Back to School!

I'm not really that excited for school
but well, it's time that i have to go.


26 July 2013 was my last day of work at Kaplan.
A meaningful 7-months worth of working experience
where i learnt a lot in a very fast-paced environment
and i am really glad that as a temp staff,
i think i was really well treated and taken care of. =)
If i were to say one of my key takeaways that i learnt
it was that i truly understood what it meant when people says
a team comprises of different individuals,
each with his/her strengths as well as weaknesses,
it's all about helping each other out with your strengths
and to cover for each other's weaknesses within the team.
Everyone is bound to be weak is something, we just got to be understanding. =)

The week after that was my orientation week
which i was kinda disappointed with the way how it's organised
if i were to compare with the previous orientation camp i attended in early July.
First of all,orientation are meant to orientate
i.e. introduce freshmen to the new environment
second to that would be to forge friendships and build bonds
Both of which are best done with some fun so that it will be enjoyable and memorable.
Apparently, this orientation week i went just failed to facilitate that.
It just felt like we are following through motion;
because orientation requires games to be played, that's why we are playing.
Something that like.

Attended the Freshmen Inauguration Ceremony and
my school Dean's Welcome Tea
the following week
which many people skipped. haha.
Oh well, i just felt that it is only completed to attend the full series of activities
from orientation to the ceremony and welcome tea.
If you just attend that more full-filling orientation and not the potentially boring ceremony,
it just show so much of a person you are la. That's how i see it.

Talking about the ceremony (sidetracking a bit),
i find it very disturbing when people leaves the venue half way through the ceremony
because it is simply too boring for them.
Perhaps it's because i was from Band last time and went for a number of concerts before,
i just feel that it is just not right and so rude to leave the venue half way through a event.
Number 1, you just neglected that all the effort put in by the organizers to make this event happen.
Number 2, you know how fucking long does it takes for performers to prepare for such events.
Recently i just went for a industry talk organised by the institute,
strings of people are leaving the auditorium throughout talk
even when the speakers are presenting
and quite a number people left after the last speaker spoke but before the Q&A session begins.
It is just so rude, i felt.
People just need to learn some etiquette, like reallyyyy.
Speakers take time off their schedule for the talk which could have been better spent, you know?

Anddddd just this week, school started.
From the chats with my friends after our first week of lectures,
it seems like that most of them are doing good and adapting well.
I think i'm not. =(
It's just first week
and i'm already feeling kinda stress.
I felt a little uncomfortable with this course that i'm studying.
(it's Project and Facilities Management, in case you guys don't remember)
To be honest, i kinda regretted that i choose this course.
Perhaps, this is not exactly the industry (building) that i wanted to be in
but this is also the next nearest thing that i can find in the course list (management related courses).
Although when i applied for this course, i'm aware that it's going to be project-based.
But it's now that i am in it that the fact sank down my mind 
that this module is really very heavy on projects
and it's not something i'm in favour of.
Or maybe i should put it this way:
this course i'm taking is beyond my strengths and comfort zone
and i'm quite worried that i would just screw my grades up and fail to graduate.
After all, A-Level itself was quite a huge hurdle for me
that i actually took it twice.
What make me think i could go through university?
Hai.
Shall see how semester 1 goes before i take any actions ba.
Let's just hope things will not turn out to be as bad a i thought.

It's getting late now, guess i shall sign off.