Friday, April 15, 2005
Is this goodbye?
I feel sad that my honours year is coming to an end. It's been really great to have gone through the past year of my Uni life with this bunch of guys and gals. No matter how stressful or hectic it was, staying on for my 4th year is one of the best things i ever did. So many lessons learnt... academic/intellectual lessons were so much more thought provocative & stimulating & much more challenging. Work load was heavier & sometimes crazy perhaps, but still we all survived through it. Old friendships were strengthened and new ones forged, and it's really so good to have made some real good friends in the honours class. Ones that you would really hope to keep for as long as you live. Even life lessons were aplenty. Yup, it's been a "growing-up" period as well. Painful but necessary i suppose.
I know i will always miss that little classroom in the corner.... with the dustbin always overfilled with our empty paper cups and cans. The pots of plants that line the corridor outside the geog dept to our room. The green grassy slope. The David Harvey poster cum "shrine". The "cursed" whiteboard where we write the quote of the day & any annoucements for readings, outings & overseas trips. Even ransom messages asking pple to pay up class fund & money for readings. The silly things pple sometimes draw on the board. The cranky, lousy, dinosaur computer that we all use time and time again for our countless presentations. The screen with which we watch videos, VCDs & movie clips. The messy arrangement of all the chairs, with tables that slip, causing so many incidents of spilled drinks. The geog honours plaque made by Rezal, with all 51 of our adjectives & names. The messy table & cupboard which used to hold files for readings, but usurped this semester by YEP stuff. The view outside the window. The posters put up on the walls from Geog Thought, showing our imaginations of what a post-modern city looks like. The world map. The notice board with our class list. The 2 movable tables which we use to eat our packed food on. And all this is just the room itself.
The late nights in the classroom & GIS lab to do up presentations & projects. The jogging sessions. The X'mas party in 2004. The marathon Geog thought presentation session from 9-5pm and the prata lunch treat from Brenda Yeoh during the break. The class outings - the Rice Table outing cum pool session at Monstercue, "The Incredibles" movie outing, the Bangkok trip, the Pizza Hut outing today.
I am thankful for this experience & I thank my honours classmates for making my Uni life complete & meaningful. Love you all! :)
Also it's been wonderful to have great lecturers... Brenda Yeoh, Wong Poh Poh, Victor Savage, T.C. Chang, Peggy Teo, James Sidaway, Carl Grundy Warr, Park Bae Gyoon, Lee Yong Sook, Tim Bunnell. They really rock at what they do.
Perhaps it's not goodbye but au revoir. Perhaps paths will cross again in the future. Perhaps.
I know i will always miss that little classroom in the corner.... with the dustbin always overfilled with our empty paper cups and cans. The pots of plants that line the corridor outside the geog dept to our room. The green grassy slope. The David Harvey poster cum "shrine". The "cursed" whiteboard where we write the quote of the day & any annoucements for readings, outings & overseas trips. Even ransom messages asking pple to pay up class fund & money for readings. The silly things pple sometimes draw on the board. The cranky, lousy, dinosaur computer that we all use time and time again for our countless presentations. The screen with which we watch videos, VCDs & movie clips. The messy arrangement of all the chairs, with tables that slip, causing so many incidents of spilled drinks. The geog honours plaque made by Rezal, with all 51 of our adjectives & names. The messy table & cupboard which used to hold files for readings, but usurped this semester by YEP stuff. The view outside the window. The posters put up on the walls from Geog Thought, showing our imaginations of what a post-modern city looks like. The world map. The notice board with our class list. The 2 movable tables which we use to eat our packed food on. And all this is just the room itself.
The late nights in the classroom & GIS lab to do up presentations & projects. The jogging sessions. The X'mas party in 2004. The marathon Geog thought presentation session from 9-5pm and the prata lunch treat from Brenda Yeoh during the break. The class outings - the Rice Table outing cum pool session at Monstercue, "The Incredibles" movie outing, the Bangkok trip, the Pizza Hut outing today.
I am thankful for this experience & I thank my honours classmates for making my Uni life complete & meaningful. Love you all! :)
Also it's been wonderful to have great lecturers... Brenda Yeoh, Wong Poh Poh, Victor Savage, T.C. Chang, Peggy Teo, James Sidaway, Carl Grundy Warr, Park Bae Gyoon, Lee Yong Sook, Tim Bunnell. They really rock at what they do.
Perhaps it's not goodbye but au revoir. Perhaps paths will cross again in the future. Perhaps.
// posted by superlambanana @ 10:20 PM 
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helloo! just skimmed through your blog. *poor gal* you really should lighten up :D
hope to see more happy things here u know! more like your cheery pinky background haha.
it's just the start of your life, leaving school and everything else. So I'm not going to sound like Aunt Agony and definitely don't wish to be. But if you continue posting depressing messages, Aunty, uncle, grandma Agony and the whole family is going to be here!
ok? have fun!!!!!!
hope to see more happy things here u know! more like your cheery pinky background haha.
it's just the start of your life, leaving school and everything else. So I'm not going to sound like Aunt Agony and definitely don't wish to be. But if you continue posting depressing messages, Aunty, uncle, grandma Agony and the whole family is going to be here!
ok? have fun!!!!!!
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: 4/16/2005 12:07 PM
: 4/16/2005 12:07 PM
Hey, really love this entry of yours on the class.... the details, mygosh! if i ever forget how the class looks like, this entry will be my ultimate reference! =) pretty surprised to find the lecturers' names here...considering you are planning to assassinate one of them...*hiakz*
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