A Scholar's Life

yep, maybe...just maybe this is the life the the singaporean ministry of education had in mind for us scholars when they openned their doors to us. but who gives half a shit? i tell you guys, this is absolutely sickening, having to cram the un-crammable, having to mug the mundane, and having to put up with MATH!!!! oh gosh...why do i have the feeling i'm not going to...ah, nevermind....

but as always, there's always a brighter side to things. like for example, cutting down on our pak-toh-ing, me and lipjeen stay in the hostel more often, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing. it brought me a lot closer to my neighbours and roommate! hahaha...seriously. like hokito! i mean, since the SJI days i've known him to be a (very) smart guy and quite a good football striker as well. but beyond that, i knew squat. it turns out that among many things, he's got a wealth of anecdotes up his sleeve (indonesian driving incidents, petroleum theft, fried ornamental fish) and yeah, i got to know him much better la. as for yeekiat, aiyah, lets just say yeekiat has been the (idiotic) yeekiat i knew back then. hahaha, just kidding, just kidding. his sense of humour is still as potent, just now it's bolstered with a more advanced vocabulary.

and then there's my roommate, armando. i've seen him around back in my days at CJCH, and to tell you (the readers) the truth, i was kind of jittery about being his roommate. i thought (wrongly) that he had a short fuse, because there was this one time i saw him blow off at this idiot called Edwin Das who tried to 'playfully' wrench armando's head of his shoulders, rambo-style. yeah, armando, he deserved it. edwin das was/is/always will be an arsehead with no visible neck. hahaha...actually, all in all, armando's a real great (comic-loving) roommate. haha...

suddenly it feels like CJCH again. and then even as i prepare myself for the end, i just know that my heart will be heavy when i leave this place. sighz....singapore, you've been my second home for four years already. what will it be like to leave you? what will it be like to say goodbye to the friends with whom i've grown so much with? what will it be like to embrace a whole new education system?

uncertainties plague the horizons. time to say goodbye, dear reader. for now...