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January 09 my 2006--a brief write-uptowards the end of December 2006, one midnight, i was lying on bed in QZ, China, one idea flashed in my mind:should I write a year-end blog entry? At once, I dismissed this idea -- i did so in 2005, and I didnt think i want to do this every year.
Christmas of 2006 was boring as usual, in China.
on 1 January 2007, I received several new year greeting mobile phone messages, with known or unknown numbers -- I didnt care too much -- i was in sadness, at the
funeral.
on 3 January 2007, I received a belated new year greeting message, saying Happy New Year, though this message comes a bit late'. From that point of time, I started to
realise that there is a new year ahead.....
on 6 January 2007, I landed on Singapore, soon my mobile phone received new year greeting messages, and later on, received Christmas presents, which to me, are
surprising,strange, and funny. I never treat Christmas as a festival worth celebrating (maybe I should change this idea, since i had some X'mas gifts this
year....haha..really thanks to whoever sent me greeting messages and presents..)
Then I felt the urge of the new year. and of writing something.
In year of 2006, things of most importance, to me, are A Level results, admission to university. At the fifth year in Singapore, finally i got into a university, after
struggling through 2-year O Level (with lousy results), 2-year JC( with fond memories in VJ and not too bad results). Another thing is that I abandoned the idea of going
overseas for University, and stayed on.
Let me write down my 2006 in chronical order.
January - February, on a long school vacation after A Level, I had the first Chinese New Year with my family in China after coming out of China in 2001. The break was
long and I found myself a job in King's, an English centre, as a social talker. I spent much of my stay in China there, teaching students and hanging out with them. I
remember that I had a row with my mum, because I came back home late at night for a few days (i just went for dinner and shopping). I really made several good
friends, Chloe, a Canadian national now, Sophia, Diana, a Philipino.....
Late February, I returned to Singapore to get A Level results, then applied for scholarship from various scholarship bodies, but no one wanted me...sad...then I started
my career as a magazine advisor with Emitasia, and a partime Physics tutor in Tampines, where has a nice shopping mall, Tampines Mall. I started living with friends
under a roof -- a rented flat in Kallang,Dakota...
Working as a saleman was not easy too, I had to face so many rejections from customers and many sales targets from my manager...
Living in a shared flat was that easy and fun as what i had imagined.. there were a lot of prolems, from paying Public Utility bills to buying food for cooking to doing
housework.... I realised that life in hostels with food prepared, laudry washed is so comfortable.
The bright sides of this period are, good sales revenues, having a lot people visiting the flat i lived in... In Unos mansion swimming pool, i struggled to learn swimming and finally i dared to float in the water....
Then moving to NUS PGP, I started living in a single room, a lifestyle different from sharing rooms in the past...and I think I was tampered by this -- i started to view
comics online overnights...
the university curriculum is rigorous - much more difficult than what I hear from seniors or whoever says University is easy... I cannot forget panicking at the
programming practical exam and when the final exam was drawing near.
December holiday in china turned out to be my busiest one ever.....my grandparents were not in good health..then i started questioning why mankind is so fragile when
he is aged and why when the children grow up, the older generations are getting older and older.
I remember, before I left Singapore in December, i saw from a blog said 'things may get better when we stay out of singapore for a while'..but i seriously think, the location
does not matter.what has to be has to be.how much we can change things and people around us?
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