roommates
so at dinner today, there was me and three other rg classmates and our rg tcher... of the three classmates, one's in UK, two are in melbourne. and somehow we got to talking about roommates and i insisted that i thought that it was an essential college experience. whereas the rest were like ?! are you crazy? invasion of personal space!!! i guess my tcher's right in that if i'd lived off campus i probably wouldn't look for a roommate, the whole roommate thing comes as a package with the dorm experience... but i still stand by the fact that i learnt a lot about living with someone else and being aware of others and stuff like that. i mean granted, i did get quite pissed off by my freshman roommate's alarm clock but i learnt a lot from her and about her.. and jackie's sleeping habits are still quite a mystery to me but she taught me about really caring for someone and not being selfish... and dayoung's and stacey's never-sleeping-early philosophy also puzzle me but roommate bonds are really special. going through the craziness of college life and not being able to finish work/study/etc together.
anyway, today's rg visit made me want to dig out all my rg diaries and stuff and relive those days, cos honestly, i do not remember a single thing related to how our lessons went, or how gep classes were different and fun and what not. not like i have something to benchmark against anyway, i wouldn't really know how express classes were like would i? but pam has very strong feelings about how gep made her experience so different and it's sad that our teachers now think that their current raffles academy program isn't that wonderful... ah well. although frankly i don't think my tcher believed i would get into stanford as it was anyway. my academics were okay, i think i was nearer the top even though i wasn't the best, but my extracurriculars were rather unimpressive, really. haha. i guess it is really by God's grace.
pretty long day again! man it's been so long since i stayed out that late last night.. (thurs night that is) so on thurs: went out at 1ish to shop. attempt to shop would be more accurate, since i didn't find the low-priced long-sleeved shirts i was hoping to find, so not a very successful trip.
and i was very tired of walking by the time i met lyd so i was like !! time for food! haha. we had a very nice late-lunch-tea meal at tcc though:D i think i spend too much money :| and then it proceeded to rain!!! so heavily! :( ah well.
meeting jm and eunice was interesting.. one from uk one from australia and me from us! kinda cool. and rather different. i didn't know the NUS bidding system was so annoying.. poor people! very thankful that stanford doesn't really run out of spaces for important classes.
so i got back pretty late and (for once) was quite tired but i stayed up reading seabiscuit (again), one of my fav books:) and then i didn't really feel like going out today but i'm glad i did:)
so much fun! ms tan is hilarious.. never fails to amuse me. really love annoying her haha:p although i felt a bit weird cos i just went back in july (or something) with serene.. but serene talks so much. and i also forgot peiying was in ms tan's form class in sec 1. haha.
and you also don't realize how much teachers gossip (or talk about us) until you're in there listening to them:p but it was interesting anyhow.. and meeting mrs deborah tan was so weird. she told us we must set up an emotional bank account (i.e. build good feeling) so you can ask pple for favours next time. aiyah i think basically it's networking la.
anyway. i am beginning to feel the force of the oncoming quarter.. i think if i don't get into my introsems i'll take 17 units and preserve my sanity and hopefully by God's grace get a good internship. aaahh.