NUS Arts and Social Science

Hey how's school?

oh yeah~~~ today's the LAST DAY of semester II before exams start!! i went to school today only for my jap oral, which is like, FIVE minutes only!! well, oral was fine, though i think i made a few errors, like misunderstanding my sen-sei's questions... oh boooo... but overall, i think i'm good at japanese! hahaha.. ok, so it's end of the sem, and start of my study-break. only 8 days left to my first paper, and i haven't touched it at all!! gosh.. alright, so shijia-san, ganbatte kudasai!!!

oh well, so i've survived spending a year in NUS!! woohoowoo~ three cheers for me, please... ok, now, i'm gonna give a review of my freshie year in NUS...

sad to say, i'm not one of those active students who live in the hostels, join the student union, and have a cca. neither am i one of those enthusiastic students who go to school everyday, hang around with friends at the Deck, and make lotsa noise. therefore, my freshie year in NUS was rather dull. sobz.. right! i'm one those people you can see going from lecture to lecture, tutorial to tutorial alone. it's kinda good in a way, coz there's no one to distract me during lectures, and i don't have to wait for anyone to pack up at the end of lecture. i hate waiting. and usually, i'm one of the first few who leave the lecture theatre first.

i did not want to be a loner intentionally. but com'on, do i really have a choice? look, the thing is, i have no friends in NUS (okay, before going to NUS, that is). no friends? okay, no close friends in NUS. saw a couple of people from my sec sch, and also jc, and even from iras! but nope, i ain't close to them... hmmmm most of my closer friends are either in NTU, SMU, pte uni or idle (oppss sorry..).

i went for the orientation camp with this gal from iras, but actually, i wasn't close to her at all. no common interests, no common topics to talk about. then i had to go for medical check-up and matriculation alone. which was quite a sad thing, coz most people were with friends, and i had to walk and sit around alone. i used to have a map of NUS with me, in case i got lost. but actually, with those direction signs around, only an idiot would get lost. first two weeks of school were fine, coz there were only lectures. oh and dear mr kar accompanied me to school on the 2nd day for my jap lect. that was really sweet of him yea? and coming all the way to NUS and waiting for me after school on thurs was very sweet too! i really really appreciate it, mr kar!! when tutorials started, i kinda dreaded it. sighh imagine.. gotta go to not one, but many tutorials and meet new people. all kinds of people. oh hack, look at the BIG picture.. at least i've already gotten used to going to new classes, and self-introducing again and again.. i'm also used to walking around alone in school, and even eating alone over at the Deck. i AM quite proud of myself, really. how many people can actually do things alone??? hehe, i know shan can't. and my sis's friend even called me God. LOL.. *smirks proudly*

so, after getting used to being alone and meeting new people, life wasn't that bad.. BUT when tutorials started, that was when i almost died!! the modules i took in sem I sucked BIG TIME!!! **WARNING!! IF YOU HATE READING, AND I MEAN, READ A DAMN LOT, THEN NEVER EVER TAKE THIS MODULE ON GEISHA, SAMURAI, AND YAKUZA, AND SOUTH-ASIAN EXPOSURE MODULE!! IN FACT, IF YOU ABSOLUTELY HATE READING, DON'T COME TO ARTS!!!** haha, better still, don't study!! spent a hell lot of $$ zapping the reading materials for that module, and i spent a hell lot of time in the library coz of that, coz gotta queue to borrow the book. that was really sucky. eewwww, the thought of how i suffered during sem I is disgusting!!

sem I ended, my results weren't too bad, and sem II started. the modules i took this sem aren't that bad. micro and macro economics. econ modules are the slackiest ever modules! no projects, no presentations. purely tutorial assignments and slacking. that's it. but kinda complicating, actually. so gotta read alot on your own. and of coz, i took jap again this sem! i wanna speak fluent jap and live in Japan happily ever after. geeZ. yesh, i'm dreamin'...... i also took sociology exposure module.. shouldn't sociology be a very interesting subject??? but my tutor is this old man, and he's damn damn slack! now, should i do a double major on sociology and economics??? a single major would be too common, i think. give me some advice, pple!

basically, i can sum up my sem II in juz ONE word. SLACK.

hmmm.. on the other hand, that's not good either. i need some stress to work!! to motivate me!!

alright. that's the end of my freshie year review. shan and chloeeeeee... hope the two of you come join me at NUS soooooooon!!! i need to go study now!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~