A short post on this one day that comes every year

On this one day that comes every year, and I always pay attention to it like anyone else would...

First of all, I thank everyone for sending me their best wishes for hailing my 25th birthday. As some people would like to call it their quarter-life crisis, I suppose it is for me too...for various reasons I may highlight in my next post most possibly tomorrow with the best and worst things in NUS coming then as well...

But, as usual today I would put aside everything and just become myself - just for today.

As always at this moment every year, I always have 3 wishes - but this time they assume greater magnitude than I ever thought they would..so here they are:

1) Wish for the gods to bless me in whatever career I may be in...which I would decide very very soon...

2) Good results to sign off what can only be said to be a troubling academic time in NUS for all various reasons...

3) Maintain good relationships with each and everyone of you - it's much harder to catch up when we will be in work and everything else is secondary to work - that's how it always is...barring relationship commitments of course...

You might sense that for this top 3 wishes I do not include something that has been very very close to my heart - I decided that no one can force it and in any case, fate will decide what will be...and what won't be.

And for a bonus wish...

4) For my family to become much stronger and tighter in the remaining year to come - with my brother's formal wedding mitigated by other troubling things which I cannot mention here - I sincerely hope for things to improve...that would make me the happiest guy as I do not have to worry about such things anymore...

So to conclude - cheers to a happy 25th birthday for me.

=)

End of school for the final time

First of all, before I go on to the main issue...allow me to mention a word on the concluded PS Honours Dinner...

Although it was held on an April Fools' Day, no one took it for a fool's message and instead came out in force =)

Caught up with a few friends that I didn't talk to for some time and I felt extremely happy that I had the chance to talk to them...after all, to tell the truth, it's hard to see when all of us can meet again. Still, we were reminded of Falak's passing who in my personal opinion, is a loss that will be mourned by friends for a long time...

Ok, coming to the critical issue...

It's fast as this week approaches and the feeling of it being the last week of school sinks in...

I don't normally feel a lot for it except for the fact that this is indeed the last week of school as it stands for me...I don't foresee any chance of me going back to study again - not at least for the next 5 years or so.

What I want to say now is that the one thing that I miss, apart from the lessons (good and bad), assignments (relaxing and irritating and frustrating), exams, is the friends that I have made here.

That includes all of you whom I known through my 4 years on campus - your presence made things a lot easier for me as I managed to live a decent human and sometimes hilarious life on here...

For those whom I knew in JC and Secondary school years, I thank all of you too - for without you all I would not be able to form my own principles - indeed some of my own key motivations come from you guys..

For everyone whom I know then in my academic career - thank you. And I hope to meet with you guys as and when all of you are able. =)

More on what the ten best and worst things from NUS soon.