read the Sunday Times about Tsunami. Realised that im actually quite interested in Geography. I knew it since the beginning of 2004. Thats why i took geog for the first 3 months! Subsequently due to my laziness, i began to fall asleep during geog tutorials and haphazardly concluded that i shd just drop that subject because i have no idea which chapter is it at now?
I've learnt alot in 2004. Alot about myself, alot about my friends, alot about my life, my family, my future etc. The happiest thing is that i had an enriching dec hol. The Taiwan Exchange Prog, Job Shadowing at SGH and working under Joo-Lian, earning money which i can called my own and of course, taking up Korean Language class every fri night.
A big lesson learnt in Dec: Opportunities are created by Man. Take the Risk or u'll nv know.
If i had not accept the TIP for the inconvenience caused by hosting a foreigner in my house, I wouldnt have learn so much about Taiwan.
If i had assumed that the TIP left me no vacancies in any job attachment programmes, I wouldnt have know how a hospital works.
If I hadnt taken the initiative to email that stranger on that faithful day just because the thread on TJ FORUM looks informal, I wouldnt have earned my own money.
If i hadnt taken the initiative to learn a new language, I wouldnt know that Korean is so FUN!
And of course, if not for all these, i wouldnt have made more friends.
Hmm.. above are examples that we cant learn from textbooks, do we? WHATS THE POINT OF STUDYING!!!!!