Chasing Pavements

10 days into 2010.

Woke up early at class chalet, left for mass, and then made it a point to spend my day at home just.. relaxing. Read, had a long talk with the bestfriend (finally), helped with dinner, and made pancakes with strawberries, apple sauce and ham with the sister (:

2009 has been a year of roller coaster rides, as expected.
Getting back A level results was nerve wrecking; and heart wrenching. It reduced many of my options, but I still went ahead with applications, which involved a lot of frustration, self doubt and disappointment. One of the few things I regretted was not preparing hard enough for the medicine interview. The whole process left me questioning whether I was good enough at all.

Started working in March all the way till July. Work was boring, making my own money was great :D

University started and well, all I can say is that uni's not like what I expected. All notions of uni being slack (even in arts) were dispelled at once. There were times when I just hated school and felt so lonely, missed IP, missed my friends. Jolynn's prob the only one who complained more than me about school lol! I think I'm just more resistant to change, and well, I'm sure the school year ahead will be a better one!

My holidays were good, honestly. I should really stopped complaining. Looking at my organiser, I had so many plans and dates etched in that I can't believe how fast one month has passed. Trainings, trainings and more trainings. Zhenluan and I agreed on one thing - How training is a love/hate thing, we complain so much about training and yet we still do it. Managed to meet up with so many people, canoeing outing at timbre and christmas party at ecp, picnic with sec school clique, girls' stayover at nina's, all the christmas parties, the cousins' gathering, BCME gatherings - albeit too short :/, db chalet, 04 chalet, Primary 6 gathering (wow!) and of course time spent with the best friend (: It would be perfect if we could have more BCME time and a holiday overseas! (again the result of procrastination and booking too late)

I'm determined to pack as much as possible into my next holidays one again. Hitting the Big Two Zero, yo! 2009 has made me face up to new challenges and embrace new beginnings, though hesitantly and with fear. It made me realise that no matter how bad things were, deep deep deep down, I had the faith that I would survive. And it certainly made me treasure the people around me more, I count my blessings for you all, everyday (:

With the start of school tomorrow, may the year ahead be a great one <3